however Trump has rescinded the Roadless Rule, which prevented logging, mining, and roadbuilding on 59 million acres of Forest Service land, so that FS land is still getting fucked even if it isn't getting sold (yet)
dougfir
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The Parliamentarian has decreed that Mike Lee's provision to sell off millions of acres of federal land out west should be struck from the Big Beautiful Bill. Lee wants to bring it back, but this time only selling BLM land, not Forest Service land, and only within 5 miles of cities, but i guess we'll see.
some bizarre news:
Armenian PM Pashinyan offers to show his penis to head of Church
a priest accused Pashinyan of being circumcised and so this was Pashinyan's response.
the article also talks about some interesting tensions between Church and State in Armenia recently, with the PM accusing priests (including the head of the church) of breaking their vows of celibacy, and a ruling-party aligned paper published a document about coup plans from the opposition with the support of the church, some business tycoons, and Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh.