June, present day. Durango, Colorado. “That motherfucker,” Eliza Santos muttered aloud as she coasted into her conspicuously half-empty driveway on … More
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The Big Breakdown of coal, illustrated by one chart
After World War II, the federal government, utilities, and developers embarked on a project to build dams, mines, power plants, … More
On the alleged persecution of billionaires
I recently wrote an information-crammed article/dataviz for High Country News about the slow death of coal in Wyoming. One of … More
Gold King documents and map unearthed
While going down a wormhole the other day, I stumbled across a variety of documents on the Gold King Mine … More
Help launch Lost Souls Press
We need your help! In order to rescue literary lost souls from publishing Purgatory, Jonathan P. Thompson is launching Lost … More
OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE: The Sacred and the Revolution (by Ian M. Thompson, 1975)
Editor’s Note: While going through a bunch of my father’s old writing, I came across a copy of the Deep … More
About that “drilling surge”…
The U.S. Department of Interior recently sent out a flurry of press releases announcing a major upswing in energy development … More
Still Life with Skull, and a virtual gallery
Over the last few weeks I’ve been uploading dozens — okay, almost 200 — photos and pictures that I’ve made … More
The botched BLM move West
Four months ago — much to the consternation of many of my devoted readers and the delight of a few … More
Images from Utah’s (crowded) national parks
They walked four abreast down the paved walkway toward me, and had I not squeezed out of the way the … More
