Billy Rose
@billyrose76.bsky.social
I am semi-retired. I do a radio show on Sundays and I just started writing. I have two books out. Betty's First Flight (childrens book) was released in 2018 and is out of print. On The Banks Of The Mississippi was released in November of 2024
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
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December 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘This Is How People Find Their Voice’ barnraisingmedia.com/this-is-how-...
‘This Is How People Find Their Voice’
Farmer and organizer Suzan Erem reflects on rural collective action in the Trump age and the power of rural and urban people coming together.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
‘This Is How People Find Their Voice’ barnraisingmedia.com/this-is-how-...
What Happens When Moms for Liberty Takes Over Your School Board barnraisingmedia.com/what-happens...
What Happens When Moms for Liberty Takes Over Your School Board
When Moms for Liberty and the Wyoming Family Alliance took over the Cheyenne school board, concerned citizens organized a response.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
What Happens When Moms for Liberty Takes Over Your School Board barnraisingmedia.com/what-happens...
‘This Is How People Find Their Voice’ barnraisingmedia.com/this-is-how-...
‘This Is How People Find Their Voice’
Farmer and organizer Suzan Erem reflects on rural collective action in the Trump age and the power of rural and urban people coming together.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
‘This Is How People Find Their Voice’ barnraisingmedia.com/this-is-how-...
How Illinois Is Bringing Grocery Stores Back to Main Street barnraisingmedia.com/grocery-co-o...
How Illinois Is Bringing Grocery Stores Back to Main Street
Grocery co-ops help democratize food access in food deserts. Now they could take off in communities across rural and small town America.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
How Illinois Is Bringing Grocery Stores Back to Main Street barnraisingmedia.com/grocery-co-o...
Mark Bittman’s New Restaurant Aims to ‘Turn the Food System on Its Head’ barnraisingmedia.com/mark-bittman...
Mark Bittman’s New Restaurant Aims to ‘Turn the Food System on Its Head’
Community Kitchen, a pilot restaurant launched by Bittman, puts support for farmers and low-income neighbors at the center of the table.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Mark Bittman’s New Restaurant Aims to ‘Turn the Food System on Its Head’ barnraisingmedia.com/mark-bittman...
The Myth of the Constitutional Sheriff barnraisingmedia.com/the-myth-of-...
The Myth of the Constitutional Sheriff
How Richard Mack led the rise off the constitutional sheriff movement, one of the most serious threats to American democracy since the Civil War.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Myth of the Constitutional Sheriff barnraisingmedia.com/the-myth-of-...
Ethanol Promised a Low Carbon Future. Its Climate Footprint Shows Otherwise barnraisingmedia.com/ethanol-prom...
Ethanol Promised a Low Carbon Future. Its Climate Footprint Shows Otherwise
“King Corn” dominates U.S. farmland and fuels the ethanol industry. But the fertilizer it relies on drives emissions and fouls drinking water.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Ethanol Promised a Low Carbon Future. Its Climate Footprint Shows Otherwise barnraisingmedia.com/ethanol-prom...
Rep. Jimmy Gomez just introduced a bill to take 175B from ICE and put it into housing!
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Rep. Jimmy Gomez just introduced a bill to take 175B from ICE and put it into housing!
This is the kind of vision Democrats need, y'all.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Rep. Jimmy Gomez just introduced a bill to take 175B from ICE and put it into housing!
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Child care workers are building a network of resistance against ICE 19thnews.org/2025/11/ice-... via @19thnews.org
Child care workers are building a network of resistance against ICE
Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained, leavi...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Child care workers are building a network of resistance against ICE 19thnews.org/2025/11/ice-... via @19thnews.org
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
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November 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
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Haudenosaunee Address of Thanksgiving to the Natural World (Ganö:nyök) barnraisingmedia.com/haudenosaune...
Haudenosaunee Address of Thanksgiving to the Natural World (Ganö:nyök)
Haudenosaunee tradition calls for giving thanks each and everyday. Through gratitude, this address provides a path for peace and enlightenment.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Haudenosaunee Address of Thanksgiving to the Natural World (Ganö:nyök) barnraisingmedia.com/haudenosaune...
Coal Country Thanksgiving barnraisingmedia.com/coal-country...
Coal Country Thanksgiving
A Thanksgiving table in the Appalachian mountains did not try to impress anyone. It was there to feed any neighbor who walked in hungry.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Coal Country Thanksgiving barnraisingmedia.com/coal-country...
A DOJ investigation on beef prices is a red herring investigatemidwest.org/2025/11/25/a...
