Jess Row
@jessrow.bsky.social
Novelist, essayist, writing teacher. Find me at jessrow.com and jessrow.substack.com.
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they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law.
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.
the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.
do not offer it to them.
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.
the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.
do not offer it to them.
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law.
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.
the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.
do not offer it to them.
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.
the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.
do not offer it to them.
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By the way, any organization can be directly democratic. Your union, your workplace, your bookclub, your government. City, state, and federal.
can I interest anyone in direct democracy? so we both get out of this and so we don't end up back in it in another 8 years or whatever
hammerandhope.org/article/dire...
hammerandhope.org/article/dire...
September 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
By the way, any organization can be directly democratic. Your union, your workplace, your bookclub, your government. City, state, and federal.
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The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it
trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...
September 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it
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GO OFF LORD GRANTHAM
September 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
GO OFF LORD GRANTHAM
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En librairie depuis le 20 août chez Albin Michel. Un grand livre sur la résignation combative, celle d'une génération qui laisse à ses enfants un monde en déréliction. Chronique d'Un monde nouveau de @jessrow.bsky.social sur Playlist Society www.playlistsociety.fr/2025/09/un-m...
September 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
En librairie depuis le 20 août chez Albin Michel. Un grand livre sur la résignation combative, celle d'une génération qui laisse à ses enfants un monde en déréliction. Chronique d'Un monde nouveau de @jessrow.bsky.social sur Playlist Society www.playlistsociety.fr/2025/09/un-m...
I didn't read nearly as much as I wanted to this summer, but I'm a new fan of CHAEREAS AND CALLIRHOE and think you should read it too: "It’s violent, sordid, funny, surreal, and thoroughly human, sort of like Pirates of the Caribbean written by the Coen Brothers." Link in comments.
August 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I didn't read nearly as much as I wanted to this summer, but I'm a new fan of CHAEREAS AND CALLIRHOE and think you should read it too: "It’s violent, sordid, funny, surreal, and thoroughly human, sort of like Pirates of the Caribbean written by the Coen Brothers." Link in comments.
I have a new collection of short stories coming out next summer! I'll be posting about the stories all year on my Substack, if you'd like to subscribe. Link in comments.
August 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I have a new collection of short stories coming out next summer! I'll be posting about the stories all year on my Substack, if you'd like to subscribe. Link in comments.
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DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
August 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
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i have been stuck on JD Vance's claremont speech for almost two weeks now because it is structurally identical to roger taney's opinion for the court in dred scott
July 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
i have been stuck on JD Vance's claremont speech for almost two weeks now because it is structurally identical to roger taney's opinion for the court in dred scott
The Ear Scene is one of the most disturbing moments in the whole history of American film. Madsen was a terrific actor, undervalued and not given as many roles as he should have been. Ars longa vita brevis.
RIP to a character actor with panache
BREAKING: Michael Madsen, a character actor best known for playing sneering tough guys in Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" and "Kill Bill: Vol. 2," passes away from cardiac arrest, according to his manager.
July 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The Ear Scene is one of the most disturbing moments in the whole history of American film. Madsen was a terrific actor, undervalued and not given as many roles as he should have been. Ars longa vita brevis.
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This @propublica.org video is incredible. It shows how billionaires live on loans. Their repayment interest rate is a fraction of what you'd pay in income tax if you actually *worked*.
Time for everyone to complain loudly enough to blast a hole in the inbox & phone of every elected representative.
Time for everyone to complain loudly enough to blast a hole in the inbox & phone of every elected representative.
Defenders of billionaire tax avoiders say, "You can't tax unrealized investments!"
But banks don't have a problem putting a value on those same investments when lending cash to billionaires at interest rates far lower than they'd pay in income tax.
It's a strategy dubbed "Buy, Borrow, Die":
But banks don't have a problem putting a value on those same investments when lending cash to billionaires at interest rates far lower than they'd pay in income tax.
It's a strategy dubbed "Buy, Borrow, Die":
Buy, Borrow, Die: How America's Ultrawealthy Stay That Way
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
June 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This @propublica.org video is incredible. It shows how billionaires live on loans. Their repayment interest rate is a fraction of what you'd pay in income tax if you actually *worked*.
