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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Poor guy heard we were going to New Orleans now he just keeps on saying “Little Dog in the Big Easy.” Don’t have the heart to tell him he’s not going.

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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In the 1960s and 70s, the federal government invested massive money in rural America and it produced shocking results. In the Rural Renaissance of the 1970s, rural areas grew faster in both jobs and population than metro areas. Rural America can be revived, it’s been done before

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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Man. I am deep in the weeds of Richard Nixon’s Rural Development policy

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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is incredible. 10/10 no notes

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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Gonna be a game time decision lol

Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The fundamental dynamic of modern rural political economy is that an entire social universe was built around agriculture only to see that sector dramatically constrict. The grand project ever since has been to forge a post agricultural economy, to highly mixed results.

Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The most understated political development of the 21st century has to be the collapse of regional voting patterns and its displacement by a rural-urban divide.

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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My students when I give my Richard Nixon lecture

Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The GOP might as well just forfeit the midterms at this point.

Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

There appears to be some kind of manbearpig at the dog park

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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Just a complete and total sea change in American politics

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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

When I pull into my parking spot the stray kitties I feed run up to welcome me

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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It’s not widely known that the dachshund is a direct descendant of the raptor.

This is apartheid. Plain and simple.

His second term was also corrupt as hell, plus Korea War turning into a stalemate.

Someone showed Trump the approval rating for Harry Truman and he said “hold my beer”

Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

We’ll be fine. We probably don’t even need an economy.

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If I send you this it means “I’m the captain now.”

Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

When you think about it 250 was a nice round number to end on.

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People think rural America votes against its interests because they presume the rural poor and working class dominate politics. But they don’t. Local boosters and business elites run things and the GOP serves their petty bourgeois interests very well.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I live in Ohio and I think there is a really good chance we swoop the Governors mansion and Senate seat.

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Can't express how much I resent the US and Israel pouring petrol on the middle east and lighting the match, dragging the rest of the world into what could be the worst global crisis for decades

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I would have thought getting kicked out of the anti ICE operation in Minneapolis for using the entire operation for personal aggrandizement would have taught this guy some humility but apparently not.

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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

It’s actually been really funny to watch Wills crash out over this issue from the other site. Like a newborn baby lamb entering the world innocent and dumb to American politics.

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The US isn’t going to achieve anything in Iran. But we will leave a smoking crater in the ground. As we have done so many other times.

Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This is deep man. You start a substack or something.

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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Yeah, you don’t because it is the same thing. He’s just being misleading intentionally.

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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I would respond to this nonsense but I’m too absorbed with the war in Iran to waste the time and energy.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

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M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

“The region’s monarchies are often described as petro-states, but they have also become what I call saltwater kingdoms, global superpowers in the production of human-made fresh water drawn from the sea.” theconversation.com/persian-gulf...

theconversation.com

Persian Gulf desalination plants could become military targets in regional war

Key sources of drinking water have been targets in past conflicts. And Iranian strikes have already hit close to some.

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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Me and the boys about to make bank

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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I’m glad the economy doesn’t have anything to do with the economy.