I spent some time with Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance, and Blake Masters, and wrote a piece about the dissident right/new right/whatever you want to call it for
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James Pogue
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Contributing editor , 2022 Alicia Patterson Fellow, author of a book called Chosen Country. Anti-enclosure. Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.
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We are deeply saddened to report that Dave Foreman passed away this evening peacefully, at home. The founder of The Rewilding Institute who coined the now ubiquitous name for a movement to protect and restore wild nature, Rewilding. 1/2
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started Tree Thieves by yesterday and it is brilliant! both a stunning work of reportage about illegal tree poaching in America, but also one of the most nuanced and generous books on class and the effects of deindustrialisation i've read for ages. highly recommend!
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we stan a crust guy journalist king
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In today's edition, @jhensonpogue fills in @andrewfed on what it takes to make it as a roving dirtbag reporter these days... thefineprintnyc.com/article/james-
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great interview by w/ my old homie , in which he recalls (fondly?) our old days scraping by to afford $175 rent in Arkansas, lol...and the toll it takes on ones' writing, & life, & writing life, & on the profession as a whole.
thefineprintnyc.com/article/james-
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Barbara Ehrenreich just passed away. Heartbroken. She was a giant in Left politics. Kept a light alive when so many Leftists turned to obscurantism or pandering
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This is a hard one. He was one of the most authentic and magnetizing artists to grace the country music art form in the modern era.
Luke Bell has died at 32.
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Damn
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I’m sure there are a lot of country music fans out there who don’t know the name Luke Bell. But speaking as someone who is very particular about his country music, I will tell you he had one of the best country albums released in the last 20 years. Check it out.
RIP Luke Bell
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“Smart home”
1700s: contains books, art, people who know how to do things
1800s: contains books, art, people who know how to do things
1900s: contains books, art, people who know how to do things
2000s: hacked fridge won’t stop playing baby shark
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This thread shows what happens to ideas and opinions in a culture of kitsch. They are flattened into mantras, dogma, absolute truths, and it becomes a kind of category error to challenge them in any way.
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What Emily Maitlis seemed to me to be saying in her Edinburgh lecture was that there are truths that need to be told that can be stated as facts without requiring rebuttal. A short thread to discuss this…..
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"(I)n all of his writings he is resistant to the idea that settlers and small-time workers of the West were the engines of the genocide and despoliation that came to the region in their wake."
Bernard DeVoto having a moment. Via .
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They called a USC expert to say whether or not Angels fans like Arte Moreno
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Seems notable that the years when they made all the cars into rolling offbrand ipads that beep and correct you constantly have not been attended by a decline in traffic deaths
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Nice to meet you man, what do you do?
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Brilliant piece by on Bernard DeVoto and Across the Wide Missouri, his great history of the western fur trade.
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Reminder that lending money at interest is sinful
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Good politics starter pack
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A "pastoralist" fantasty would actually be to say that they raised their food by keeping grazing animals, which is also totally plausible
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"my great grandparents raised a family on food they grew all by themselves" is a bullshit pastoralist fantasy. nobody's great grandparents did that. keep going back in generations and that still never happened. you are nostalgic for a time that never existed
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Dream version of carless future would be that then you could live unreachably far away from people who say stuff like this
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In discussions of reducing car dependency, one often hears, "What about people in remote rural areas?" And my gut instinct is -- people shouldn't be living there in the first place. The solution is to give them generous grants to relocate among other humans.
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So now that we all agree there is a crisis of masculinity who should we send these poor reactionary lost men to emulate?
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Today is quintidi 5 Fructidor in the year of the Republic CCXXX, celebrating the salmon.
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Later dude
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They're playing Taj Mahal now. This band actually rules
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It's this guy
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Country band playing John Prine's "Paradise" at Cheney event seems a bit rich but honestly go for it dudes
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This would have been the best state
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Replying to @PopulismUpdates
Mormons proposed this state in the 1840s. Would make Colorado river rights much easier! Also it has about 100 Angelenos to everyone else
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Other countries: So regional administrative divisions will be determined by cultural or geographic bound-
America: IT'S A SQUARE. THERE IS NOTHING IN IT
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George Monbiot has of course gone full ecomodernist—lab food + nukes + supercities so as to rewild: “decoupling” as the apocalyptic end-point of Cartesianism. This is all presented as feasible (it isn’t) and necessary—emergency ecomodernism. No change on our parts required!
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New essay 'Beyond rescue ecomodernism: the case for agrarian localism restated': smallfarmfuture.org.uk/?p=1989
Referencing #urbanism, #ruralism & why @GeorgeMonbiot's criticisms of #ASmallFarmFuture are misplaced
@GreenRupertRead @tradistae @HighFrith
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V real disconnect in how media and political types seem constrained publicly to use the rubric of "pandemic" for the feeling of insanity/fear/disintegration /emptiness that pervades life now, when basically everyone in the country realizes that something more lasting is off
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Burned out after logging excessive hours or duties during COVID-19, more Americans are resolving to meet their job requirements but not go beyond. usatoday.com/story/money/20
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Furious they sent Antonia to Alaska and all I got was to go to Jackson
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Just finished Chosen Country by a gripping and nuance read, one of the best books I’ve read this year. Not only an incredible account of a very pivotal moment in US politics, but also a snapshot of the time it was written, with a lingering ? Of are we doing better?
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This is basic drive-thru ignorance of contemporary small town and rural life.
And VERY RICH to hear this from the ideological corner that spent a year+ locked in their apartments, Zooming to work, ordering delivery, afraid of schools.
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This is one explanation of the mania with which they flocked to Trump rallies. These folks just don't get together much; they live their lives in their houses, their trucks, & Walmarts. Increasingly, their only real communities are online (& utterly toxic).
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I'm a dog person
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Replying to @mypillowgorl
all journos are lizard people
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Agree, but the Troubles WERE a brutal civil war, lead to a still-unresolved collapse of the political system, and took decades for an occupying power to contain despite an extremely limited pool of combatants and arms, in a province the size of Connecticut. So in America now..
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If political violence becomes a regular feature of American life, my suspicion is it will be less pitched battles and more The Troubles crossed with Waco, with Twitter hell layered on top. thedailybeast.com/americans-are-
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Surveyed from water
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