Dan Reid
@danielgreid.bsky.social
Resident alien in the Central Oregon high desert, next door to the Cascades. My background is (PhD) in biblical studies, but interests run wide. Recently: The China We Never Knew: https://dgreid49.substack.com
Yesterday my four-year-old granddaughter helped pick the corn she had helped me plant in May. She took some home and will eat it with her family.
Simple, right? But there is so much packed into this scene.
Simple, right? But there is so much packed into this scene.
September 15, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Yesterday my four-year-old granddaughter helped pick the corn she had helped me plant in May. She took some home and will eat it with her family.
Simple, right? But there is so much packed into this scene.
Simple, right? But there is so much packed into this scene.
If you want a taste of affordability c. 2000, have a Costco hotdog (and drink): $1.50. The rush of saving might even outrun the indigestion.
August 22, 2026 at 10:31 PM
If you want a taste of affordability c. 2000, have a Costco hotdog (and drink): $1.50. The rush of saving might even outrun the indigestion.
Getting in your vegetable garden is always a trick in Central Oregon. It's June 7, and there is a freeze warning this morning. Not atypical. The temperature hovers just above freezing as I wonder about the tomato plants I just bought.
June 7, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Getting in your vegetable garden is always a trick in Central Oregon. It's June 7, and there is a freeze warning this morning. Not atypical. The temperature hovers just above freezing as I wonder about the tomato plants I just bought.
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May 7, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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“Fascists always have Clergy somewhere in attendance.”
That sentence should be on a continuous loop.
That sentence should be on a continuous loop.
April 18, 2026 at 2:13 AM
“Fascists always have Clergy somewhere in attendance.”
That sentence should be on a continuous loop.
That sentence should be on a continuous loop.
I'm awaiting the Sean Hannity Institute of Theology. (Snappy acronym.) Founding faculty: The Rev. Drs. J.D. Vance and Pete Hegseth.
April 19, 2026 at 2:50 PM
I'm awaiting the Sean Hannity Institute of Theology. (Snappy acronym.) Founding faculty: The Rev. Drs. J.D. Vance and Pete Hegseth.
What will it take?
If we didn't have a maniac as secretary of defense, a toady as secretary of state, and a nobody as chief of staff, they'd be spending today making sure the military checks in with them before obeying any orders from Trump, and quietly getting in touch with Congress to arrange for his impeachment.
April 13, 2026 at 11:55 AM
What will it take?
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Some people look to bold, visionary leaders. Others value technocratic expertise. But David Brooks suggests a third way for better decision making:
How to Make Better Decisions
Some people look to bold, visionary leaders. Others value technocratic expertise. But there’s a third alternative.
bit.ly
March 25, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Some people look to bold, visionary leaders. Others value technocratic expertise. But David Brooks suggests a third way for better decision making:
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John Alexander Dowie (an early Pentecostal, founder of Zion, IL) prescribed racial miscegenation to restore "primitive man." A New Adam for a New Israel/New Eden. Immigration fundamental to Manifest Destiny.
Just reporting.
Just reporting.
March 23, 2026 at 5:08 PM
John Alexander Dowie (an early Pentecostal, founder of Zion, IL) prescribed racial miscegenation to restore "primitive man." A New Adam for a New Israel/New Eden. Immigration fundamental to Manifest Destiny.
Just reporting.
Just reporting.
If you're really fed up with Boomers and such, don't make us one of the last generations who can go back and read stuff we published 30+ years ago and say, with satisfaction, "Yeah, that was pretty good." Whereas you might end up saying, "Well, I really foxed 'em with that AI balderdash, didn't I?"
March 23, 2026 at 12:49 PM
If you're really fed up with Boomers and such, don't make us one of the last generations who can go back and read stuff we published 30+ years ago and say, with satisfaction, "Yeah, that was pretty good." Whereas you might end up saying, "Well, I really foxed 'em with that AI balderdash, didn't I?"
Psalm 73 comes up in the morning prayer rota. Oh, and perhaps you have know idea how relevant it is: Its description of Trump and the oligarchy is spot-on.
March 23, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Psalm 73 comes up in the morning prayer rota. Oh, and perhaps you have know idea how relevant it is: Its description of Trump and the oligarchy is spot-on.
It's August 1975, outside Philadelphia. Police follow up a tip and investigate whether I have the body of Jimmy Hoffa. Srsly.
Tell me a random fact about yourself that sounds fake but is 100% true.
March 5, 2026 at 4:56 AM
It's August 1975, outside Philadelphia. Police follow up a tip and investigate whether I have the body of Jimmy Hoffa. Srsly.
And the chapter after this is titled "Chasing Sunk Costs."
There it is. Republicans want more money from taxpayers to feed Trump's insatiable desire to bomb things everywhere all the time.
March 2, 2026 at 5:54 PM
And the chapter after this is titled "Chasing Sunk Costs."
Lately I find myself turning to Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society. Frequently. It's a realist's reset of expectations.
February 23, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Lately I find myself turning to Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society. Frequently. It's a realist's reset of expectations.
Two things were publicly undressed yesterday: crypto currency and Trumpian Christianity. One in the markets and one in the so-called National Prayer Breakfast. Mene Mene Tekel Parsin.
February 6, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Two things were publicly undressed yesterday: crypto currency and Trumpian Christianity. One in the markets and one in the so-called National Prayer Breakfast. Mene Mene Tekel Parsin.
With this, it seems to me, Trump-Miller-Noem have lost their narrative.
January 29, 2026 at 1:16 AM
With this, it seems to me, Trump-Miller-Noem have lost their narrative.
Collecting myself with a walk along the Deschutes.
January 25, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Collecting myself with a walk along the Deschutes.
Is the GOP calliope of sycophants playing the full keyboard today or is it missing a few pipes?
January 25, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Is the GOP calliope of sycophants playing the full keyboard today or is it missing a few pipes?
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The videos don't lie. A man is dead, killed in cold blood. There is no conceivable justification for this intentional homicide. And make no mistake, that intentional, unjustified homicide was committed on behalf of Donald J. Trump.
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM
The videos don't lie. A man is dead, killed in cold blood. There is no conceivable justification for this intentional homicide. And make no mistake, that intentional, unjustified homicide was committed on behalf of Donald J. Trump.
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There is no strategy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 20, 2026 at 6:41 AM
There is no strategy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
When you think about it, we shouldn't even have elected him.
January 16, 2026 at 2:59 PM
When you think about it, we shouldn't even have elected him.
Despite everything that's wrong in this country, grandma is still in the kitchen baking cookies with her granddaughters. And that's not nothing.
January 14, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Despite everything that's wrong in this country, grandma is still in the kitchen baking cookies with her granddaughters. And that's not nothing.
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Padilla: What they're doing is not law enforcement. It's intimidation. What they're doing isn't about safety. It's about scaring communities
January 13, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Padilla: What they're doing is not law enforcement. It's intimidation. What they're doing isn't about safety. It's about scaring communities
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And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.
January 14, 2026 at 1:36 PM
And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.