Overly educated hillbilly, Ozarker, husband, father, farmer, historian. All comments reflect my personal thoughts and not my employer.
Joined December 2019
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Signed on the dotted line here—coming in the next year or so. Excited to work with @lsupress on this. #organic #ozarks #history #hipbillies
Hoping somebody will bite…”Middle of Somewhere: Fighting for Home in a Homeless World” proposal out in the wild.
#rural #ozarks #writing #oldways #hillbillys
Summer read just showed up. @RobGMacfarlane is such a great writer. (But I gotta finish @herdyshepherd1 place of tides first!)
Jared Phillips retweeted
Jared Phillips notices the loss of people and creatures from his rural community: "Every year that we farm in the old ways, more of nature returns, despite the mistakes we make. Each return teaches hope." frontporchrepublic.com/2025/…
If you’re needing solace from the nonsense, here’s my barn under double rainbows. Brought to you by the #ozarks.
Plowed and disced the garden today. Spring lambs coming every day. #edwardthomas was on my mind. Well, Ed, my hame balls aren’t brass, but they flashed.
Hard to explain just how complete of an idiot @JDVance is. I formally renounce his hillbilly card. We don’t that kind of trash sullying the good name of hillbillies. (And @realDonaldTrump is a waste as well.)
Jared Phillips retweeted
Leonard Peltier: “But I’m free. They didn’t break me.”
After nearly 50 years behind bars, Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier returned home today. Indigenous activists from @ndncollective and residents of Belcourt, North Dakota, gathered to celebrate his freedom after the decades of injustice he endured.
Just in case anybody is watching…this is all true for the US as well.
Don’t panic people said… the ever sensible @ProfTimLang
Hold my beer, said the headline writer… but hey ho, whatever gets attention on this vital issue
unherd.com/2024/12/a-food-ap…
Hey @ArkDems this is a good checklist to start with. (@willwatson)
In the odd event that this platform crashes and anybody here wants to find me elsewhere—just look for the same handle over on the blue place. But I’m also not leaving here just yet.
Stephen Wilson Jr. is a hillbilly bodhisattva. I will not be taking questions. @SWJMusic
Damn near everything he says here is spot on.
Dems need to be in the places where folks are. And they weren’t. And they have to speak a language regular people speak. And they won’t. #ruralmatters
(This is what happens when Dems don’t have a meaningful policy platform for rural America.) #ruralmatters #damnit