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@oliviapaschal.com
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 09/09/2026
single-issue voter and the issue is daylight savings
facebook comment reading "I'll vote for if u approve daylight saving bill I was told u will not approve it It is in the senate now Jonesboro AR"
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 27/08/2026
wow, wrong wrong and wrong again!
caitlin flanagan talking about things she doesn't know anything about
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 07/04/2026
just got an email about the CBS x The Free Press x Paramount (sponsored by Bank of America) Bari Weiss extravaganza that UVA is hosting & promoting. really embarrassing if you ask me. people who do not care one bit about the brutal realities of this world because they're benefiting from it.
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 02/03/2026
the yale cattlemen invited me to anti-trust week at the end of this month and i obviously said yes. i will be talking about rural poultry workers and labor. come hang out—you might be surprised!
poster for anti-trust week at yale school of the environment. i (olivia paschal) speak on march 31 from 5-6 pm on the rural working class, and austin frerick speaks april 1 from 6-7 pm on corporate monopolies of food and land, both in kroon
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 01/03/2026
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 05/02/2026
My essay reckoning with Wendell Berry, in the first issue of Southlands magazine, is online now: southlandsmag.com/after-the-ye...
art by Hank Hershey. Blue ink portrait of Wendell Berry; text reads "After the Yeoman"
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 24/01/2026
as i was saying
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 05/01/2026
scumbag scrooge, the newest member of wapo’s editorial board
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 30/12/2025
I also had a piece in the book reviews section of the first issue of Southlands—not online yet, but laid out very beautifully in the print issue
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 28/10/2025
some personal news :)
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 17/06/2025
….. “gyrated”?
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 10/06/2025
local senator can't keep his allegiances straight, loves states rights except when he loves sending in federal troops
Tom Cotton: Send In the Troops, for Real, published in the WSJ
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 01/06/2025
incredible conspiracy theorizing in the fox business comment section
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 30/05/2025
i know these people who write to southern voters from the great blue north mean well but also lmao
postcard from Jeanne telling me a southern voter to please vote for abigail spanberger because together she and i can stop the trump republicans
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 22/03/2025
sweet sixteeeeeeeen!!!!!!
paris hilton in a hog hat go hogs
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 21/03/2025
a lot going on here apnews.com/article/trum...
screenshot of AP article about a nonprofit targeted by Trump administration over DEI. highlighted text reads "The University of Nevada, Las Vegas issued a statement saying three professors participated in the program, but two no longer work at the university and a third was killed in a shooting on campus in 2023."
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 11/03/2025
just remembered quillette exists
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 04/03/2025
not only should all the “free speech on college campus” people be loudly condemning this, the institutions themselves should refuse to comply and state clearly that it is antithetical to what a university is. (they’ll have to be pushed by faculty, students, & workers to do this)
Trump Truth Social post reading “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned and/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 27/02/2025
elon musk tweet about shortage of air traffic controllers we’re all looking for the guy who did this meme
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 09/02/2025
nyt editorial board headline: "trump's shameful campaign against transgender americans" we're all looking for the guy that did this
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 02/02/2025
paris hilton hog hat woo pig
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 27/01/2025
bringing this baby over from 2020-era twitter
"types of parachute journalism about the south": what old men in west virginia diners tell us about america, a small newspaper reported this three months ago but now i'm here for the nyt, how this disaster i just learned about could have been avoided, on this blue dot in a sea of red, we talked to black and latinx voters in a walmart parking lot, glowing profile of centrist candidate who actual voters dislike, the case for not giving the south our tax dollars because they are all republicans, we were shocked to discover communities of color in the rural south, gritty over edited photo essay about poverty and despair, could gentrification turn the south blue?, here's the one singular person responsible for decades of grassroots organizing, this small town is the brooklyn of alabama
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 15/01/2025
mainstream political media and commentary so frequently acts as if this isn't obviously true, right in front of our face, the most obvious fact of US foreign policy
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 12/12/2024
sam walton as an eagle
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 12/12/2024
lol tell us how you really feel ESPN
calls UNC “a program awash in apathy and mediocrity”
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 11/12/2024
some research days are better than others
The Don Tyson Birthday Party 1986 title slide from a film
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 11/12/2024
hogs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
paris hilton wearing a hog hat
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 08/12/2024
lol
bookstore sign reading “the best of serious & smart nonfiction” a neither serious nor smart book by jordan peterson
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 02/12/2024
ah yes, the notably underfunded and underemployed *checks notes* matt yglesias and jonathan chait, we must revive them!
suggesting funding for new centrist media as if jonathan chait didn’t just get hired at the atlantic
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 01/12/2024
you are not going to get out of your east coast bubbles by continuing to stay on twitter. remember those surveys from twitter’s heyday about how few people actually used the site actively? the same is true now!
paragraph arguing that to stay in touch with Real Americans you have to stay on twitter (?!)
