Everything Is Happening On Public Lands Everywhere All At Once

Republicans are trying to break national parks, the Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management, all while selling off (or maybe giving away?) public lands to real estate developers.

Here’s a picture a friend on Capitol Hill texted me of William Perry Pendley, a small time villain, walking out of Congressperson Jeff Hurd’s (R-Colorado) office this week. Could they be scheming on plans to re-relocate BLM offices to Grand Junction? While that’s going on, the Interior Secretary is ordering the National Park Service to maintain all operations even as reductions in force loom, the USDA is gutting the forest service even while declaring a logging emergency and, believe it or not, Democrats may actually be doing something to fight all this! Also, freedom cities are back in the news for reasons that defy logic. Happy Friday!

Elon Musk Discovers National Parks

Imagine waking up from a Calvin Klein bender to discover the majesty of our nation’s national park system. You’re sitting there, utterly depleted of dopamine, unsure of where the border between reality and hallucination might lie, and you come across an image of the Grand Canyon for the first time.

And while a normal r…