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These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025 – 8NewsNow
Boston, MA – January 22: Copies of “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins are displayed before a book signing at Big Night Live, where the self-help author …These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025
by: Stephanie Overton, Posted: Dec 24, 2025 / 02:38 PM PST, Updated: Dec 24, 2025 / 02:38 PM PST
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Have you read any of the most frequently checked out books in the Las Vegas valley in 2025?
In 2025, self-help books remained trending within Las Vegas, based on data from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, with the genre staying at the top of the list for many people. One genre that declined across the valley is political biographies, a spokesperson from the district said. >>Download the 8 News Now Vegas streaming app
One genre that earned a new emphasis was DIY and self-examination books, such as those that help readers reduce stress, become healthy, or find happiness. The library district also added that adults are reading more teen fiction, including the newest Hunger Games prequel.
Recurring favorites are “Atomic Habits” by James Clear and anything written by prolific writer James Patterson. “The God of the Woods” by Liz Moore has been steady all year, but demand tripled since Taylor Swift included footage of her listening to the audiobook in her Eras Tour documentary.
But which books were the top of the top in Las Vegas? We’ve compiled a list based on data from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, which shows the top book in each genre in 2025.
Adult Fiction – “To Die For” by David Baldacci
Published by Grand Central Publishing on Nov. 12, 2024, “To Die For” is the third book in the 6:20 Man thriller series by David Baldacci. It follows Ex-Army Ranger Travis Devine to the Pacific Northwest, where he must aid in a “complicated” FBI case that may just lead him face-to-face with his nemesis.
Baldacci is an award-winning global #1 bestselling author with more than 200 million copies of his books sold worldwide in over 45 languages.
Adult Nonfiction – “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins
“The Let Them Theory” is a “step-by-step guide on how to stop letting other people’s opinions, drama, and judgment impact your life” by author, lawyer, and podcast host Mel Robbins, co-written by her daughter Sawyer Robbins. The book, published on Dec. 24, 2024, has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide.
“It’s time to build a life where you come first—your dreams, your goals, your happiness,” a write-up about the book on Robbins’ website said.
“The Let Them Theory” was also the top Self-Help/Personal Development book checked out in Las Vegas.
Boston, MA – January 22: Copies of “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins are displayed before a book signing at Big Night Live. (Photo by Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)Teen Fiction – Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
The highly anticipated Hunger Games sequel “Sunrise on the Reaping” hit the shelves earlier in the year and quickly became a bestseller. The fifth book in Suzanne Collins’ hit series was published on March 18, 2025, and focused on the Fiftieth Annual Hunger Games and the character of Haymitch Abernathy.
“Who will be tribute? Who will live and die? Return to Panem for more pulse-pounding action than ever before. Oh, and may the odds be ever in your favor,” a description on Barnes and Noble’s website said.
Mystery – The Crash by Frieda McFadden
Released on Jan. 28, 2025, “The Crash” is one of Frieda McFadden’s newest thrillers. McFadden is a New York Times best-selling author known for psychological thrillers that often feature medical themes. “The Crash” tells the story of a heavily pregnant woman who, on her way to stay with her brother, unknowingly drives straight into a blizzard.
“The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed,” the book’s description reads.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025
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These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025 – 8NewsNow
Boston, MA – January 22: Copies of “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins are displayed before a book signing at Big Night Live, where the self-help author …These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025
by: Stephanie Overton, Posted: Dec 24, 2025 / 02:38 PM PST, Updated: Dec 24, 2025 / 02:38 PM PST
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Have you read any of the most frequently checked out books in the Las Vegas valley in 2025?
In 2025, self-help books remained trending within Las Vegas, based on data from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, with the genre staying at the top of the list for many people. One genre that declined across the valley is political biographies, a spokesperson from the district said. >>Download the 8 News Now Vegas streaming app
One genre that earned a new emphasis was DIY and self-examination books, such as those that help readers reduce stress, become healthy, or find happiness. The library district also added that adults are reading more teen fiction, including the newest Hunger Games prequel.
Recurring favorites are “Atomic Habits” by James Clear and anything written by prolific writer James Patterson. “The God of the Woods” by Liz Moore has been steady all year, but demand tripled since Taylor Swift included footage of her listening to the audiobook in her Eras Tour documentary.
But which books were the top of the top in Las Vegas? We’ve compiled a list based on data from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, which shows the top book in each genre in 2025.
Adult Fiction – “To Die For” by David Baldacci
Published by Grand Central Publishing on Nov. 12, 2024, “To Die For” is the third book in the 6:20 Man thriller series by David Baldacci. It follows Ex-Army Ranger Travis Devine to the Pacific Northwest, where he must aid in a “complicated” FBI case that may just lead him face-to-face with his nemesis.
Baldacci is an award-winning global #1 bestselling author with more than 200 million copies of his books sold worldwide in over 45 languages.
Adult Nonfiction – “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins
“The Let Them Theory” is a “step-by-step guide on how to stop letting other people’s opinions, drama, and judgment impact your life” by author, lawyer, and podcast host Mel Robbins, co-written by her daughter Sawyer Robbins. The book, published on Dec. 24, 2024, has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide.
“It’s time to build a life where you come first—your dreams, your goals, your happiness,” a write-up about the book on Robbins’ website said.
“The Let Them Theory” was also the top Self-Help/Personal Development book checked out in Las Vegas.
Boston, MA – January 22: Copies of “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins are displayed before a book signing at Big Night Live. (Photo by Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)Teen Fiction – Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
The highly anticipated Hunger Games sequel “Sunrise on the Reaping” hit the shelves earlier in the year and quickly became a bestseller. The fifth book in Suzanne Collins’ hit series was published on March 18, 2025, and focused on the Fiftieth Annual Hunger Games and the character of Haymitch Abernathy.
“Who will be tribute? Who will live and die? Return to Panem for more pulse-pounding action than ever before. Oh, and may the odds be ever in your favor,” a description on Barnes and Noble’s website said.
Mystery – The Crash by Frieda McFadden
Released on Jan. 28, 2025, “The Crash” is one of Frieda McFadden’s newest thrillers. McFadden is a New York Times best-selling author known for psychological thrillers that often feature medical themes. “The Crash” tells the story of a heavily pregnant woman who, on her way to stay with her brother, unknowingly drives straight into a blizzard.
“The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed,” the book’s description reads.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025
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These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025 – 8NewsNow
Boston, MA – January 22: Copies of “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins are displayed before a book signing at Big Night Live, where the self-help author …These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025
by: Stephanie Overton, Posted: Dec 24, 2025 / 02:38 PM PST, Updated: Dec 24, 2025 / 02:38 PM PST
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Have you read any of the most frequently checked out books in the Las Vegas valley in 2025?
In 2025, self-help books remained trending within Las Vegas, based on data from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, with the genre staying at the top of the list for many people. One genre that declined across the valley is political biographies, a spokesperson from the district said. >>Download the 8 News Now Vegas streaming app
One genre that earned a new emphasis was DIY and self-examination books, such as those that help readers reduce stress, become healthy, or find happiness. The library district also added that adults are reading more teen fiction, including the newest Hunger Games prequel.
Recurring favorites are “Atomic Habits” by James Clear and anything written by prolific writer James Patterson. “The God of the Woods” by Liz Moore has been steady all year, but demand tripled since Taylor Swift included footage of her listening to the audiobook in her Eras Tour documentary.
But which books were the top of the top in Las Vegas? We’ve compiled a list based on data from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, which shows the top book in each genre in 2025.
Adult Fiction – “To Die For” by David Baldacci
Published by Grand Central Publishing on Nov. 12, 2024, “To Die For” is the third book in the 6:20 Man thriller series by David Baldacci. It follows Ex-Army Ranger Travis Devine to the Pacific Northwest, where he must aid in a “complicated” FBI case that may just lead him face-to-face with his nemesis.
Baldacci is an award-winning global #1 bestselling author with more than 200 million copies of his books sold worldwide in over 45 languages.
Adult Nonfiction – “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins
“The Let Them Theory” is a “step-by-step guide on how to stop letting other people’s opinions, drama, and judgment impact your life” by author, lawyer, and podcast host Mel Robbins, co-written by her daughter Sawyer Robbins. The book, published on Dec. 24, 2024, has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide.
“It’s time to build a life where you come first—your dreams, your goals, your happiness,” a write-up about the book on Robbins’ website said.
“The Let Them Theory” was also the top Self-Help/Personal Development book checked out in Las Vegas.
Boston, MA – January 22: Copies of “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins are displayed before a book signing at Big Night Live. (Photo by Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)Teen Fiction – Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
The highly anticipated Hunger Games sequel “Sunrise on the Reaping” hit the shelves earlier in the year and quickly became a bestseller. The fifth book in Suzanne Collins’ hit series was published on March 18, 2025, and focused on the Fiftieth Annual Hunger Games and the character of Haymitch Abernathy.
“Who will be tribute? Who will live and die? Return to Panem for more pulse-pounding action than ever before. Oh, and may the odds be ever in your favor,” a description on Barnes and Noble’s website said.
Mystery – The Crash by Frieda McFadden
Released on Jan. 28, 2025, “The Crash” is one of Frieda McFadden’s newest thrillers. McFadden is a New York Times best-selling author known for psychological thrillers that often feature medical themes. “The Crash” tells the story of a heavily pregnant woman who, on her way to stay with her brother, unknowingly drives straight into a blizzard.
“The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed,” the book’s description reads.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025
Tags: 1, 2025, 8NewsNow, Books, Books Reading, Fiction, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Libraries, mystery, Nonfiction, teens, TV Station
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These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025 – 8NewsNow
Boston, MA – January 22: Copies of “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins are displayed before a book signing at Big Night Live, where the self-help author …These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025
by: Stephanie Overton, Posted: Dec 24, 2025 / 02:38 PM PST, Updated: Dec 24, 2025 / 02:38 PM PST
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Have you read any of the most frequently checked out books in the Las Vegas valley in 2025?
In 2025, self-help books remained trending within Las Vegas, based on data from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, with the genre staying at the top of the list for many people. One genre that declined across the valley is political biographies, a spokesperson from the district said. >>Download the 8 News Now Vegas streaming app
One genre that earned a new emphasis was DIY and self-examination books, such as those that help readers reduce stress, become healthy, or find happiness. The library district also added that adults are reading more teen fiction, including the newest Hunger Games prequel.
Recurring favorites are “Atomic Habits” by James Clear and anything written by prolific writer James Patterson. “The God of the Woods” by Liz Moore has been steady all year, but demand tripled since Taylor Swift included footage of her listening to the audiobook in her Eras Tour documentary.
But which books were the top of the top in Las Vegas? We’ve compiled a list based on data from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, which shows the top book in each genre in 2025.
Adult Fiction – “To Die For” by David Baldacci
Published by Grand Central Publishing on Nov. 12, 2024, “To Die For” is the third book in the 6:20 Man thriller series by David Baldacci. It follows Ex-Army Ranger Travis Devine to the Pacific Northwest, where he must aid in a “complicated” FBI case that may just lead him face-to-face with his nemesis.
Baldacci is an award-winning global #1 bestselling author with more than 200 million copies of his books sold worldwide in over 45 languages.
Adult Nonfiction – “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins
“The Let Them Theory” is a “step-by-step guide on how to stop letting other people’s opinions, drama, and judgment impact your life” by author, lawyer, and podcast host Mel Robbins, co-written by her daughter Sawyer Robbins. The book, published on Dec. 24, 2024, has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide.
“It’s time to build a life where you come first—your dreams, your goals, your happiness,” a write-up about the book on Robbins’ website said.
“The Let Them Theory” was also the top Self-Help/Personal Development book checked out in Las Vegas.
Boston, MA – January 22: Copies of “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins are displayed before a book signing at Big Night Live. (Photo by Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)Teen Fiction – Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
The highly anticipated Hunger Games sequel “Sunrise on the Reaping” hit the shelves earlier in the year and quickly became a bestseller. The fifth book in Suzanne Collins’ hit series was published on March 18, 2025, and focused on the Fiftieth Annual Hunger Games and the character of Haymitch Abernathy.
“Who will be tribute? Who will live and die? Return to Panem for more pulse-pounding action than ever before. Oh, and may the odds be ever in your favor,” a description on Barnes and Noble’s website said.
Mystery – The Crash by Frieda McFadden
Released on Jan. 28, 2025, “The Crash” is one of Frieda McFadden’s newest thrillers. McFadden is a New York Times best-selling author known for psychological thrillers that often feature medical themes. “The Crash” tells the story of a heavily pregnant woman who, on her way to stay with her brother, unknowingly drives straight into a blizzard.
“The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed,” the book’s description reads.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025
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These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025 – 8NewsNow
Boston, MA – January 22: Copies of “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins are displayed before a book signing at Big Night Live, where the self-help author …These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025
by: Stephanie Overton, Posted: Dec 24, 2025 / 02:38 PM PST, Updated: Dec 24, 2025 / 02:38 PM PST
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Have you read any of the most frequently checked out books in the Las Vegas valley in 2025?
