Yeah, Mare covers the relationships when she reaches out to Billy about going with her to notify the dad (also I assume why they have different names—McMenamin vs. Ross). Incidentally I feel like the omnipresence of extended family relationships/cousins around everywhere is one of the things that feels really, really…

That may be your perspective, but it’s certainly not shared by all of us who live in work in GOP-run states. I guess I’m just asking that regardless of whether their personal feelings are fatalistic, folks not treat places and communities as irredeemable or lost when a lot of us are here living, working, trying to…

This is exactly what I’m talking about. Nobody should have to leave their home and talking about “evacuating” progressives from conservative-majority communities is reductive, condescending, and as unhelpful as when people talk about colonizing low-population red states with blue voters. Help us fight instead. Donate…

Counter counterpoint: this is not to specifically pick on you, but as someone who lives in a deep red “flyover” state, I’m pleading with people to take a different tack on stories like this. People live in places for lots of reasons and there are some wonderful things about Arkansas, truly. Some of the bravest people…

At least lifelong Sox fans have their obnoxiousness forged out of actual suffering. Yankees fans have been pissing the rest of us off for decades because really what hardship have they known?!

Honestly, progressives need to stop focusing solely on the federal level. So much effort is needed at the state level, especially with state legislatures. Granted I work in a red state, but it feels often to me like progressives/Dems/moderates/etc. just are completely behind the ball as far as realizing how important…

I mean, school board members are public (generally elected) officials. I respect the hell out of people doing public service, but this isn’t anymore acceptable than it would be if a state legislator or governor’s staff was doing it.

Forbes:

I’m white and I definitely can’t speak for Indigenous people, but here’s some information that I think will help you contextualize what you’re talking about.

Standing ovation. I’m not a naturally neat person. I get preoccupied with work or a project and put off doing dishes or forget to put away mugs or whatever. It takes conscious effort on my part to clean.

Thank you, this is beautifully said. 

Counterpoint: the knife fight was cool.

Some of us live in the “middle of nowhere” and are already nervous about what this pandemic is going to do to our small rural hospitals as cases tick up. Even if they travel without having it now - and that’s a big risky “if,” given that asymptomatic and mild cases seem to be fueling a lot of the spread - they could…

Yeah, not to nitpick characterization too much, but I’ve been pretty disappointed with how they handled Lyra and her relationship with the Gyptians in general. I remember her being super eager to meet John Faa and immediately taken with Farder Coram, right? And I feel like we never got a proper introduction to…

The music has been outstanding in general, but I have to give incredible credit to whoever engineered the needle drop to Sturgill Simpson’s “Turtles All The Way Down” as Wade follows the woman from the support group to the bar (then playing behind the entire scene in the bar). That was just sublime.

Yeah, I rolled my eyes the instant I saw the picture. Kuiu makes legit gear*, the idea of wearing it as a costume is just stupid and braggy.

You know, I see the “he probably doesn’t even hunt” jokes a lot, and I get it, but he actually does. As a hunter myself, I personally think that makes him way more problematic and more cheeseball and is worth acknowledging. Here he is out taking EPIC PHOTOS of himself on public lands and waters enjoying world class…

Yes, we can. A lot of invasive species management is about eliminating the invader. It’s about the fact that you’ve skipped a whole lot of barriers and dumped a completely new species into a system that evolved under different circumstances. Not all introduced species become invasive, but when we have species that do,…

Under different conditions, sure. The issue with invasive species that human-facilitated introductions shrink the amount of time/space that it takes for a species to get from one ecosystem to another. Under conditions where humans weren’t facilitating distribution, you wouldn’t suddenly have a species from half a…

This is the same reason I hunt; we’re lucky enough to be able to supply ourselves with most of the meat we need for the year via public lands where we live. When we aren’t eating game meat, we try to buy from producers we know. Good work raising awareness about what you’re doing and why you do it. Humans, broadly,…