Ray Mikell
@raymikell.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Political Science, Jackson State University, MS. Interested most in urban politics and policy, state and local govt. Longtime photo person. Pop culture enthusiast of sorts.
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The way to understand the images of Venezuelans dancing in the streets is that when **it happens**, you'll be dancing too even though JD Vance will be the new president.
January 6, 2026 at 4:53 AM
The way to understand the images of Venezuelans dancing in the streets is that when **it happens**, you'll be dancing too even though JD Vance will be the new president.
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VP Rodriguez cut a deal. With Maduro gone she’ll deal to get sanctions relief. She’ll be publicly defiant, but that’s for show. She’s a pragmatist. Meanwhile, the awful Venezuelan regime will continue, just under new management.
open.substack.com/pub/aaronman...
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Venezuela's Veep: Did She Cut a Deal with Trump?
Emergency Throwback
open.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:46 AM
VP Rodriguez cut a deal. With Maduro gone she’ll deal to get sanctions relief. She’ll be publicly defiant, but that’s for show. She’s a pragmatist. Meanwhile, the awful Venezuelan regime will continue, just under new management.
open.substack.com/pub/aaronman...
open.substack.com/pub/aaronman...
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Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life.
January 2, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life.
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Ole Miss is undefeated since Zohran Mamdani was sworn in.
January 2, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Ole Miss is undefeated since Zohran Mamdani was sworn in.
Likely the biggest story in Missssippi sports history outside of the rise of Walter Payton, maybe. And the sort of game color commentators dream about. Hotty Toddy!!
January 2, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Likely the biggest story in Missssippi sports history outside of the rise of Walter Payton, maybe. And the sort of game color commentators dream about. Hotty Toddy!!
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Trinidad Chambliss has moved to the top of the Trinidad power rankings
January 2, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Trinidad Chambliss has moved to the top of the Trinidad power rankings
People outside my condo! Stop shooting fireworks. The best NCAA playoff game yet is on!!!
January 2, 2026 at 4:08 AM
People outside my condo! Stop shooting fireworks. The best NCAA playoff game yet is on!!!
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Trinidad Chambliss:
January 2, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Trinidad Chambliss:
My late take on the weird Netflix NFL halftime show with Snoop: He’s now akin to what Paul Lynde and Ruth Buzzi were in the ‘70s, in the sense of being in everything for no reason except playing it safe. Or late period Milton Burle, higher profile but …
December 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My late take on the weird Netflix NFL halftime show with Snoop: He’s now akin to what Paul Lynde and Ruth Buzzi were in the ‘70s, in the sense of being in everything for no reason except playing it safe. Or late period Milton Burle, higher profile but …
Clarence Carter's "Back-Door Santa" is more or less about that, however, depending on how you view the reality of Santa.
December 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Clarence Carter's "Back-Door Santa" is more or less about that, however, depending on how you view the reality of Santa.
Hello, doppelgänger! Hello back at you, evil twin!
December 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Hello, doppelgänger! Hello back at you, evil twin!
I was informed by instructional design people a couple of years ago that sans fonts are best on screens, are easier for everyone to read on them. So I switched, realizing that I'm not related or in any debt to Times New Roman or Miriam Pro.
Hot take: Rubio is right about fonts but for the wrong reasons
December 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I was informed by instructional design people a couple of years ago that sans fonts are best on screens, are easier for everyone to read on them. So I switched, realizing that I'm not related or in any debt to Times New Roman or Miriam Pro.
A reliably Republican-leaning demographic. Such a smart move (sarcasm).
Scripps News: DHS agents target the Vietnamese community in New Orleans
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#NewOrleans #ICE #NOLAsky
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#NewOrleans #ICE #NOLAsky
DHS agents target the Vietnamese community in New Orleans
A DHS immigration enforcement operation dubbed "Operation Catahoula Crunch" began earlier this week in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a goal of 5,000 arrests over two months.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
A reliably Republican-leaning demographic. Such a smart move (sarcasm).
If you can’t take Post Malone country whatever, or CBS segments with the loathsome Dana White, turn the Cowboys/Chiefs game off now and watch HBO’s”The Shuffle.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
If you can’t take Post Malone country whatever, or CBS segments with the loathsome Dana White, turn the Cowboys/Chiefs game off now and watch HBO’s”The Shuffle.”
Laney Wilson at the Macy’s parade: Introducing the next DHS Secretary.
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Laney Wilson at the Macy’s parade: Introducing the next DHS Secretary.
‘An idealized version of LA’: fabled mid-century Stahl house on sale for first time
‘An idealized version of LA’: fabled mid-century Stahl house on sale for first time
Home perched in Hollywood Hills, constructed for $37,500 and made famous by Julius Shulman photo, listed for $25m
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November 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The New Orleans Saints are almost leas competent than the Trump administration right now.
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The New Orleans Saints are almost leas competent than the Trump administration right now.
I see the Saints just took a page out of the f’d up, ball-dropping Russ Holliday playbook.
November 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I see the Saints just took a page out of the f’d up, ball-dropping Russ Holliday playbook.
Does anyone think that Mamdani promised to give Trump fabric and paint swatch books for all that new housing, and let him help with design choices? That would explain so much.
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Does anyone think that Mamdani promised to give Trump fabric and paint swatch books for all that new housing, and let him help with design choices? That would explain so much.
This brought to mind, for me, a Mr. Magoo-looking--bowler hat and all--fringe candidate in a New Orleans mayoral race whose answer to every debate question involved marijuana legalization.
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This brought to mind, for me, a Mr. Magoo-looking--bowler hat and all--fringe candidate in a New Orleans mayoral race whose answer to every debate question involved marijuana legalization.
Yes, "1999" was released that year, but I only got deeply into it later. This one I still appreciate as much now as at any time, however. "Hello Baton Rouge. Won't you turn your radio down?"
November 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Yes, "1999" was released that year, but I only got deeply into it later. This one I still appreciate as much now as at any time, however. "Hello Baton Rouge. Won't you turn your radio down?"
I didn’t think that would have happened either. I do wonder if anyone made sure his book idea was killed, though. (She didn’t assassinate or murder anyone, but I thought about that line in the Nuzzi book & article and publishing ethics context yesterday.)
Yes! Immediately after we finished watching it, my husband there is no way Lucretia went to see Guiteau before he was executed and I replied absolutely.
We both wished it had been two episodes longer, so they could have gone into the politics in more detail.
Looking forward to reading the book.
We both wished it had been two episodes longer, so they could have gone into the politics in more detail.
Looking forward to reading the book.
November 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I didn’t think that would have happened either. I do wonder if anyone made sure his book idea was killed, though. (She didn’t assassinate or murder anyone, but I thought about that line in the Nuzzi book & article and publishing ethics context yesterday.)
I'm thinking that we need an entirely new class of people at the top. Or no top until the person-as-brand era is figured out.
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm thinking that we need an entirely new class of people at the top. Or no top until the person-as-brand era is figured out.
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look as someone who can be incapacitated for weeks by the fear that I put the wrong number of exclamation points into an email this has been a fascinating glimpse into a some brains that work extremely! differently! from! mine!
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
look as someone who can be incapacitated for weeks by the fear that I put the wrong number of exclamation points into an email this has been a fascinating glimpse into a some brains that work extremely! differently! from! mine!
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If the Democrats had a hair on their ass they would start a nationwide campaign where they had commercials showing all the Republicans convicted of sex scandals plus the emails with they’re not like us playing in the background.
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
If the Democrats had a hair on their ass they would start a nationwide campaign where they had commercials showing all the Republicans convicted of sex scandals plus the emails with they’re not like us playing in the background.