C. McGuinn Freeman
@cmf406.bsky.social
She/Her. PhD. Author of Place Last Seen. Published in Montana Quarterly, Big Sky Journal, Dark Mountain, Best American Food Writing, Terrain. Newsletter: Getting Dirty: Material Entanglements in the Anthropocene (https://getting-dirty-anthropocene.com/)
I bitch about tourists all the time, but the incredibly cheerful dude with NY plates who had stopped his Harley next to my car at the trailhead, and was talking in Arabic on his phone, and who wanted to pet my dog? He made my day. I hope he has a great trip.
February 3, 2026 at 4:54 AM
I bitch about tourists all the time, but the incredibly cheerful dude with NY plates who had stopped his Harley next to my car at the trailhead, and was talking in Arabic on his phone, and who wanted to pet my dog? He made my day. I hope he has a great trip.
(1) Long 🧵 Time.
Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...
Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...
February 3, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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People have been shouting for years that no one should be a billionaire, that wealth on that level is personally poison and societally catastrophic, and now we have millions of terribly written emails demonstrating in the clearest terms that every one of those shouts was impossibly correct.
February 3, 2026 at 1:52 AM
People have been shouting for years that no one should be a billionaire, that wealth on that level is personally poison and societally catastrophic, and now we have millions of terribly written emails demonstrating in the clearest terms that every one of those shouts was impossibly correct.
Hey kids! Do you want to be your own boss and perform a useful social function? Learn to fix/build/make boots and shoes. All the boot repair shops have closed!
February 2, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Hey kids! Do you want to be your own boss and perform a useful social function? Learn to fix/build/make boots and shoes. All the boot repair shops have closed!
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“Best we can do is make the murderers record their murders”
…yeah no, that’s not gonna cut it
…yeah no, that’s not gonna cut it
February 2, 2026 at 11:20 PM
“Best we can do is make the murderers record their murders”
…yeah no, that’s not gonna cut it
…yeah no, that’s not gonna cut it
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At the very heart of the conflict raging in the United States is a conflict about human nature, a deep moral and philosophical conflict. I believe the isolationists will lose in the long run because they are not only out of step with the majority but they are out of step with reality....
When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance
Today marks one full year for this newsletter, and here's the 77th post (I thought once a week was going to be a lot, but there's so much going on I wrote almost 1.5 times a week over the past year). ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:58 PM
At the very heart of the conflict raging in the United States is a conflict about human nature, a deep moral and philosophical conflict. I believe the isolationists will lose in the long run because they are not only out of step with the majority but they are out of step with reality....
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if you’re not bothered by still being on Substack, don’t worry! neither is Neil Gaiman
February 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM
if you’re not bothered by still being on Substack, don’t worry! neither is Neil Gaiman
Ran into an old friend in Costco who, like my late brother, works in events, and while I'm sorry he's wrecked from the Grammys last night and has to go start setting up the SuperBowl, it was a very nostalgic convo for me. I grew up in events, and events people are the best.
February 2, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Ran into an old friend in Costco who, like my late brother, works in events, and while I'm sorry he's wrecked from the Grammys last night and has to go start setting up the SuperBowl, it was a very nostalgic convo for me. I grew up in events, and events people are the best.
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sorry maybe this is an unnecessary level of stating the obvious, but sometimes when someone says they don’t think puerto ricans are “american,” it isn’t an opportunity to do a little civics gotcha & tell them about the insular cases. they just mean they think real americans are white.
February 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
sorry maybe this is an unnecessary level of stating the obvious, but sometimes when someone says they don’t think puerto ricans are “american,” it isn’t an opportunity to do a little civics gotcha & tell them about the insular cases. they just mean they think real americans are white.
Oy. Winco (where the register broke down after they kicked me out of the self-checkout line for having more than 15 items). Costco. Ulta. And the only shoe/boot repair shop left in this part of the state where it's going to be $$ to get those boot fixed. Then BZN street traffic and now home. UGH.
February 2, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Oy. Winco (where the register broke down after they kicked me out of the self-checkout line for having more than 15 items). Costco. Ulta. And the only shoe/boot repair shop left in this part of the state where it's going to be $$ to get those boot fixed. Then BZN street traffic and now home. UGH.
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"From January to October 2025, at least 3,800 children under the age of 18, including 20 infants, were arrested and detained by U.S. immigration authorities. " www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:39 PM
"From January to October 2025, at least 3,800 children under the age of 18, including 20 infants, were arrested and detained by U.S. immigration authorities. " www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
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It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
February 2, 2026 at 7:15 AM
It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
Wow. Refs throwing the Stadium Series game for Tampa. Fanduel? Who the fuck knows ...
