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Episode 154: Saddles And Sadness 🐎😭
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Episode 154: Saddles And Sadness 🐎😭

Teenage depression is skyrocketing... I lost my life savings in the alpaca market... The trans furry Unicorn Ranch is collapsing. This pod underperforms among the 1-yo demographic. Why even live?

In this week’s depressing episode… Sigh…

  • A journalist is spat on in a high-profile case. Is it time to tone down the rhetoric? It’s probably too late to de-escalate…

  • The disappearance of Apu. He’s probably never coming back.

  • Matt Yglesias won’t come on the podcast. Should Kanye come on instead? He’ll probably say no too. Sigh…

  • Why are young liberals so depressed? Matt Yglesias’ new article sparks discussion, but we probably can’t fix this. We should just give up…

  • Katie’s shocking stance on solar power. We’ll never be able to transition to renewables, will we?

  • Journalists really messed up with the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch story… Kiwi Farms did the media’s job better than the media did… Not again…

  • 28 TERFS PULLING UP IN BLACK FORD RAPTOR TRUCKS. HELICOPTERS LANDED. UNICORN RANCH IS UNDER SIEGE! UNDER LOCKDOWN!


Depression

Yglesias’ article on why everyone is suddenly so depressed

Slow Boring
Why are young liberals so depressed?
Fresh episode of Bad Takes is out today, all about the war on fake license plates. Earlier this month the CDC released the results of its Youth Risk Behavior Survey of American teenagers. The findings have been much discussed, with the focus largely and understandably on the fact that…
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Uh… here’s the study: “The politics of depression: Diverging trends in internalizing symptoms among US adolescents by political beliefs”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560321000438

https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2021/9/23/trans-anarchists-alpacas-and-beauty-tenacious-unicorn-ranch

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/us/whitmer-kidnapping-trial.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/custer-county-trans-alpaca-ranchers-are-forging-a-new-frontier-2022-8

https://web.archive.org/web/20230304174335/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenacious_Unicorn_Ranch

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19tS4uxqpwOoIf8-PkDTVUvhUsYyoQ4NzT9FLXlG-XJ4/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gBdNSPs0vhV1Qw3eCSb5INrBaOhdwvMF/edit

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/04/18/tenacious-unicorn-ranch-queer-haven-rural-colorado/

https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.2/south-communities-meet-the-gun-toting-tenacious-unicorns-in-rural-colorado

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/999929259/a-would-be-trans-and-queer-haven-in-rural-colorado-just-wants-to-be-left-alone

https://archive.li/PpGIO#selection-689.13-689.77

https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/01/17/tenacious-unicorn-ranch-trans-anti-fascism-alpaca-farm-penny-logue/


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