Tenacious Library 🧬🔬 @DefAMustRead

Peer-reviewed pubd scientist: genetics (sex=immutable), Yerkes/AIDS, statistics, Project Talent- Combat vet fam-Poli sci/pub admin degrees-6000 book library Joined August 2019

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Tenacious Library 🧬🔬 @DefAMustRead

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🧵it's time 🥹

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3 hours ago

🧵First morning in Blue Ridge. I overslept the sunrise but spent the morning on this lovely porch anyway. Pork butts coming along great!

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Tenacious Library 🧬🔬 @DefAMustRead

18 hours ago

🧵Away we go! Going to explore the Blue Ridge Mountains. Specifically Cherry Log, Georgia. I'm slow-cooking a pork butt overnight (6.5lbs bone-in). I'm stupid excited . Got a new machine to break in! Ill add food & mountain sunrises & sunsets on this thread through Monday!

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Tenacious Library 🧬🔬 @DefAMustRead

2 hours ago

@hage8675309 The mountains are so good for the soul. Also, I just saw a deer walk right next to the fire pit! They're everywhere! And a bird just landed on the porch ledge right in front of me. I feel like a Disney princess!

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Tenacious Library 🧬🔬 @DefAMustRead

2 hours ago

What a morning 😍

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4 hours ago

Oh. Man.

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3 hours ago

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3 hours ago

@crochet_mom314 Is that one of these??

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LHGrey™️ @grey4626

23 hours ago

Introduction The jury took less than three hours. They listened to the witnesses, examined the facts, rejected the self-defense claim, rejected the sudden-passion downgrade that would have treated a knife to the chest as a heat-of-the-moment lapse, and convicted Karmelo Anthony of murder. A Black teenager drove a blade into a White teenager at a high school track meet in Texas, and twelve citizens performed the increasingly rare act of weighing evidence instead of demographics. Within hours the familiar machinery engaged. Activists declared a legal lynching. A congresswoman announced that race had absolutely played a role. The usual professional mourners wailed that Black lives do not matter in Collin County. And into this theater of scripted racial suspicion stepped Senator Tim Kaine, who said he has a hard time understanding why anyone would call the verdict unfair or racially motivated. That single sentence of clarity is the exception that proves the pathology. We have built an entire apparatus whose primary function is to ensure that Black-on-White violence never remains a simple criminal event. It must be transformed, instantly, into a referendum on history, on systems, on the eternal guilt of the wrong skin. The dead boy becomes an acceptable loss in the larger accounting. The killer’s melanin becomes the mitigating circumstance that the culture is now trained to reach for before the body is even cold. This is not compassion. This is not even coherent moral reasoning. It is the closed cognitive loop of a regime that has decided some lives are more equal than others in death as in life, and that has professionalized the management of that inequality into careers, funding streams, and political power. The neurological hardware underneath is ancient and unforgiving. The human brain tags threat and affiliation along tribal lines with ruthless speed; this is not a social construct, it is mammalian operating code. What the current order has done is take that universal wiring and install it as public morality, but with the directional override permanently engaged. When the perpetrator carries the approved demographic and the victim does not, the script demands we interrogate the jury, the prosecutor, the culture, the history, the rain, the tent, the shove, anything except the decision to pull a knife and use it. When the demographics reverse, the script demands we interrogate nothing except the permanent stain of the wrong ancestry. The result is not safety…It is not healing…It is the steady erosion of the principle that murder is murder regardless of who holds the blade and who stops breathing. What follows is not another polite summary of a case already decided in a Texas courtroom. It is the refusal to participate in the management of selective outrage any longer. It is a forensic examination of the machinery that turns a straightforward homicide into a racial emergency the moment the wrong body hits the ground. It is the record of what happens when a culture decides that evidence is optional when the narrative requires it, and that coddling one demographic’s violence is the price of moral virtue. The boy who died on those bleachers deserved better than to become another data point in the grievance economy. The jury that convicted his killer did what the law still occasionally permits. The rest of us are left to decide whether we will keep pretending that skin color purchases a discount on the value of a human life, or whether we will finally say, without ellipsis or apology, that this bullshit has run its course. open.substack.com/pub/lhgrey78/p…