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Feb 10, 2025 | 
popularresistance.org | Joseph Bullington
Above photo: The Center for Western Priorities calls Sen. Mike Lee’s HOUSES Act the “McMansion Subsidy Act.” JasonDoiy / Getty’s Images. A new plan to open public land to housing developers would only speed the wealthy’s takeover of the West. With no provisions to address the affordability crisis for locals.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
rsn.org | Joseph Bullington
With no provisions to address the affordability crisis for locals, a new plan to open public land to housing developers would only speed the wealthy’s takeover of the West. On a recent visit to see old friends in Livingston, Mont., I found myself downtown, drinking the free art-walk wine, spearing the free cocktail weenies and admiring the fine skin of the expensively dressed couples bobbing in and out of the galleries that have proliferated here like some aggressive breed of plant.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
inthesetimes.com | Joseph Bullington
On a recent visit to see old friends in Livingston, Mont., I found myself downtown, drinking the free art-walk wine, spearing the free cocktail weenies and admiring the fine skin of the expensively dressed couples bobbing in and out of the galleries that have proliferated here like some aggressive breed of plant. The light was retreating up the peaks of the Absaroka Range, and the summer evening’s golden stillness settled over town.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
inthesetimes.com | Joseph Bullington
On a recent visit to see old friends in Livingston, Mont., I found myself downtown, drinking the free art-walk wine, spearing the free cocktail weenies and admiring the fine skin of the expensively dressed couples bobbing in and out of the galleries that have proliferated here like some aggressive breed of plant. Then a rip formed in this tranquility, and through it a ramshackle Subaru station wagon with local plates came trundling up Main Street, piled floor to ceiling with belongings.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
portside.org | Joseph Bullington
Can Native Voters Carry Montana? Published October 29, 2024 FORT PECK, MONT. — If you live in the rural reaches of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, casting a ballot is no simple matter. This country along the Hi-Line of northeastern Montana, home to several bands of the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes, gives new meaning to the word remote. Town might be an hour’s drive, houses are few and far between, polling places are fewer and farther. Many of the roads are dirt.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
inthesetimes.com | Joseph Bullington
FORT PECK, MONT. — If you live in the rural reaches of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, casting a ballot is no simple matter. This country along the Hi-Line of northeastern Montana, home to several bands of the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes, gives new meaning to the word remote. Town might be an hour’s drive, houses are few and far between, polling places are fewer and farther. Many of the roads are dirt. A rainstorm or snowmelt turns many of them into impassable gumbo.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
inthesetimes.com | Joseph Bullington
The last couple months in U.S. politics have felt like a bad dream — the kind where you’re in a boat drifting toward a waterfall and your arms feel like limp sausages, useless on the oars. In this waking nightmare, the waterfall is the impending rise to power of the U.S. far right. And your floppy wiener arms are the only things standing between us and that fate: the Democrats and their spineless politics.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Joseph Bullington
Above photo: Lena Platonova, 2020. Thirty-eight percent of young farmers—including 62% of young Black farmers—have student debt. Which can make it impossible to take on farm loans. Running a small farm is complicated enough. For Tessa Parks — who raises cattle and hay with her spouse, Wyatt, on the gentle, farmed-over hills outside Northfield, Minn. — the challenges include bottle-feeding calves, braving bad weather to check on the herd at pasture and dealing with customers at the farmers market.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
inthesetimes.com | Joseph Bullington
Running a small farm is complicated enough. For Tessa Parks — who raises cattle and hay with her spouse, Wyatt, on the gentle, farmed-over hills outside Northfield, Minn. — the challenges include bottle-feeding calves, braving bad weather to check on the herd at pasture and dealing with customers at the farmers market. Climate change doesn’t make it easier, as it lends intensity to droughts and storms and increases livestock disease risks.
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May 11, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Joseph Bullington
Above photo: An egret forages in the marshes near Boca Chica Beach and SpaceX’s Starbase facility in March. Joseph Bullington. A proposed land trade would hand over even more of Boca Chica to SpaceX. Boca Chica, Texas — I’m loafing outside my tent, waiting for the coffee to boil, contemplating a morning swim. My pitbull, Shiner, is thrashing in the sand with a look of crazed joy twisting his face. Brown pelicans are cruising low over the roiling gray-green Gulf waters.
