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2:02

Crotty goes to the border.

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2025/05/23

Here’s a closer look.God Bless America!Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thanks for reading Crotty Farm Report! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe

0:55

The largest bomb in Southern California history. Will...

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2025/05/22

Many of you may not realize it, but on Saturday morning, an anti-life narcissist set off a huge bomb that killed himself and severely damaged a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California. The event has shaken the lovely, bucolic, historic desert Mecca. There’s talk of shutting down the thoroughfare that crosses in front of the clinic. The killer, Guy Edward Bartkus, 25, believed that humans need to stop procreating. The absurd challenge at the heart of his anti-natalist message: "I didn’t ask

2:54

The great big beautiful disaster of St. Louis.

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2025/04/17

A two-block walk from the St. Louis Four Seasons Hotel stands the Union Electric Light and Power Company’s Ashley Street Powerhouse, a staggering emblem of industrial confidence and might. Built in 1902 in the Renaissance Revival style, the classical detailing of this preposterously large generating station stands in marked contrast to the rusting industrial appurtenances protruding beyond its false pediments, pilasters, and elaborate brickwork. At first glance, you think this is a mistake. The

0:43

How Democrats can start winning elections.

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2025/03/29

It’s not hard to see how Democrats could start winning elections again: adopt Bill Clinton's Democratic Centrist playbook. The Democrats won in 1992 on a simple mantra: “It’s the economy, stupid.” But they won Clinton a second term because they governed from the center. That means jettisoning for all time this absurdly racist, sexist obsession with DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). When Bill Clinton rejected Sister Soulja—"If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week

1:09

Crotty reveals the key to success on Capitol Hill and...

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2025/03/27

One of the hardest lessons I had to learn in DC was to become small to become big. In short, keep your head down and do your job well and rigorously, and you will get noticed. You will rise. Of course, that takes an office able to discern excellence. That is not the case in today's world of Trump. Those who are excellent in their craft, such as I am in writing, communications, and high-level policy analysis, do not get noticed. Look at the President’s cheery 27-year-old Press Secretary Karoline

1:14

The Donut Pub

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2025/03/13

Astor Place, once the epicenter of counter-cultural activity in NYC, has been made achingly safe for the square coeds of NYU. The Donut Pub, open 24 hours, is one of the last all-night outposts for an Instagram-happy cohort that goes to bed at a reasonable hour. Still, for outright food porn, it’s hard to beat.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thanks for reading Crotty Farm Report! This post is

2:05

The People's Republic of China Consulate

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2025/03/12

In 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described the consulate as a “spy hub” after a NYC police officer was found spying for China. In September 2024, Linda Sun, Deputy Chief of Staff for Governor Kathy Hochul, was found to have worked to keep the governor from attending an event hosted by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office of New York. Consul General Huang Ping gave Sun direct orders and bribes to advance PRC interests. With such an apparent agent of the Communist Party of China (CCP)

1:26

Crossing the Border

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2025/03/08

I took a day trip across the border to check out the sights and sounds of the Baja Peninsula. The Colorado River was found to be dry, but the surroundings were quite enlivening. The passage across the border at Calexico was pretty straightforward. Contrary to stereotype, they did a full inspection of my car. I am not sure exactly what they were looking for since the drug traffic was going north, but it didn’t take long. The town of Mexicali was alive, bustling with frenetic energy. However,

2:21

The Salton Sea!

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2025/02/28

The Salton Sea, California's largest body of inland water, lies 227 feet below sea level in the middle of the Mojave Desert. There is enough lithium at the bottom of the Sea to power nearly 400 million electric vehicles. They say you can fish and swim in the Salton Sea, but I wouldn’t trust it. There is that foul smell, plus the highly saline Sea is ground zero for an uptick in child respiratory issues. Frankly, I wouldn’t live remotely near the Salton Sea, but it does make for an intriguing stop

11:39

Pardon me.

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2024/12/04

Pictured below: the grifter-in-chief and his designated bagman. Mr. President, please spare us the phony concern about Hunter Biden’s fragile sobriety. Your blanket pardon of your son had little to do with his welfare but, instead, served one overarching purpose: to eliminate any possibility that you, your brother Jim, let alone Hunter and other family members would go to prison for selling access to you to foreign adversaries. The pardon’s timing could not have been worse for Democrats since

32:46

Post-Trump-Partem: Politics in the Age of Irony.