In 2025, self-help books remained trending within Las Vegas, based on data from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, with the genre staying at the top of the list for many people. One genre that declined across the valley is political biographies, a spokesperson from the district said. >>Download the 8 News Now Vegas streaming app
One genre that earned a new emphasis was DIY and self-examination books, such as those that help readers reduce stress, become healthy, or find happiness. The library district also added that adults are reading more teen fiction, including the newest Hunger Games prequel.
Recurring favorites are “Atomic Habits” by James Clear and anything written by prolific writer James Patterson. “The God of the Woods” by Liz Moore has been steady all year, but demand tripled since Taylor Swift included footage of her listening to the audiobook in her Eras Tour documentary.
But which books were the top of the top in Las Vegas? We’ve compiled a list based on data from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, which shows the top book in each genre in 2025.
Adult Fiction – “To Die For” by David Baldacci
Published by Grand Central Publishing on Nov. 12, 2024, “To Die For” is the third book in the 6:20 Man thriller series by David Baldacci. It follows Ex-Army Ranger Travis Devine to the Pacific Northwest, where he must aid in a “complicated” FBI case that may just lead him face-to-face with his nemesis.
Baldacci is an award-winning global #1 bestselling author with more than 200 million copies of his books sold worldwide in over 45 languages.
Adult Nonfiction – “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins
“The Let Them Theory” is a “step-by-step guide on how to stop letting other people’s opinions, drama, and judgment impact your life” by author, lawyer, and podcast host Mel Robbins, co-written by her daughter Sawyer Robbins. The book, published on Dec. 24, 2024, has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide.
“It’s time to build a life where you come first—your dreams, your goals, your happiness,” a write-up about the book on Robbins’ website said.
“The Let Them Theory” was also the top Self-Help/Personal Development book checked out in Las Vegas.
Boston, MA – January 22: Copies of “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins are displayed before a book signing at Big Night Live. (Photo by Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)Teen Fiction – Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
The highly anticipated Hunger Games sequel “Sunrise on the Reaping” hit the shelves earlier in the year and quickly became a bestseller. The fifth book in Suzanne Collins’ hit series was published on March 18, 2025, and focused on the Fiftieth Annual Hunger Games and the character of Haymitch Abernathy.
“Who will be tribute? Who will live and die? Return to Panem for more pulse-pounding action than ever before. Oh, and may the odds be ever in your favor,” a description on Barnes and Noble’s website said.
Mystery – The Crash by Frieda McFadden
Released on Jan. 28, 2025, “The Crash” is one of Frieda McFadden’s newest thrillers. McFadden is a New York Times best-selling author known for psychological thrillers that often feature medical themes. “The Crash” tells the story of a heavily pregnant woman who, on her way to stay with her brother, unknowingly drives straight into a blizzard.
“The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed,” the book’s description reads.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: These were the most checked out books in Las Vegas libraries in 2025
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The Case for Returning U.S. #PublicLands to #IndigenousPeople
by Joe Whittle, Mar 6, 2025
"Since the start of Trump’s second term, his administration has fired thousands of federal workers across multiple public lands agencies, including the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The effects of this are vast: It’s going to have a profoundly negative impact on the environment and the way millions of Americans enjoy public lands, cause immeasurable harm to America’s wildest places, and devastate the economies built around them.
"After serving 12 years as a backcountry wilderness ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, I'm convinced there is an alternative: the U.S. needs to return its public lands to Native Americans. In fact, I believe that might be the only way to save our parks and forests from corporate privatization and destruction, as well as preserve public access to them. If the U.S. won’t properly care for its public lands, why not return them to their original caretakers?
"This isn’t a new idea. #NativeAmericans argued that treaty law required
'abandoned' federal land to be returned to tribes during the occupation of #Alcatraz Island by the #AmericanIndianMovement in the 1960s. In more recent years, the #LandbackMovement has given rise to increased calls for the return of territorial land to #IndigenousNations, and the return of land management based in #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge—expertise gathered from thousands of years of having deep relationships with specific environments. There’s a strong legal argument that land return is constitutionally required as damages due for hundreds of treaty violations. However, there’s also a lot of data showing Indigenous land management is more ecologically sound than government or industrially managed land. For instance, #ProjectDrawdown, a global leader in science-based #ClimateChange solutions, estimates that returning 1,000 million hectares of land to Indigenous tenureship by 2050 would sequester over 12 gigatons of carbon dioxide."Read more:
https://time.com/7262838/us-public-lands-return-indigenous-people/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/QnF32#LandBack #AIM #StolenLand #StolenLands #NationalParks #TEK #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousPeoplesMonth #GiveItBack #Stewardship #LandIsLife #WaterIsLife #AlcatrazIsland #Resistance #USPol #TrumpSucks #RespectTheTreaties
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The Case for Returning U.S. #PublicLands to #IndigenousPeople
by Joe Whittle, Mar 6, 2025
"Since the start of Trump’s second term, his administration has fired thousands of federal workers across multiple public lands agencies, including the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The effects of this are vast: It’s going to have a profoundly negative impact on the environment and the way millions of Americans enjoy public lands, cause immeasurable harm to America’s wildest places, and devastate the economies built around them.
"After serving 12 years as a backcountry wilderness ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, I'm convinced there is an alternative: the U.S. needs to return its public lands to Native Americans. In fact, I believe that might be the only way to save our parks and forests from corporate privatization and destruction, as well as preserve public access to them. If the U.S. won’t properly care for its public lands, why not return them to their original caretakers?
"This isn’t a new idea. #NativeAmericans argued that treaty law required
'abandoned' federal land to be returned to tribes during the occupation of #Alcatraz Island by the #AmericanIndianMovement in the 1960s. In more recent years, the #LandbackMovement has given rise to increased calls for the return of territorial land to #IndigenousNations, and the return of land management based in #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge—expertise gathered from thousands of years of having deep relationships with specific environments. There’s a strong legal argument that land return is constitutionally required as damages due for hundreds of treaty violations. However, there’s also a lot of data showing Indigenous land management is more ecologically sound than government or industrially managed land. For instance, #ProjectDrawdown, a global leader in science-based #ClimateChange solutions, estimates that returning 1,000 million hectares of land to Indigenous tenureship by 2050 would sequester over 12 gigatons of carbon dioxide."Read more:
https://time.com/7262838/us-public-lands-return-indigenous-people/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/QnF32#LandBack #AIM #StolenLand #StolenLands #NationalParks #TEK #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousPeoplesMonth #GiveItBack #Stewardship #LandIsLife #WaterIsLife #AlcatrazIsland #Resistance #USPol #TrumpSucks #RespectTheTreaties
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The Case for Returning U.S. #PublicLands to #IndigenousPeople
by Joe Whittle, Mar 6, 2025
"Since the start of Trump’s second term, his administration has fired thousands of federal workers across multiple public lands agencies, including the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The effects of this are vast: It’s going to have a profoundly negative impact on the environment and the way millions of Americans enjoy public lands, cause immeasurable harm to America’s wildest places, and devastate the economies built around them.
"After serving 12 years as a backcountry wilderness ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, I'm convinced there is an alternative: the U.S. needs to return its public lands to Native Americans. In fact, I believe that might be the only way to save our parks and forests from corporate privatization and destruction, as well as preserve public access to them. If the U.S. won’t properly care for its public lands, why not return them to their original caretakers?
"This isn’t a new idea. #NativeAmericans argued that treaty law required
'abandoned' federal land to be returned to tribes during the occupation of #Alcatraz Island by the #AmericanIndianMovement in the 1960s. In more recent years, the #LandbackMovement has given rise to increased calls for the return of territorial land to #IndigenousNations, and the return of land management based in #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge—expertise gathered from thousands of years of having deep relationships with specific environments. There’s a strong legal argument that land return is constitutionally required as damages due for hundreds of treaty violations. However, there’s also a lot of data showing Indigenous land management is more ecologically sound than government or industrially managed land. For instance, #ProjectDrawdown, a global leader in science-based #ClimateChange solutions, estimates that returning 1,000 million hectares of land to Indigenous tenureship by 2050 would sequester over 12 gigatons of carbon dioxide."Read more:
https://time.com/7262838/us-public-lands-return-indigenous-people/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/QnF32#LandBack #AIM #StolenLand #StolenLands #NationalParks #TEK #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousPeoplesMonth #GiveItBack #Stewardship #LandIsLife #WaterIsLife #AlcatrazIsland #Resistance #USPol #TrumpSucks #RespectTheTreaties
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The Case for Returning U.S. #PublicLands to #IndigenousPeople
by Joe Whittle, Mar 6, 2025
"Since the start of Trump’s second term, his administration has fired thousands of federal workers across multiple public lands agencies, including the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The effects of this are vast: It’s going to have a profoundly negative impact on the environment and the way millions of Americans enjoy public lands, cause immeasurable harm to America’s wildest places, and devastate the economies built around them.
"After serving 12 years as a backcountry wilderness ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, I'm convinced there is an alternative: the U.S. needs to return its public lands to Native Americans. In fact, I believe that might be the only way to save our parks and forests from corporate privatization and destruction, as well as preserve public access to them. If the U.S. won’t properly care for its public lands, why not return them to their original caretakers?
"This isn’t a new idea. #NativeAmericans argued that treaty law required
'abandoned' federal land to be returned to tribes during the occupation of #Alcatraz Island by the #AmericanIndianMovement in the 1960s. In more recent years, the #LandbackMovement has given rise to increased calls for the return of territorial land to #IndigenousNations, and the return of land management based in #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge—expertise gathered from thousands of years of having deep relationships with specific environments. There’s a strong legal argument that land return is constitutionally required as damages due for hundreds of treaty violations. However, there’s also a lot of data showing Indigenous land management is more ecologically sound than government or industrially managed land. For instance, #ProjectDrawdown, a global leader in science-based #ClimateChange solutions, estimates that returning 1,000 million hectares of land to Indigenous tenureship by 2050 would sequester over 12 gigatons of carbon dioxide."Read more:
https://time.com/7262838/us-public-lands-return-indigenous-people/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/QnF32#LandBack #AIM #StolenLand #StolenLands #NationalParks #TEK #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousPeoplesMonth #GiveItBack #Stewardship #LandIsLife #WaterIsLife #AlcatrazIsland #Resistance #USPol #TrumpSucks #RespectTheTreaties
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The Case for Returning U.S. #PublicLands to #IndigenousPeople
by Joe Whittle, Mar 6, 2025
"Since the start of Trump’s second term, his administration has fired thousands of federal workers across multiple public lands agencies, including the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The effects of this are vast: It’s going to have a profoundly negative impact on the environment and the way millions of Americans enjoy public lands, cause immeasurable harm to America’s wildest places, and devastate the economies built around them.
"After serving 12 years as a backcountry wilderness ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, I'm convinced there is an alternative: the U.S. needs to return its public lands to Native Americans. In fact, I believe that might be the only way to save our parks and forests from corporate privatization and destruction, as well as preserve public access to them. If the U.S. won’t properly care for its public lands, why not return them to their original caretakers?
"This isn’t a new idea. #NativeAmericans argued that treaty law required
'abandoned' federal land to be returned to tribes during the occupation of #Alcatraz Island by the #AmericanIndianMovement in the 1960s. In more recent years, the #LandbackMovement has given rise to increased calls for the return of territorial land to #IndigenousNations, and the return of land management based in #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge—expertise gathered from thousands of years of having deep relationships with specific environments. There’s a strong legal argument that land return is constitutionally required as damages due for hundreds of treaty violations. However, there’s also a lot of data showing Indigenous land management is more ecologically sound than government or industrially managed land. For instance, #ProjectDrawdown, a global leader in science-based #ClimateChange solutions, estimates that returning 1,000 million hectares of land to Indigenous tenureship by 2050 would sequester over 12 gigatons of carbon dioxide."Read more:
https://time.com/7262838/us-public-lands-return-indigenous-people/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/QnF32#LandBack #AIM #StolenLand #StolenLands #NationalParks #TEK #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousPeoplesMonth #GiveItBack #Stewardship #LandIsLife #WaterIsLife #AlcatrazIsland #Resistance #USPol #TrumpSucks #RespectTheTreaties
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Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service is doing a #HazardReductionBurn at the Moggill Conservation Park, #MoggillQld in the next few days.
Affected regions: #AnsteadQld #PullenvaleQld #PinjarraHillsQld #UpperBrookfieldQld #BrookfieldQld #MountCrosbyQld #KaranaDownsQld #BellbowrieQld
Maidenhead grid square: #QG62https://parks.qld.gov.au/park-alerts/26148
Planned Burn - Moggill Conservation Park
The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) will conduct a planned burn in Moggill Conservation Park from Wednesday, 28 January 2026 to Monday, 02 February 2026, weather permitting, as part of the annual hazard reduction/conservation management program for parks and forests. As a result, smoke will be seen in Anstead, Pullenvale, Pinjarra Hills, Upper Brookfield, Brookfield, Mount Crosby, Karana Downs and Bellbowrie areas.
