Source: SFGate
“A bipartisan attempt to stop the federal government from selling hundreds of thousands of acres of public land in Nevada and Utah — including a 311-acre parcel that borders Zion National Park — succeeded in a final committee hearing before a sprawling budget bill went to the House of Representatives for a vote on Thursday morning. Ryan Zinke, the Republican representative from Montana who was the secretary of the Interior during the first Trump administration, led the push to remove the public lands sell-off from the House reconciliation bill. ‘It’s a no now. It will be a no later. It will be a no forever,’ Zinke told the Associated Press earlier this month.” (05/22/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/outcry-stops-public-lands-sale-nevada-utah-zion-20340854.php
Source: TomDispatch
by Greg Grandin
“Leon Golub once related a story to a mutual friend. A Chicago artist famous for large canvases depicting crimson torture rooms in Central America, Golub had been asked what it meant to him to be ‘a Jewish political artist’. The painter’s quick reply was that he wasn’t ‘a Jewish political artist’, he was just ‘a political artist’. In the end, though, Golub came to believe that he had let himself off too easily, that his answer was too pat. Yes, he was a political artist. His paintings had focused not just on Latin America but on war-torn Vietnam and racism in the United States and South Africa. But he had consciously avoided Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Golub admitted that what it meant for him to be a successful artist was never to take the ‘horrors inflicted on Palestinians’ as his subject matter. Only then would he be left free to paint his political opinions on anything else.” (05/22/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/the-horrors-inflicted-for-500-years/
