Transforming the Desert: Utility-Scale Solar in California’s Mojave - THE MOJAVE PROJECT This dispatch explores the expansion and ecological consequences of utility-scale solar development across California's Mojave Desert.

This new Mojave Project dispatch series traces the expansion and ecological consequences of utility-scale solar development across the Mojave Desert. mojaveproject.org/dispatches-i...

Link to the letter sent to L.A.'s Major & City Council. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The little-known groundwater Los Angeles pumps in the Owens Valley, and the tribes who want it back In the Owens Valley, Los Angeles siphons water from Sierra streams and also pumps groundwater from wells. Native tribes are calling for the city to take less water.

Ian James' Oct 18 LA Times feature illuminates the ongoing injustice of the City of Los Angeles, which continues to deny the federally reserved water rights of the sovereign Tribes of Payahuunadü. I was a signatory to the letter he mentions in his reporting. www.latimes.com/environment/...

The Colorado River is this tribe's 'lifeblood,' now they want to give it the same legal rights as a person The move, by the Colorado River Indian Tribes in Arizona and California would give rights of nature to the water, marking a historic first.

CRIT (CO River Indian Tribes) is planning to establish legal personhood status for the Colorado River. #rightsofnature #coloradoriver www.knpr.org/2025-08-21/t...

Some good news. "The Klamath River is newly navigable after a decades-long effort to remove its four hydropower dams to help restore the salmon run — an ancient source of life, food and culture for these paddlers’ tribes who have lived alongside the river for millennia." apnews.com/article/nati...

Mountain Meadows Massacre - Wikipedia

Oh! This family in the post below must be part of the Baker–Fancher wagon train heading to Mountain Meadows, only to be brutally massacred along with 120 others by "rogue" & cowardly LDS militiamen disguising themselves as Native Americans. FACTUAL AMERICAN HISTORY. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountai...

Mountain Meadows Massacre - Wikipedia

Oh! This family must be part of the Baker–Fancher wagon train heading to Mountain Meadows, only to be brutally massacred along with 120 others by "rogue" & cowardly LDS militiamen disguising themselves as Native Americans. AND that is FACTUAL AMERICAN HISTORY. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountai...

Homeland Security DHS account on X: Remember your Homeland's Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”

YES! Sen. Mike Lee withdrew his public land sales provision from the BBB! Americans across political lines agree on this one.

MAGA and the developers are coming for your public lands - High Country News Sen. Mike Lee slips federal land privatization provision into Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.”

www.hcn.org/articles/mag...

Please take time today to thank Rep. Ryan Zinke for his continued leadership efforts to protect our Nation's public lands. Comment on this Instagram post: www.instagram.com/p/DLXlzqpIOdW/

If you get sucked up in the Iran war shitshow you'll ignore issues like this that will have a profound affect on life in the Western U.S. This is precisely what Sen. Mike Lee and the other tRump sycophants want the general public to do.

Here's the tactical list to contact: Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Senator Angus King (R-ME), Senator Fetterman (D-PA), Senator McCormick (D-PA), Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Senator Budd (R-NC).

Join me in phoning or posting your comment on important Senator's Instagram accounts THIS WEEKEND that @westernwatergirl has provided in this post: www.instagram.com/p/DLGbUNTMauz/

If on X, post there too!
#publiclands #memes #memepage #utah #utahisrad #grwm #news #environment

Even Montana’s Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke is against this provision. He commented recently, “You could sell the whole West, and it's not going to cover even close to the $36 trillion debt.” And Zinke served as Interior Secretary during President Trump’s first term!

We also know that peddling public lands for affordable housing is a SHAM! Less than 2% of OUR PUBLIC LAND is suitable for housing, and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) does nothing to ensure that any land sold would be affordable housing.

Americans Love OUR Public Lands! A recent national Co/efficient poll found that 75 percent are against permanently selling millions of acres for development, including 65 percent of Republicans and 88 percent of Democrats [NEWSWEEK 6/18/25]

Miss Lee hiking in the John Muir Wilderness along Rock Creek last Thursday.

Miss Lee hiking in the John Muir Wilderness along Rock Creek last Thursday. I spend A LOT of time in our shared public lands—our wilderness commons. I'm outraged that Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has pushed a provision in the BBB that will sell off 3.3 million acres of this public land...

Map shows public land eligible for sale as MAGA and left unite to oppose The Senate proposal, which could greatly affect outdoor recreation in the West, is facing strong pushback from conservationists, Democrats and MAGA supporters.

www.newsweek.com/map-federal-...

The Salt of the Earth (2014) ⭐ 8.4 | Documentary, Biography, History 1h 50m | PG-13

One of world’s most important photographers, Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado, died yesterday.

Watch this Wim Wenders documentary to learn about his work. m.imdb.com/title/tt3674...

😂 "Watching your heroes get old is so depressing," said one Redditor, in a typical response. "I never thought I'd see trad-wife grifter Gwen Stefani but here we are I guess."

An atheist tries the prayer app beloved by MAGA celebrities — the results are unnerving Endorsed by Gwen Stefani and Russell Brand, Hallow's take on religion is the opiate of the MAGA

“This isn't the Christianity of the liberal Christians I know, who volunteer, donate money, and care very much about electing better leaders. This is a "don't worry your pretty head about all that stuff" kind of Christianity.”
www.salon.com/2025/04/18/a...

#handsoff 4/5/2025 Highway 62 & Park Ave Joshua Tree, CA

Jackrabbit Homesteads As an introduction to an upcoming series of bikepacking routes, Brendan Collier tells the story of his experience in Wonder Valley, a small community in the Mojave Desert east of Joshua Tree and T…

Brendan Collier is the creator of the Stagecoach 400 bikepacking route and is currently working on a new series of bikepacking routes, The Desert Collective. Here's his Wonder Valley article mentioning my Jackrabbit Homestead project. theradavist.com/jackrabbit-h... @socalbikepacking.bsky.social

A friend just sent me this today. Glad it's getting around.

America Must Prepare to Test Nuclear Weapons The United States has not tested a nuclear weapon since 1992.REF However, given the deteriorating security environment, it may need to do so once again.

Today is National Downwinders Day. The tRump administration doesn't give a damn. Why? Because the administration is following the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 playbook. www.heritage.org/defense/repo...

Downwind Upshot-Knothole - THE MOJAVE PROJECT Between 1951 and 1996, the AEC detonated 1,021 nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site releasing billions of curies of radiation onto the American public.

Several years ago I wrote the Mojave Project dispatch, Downwind Upshot-Knothole, focusing on the consequences of the infamous 1953 “Dirty Harry” shot. mojaveproject.org/dispatches-i...

If not for the film, Oppenheimer, many young people would not be aware of this despicable period of American history. If you fall into this camp, please inform yourself. To start, read Carol Gallagher’s American Ground Zero, Rebecca Solnit’s Savage Dreams.

That is even a discussion is appalling to those of us who’ve studied and wrote about this tragic and reckless Cold War period and its aftermath, in which our government knowingly irradiated millions of unaware U.S. citizens and Pacific Islanders multiple times over multiple years.

America Must Prepare to Test Nuclear Weapons The United States has not tested a nuclear weapon since 1992.REF However, given the deteriorating security environment, it may need to do so once again.

Bob Peters at the Heritage Foundation is calling for the President to resume above ground nuclear testing at the Nevada Security Site—you know the place just north of Las Vegas that is unceded lands of the Western Shoshone. www.heritage.org/defense/repo...