The following areas are restricted to the public during lighting operations and the following days; Centre Road, Pullen Creek Break, Hawksbury Road Break, Nursery Break, Acreage Break, Devils Break and St Peters Downfall. There will also be an increase on the amount of QPWS vehicles on these roads whilst firefighting activities and patrolling are taking place.
The aim of this burn is to reduce the volume of forest fuels and to create a mosaic pattern of burnt and unburnt areas. This will help reduce the intensity of any subsequent bushfire and provide favourable conditions for natural forest revegetation. Smoke can decrease visibility on the roads, so it is important that motorist drive safely to the conditions. Please observe signage and barriers and do not enter closed areas and follow directions from Rangers. Safety is our concern but your responsibility.
For more information, please contact The Gap office of QPWS on 07 3164 3600
Live air quality data, and information on smoke and dust health actions, can be found on the Queensland Government’s website https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/management/monitoring/air
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Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service is doing a #HazardReductionBurn at the Moggill Conservation Park, #MoggillQld in the next few days.
Affected regions: #AnsteadQld #PullenvaleQld #PinjarraHillsQld #UpperBrookfieldQld #BrookfieldQld #MountCrosbyQld #KaranaDownsQld #BellbowrieQld
Maidenhead grid square: #QG62https://parks.qld.gov.au/park-alerts/26148
Planned Burn - Moggill Conservation Park
The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) will conduct a planned burn in Moggill Conservation Park from Wednesday, 28 January 2026 to Monday, 02 February 2026, weather permitting, as part of the annual hazard reduction/conservation management program for parks and forests. As a result, smoke will be seen in Anstead, Pullenvale, Pinjarra Hills, Upper Brookfield, Brookfield, Mount Crosby, Karana Downs and Bellbowrie areas.
The following areas are restricted to the public during lighting operations and the following days; Centre Road, Pullen Creek Break, Hawksbury Road Break, Nursery Break, Acreage Break, Devils Break and St Peters Downfall. There will also be an increase on the amount of QPWS vehicles on these roads whilst firefighting activities and patrolling are taking place.
The aim of this burn is to reduce the volume of forest fuels and to create a mosaic pattern of burnt and unburnt areas. This will help reduce the intensity of any subsequent bushfire and provide favourable conditions for natural forest revegetation. Smoke can decrease visibility on the roads, so it is important that motorist drive safely to the conditions. Please observe signage and barriers and do not enter closed areas and follow directions from Rangers. Safety is our concern but your responsibility.
For more information, please contact The Gap office of QPWS on 07 3164 3600
Live air quality data, and information on smoke and dust health actions, can be found on the Queensland Government’s website https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/management/monitoring/air
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Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service is doing a #HazardReductionBurn at the Moggill Conservation Park, #MoggillQld in the next few days.
Affected regions: #AnsteadQld #PullenvaleQld #PinjarraHillsQld #UpperBrookfieldQld #BrookfieldQld #MountCrosbyQld #KaranaDownsQld #BellbowrieQld
Maidenhead grid square: #QG62https://parks.qld.gov.au/park-alerts/26148
Planned Burn - Moggill Conservation Park
The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) will conduct a planned burn in Moggill Conservation Park from Wednesday, 28 January 2026 to Monday, 02 February 2026, weather permitting, as part of the annual hazard reduction/conservation management program for parks and forests. As a result, smoke will be seen in Anstead, Pullenvale, Pinjarra Hills, Upper Brookfield, Brookfield, Mount Crosby, Karana Downs and Bellbowrie areas.
The following areas are restricted to the public during lighting operations and the following days; Centre Road, Pullen Creek Break, Hawksbury Road Break, Nursery Break, Acreage Break, Devils Break and St Peters Downfall. There will also be an increase on the amount of QPWS vehicles on these roads whilst firefighting activities and patrolling are taking place.
The aim of this burn is to reduce the volume of forest fuels and to create a mosaic pattern of burnt and unburnt areas. This will help reduce the intensity of any subsequent bushfire and provide favourable conditions for natural forest revegetation. Smoke can decrease visibility on the roads, so it is important that motorist drive safely to the conditions. Please observe signage and barriers and do not enter closed areas and follow directions from Rangers. Safety is our concern but your responsibility.
For more information, please contact The Gap office of QPWS on 07 3164 3600
Live air quality data, and information on smoke and dust health actions, can be found on the Queensland Government’s website https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/management/monitoring/air
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Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service is doing a #HazardReductionBurn at the Moggill Conservation Park, #MoggillQld in the next few days.
Affected regions: #AnsteadQld #PullenvaleQld #PinjarraHillsQld #UpperBrookfieldQld #BrookfieldQld #MountCrosbyQld #KaranaDownsQld #BellbowrieQld
Maidenhead grid square: #QG62https://parks.qld.gov.au/park-alerts/26148
Planned Burn - Moggill Conservation Park
The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) will conduct a planned burn in Moggill Conservation Park from Wednesday, 28 January 2026 to Monday, 02 February 2026, weather permitting, as part of the annual hazard reduction/conservation management program for parks and forests. As a result, smoke will be seen in Anstead, Pullenvale, Pinjarra Hills, Upper Brookfield, Brookfield, Mount Crosby, Karana Downs and Bellbowrie areas.
The following areas are restricted to the public during lighting operations and the following days; Centre Road, Pullen Creek Break, Hawksbury Road Break, Nursery Break, Acreage Break, Devils Break and St Peters Downfall. There will also be an increase on the amount of QPWS vehicles on these roads whilst firefighting activities and patrolling are taking place.
The aim of this burn is to reduce the volume of forest fuels and to create a mosaic pattern of burnt and unburnt areas. This will help reduce the intensity of any subsequent bushfire and provide favourable conditions for natural forest revegetation. Smoke can decrease visibility on the roads, so it is important that motorist drive safely to the conditions. Please observe signage and barriers and do not enter closed areas and follow directions from Rangers. Safety is our concern but your responsibility.
For more information, please contact The Gap office of QPWS on 07 3164 3600
Live air quality data, and information on smoke and dust health actions, can be found on the Queensland Government’s website https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/management/monitoring/air
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Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service is doing a #HazardReductionBurn at the Moggill Conservation Park, #MoggillQld in the next few days.
Affected regions: #AnsteadQld #PullenvaleQld #PinjarraHillsQld #UpperBrookfieldQld #BrookfieldQld #MountCrosbyQld #KaranaDownsQld #BellbowrieQld
Maidenhead grid square: #QG62https://parks.qld.gov.au/park-alerts/26148
Planned Burn - Moggill Conservation Park
The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) will conduct a planned burn in Moggill Conservation Park from Wednesday, 28 January 2026 to Monday, 02 February 2026, weather permitting, as part of the annual hazard reduction/conservation management program for parks and forests. As a result, smoke will be seen in Anstead, Pullenvale, Pinjarra Hills, Upper Brookfield, Brookfield, Mount Crosby, Karana Downs and Bellbowrie areas.
The following areas are restricted to the public during lighting operations and the following days; Centre Road, Pullen Creek Break, Hawksbury Road Break, Nursery Break, Acreage Break, Devils Break and St Peters Downfall. There will also be an increase on the amount of QPWS vehicles on these roads whilst firefighting activities and patrolling are taking place.
The aim of this burn is to reduce the volume of forest fuels and to create a mosaic pattern of burnt and unburnt areas. This will help reduce the intensity of any subsequent bushfire and provide favourable conditions for natural forest revegetation. Smoke can decrease visibility on the roads, so it is important that motorist drive safely to the conditions. Please observe signage and barriers and do not enter closed areas and follow directions from Rangers. Safety is our concern but your responsibility.
For more information, please contact The Gap office of QPWS on 07 3164 3600
Live air quality data, and information on smoke and dust health actions, can be found on the Queensland Government’s website https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/management/monitoring/air
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2025 MLB Jersey Patch Sponsors: The Brands Behind Baseball
The jersey patch era is in full swing for the 2025 MLB season — and it’s changing the game. With 25 of 30 teams rocking sponsored patches, Major League Baseball is following the NBA and NHL into a new sponsorship frontier. From hometown heroes to global giants, brands are locking in jersey real estate to tap into loyal fanbases and big-league star power.
In our latest blog, we break down every team’s 2025 patch sponsor, explore the industries behind them, and highlight how brands are stepping up to the plate — especially on powerhouse teams like the Yankees and Dodgers.
Finance reigns above other industries with five brands, followed by energy with three each. The rest of the MLB jersey patch brands are spread across a wide variety of industries including healthcare, convenience stores, building materials, and even gaming (Nintendo).
Motorola is the only brand sporting two MLB jersey patch deals (with the Cubs and Padres), playing in both the West Coast and the Midwest. By linking up with teams that boast major national fanbases, they’re not just covering geography—they’re claiming prime real estate on some of the game’s most-watched jerseys. They’re not stopping at baseball either as Motorola also suits up with the Chicago Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks, proving their patch game is strong across American sports leagues.
There are currently 5 MLB teams without jersey patch sponsors: Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Rays, Washington Nationals, and Colorado Rockies.
MLB 2024 Postseason & MiLB Helmet Sponsorship
This multi-year partnership between MLB and the German workwear brand began last season with all teams wearing Strauss-branded batting helmets during the 2024 MLB Postseason. This will continue for the 2025 MLB postseason and an addition will be worn on all 2025 Minor League Baseball (MiLB) regular season batting helmets.
2024 MLB Jersey Patch Partnerships
Scroll through jersey patch examples from every MLB team! At Blinkfire, we use our AI and computer-vision technology to judge logo visibility and help teams create more valuable partnerships. Check out our Blinkfire playlist featuring the posts below. Our comprehensive Sponsorship Report allows teams to accurately track and value all sponsorships in real-time across owned and operated channels, team members, earned media, and other entities!
Los Angeles Dodgers – Guggenheim Group
Chicago Cubs – Motorola
San Diego Padres – Motorola
Seattle Mariners – Nintendo
New York Yankees – Starr Insurance
Atlanta Braves – Quikrete
Baltimore Orioles – T. Rowe Price
Athletics – Visit Las Vegas
Miami Marlins – ADT
Cleveland Guardians – Marathon Petroleum
Houston Astros – Occidental Petroleum (Oxy)
Texas Rangers – Energy Transfer
Toronto Blue Jays – TD Bank
Kansas City Royals – Quiktrip
Los Angeles Angels – Foundation Building Materials
Philadelphia Phillies – Independence Blue Cross (IBX)
San Francisco Giants – Chevrolet
Arizona Diamondbacks – Avnet
Boston Red Sox – MassMutual
Pittsburgh Pirates – Sheetz
Detroit Tigers – Meijer
Milwaukee Brewers – Northwestern Mutual Life
Cincinnati Reds – Kroger
New York Mets – New York Presbyterian Hospital
St Louis Cardinals – Stifel
Track Jersey Patch Value and More with Blinkfire
With Blinkfire, you can track and value every sponsored asset — from the outfield wall to the mound and even foul-territory grass — and benchmark against other teams to build smarter, more profitable partnerships.
Our AI-powered platform covers it all: social, digital, streaming, and broadcast, giving you a 360° view of your brand value in one place. Dive into our powerful reporting tools built and see the data difference for yourself.
Explore Blinkfire#baseball #blinkfire #BlinkfireAnalytics #jerseyPatch #JerseyPatchEra #MLB #Motorola #NBA #Sponsorship #SponsorshipGameStrong #SportsSponsorship
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2025 MLB Jersey Patch Sponsors: The Brands Behind Baseball
The jersey patch era is in full swing for the 2025 MLB season — and it’s changing the game. With 25 of 30 teams rocking sponsored patches, Major League Baseball is following the NBA and NHL into a new sponsorship frontier. From hometown heroes to global giants, brands are locking in jersey real estate to tap into loyal fanbases and big-league star power.
In our latest blog, we break down every team’s 2025 patch sponsor, explore the industries behind them, and highlight how brands are stepping up to the plate — especially on powerhouse teams like the Yankees and Dodgers.
Finance reigns above other industries with five brands, followed by energy with three each. The rest of the MLB jersey patch brands are spread across a wide variety of industries including healthcare, convenience stores, building materials, and even gaming (Nintendo).
Motorola is the only brand sporting two MLB jersey patch deals (with the Cubs and Padres), playing in both the West Coast and the Midwest. By linking up with teams that boast major national fanbases, they’re not just covering geography—they’re claiming prime real estate on some of the game’s most-watched jerseys. They’re not stopping at baseball either as Motorola also suits up with the Chicago Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks, proving their patch game is strong across American sports leagues.
There are currently 5 MLB teams without jersey patch sponsors: Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Rays, Washington Nationals, and Colorado Rockies.
MLB 2024 Postseason & MiLB Helmet Sponsorship
This multi-year partnership between MLB and the German workwear brand began last season with all teams wearing Strauss-branded batting helmets during the 2024 MLB Postseason. This will continue for the 2025 MLB postseason and an addition will be worn on all 2025 Minor League Baseball (MiLB) regular season batting helmets.
