Politics – Page 2 – Snake & Tree

January 20, 2018

This week: government shut down, Christian Picciolini, Peter Joffrion, and Amazon.

This week we got the government shutting down, a reformed Skinhead making me optimistic, and Amazon screwing with my commute.

January 15, 2018June 23, 2018

Swallowing Us Whole: New Regulations on Predatory Lending Felt in Appalachia

Predatory lenders continue to invade rural landscapes. The CFPB tried to regulate them. Congress said no. Here’s why that’s awful.

January 9, 2018January 9, 2018

American Farm Bureau Speech

Thoughts after Trump’s American Farm Bureau Conference speech. Short and sweet? It was lame.

January 3, 2018January 12, 2018

Check out this thing with my name on it in The Baffler!

Upon Senator Doug Jones’ seating, let’s talk about extant Southern progressives.

December 2, 2017December 4, 2017

Poor People’s Investing: Quick Cash and Payday Loans

Quick Cash and Payday Loan merchants are fixtures in most rural towns. This is why I hate them.

November 16, 2017November 17, 2017

VOTE DOUG JONES

This isn’t about values. This is about what true Southern pride looks like, and it looks like Doug Jones.

October 12, 2017December 15, 2017

Stagnate, Fester & Putrefy

Trying to reconcile hateful ass perceptions of the South with people that actually live here.

I’m Rachel, a jaded twenty-something English grad student looking to tell some stories. Currently based in Nashville, born and bred in rural Alabama. Here you’ll find liberal political tirades, stories, book reviews, and folklore focused in on these lower Southeastern thirteen states.

The title, Snake and Tree, comes from the Alabama proverb that if you hang a dead snake in a tree it’ll bring rain. These stories are the snake. The rain is making peace with this broke South.