[Not a dunk] I spent my whole childhood in rural parts of red states and it‘s actually been this way the whole time, but people don’t know this bc of election maps and stereotyped press coverage and party priorities. [@nickbowlin.bsky.social](
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oil and gas reporter for ProPublica and The Frontier Freelance work in: Harper's, The Guardian, The Nation, The Drift, Outside, etc.
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Joke’s on them: how Democrats gave up on rural America
It is a diverse and complicated place poorly served by stereotypes and simplistic solutions
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Elizabeth (she/her) (@ebwillbanks.bsky.social)
This year moved from Portland to rural red Lewis County because we were looking for a little farm. We're discovering lots of left leaning neighbors...
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Joke’s on them: how Democrats gave up on rural America
It is a diverse and complicated place poorly served by stereotypes and simplistic solutions
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Cowlitz County WA (where Longview is) went for Trump by 20 points and is pretty aggressively MAGA. Longview also a river-port and timber-mill town that’s been hit hard by tariffs. RE:
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sorry I know we’re supposed to be moving on to the infighting but holy hell they lost in Longview??! [www.opb.org/article/2025...](
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Prominent Republicans head toward losses in Southwest Washington general election
Camas council member Leslie Lewallen and Longview Mayor Spencer Boudreau lost their elections Tuesday.
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Prominent Republicans head toward losses in Southwest Washington general election
Camas council member Leslie Lewallen and Longview Mayor Spencer Boudreau lost their elections Tuesday.
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J. Nathan Matias (@natematias.bsky.social)
This story in the Boston Globe that quotes @ethanz.bsky.social reminds me of the fascinating story over the last decade of how to moderate dopers w...
Wild amount of petty friendly fire on here this week
The original headline in that NYT interview, blaming just "women" for ruining the workplace, is a much better reflection of its contexts, which include a riff on how men are "warriors" and women are "worriers." It's that infantile.
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How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unb...
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Unbreaking (@unbreaking.org)
Our Immigration and Data Security teams worked together this week to understand how immigration-linked data grabs and shoddy facial recognition app...
Authoritarian retaliatory everything everywhere all the time. We need these journalists so badly. RE:
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New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to...
Super fast work from [@jmetr22b.bsky.social](
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Chicago Tribune reporter covering the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse and criminal justice issues in Chicago.
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Chicago judge issues injunction limiting use of force by ICE
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Here it is, Judge Ellis's preliminary injunction in Chicago Headline Club v. Noem: RE:
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Heather Cherone (@heathercherone.bsky.social)
Ellis is now reading the preliminary order, which applies only to the Northern District of Illinois.