2024 MLB Jersey Patch Partnerships
Scroll through jersey patch examples from every MLB team! At Blinkfire, we use our AI and computer-vision technology to judge logo visibility and help teams create more valuable partnerships. Check out our Blinkfire playlist featuring the posts below. Our comprehensive Sponsorship Report allows teams to accurately track and value all sponsorships in real-time across owned and operated channels, team members, earned media, and other entities!
Los Angeles Dodgers – Guggenheim Group
Chicago Cubs – Motorola
San Diego Padres – Motorola
Seattle Mariners – Nintendo
New York Yankees – Starr Insurance
Atlanta Braves – Quikrete
Baltimore Orioles – T. Rowe Price
Athletics – Visit Las Vegas
Miami Marlins – ADT
Cleveland Guardians – Marathon Petroleum
Houston Astros – Occidental Petroleum (Oxy)
Texas Rangers – Energy Transfer
Toronto Blue Jays – TD Bank
Kansas City Royals – Quiktrip
Los Angeles Angels – Foundation Building Materials
Philadelphia Phillies – Independence Blue Cross (IBX)
San Francisco Giants – Chevrolet
Arizona Diamondbacks – Avnet
Boston Red Sox – MassMutual
Pittsburgh Pirates – Sheetz
Detroit Tigers – Meijer
Milwaukee Brewers – Northwestern Mutual Life
Cincinnati Reds – Kroger
New York Mets – New York Presbyterian Hospital
St Louis Cardinals – Stifel
Track Jersey Patch Value and More with Blinkfire
With Blinkfire, you can track and value every sponsored asset — from the outfield wall to the mound and even foul-territory grass — and benchmark against other teams to build smarter, more profitable partnerships.
Our AI-powered platform covers it all: social, digital, streaming, and broadcast, giving you a 360° view of your brand value in one place. Dive into our powerful reporting tools built and see the data difference for yourself.
Explore Blinkfire#baseball #blinkfire #BlinkfireAnalytics #jerseyPatch #JerseyPatchEra #MLB #Motorola #NBA #Sponsorship #SponsorshipGameStrong #SportsSponsorship
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2025 MLB Jersey Patch Sponsors: The Brands Behind Baseball
The jersey patch era is in full swing for the 2025 MLB season — and it’s changing the game. With 25 of 30 teams rocking sponsored patches, Major League Baseball is following the NBA and NHL into a new sponsorship frontier. From hometown heroes to global giants, brands are locking in jersey real estate to tap into loyal fanbases and big-league star power.
In our latest blog, we break down every team’s 2025 patch sponsor, explore the industries behind them, and highlight how brands are stepping up to the plate — especially on powerhouse teams like the Yankees and Dodgers.
Finance reigns above other industries with five brands, followed by energy with three each. The rest of the MLB jersey patch brands are spread across a wide variety of industries including healthcare, convenience stores, building materials, and even gaming (Nintendo).
Motorola is the only brand sporting two MLB jersey patch deals (with the Cubs and Padres), playing in both the West Coast and the Midwest. By linking up with teams that boast major national fanbases, they’re not just covering geography—they’re claiming prime real estate on some of the game’s most-watched jerseys. They’re not stopping at baseball either as Motorola also suits up with the Chicago Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks, proving their patch game is strong across American sports leagues.
There are currently 5 MLB teams without jersey patch sponsors: Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Rays, Washington Nationals, and Colorado Rockies.
MLB 2024 Postseason & MiLB Helmet Sponsorship
This multi-year partnership between MLB and the German workwear brand began last season with all teams wearing Strauss-branded batting helmets during the 2024 MLB Postseason. This will continue for the 2025 MLB postseason and an addition will be worn on all 2025 Minor League Baseball (MiLB) regular season batting helmets.
2024 MLB Jersey Patch Partnerships
Scroll through jersey patch examples from every MLB team! At Blinkfire, we use our AI and computer-vision technology to judge logo visibility and help teams create more valuable partnerships. Check out our Blinkfire playlist featuring the posts below. Our comprehensive Sponsorship Report allows teams to accurately track and value all sponsorships in real-time across owned and operated channels, team members, earned media, and other entities!
Los Angeles Dodgers – Guggenheim Group
Chicago Cubs – Motorola
San Diego Padres – Motorola
Seattle Mariners – Nintendo
New York Yankees – Starr Insurance
Atlanta Braves – Quikrete
Baltimore Orioles – T. Rowe Price
Athletics – Visit Las Vegas
Miami Marlins – ADT
Cleveland Guardians – Marathon Petroleum
Houston Astros – Occidental Petroleum (Oxy)
Texas Rangers – Energy Transfer
Toronto Blue Jays – TD Bank
Kansas City Royals – Quiktrip
Los Angeles Angels – Foundation Building Materials
Philadelphia Phillies – Independence Blue Cross (IBX)
San Francisco Giants – Chevrolet
Arizona Diamondbacks – Avnet
Boston Red Sox – MassMutual
Pittsburgh Pirates – Sheetz
Detroit Tigers – Meijer
Milwaukee Brewers – Northwestern Mutual Life
Cincinnati Reds – Kroger
New York Mets – New York Presbyterian Hospital
St Louis Cardinals – Stifel
Track Jersey Patch Value and More with Blinkfire
With Blinkfire, you can track and value every sponsored asset — from the outfield wall to the mound and even foul-territory grass — and benchmark against other teams to build smarter, more profitable partnerships.
Our AI-powered platform covers it all: social, digital, streaming, and broadcast, giving you a 360° view of your brand value in one place. Dive into our powerful reporting tools built and see the data difference for yourself.
Explore Blinkfire#baseball #blinkfire #BlinkfireAnalytics #jerseyPatch #JerseyPatchEra #MLB #Motorola #NBA #Sponsorship #SponsorshipGameStrong #SportsSponsorship
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Var der en dansker ombord på Mary Celeste?
Jeg må starte med at sige, jeg har meget ringe slægtsforskning-fu, eller lignende evner som ville klæde mig på til at hige og søge i (digitaliserede) kirkebøger. Det er et meget tålmodigt og tidskrævende detektivarbejde, jeg ikke har følt trang til hvad min egen familie angår, og andre i slægten er desuden allerede langt nede i arkiverne. Næ, for at få mig aktiveret i forhold til en omgang research i historiske dokumenter kræves mere eksotiske tildragelser — for eksempel en velkendt masseforsvinding til søs.
Begyndelsen til myten om Mary Celeste
For et par år siden rodede jeg rundt på nettet for at finde ud af mere om skibet Mary Celeste, som blev fundet forladt og på drift ud for Azorerne i 1872. Der var ingen tegn på at skibet var blevet bordet, eller at de ombordværende havde været nødt til at forlade skibet. De var bare … væk. De mystiske omstændigheder satte selvfølgelig diverse vilde spekulationer igang; var skibet blevet angrebet af en kæmpeblæksprutte, havde alkoholdampe fra lasten drevet besætningen til vildelser og mytteri — eller kunne det være noget overnaturligt?
Illustration til Arthur Conan Doyles “J. Habakuk Jephson’s statement” (1884), udført af William Small for novellens første udgivelse i “The Cornhill Magazine”. Fra Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J_Habakuk_Jephsons_Statement_page_11_(cropped).jpgDet er svært at skelne mellem fakta og opspind; Arthur Conan Doyle skrev en novelle baseret på forsvindingerne, og hans fiktion blandede sig snart med diverse hypoteser og påstande opfundet for at underbygge dem. Og gåden om Mary Celeste inspirerer fortsat både fiktion og mere foliehattepræget spekulation. I den mere superkulturelle ende besøgte Doctor Who skibet i et afsnit fra 1965 (det var selvfølgelig en dalek-patrulje, som skræmte besætning og passagerer til at springe overbord) .
Jeg var selv på udkig efter et frø til at spinde eget arbejde videre fra, men det er ofte sådan, at man leder efter én tråd at hive i, og pludselig trevler man en helt anden trøje op. Med så få reelle kendsgerninger i sagen fik jeg øje på interessante detaljer i det forhåndenværende: Wikipedia og andre onlinekilder opgiver, at selv om Mary Celeste var registreret i Nova Scotia, var flere besætningsmedlemmer fra Nordeuropa. Andenstyrmand Andrew Gilling, skal således være født i New York af dansk afstamning, mens fire lavere rangerende matroser (?) kom fra det frisiske vadehav. Men en bredere internetsøgning gav et lidt andet billede.
Den svageste antydning af metodologi
Jeg må indskyde to bemærkninger her om metode: Først, at jeg har foretaget al research ved hjælp af min browser — men fordi jeg generelt er skeptisk overfor internetbobler og tilpassede søgninger, har jeg som regel søgehistorie og geografisk placering slået fra (og ja, jeg holder mig langt fra Google). Det betyder, at jeg af og til får lidt skæve resultater, for eksempel på andre websites og sprog end jeg ellers ville finde. Det er ofte en bonus, som giver mulighed for flere lykketræf end diverse algoritmer tillader…!
For det andet, som Moliére skal have sagt, “brændestykker og brændestykker er to forskellige ting” — og jeg er så godt som sikker på, at han talte om Wikipedia-sider! I sagens natur er Wikipedias mere end 60 millioner opslag skrevet af brugere fra hele verden, på hver deres sprog, og der kan være stor forskel i både omfang og kilder(s troværdighed) selv imellem opslag på samme emne, men forskellige sprog. Der er en vis indsats for at oversætte og sammenflette data fra sider på forskellige sprog, men fordi det hele er frivilligt men omfattende arbejde virker det ikke som en på nogen måde komplet harmonisering.
Således faldt jeg nærmest tilfældigt over den frisiske version af Wikipedia-opslaget om Mary Celeste, som afviger fra den engelske udgave ved, at den dels angiver mere detaljerede persondata om de menige sømænd fra Nordfrisland, specifikt øerne Før, Amrum og Westerende. Mere spændende for en dansk læser hævder artiklen, at andenstyrmanden Andrew Gilling ikke var andengenerations dansk-amerikaner, men var født “Andres Jensen Gylling” i Kolby, Samsø.
Ned i Samsø (kirkes) kaninhul, og videre
Scannet billede af Kolby sogns kirkebog for september-november 1850. Anders Jensen Gyllings fødsel er angivet som nr 11.Dette bekræftes i al fald delvist af den online, digitaliserede kirkebog for Kolby sogn 1850, hvor Anders Jensen Gylling, er optegnet som født 30. september 1850 (se ovenstående link under #34–90 i “det almindelige Levns.-Register”), søn af Jens Christensen Gylling og Mette Margrethe Andersdatter. Kolbys kirkebog fortæller også, at Anders Jensen Gylling blev konfirmeret i efteråret 1864, med bemærkningen “Dom for Kundskab og Opførsel: Udmærketgod Forkundskab. Meget god for Opførsel”.
Kirkebogens optegnelser fandt jeg via den frisiske Wikipedia-side, men jeg måtte ud i (for mig) mere esoteriske registre og lister for at spore, om denne Anders på nogen måde kunne forbindes med den “Andrew Gylling”, som angives på Mary Celestes mandskab. Jeg fandt ingen optegnelse i afgangslister 1853-1875, som tyder på at han på egen hånd skulle være flyttet fra Samsø. Omvendt ser han heller ikke ud til at være blevet og have giftet sig i Kolby sogn (før 1891).
Kunne han være udrejst med sine forældre, f eks til USA? Faderens navn er heller ikke optegnet i afgangslisterne som fraflyttet. Iflg Folketælling 1870 boede Anders Jensen Gylling ikke længere på Samsø. Derimod var hans mor (nu Mette Margrethe Gylling) blevet enke siden folketællingen ti år tidligere, og boede alene med sin mor.
Ifølge Københavns politis udvandrerprotokoller er én Anders Gylling udrejst fra Samsø til New York — men i 1889, så dette skulle i så fald være en yngre slægtning. Udvandrerprotokollerne “indeholder det store flertal af udvandrere, som har købt en oversøisk billet af en dansk rejseagent, men ikke de der har købt billet i udlandet, eller slet ikke har købt billet (f.eks. sømænd)” (min fremhævelse). Dette er interessant, fordi en anden, samtidig samsing, Jens Pedersen Gylling (1794-1875) omtales som “skibsejer”. Kunne det tænkes, at vores Anders har fået plads på et atlantergående skib ejet af en fjern onkel, og fra New York er fortsat ombord på Mary Celeste?
Videre spor (og en deus ex machina-afslutning)
Der kan være mere at hente om familierelationer og øens søfartshistorie i “Slægten Gylling fra Samsø” (Nordisk Slægtsforskning, 1975), som tilsyneladende tager udgangspunkt i JP Gyllings liv og familie: Bogen er kun tilgængelig til læsning, ikke udlån fra Det Kgl. Bibliotek, og der satte min lænestolsforskning altså stop. I al fald begynder der at tegne sig et billede af almueliv for 150 år siden på danske småøer, hvor alle mere eller mindre er i familie med hinanden — og hvor livet som sømand på de syv have sikkert har været mere lokkende end at forsøge at dyrke den samme sandjord som ens far og farfar.
