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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm

@goldshawfarm.bsky.social
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Vermont farmer, writer and accidental internet person. Telling stories, chasing birds, and trying not to slip on the ice.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I thought this was a very well done article on the Rural Vermont Rising movement from Theo Wells-Spackman and @vtdigger vtdigger.org/2026/09/22/r...
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Rural Vermont Rising demands to be heard — now and in the future - VTDigger
From fury over a regional land use plan to a new slate of legislative policy positions, the ascendant forum Rural Vermont Rising has been anything but dormant this summer.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pablo Escobarn wishes you a gooey #Caturday
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New documentary alert!! When people talk about Vermont, they love to talk about the working landscape, but I think the more important word might be working. youtu.be/2TjQQZ-RfL8
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“So who exactly is paying the $32 trillion for this free healthcare?” Meanwhile…
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Some thoughts on the governor’s primary here in Vermont…Crü Janoo @janooforvt.bsky.social
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
When I vote, I live in constant fear of this happening
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I call this one “beans and death” because it’s a picture of beans on one side and death on the other. #caturday
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The last few days have been a lot more eventful than I expected them to be. Turns out there’s real money moving around this primary and people have opinions about me noticing. Here’s the video.
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The Cheapest Governor's Seat in America
ALT Title: In Vermont You Can Buy the Government for Less Than a Fa...
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
There’s a specific kind of tired you only get from doing something twice because you did it wrong the first time.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Nobody tells you that the hardest part of raising animals is that they are all conducting their own experiments and none of them will share the results.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Magical thinking has a real lock on kids. It’s one of the few advantages kids have in this world. It’s the trait that sends them out the door to explore, take chances, and become the person they’re meant to be. open.substack.com/pub/morgango...
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The photobombing calf
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My dog spends fourteen hours a day patrolling a perimeter that has never once been breached, which is either a perfect record or a completely unfalsifiable job.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Yeah…people always say that about me
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I think that last video kicked a really weird hornet’s nest…
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I just posted a new documentary all about Vermont's U.S. Congressional race. It's bonkers. Regardless of your political perspective, you're going to learn something new watching this one. youtu.be/22hYhb68E88
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America's Craziest Congressional Primary Is Happening in Vermont
ALT Title: An Army Major, a Logger, and a Duck Farmer Walk Into a Bar ALT ALT Title: The Excavator Ad Was Fake. The Primary, Unfortunately, Is Real ALT ALT ALT Title: My Barn Cat Moderated a…
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Touch his belly. He dares you. #caturday
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Lil Barn Cat is my constant companion when I’m working in my office. Pablo Barn Cat is the porch sidekick.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
They are waiting for their escort before entering.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The lioness looks out across the savanna. #caturday
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hey! Had to cancel the farm meeting for tonight. Dealing with a water problem. I'll reschedule soon. Sorry!
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Reflecting on 250 years…
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The Reflection You'd Rather Not See
On loving America at 250 while its most famous mirror cracks, peels, and turns green.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
People ask what the secret is to a good garden. It’s simple: marry someone who goes back out to weed the second the rain stops, while you stand there taking pictures of the sky.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
El Guapo
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
People say bobolinks navigate using the magnetic field of the Earth. They carry a little iron in their heads, so technically they always know where north is. This bird flies to Argentina and back every year. I get lost in parking garages.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New substack essay and comic is now live. open.substack.com/pub/morgango...
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Ginny Barn Cat, fence tester
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I thought Act 75 made this sort of thing illegal in Varmont. @vtattorneygeneral.bsky.social @balint.house.gov
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Bobalink? Bobalink? Where?
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My interview with VT gov candidate Amanda Janoo. @janooforvt.bsky.social youtu.be/vjS-H5CKpTQ
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The Long Shot Candidate Who Could Actually Save Vermont
YouTube video by Morgan Gold
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Doot doot doot doot doot doot! Doot doot doot doot doot doot! Doot doot doot doot doot doot doot! BLUEY!
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The move seemed to make a lot of sense and had little drawback. There’s really no telling what Vermont education is gonna look like three years from now, but this move helps the folks in town, maintain flexibility and a certain measure of control.  vtdigger.org/2026/06/01/p...
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Peacham preemptively transferring ownership of its school building to town - VTDigger
“If we didn’t have an elementary school, this would become a town just consigned to second-home owners and retirees,” said resident Morgan Gold in a video recapping the issue.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
America has not forgotten how to build. We still know how to move dirt, run power, pour concrete, and coordinate impossible logistics. We just reserve that urgency for certain kinds of projects.
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Why Is It Easier to Build an AI Data Center Than Affordable Housing?
How the same system that fast-tracks data centers grinds the housing your town needs to a halt.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Working on a new video series where I interview political candidates running for office in Vermont. For people who wonder why, this chart explains it all.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This presidential portraits is pretty incredible.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America? Brother, there is a man in the Oval Office whose family pulls a few billion annually and is now immune to prosecution. Paxton is JV corruption.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
You are older now than you have ever been and younger than you will ever be again, and this is true at every moment of your life, including this one.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
People often talk about the cost of housing and the cost of food and the cost of fuel as if these were separate problems. They are not.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The cost of any technology shows up about fifteen years later in the shape of the people who grew up with it.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Anything that gets cheap enough fast enough eventually gets paid for by something that wasn’t on the invoice.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
How many ducks can you see in this picture?
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The fence is mostly an idea. Everyone out here has agreed to believe in it.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
There is a market for telling the truth and a much bigger market for telling people they were right all along.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We’ve spent twenty years treating housing unaffordability, the loneliness epidemic, generational resentment, and the collapse of civic trust as separate problems. They share one upstream cause. New essay and comic: open.substack.com/pub/morgango...
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Is the plural cul-de-sacs or cul-de-saci?
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Cul-de-Sac Nation: How the American Dream Became a Road to Nowhere
How the American Dream Became a Road to Nowhere
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The ultimate digital ouroboros: using AI slop to protest the physical data centers needed to generate AI slop.
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ginny Barn Cat is glad that drawing on the porch season . #caturday
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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Every gas station bathroom is haunted, and we all know by what.
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