Jeff Baker

Alabama is pretty.

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Brilliant! Listen!

Make sure to share this fun fact with all your most conservative yet hipster family members, and treasure their look of horror as they remember their last avocado toast experience

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

never too late to burn some sage to get rid of the bad vibes

It's not a US hosted world cup without emergency docket litigation.

Respect, England. Sheer grit and heart. Heroic defense. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The Declaration of Independence! Take about 5 minutes today to read it and consider the grounds for revolution. It's a short document, a legal argument, grounded on the foundations of equality and natural rights. Then go turn the world upside down. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

Water fountains disappeared from the Longleaf Trace in June as the board that governs it grew concerned about how homeless people were using its facilities. Runners and bikers who use the 44-mile trail fear the decision could have dire consequences in Mississippi's summer heat. buff.ly/pBXSvrI

On this episode of Race Matters, we reflect on the meaning and purpose of the American experiment at its 250th anniversary, the difference between patriotism and nationalism, the gravity of its founding principles, even when the nation goes kicking and screaming. open.substack.com/pub/jrbprof/...

One of the most incredible things I have ever worked on: Recently discovered documents, written by John Dickinson in 1775, that reveal his secret and previously unknown efforts to prevent the American Revolution. Now featured in the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

There’s a good chunk of elite legal thought in this country that’s the work of pickled brainworms soaked in racism and deluded by ignorant historical hallucinations.

Alabama is pretty.

It’s the greatest alliance of our time. 🇲🇽 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼 🇰🇷

Sweating, dancing, singing, hollering with all the folks and the Alabama Shakes in Tuscaloosa tonight. Absolute funky joy magic. So much love.

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

If you want to win the long-term political battle stop cosplaying as someone you’re not. Stop being ashamed of the things you are. Meet people where they’re at. Be honest. Don’t bs them or yourself.

I had a chat about this recently in fact with @jrbprof.bsky.social and Edward Carson for their show, Race Matters. Real relationships and authenticity come from honesty and sincerity. Our national media doesn’t get this. I time stamped the convo for you (39:29) youtu.be/cM-4jYvbRRY?...

“On May 23, 1796, a newspaper ad was placed seeking the return of Ona ‘Oney’ Judge, an enslaved Black woman who had ‘absconded from the household of the President of the United States,” George Washington.”

A proper dream come true, Ernest & Hadley Booksellers has my novella, Haven, on the shelves. This mighty, little bookstore has become a holy place for us in Tuscaloosa. I'm grateful for their friendship. Buy all your books from Ernest & Hadley, and buy mine (signed!) here too! #amwriting

O Lord, arise, help us;

Writing outside on campus overlooking Santa Monica Bay is nice and all, but this ain't bad. It is, however, on the grounds of an old asylum, so we're never not Southern Gothic. #rtr

The League of Women Voters of Greater Tuscaloosa kindly invited me to speak at their annual meeting tonight. It was very good to break bread with them. Here are my prepared notes for the talk: Dignity and Democracy open.substack.com/pub/jrbprof/...

It’s really that simple: The folks who want more expansive suffrage and to make access to the vote easier are the good guys. The folks who are disenfranchising people and making voting harder are the bad guys.

We must understand the racist political rhetoric, the erasure and attacks on Black history, the reinstalling of Confederate names and monuments, all go hand-in-hand as the Court and Congress legitimize the taking of political rights and the end of multiracial democracy itself.

i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.

things which had grown old are being made new

HAIL INTEGRITY!

Full and abundant.

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

Godspeed, Artemis II! Go, Flight!

There is a critical difference between holistic, authentic judgment enabled by embodied cognition, and AI's reductive simulation of the language patterns associated with such thought. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....