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4 days agoThe GOP Just Passed a Resolution to Open Minnesota Wilderness Up For Mining
Senate Republicans voted to repeal a 20-year moratorium on mining in Minnesota's Boundary Waters using the Congressional Review Act.
We have a New Yorker cartoon magnetized to our fridge that features a bedraggled but happy couple crawling through a desert with the caption, "It's nice that we want the same things." My husband's family frequently laments to me, "He never does things the easy way!" without truly understanding that this is my preferred way of doing things, too. Against the grain. Off script. Rarely the easy or obvious way.
'If approved as currently written, the provision could lease in perpetuity land near Minnesota's Boundary Waters wilderness, an enormous complex of pristine lakes and untrammeled forests, to Twin Metals Minnesota.'