Real estate company RidgeRunner bought hundreds of acres in Tennessee with plans to develop “town and country charter communities” that it hopes to fill with hundreds of new conservative Christian residents.

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One of the first residents, a podcaster who has said he’d “like to dissolve Congress and the judiciary and vest all power into… Donald J. Trump,” has a history of inflammatory remarks about women, immigrants, Jewish people, and the LGBTQ+ community.

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“They’re antisemitic, anti-Black, anti-Native American. They don’t want anything except what they think. It’s about moving here and finding power. They’ve got big bucks behind them,” says one neighbor who lives near the community.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

2. "Inside the Grassroots Fight Against Trump’s Deportation Machine" @djpeisner.bsky.social

"As masked agents have terrorized immigrant communities, sweeping people off the streets in broad daylight, locals have organized, protested, fought back."

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Thanks to @djpeisner.bsky.social for going behind the scenes with us & our friends at The ReMIX, LUCE, Unión del Barrio

Small grassroots organizations, staffed almost entirely by volunteers, are standing inbetween immigrants and ICE — like this member of the Union del Barrio handing out a “How to Identify ICE vehicles” flyer to a driver in Los Angeles.

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Inside the Grassroots Fight Against Trump’s Deportation Machine

Meet the groups standing between immigrants and ICE, armed with their training and phone cameras ↓
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I was living in London in 1994, so I experienced Oasis' initial rise to be the BIGGEST BAND IN ALL THE LAND (UK version) up close. I wrote about Oasis' differing fortunes on both sides of the Atlantic and he band's unlikely but still somehow inevitable return.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/a...

Bc I'm an incurable narcissist, I recently got an alert that my book was on a best comedy books list by @brianboone.bsky.social and @megh.bsky.social at @nymag.com. Nice write-up but omg THE PRICE! $55 at Amazon! I mean, totally worth it, but jeez. What hell hath these tariffs wrought?

Here's me blabbing about that one time when I spent the better part of a day fighting with Kid Rock at his house, and then wrote about it for Rolling Stone. Thanks to Vanessa Grigoriadis/Campside Media for asking me to blab about it: open.spotify.com/episode/6EnH...

Terrific reporting, writing by David Peisner in Rollingstone Mag on the Poor Little Rich Boy, Fergie Chambers, heir to the Cox Enterprises telecom giant. A scary Study of a rich ManBoy given to misguided thinking, arrogance—and the combustible mix of US cultural politics. apple.news/AEa5t6ztIStK...

This is really excellent, especially the final third! Hats off to David Peisner for his timely, nuanced and accurately contextualized profile of Kid Rock. My Takeaway (fwiw): KidRock is undereducated, overconfident, privileged— and deeply insecure. Via ROLLINGSTONE apple.news/nowPlaying/A...

Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Waterboys new Dennis Hopper album in the New York Times!

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...?

we cover some good ground in the latest episode of #AsToldTo, the podcast I host on #writing in #collaboration... I talk to
@djpeisner.bsky.social about the spaces between #journalism and #ghostwriting and how to fill them... listen!... follow!... review!
#BookSky
open.spotify.com/episode/291Q...

WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT ANYTHING YOU HEAR IN THIS PODCAST!
#ghostwriting #journalism #BookSky #collaboration @djpeisner.bsky.social @writersbone.com
#PodcastSky
#AsToldTo #writinglife ✍️
open.spotify.com/episode/291Q...

I feel like a nice-subtitle to this story could've been: I spent months watching incredibly long YouTube videos so you don't have to. longreads.com/2025/02/26/i...

If you're ready to go down a deep, deep rabbit hole:
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Congrats to my friend @djpeisner.bsky.social for his National Magazine Award nomination for his fantastic Kid Rock profile in @rollingstone.com. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...