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Founder @southerlymag. Kentuckian. @JSKstanford Community Impact Fellow '20-22
Aug 22, 2018 12 tweets 6 min read
Many things @realDonaldTrump said at the WV rally yesterday were completely false, but the thing that is most offensive is that he went into Appalachia and claimed we have “crystal clean water" in this country. Let's talk about that for a second. First of all, this country was given a "D" in drinking water infrastructure by @ASCEGovRel last year and it will cost $1 trillion to fix it. infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/drink…
Jul 19, 2018 4 tweets 3 min read
Black farmers in Mississippi are suing a seed company for allegedly selling them defective seeds. In @southerlymag newsletter this wk, I dig into the case + the context and history of racial inequality in farmland ownership and the ag industry. mailchi.mp/98478f223e18/b… Some great reads this week. Here's a story by @johnupton on living shorelines: pnj.com/story/news/201…