Og jeg har indset i den her sporadiske research, at det er en del af fascinationen ved slægtsforskning, selv om det ikke er ens egen. Den er et dyk ned i historien, som ikke har at gøre med kongerække, adel, slag og generaler. Det er ikke de skæbner, vi ser afbildede i storladne oliemalerier fra samtiden, men måske som baggrundsfigurer eller del af brogede mængder i mere ydmyge afbildninger. Den handler om de undersåtter, soldater og sømænd, som kun er navngivne i forbindelse med deres fødsel og kirkehandlinger— med mindre altså de på anden måde væver sig ind i historiske kilder som avisartikler, hvadenten de gør sig uheldigt bemærkede som stratenrøvere eller hekse, eller som her bare forsvinder i den blå luft.
Da jeg nu sad og skrev mine gamle noter sammen, kunne jeg ikke lade være med at søge bare lidt mere på Gyllingerne fra Samsø, og fandt nu Anders Jensen Gylling i den lokalhistoriske slægtsdatabase Samsoe roots. Her er både han og hans bror Christen optegnede som sømænd; Anders til og med som styrmand, hvilket kunne være endnu et anstrengt indicie som lige ved og næsten knytter ham til det mystiske, forladte skib. Men det er som om, jeg taber sporet af Anders allerede før han kan blive til Andrew, og forsvinde mere definitivt sammen med resten af dem, som var ombord på Mary Celeste. Og dog.
Klikker man sig ind på oversigtsiden for Anders Jensen Gylling på Samsoe Roots, står det hele pludselig sort på hvidt: “Sømand Styrmand Anders Jensen Gylling, født 30 sep. 1850, Kolby S Samsø Holbæk, død 1872, Forlist ved Azorene/Atlanterhavet“. I notaterne fremgår det desuden, at “Avisartikler i ‘Der Nordschleswiger’ beretter i mange afsnit om Mary Celeste’s forlis. Andrew Gilling (Anders Gylling) var 2’den styrmand og 25 år gammel da.” Det sidste må være en regnefejl, for Anders var fyldt 22 knap to måneder inden Mary Celestes afsejling fra New York, 7 november 1872 — men nu påpeger jeg kun detaljer af ærgrelse over at andre er kommet mig i forkøbet med at knytte trådene sammen.
Det var også kattens, at jeg som helt uformående amatør ikke kunne redde mig en plads i annalerne for at have genopdaget den danske forbindelse til et af de mere farverige søfartsmysterier! Sådan kan det gå, når man kun halvt interesseret dypper tæerne i andres ekspertområde… hvem havde troet det? 😄 Hvis jeg så endda havde en Wikipedia-konto, kunne jeg indføre Anders Jensen Gylling korrekt i opslagsværkets endnu ikke-eksisterende, danske opslag om Mary Celeste. Også den ære må jeg altså overlade til andre derude.
#1870erne #ArthurConanDoyle #DoctorWho #kirkebøger #lænestolsekspert #MaryCeleste #Samsø #slægtsforskning #søfart #spøgelsesskib #Wikipedia
https://superkultur.dk/2024/08/24/var-der-en-dansker-ombord-paa-mary-celeste/
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AmigaOS 4 News – February 2024
Hi,
Welcome to the second AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup of 2024!
It has been yet another active month in the world of AmigaOS 4. We’ve got plenty of updates to software and releases. The A1222+ is not out the door yet, but hopefully, it will be in March. As you’ve noticed, you are reading this on the Old School Game Blog, not on the Gaming on AmigaOS 4 blog. I’ve melted the two together, so from now on the roundups will be hosted here.
Without further ado, let us move on to the news! 🙂
Software News
Let us start with some AI-related news. AmigaGPT is a text generation program that runs on the classic AmigaOS and AmigaOS 4. Utilizing the power of OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 architectures, this program provides state-of-the-art language modeling.
Features:
– Generates text based on input prompts
– UI customization
– Full conversation history
– Text-to-speechVersion 1.4.2 (2024-01-31) is now available from OS4Depot. They replaced clicktabs for AmigaOS 3.x since the version is too old and will crash. 3.x users can select the mode at startup.
Screenshot by PuniAfter hard work, HunoPPC is back with a massive update to the Super Nintendo emulator for AmigaOS4 called SNES9X NG.
Here are the changes from the previous version:
– Added modifications of prefs KEYBOARD on native GUI now!!
– Added on engine, new converter of keys intuition events to keys SDL2 events for new function of keyboard prefs
– Added recognition of duplicates in modified keys
– Added 2 new image for recognition, one for OK (green) and one for NOK (red)
– Rewinding cool option working now on game :-), use GUI for activate and add number of Mo for rewind dans on game press F12 for a moment to operate rewinding, IMPORTANT!! this hack is very big for your CPU, on X5000 90% of usage with 60FPS
– Fixed Vsync, now working with -vsync and for disable using -novsync (thanks to Kas1e)
– Fixed limiter of fps without Vsync
– Fixed loading Rom offset “Tintin in Tibet (Europe) (En,Es,Sv)
– Fixed loading Wild Guns, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers – The Fighting Edition with a good IRQ cycles and DMA delay
– Fixed LowMapRom and HiMapRom on memmap functions
– Optimized DSP2 for AmigaOS4
– Fixed small audio Crackling
– Fixed Speedup audio DSP1 and DSP2
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– Tipo fixed on locale (thanks Javier)
– Tipo fixed on SuperFX Mhz-> to ->%
– Fixed Run game selected with RETURN now!!
– Fixed quit GUI with ESCAPE
– Added cool sounds effects on native GUI (mario voice and yoshi voice)
– Added option -interpolationmethod for Sound Interpolation Method, Gaussian=0 / Linear=1 / Cubic=2 (default) / Sinc=3
– Remove Key Q for quit Snes9X
– Added new filters:
* 2xBR
* 2xBR-lv1
* DDT
* Scanlines 25%
* Dot Matrix
– Fixed draw time with FPS count
– Fixed HACKVIDEO config write
– Fixed INTERPOLATION config write
– Fixed OVERCLOCKCPU config write
– Added button for sounds effects on GUI
– New all catalogs
– Sound now is Threaded
– Fixed timing for all games with Vsync
– Fixed Joypad2, now working with the GUI launcher
– Added new hack option “-disablespritelimit” disable max sprite tiles rendered per line. Default = 34, Unlimited ~= 128
– Fixed Mute now working!!
– On game FULLSCREEN/WINDOW mode now working with = L_ALT + RETURN
– Added new option -emulatedmachine for a virtuel machine, activate a correct software rendering on internal engine (disable: vsync, FULLSCREEN_DESKTOP)
– Fixed commandline for all filters
– fixed commandline for support optical games: mouse, superscope, justifier and macsrifle.
– GUI is now V1.0.7
– Added to GUI news options: sound thread and Emulated machine (for QEMU and WinUAE machines)
– Fixed Vsync disable if you use emulated machine or rwinding options (thank to Javier)
– Added new images for inputs : Keyboard, joypad, mouse, superscope, justifier and macsrifle
– Now superscope working with a mouse Amiga
– fixed disabled prefs Buttons of joypad if you use other input
– Center the cursor on screen
– Support all optical games with cursor and mouse for shooting (move working, now i working on the buttons) IMPORTANT: Correctly choose the type of weapon suitable for the game otherwise it may not work correctly, MOUSE ONLY!!!
– Added new folder “Roms-Optical” for copy your games Guns or Optical (Konami Justifier, superscope, mouse and a special MacsRiffle)
– Fixed -nooverscan and center a screen on 320×240 mode (window and fullscreen)
– Fixed on mode -nooverscan and 320×240 centered screen with L_ALT + RETURN
– Fixed Justifier1 AimOffscreen Trigger button, now working with the center button of mouse
– Added 2 KEYS on KEYBOARD with optical mode:
* KEY HOME : “Superscope Pause”
* KEY END : “Superscope AimOffscreen”
– Fixed mode -emulatedmachine on all renderer
– Fixed if you use optical games with with L_ALT + RETURN disable a pointer on window mode
– Added 3 new images availablecover3dMSU1.png, availablecover3dOPTICAL.png and availablecover3dSUPERFX.png for not available previews
– GUI checking now all datas dependency for interface on launching and push requester if you have an error
– Fixed disable vsync on GUI with -emulatedmachine -nooverscan and -rewinding options
– Fix fps limiter on PAL mode
Screenshot by PuniThe emulator is available for download on OS4Depot:
OS4Depot – Your one stop for AmigaOS4 files
Rene Engel has created a video showing the emulator running on his AmigaOS 4 setup through QEMU. The footage was created with the previous version of SNES9X NG.
Leu is a spreadsheet application by Marcus Sackrow, which started as an Excel and OpenOffice viewer. Now it also features basic editing functions and a fully working parser.
Screenshot by PuniIt supports the loading of Excel (XLSX), Libre/OpenOffice (ods), ASCII (CSV), and TurboCalc (TCD) files. You can export the tables to Excel, Libre/OpenOffice, ASCII, HTML, or wiki tables. Version 0.08 is now available for download at OS4Depot.
Screenshot by PuniA. Pankalla has released an update to Luettje Bookholler, which is a personal finance program. For those of you who are curious about what «Luettje Bookholler» means (I have mentioned this in an earlier roundup, but will repeat it for new readers), I can tell you that it is German and means «Little Accountant». Version 1.87 contains several bug fixes and changes:
- Bug: Report account-flow has not offer the last years, only last 12 months.
- Bug: Long catogory names are not shown in ignition tables.
- Changes: Now also the values are shown in ignition pie-graphics.
- Bug: Corrects some little bugs in ignition-sheets.
SDL2 (Simple DirectMedia Layer 2) 2.30 was released in February. You can download it from OS4Depot, as well as find more information about it there:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=library/misc/sdl2.lha
Screenshot by PuniVersion 30.81 of AmiArcadia for AmigaOS 4, a Signetics-based machines emulator, has been released by James Jacobs.
According to the documentation, AmiArcadia supports the following systems:
- Emerson Arcadia 2001 console family (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.) (c. 1982);
- Interton VC 4000 console family (Acetronic, Cabel, Fountain, Hanimex, Interton, Prinztronic, Radofin, Rowtron, Soundic, Voltmace, Waddingtons, etc.) (c. 1978);
- Elektor TV Games Computer (1979);
- PIPBUG- and BINBUG-based machines (EA 77up2, EA 78up5, Signetics Adaptable Board Computer, Eurocard 2650, etc.) (1977-1978);
- Signetics Instructor 50 trainer (1978);
- Central Data 2650 computer (1977);
- PHUNSY computer (c. 1980);
- Ravensburger Selbstbaucomputer aka 2650 Minimal Computer trainer (1984);
- Hofacker MIKIT 2650 trainer (1978);
- Astro Wars, Galaxia, Laser Battle and Lazarian coin-ops by Zaccaria (1979-1981);
- Malzak 1 and 2 coin-ops by Kitronix (c. 1981);
- AY-3-8500/8550/8600-based Pong systems (Coleco Telstar Galaxy, Sheen TVG-201, etc.) (1976-1977);
- VTech Type-right machine (1985)
It is packed with features, far too many to list here. Examples are ReAction GUI, load/save snapshots, windowed and fullscreen modes, CPU tracing, trainer, drag and drop support, graphics scaling, PAL/NTSC modes, frame skipping, and much more!
Screenshot by PuniHere is an overview of the changes since the last release:
Changes since V30.8:
Summary:
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
Details:
- arcadia: improved overlay text for basketball and horse racing.
- wa: arcadia: changed white to grey in sidebar game glyphs (for better contrast against default sidebar background).
- wa: arcadia: fixed: sidebar game glyphs for red clash and robot killer were swapped.
- incorporated Mikhail’s latest Russian translation.
- aa: fixed: it was crashing during exit if eg. a needed ReAction class was not available.
- assembler: fixed: INCBIN directive was broken.
- pipbug: now autostarts biorhythm (300 baud) and life (machine code).
- pipbug: fixed: VDU autoadjustment could result in a mislocated LED display.
- pipbug: adjusted VDU autosense settings for biorhythm, calendar maker, mazemaker.
- fixed: WC,WP command were writing garbage error messages.
- pipbug: improved compatibility (improves random number generator, russian roulette, etc.).
- pipbug,binbug: now silences sound when resetting.
- pipbug: now translates ENTER to Ctrl-L automatically for mastermind and revised mastermind.
- wa: fixed: first string sent to output window was not being displayed.
- pipbug: added knowledge about good dump of RYTMON.
- pipbug 2: added comment support for pipla example.
- pipbug: fixed: baud rate addresses were incorrect after reset (fixes pipla test).
- pipbug: added autostart for Micro BASIC programs.
