Tim Lockette

Teacher & writer of fiction. Speaking for myself, not for any institution. (he/him) Author of “Atty at Law” & “Tell It True,” a Whippoorwill Book Award winner.

[Tim Lockette @TLocketteWrites]

@rolltiderissa Probably because of the First Amendment.

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@WhodatJoey Anakin strangled his wife. I didn’t know his pronouns were “they.”

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@rolltiderissa Imagine a giant school to teach grammar to online conservatives.

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@JMM6110 @rolltiderissa Maybe they just want to exercise their right to worship as they please.

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@rolltiderissa It’s called religious freedom. Get used to it.

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@inkjetresurrect @JMM6110 @rolltiderissa State law is separate. The Constitution guarantees people the right to worship however they want.

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@CoachForGov Here come the data centers!

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@yhn It’s not an “assassination code.” Use the 25th to 86 47!

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@ASinclairAL Zoned for a church in a country with freedom of religion. Case closed. Stop harassing people for exercising their rights.

[Cucker Tarlson @sloppy_steaks]

I want to point out that this woman has an entire media company for a show that pulls in 100 views an episode. AL politicians appear on it.

Rightwing media is the easiest, most well-funded grift imaginable. If I was a bad person I'd also try to get in on all that dark money

[Tim Lockette @TLocketteWrites]

@infantrydort Keep digging that hole. You probably won’t go to Leavenworth, but I expect a dismissal from the military is coming your way.

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@ASinclairAL I checked the paperwork and, yes, freedom of religion was approved in 1789.

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@EddieLi20783973 Both the U.S. Constitution and the Alabama Constitution enshrine freedom of religion as the right of every person. That’s all the research you need.

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@infantrydort People are always telling performers to shut up about politics and just sing. Well, you know who should really shut up about politics? An active duty soldier on the job. You are a disgrace to the uniform.

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@GuntherEagleman this is an arby’s

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@SenTuberville Now that he’s elected, he’s showing his full ass again. My fellow Alabamians, get ready for rampant AI datacenter buildouts and a governor who spends most of his time spouting bigotry.

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@jaredkushner What if the American people don’t want to “address the security concerns of all sides?” What if Americans want to address the security concerns of the U.S. and its allies?

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@infantrydort @bengriffin06 When Hegseth is impeached, no one will be able to protect you from prosecution. Go ahead and put me in your “threats” file for that, you big coward.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

In Fahrenheit 451, the chief book-burner, Captain Beatty, describes how reading became obsolete because the public demanded increasingly fast-paced entertainments, and those entertainments slowly corroded their ability to think. “Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column … Many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed, ‘Now at last you can read all the classics.’ … School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches?”

In this passage Ray Bradbury foretells the intellectual hollowing out of the working class, the advent of AI-generated “summaries” of classic novels, the attention-frying culture of short-form video, the relaxation of educational standards into non-existence. All of this in a book published in 1953.

[Tim Lockette @TLocketteWrites]

It’s starting to happen. The crumbling of Trumpism. Just as predicted. https://t.co/Xcba98uOGp