Could be, but it would be intensely controversial and, even with legal backing, a flashpoint for violence. I can't imagine it going well when people of color try to exercise the right in rural parts of the US.

Here land ownership was always fee simple. People would accept the end of recreational use before they accepted communal rights. In Madison, for instance, despite being an istmus, no one swam or sailed before public parks. Accepted that there was no public access to the land on either side of them.

Could be, but I'm skeptical. My sense of English right to roam is that it hinged in large part on the fact that rural land was owned by the aristocracy, which was supposed to have certain obligations to the community. That land was previously encumbered by all sorts of communal rights.

Are liberals really aware of how much of a wedge issue the public land sale is? Even deeply consevative westerners are furious. Seems like something dems should be putting more of a spotlight on.

This actually seems to be the point on which Trump is most vulnerable right now. A lot of dyed in the wool conservatives are up in arms about it, saying Republicans will never win again in the west if it goes through.

Thanks for sharing this!

England is not a modern country. The graphic below by
@guyshrubsole.bsky.social in today's Observer underlines this fact.

Most transparent(ly fascist) administration ever.

The profession has, perhaps, prioritized being "in the arena" too much in recent years.

Yrah, but that was basically MLK's position on black power.

Weird that people don't recognize the parallel to nativism. Doubtless, it is in practice anti-immigration. More immigrants move to cheaper suburbs where they are likely to face prejudice. Unsurprisingly nativism is more prevalent than when immigration was concentrated in cosmopolitan envlaves.

His fortune fortune rests on inheritance and landlordism; all he knows about the market is corruption, privilege, and rent-seeking.

This is how you know he didn't tweet the "He who saves his country breaks no laws" post

The Georgist Louis Post became a focal point for the first red scare when he dismissed charges against immigrants slated for deportation because of their radical politics. His observations about shallow "pagan patriots" wrapping themselves in the flag remain sadly relevant today.

"We should just offer the people a New Deal." You mean like the WPA adaptation of "It Can't Happen Here?"

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

Nature documentarians will have to learn to love the pigeon.

Thomas Jefferson famously believed states should nullify the Enemy Alien Act. Seems he was right. Blue states should arrest any federal officials enforcing the law in their states.

Oh hey, I found some waste, fraud and abuse

Wealthy political elites using tax-payer dollars to celebrate hiking taxes on the average consumer is great optics.

Should be obvious by now that political elites need to be subject to the law, or they might exploit the leeway you give them to break the system.

I've never been able to get a Trump voter to offer a negative personal experience with immigrants. People seem to be voting fully on the basis of media hype without considering their lived experience.

If Biden had forgotten he had signed an EO the NYTimes and Fox News would be running leading stories ok Bidens declined cognitive capacity

This is worthy of Kafka

When my seven year old saw a cybertruck in the wild, he asked out of nowhere: "Is that a decepticon?"

Historians aren't as critical of Tamany Hall as they used to be, but I think this is the right take. Redistributing the proceeds of organized crime isn't progressive, especially when you are giving the rich a pass.

This is not only a baseless but also an incoherent ad hominem. People don't go into Victorian lit to chase clout, and, as a regular contributor to the Atlantic, there aren't many people in the academy with more clout to be jealous of.

Yeah, I mean, there is definitely some room to debate his legacy, and people do. Patronage politics and political violence were pretty ingrained in American politics, so maybe it is a mistake to see him as exceptional. But, New Dealers also saw him as dangerous.

Ha! His Wikipedia page is probably good, but I haven't read it. I know there are some good books about him, though!

Long is generally seen as far better on race than could be expected. Had some good programs. But instituting a prohibitive tax on newspapers, firing civil servants who were friends with his critics, and kidnapping rivals all set problematic precedents for suppressing criticism.