AmiArcadia is free to download. 🙂 You can grab it from OS4Depot here:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=emulation/gamesystem/amiarcadia.lha
Here are the links to the authors websites:
http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/
HunoPPC and the Amiga French Team 2024 have ported Wipeout Rewrite to AmigaOS 4!
Screenshot by PuniThe rewrite of WipEout was done by Phoboslab. Here is the link to the Github page.
Please read on for more information from HunoPPC:
AmigaOS 4.1 Port by HunoPPC with the Amiga French Team 2024
Important: OpenGL renderer with MiniGL Library (no software)
A big thank you to Samo79 because this port for minigl would never have been made if he had not insisted 🙂
Use glewMGL port and code for minigl by HunoPPC 2024
Use SDL2 port by Capehill
IMPORTANT!! If you use hack GUI please check your DEVS/MONITOR/”driver” for add all new resolutions, thanks.
First release 1.0.0 AmigaOS4
- Added GUI for start a new prefs on live (important !! it’s an hack)
- Added Icon created by me
- Fixed loading texture with glewMGL
- Fixed fullscreen mode on glewMGL
- Added KPH counter on screen (thanks Samo79)
The game can be downloaded from OS4Depot, but the archive does not contain the assets (textures, 3d models, etc.) required to run the game. You can find the download link for the data files in the documentation on OS4Depot. 🙂
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/driving/wipeout.lha
The screenshot is from George Sokianos page on Ko-fiVersion 2.4.6 of the WHD-Load front-end iGame was released in February. The AmigaOS 4 port is maintained by George Sokianos a.k.a. Walkero. This is a front-end application for launching WHDLoad games and demos.
Features include:
– Multiple WHDLoad slaves repositories on hard disk partitions
– On-demand scanning in repositories for installed WHDLoad slaves (games, demos etc.)
– Use game tool types on the run
– Shows game screenshot (screenshot window can be altered through
– tool types/settings use datatypes to load foreign formats)
– Categorization of the games and filtering
– Manual addition of non-WHDLoad games, demos, etc.
– Simple statistics
– Find-as-you-type search filterIf you’d like to read about the changes since the previous version, please have a look at the appropriate page on GitHub.
An update to Report+, a ReAction-based utility with nine functions, has been released by James Jacobs. It was made available on OS4Depot on February 18th. This tool can help you with generating Aminet- and OS4Depot-style readme files, performing batch processing on icons, and much more. Click here to go to the download page or to find information about the recent changes.
Several language catalog files For AmiUpdate have been uploaded to OS4Depot thanks to the work of Niels Bache (Danish), Samir Hawamdeh (Italian), Michael Merkel and Gerd Frank (German), Petrol (French), Javier de las Rivas (Spanish).
René W. Olsen has released version 1.27 of the Amiga VNC Server. It has been written from scratch, and according to the author, it still needs some work. The source code is available on GitHub. Click here to download the archive. He has also released version 2.7 of ReSrc4, an MC680x0 Disassembler.
Heretic II from Hyperion Entertainment is getting close to becoming available for purchase! I’ve been in touch with the Alinea Computer Shop. They will stock the game. I wrote them and asked them to reserve a copy, which they will. 😉 If you want to know more about Heretic II for AmigaOS 4, I recommend checking out this interview I did a while back with Steffen Häuser a.k.a. TheMagicSN, who ported it to AmigaOS 4.
AmiGemini version 0.11 was released on the February 20th. It was created by Karl Jeacle and uploaded to OS4Depot by Samir Hawamdeh. It is a browser for Gemini, Spartan, Gopher, and Finger. The source code is included.
Kas1e has released version 0.10 of WB2Filer. WB2Filer is a hack that patches Intuition’s functions via SetMethod() to allow transparently run of the Filer binary pointing to the given partition on Workbench’s desktop instead of the original Workbench windows. Please click here to get an overview of the changes since the last release.
Screenshot by PuniHexSee, a hex viewer that displays file contents in blocks of 16 characters per line, has been updated to version 1.1. The author is Retrami Software. It contains a few extra features that are not always available in other AmigaOS hex viewers. It can read any file up to 4 GB in size, while a single file buffer will not use more than 128 KB even for the largest file. Text and background colors can be set to any color, and it was written especially for AmigaOS 4.1.
– Added program information to the Screen Bar
– Added Tool Tips to the gadgets
– Enabled Localisation
– Added Text & Hex Search
– Added Text & Hex selection
– Enabled Home/End/PgUp/PgDown keysYou can download HexSee from OS4Depot.
MCE, Multi-game Character Editor, is a user-friendly open-source editor of character files, saved games, high score tables, levels, and graphics for 115 games. James Jacobs, the author, has now released version 14.61. Changes include a Dungeon Master 2 save game editor, and miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
On February 23rd, Michael Rupp released an update for the SonosController program, which allows you to control your Sonos speakers from any Amiga connected to the same network. The changelog can be found on OS4Depot, along with the program itself.
– NEW: first release for AROS x86
– NEW: ARexx command REINDEX to invoke re-indexing the Sonos music library
– NEW: include all icons in every distribution in new subdrawer “Icons”
– NEW: include additional icons by AMIGASYSTEM (thanks Carlos!)
– IMPROVED: reloading the browser with F5 will not loose the selected position and item anymore.
– FIXED: loading of data (playlists, queues, etc.) is no longer limited to 100 entries (bug introduced with 1.3).
– FIXED: if network is off the app won’t crash on startup but show an error message.
– FIXED: possible crash when clicking the “looking for Sonos…” entry.A major release this month was the update to Rave. Daniel Jedlicka, a.k.a. Trixie on Amiga forums, has released an updated version of Rave, his sound editor for AmigaOS 4 compatible computers.
Changes since the previous release are as follows:
– The program now keeps a list of recently opened files and has an associated item in the Project menu for quickly opening these files again.
– Reworked the file requester, which now features a more flexible Access Panel with a user-definable Favourites section.
– Another addition to the file requester is the Browsing History pop-up for selecting recently used paths.
– Fixed a playback-related bug that would make Rave unresponsive, waiting for a signal that never arrives.
– Updated documentation.Download link:
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=audio/edit/rave.lha
Rave requires AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 2 or newer. It also requires Enhancer Core classes (toolbar.gadget, infodata.gadget, select.gadget, shared.image).
Here is an overview of Rave’s features:
– A modern, configurable graphical user interface (GUI).
– A tabbed environment for managing multiple projects from within a single program window.
– A powerful custom file requester with preview playback and other useful features.
– A wide selection of editing functions with unlimited Undo.
– Asynchronous operation: performing a task in a project doesn’t block the other projects.
– Support for multiple clipboard units.
– Modular design with an object-oriented plugin system, which makes the program easy to extend.
– A wide range of supported audio file types and formats.Trixie has also published a new post on his blog, Rear Window, which is called Crawling back to life. There you can read more about the development of Rave.
Amiga-news.de reports that AmiUpdate has been updated twice in February. First to version 2.50, then to 2.51. Please visit amiga-news.de here to read the full story.
Another piece of news from amiga-news.de is about QEMU and the BBoot bootloader version 0.6. According to amiga-news.de, “BBoot is a simple, minimal bootloader for loading AmigaOS on QEMU-emulated AmigaOne and Pegasos2 machines, written by Amiga QEMU developer Balaton Zoltan.” Please click here to read the whole article concerning BBoot.
The last news is the release of version 6.22 of Codesets. More information and a download is available over at OS4Depot.
Miscellaneous
Versus is a demoscene chart and disk magazine created by two demo groups, Nukleus and Void, for Amiga OCS/ECS and AmigaOS 4. Nine issues have been released so far. The last one, Versus #9, came out for Classic Amiga and AmigaOS 4 in 2019.
Versus #10 is on the way, and voting has officially opened!
Cast your vote for your favorite demos, intros, programmers, musicians, and so forth! 🙂 The more votes collected, the more accurate the charts will be. Thank you in advance for your support!
You can find the Online votesheet here:
https://www.nukleus.nu/VersusVote.php
It is worth mentioning that you are not required to fill out all the fields.
We are very grateful for every vote we receive, and we really hope you’ll spend a few minutes filling out the votesheet as soon as possible. 🙂
Some of you might have noticed that I’ve not published much on Gaming on AmigaOS 4 recently. AmigaOS 4 related posts have been published on the Old School Game Blog instead. The reason is that I’ve decided to continue Gaming on AmigaOS 4 on Old School Game Blog from now on. I’m involved in many projects, such as those with Void (Amiga demo group), so it easier to blog in one place. 🙂
The AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup will continue, but on Old School Game Blog instead. I’ve added an AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup section to the site. Here is the link. I hope you’ll continue reading my blog posts about AmigaOS 4 and Amiga in general at Old School Game Blog.
Screenshot taken on February 28th by PuniThe A1222+ motherboard and a full A1222+ computer system were listed on the website of amigakit.fr in February. The price for a motherboard without RAM is 1,199 EUR. 4 GB of RAM costs 39,99 EUR extra. A full system will set you back 1,599 EUR. The final price depends on taxes, fees, and shipping. You can not order either one from the shop yet, but according to AmigaKit, they should be available soon. Here is a quote from AmigaKit dated February 12th:
“No, AmigaKit FR is getting ready for general sale. First stock arriving is for Early Adopters very shortly. A date for non-early adopters will be added to the webstore in the next week or so.”
Source: https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9258&start=60
A date has not been added yet (today it is February 29th). March is just around the corner. When the A1222+ was announced (again) in October, one was told that the boards would ship in October, or November at the latest. This information can be found at Discord, as well as on Amigans.net. Several months have passed since then, and as far as I know, no one has received the A1222+ yet. The Facebook page of AAA Technology has not been updated since October, so it is not easy for customers or potential buyers to know what is going on. I really hope the A1222+ will be released soon though, and I feel for all those who are waiting and waiting for it to arrive. I’m sure it will be a fun system to experiment with!
A preview of the March/April issue of Amiga Future has been published on the official website of the magazine. Here is the link.
The Lost C has published a video on YouTube showing the new HunoPPC port of WipeOut for AmigaOS 4.1 in action. He shows it running a Sam440, Sam460, and an Amiga 1200 with BlizzardPPC and BVision. The video is in Italian.
He is not the only one who has created a video of Wipeout. So has McFlyPPC. His video shows it running on an AmigaOne X5000.
Rene Engel has uploaded a video showing version 1.33 of the Dgen SEGA Mega Drive emulator running with QEMU / Pegasos 2.
Muf has created a review of the Velocap HDR Tbox Deluxe, which you can see here. It is in Polish.
In February we’ve been playing a game by Entwickler-X called Balance Blox on Amigans.net.
BillE is currently in the lead with a whopping 124,200 points! There’s still a little bit of time left if you want to try to beat the score and become this month’s game champion over at Amigans.net.
https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9472
Until next time
You’ve reached the end of this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup. Hope you have enjoyed reading the news. 🙂
Thanks to all of you for supporting this initiative by reading, spreading, commenting, and sending me messages. It is much appreciated!
Have a great day, and see you in the next roundup! 🙂
Best regards,
Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler
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“Bobby.. have you been playing with access codes again?” – illustration ‘Night of the Hackers‘, Newsweek, November 12th, 1984
This is the second in a series of blogs I’m writing about those times over the years that journalists got too close to the world of hackers and became part of their own news story. You can find the first entry, about the hacking of an Iowa university for a TV special, right here.
Night of the Hackers
I’ve written about how 1983 was the year that America woke up to the concept of hackers and became in equal parts fascinated with and fearful of hacking itself.
By 1984 journalists gradually moved from simply regurgitating the same short list of infamous hacking incidents or information gleaned from interviews with prominent early hackers who were caught, to chasing down their own stories, getting in amongst hackers in the wild.
Richard Sandza, a reporter for Newsweek, took on the identity of computer whiz-kid “Montana Wildhack” in late 1984 and decided to start dialling up hacker bulletin board systems (BBSes) across the US, so that he could see what hackers were discussing in private and what kinds of illicit information they were sharing.
Moving through Dragonfire’s offerings, you can only marvel at how conversant these teenagers are with the technical esoterica of today’s electronic age. Obviously they have spent a great deal of time studying computers, though their grammar and spelling indicate they haven’t been diligent in other subjects. You are constantly reminded of how young they are.
“Well it’s that time of year again. School is back in session so let’s get those high school computer phone numbers rolling in. Time to get straight A’s, have perfect attendance (except when you’ve been up all night hacking school passwords), and messing up you worst teacher’s paycheck.”
‘Night of the Hackers‘, Richard Sandza, Newsweek, November 12th, 1984
Richard Sandza shared with Newsweek readers the names and general location of many of the prominent underground BBSes of 1984, the names of hackers who ran or were posting on some of the BBSes and some of the topics being discussed. Posing as a hacker he chatted with denizens and operators of the BBSes he picked through for his article.
‘Night of the Hackers‘, Richard Sandza, Newsweek, November 12th, 1984I think this subterfuge along with the collection and disclosure of information by Sandza angered the US hacking scene at the time, any outsiders gathering information on hacking or hackers back then was labelled a “narc”, regardless of whether they were actually law enforcement or not.
