The Best Posts of the Week of June 21, 2026. The Agrarian Week. The Feral Week.

The best posts of the week of June 21, 2026, a remarkable week in which the illegal occupant of the White House crossed into full tyranny by arresting people for photosynthesis and the war he won and then ended stuck about as well as his claims to being a genius, as fighting resumed.

It was also a week in which it became clear that not only is Vlad Putin not winning the war against Ukraine, he's actively losing it.

Donald Trump, in spite of having no command over nature, his own mental decline, or the Persian Gulf, was happy as a child with a new toy, and expected everyone else to be as well.

Time to take the country back, through the ballot box.

The Boeing VC-25B Bridge. A reminder to that it is time to be the people that founded the country.

The Green Algae President: How He's Handling Four Messes He Created The mess at the Reflecting Pool as a metaphor for his many other messes

The 7th Cavalry rode into  history.

Thursday, June 22, 1876. 7th Cavalry leaves the Yellowstone.

Thursday, June 22, 1911. Magonistas defeated.

Central Stoneroller (Campostoma anomalum)

Courthouse Facility Dogs? Sign of how screwed up we are, or that we miss the natural world?

Hernando de Alarcón’s 1540 Expedition into the Lower Colorado River

Friday, June 23, 1876. Camp on the Rosebud.

It happened in 1876.

25th Amendment Watch, 20th Edition. The Frontotemporal Dementia Edition.

Saturday, June 24, 1876. Custer marches into the Wolf Mountains, Terry starts down the Big Horn.

Iran Is a Bigger Defeat Than Vietnam

The 2026 Election, 13th Edition. The choosing lanes edition.

Una más, por favor. An illegal war with Cuba, 1.ª Edición.

Sunday, June 25, 1876. The Battle of the the Little Big Horn.

Friday, June 25, 1926. Milk Cow Blues

Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 6. The screwworm edition.

Wars and Rumors of War, 2026. Part 7. La unión es la fuerza*

Monday, June 26, 1876 Day two of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Reno fights to hold his positions and against thirst, Gibbon marches south, Crook camps on Goose Creek..

Wednesday, June 26, 1946. The Nationalist Chinese Strike.

The 2026 Election, 14th Edition. The “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor" edition.

Two examples of exactly what's wrong with this country.

Ascendant Ignorance in the Age of Donald Trump. Ignoramus Watch Part 4. Dr. Hegseth countermands George Washington edition.

King Donald's War, Part 8 and CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 140th Edition, 25th Amendment Watch Nineteenth Edition: L'arche De La Défaite Édition

Tuesday, June 27, 1876. Terry and Gibbon arrive.

How the Sexual Revolution Brought Us Tradwives | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

 

The Agrarian Week:

The Boeing VC-25B Bridge. A reminder to that it is time to be the people that founded the country.

The Rural Blog: Trump loses support among rural voters; farm troub...

A bill that Trump won't sign as he's holding it hostage for the "Save Act".

Senate overwhelmingly passes sweeping bipartisan housing affordability bill

The Feral Week:

The Agrarian's Lament: The Boeing VC-25B Bridge. A reminder to that it is time to be the people that founded the country.

At 6,000-year-old crossing, Gov. Gordon OKs Wyoming’s first-ever designated pronghorn migration route Some Green River Basin pronghorn migrate more than 200 miles. Now, Wyoming has designated the landscapes they move through in an effort to protect the route.

Friday, June 26, 2026

Lex Anteinternet: The 2026 Election, 14th Edition. The “If you are n...

Upper Sunshine Reservoir Near Meeteetse Drained, No More Fishing For Two years

 

Colorado And Oregon Lift Fishing Restrictions, Drought Will Kill Fish Anyway

After pushback, Wyoming delays repeal of wildlife monitoring rules at coal mines

Thursday, June 25, 2026

Colorado Wildlife Officials Uncertain Why Black Bear Attacked, Followed Woman

Western stockgrowers cheer loosened grazing regs on public land as feds slash rangeland staff

Oh great.

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Wanted dead or alive: The Teton Range’s few remaining mountain goats

Monday, June 22, 2026

Lex Anteinternet: Courthouse Facility Dogs? Sign of how screwed up ...

Lex Anteinternet: Central Stoneroller (Campostoma anomalum)

Bear Aware Reminders

Last edition:

Best Posts of the Week of June 14, 2026. The week where Donald Trump surrendered to Islamic forces for the second time in his Presidency and Algae came back to the Reflecting Pool while the Rhino Lining peeled. The utter failure of Donald Trump edition.

