Episode 154: Saddles And Sadness 🐎😭

Pictured: A group of Ranchers attach SAPI plates underneath their fursuits shortly before The Siege Of Unicorn Ranch. Courtesy of Getty Images.

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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!

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Depression

Yglesias’ article on why everyone is suddenly so depressed

Why are young liberals so depressed?

The graph Katie oh-so-eloquently described. I think. I don’t know, I’m tired…

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

The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch

The Advocate: Trans Anarchists, Alpacas, and the Beauty of Tenacious Unicorn Ranch

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

The Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot glows harder than Chernobyl in 1986

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

Business Insider: How the trans alpaca ranchers of Custer County, Colorado, are forging a new frontier

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

UNICORN RANCH IS UNDER ATTACK. UNDER SIEGE.

Tenacious Unicorn Ranch @TenaciousRanch

The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch is under attack by local bigots and militia. They have threatened violence, publicly, to us and those that help or associate with us. They have encroach on our property, armed, at night, with the intent to harm those of us that live here. We need help,

Unicorn Ranch is “nothing more than a glorified cult”, a 17-part epic

Knight of the Raven @EntrancingStars

The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch, my home for 2 years and current squatters in my legally owned house are unfortunately nothing more than a glorified cult. It was only through my marital explosion that I left the property and was forced to take off the rose colored glasses (1/17)

The remaining Ranchers respond

Tenacious Unicorn Ranch @TenaciousRanch

Warmest wishes to all of our friends, followers, and supporters as the year draws to a close. 2022 was a year filled both with victories and challenges… for the global queer community as a whole and for the Ranch at a local level, as well. 1/?? docs.google.com/document/d/1R9…

The current Wikipedia page on the ranch

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

The "journey of recontextualization"

Knight of the Raven @EntrancingStars

There's much about the ranch's statement I intend to go over but the twisting of events leading to my departure are egregious and full of outright misdirection Their attacks on my ex and current partner are irrelevant to the problems of the ranch and EXTREMELY INAPPROPRIATE 🧵👇

Kiwi Farms is accused of sending police to the ranch

Tenacious Unicorn Ranch @TenaciousRanch

In a very real way, these lies that are being spread about the ranch have put trans lives at risk Kiwi Farms was the last group to send police to the ranch Regardless, it happened again and again We've proven our animals are extremely well cared for

Alpacas and goats are relocated

Knight of the Raven @EntrancingStars

@TenaciousRanch Keep in mind that if you plan on buying more merch in the future that it will not be going towards housing trans people or feeding a herd of animals

The Ranch is... scuffed, to say the least

Knight of the Raven @EntrancingStars

@TenaciousRanch This is the way TUR has left my home Ransacked Vandalized Full of trash Donations in a pile ready for a dumpster that never came

Bonnie's "IRS Report"

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

Kindness's statement

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

Further Reading

Denver Post: How an anarchist commune for queer people grew a haven in conservative rural Colorado

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

High Country News: Meet the gun-toting ‘Tenacious Unicorns’ in rural Colorado

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

NPR: A Would-Be Trans And Queer Haven In Rural Colorado Just Wants To Be Left Alone

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

PBS: Southern Colorado alpaca ranch a safe haven for LGBTQ+ community

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

Pink News: Meet the brilliant trans folk who built a community of armed, anti-fascist alpaca farmers

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

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