The article lists the states various boards are located in and titbits of information about the content on the boards that would inevitably provoke pressure on US law enforcement to act. The article includes details such as that “Ranger’s Lodge is chock-full of phone numbers and passwords for government, university and corporate computers” and that on a Florida based BBS called Plovernet “amid a string of valid VISA and MasterCard numbers are dozens of computer phone numbers and passwords”.
An educated guess would be that the way Richard Sandza wrote about the hackers and their world probably angered them just as much.
In the article Sandza notes that the hackers he observes “have spent a great deal of time studying computers, though their grammar and spelling indicate they haven’t been diligent in other subjects” and that reading messages on the boards he was “constantly reminded of how young they are”.
You have to wonder if this information is accurate. Can this really be the phone number and password for Taco Bell’s computer? Do these kids really have the dial-up numbers for dozens of university computers? The temptation is too much. You sign off and have your computer dial the number for the Yale computer. Bingo — the words Yale University appear on your screen. You enter the password. A menu appears. You hang up in a sweat. You are now a hacker.
‘Night of the Hackers‘, Richard Sandza, Newsweek, November 12th, 1984
All in all ‘Night of the Hackers’ was an interesting article that gave a whistle-stop tour of some genuine underground hacker haunts of 1984, perhaps revealing a little too much in the process.
‘Computer hackers vow they’ll take revenge against reporter‘, Lisa Levitt Ryckman, Gainesville Sun, 5 December, 1984What happened next was probably predictable to anyone who knew the hacking scene well back then, but I imagine came as a bit of a shock to Richard Sandza.
The Revenge of the Hackers
‘The Revenge of the Hackers‘, illustration, Newsweek, December 10th, 1984Less than a month after ‘Night of the Hackers’ was published in Newsweek Richard Sandza had written a follow up in the magazine, ‘The Revenge of the Hackers‘, to document the personal fallout his initial article had caused. As Sandza observed in his follow up article, “within days, computer “bulletin boards” around the country were lit up with attacks on NEWSWEEK’s “Montana Wildhack” (a name I took from a Kurt Vonnegut character), questioning everything from my manhood to my prose style”.
In naming names, both BBSes and hackers, and trespassing throughout the back alleys of the burgeoning hacker scene of late 1984, Richard Sandza had essentially kicked a hornet’s nest and outraged hackers seemed determined to out-do each other in terms of exacting revenge.
The Associated Press quote Sandza in an article that I found in the Gainesville Sun on December 5th of 1984 as saying “I think the ones who are really ticked off feel threatened by this. Some said their parents read the article and shut down their bulletin boards. Others said they felt my reporting was not really fair because I was ripping them off because I wasn’t a hacker and phone ‘phreak'”
Sandza documents in ‘The Revenge of the Hackers‘ that “the hackers of America have called my home at least 2000 times” and that he was notified by a friendly hacker that “someone has broken into TRW and obtained a list of all your credit-card numbers, your home address, social-security number and wife’s name and is posting it on bulletin boards around the country”.
UPI and others reported on a BBS post by a hacker angry about the first Newsweek article, ‘I’m sure you guys have heard about Richard Standza (sic) … He’s the guy who wrote the obscene story about phreaking in NewsWeek (sic). Well my friend did a credit card check on TRW … try this number, it’s a VISA … Please nail this guy bad … Captain Quieg (sic).’
In parallel with this ad-hoc harassment was what was known as a “teletrial” or “tele-trial”, organized through, and taking place on, the Dragonfire BBS. According to the AP, “Sandza said he was put on teletrial on a Gainesville, Texas, bulletin board known as Dragonfire, with a prosecutor called Unknown Warrior and a judge known as Ax Murderer”.
Sandza described a teletrial as “a video-lynching in which a computer user with grievance dials the board and presses charges against the offending party”, in this case the charge against the Newsweek reporter was “endangering all phreaks and hacks”.
He has not abandoned Montana Wildhack, the alter ego that carried him into the computer underground when a Silicon Valley source first gave Sandza a few hackers’ bulletin-board telephone numbers. Logging on as Wildhack, Sandza has put up a spirited defense as he is subjected to “teletrial” on the underground BBS (Bulletin Board System) called Dragonfire. The charge, in the language of his anonymous accusers, is “endangering hacks and phreaks” — the odd spelling is a reference to “phonephreaks,” or the hackers who use electronic tones to steal long-distance telephone time. The rules of the trial are rigorously argued, with Ax Murderer sitting in as judge and Storm Bringer offering his services as public defender should Sandza not locate suitable counsel.
‘Hack Attack‘, Cynthia Gorney, Washington Post, December 6th, 1984
Teletrials are an absolutely fascinating topic and this incident is essentially the only time the practice broke out of the computer underground scene into mainstream media. They were, by all accounts, half in-joke and half a means for specific BBSes to self-police, a threat against scene transgressions, a way to maintain basic social order and discourage narcing.
Teletrials were apparently the creation of King Blotto, of the hacker BBS Blottoland. While teletrials are said to have peaked as a practice in the mid 1980’s I still heard the term used actively on IRC in the 90’s.
I tracked down an angry response to a history of the hacking underground article by notorious hacker charlatan Captain Zap that had been published in 2600 Magazine in 1988. The response highlights what the writer sees as various inaccuracies in the article by Zap, including his account of teletrials.
As for Richard Sandza, Tele-Trial still existed at the time of the publishing of his articles for Newsweek. The “Tele-Trial” he was put on was simply a conference of abusive kids who felt that he had given hackers unfair treatment. In retaliation they threatened him: a Captain Quieg posted his credit report and numerous kids ran up bills on his credit cards, sending assorted junk to his house.
Hackers cannot “perform the destruction” of anyone. All they can do is scare the shit out of “normal” people who are shocked that a bunch of kids can get their unlisted number, credit cards, and various other records, and abuse them.
In any case, Sandza is something of an exception since he managed to piss off a large percentage of people who were in a position to make life hard for him in return. Most people who disagree with him can write a complaint to Newsweek, but if you have the ability to bring your displeasure to his personal attention, in a way that will ensure he gives notice to it, wouldn’t you do the same thing? After all, it isn’t Newsweek you’re mad at, it’s Richard Sandza. Some of you probably wouldn’t, but that’s one of the fringe benefits of being a hacker. Instead of being bound by “the system’s” rules and regulations, you can get around it and let your conscience be your guide (if you happen to have a conscience).
‘A Reader’s Reply‘, Rancid Grapefruit, 2600 Magazine, Summer 1988
It is interesting to me that even other journalists described Sandza as a “writer who snitched”, as below. Also I just love “vengeful byte”, what great wording.
‘Writer who snitched feels vengeful byte of hackers‘, Associated Press, Orlando Sentinel, Wednesday, December 5th, 1984Cleveland area hacker King Blotto, as the apparent originator of the very concept of teletrials, was ironically Richard Sandza’s defender in the trial. I have to wonder if the fact that Sandza was very complimentary of Blotto in his original article had something to do with that. Sandza had spoken in glowing terms of “this teenager’s security” which was “as they say, awesome” and noted that “professional computer-security experts could learn something from this kid”.
Modesto Bee, December 11th, 1984A hacker called Ax Murderer was the presiding teletrial judge on Dragonfire, with another hacker known as Unknown Warrior as the prosecutor.
King Blotto eventually put his finger on the scales of digital justice, or as Sandza put it, “King Blotto has taken up my defense, using hacker power to make his first pleading: he dialed up Dragonfire, broke into its operating system and “crashed” the bulletin board, destroying all of its messages naming me.” However he noted that “the board is back up now, with a retrial in full swing. But then, exile from the electronic underground looks better all the time.“
By December 11th Steve Wilstein, reporting for the Associated Press, was writing the headline ”Teletrial’ clears Newsweek writer’ and that the “beleaguered Newsweek reporter” had “announced with relief” that he had been informed by King Blotto that he had been acquitted on the Dragonfire BBS but that “his telephone and credit card accounts are still under attack”.
Aftermath
‘Aid for hackers‘, AP, The News Tribune, 28th November, 1985Richard Sandza had his credit cards reissued with new numbers, had to contact the TRW credit agency and Lenox (Mass.) Savings Bank, a bank that had had their TRW account compromised which had then been used to grab his credit records. In the Washington Post Sandza says that he was not interested in trying to pursue charges against any of the hackers who victimised him, but that he felt “one of my biggest problems is where do I stop being a reporter and when do I start being a cop?”
“Last week, I got a call from a bank that issued my VISA Card and they told me there had been an attempt to charge. $1,100 from it,” he said. “They were unsure whether it had gone through.
“I honestly don’t know if this thing is going to die out,” he said. “I don’t know whether people out there are satisfied or whether someone feels he should get me. I do know that if I plug the phone in, it’ll ring.”
‘‘Teletrial’ clears Newsweek writer‘, Steve Wilstein – AP, Modesto Bee, December 11th, 1984
The whole saga of Richard Sandza and the hackers from beginning to end got a lot of prominent coverage in newspapers across the US. Other journalists definitely paid attention to the fate of their fellow reporter who found himself put on trial by teenage hackers, and the resulting mayhem in his life.
As well as drawing attention to hacker BBSes, hackers themselves and the world they inhabited the revenge campaign against Sandza for revealing hacker secrets ironically caused more secrets to make the national newspapers.
TRW access, access to credit agency systems that can be used to retrieve sensitive financial records, credit card numbers, home addresses, and Social Security numbers relating to an individual, was apparently fairly commonplace among hackers who wanted to get it. Sandza himself, after having his records rifled through, said he was offered TRW access by friendly hackers he discussed the system with.
‘Hackers can easily get credit information‘, Rita Beamish – Associated Press, Lawrence Journal-World, 9th December, 1984Information on more than 120 million consumers in the nation’s largest credit information storage system is readily available to computer pirates who pilfer access codes from its users, a spokeswoman for the credit company says.
So-called hackers invade TRW’s vast computerized credit library using codes stolen from the banks, stores or finance companies who are its customers, said Delia Fernandez, spokeswoman for the TRW’s information services division.
Most recently, Newsweek reporter Richard Sandza complained that hackers, apparently upset over an expose he wrote about their activities, entered the TRW system and got his VISA card number.
‘Hackers can easily get credit information‘, Rita Beamish – Associated Press, Lawrence Journal-World, 9th December, 1984
Although Sandza’s case highlighted the issue of hackers gaining access to credit agencies for fraud and doxing people this sort of issue continues to this day and hackers still buy and trade access to large equivalent databases.
‘Woodhead: Kids Give ‘Hackers’ Bad Name’, The Journal, 5 December 1984Some tech people of 1984 also waded in to comment on the harassment of Sandza, in The Journal on 5th of December 1984 (‘Woodhead: Kids Give ‘Hackers’ Bad Name’), Robert Woodhead, co-creator of a best selling computer game called Wizardry, labelled the hackers “misguided or evil kids” who were giving legitimate “hackers” a bad name.
WizardryRobert Woodhead went on to say “they’re really not ‘hackers,”” and that “we refer to them as ‘crackers’.”
“They’re really not all that skilled,” Woodhead went on to say. “Most really good hackers are sufficiently skilled that they wouldn’t be caught. People like this give the rest of us a bad name.”
In the programming business, Woodhead says, the crackers’ have made themselves an expensive nuisance by trading information on how to illegally enter privately owned computer systems in colleges, businesses and government agencies.
‘Woodhead: Kids Give ‘Hackers’ Bad Name’, The Journal, 5 December 1984
“It’s the dark side of computing,” Woodhead was quoted as saying, “It’s like dynamite. It’s very powerful, when it’s used correctly it can do a lot of good, but in the wrong hands, it can hurt a lot of people.”
‘Revenge of the computer whiz kids‘, Max Miller, The Sacramento Bee, December 5th, 1984For his part Sandza was surprisingly philosophical about everything other than the credit agency data leak and the credit card fraud. Sandza described the constant prank phone calls as was “sort of a game. They were calling me up, I was talking to some and hanging up on others”.
About a year after the fallout from his Newsweek articles died down Richard Sandza was still fairly magnanimous when discussing hackers, all things considered. In December of 1985 he spoke with researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and said of teenage hackers that “if we put all those brains in jail, that’s not going to solve any problems” and urged scientists to “adopt” them and give them a legitimate outlet to satisfy their curiosity about computers.
Richard Sandza interview on hackers, CBS News, August 1985I contacted Richard Sandza via email to ask if he wanted to add anything to this blog but never got a response, this to me is still one of the most fascinating stories about hackers and reporters in hacking history.
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Times are changing for Bigfoot hunters
As evidence for the reality of Bigfoot remains objectively poor, with promising finds deteriorating under scrutiny, the future for scientific cryptozoology looks troubling for those who committed their reputation to finding a biological creature. What comes next?