Best Posts of the Week of June 14, 2026. The week where Donald Trump surrendered to Islamic forces for the second time in his Presidency and Algae came back to the Reflecting Pool while the Rhino Lining peeled. The utter failure of Donald Trump edition.

The best posts of the week of June 14, 2026, a week that will live in infamy.

An event that still has repercussions today:

Wednesday, June 14, 1876. The Grand Old Party convenes.

Wednesday, June 11, 1911. Not yet stars.

And another one which does as well.

Monday, June 14, 1926. The Calles Law.

The US asked for sort of global government:

Friday, June 14, 1946. No nukes.

Remnant of a self help past:

"Homicide is justifiable when committed by the husband upon one taken in the act of adultery with the wife, provided that the killing takes place before the parties to the act have separated. "

Battle of the Rosebud Battlefield, Montana.

The road not taken.

Sigh. . . 

King Donny surrendered.

King Donald's War, Part 6. The Dunce in Chief and the The Four with Conscience. The Lions Lead by the Yappy Chihuahua Edition.

King Donald's War, Part 7. The White Flag of Surrender Edition

Court Watch Part VII. When the last law was down.

Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 6. The screwworm edition.

Ukraine not only hasn't surrendered, it's winning.

Wars and Rumors of War, 2026. Part 7. La unión es la fuerza*

The 2026 Election, 13th Edition. The choosing lanes edition.

King Donald's War, Part 8 and CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 140th Edition, 25th Amendment Watch Nineteenth Edition: L'arche De La Défaite Édition

Boeing VC-25B Bridge. A shameful flying monument.

Last edition:

Best Posts of the Week of June 7, 2026.

Best Posts of the Week of June 7, 2026.

The best posts of the week of June 7, 2026.  

Wednesday, June 7, 1911. Madero enters Mexico City.

Sunday Morning Scene. Religion in the military.

Thursday, June 8, 1911. US grants permission for Mexican troops to transit U.S.

Saturday, June 8, 1946. British victory parade.

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday Morning Scene. Religion in the military. The back currents of religion in the Trump administration and the New Apostolic Reformation.

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday Morning Scene. Religion in the military. Paring the list, much ado about nothing?

The 25th Amendment Watch Eighteenth Edition. The devalued currency edition.

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday Morning Scene. Religion in the military. A resolution?

The only substitute for an experience we ourselves have never lived through is art and literature. They possess a wonderful ability: beyond distinctions of language, custom, social structure, they can convey the life experience of one whole nation to another.

The 2026 Election, 12th Edition. The late on ramp edition.

The 2027 Legislature, super early edition. The make them stop edition.

Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 6. The screwworm edition.

Friday, June 11, 1926. First flight of the Ford Tri Motor.

America’s Eerily Quiet 250th Birthday Adam Rowe

Wednesday, June 12, 1901. Corrido de Gregorio Cortez

Death's Head

King Donald's War, Part 6. The Dunce in Chief and the The Four with Conscience. The Lions Lead by the Yappy Chihuahua Edition.

The control of nature.

Donald Trump: "I love the inflation". What if this isn't quite as crazy as it sounds (while still being really darned scary).

Amended Barrasso Bill Would Erase Clinton-Era Roadless Rule

Last edition:

Best Posts of the Week of May 31, 2026. Going Feral, the Feral Week of May 31, 2026

Best Posts of the Week of May 31, 2026. Going Feral, the Feral Week of May 31, 2026

The best posts of May 31, 2026.

Pope Leo and the Just War Theory.

Tuesday, June 1, 1926. Marilyn Monroe and Andy Griffith.

Saturday, June 1, 1946. Cochin China.

Wars and Rumors of War, 2026. Part 6. Two things greater than all things are edition.

Sunday, June 2, 1901. Frederick Russell Burnham.

King Donald's War, Part 5. Quagmire. The $25,000,000,000 and thirteen American lives later, "So we (but not Donald) were in Vietnam for 18 years. Iraq, many, many years....I've been doing this for...six weeks" Edition.

Saturday, June 3, 1911. Magonistas elect Mosby.

Thursday, June 3, 1926. Pole Mountain designated as a Wyoming National Guard training range.

Chuck Gray having a meltdown.