February 2, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Wow. Refs throwing the Stadium Series game for Tampa. Fanduel? Who the fuck knows ...
Please someone, use this clip to primary him ...
Here’s @schumer.senate.gov saying his job is to fight for aid to Israel — which most Dems disagree with… and gives a nod to a “delicate ceasefire” even as people in Gaza are still killed by Israeli bombs daily.
February 2, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Please someone, use this clip to primary him ...
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Liam made people look. Now don’t look away.
We still have children in ICE custody eating bad food, drinking questionable water, living in filthy conditions, and carrying a lifetime of trauma they shouldn’t have to survive.
#FreeTheChildren
We still have children in ICE custody eating bad food, drinking questionable water, living in filthy conditions, and carrying a lifetime of trauma they shouldn’t have to survive.
#FreeTheChildren
February 1, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Liam made people look. Now don’t look away.
We still have children in ICE custody eating bad food, drinking questionable water, living in filthy conditions, and carrying a lifetime of trauma they shouldn’t have to survive.
#FreeTheChildren
We still have children in ICE custody eating bad food, drinking questionable water, living in filthy conditions, and carrying a lifetime of trauma they shouldn’t have to survive.
#FreeTheChildren
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That so many sheep accounts I follow on IG have to tell the peoples that wool is a renewable resource, that sheep must be sheared so as not to die, and that they aren't *skinned* makes my farm person head want to explode.
February 1, 2026 at 6:00 PM
That so many sheep accounts I follow on IG have to tell the peoples that wool is a renewable resource, that sheep must be sheared so as not to die, and that they aren't *skinned* makes my farm person head want to explode.
I don't like rich people, but I do respect Melinda Gates for the sheer speed with which she tossed Bill to the curb.
February 1, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I don't like rich people, but I do respect Melinda Gates for the sheer speed with which she tossed Bill to the curb.
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“You are good to go.” Good to go?!?!
This is what ICE tells a young woman they tossed out into dangerously freezing temperatures after four agonizing days in detention at Whipple.
Today’s front page Strib report: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...
This is what ICE tells a young woman they tossed out into dangerously freezing temperatures after four agonizing days in detention at Whipple.
Today’s front page Strib report: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...
February 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
“You are good to go.” Good to go?!?!
This is what ICE tells a young woman they tossed out into dangerously freezing temperatures after four agonizing days in detention at Whipple.
Today’s front page Strib report: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...
This is what ICE tells a young woman they tossed out into dangerously freezing temperatures after four agonizing days in detention at Whipple.
Today’s front page Strib report: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...
I think I'm going to have to mute the Epstein stuff. It's getting inside my head, a head already prone to the Horrors wealthy men do, and it's seeping into parts of my life where I don't want it.
There's a reason every religious tradition preaches that evil comes with wealth. And this is real evil.
There's a reason every religious tradition preaches that evil comes with wealth. And this is real evil.
February 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I think I'm going to have to mute the Epstein stuff. It's getting inside my head, a head already prone to the Horrors wealthy men do, and it's seeping into parts of my life where I don't want it.
There's a reason every religious tradition preaches that evil comes with wealth. And this is real evil.
There's a reason every religious tradition preaches that evil comes with wealth. And this is real evil.
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“Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.”
- Anne Lamott
- Anne Lamott
February 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
“Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.”
- Anne Lamott
- Anne Lamott
I grew up in the horse business, so things come across my IG feed. This morning? A riding gear company from Ocala, posting about how the entire industry runs on immigrant labor and whether or not they "have papers" is a gross thing to ask. Replies surprised me! 90% positive! From rich horse people!
February 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I grew up in the horse business, so things come across my IG feed. This morning? A riding gear company from Ocala, posting about how the entire industry runs on immigrant labor and whether or not they "have papers" is a gross thing to ask. Replies surprised me! 90% positive! From rich horse people!
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I am of the apparently idiosyncratic opinion that governments should generally try to avoid using chemical weapons on their own citizens who are peacefully protesting on a Saturday afternoon.
February 1, 2026 at 4:33 AM
I am of the apparently idiosyncratic opinion that governments should generally try to avoid using chemical weapons on their own citizens who are peacefully protesting on a Saturday afternoon.
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Every so often, I remember this hilarious clip of Cynthia Ozick totally embarrassing Norman Mailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLFQ...
Cynthia Ozick Asks Norman Mailer About Dipping His Balls in Ink
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February 1, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Every so often, I remember this hilarious clip of Cynthia Ozick totally embarrassing Norman Mailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLFQ...
I know everyone has their own favorites, but Death in Paradise is the perfect background TV.
February 1, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I know everyone has their own favorites, but Death in Paradise is the perfect background TV.