Jim Jasper
@jamesmjasper.bsky.social
I have written about politics and culture for forty years, more recently focusing on social movements and emotions. I split my time between Asheville, NC, and Anna Maria Island, FL.
I wasn't a fan of Jimmy Carter as president (I had voted for Gus Hall in 1976). But he wrote a powerful book in 2006: Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. He sensibly compared Israel and apartheid-era South Africa. The pro-Israel tools like Alan Dershowitz went after him like vicious yellow jackets.
December 30, 2024 at 3:51 PM
I wasn't a fan of Jimmy Carter as president (I had voted for Gus Hall in 1976). But he wrote a powerful book in 2006: Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. He sensibly compared Israel and apartheid-era South Africa. The pro-Israel tools like Alan Dershowitz went after him like vicious yellow jackets.
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Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn Black history lessons their schools don’t teach
Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn Black history lessons their schools don't teach
Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found.
apnews.com
December 22, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn Black history lessons their schools don’t teach
Representative Kay Granger, Republican from Texas, has been in a memory care facility with dementia since last summer. Metaphor for the GOP, or harbinger of the next four years?
December 23, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Representative Kay Granger, Republican from Texas, has been in a memory care facility with dementia since last summer. Metaphor for the GOP, or harbinger of the next four years?
Messrs. Musk and Ramaswamy are so unappealing, arrogant, and selfish, I wonder if they could help inspire a backlash against our billionairocracy? Of course I wondered the same thing about Trump in 2026.
December 23, 2024 at 7:24 AM
Messrs. Musk and Ramaswamy are so unappealing, arrogant, and selfish, I wonder if they could help inspire a backlash against our billionairocracy? Of course I wondered the same thing about Trump in 2026.
So a man worth $500 billion was upset about members of Congress getting a raise of 3.8% or $6,600 a year? Welcome to Billionaire World.
December 21, 2024 at 3:22 AM
So a man worth $500 billion was upset about members of Congress getting a raise of 3.8% or $6,600 a year? Welcome to Billionaire World.
Percival Everett opens his wonderful novel, James, by utterly reframing two of the best known figures in American literature, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: "Those little bastards were hiding out there in the tall grass."
December 19, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Percival Everett opens his wonderful novel, James, by utterly reframing two of the best known figures in American literature, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: "Those little bastards were hiding out there in the tall grass."