 

King Donald's War, Part 6. The Dunce in Chief and the The Four with Conscience. The Lions Lead by the Yappy Chihuahua Edition.

Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 4. Economics in the Dementia Ward.

Court Watch Part VII. When the last law was down.

The 2026 Election, 12th Edition. The late on ramp edition.

Monday, June 5, 1876. Soldiers falling into camp.

Monday, June 5, 1911. Colorado adopts its flag.

Saturday, June 5, 1976. Teton Dam collapse.

Cowardly Men

The Right’s Pre-Modern ‘Masculinist’ Fantasy | The Ezra Klein Show

 

This is the Blueprint for an Invasion of South Korea

The 25th Amendment Watch Eighteenth Edition. The devalued currency edition.

The Feral Week.

Wyoming, Utah OK’d unlimited lake trout fishing to save Flaming Gorge kokanee, but will anglers help?

 

Wyoming, Utah OK’d unlimited lake trout fishing to save Flaming Gorge kokanee, but will anglers help?

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

When Urban Turkeys Attack: Like Those In Casper, Wild Flocks Can Become Bullies

 

When Urban Turkeys Attack: Like Those In Casper, Wild Flocks Can Become Bullies

Wyoming Game and Fish Commission approves $21M fish hatchery expansion

 

Wyoming Game and Fish Commission approves $21M fish hatchery expansion

Trump officials, billionaires and the quiet reshaping of America’s public lands

 Bastards:

Trump officials, billionaires and the quiet reshaping of America’s public lands

Last edition:

The Best Posts of the Week of May 24, 2026. Going Feral, The Feral Week

The Best Posts of the Week of May 24, 2026. Going Feral, The Feral Week

The best posts of the week of May 24, 2026.

We dug through Trump’s recent stock trades. The timing will shock you.

Thursday, May 25, 1911. Díaz resigns and USS Wyoming launched.

Friday, May 26, 1911. Leaving Mexico.

Glendalough Co Wicklow

Churches of the East: Magnifica Humanitas

Retire at what age?

King Donald's War, Part 5. Quagmire. The $25,000,000,000 and thirteen American lives later, "So we (but not Donald) were in Vietnam for 18 years. Iraq, many, many years....I've been doing this for...six weeks" Edition.

Monday, May 29, 1876. Start of the Yellowstone Expedition.

The 25th Amendment Watch Eighteenth Edition. The devalued currency edition.

CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 139th Edition: Um, I have to wash my hair that night.

The 2026 Election, 12th Edition. The late on ramp edition.

The Feral Week:

Endangered Species Act protections for pygmy rabbits? Groups sue Trump administration over missed deadlines.

 

Endangered Species Act protections for pygmy rabbits? Groups sue Trump administration over missed deadlines.

Last edition:

The Best Post of the Week of May 17, 2026. Going Feral, the Feral Week of May 17, 2026. The Agrarian's Lament, the Agrarian Week of May 17, 2026.

The Best Post of the Week of May 17, 2026. Going Feral, the Feral Week of May 17, 2026. The Agrarian's Lament, the Agrarian Week of May 17, 2026.

The best posts of the week of May 17, 2026.

Wednesday, May 17, 1911. Ceasefire in Mexico, Italian anarchists in El Paso and Juarez.

Sunday, May 19, 1901. End of the Philippine state of war.

Friday, May 19, 1911. Parks Canada established.

Wednesday, May 19, 1926. Bad coinage idea.

The 25th Amendment Watch List, Seventeenth Edition: The Doctors are In.

Mid Week at Work. Some Agrarians.

Monday, May 20, 1901. The Two Americans

King Donald's War, Part 5. Quagmire. The $25,000,000,000 and thirteen American lives later, "So we (but not Donald) were in Vietnam for 18 years. Iraq, many, many years....I've been doing this for...six weeks" Edition.

Neanderthal Dentistry, and the Scientist Glad Not to Have Experienced It

The 2026 Election, 11th Edition. The only good voting Indian is a disenfranchised voting Indian edition.

Sunday, May 21, 1911. The Treaty of Ciudad Juárez brings the first stage of the Mexican Revolution to an end.

National Park Service Uprooted on the National Mall

Court Watch Part VII. When the last law was down.

Una más, por favor. An illegal war with Cuba, 1.ª Edición.

It happened in 1911.

The 2026 Election, 12th Edition. The late on ramp edition.

Tuesday, May 23, 1876. First No Hitter.