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 26/11/2024
just for fun, a little riso pamphlet run of my piece on Arkansas’s company towns from a couple summers ago
Riso printed pamphlets with blue and yellow upside down image of old Tyson building on the cover. Text reads “Our Company Towns: How Tyson & Walmart remade northwest Arkansas, by Olivia Paschal”
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 19/11/2024
coach cal truther account (i love him)
coach cal in razorback red with the slobber hog in the background
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 17/11/2024
like, okay, the first paragraph of this—fine! reorient public universities back towards some kind of moral value/public good. but the first sentence of the next graf ("whole of our knowledge" vs "racial ethnic gendered parts") makes clear he's responding to a version of public ed that doesn't exist
Perhaps “we” need above all a moonshot for public schools, secondary and higher (not going to happen under Republicans, but we must keep the long view), founded on an aggressive, positive assertion of the values and faiths that such an education represents. The American university is a profoundly important reinvention of an ancient idea, remade in medieval times in Italy, Germany and Britain, and then recreated again in colonial America. Among Americans’ most treasured values, embedded in the modern university, is that a higher education can remake one’s life. As endangered as such an idea may seem, who does not want to believe in that gospel if it is available? Our herculean task is to make it work again.

“We” need to openly recommit to learning and teaching about the whole of our knowledge — our histories, our literature, our sciences, our social structures, as much or more than we stress our racial, ethnic and gendered parts. Those fields of study are important and established for good reasons. But the whole and the parts have to sing together or there is no democracy or broad learning or informed citizenry in the end. We could drown in the habits of our own particularities and favorite ideologies, and lose hold of how humans connect across a multitude of difference. We need answers for our critics who believe we are an ideological monolith, whether they are right or not. We may not like universals anymore, but there are some, like elections, that stun millions into despair or glee.
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 16/11/2024
hogs lost but this dog won
bulldog in razorback jersey rounding the corner in a bar
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 16/11/2024
here is an assignment i was given in middle school worldview class
ideology comparison chart from a conservative christian school that equates just about everything but capitalism to hitler
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 08/11/2024
here’s what i get from less than two minutes on my instagram reels feed
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 08/01/2024
re: Hillsdale, my phone number somehow got on the conservative fundraising text lists, which usually results in texts “from” Trump, DeSantis, Pompeo, etc. but recently i got this fundraising text from Bill at Hillsdale
text screenshot that reads “Hi Friend! It’s Bill from Hillsdale College. Our year-end funding deadline is December 31 and we need your help! You’re an informed patriot, so would you please help fund our Project to Defend Liberty Nationwide by Reaching and Teaching Millions in 2024? With your help we can defend against dangerous ideologies and preserve freedom for our children and grandchildren.”
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 23/11/2023
@apple sponsor me
pie dough accidentally rolled into the shape of the Apple logo
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 06/10/2023
this is more like it!
photo of typewritten press advisory detailing coalition formed to address poultry industry labor problems in 1990
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 05/10/2023
why does the website listed for the Southern Governors Association redirect to this random furniture website?
screenshot of a furniture website called "retro furniture" showing boring MCM furniture that's probably overpriced
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 02/09/2023
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 07/07/2023
"love the coquettish energy in this!"
screenshot of a tweet from chuck grassley about a friend giving him a pastry from pella iowa, with a photo of chuck and his wife (both old people), with a tweet reply from a bot that says "love the coquettish energy in this!"
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 05/07/2023
like, come on
tweet screenshot reading “good. The only way this changes is when red states are miserable.” two screenshotted tweets: “and yet southern states keep voting for the party that denies climate change” and “let them eat petrol” screenshotted tweet: “maybe a good learning op here; elections have consequences”screenshotted tweet: “your people are getting exactly what they voted for by electing republicans. enjoy the consequences of your actions southerners”
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 03/07/2023
“Now That’s What I Call Art™️” — the Walton brothers, probably
screenshot of tweet of article headlined “World’s Largest Knitted Flag constructed at the Momentary”
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 20/06/2023
arkansas content
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olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com · 08/06/2023
broke up my drive with a spooky mountain hike this evening
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