Jacob L. Stump

on politics, economy, higher education, Appalachia, outdoors

[Jacob L. Stump @JacobLStump]

Hunger Economics in Appalachia: How Trump’s Food Aid Cuts Revive a Cruel Economic Philosophy https://t.co/C4iP3iuQwD

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5/5 Closing these offices reveals what libertarian governance values most: in America's current moral economy, a miner's life is worth less than the cost of maintaining the offices that might protect him. My full analysis: https://t.co/ZVkSnK98rh #RuralAmerica #Appalachia

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4/5 The libertarian calculus is brutally simple: when a regulatory office closes, coal executives gain freedom to cut corners while miners lose freedom from preventable danger. One person's expanded liberty becomes another's constricted life. #BlackLung #EconomicJustice

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3/5 DOGE will close 34 mine safety offices to save just $18M. Meanwhile, West Virginia taxpayers subsidize coal companies to the tune of $42M annually, with unaccounted mining damage costs approaching $5 BILLION. Who's really inefficient here? #Appalachia #CorporateWelfare

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2/5 Meet Stanley Stewart, who survived the Upper Big Branch disaster that killed 29 miners: "I wouldn't recommend anybody get in the mining industry right now because of what's going on with Trump and Musk." He knows what happens when profit supersedes safety. #WorkerSafety

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1/4 NEW ESSAY: The High Price of Libertarian Government. As Musk's DOGE slashes coal safety offices to save a mere $18M, miners face a deadly reality: billionaires' efficiency dreams written in working-class blood. #EconomicJustice #Appalachia

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Piccola easily tipped the space cow. #wiredbackpage

[Review of International Political Economy @RIPEJournal]

Producing zones of neediness in world politics: missionaries, educators, and a cultural political economy of colonialism in Appalachia, by Jacob Stump https://t.co/Xvoq45hCWF

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Producing zones of neediness in world politics: missionaries, educators, and a cultural political economy of colonialism in Appalachia

https://t.co/X3rJppCTjn

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@jwillia2 Yeah. Appalachian Studies is almost entirely done by people from the region who are predominately, but not entirely, folks who pass as or describe themselves as 'white.'

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https://t.co/uPPEU3Gw1a

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@ClintBowyer Prices are ridiculous. But when you depend on the market to set prices, then they tend to go up. This reminds me of healthcare in America. People defend it until they can't afford it, then free markets are not so great.

[Andrew Lawrence @ndrew_lawrence]

Really can't stop thinking about how bananas this video is. I mean this is just straight out of some newscast in a dystopian movie...but it's not. It ran on Fox News

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“The makers of the film Zero Dark Thirty were given detailed information about the torture of an inmate at a CIA “black site” that had been denied to the prisoner’s own defence counsel at his trial in Guantánamo Bay, his lawyers claim.” https://t.co/3W8J7yjcIn

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A link to the article is now available. https://t.co/nxgO97Bz8t

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@Em__Dash__ Why are you on Twitter if not to interact? Is it like an emotional release and people are just supposed to be a passive audience?

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@Em__Dash__ It’s not about provoking you wrong. It’s that Foucault helps me understand the discipline of school

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This is discipline. It’s not absurd. It’s modern forms of political order. The better question is about how to fuck it up.

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Foucault can make it less absurd and more understandable.