Freelance journalist, author of This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West. Contact: [email protected]

New York State
Joined March 2020
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My piece on blowing up the World Wide Web: “the world will not be free until the last tech bro is strangled with the entrails of the last computer programmer.” romanticon.substack.com/p/fo…
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"Charlie Kirk, latest martyr of American Christendom, is exemplary of how the evangelical cult makes a mockery of the tenets of Jesus of Nazareth." ketcham99.substack.com/p/cha…
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"Trump’s latest upending of conservation policy will be a disaster for wild landscapes and the creatures who live in them." My piece on the proposed rescission of the "roadless rule" in national forests: truthdig.com/articles/the-ro…
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Apropos of the United Healthcare CEO assassination, see my 2023 piece about Stephen P. McRae, "The Machine Breaker." "We discussed taking down the enemy—the Fortune 500 CEOs, say—and how the world would be a better place if they were all beheaded." Yep. harpers.org/archive/2023/11/…
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I'm a freelance editor for @truthdig, and one of my fave pieces I've worked on is about the unconscionable frauds who make up the Effective Altruism movement, hotbed of wealthy predators pretending concern for humanity @EACambridgeUK truthdig.com/articles/effect…
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"McRae hated coal-burning power plants, but even more he hated gold mines. Love of gold was for McRae a form of civilizational degeneracy, because of the pollution associated with it, the catastrophic disruption of soil, the poisoning of water and air." harpers.org/archive/2023/11/…
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My call in the New York Times to stop lawless rancher Cliven Bundy's unceasing destruction of the Nevada desert. What's needed is immediate round-up of his cattle herd that runs amok in a fragile biome. Hell, shoot the cows. nytimes.com/2023/09/27/opini…
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My article at @Truthdig on technoindustrial society's pillaging the earth "for the climate." Lithium mining in Nevada, say the Indians there, is just another iteration of the white man's rapacious ways, but now dressed up in green. truthdig.com/articles/neocol…..
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From @Cat_Early76 we learn that "renewable energy is a dominant driver of development pressure" on indigenous people and their lands. Industrial civilization, oil-fueled but now green-fueled, must keep itself humming along, to hell with the natives. theecologist.org/2023/aug/08…
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To all the putative adults who, out of whatever combination of deficient intellect, broken spirit, lowered standards, and pop culture mindlessness, are celebrating the @Barbie movie, I give you…my tween daughter…@Mattel's target audience for sales of plastic (1/5)
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"Because you shouldn’t have 35 careers and a mansion." I asked what she thought of the color pink. "It’s the most ridiculous color I’ve ever witnessed in the universe!" Why is that? “It’s too girly for me." (4/5)
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She suggested an illustration for an article, if I should write one on this subject: a Barbie with no hands or legs, driving her fancy-ass car off a cliff with Ken. Ken is screaming, “I only wanted to paint the house pink!” (5/5)
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