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Garrett Bucks
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I write The White Pages (https://thewhitepages.net) From Montana, now in Milwaukee. I probably like you.

"We put on ZZ Top and turned it up, real loud"
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Flyover country loves socialist policies! And we have for a long time!

thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...
Speaking of big ideas, do you know who isn’t actually afraid of free buses, universal childcare and publicly run grocery stores? Residents of the heartland. Across flyover country, there are communities actively experimenting with each and every one of those polices. I mean, my goodness, North Dakota still has a state run bank. My city, Milwaukee, kept electing socialist mayors in the midst of Mcarthyism (and we’re still deeply proud of the institutions those socialists built). Virtually every time a red state is given the opportunity to vote for a social democratic policy (like Medicaid expansion) through direct referendum, it passes easily. The problem isn’t that my neighbors are too racist and sexist and addicted to “voting against their interests” to deserve nice things. It’s that, when it comes time for high stakes elections, those nice things are rarely on offer. In fact, in many rural areas, there aren’t even any Democrats on offer at all. The party just doesn’t bother contesting seats.
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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If you are wondering "is Woody Allen's tribute to Diane Keaton in The Free Press as cursed an artifact as I'd expect?... it's, um, worse? [TW: extremely insensitive discussion of eating disorders]
During the few years we lived together, she taught me so much. Example: Before I met her I never heard of bulimia. We’d go to Knicks games and after to Frankie and Johnnie’s for a steak. She’d put away a sirloin, hash browns, marble cheesecake, and coffee. Then we’d get home, and moments later she’d be toasting waffles or packing a huge taco with pork. I would stand there, stunned. This slim actress ate like Paul Bunyan. Only years later when she wrote a memoir did she describe her eating disorder, but when I was experiencing it, I could only think I’d never seen anyone eat like that outside of a documentary on whales.
October 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Hey fam, I'd love your feedback. Today was my first day on the job as the guy in charge of making JD Vance look and sound, like, extra fascist. Like cartoon Mussolini. The stakes were high, what with all the fascism we had to roll out today. How'd I do? Does he look craven and vainglorious enough?
JD Vance, sitting in front of a super creepy gilded fireplace and outstretching his hands like he wants to destroy a peasant village.
September 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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All right, so we just crunched the numbers over here at the "what kind of regimes do stuff like this?" factory and the bad news is that our machine just preemptively fled the country.
“With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, eliminate and destroy this network and make America safe again for the American people.”
September 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Whatever we have been through as a nation, I think we can all agree that what is most important is that we come together for fall pumpkin season
A tv screen with a picture of a broken barn and the Chet on “preparing for the fall pumpkin season after extreme weather challenges”
September 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I'm sorry, this is the first I am hearing that my beloved friends Clare Delish and Nigel Thistledown are "not real." Please respect my privacy during this difficult time for me, a dumb person.
Not real: The AI generated podcast hosts Clare Delish, Oly Bennett and Nigel Thistledown
September 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Trump to sign order renaming Defense Department as Department of War

Peppa Pig to sign order renaming Cincinnati to Jacksonville

Department of War signs order renaming Football to Physics
Trump to Sign Order Renaming the Defense Department as the Department of War The president is turning back the clock to the name the agency held until shortly after World War II.
September 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Pretty sick quotes here.
He still thinks of community organizing as the ultimate test of endurance—the same long-haul, no-glory, high-pain threshold ethos that drew him to both punk rock and the Marines. “I know people who organized against the Vietnam War and today they live in a world that is in some ways objectively worse.” “And they’re not bitter,” he says. “If you believe in a better world, you need to get right with the fact that you may never see it.” At this point, he sniffles. “And now I’m going to cry a little. I can do that because I’ve had a lot of therapy.” “You have to build things for people to access. You have to build the apparatus for change, even if no one else shows up. If you don’t build the movement, it won’t be there when the day for action comes. It’s thankless. People live their entire lives building something they may never see succeed. And you do it anyway.”
August 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Wake up, babe. New Madonna/Whore dichotomy just dropped.
Grocery store magazine racks. The pioneer woman on the left, witches on the right
August 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Put your make-up on
Fix your hair up pretty
And meet me tonight
At Mankato, Minnesota’s Abandoned
Party city!
August 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Just imagining entire city blocks crammed with millions of cops, shoulder-to-shoulder, crammed on top of one another, and a GOP lawmaker being like "Ope! Looks like we can probably fit a couple more in there."
Headline saying "Republicans urge 'maximum' police officers on Milwaukee streets
August 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Hustle culture so bad I'm even getting pressured by the spam texters.
A spam text that reads "what have you been up to lately?"
August 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Reader, I did in fact win
Two winning pull tabs lay at the base of a Hamms Tall Boy. A portrait of a stoic baby falcon drinking a beer is in the background
August 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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“I asked Chat GPT”
Oh yeah well I just walked up to this pull tab machine and it told me to win
An absolutely gorgeous Wisconsinpull tab machine
August 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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This essay is about a lot of things (hope, psychic numbing, solidarity, finger-pointing, zucchini bread, etc.) but one of them is my Universal Theory Of Instagram Right Now.

