Hey! Everyone who voted for this piece of shit? I have a message for you.

They think they’ll be insulated from that. They’re in for a rude awakening (but they will probably just scapegoat brown people when it happens).

The national parks are going to be the safest category. If you care about public lands, then you need to get excited about some of the categories we rarely speak about: the BLM’s “National Conservation Areas” and the “Wilderness Study Areas.” The spots without flashy signage and visitor centers will be the first to…

I legitimately cry when I see those places. I’ve hiked the Grand Canyon and I just visited Yellowstone last year and, no shit, I cry at how beautiful they are. How anyone can look at them and think “Fuck it, log it all and drill over there and let’s put a casino at the top of that waterfall” is just beyond me.

Good news is that we can probably slow them all down when they have to got back for a shitload of nickels

If you watch the PBS series “The National Parks: America’s best Idea”, they talk about the rush to create parks and monuments to protect places so that the buildup wouldn’t happen. Specifically, they forced the Grand Canyon to be designated so that it wouldn’t turn into another “Niagara Falls”. There is a clip at…

Happy Centennial National Parks. It’s been real nice having you around. I’m sad other generations won’t get the opportunity to experience you.

This is basically the plot of “Blazing Saddles.”

How the FUCK can you be from Utah and want to fucking destroy fucking federal land??? I guess fucking living near some of the most ecologically diverse and AMAZING fucking ecosystems on THIS ENTIRE PLANET doesn’t make you fucking appreciate it anymore.

I think it’s *possible* that the United States’ deep history of creative, subversive speech and civil disobedience makes *some* sort of difference in how the dismantling of democracy plays out. On the other hand, working against that is the tendency for us to take these rights and institutions for granted (see: not…

Sarah Kendzior wrote something similar a few months ago. It hasn’t gotten any easier to read or relevant with time...

Perhaps this is me grasping at straws, but I wonder if part of the inevitability of autocracy and failure of resistence in Gessen’s experience is at all related to the fact that Russians had already lived under an oppressive government for generations before Putin came along.

In my more Pollyanna moments, I hope that…

Masha Gessen’s remarkable composure when she discusses impending doom makes her case all the more terrifying. Her interview with Sam Bee was scary, but her writing is downright paralyzing (and vital):

As someone with very curly hair (and I mean curly, not that 2 S-waves so it’s super curly nonsense that the white magazines claim)...I don’t understand why straight haired people need to bother with blowouts? It seems like it would be incredibly easy to style their hair themselves.

I appreciate the rawness. It came straight from the heart.

She definitely signed her rights away somewhere. She’d get sued to oblivion.

Maples was worried about her financial situation with Tiffany out of college, ending child-support payments from the president-elect. “She is used to a certain lifestyle and you don’t understand that.”