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Five Books to Read Right Now to Travel the Country While Stuck at Home

et in rural Michigan, Julie Buntin’s Marlena indulges in its own ugliness, taking on adolescent friendship in a way that skirts the clichés of the young adult genre. Buntin intertwines the stories of two characters: the titular Marlena and Cat, two friends whose relationship is marred by substance abuse, poverty, mania and an untimely death. It is a fictional joyride, but also a sharp portrait of life in certain pockets of the Midwest where meaningless terms like “flyover country” have stood in place of real understanding.

New Report on 2016 Malheur Occupation Says Right-Wing Washington State Lawmaker Helped the Bundys Plan It

Ammon Bundy Rebukes President Donald Trump For Suggesting Honduran Refugees Are Criminals

“To say we’re not helping them is completely opposite of who we are as a Christian nation,” he says.

Oregon Militia Members Say They’re Traveling to the Border to Confront the Migrant Caravan

“You got other militias, and husbands and wives, people coming from Oregon, Indiana.”

In a Parody of Nike’s New Ad Campaign, Anti-Government Militant Ryan Bundy Uses His Portland Mug Shot

Ryan Bundy posted an image of his 2016 mugshot photoshopped to mimic the Kaepernick campaign—which black and white and features the phrase “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything”—to his Ryan Bundy for Nevada Governor Facebook page yesterday.

FBI Agent Acquitted On Charges He Lied to Investigators About Shooting of LeVoy Finicum

Astarita’s trial lasted three weeks, but a federal jury cleared him of all charges.

Portland Protesters Blockading ICE Risk a Showdown With the Feds. A Document Displays the Potential Legal Consequences.

The possible charges protesters risk are more severe than has been reported.

After a Victory Over Federal Prosecutors, Ammon Bundy Makes Friends in High Places

Ammon Bundy, the organizer of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation, has friends in high places.

President Donald Trump Reportedly Considering Pardons For the Oregon Ranchers Who Inspired Malheur Takeover

President Trump weighs pardons for two Eastern Oregon ranchers whose convictions inspired the Malheur National Wildlife occupation.

LaVoy Finicum’s Family Files a Wrongful Death Claim Against the FBI and Oregon State Police

The suit claims that state and federal officials “conspired with each other and together, to cause LaVoy Finicum’s harm and ultimate death.”

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