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Acting on recommendations by Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, on December 4 President Trump significantly reduced the size of two enormous areas in Utah that Presidents Clinton and Obama had set aside as limited-access, no-development zones under the 1906 Antiquities Act.
Mr. Trump’s action reduced the Grand Staircase Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments from a combined 3.2 million acres (the size of Connecticut) to 1.2 million acres (slightly smaller than Delaware).
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Far from being sources of reassurance, the résumés of the Mueller team are what explains its current lack of public confidence.
Oddly, after the 2016 election one would have thought all the old rubrics of excellence would have become suspect—given that the polling establishment, political grandees, and the East Coast punditocracy had little clue about how or why Donald Trump had a shot at winning the presidency."
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Ah, sorry. No tweets, but I think you get the idea. Jackson Lee stepped into a pile of [excrement deleted]. The entire article is a hoot, with the tweets included, and I highly recommend you read it. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/12/29/does-sheila-jackson-lee-know-the-person-shes-accused-of-racism-for-airline-fiasc-n2428269So, I bet you’ve heard about the airline incident between a woman and Texas Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Katie wrote about it. In all, Jean-Marie Simon was booted from her first class seat on a United flight for Lee. Simon was obviously upset, voiced her objections, and was even threatened with being forced off the flight. She was eventually given a $500 voucher for her pre-paid seat and relocated to economy class. She alleges that United gave the Texas Democrat preferential treatment.
The saga got even worse when Lee accused Simon of racism regarding this matter.
Identity politics will eventually lead to you stepping on a rake—and Lee probably should have just enjoyed the holidays and commented on this matter after looking up Jean-Marie Simon, who, as Katie noted, is a human rights activist that focused on Guatemala for nearly a quarter century. She was covering the nation’s brutal 36-year civil war, living there between 1980-1988 as a photojournalist. Her work has been featured in Amnesty International, who I’m pretty sure don’t accept submissions from members of the Klan.
Here’s a post from 2012 on the conflict:
Guatemala is deceptive. I know people think that in the 80’s it was a war zone.
But the country was very different from that. You knew things were going on, you sort of arrived in the capital and you did see soldiers all over the place but it was not like they were sand-bagging the main streets and car bombings and green zones and people running around in flak jackets.
In Guatemala City the army was targeting student leaders, unionists, and university professors. Picking them off one by one or in small groups. In fact, I think the word "desaparecer†("to disappearâ€) as a transitive verb, first originated in Guatemala back in the 1960s.
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After my experience in Guatemala I would say remember who the heroes are.
It’s so easy to forget how we were able to do our work in the first place and the only reason we had access to these events, whether documentary filmmaking or photography or reporting is because somebody in Guatemala risked their neck to show us something they wanted the rest of the world to see.
I think we should keep the focus on Guatemalans who risked themselves during this decade and many whom have never been recognized for this, that’s the most important thing to me.
Another article about her work from the Christian Science Monitor from 1988:
Like most other Americans, Jean-Marie Simon knew little about Central America's largest nation before she came to work here in the early 1980s when military oppression was its height. Ms. Simon's first trip to Guatemala, one she thought would be a three-month visit and a "steppingstone'' in her photography career, became a seven-year obsession with the country.
Simon, now considered the leading authority on human rights in Guatemala, has compiled her work, both photographs and research, into a book called ``Guatemala: Eternal Spring - Eternal Tyranny.''
The book documents the most recent episode in Guatemala's violent history. It begins with the year 1980 - when the country was ruled by Gen. Romeo Lucas Garc'ia, considered the nation's most brutal head of state - and ends with 1987, the second year of civilian rule in nearly two decades.
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