Interesting read, from link in above tweet:
It’s easy to imagine DesRosier, whose energy belies his 65 years, captivating tourists at the helm of one of his 10 Sun Tours buses, which have become ubiquitous on Glacier’s main roads in the summer. His official business came after many not-so-official tours; the corporate entity in charge of concessions in Glacier refused to give him a license to tell the Blackfeet stories he knew, but he gave tours anyway. DesRosier was responding to a common problem: Despite the fact that they comprise the ancestral lands of hundreds of tribes, few national parks offer visitors the sort of nuanced Indigenous view that DesRosier wanted to provide.
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Tribal parks are rare entities in the conservation world, but there are a few models to inspire the Blackfeet. The Navajo Nation controls a couple of parks open to tourists, and Ute Mountain Tribal Park is open to visitors accompanied by Indigenous guides. A tribe in Wisconsin is working on creating a park to protect a watershed--only part of it is open to the public, the rest is just tribally-accessed.
Plans are still in the conceptual phase, but BirdRattler said he imagines the tribal park could span a northwestern slice of the reservation all the way up to the Canadian border. Confident the plan will pass, Birdrattler and his team are working on a feasibility study to identify biodiversity protection hotspots in the area and quantify the potential economic benefits of a new park.
If Falwell Jr thinks we need to give Trump “reparations” for supposed “corrupt failed coup,” I feel we should start by first giving Obama another 8 years for the obstruction inflicted on him by the Wingtnut Party.
I’m thinking it highly likely this particular idea by Falwell Jr will catch fire with the Drumpf base...
I don’t know about you, however, I have swung back and forth on impeachment. Some days I wake up and think “sure as hell! Now, or it will be worse!” And other other days I hesitate. The segment below is some bits from the tweeted link above:
Does Trump really think he can get away with this? Historically, the answer would be no – dramatized most famously by the Supreme Court’s unanimous 1974 ruling to force Richard Nixon to surrender White House tapes. But that was a very different time ... and a very different Supreme Court. Unlike the Nixon case, time is on Trump’s side – the legal fights will drag on for months and go into the heart of the 2020 campaign season, and maybe beyond it, which is the whole point. What’s more, the GOP-led Senate has aided Trump, intentionally or not, by giving him two Supreme Court justices and more than 100 new right-wing judicial appointments.
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Instead, the president and his minions will be on Fox News every night waving the bloody flag of impeachment to discuss how unfairly he was treated – how he was “totally exonerated” even by Mueller’s “witch hunt,” but that partisan Democrats abused their power to impeach him anyway. If the economy stays hot and if Team Trump can avoid a new war (neither are a given), The 46 Percent will rally around that red-stained flag.
Trump has a motivation behind his burn-the-bridges-of-democracy approach that none of his 43 predecessors (Cleveland twice) fully experienced – the need to stay out of prison. The plan is to inoculate the president with a verdict of “not guilty” at impeachment, stonewall the various investigations until after November 2020 if possible, win a second term, and then insist for four more years that a sitting president cannot be criminally indicted.
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Angelica Huston writing about Lillian Ross. A lovely read. Ross practiced a rare brand of ethics. I’m not even a bit surprised that she eschewed spreading gossip, salacious bits and private information, which is no better than the craft of personal destruction.
During his lifetime and after his death, much has been written about my father, John Huston. The stories have abounded, often from first-hand witnesses, working partners, ex-wives, girlfriends, rivals, fellow-journeymen, and strangers. He has transcended biography on occasion and even been presented in the form of a novel. Among other things, he has been described as a hedonist, a womanizer, a man’s man, a sportsman, a gambler, a practical joker, a drinker, and an adventurer. On many occasions, he has been compared to Ernest Hemingway, which I think does neither of them a great service.
What seems to me the great disappointment of these somewhat superficial, often spurious comparisons, is that, somewhere in all the adjectives and descriptions, an essential point is lost. My father was all these things and more. He was an artist. It was my father as an artist that fascinated Lillian Ross. She never sought to write gossip or to go beyond a particular line that she drew for herself in his personal life.
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