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@jasonheppler.org Which, in a way, leaves me wondering about the legacy of Malheur. Some say it was a kind of dry run for January 6, and that’s potentially the case if it demonstrated the government wouldn’t respond to force with force. Yet few of the folks who led the occupation remained politically engaged.

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@jasonheppler.org The good news is they picked the wrong county for their dream of a sovereign state. The local ranching family they supposedly showed up to defend didn’t want anything to do with the occupation. The ranchers in the area didn’t sign on to the occupation and didn’t tear up grazing permits.

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@jasonheppler.org What I hadn’t realized until I talked to the sheriff was how quickly law enforcement was outgunned by these guys. Several of his remarks reminded me of the events around the Montana Freemen in the ’80s–likewise not met forcefully, and largely left local law enforcement to figure things out.

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@rauchway.bsky.social I’m not sure I’ve ever viscerally experienced a font memory sense like the one this just evoked.

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@jackiantonovich.bsky.social Yes! Love it!

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@jasonheppler.org jasonheppler.org/publications…

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@laprofmme.bsky.social Ha, I had the same thought yesterday. As expected, great stuff.

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@jasonheppler.org House:

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@jasonheppler.org Senate:

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@jasonheppler.org Governors:

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@jasonheppler.org Omaha’s NE-2 is the exception, flipping when there are open seats (1988, 2026) or against vulnerable incumbents (1994, 2014, 2016).

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@jasonheppler.org Between 1976 and 2006, Democrats won 9 of 11 Senate races in Nebraska. Between 1958 and 1994, they won 9 of 11 races for governor. Zorinsky, Exon, Kerrey, Nelson were all moderate Democrats who found success in a state that voted GOP for president.

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@jasonheppler.org The year 1996 is significant: in that election, Nebraska had a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators. By 2013 it had none, and no Democrat has won statewide since 2006.

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@jasonheppler.org Nebraska since 1996: Republicans have won all 8 governor’s races, 10 of 12 Senate races, and 47 of 48 House races. Both Democratic Senate wins were Ben Nelson (2000, 2006). Both House wins were Omaha’s 2nd District (2014, and yesterday).

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@jamellebouie.net Unfortunately, that didn’t happen here in Nebraska.

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@unlawfulentries.bsky.social Cheers ☕️

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@emilystjams.bsky.social lol I sent the same text to a friend (also a native South Dakotan 👋)

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@jasonheppler.org South Dakota, meanwhile.

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@rauchway.bsky.social Cheers.

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To the uncultivated eye a forest appears simply as uncultivated land—an expanse of woodland and heath which has been left “wild,” and in which wild animals, including deer, may run at will. But a forest has its own complex economy; and where forest settlements had become numerous the competing claims of red and fallow deer, lesser game, hogs, cattle, sheep, and human demands for timber, firing and transport, were subject to intricate regulation.

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– E. P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters

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@ReaderJohn Right!

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Currently reading: Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act by E P Thompson 📚

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Chasing down a hunch has led me to (somewhat to my surprise) E. P. Thompson’s 1975 Whigs and Hunters. Great map in the first chapter.

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@davoh Wow, I had no idea.

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Currently reading: Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian 📚

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Currently reading: Giants in the Earth by O. E. Rølvaag 📚

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For my current book project, I’ve had a reckon in the back of my mind for almost a decade. Three weeks ago I found some sources that started to confirm my hunch, and in the last couple of days the evidence has solidified my thinking even more. Pretty exciting! Being a historian is cool.

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Paul Ford: “The web browser is very, very, very powerful software for applications, and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day.”

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Miles Klee: “There’s no reason to assume that the present tech empire will rule the century to come; the organic and anarchic web stands to mount a triumphant renaissance if (or when) it falls.”

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@jasonheppler.org I love a good anti-Watt cartoon.

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Anybody out there have an iPad Mini? What are your opinions of the device?

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@jabel Love it.

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Nice morning.

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Welp. Guess I’m rescuing this over-proofed sourdough by making focaccia.

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And that’s a wrap on coaching fifth grade volleyball for the season. What a terrific time we had this year! 🏐

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@herberthistory.bsky.social Assuming my pulled hamstring is healed enough by Wednesday, I’ll be there! Let’s get coffee.

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@ayjay I’m in the middle of reading this, too. I hadn’t been aware of how central parts of his upbringing were to his conservation efforts.

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I’m working on a little tool for my research: Carrel, a local workbench for archival photos. I imported my ~1,700 sources from Tropy and can now send off documents to be transcribed by an LLM. Results are reviewed and edited in Carrel, then can be sent to Obsidian. Pretty happy with it so far.

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I don’t understand the point of Safari’s auto-grouping tabs. I can send tabs to Tab Groups. And Safari can “smartly\"organize tabs into groups. But I cannot make my own grouped tabs in the current browser window / tab group I have open?

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Just a Few Acres Farm is back!

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HomeView makes me wish Apple would re-issue the iMac G4.

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Overjoyed to see Pete Larson announce they’re returning to making videos!

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My clipboard is filled, my whistle is ready, and I’ve studied the schedule more closely than the tournament director. 😅 Looking forward to coaching Seward Yellow and Seward Blue today! 🏐

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Working on a bit of writing this morning on waterfowl conservation efforts, in part led by the political cartoonist and Hoover Republican Jay “Ding” Darling, appointed by the FDR to be the Director of the Bureau of Biological Survey.

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October finally showing up next week, I hope.

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Spending the morning with Bill Evans’s You Must Believe in Spring. 🎵

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Given Alan’s experience with OUP, I guess I can add a publisher to my list of those I’ll never work with.

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Finished reading: Fidelity by Wendell Berry 📚

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