The Feral Week:

Wyoming Game & Fish bars rifles for Spring Turkey.

Ah crap.

The Wyoming Game and Fish is barring the use of rifles for Spring Turkey Season.

Every turkey I've ever taken has been in the spring seasons.  In the fall I'm hunting something else.  At least in the fall, you are limited to Tom's.

This poses a problem with a shotgun, as you have to be really close.  I don't call turkeys in, as I'm too impatient to do that.  I basically stalk them.  I'm not the only one, but it's fairly rare.

If you stalk them, you are probably going to use a rifle.  You might get close to them, I have, but chances are you are going to be shooting form some distance.  A scoped rifle is the best option for that.

Every single turkey I've killed was with a rifle.  I tired to take turkeys with a shotgun once, and it was an utter failure.  Usually I've shot them with scoped .223s, but not always. I've shot them with iron sights as well.

Well, I guess no more, or I have to added to the list of things to go for in the fall.

As Trump Moves To Allow ‘Cyanide Bombs’ To Kill Coyotes, Some Worry Dogs Will Die

I'm really against this:

As Trump Moves To Allow ‘Cyanide Bombs’ To Kill Coyotes, Some Worry Dogs Will Die

It's not that dogs might die, they will.

I'm not in the camp that suggest that predators need to be left alone, I've shot plenty of them myself.  I also think the danger they pose to livestock is exaggerated and tends to be seasonal.  

Anyhow. since when I was young I've hunted coyotes from time to time.  I view it the same way that I view other hunting to a large degree.  I love hunting, but my hunting is purposeful.  When I've hunted coyotes I've done it to think predator populations, or for their furs.  When I was of high school age I supplemented my meager income this way quite a bit.  Fur prices were high then.

But I don't care for cyanide bombs at all.  Inevitably some private pet, probably a hunting dog, is going to get into one.  And frankly, stockmen can take care of this problem by staying out with their livestock more.  Or inviting the coyote hunters in.

M44 Cyanide bomb.  The coyote pulls up on the device and receives a blast of cyanide in the mouth.

And frankly, if ranchers did the latter, they'd receive a fair number of volunteers.  The county and Federal trappers are competition, really, for private individuals who would fill most of this role if allowed to.

Wyoming’s Hageman aims to block future ‘roadless areas,’ despite overwhelming support to keep public land pristine

Citing Wyoming corner-crossing case, hunters sue Montana for public land access

Wyoming sinks another $4.8M into predator killing as demand, costs keep growing

‘Holy Cow!’ Wyoming Hunter Bags Super-Sized Black Bear In Snowy Range

Sunday, May 17, 2026

Black Bear Killed In Subdivision North Of Cheyenne; 2nd Bear In Area This Week

Hiker Has Incredibly Rare Wolverine Encounter In Wyoming's Wind River Mountains

 

Trump administration ordered ‘immediate action’ to protect Wyoming woolgrowers’ lambs from golden eagles

The Agrarian Week:

Wyoming People: Eldon Hongo Traded 6-Figure Career To Train Champion Bird Dogs

 

"Sheep Are In My Blood": San Diego Woman Fell In Love With Ranching With Wyoming Help

 

A May 19, 2026 statement that helps explain what's fundamentally wrong with Donald Trump.

This (the moronic ballroom) is really being built for other presidents. It's not being built for me. The thing I do best in life is build.

Donald Trump.

Actually, his stuff looks like gilded crap, but that "build" ethos is bankrupt. Too much has been built, everywhere.

Time to start tearing some stuff down, and when the blight of Donald Trump is gone, a good place to do that would be this stupid ballroom. We don't live in the age of ballrooms. That sort of stupidity should have come to an end in 1798.  

No, tear whatever was built down. Tear down the West Wing as well. The White House can go back to being just a house.  And tear out the bomb shelter.  The occupant of the White House can endure the risks he creates or the country runs like the rest of us.  No more bomb shelters, or dedicated Air Force aircraft, or Marine Corps helicopters.

I want a cow on the livestock lawn, not a rich narcissist in the White House

In Defense of the Chicken. $0.99 per pound chicken is not a God-given right

From Feedlots To TikTok, Young Ag Influencer Tries To Bridge Beef Divide

Last edition:

The Best Post of the Week of May 10, 2026. Going Feral, the Feral Week of May 3 and 10, 2026. The Agrarian's Lament, the Agrarian Week of May 3 and 10, 2026.