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Rich ranchers are ripping off our public lands. Read about it.

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The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab
Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Land Management land is controlled by just 10 percent of permit holders.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Tar Heel State ✓

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North Carolina in Photos
Celebrating completing the Tar Heel State! Above are the Blue Ridge Parkway (also in Virginia), Cape Hatteras NS, Cape Lookout NS, Carl Sandburg Home NHS, Fort Raleigh NHS, Guilford Courthouse NMP,…
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December 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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I wrote this about Frances Perkins.

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Learn from the Progressive Powerhouse who Most Improved Americans’ Lives: Frances Perkins.
More Than Anyone—Frances Made America Great You won’t believe me yet, but the most powerful person in American history was an unelected woman who kept such a low profile that even her best biographer ...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Best national park units of Mid-
Atlantic region

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Best of the Mid-Atlantic
Best Park: Harpers Ferry. In a region known for great historic sites, Harpers Ferry is exceptional. At the confluence of the Potomac & Shenandoah Rivers, where the C&O Canal, Potomac Herita…
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November 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Tennessee ✓
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Tennessee in Photos
Celebrating completing the Volunteer State! Andrew Johnson NHS, Chickamauga & Chattanooga NMP (partly in Georgia), Fort Donelson NB (partly in Kentucky), Great Smoky Mountains NP & WHS (par…
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November 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Bluegrass State ✓

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Kentucky in Photos
Celebrating completing the Bluegrass State! Abraham Lincoln Birthplace, Camp Nelson, Cumberland Gap, Mammoth Cave—a biosphere, national park & world heritage site—and Mill Springs are all above…
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November 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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My article today on the destruction of the East Wing of the White House

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The White House Belongs To Us, Not Him.
I’m furious that he destroyed the East Wing, including the colonnade and Jackie’s garden above. I got my ticket to visit in May ‘23 from my then Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s office, when his party sti...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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My recent article on Polar Bears and Indigenous People.

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To Have Polar Bears or Not, Beyond the End of the Road on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
The train ticket collector in Thompson Manitoba put me with the First Nations people, mostly Cree around here. Thompson is the ‘Hub of the North’, the regional center of five First Nations in northern...
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October 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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My recent article on how the parks shutdown hurts history.

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The National Park Shutdown Hits History Hard
While most media will focus on toilets at the most famous parks like Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, as usual, they’re missing the point. The national park service runs 433 park units, and the impac...
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October 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Virginia’s national park units in photos.

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Virginia in Photos
Celebrating completing the Old Dominion State! Appomattox Court House, Arlington House, Assateague Island, Booker T. Washington, Cedar Creek & Belle Grove, Colonial (plus Jamestown affiliate), …
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September 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Here are my picks for the best national park units in the Midwest region.

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Best of the Midwest
Best Park: Isle Royale. Wildlife, wilderness, multi-day hiking, boating, camping, forests, mountains, waters. Isle Royale, above, is the best Midwest park in many categories, despite being the leas…
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September 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Sadly, despite being the first species theoretically able to deflect an asteroid-impact mass extinction event, we appear determined to cause a carbon-emission mass extinction event by our callous foolishness.
September 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Here’s a recent article I published at DailyKos.

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Justice System, Grotesquely Distorted by Hateful Delusions, Kills 25 Innocent People
For 16 months beginning in 1692 in Salem, over 200 people were accused of witchcraft, 30 were found guilty, 19 hanged, 5 died in prison, and one was tortured to death. The cause was a combination of h...
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September 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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I recommend this article about the new alignment of Trump with authoritarian petro-states.

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The Coming Ecological Cold War
Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution.
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September 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Maryland has many important historic sites, trails and scenic areas to explore.

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Maryland in Photos
Celebrating the Old Line State! Antietam, Assateague Island, Catoctin Mountain, Clara Barton, Fort McHenry, Fort Washington, Greenbelt, Hampton, Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad, Monocacy, Pisca…
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August 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Not the first state where I finished visiting all the national park units nor the last. zct.life/2025/05/31/d...
Delaware in Photos
Celebrating the First State! Delaware has one park, First State National Historical Park, which includes the New Castle Court House, the Kalmar Nyckel and Old Swede’s Church, above. The John Smith …
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August 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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New Jersey is also an underrated state. See all the national park units below. zct.life/2025/05/03/n...
New Jersey in Photos
Celebrating the national park units in New Jersey: Great Egg Harbor River, Morristown, Paterson Great Falls and Thomas Edison NHP above. Sandy Hook is part of Gateway NRA, and Ellis Island is part …
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August 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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West Virginia is underrated. Having visited all the national park units there, it’s almost heaven.

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West Virginia in Photos
Celebrating completing the Mountain State! Bluestone NSR, Gauley River NRA, Harpers Ferry NHP and New River Gorge NP are all above. West Viriginia has two shared NHAs, Appalachian Forest and Journe…
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August 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Photos from my visits to all national park units in Pennsylvania. Enjoy!

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Pennsylvania in Photos
Celebrating all the parks in the Keystone State! Allegheny Portage Railroad NHS, Benjamin Franklin NM (affiliate), Delaware Water Gap NRA, Edgar Allan Poe NHS, Eisenhower NHS, Fallingwater WHS, Fli…
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July 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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All national park units in the Buckeye State, birthplace of Presidents, done. ✓

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Ohio in Photos
The Buckeye State has an outstanding national park, Cuyahoga Valley, three presidential sites—First Ladies, Garfield, and Taft—plus Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers, Dayton Aviation, Hopewell Culture…
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July 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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My response to an obscene article about flying internationally for day trips.

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What Fresh Hell? International Day Trips for Instagram. Let the Planet Burn.
It’s hot. Today’s Fresh Hell Some idiot flew NYC to Cairo for a day trip to Giza, as entertainment for his ¼ million followers Mark Zuckerberg’s customers. The Problem 300 million years ago, the earth...
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July 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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I visited all the NPS units in the Great Lakes State by EV.
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Michigan in Photos
The Great Lakes State includes park units Father Marquette NM, Isle Royale NP, Keweenaw NHP, MotorCities NHA, Pictured Rocks NL, River Raisin NBP, and Sleeping Bear Dunes NL above, plus and a secti…
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July 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Don’t know exactly what Hoosier means, but I’ve been to all the national park units in Indiana.

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Indiana in Photos
The Hoosier State has a national park, Indiana Dunes, a historic park, Clark, and a national memorial, Lincoln Boyhood, all below, plus the Lewis & Clark NHT runs along the state’s southern edg…
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July 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Recent article I wrote on Daily Kos about Port Chicago:

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Officers Blamed Black Workers For Fatal Accident, Hid Truth and Arrested Survivors. And then…
Fireworks in July were deadly in California in 1944. Navy officers, who were white, ran an unsafe operation at Port Chicago—now Concord Naval Weapons Station—, placing bets on load rates between teams...
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July 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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All NPS units in the Badger State, check ✓

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Wisconsin in Photos
Wisconsin is home to the Apostle Islands NL, Ice Age NST, Saint Croix NSR, and both Frank Lloyd Wright’s affordable Jacobs House and his dream home Taliesin World Heritage Sites above, as well as a…
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July 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM