Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with public-policy
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Here, in Appalachia, we’re too uneducated to be joyful. We do not live in America, and we are quite good at ignoring debilitation because it might mean us. We know decrepitude when we see it. It’s ordinary. School is decrepit. Media is creeping decrepitude. Law is decrepit. The coal mines,…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Ezra Klein is right. He just doesn’t know how right he is. Now that he has a kid… Ezra is usually focused on public policy. I cannot focus on public policy because it is a humanitarian nightmare. It serves the rich. Who else. Ezra and his Ezra clones find it…
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Tim Barrus, the New York Times
DC was not my riot. We joined Antifa after a close friend and I were chased down by what appeared to be soldiers who were shooting at us. Portland was a war zone. I cannot say that they were soldiers, they had the drag, and guns. We didn’t stay long…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
America loved him. Americans voted for him. America placed their lives in his hands. America saw him as worthy of their hope. He failed. Us. We have no history of ever taking responsibility for what ruinous public policies Stephen Miller has designed. Those designations were never Trump’s ideas alone just…