A DOJ investigation on beef prices is a red herring - Investigate Midwest
Anyone who has been to the grocery store recently knows, White House claims to the contrary, that food prices are not “way down” or even “down.” The October Consumer Price Index shows average grocery ...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A DOJ investigation on beef prices is a red herring investigatemidwest.org/2025/11/25/a...
Under new EPA rule, protections would dry up for wetlands across the Mississippi River basin investigatemidwest.org/2025/11/21/u...
Under new EPA rule, protections would dry up for wetlands across the Mississippi River basin - Investigate Midwest
Many acres of wetlands across the vast Mississippi River basin would lose federal protection under a new rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Agricultural and builders’ groups h...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Under new EPA rule, protections would dry up for wetlands across the Mississippi River basin investigatemidwest.org/2025/11/21/u...
GRAPHIC: Trump support grew in America's top farming counties despite first-term trade war investigatemidwest.org/2024/11/13/t...
GRAPHIC: Trump support grew in America's top farming counties despite first-term trade war - Investigate Midwest
America’s most farming-dependent counties overwhelmingly backed President-elect Donald Trump in this year’s election by an average of 77.7%. Trump has appeared on three presidential ballots, beginnin...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
GRAPHIC: Trump support grew in America's top farming counties despite first-term trade war investigatemidwest.org/2024/11/13/t...
Carín León Says There’s Nothing ‘Regional’ About His Music barnraisingmedia.com/carin-leon-s...
Carín León Says There’s Nothing ‘Regional’ About His Music
Carín León’s unique blend of folk, country, pop and R&B is challenging the gringo music industry’s pigeonholing labels.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Carín León Says There’s Nothing ‘Regional’ About His Music barnraisingmedia.com/carin-leon-s...
The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots barnraisingmedia.com/indigenous-g...
The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots
Cannabis can transform our materials economy and textiles industry, return carbon to the soil, provide sustainable housing material, nurture health and well-being and set us on a path to restorative j...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots barnraisingmedia.com/indigenous-g...
Mark Bittman’s New Restaurant Aims to ‘Turn the Food System on Its Head’ barnraisingmedia.com/mark-bittman...
Mark Bittman’s New Restaurant Aims to ‘Turn the Food System on Its Head’
Community Kitchen, a pilot restaurant launched by Bittman, puts support for farmers and low-income neighbors at the center of the table.
barnraisingmedia.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Mark Bittman’s New Restaurant Aims to ‘Turn the Food System on Its Head’ barnraisingmedia.com/mark-bittman...
Immigrants Revitalized a Meatpacking Town. Trump’s Deportations Threaten Its Stability. barnraisingmedia.com/immigrants-r...
Immigrants Revitalized a Meatpacking Town. Trump’s Deportations Threaten Its Stability.
For decades, Beardstown has been a case study in how immigrants have revitalized rural towns. The Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns now threaten that.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Immigrants Revitalized a Meatpacking Town. Trump’s Deportations Threaten Its Stability. barnraisingmedia.com/immigrants-r...
Thanksgiving Is Built on Farmers. Our Food System Should Be Too. barnraisingmedia.com/thanksgiving...
Thanksgiving Is Built on Farmers. Our Food System Should Be Too.
When so few corporations hold so much power, farmers get squeezed on prices while families pay more at the checkout line.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Thanksgiving Is Built on Farmers. Our Food System Should Be Too. barnraisingmedia.com/thanksgiving...
Women Who Have Abortions Would Face Decades in Prison Under South Carolina Plan www.mississippifreepress.org/women-who-ha...
Women Who Have Abortions Would Face Decades in Prison Under South Carolina Plan
Women who get abortions could spend decades in prison and IUDs would be outlawed under proposed legislation in South Carolina.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Women Who Have Abortions Would Face Decades in Prison Under South Carolina Plan www.mississippifreepress.org/women-who-ha...
Republicans’ Latest Gambit to Deny Rural Veterans Health Care barnraisingmedia.com/republicans-...
Republicans’ Latest Gambit to Deny Rural Veterans Health Care
A new bill would construct an alternative referral system that would incrementally defund and dismantle rural VA services, leaving rural veterans in the lurch.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Republicans’ Latest Gambit to Deny Rural Veterans Health Care barnraisingmedia.com/republicans-...
‘Disciples of White Jesus,’ Disciples of Trump barnraisingmedia.com/disciples-of...
‘Disciples of White Jesus,’ Disciples of Trump
For her new book Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood (Broadleaf Books, 2025), Denker again traversed the country. This time she was investigating the radicalization of whi...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
‘Disciples of White Jesus,’ Disciples of Trump barnraisingmedia.com/disciples-of...