Brian at Hickory Nut Gap

Brian at Hickory Nut Gap

@bchunter.bsky.social

Life in Asheville & the French Broad River watershed. Rivers, salt marshes, tidal creeks, conservation. UNC grad. Former financial & tax consultant. Now I'm a fish bum, it seems. #humanist #globalist #flyfishing #waterman

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Brian at Hickory Nut Gap
@bchunter.bsky.social

I don't like living in a country like #USA where oligarchs can buy election outcomes (thanks to SCOTUS in Citizens United v FEC) not to mention just buy the corrupt politicians (like Trump). That's why this year's World Series is GREAT...no one is buying the outcome with high player payroll!

Brian at Hickory Nut Gap
@bchunter.bsky.social

Two of the lowest payrolls in all #MLB - Rays $89M, Brewers $125M. Compare to Mets, Dodgers, Yankees all above $300M per year! PS: guess who's sitting at home right now?! Go Rays, go Brewers!

Brian at Hickory Nut Gap
@bchunter.bsky.social

"Supreme Court Judge Louis Brandeis said you can have wealth concentrated in the hands of few, or you can have democracy, but you can’t have both.” That's right, we're in a class war. And the ultra-rich don't mind an authoritarian, fascist government because they know they're in control of it.

nytimes.comPete Ricketts’s Wealth Puts Class at the Center of Nebraska’s Senate Race (Gift Article)In a year when the wealth of the rich soared while workers lost ground to inflation, class has become political, especially in the Nebraska Senate race.

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Nick Kristof
@nickkristof.bsky.social

Imagine if in 1943 FDR had decided that the US would stop helping Britain and instead would side with the Third Reich. That's a bit like what President Trump is now doing by cozying up to Russia as it tries to destroy Ukraine. Utterly shameful. A humiliating moment for the US.

Brian at Hickory Nut Gap
@bchunter.bsky.social

Stand up for this young woman, America!

Ilhan Omar@ilhanmn.bsky.social

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Brian at Hickory Nut Gap
@bchunter.bsky.social

Chourio didn't bite on the breaking ball, and sent the message to Miller: You're gonna have to beat me with the fastball. Miller knew he couldn't...and he was right. #MLB #Brewers #Milwaukee #icewater #lightninghands #twentytwo #risetothemoment

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Amy Gann
@amygann.bsky.social

A great egret fishing in the marsh during a mist filled morning in the marsh. For the #birdoftheday theme of #bestofthemonth #birds #egret #heron #protectnature #EastCoastKin

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.

Brian at Hickory Nut Gap
@bchunter.bsky.social

This is the most important and truthful perspective on this merger, and we are not hearing it from the mainstream legacy media.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

What do you get when you combine the richest people in America with the biggest media corporations in America with the thinnest-skinned and most corrupt president in American history? One thing you don’t get is an informed public. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/now-cnn

Brian at Hickory Nut Gap
@bchunter.bsky.social

#Braves manager Walt Weiss after today's win v Rays: "Starting pitching is the most valuable commodity in the game. It was 100 years ago, and it will be 100 years from now." Braves starter Martin Perez: 7 IP, 4 H, 0 ER.

Brian at Hickory Nut Gap
@bchunter.bsky.social

“It is an insult to Icelanders, Canadians, Greenlanders,” Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir of Iceland. “There is nothing funny or normal about making fun of the sovereignty of states." Americans should be disgusted and embarrassed at how its leaders are treating neighbors, friends and allies.

nytimes.comIceland Summons U.S. Ambassador Over Provocative Trump Map (Gift Article)After voting against talks to join the European Union, Iceland is reacting forcefully to a slight against its sovereignty.

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James Talarico
@jamestalarico.bsky.social

I wish our government would go after pedophiles like they go after brown men headed to work at 7 am. I wish they would close billionaire tax loopholes like they close our public schools. I wish they would fund healthcare like they fund forever wars in the Middle East.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]

Brian at Hickory Nut Gap
@bchunter.bsky.social

It's been a rainy two months in the southern Appalachians. But we finally got a break. So we floated the Nolichucky River in east Tennessee on Monday, and enjoyed blue skies and clear water! #Smallmouth anglers - where would you cast among all these great spots? #flyfishing

Brian at Hickory Nut Gap
@bchunter.bsky.social

And here's our flies of choice...from L to R, a topwater foam insect to mid-water baitfish to a crawfish pattern for the bottom. The smallmouth bass loved them all at different times of the day. #flyfishing

Brian at Hickory Nut Gap
@bchunter.bsky.social

"Service before politics. Country before self." Thank you @juliacurlee.bsky.social!

TACC@tacc.org.uk

"Flailing regimes dehumanize minorities to distract from their failures...that caricature works only if people like me don’t exist—and I exist. I speak now because somewhere, a trans kid is watching...I was a trans kid too, and I’ll be damned if I let another generation grow up the way I did."

theatlantic.comThe Wrong Kind of AmericanThe Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
Brian at Hickory Nut Gap
@bchunter.bsky.social

"The construction has outraged many people across Texas for its speed, as well as its seeming disregard for a prized piece of untrammeled wilderness...carving a path with bulldozers and excavators." 🌏 #rivers #conservation #thisplacematters

nytimes.comBorder Construction in Big Bend Is Halted After Drawing Criticism (Gift Article)The Trump administration has been carving a path through some of the beloved national park’s major natural attractions.
Brian at Hickory Nut Gap
@bchunter.bsky.social

"As long as you know you can make a comfortable cast and put it in front, doesn't matter what the distance is, that's fine. But if you might be short, don't cast."-Capt. Juan Rossouw Must-see film for lovers of remote saltwater fly fishing. Note-Outdoor Channel sub. required. 🧵

outdoorchannel.comFly-Fisherman Presents: The Shoals - Outdoor ChannelGet up close and personal with the sharks and giant trevallies of St. Brandon Atoll . . . a wild and undeveloped saltwater paradise that is dangerously remote.