Time for everyone to complain loudly enough to blast a hole in the inbox & phone of every elected representative.
Time for everyone to complain loudly enough to blast a hole in the inbox & phone of every elected representative.
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establishment dems don't want to win. they want to keep getting wooed by corporate interests and driven around and enjoying their lifestyles and to never retire or die and they resent that the natural human life cycle means that they will inevitably have to make way for another generation
June 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
establishment dems don't want to win. they want to keep getting wooed by corporate interests and driven around and enjoying their lifestyles and to never retire or die and they resent that the natural human life cycle means that they will inevitably have to make way for another generation
Damn, Joyce Maynard runs a hotel in Guatemala? What a life.
June 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Damn, Joyce Maynard runs a hotel in Guatemala? What a life.
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Flanagan is the GOAT and everyone else is just a pale imitation
just remembered the funniest ever attempt at a save
June 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Flanagan is the GOAT and everyone else is just a pale imitation
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Kafkaesque and indicative of a system where skin color determines guilt, and institutional connections determine narrative
NEW: A protester was shot and killed at the Salt Lake City 'No Kings' march. A man is in police custody, booked on suspicion of murder—but not the one who fired the gun. From video, witnesses and interviews, @schotthappens.com and I tried to piece together what really happened Saturday.
Our report-
Our report-
What actually happened at the Salt Lake City ‘No Kings’ shooting?
One man is dead. Another is in jail—but not the one who fired his gun.
www.thehandbasket.co
June 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Kafkaesque and indicative of a system where skin color determines guilt, and institutional connections determine narrative
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This guy just became my fav American politician bar none
June 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This guy just became my fav American politician bar none
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
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Remembering Obama crafting what was just about a perfect compromise between Republican & Democrat positions at the time including a dramatic, I think maybe unprecedented, increase in enforcement & deportation.
Just as a reminder about near history, since you seem to have forgotten, the Democrats last year tried to fund the most repressive border security bill of all time—one that initially included all of the GOP asks.
Not…the thing you’re saying. That didn’t happen.
Not…the thing you’re saying. That didn’t happen.
June 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Remembering Obama crafting what was just about a perfect compromise between Republican & Democrat positions at the time including a dramatic, I think maybe unprecedented, increase in enforcement & deportation.
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A classic NYC mayor tweet
Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
May 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A classic NYC mayor tweet
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My three-year-old was watching CNN when she turned to me gravely and asked “Daddy, why did the nice crypto man abduct and torture the tourist?” And when I told her “Because job creators are entitled to break the rules sometimes,” she started crying.
May 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
My three-year-old was watching CNN when she turned to me gravely and asked “Daddy, why did the nice crypto man abduct and torture the tourist?” And when I told her “Because job creators are entitled to break the rules sometimes,” she started crying.
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Ralph Fiennes and Yorgos Lanthimos were among over 350 artists to sign an open letter denouncing the industry’s silence in response to Cannes film subject, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.
Filmmakers Denounce Industry ‘Silence’ About the Killing of Cannes Film Subject
Ralph Fiennes and Yorgos Lanthimos were among over 350 artists to sign an open letter denouncing the industry’s silence in response to Cannes film subject, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.
www.vulture.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Ralph Fiennes and Yorgos Lanthimos were among over 350 artists to sign an open letter denouncing the industry’s silence in response to Cannes film subject, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.
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Un-American for thine, graduation for mine.
May 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Un-American for thine, graduation for mine.
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“I could explain Hasan Piker’s politics to you, but that’s entirely irrelevant. The bold, all caps, underlined point is that a high profile, US-born American citizen was detained on Sunday by ICE for, it would seem, the crime of speech.”
Hasan Piker’s ICE detainment is a cautionary tale for multiple reasons
The progressive Twitch star's account of his experience shows unchecked power, and what *not* to do if detained.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“I could explain Hasan Piker’s politics to you, but that’s entirely irrelevant. The bold, all caps, underlined point is that a high profile, US-born American citizen was detained on Sunday by ICE for, it would seem, the crime of speech.”