thewhitepages.net/p/i-dont-kno...
I AM ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATED/AND ALSO I AM IN ITALY, we shout at each other in an infinite loop. I’M THRIVING, THANKS FOR ASKING/BUT ALSO HOW THE HELL CAN YOU ALL BE SO HEARTLESS?
July 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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LOL this week I've gotten two separate emails claiming to represent private equity firms that would like to buy my, um... tiny little one and a half person nonprofit that offers free trainings on organizing and community building and keeps the lights on by passing the hat at the end of classes.
Email that reads: Hello Garrett we have a private equity firm in our network who has a strong interest in acquiring The Barnraisers Project. Given their mandate, this opportunity is an excellent match. Would you be open to discuss this opportunity?
July 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Remember your Homeland's Heritage
That weird baby from the Dinosaurs show that used to be on in the 90s, sitting atop their father's shoulders, saying (and I quote) "not the mama!"
July 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Remember your Homeland's Heritage.
A picture of the family from Alf. Alf is wearing a tuxedo.
July 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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These are so silly! They mean nothing! Gonna start making some for my newsletter.

"The White Pages is for Episcopalians with sensitive stomachs"
"The White Pages is for people who own cats but don't make a fuss about it."
"The White Pages is for Akron. But not Canton. They know what they did."
Actual signs up in New York that say "The Free Press is for the skeptics" "the free press is for true believers" "the free press is for the nation" "the free press is for radicalized soccer moms" "the free press is for recovering edge lords" and another one I can't read. actual signs that say "the free press is for the local parish" "the free press is for Paris, Texas" "the free press is for a government that shall not perish"
July 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Eat cake together, build community, but also be about that anti-fascist life. From the ladies in 1861.

“When the Southern Rebellion really showed its face in the cowardly attack on Fort Sumpter, the Ladies of the Society, with their sisters all over the North, were busy fitting out Volunteers.”
Screen shot of the Rochester ladies anti slavery society 1861 report. Rad gothic font on this one.
July 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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And if you’re like, “sure but those people were brave history makers and my book club or pickleball league or whatever is superficial and silly,” I direct you to Article 15 of the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society By Laws
Article 15. It shall be the rule of the society that the supper consist of tea, bread and butter, one kind of plain cake, and one simple relish. Any violation of this article le subjects the individual to a fine of 25 cents.
July 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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"Bluesky's gonna hate this one... but your kids are going to love it!"
Marty Mcfly singlehandedly inventing rock and roll
June 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Today we went to a protest (12,000 strong— hell yeah Milwaukee) and then a Quinceañera (the dj transitioned Danza Kundero to Cha Cha Slide so hell yeah Milwaukee again) and the first of those things will always be a political act and I hope so much that the latter doesn’t have to be.
A whole lot of people protesting Quinceañera vibes Quinceañera Photo Booth
June 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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In case you're curious, here's what that question will get you in Pikeville, KY. Lots of lessons here, I'd argue!
Mr. Musick continued, “The most popular guy in town is a young guy named Ryan Hall” who describes himself as a “weather analyst, storm chaser and a dad.” Mr. Hall has attracted a large online audience giving warnings of floods, storms and deadly tornadoes, like the one that struck Laurel County, two hours away, in May. He’s started the Y’all Squad, an emergency response team which coordinates volunteers to help when these crises hit. With the Trump administration slashing FEMA programs and cutting staff, initiatives like his will be even more crucial.
June 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Like all Barnraisers spaces, it’s free (I’ll do my little donation request at the end, but I don’t harangue), virtual, and filled with good people.
Flyer with people dancing (an old WPA picture from Pie Town, New Mexico. They look like they’re having a blast). The text reads “how to build a community that survives and thrives. A Barnraisers Projecr summer cohort for tired but big-hearted connectors. Free. Virtual. Good vibes (with your help). Seven weeks of sessions (an hour and a half a week). June 16-July 31. Barnraisersproject.org
May 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM