John Archibald
@johnarchibald.bsky.social
Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Pulitzer x 2. Granddad.
This is really good stuff by @crowejam.bsky.social, documenting the deportation of Fonzie Andrade in graphic novel form. You won't see this just anywhere.
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February 11, 2026 at 2:33 PM
This is really good stuff by @crowejam.bsky.social, documenting the deportation of Fonzie Andrade in graphic novel form. You won't see this just anywhere.
Alabama has never cared about protecting its air or water. Or its people, for that matter.
It’s why the state has a sniveling, equivocating, kowtowing, toothless Alabama Department of Environmental Management instead of an environmental protection agency.
It’s why the state has a sniveling, equivocating, kowtowing, toothless Alabama Department of Environmental Management instead of an environmental protection agency.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Alabama has never cared about protecting its air or water. Or its people, for that matter.
It’s why the state has a sniveling, equivocating, kowtowing, toothless Alabama Department of Environmental Management instead of an environmental protection agency.
It’s why the state has a sniveling, equivocating, kowtowing, toothless Alabama Department of Environmental Management instead of an environmental protection agency.
Fonzie thought he was an Alabamian. He lived for football and his fiancee and a little too much fun. I followed him to Mexico when he was deported to a place he did not know or understand. This is his story. As it is with any deportation, it is not his story alone.
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'Deported for that?': Football referee forced to leave Alabama for Mexico
Fonzie had to leave behind his fiancée and 18-month-old son in rural Alabama.
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January 29, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Fonzie thought he was an Alabamian. He lived for football and his fiancee and a little too much fun. I followed him to Mexico when he was deported to a place he did not know or understand. This is his story. As it is with any deportation, it is not his story alone.
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This place is a lot.
Why do Alabama schools need Commandments our politicians don’t follow?
Blessed are the hypocrites, for they shall inherit the Education Policy Committee.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:05 PM
This place is a lot.
You know the answer.
Which Jan. 6 rioter would you invite to a dinner party?
Pelts, horns, Molotov cocktails or feet on the furniture?
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January 6, 2026 at 1:51 PM
You know the answer.
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As the threat of AI looms over us all, @johnarchibald.bsky.social's multi-part story for
@al.com highlights just how quickly (and quietly) the technology is creeping into the criminal legal system, almost always in ways that will make the lives of incarcerated people and their loved ones worse:
@al.com highlights just how quickly (and quietly) the technology is creeping into the criminal legal system, almost always in ways that will make the lives of incarcerated people and their loved ones worse:
Archibald: Did Alabama’s pricey prison lawyers just use AI to file motions? The judge wants answers
A lawyer paid $42 million by the state is among those facing the wrath of a federal judge.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
As the threat of AI looms over us all, @johnarchibald.bsky.social's multi-part story for
@al.com highlights just how quickly (and quietly) the technology is creeping into the criminal legal system, almost always in ways that will make the lives of incarcerated people and their loved ones worse:
@al.com highlights just how quickly (and quietly) the technology is creeping into the criminal legal system, almost always in ways that will make the lives of incarcerated people and their loved ones worse:
You know Tommy Tuberville is bad. If you want see just how far we have fallen, take a look at the words of this former Alabama GOP governor. Not so long ago.
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Tommy Tuberville wants a war; he could learn from this GOP governor
“I believe that instead of resisting change, Alabama should embrace change, hold it tight, and never let it go,” the GOP governor said.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
You know Tommy Tuberville is bad. If you want see just how far we have fallen, take a look at the words of this former Alabama GOP governor. Not so long ago.
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Just because
This Land Is Our Land
YouTube video by Todd Snider - Topic
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December 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Just because
I find myself thinking of water often.
Archibald: Trump’s environmental triple whammy threatens lifeblood of Alabama
Are we parasites or stewards of this place?
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December 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I find myself thinking of water often.
Fascinating book. Come talk about it.
Hey #Birmingham! Come discuss megachurch abuse with me and @johnarchibald.bsky.social tonight at Burdock Book Collective!!
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December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Fascinating book. Come talk about it.
Amen to that. :)
Excited to have @mindahoney.bsky.social back this week at @niemanstoryboard.org, in conversation with the reporting team behind the serialized podcast "American Shrapnel." Thanks @johnhammontree.bsky.social @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social @johnarchibald.bsky.social
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How the team behind the ‘American Shrapnel’ podcast helped their sources feel safe - Nieman Storyboard
As a reporting team revisited a series of bombings across the South in the 1990s, fears of political backlash remained prevalent
niemanstoryboard.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Amen to that. :)
I'm so very sad over the death of Todd Snider. This is why.
Archibald: Loss of beloved folk singer feels like a death in the family
He was a storyteller, a poet, a philosopher who gave voice to those who “didn’t want to throw a fishing line in that old mainstream.”
www.al.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I'm so very sad over the death of Todd Snider. This is why.
