Episode 154: Saddles And Sadness

In this week’s depressing episode… Sigh… * A journalist is spat on in a high-profile case. Is it time to tone down the rhetoric? It’s probably too late to de-escalate… * The disappearance of Apu. He’s probably never coming back. * Matt Yglesias won’t come on the podcast. Should Kanye come on instead? He’ll probably say no too. Sigh… * Why are young liberals so depressed? Matt Yglesias’ new article sparks discussion, but we probably can’t fix this. We should just give up… * Katie’s shocking stance on solar power. We’ll never be able to transition to renewables, will we? * Journalists really messed up with the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch story… Kiwi Farms did the media’s job better than the media did… Not again… * 28 TERFS PULLING UP IN BLACK FORD RAPTOR TRUCKS. HELICOPTERS LANDED. UNICORN RANCH IS UNDER SIEGE! UNDER LOCKDOWN! Depression Yglesias’ article on why everyone is suddenly so depressed https://www.slowboring.com/p/why-are-young-liberals-so-depressed Uh… here’s the study: “The politics of depression: Diverging trends in internalizing symptoms among US adolescents by political beliefs” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560321000438 The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch The Advocate: Trans Anarchists, Alpacas, and the Beauty of Tenacious Unicorn Ranch https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2021/9/23/trans-anarchists-alpacas-and-beauty-tenacious-unicorn-ranch The Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot glows harder than Chernobyl in 1986 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/us/whitmer-kidnapping-trial.html Business Insider: How the trans alpaca ranchers of Custer County, Colorado, are forging a new frontier https://www.businessinsider.com/custer-county-trans-alpaca-ranchers-are-forging-a-new-frontier-2022-8 UNICORN RANCH IS UNDER ATTACK. UNDER SIEGE. https://twitter.com/TenaciousRanch/status/1368996977959047168?s=20 Unicorn Ranch is “nothing more than a glorified cult”, a 17-part epic https://twitter.com/EntrancingStars/status/1607478562378088448?s=20 The remaining Ranchers respond https://twitter.com/TenaciousRanch/status/1608176135187365888/photo/2 The "journey of recontextualization" https://twitter.com/EntrancingStars/status/1608270263287939073 Kiwi Farms is accused of sending police to the ranch https://twitter.com/TenaciousRanch/status/1608907406452588544 The current Wikipedia page on the ranch https://web.archive.org/web/20230304174335/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenacious_Unicorn_Ranch Alpacas and goats are relocated https://twitter.com/EntrancingStars/status/1617697699633192961#m The Ranch is... scuffed to say the least https://twitter.com/EntrancingStars/status/1630804146227142661?s=20 Bonnie's "IRS Report" https://docs.google.com/document/d/19tS4uxqpwOoIf8-PkDTVUvhUsYyoQ4NzT9FLXlG-XJ4/edit Kindness's statement https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gBdNSPs0vhV1Qw3eCSb5INrBaOhdwvMF/edit Further Reading Denver Post: How an anarchist commune for queer people grew a haven in conservative rural Colorado https://www.denverpost.com/2021/04/18/tenacious-unicorn-ranch-queer-haven-rural-colorado/ High Country News: Meet the gun-toting ‘Tenacious Unicorns’ in rural Colorado https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.2/south-communities-meet-the-gun-toting-tenacious-unicorns-in-rural-colorado NPR: A Would-Be Trans And Queer Haven In Rural Colorado Just Wants To Be Left Alone https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/999929259/a-would-be-trans-and-queer-haven-in-rural-colorado-just-wants-to-be-left-alone PBS: Southern Colorado alpaca ranch a safe haven for LGBTQ+ community https://archive.li/PpGIO#selection-689.13-689.77 Pink News: Meet the brilliant trans folk who built a community of armed, anti-fascist alpaca farmers https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/01/17/tenacious-unicorn-ranch-trans-anti-fascism-alpaca-farm-penny-logue/ “human behavior is basically a meme” ~ Katie Herzog

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