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2024/11/15

This is the first in a series of longer-form Crotty lectures on art, philosophy, and politics. Works referenced in this episode and for further study:The Western Canon: The Books and Schools of the Ages, by Harold Bloom.Lectures on Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy, by G.W.F Hegel. On the Use and Abuse of History for Life, by Friedrich NietzscheAchieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America, by Richard Rorty. If you enjoy, please consider becoming a paid subscriber

1:14

Crotty Squeezes Lemon.

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2024/11/14

Subscribers to The Crotty Farm Report know that I drove from my CrottMo redoubt in Omaha’s Little Italy to New York to watch and celebrate Donald Trump’s reelection on November 5. Here is my historic report from Times Square:Subscribers may not know that I stayed a few more days to enjoy the afterglow of Trump's triumph. In my peregrinations around Gotham, I talked with a variety of working-class people––from Korean greengrocers to Haitian cabbies to Nigerian Uber drivers to all manner of bellmen,

4:59

Trump wins. America dodges a bullet.

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2024/11/06

Though I drove from Omaha to Times Square to be in Donald Trump’s home city of New York, I didn't know if he would win. To protect my heart from a Cornhusker-level disappointment, I even disingenuously predicted Harris would somehow pull it out, given the vaunted Democratic ground game. But that ground game never materialized. The love for Harris just wasn’t there. Once again, the polls––which had Trump barely winning––undercounted the intensity of his support, as Trump won both the Electoral

3:47

It all comes down to Pennsylvania.

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2024/11/04

Like a good hedgehog, Kamala Harris has a singular, easy path to election victory: win the former blue wall states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and carry the purple dot of Omaha. Given that the Real Clear Politics (RCP) average shows Harris up in Michigan and Wisconsin (if barely) and by a lot in the tie-breaking Nebraska district of CD-2, her focused strategy seems, at least superficially, to be paying off. But she is down by about .3% in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where she

4:53

Crotty votes for first time in Nebraska.

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2024/10/31

In a nod to playwright Brian Friel, Crotty votes for the first time in his “home place” of Nebraska, having moved on from the hopeless, dysfunctional, one-party rule of Democrat-run California. It’s poetic justice that #Nebraska plays UCLA this Saturday at Memorial. #GBR. Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thanks for reading Crotty Farm Report! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get

62:04

Art, Censorship, and Religion in the Trump Era. With...

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2024/10/24

On the historic day when Crotty turned in his California driver’s license to become a registered voter in the bluest speck of the blue dot, I am again joined by Marin County Rainbow Brother Duncan Sylvester for a fascinating, essential discussion that ranges from ancient religious art to Edward Hopper, Venus de Milo to Andy Warhol, Friedrich Nietzsche to Flannery O’Connor, Taylor Swift to Willa Cather, Father Don Doll to the Trump performance art at McDonald’s. You won’t want to miss a second

1:51

Cosmic Crotty Comet Sighting Near Chance Ridge.

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2024/10/15

On the day that Elon Musk’s Space X “toothpicks” welcomed home the Super Heavy booster of its Starship in South Texas, Crotty stared into the night sky at Chance Ridge in Elkhorn, Nebraska to witness another historic space event. This one was last seen by our ancestors 80,000 years ago: the return of the C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet.Here we are, connected through space and time, made all the more visible by the iPhone!Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts

0:55

The STRATCOM of Railroad Infrastructure: The Harriman...

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2024/10/05

At 850 Jones St., a block from the famed Old Market in the railroad capital of Omaha––where westward construction of the transcontinental railroad commenced––resides the seemingly benign and innocuous Harriman Dispatch Center (or HDC). The HDC is the rail traffic control headquarters for the 160-year-old publicly traded United Pacific Railroad (ticker: UNP), aka “U.P.” Informally known as "The Bunker," the HDC monitors U.P. switches, tracks, and trains across America. Locals who have toured it

6:41

Chicago: that Toddlin' Town.

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2024/09/25

Chicago is the most architecturally spectacular city in America, with signature masterworks by Jahn, Richardson, Sullivan, and van der Rohe, founder of the exquisite—when done right—International Style. The glory days of writers like Nelson Algren, Mike Royko, and Theodore Dreiser are long gone, as well as Machine legends like Jane Byrne, Richard Daley, and Ed Vrodolyak, who provided such a saucy undertow to the city’s vast and muscular ambitions. The once-fabulous Drake Hotel is a shadow of its

4:17

Red dot, blue dot.

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2024/09/15

Nebraska's pivotal and always-tight 2nd Congressional District is taking on a fascinating and abstract hue to keep the peace between neighbors in the most volatile and partisan election in decades.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe

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