Sim left Alabama to protect his family. He has since written a book “And the Dragons Do Come: Raising a Transgender Kid in Rural America.” Give it a read.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Sim left Alabama to protect his family. He has since written a book “And the Dragons Do Come: Raising a Transgender Kid in Rural America.” Give it a read.
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We live in a world where it's hip to be mean.
Mean is the point, whether we’re talking SNAP benefits or immigration or prison or economics. Human rights, civil rights and common decency are 20th century concepts. Like retirement. Or conversation.
Consider the case of Sim Butler and his family.
Mean is the point, whether we’re talking SNAP benefits or immigration or prison or economics. Human rights, civil rights and common decency are 20th century concepts. Like retirement. Or conversation.
Consider the case of Sim Butler and his family.
He fled Alabama to protect his family, and now he warns the world
“The weight of living in Alabama, of living in fight or flight every day, was something I didn’t realize I was carrying until I got out of there."
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November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We live in a world where it's hip to be mean.
Mean is the point, whether we’re talking SNAP benefits or immigration or prison or economics. Human rights, civil rights and common decency are 20th century concepts. Like retirement. Or conversation.
Consider the case of Sim Butler and his family.
Mean is the point, whether we’re talking SNAP benefits or immigration or prison or economics. Human rights, civil rights and common decency are 20th century concepts. Like retirement. Or conversation.
Consider the case of Sim Butler and his family.
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The Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph may not be a household name these days, but he is talked about reverently by extremists on online forums, where the phrase “do a Rudolph” is used as a shorthand for terrorist attacks.
Defeating the Far-Right “Blob Man”
The story of Eric Rudolph, the Atlanta Olympics bomber, offers lessons about the persistence of violent extremism, and how to combat it.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph may not be a household name these days, but he is talked about reverently by extremists on online forums, where the phrase “do a Rudolph” is used as a shorthand for terrorist attacks.
Check one off the bucket list.
Defeating the Far-Right “Blob Man”
The story of Eric Rudolph, the Atlanta Olympics bomber, offers lessons about the persistence of violent extremism, and how to combat it.
www.newyorker.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Check one off the bucket list.
Perhaps we should go ahead and rip that plaque off the Statue of Liberty and stop pretending to be something we are not. Kiss those huddled asses goodbye and claim it is all in the name of liberty and justice for all.
Fonzie lost in immigration court. Now Alabama father will move to a country he knows nothing about
“There’s nothing about this kid that’s not American,” said a former Blountsville Town Council member.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Perhaps we should go ahead and rip that plaque off the Statue of Liberty and stop pretending to be something we are not. Kiss those huddled asses goodbye and claim it is all in the name of liberty and justice for all.
Thanks!
Loved this piece!
We have to take our stories back.
October 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Thanks!
We have to take our stories back.
Archibald: What happened when I Googled myself
AI created a phony national controversy, a fake Miss Alabama and a life in hiding.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We have to take our stories back.
Just a little ode to the big man.
Alabama’s Kadyn Proctor thunders into big man history
Proctor is no William "The Refrigerator" Perry. Just call him "The Walk-In Freezer."
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September 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Just a little ode to the big man.
When you find yourself without internet or cell service you realize what's important.
How to disconnect and still keep your Wordle streak alive
How does one survive in a world without news alerts and sports scores, without the latest memes and Reddit reaction to the day’s threat to our fractured nation?
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September 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
When you find yourself without internet or cell service you realize what's important.
Eric Rudolph wrote this of his targets: “It was irrelevant to me which particular issue – taxes, abortion, gun rights – ended up being the spark that ignited this revolution. This was a war between two entirely different world views.”
Those who want to divide us want chaos. Don’t let them win.
Those who want to divide us want chaos. Don’t let them win.
Archibald: What a serial bomber can teach America in this perilous moment
We are not at war.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Eric Rudolph wrote this of his targets: “It was irrelevant to me which particular issue – taxes, abortion, gun rights – ended up being the spark that ignited this revolution. This was a war between two entirely different world views.”
Those who want to divide us want chaos. Don’t let them win.
Those who want to divide us want chaos. Don’t let them win.
Thanks! Y’all read Jordan Green.
Check out this podcast by @johnarchibald.bsky.social and @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social.
It's an incredible yarn that captures the violence, loss and inhumanity of Eric Rudolph's 1990s terror campaign, and shows how it echoes forward to our current national crisis. Can't recommend it enough!
It's an incredible yarn that captures the violence, loss and inhumanity of Eric Rudolph's 1990s terror campaign, and shows how it echoes forward to our current national crisis. Can't recommend it enough!
In the final episode of American Shrapnel, hosted by @johnarchibald.bsky.social and @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social, about Olympic & abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph, hear clinic bombing suvivor Emily Lyons give the SHIT to Rudolph in court.
September 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Thanks! Y’all read Jordan Green.