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James Pogue

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2 years

How are you not embarrassed to still be doing this?

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2 years

🚨BREAKING: @BuzzFeedNews & I just got more passages unredacted from Mueller report It reveals for 1st time that Mueller declined to charge Donald Trump Jr with a computer crime for accessing a website using a PW he got from Wikileaks & Stone for hacking

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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 @VanityFair

Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets

They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics.

www.vanityfair.com

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2 years

From my sister. ???

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3 years

I’ve worked for years with/written at length abt plant species doing climate migration, and it legit find it very sad to see that stuff reduced to this kind of ideological performance

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3 years

“Invasive species” is a nativist concept so ingrained in American consciousness that it’s taken on a life of its own, @mbolotnikova reports:

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Just got a letter from the FBI pursuant to my request for my personal file and apparently it’s more than five hundred pages long (?)

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Belatedly posting: A few months ago I went to the Central African Republic, on what was supposed to be the first stop of a trip about small-time gold mining. This piece, out now in @Granta , is about what ended up happening

Wagner in Africa | James Pogue | Granta

‘Many people in the country seem happy to accept mercenaries in exchange for stability.’ James Pogue on the Wagner Group in the Central African Republic.

granta.com

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1 year

Propagated these from seed in 2018 now this

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2 years

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Los Angeles County, California

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2 months

California destroyed our greatest productive industry and one of the world’s greatest sources of nutrient-rich food so we grow tomatoes that taste like cardboard

KQED News

@KQEDnews

2 months

Not enough salmon will swim up the state’s rivers to spawn this year to make a commercial salmon season viable, the Pacific Fishery Management Council announced late Wednesday.

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Walking thru a neighborhood in Silicon Valley where most of the old folks have great semi-feral gardens with lots of natives, and *all* the newly bought/renovated places have these contractor-installed "drought tolerant" deathscapes

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@shagbark_hick Everyone can and should request their own FBI file: .

FOIA - Does the FBI have a file on you?

In response to the ACLU of Oregon’s investigation of FBI surveillance of activists and organizers from around Oregon, the ACLU-OR has received numerous requests for assistance from people who are

www.aclu-or.org

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The wild trout of Pasadena, California

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2 years

This used to be magazines

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2 months

I know everyone hates New York literary culture, but guys I promise that the problems of American writing just don’t have much to do with the fact that a few dozen former honor students and functioning alcoholics in Brooklyn happen to share a loose social circle

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2 months

Everyone defends their friends (as well as friend adjacents, or friends they hope to make, etc)--and no one wants to make enemies: that's why reviews today are what they are and the truth rarely makes an appearance.

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3 years

Lending my massive global platform to HBO tomorrow if anyone wants to watch me try to work in rants about degrowth and the joy of WSB etc

Real Time with Bill Maher

@RealTimers

3 years

FRIDAY: @BillMaher welcomes @HeatherEHeying , @BretWeinstein , @VanJones68 + @jhensonpogue to #RealTime @HBO !

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We moved to Trinity County

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On the Smith

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2 years

Earnestly very grateful for all the responses to the piece. Going up the hill for a night or two but will be back to respond to messages/inquiries/haters etc soon

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2 years

Trying to think of when exactly the “Experts say you should actually love your empty and insane existence” pieces began to come off more as silly than as hegemonic arguments for the current order etc. it seems to have happened really suddenly

Inflation Ate Your Free Lunch, But You’re Still Better Off

Americans are facing a painful drop in the higher living standards brought by ultra-low interest rates and a technology revolution. It had to end sometime.

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I profiled an interesting congressman for the New York Times

Opinion | ‘I Don’t Know Why He’s Not More Famous.’ Meet the Man Republicans Can’t Get Enough Of....

A cult hero to young conservatives, hippie back-to-the-landers and marginalized environmentalists alike, Thomas Massie could shape the future of the GOP.

www.nytimes.com

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Tomorrow: I'm giving the talk at the weekly dinner of the Los Angeles Adventurers' Club, one of the most interesting places in LA. It's going to be fun, people are coming, there's a bar, and you'll get to see a lot of taxidermy.

