Jesse Montgomery
@muttgomery
fort'coming: IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO SURVIVE, WE MUST BE FREE: THE YOUNG PATRIOTS STORY (UNC Press 2026) and so the universal thump is passed round
Can the left win AND write great book? Watch this space to find out! Excited to say its official and my book, IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO SURVIVE, WE MUST BE FREE: THE YOUNG PATRIOTS STORY, will be out next year with the University of North Carolina Press.
56 years ago, July 18 1969, the Black Panther Party's three-day United Front Against Fascism Conference began in Oakland. The UFAF was an attempt to unite the disparate strands of the American left in order to combat what the Panthers saw as creeping American fascism
the “boy who cried wolf” thing is such an obvious, pathetic act of projection. “now that I’m sweating and know I need to say something, it’s you people who have been speaking up that are the problem”
I would recommend this from @HavivRettigGur and @TheFP to skeptics. There has been some crying of "wolf" that has unfortunately poisoned the waters to an extent, but the wolves are now in fact here. x.com/TheFP/status/1…
was an extra in Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown
share a piece of movie theater lore about yourself
Fortnite finally cracking the Numero Group tote bag demo
Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film ‘ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER’ is getting a Fortnite collab.
woke up at 5 and made the final addition to the manuscript before sending it off: a quote from a Young Patriot: “Harry Caudill’s [Night Comes to the Cumberlands] would be great to teach, but Mao is easier.”
Give me an example of the best anyone has ever looked in a movie
Give me an example of the best anyone has ever looked in a movie
“I’m at the AI Institute, I’m at the Center for Freedom of Speech and Civility / I’m at the com-bi-nation AI Institute and Center for Freedom of Speech and Civility”
But surely if universities take on massive amounts of debt to create AI institutes it will pay off
crank the motherfuckin Für Elise! youtube.com/watch?v=aiOPHi…
someone had saved this clip to the desktop of our sixth grade Home Ec classroom and we were all convinced it was a legit snuff film
Why’d he cut out the funniest part 😭
A few more notes about the sentencing Monday for Brett Hankison. Besides not providing the judge with victim impact statements from Breonna Taylor's family, the DOJ left out information in Hankison's pre-sentencing memorandum, according to the judge. 🧵 wdrb.com/in-depth/judge…
I gotta say if they’re losing the Knights of Columbus in Florida of all places it’s not going well
Sunday PM about 25 Knights on Bikes stopped at entrance of Alligator Alcatraz and prayed a rosary for the detainees. Archdiocese is still waiting for approval to access to provide Mass for detainees
Ryan Davis’s new album, “New Threats from the Soul,” is suffused with “listlessness and yearning, dark jokes and wordy disquisitions on desire,” @amandapetrusich writes. nyer.cm/9jga5qJ
