Theatrical release poster for John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness. “You can be sincere and still be stupid.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky + Back in April, Jesús Escalona Mújicas was on his way to his job at a construction site when he was pulled over by federal...
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Alliance for the Wild Rockies Files Lawsuit to Stop Massive Clearcutting Project in Bull Trout Critical Habitat Watershed
Bull trout swimming. Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service. Bull trout lost approximately 60 percent of their historic range before they were even listed as ‘threatened’ on the Endangered Species List in 1998. Yet the Forest Service wants to bulldoze and clearcut some...
A Paean to Bud Lilly, a Trout’s Best Friend
George Ochenski (left) and Bud Lilly (right) pictured here in 2007. Photo courtesy of George Ochenski. A paean is “a fervent expression of joy or praise.” When it comes to the long and ongoing struggle to preserve the incredible legacy of Montana’s world-famous trout...
Honeymoon Over: Trump Divorces India
Image by Nitish Gouda. Friends No More In 2019, Donald Trump and Narendra Modi paraded their bromance with a 50,000-person “Howdy Modi” rally in Houston. They followed that up with a “Namaste Trump” 100,000-person event in India. As recently as February, Trump...
Resisting Australia’s Role in US Space Domination
The Milk Way Galaxy is on full display as it passes by a ground-based electro-optical deep-space surveillance telescope located on White Sands Missile Range–the location of Detachment 1, 20th Operations Group and their space surveillance mission, March 29, 2017 in New...
My Trip to Hiroshima, 80 Years Later
Hiroshima Palestine vigil in front of the A-Bomb dome, photo by Roger Peet. Hiroshima Palestine vigil in front of the A-Bomb dome, photo by Roger Peet. Hiroshima Palestine vigil in front of the A-Bomb dome, photo by Roger Peet. Hiroshima Palestine vigil in front of...
I Did My Ph.D on Housing Displacement. Then I Experienced It Myself
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I thought I knew a lot about displacement, housing insecurity, and homelessness. Then I experienced it for real. I grew up with a roof over my head and got my Ph.D., writing a dissertation about families displaced from their homes....
The Democrats’ Great Opportunity
Image by Andy Feliciotti. There is an old Robin Williams gag about an unarmed English bobby who shouts at a fleeing criminal: “Stop! Or I’ll say stop again!” That is the Democratic Party today. Having lost the White House, both houses of Congress, a majority of the...
Global Floods Beckon Noah
Image by Dibakar Roy. Devastating widespread flooding and flash floods are becoming normal. Try spinning a globe and stop at any continent, other than Antarctica, blindfolded, point a finger, spot a flood. There’s nothing fake about the global warming leviathan...
Bolivia Elections Restore Established Order, Socialists are Dismissed
Image by Lesly Derksen. Preliminary results of first-round voting for president of Bolivia on August 17 determined that centrist Rodrigo Paz, with 32.1% of the vote, and right-winger Jorge Tuto Quiroga, with 26.9%, will advance to second-round voting on October 19....
The Mad Religion of Technological Salvation
Image by Logan Voss. A science journalist and PhD astrophysicist, Adam Becker spent the last several years investigating the futurological vision of our tech-bro masters – and found it’s a bunch of nonsense. The targets in his new book More Everything Forever are the...
The Trump-Putin Summit: Negotiating With the Devil(s)
Photograph Source: kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0 Vladimir Putin has been demonized. Not only is the president of the Russian Federation under indictment by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, he has been compared to Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein. Already in...