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4 years

Last night NPR’s news break had Caliphate scandalette as one of three big stories in the WORLD that they highlighted, imo a reflection that the problem is with journalistic culture that sees the travails and meta narratives of reporters as bigger news than say a war in armenia

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Found these for us

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One funny detail abt the current hysteria is that all the people thrilled by sight of civilians arming themselves to fight back a superpower are the same people who think the Federal gvt will be able to just roll a bunch of tanks and and drones over America’s own armed populace

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1 year

Some personal news 🟪

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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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4 years

For anyone stuck in quarantine and brooding on apocalypse, my essay about what a different and better gun culture could look like is out now on the cover of @Harpers

Good Guys with Guns, by James Pogue

Why the left should arm itself

harpers.org

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25 native species in this yard, none of which need ANY water-- why would you want the thing on the right!

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2 years

My story about a recall, a militia, the changing shape of rural politics, California's wild north, and the history of the State of Jefferson, is out now in Harper's

Notes on the State of Jefferson, by James Pogue

A secessionist movement brews in northern California

harpers.org

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2 years

This is going to have really terrible consequences

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1 year

Gonna get into lichens this year

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We got some time on the McCloud

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Nice fenceline

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4 years

I went on @thetrillbillies to talk about urban-rural divides in politics and my @thebafflermag piece, about Eastern Kentucky and our mutual friend Jim "Not The Senator Guy" Webb, and a bunch of other stuff—it was great and you should subscribe and listen

The Trillbillies

@thetrillbillies

4 years

Premium 128: “Scoundrel Tips For Wine Moms” (w/ Special Guest: @jhensonpogue )

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2 years

Restore local foodways

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4 years

Is there a reason why when people in red states wanted to go to beauty parlors and tattoo shops it was a deranged expression of the death drive built into a settler society but when Connecticut opens up for dine-in restaurant service it's just normal and ok

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3 months

I’m slowly gathering material to write the great Angry French Farmer piece, and the most interesting thing is in Provence there is an American West-style culture war over wolf reintroduction and whether or not you can use night vision to hunt them.

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2 years

Oh boy

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This piece is going to be followed by another on the Sahara and the Sahel, and was supported by the @pulitzercenter . The Granta issue is stacked and I obviously encourage everyone to get it and read in print:

Granta 167: Extraction | Granta

From mining to Bitcoin, energy politics to psychoanalysis, the spring edition examines a practice as...

granta.com

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Check out this lineup for real

Granta

@GrantaMag

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We are delighted to reveal the contributors to the latest edition of Granta. From mining to Bitcoin, energy politics to psychoanalysis, the spring issue examines a practice as old as human history: Extraction.

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4 years

I have a new piece on the cover of @Harpers this month, about how politicians have failed to form a vision of the future to replace our gone 20th-century way of life, and how Democrats obsessed with beating Trump still have to face up to the task.

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2 years

Reporting in the 90s

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I’ve spent the week (amid media blowup) doing my certs in case I do fire this season, and I think ppl would have their minds absolutely blown to see how little training, pay, or just human care is given to new firefighters, now getting sent out just days after signing up

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2 years

A climate crisis collides with a labor crisis: As record droughts set the stage for a possibly devastating fire season, low wages & poor working conditions make it impossible for US forests to hire the firefighters they need. My latest w/ @dsherfinski :

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California, USA

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8 months

Got a new truck

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1 year

Last evenings in Livingston

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10 months

Been targeting Coastal Cutthroats lately. Territorial, predatory, borderline vicious little fish. Fun to hunt in creeks and give salmon/steelhead a break. Recommend.

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2 years

Sent my mom a photo of the final proof of a 9k-word magazine story I'm closing, and she texted back "I hate the word 'beseeched.'" She was right, we cut it.

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36 hours after giving the seedlings some mycorrhizae

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Today a Wyoming sheriff's deputy who was inquiring about our business finished up by nodding at Banjo and saying "That little cowdog minds you real well." Need to make sure good American locutions like that never go away.

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5 years

My friend and fixer who worked with me on our story for @harpers and @pulitzercenter was attacked with acid just couple days after it published, and he could really use some help.

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2 years

Nice *largest reservoir in California* you got there, shame if it turned into a *barren rocky pit with nothing but thin high-elevation snow on Mt. Shasta to replenish it.* This summer is going to be wild.

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Official now that I'll be a 2022 Alicia Patterson Fellow, writing about ecology and politics in far-Northern California and the State of Jefferson. Thanks to @APFFoundation and everyone who has helped me pursue this peculiar regional fascination.

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If you want to have a farm or just a realer/better life that means you're actually a nihilist

Dr Ruth Marshall is Kicking Against the Pricks

@wtfis2bdone

2 years

@ardenthistorian @zackbeauchamp The nihilism of this generation can't be underestimated either. I should know, I have 4 of my own - 20-25. They all dream of dropping out of everything - they have an active fantasy plan to 'buy a farm'. It's depressing af.

