Tweets my own. American religious/civil rights history. Emory/UofSC alum. Fan of Arsenal FC, cursed sports teams, Mississippi gas station food, The Joshua Tree.
Joined October 2012
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Patrick Connelly retweeted
When my mom was a little girl, she heard the gunshots that killed Medgar Evers.
This year she got to vote for Mississippi’s first Black senator since reconstruction.
This means something.
Congrats @scott_colom ✊🏽
Patrick Connelly retweeted
I find it amazing that we are supposed to carry on with our professional and personal lives as if the tech insiders telling us we are all going to die or be slaves "pretty soon" is not, you know, a thing that might stop us in our tracks and demand immediate, collective politics.
Patrick Connelly retweeted
My thoughts on @U2's new album, a party at the end of the world - bold, bright and a little bit silly, full of tears and laughter and dancing, and the ghost of Dolly Parton telling us to get our act together before its too late. #U2
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Patrick Connelly retweeted
Two thoughts on this:
1. A man so consumed with hatred that he’d rather go to hell than forgive his enemies is a tragedy. I’d pity him if he was my neighbor or president.
2. This is the most interesting Trump interview I’ve seen in a long time. Feeling good about my prediction that @Douthat60 would be great on 60 Minutes.
🚨 Q: You're entering the next life [before God], all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, etc...can you do it?
TRUMP: Then I wouldn't be real, would I? The easy answer is, yes, I could forgive. They are extremely dishonest people, bad people, I love our country far more...the answer is no. I want to be honest.
Q: In judgement before God?
TRUMP: I do hate some of my enemies. Look what they put me through.
REPORTER: You had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime, and you can't find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies?
TRUMP: All I have to do is say yes, I can. Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that. Because I do hate some of my enemies — and I always will.
Never heard Trump get asked such a deep question like that before.
He COULD just say "yes" and get out of the question, but he didn't
One thing you have to admit is this man is brutally honest.
Patrick Connelly retweeted
A few thoughts here in MS on a potentially historic upset in the Senate race. First, Mississippi is only 1 of 3 states w/o open early voting & a state where Republicans dominate statewide elections. The Democratic Party invested little $$ here. But... 1/9
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Patrick Connelly retweeted
ARSENAL WIN AT ANFIELD FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE MIKEL ARTETA HIMSELF WAS IN MIDFIELD 😤
Patrick Connelly retweeted
absolutely repugnant from the nba
The NBA is formally stepping into the prediction markets ecosystem.
The league announced agreements Monday morning with Kalshi and Polymarket that will allow the companies to use official league data and intellectual property and give the league control over what trades the companies are allowed to offer.
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Patrick Connelly retweeted
If you’re of a certain age, you probably still believe this is what Saturday afternoons should sound like. And you’re right.
Patrick Connelly retweeted
Jerry Mathers basically playing Beaver Cleaver in this Cuban Missile Crisis inspired episode of INSIGHT. "The Boy and the Bomb." 1963. youtu.be/HV7EtsbiPpo?si=yj5E…
Patrick Connelly retweeted
Russia killed a one year old girl in her stroller today. Her mother died in the hospital a few hours later.
Trump: "Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven't been doing much."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Trump's remarks were made the same day Russia conducted a drone strike killing six civilians including children in a Kharkiv region park, plus missile and energy infrastructure attacks leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
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Patrick Connelly retweeted
The Ukrainian people are the victims of this war, not its perpetrators. That simple historical fact eludes some in this administration, so it must be restated again and again.
Putin’s Kremlin isn’t just Ukraine’s enemy. It’s America’s enemy.
Whatever it is that drives the Trump administration’s animosity toward Ukraine, that hostility represents a grotesque moral failing. It isn’t just strategically incomprehensible; it betrays America’s values and traditions. nationalreview.com/corner/th…
Patrick Connelly retweeted
Shocking images of the Tiananmen massacre. China might have gone the way of other Communist dictatorships in 1989, but for this readiness to gun down unarmed civilians.
Today, the ’89 Democracy Movement has been so effectively memory-holed that Chinese students, shown the famous image of the man standing in front of the tanks with his shopping bags, do not recognise it as being in China.
WATCH: Britain’s ITN has released ~4 hours of previously sealed 1989 Tiananmen footage — filmed by the team that smuggled the tapes out of China.
The material, archived for ~35 years, includes a 2-hour crackdown compilation and 90 minutes of secretly filmed raw rushes from the days after, showing military trucks on Beijing streets, crowds, and the aftermath.
Patrick Connelly retweeted
"Many dismiss sports fandom as a trivial, tribal distraction...Our research highlights how important this seeming triviality is to civil society: Sports might be the last remaining American cultural institution that spans our political divides."
nytimes.com/2026/10/03/opini…
Patrick Connelly retweeted
thought we were doing a War of 1812 rematch before I realized South Alabama was playing Kentucky
Patrick Connelly retweeted
Back in the old school. The last time #U2 played here, we were the support band.
Patrick Connelly retweeted
Already, we’d hailed their victory in the Pop Group ’78 competition in Limerick. Now, it was time for a proper conversation with the emerging young Northsiders – with Adam Clayton and Bono acting as spokespeople. In many ways, even in those very early days, Bill Graham’s report – original banner 'U-2 Could Be A Headline' – revealed extraordinary predictive powers... @U2
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Patrick Connelly retweeted
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot hit the internet 25 years ago today.
It's one of the most important albums of my life, and I loved writing about it for its 20th anniversary five years ago:
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