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Spent the weekend in the Golden Trout Wilderness, home to three trout subspecies native nowhere else in the world. The water temperature at the Forks of the Kern was 75 degrees, which is pretty close to die-off-level hot. And it's still only July.

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2 years

New followers sorry I mostly tweet about native plants, fish, guns, Toyota vehicles

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we used to be a proper country

America Is Becoming a Nation of Early Birds

Dinner parties at 5 p.m.? More consumers of all ages are sliding activities back. Night owls wonder where the action is.

www.wsj.com

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1 year

Out the window at Stanford Medical Center

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@pbdmcniel You should definitely get yours and we can display as an art installation at the Box

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3 years

Chilly

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1 year

Time to finally do this

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Twilight

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3 years

Oh shut up

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Dug some obsidian

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Trying to liberate this huge native hummingbird sage I found fighting its way through the ivy

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Paradise dot Valley dot MT dot US

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3 years

Always just crazed with excitement when we get above 4000 feet

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Chad trout

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Oh boy

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3 years

@rob_rubsam Yes!!!!! It collapses the obvious and intuitive distinction between “refugee” and “invader”

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4 years

Ammon Bundy taking heat for hosting a Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police rally is pretty illustrative of the uncharacterizable person he has always been, and exactly why squwaking armchair "extremism watchers" have never said one interesting thing abt his movement

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This photo courtesy of one of the two (2) Subaru owners we pulled out on this forest road today

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Goat parts no forks no sides. Great meal 10/10

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I have two pieces due tomorrow and trying to figure out how to explain to editors why they are both now going to be about what it means for Cincinnati to be in the Super Bowl

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5 years

Why do we have to do this thing now where all stories are about how someone isn't talking enough about the thing the story is talking about.

The Independent

@Independent

5 years

There are huge fires burning forests to the ground in Lebanon right now and no one is talking about them

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4 years

Come at me for this one too cowards

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3 years

We planted 2000 sagebrush last 48 hours

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2 years

Country band playing John Prine's "Paradise" at Cheney event seems a bit rich but honestly go for it dudes

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Creatures of the Lost Coast

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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

USA TODAY Money

@USATODAYmoney

2 years

Burned out after logging excessive hours or duties during COVID-19, more Americans are resolving to meet their job requirements but not go beyond.

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Hamrah is the voice we need at this horrid time

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3 years

A company named after Robin Hood that actively stops allowing the poor to take from the rich is a chef’s-kiss branding disaster of the highest order.

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@wupton I remember hearing a lot in my anarchist days about people doing this in Europe, but usually with some attendant sign that it was a political act

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With the camel corps

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Mining gold in Mauritania

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4 years

As someone with a piece in the next Harper's I am mostly annoyed at like TCW and Yascha's unceasing campaigns of self-aggrandizement in the form of defending platitudinous values of a vacuous and dying system, but also and especially that no one asked me if I wanted to sign

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African spurred tortoise, released back into desert after long negotiations

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3 years

A few weeks ago I picked up a very drunk hitchhiker in Taos who said he wanted to go to «Rumsfeld’s house, I left my phone there.» So I was pretty excited to go pick it up with him, but it turned out that he’d just passed out and dropped it in a ditch outside the property

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Banjo’s first rodeo

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Sahara sunset

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As the sole lineal descendant of the Pogues I will say about this that... 1/28

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

4 years

BBC Radio 1 will not play original version of Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl this Christmas, because its audience may be offended by derogatory terms for gender and sexuality

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Someone shot this owl and left it under a pile of fir boughs at the entry to a forest road by my house. They are risking a similar fate if I can figure out who it was.

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Neighborhood walk

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Cottagecore

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3 years

Second instance today of seeing the Templar flag flying on a fence in Eastern Oregon

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He has a v cute thing of always knowing when a waterfall is ahead and getting really excited about it

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Mt. Shasta from more or less the same vantage at more or less the same time of year 2018/2021

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@SamAdlerBell Lol it was actually that when I was writing the piece you were in an exchange that I was responding to in my head instead of focussing and then so I just blocked everyone for some reason. Wasn’t personal and I liked your piece.

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Lots of Hollywood squares and feature bros were hating when my @thebafflermag piece came out saying I was just bitter abt publishing or w/e, but since then I've done 4 features and two cover pieces for a national magazine and surprise surprise i still don't rlly make any money

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