Several events in the history of bigfoot studies have boosted or burned the potential reality of the sasquatch. Three recent developments, in particular, shifted the tenuous foundation on which bigfoot researchers derive any public currency and social credibility. I argue that the general tide is turning on those who promote the idea of biological bigfoot. The biological concept is being replaced by a cultural version of bigfoot, which may work just as well financially. But first, it’s worthwhile to revisit some of the past key evidence examples that were intended to bolster the reality of bigfoot and what happened to them. Then, I present three examples to show how bigfoot research has lost critical parts of its foundation in the 2020s.
Jerry Crew and the Wallace prints
In 1958, the giant hairy creature of the Pacific Northwest gained its infamous moniker after huge prints were found in Northern California by Jerry Crew and then publicized by the Humboldt Times newspaper who named the printmaker “Bigfoot”. This finding set the scene for what was to come over the next 10 years – giving shape and structure to what was previously viewed as a tall tale or myth. In 2002, the family of Ray Wallace, who owned the company doing the work where the tracks were found, admitted Wallace had made the trackways himself with fake feet. The reveal made news at the time and was fairly influential. The average uninvested citizen heard the news and thought, “Bigfoot is a hoax.” Not so for the invested believers. The Wallace hoax claim was ultimately disregarded by many Bigfooters as they had already compiled significantly more trackway evidence that, in their minds, nullified this incident.
Photo by Dave Rubert
Dale Lee Wallace of Toledo reveals the original feet made from Alderwood his Uncle, Ray L. Wallace, used to make the now-famous bigfoot tracks in 1958.Skookum cast
The Skookum cast was discovered in fall of 2000 by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) during an expedition to the Skookum Meadows area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington. On location for a TV show, the muddy area was baited with fruit with the intent to capture prints. The resulting large print was interpreted by bigfoot researchers as a body imprint, which was cast and studied. Those involved saw significant detail in the print. Just a few months later, others familiar with wildlife traces concluded this was an elk wallow, complete with elk hairs. There was no other corroborating evidence for a sasquatch. Bigfooters had mixed feelings about the cast, but the hype about the body imprint ultimately faded away due to the elk conclusion and the hard-to-accept story about it being bigfoot-generated.
Jeffrey Meldrum with an annotated Skookum cast. BFRO.Critical literature
In 2004, a book landed on the scene explaining how Patterson did his infamous film (PGF). The Making of Bigfoot by Greg Long was supported by investigative work and extensive interviews that laid bare the fact the Patterson was an unscrupulous character. The book revealed that Bob Heironimus was in the Patty suit in the iconic film clip. Later in 2012, the scholarly book Abominable Science by Loxton and Prothero detailed how Patterson had constructed the film based on the 1955 account of William Roe. It matched liked a storyboard of what Patterson would later film. Long, Loxton, and Prothero’s works were pilloried by Bigfooters who refused to engage with the confounding or outright damning evidence. They rejected Long’s claims of the suit and the filming while conceding that Patterson was no angel. The two books were critical parts of the Bigfoot story but the believers would consistently dismiss any red flags that degraded the legacy, continuing to mostly consider the PGF as legitimate bigfoot evidence. After steering clear for decades, Bob Gimlin eventually began to make the rounds to the cryptid conventions telling a dramatic story of being there. Gimlin became a revered figure, bolstering the legitimacy of the PGF once again.
Ketchum’s DNA circus
In 2008, Melba Ketchum, a veterinarian at a forensics laboratory, was picked to analyze a suspected yeti hair from Bhutan collected as part of Josh Gates’s adventure show, Destination Truth. Over the next few years, Ketchum received additional samples and funding from various sources to conduct more analyses of hair, blood, saliva and tissue of supposed hairy hominin creatures. This included a sample from Justin Smeja who claimed he shot two bigfoots (he didn’t). After promising blockbuster results that would withstand scrutiny, many Bigfooters followed her every word. As of 2012, she had vociferous defenders and a publicist but others were deserting her and her trail of empty promises. The resulting paper was rejected by Nature. In February of 2013, the fiasco culminated in a sloppy paper published in a “journal” she set up for her sole purposes. Accompanying the official version of the paper was a video which supposedly showed a sleeping sasquatch – a brown, furry figure on the forest floor. DNA was supposedly obtained from this individual, named Matilda. The video was laughably bad and the DNA results were terribly botched, showing nothing of value. The paper was roundly destroyed by genetics experts. Ketchum ironically expressed that the creature had a partly supernatural origin. Years later, she ended up in further professional trouble and is now thoroughly discredited, with the episode almost entirely forgotten. Several bigfoot-curious people who followed the Ketchum saga were disgusted and either dropped out of the scene for a while or disappeared entirely.
Canonical stories
Two specific witness stories remain a solid part of the bigfoot/sasquatch canon. Albert Ostman told a dramatic but unverified story that he was abducted by a family of sasquatches in 1924. He came forward decades later in 1957 when nothing could be confirmed and bigfoot was now a media commodity. The Ape Canyon incident, also of 1924, described how several men were attacked by “wild apemen” in a cabin at Mt. St. Helens. Fred Beck publicized his version of the account in 1967. Beck considered the creatures “supernatural beings” but this aspect was frequently left out of the retelling by those who thought of bigfoot as a human-adjacent hominin. The Ape Canyon attack was disputed by the forest rangers but remained a graphic story repeated countless times to demonstrate the reality of these creatures.
Not Finding Bigfoot
Additional key videos, photos, recordings, tracks, and eyewitness accounts still make up the body of evidence presented for the reality of bigfoot. Yet, even the “best” evidence does not hold up well to scrutiny. Beginning in 2011, a new audience was exposed to the legend and the idea that bigfoots were EVERYWHERE thanks to nine years of a semi-scripted “reality” show called Finding Bigfoot. The show successfully placed the idea of bigfoot as a real animal back into the public consciousness. Those on the show made an effort to look like they knew what they were doing and serious about it. They encouraged people to tell their stories, which sound highly convincing. The kicker was… they never found bigfoot (to the degree that the scientific world would be satisfied). Thanks to TV, the internet, and the surge of amateur paranormal investigation as a popular pastime, bigfoot was again a hot topic and now regularly “sighted” across the continent. More researchers signed on to look for evidence themselves.
Around 2000, the internet ushered in a new means of communication allowing people with fringe ideas to find each other. The internet platforms not only were a way to hear new opinions, claims, and findings, but also leveled the field whereby anyone could be heard and present themselves as qualified “experts”. The situation created new self-styled bigfoot influencers and a place for the bigfoot-curious researchers to find information. In the 2020s, Bigfoot and other cryptids became more mainstream as cultural icons, as celebrated local folklore, and as commodities. The efforts to bring accounts of anomalous creatures to the masses transformed into an explosion of casual cryptid interest by a new generation. This new model of cryptids was less about discovery of a real animal and more about the performance of investigating mysteries and the joy of indulging in edgy beliefs, an aesthetic derived from the cryptid TV shows and social media platforms.
2025 may mark the beginning of a definable shift in Bigfootery as highlighted by three major developments. Time will tell how the community responds.
Death of Dr. Jeff Meldrum
Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum was the scientific face of bigfootery. A credentialed university researcher, Meldrum went to many bigfoot related events every year, was the in-demand spokesperson for the reality of bigfoot on TV, started a journal, and embraced his role as leading bigfoot expert. He also provided a measure of reason by rejecting dubious claims such as those by the aforementioned Melba Ketchum as well as Russian Yeti promoters. When Meldrum passed away in September of 2025, it was a shock and a heavy blow to the community of Bigfooters. There is no equivalent figure to fill his shoes. While others continue to reference his legacy and opinions, they cannot replace the familiar bearded professorial guy calming telling you that he knows bigfoots are real because of “science”.
There are not many candidates who could step up to fill the role of scientists of bigfoot studies. Active scientists are generally unwilling or unable to commit to work on what, for all intents and purposes, appears to be a dead end zoological subject. After 60 years of questionable, weak, and hoaxed evidence, the subject has instead slipped into a pop cultural phenomenon that people see as fun, with a few hundreds, perhaps, who consider themselves serious researchers. Like a bigfoot Pope, (an admittedly inappropriate metaphor) Meldrum kept the faith alive, providing guidance and authority. He encompassed a role that seems unlikely to be filled soon, if ever. But the lure of being the most important fish in a small pond may be tempting (e.g., Avi Loeb).
Absence of evidence
Every day that goes by without a biological finding means that Bigfoot is more likely to not exist. After nearly 60 years, we have no better evidence for its reality as a biological entity. If people are actually experiencing a Bigfoot as they say they are – in their backyards, crossing roadways, watching in the forests, moving around with their offspring, signalling to each other across distances – there should be actual evidence of their existence. Instead, we have useless visuals, prints without a print-maker, and scads of eyewitness accounts certainly influenced by cultural contagion that prompts people to see a Bigfoot when it is unlikely to be that at all. We now have the technology to watch game trail traffic, and to use drones and infrared equipment. We can map out all areas on earth remotely and in most places in person. Even though the number of serious seekers has increased, no biological sign of an unknown ape has been secured. Yet, Bigfooters insist discovery is close.
Lewis and Bartlett’s book Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry (2026) does a good job of showing how Bigfoot knowledge claims are constructed through absences: whatever cannot be attributed to other causes is interpreted as possible evidence of Bigfoot. Such a framing can work for constructing a hypothesis – such as, the missing cause is a “Bigfoot”. However, that hypothesis has yet to be confirmed. It has failed, so far.
Typical collection of data isn’t enough. Images and video will need corroborating evidence to prevent being discarded out of hand, DNA testing will need funds, deep analysis, and continued efforts. Gathering even more eyewitness accounts is worthless when the volumes already existing have never have led to a capture. Only a body or body part will do.
Instead, the process continues as it has for six decades – amateur speculation, excuses, and criticism of existing scientific processes. Seekers see a bigfoot everywhere but find it nowhere. Bigfooters who wish to maintain the position that a bigfoot can be found will have an ever more difficult time justifying their efforts and maintaining any credibility if the same tired old evidence is all that gets presented. In reference to Meldrum’s passing, the field lacks scientific leadership.
PGF film hoax reveal
The vehement reaction by some Bigfooters to the assertion that the Patterson film has been solidly and conclusively demonstrated to be a hoax (by Patterson and Gimlin, et al.) has been a textbook example of cognitive dissonance. (See Long hidden evidence blows up the reality of the Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot film) While it is fair to say we should wait for the Capturing Bigfoot documentary to be available to assess it, it is NOT reasonable to also throw out excuses of how the debunking itself must have been faked. These same people who are denying the premise and claims of Capturing Bigfoot, as well as previous evidence of a hoax, will, ironically, take eyewitness accounts of bigfoot at face value. How will they square their rejection of facts from a physical film that everyone will be able to see? America is awash in obvious examples of how far people will reach to soothe their cognitive dissonance these days.
The hoax denialists claim the new pieces were AI generated, that the footage was from Roger’s other documentary, even that Patty Patterson is too old to remember and Clint Patterson is not a reliable claimant. None of this is remotely reasonable in the big picture. So far we have no public disputes of the claims from Bob Gimlin or the Pattersons. To me, that is the crucial point. They know it’s a hoax and this is the end of the line for this key piece of evidence. That realization hits hard with those for whom searching for a real animal has become an inherent part of their identity (and their revenue stream).
Eliminating the PGF doesn’t automatically correlate to the end of bigfoot. We still have the unsolved problem of people seeing and experiencing what they say they have. However, looking back at history, people also were sure they saw fairies, demons, angels, aliens, and spirits. This is not an easy enigma to unravel. The previous point of “absence of evidence” comes into play. Bigfooters cannot make their biological argument without outrageous mental acrobatics, distractions, and slight of hand.
A key piece of evidence revealed as invalid does not take down the whole system, but it makes some people on the inside start to doubt and many more on the outside say, “See! We told you this was nonsense.” Social ridicule also has the tendency to squelch further sighting reports and involvement. So, while some Bigfooters insist this too shall pass, I don’t think it will. What happens in response to the public release of Capturing Bigfoot will be illuminating.
Still the #1 cryptid
As documented on this blog, bigfoot and other cryptids are more popular than ever before. However, finding a body is not a primary goal. Cryptid tourism is flourishing. Places are embracing their local monster lore even if the creature is an absurdity that has no basis in biology or reality. People appear to be looking for connection, experiences, and entertainment, maybe even a sense of enchantment in the world. They want to believe. This works much better when the mystery remains active. As we see daily, even when the explanation punches us in the face, we would rather continue to believe our constructed “truth” instead. Cryptid media is on fire and there are more movies, books, and online content to peruse, including merch so you can advertise your belief to those around you. Cultural bigfoot is not equivalent to physical bigfoot, but it’s not nothing. And, it’s still important.
Those with museums, podcasts and YouTube channels, even TV shows, will still rake in the viewers who yearn for the mystery and experience. Conventions and festivals will still attract fans. Bigfoot remains the #1 North American cryptid. Bigfoot is iconic, and commodified, Americana that is not going away soon. The PGF, if not a film of a real bigfoot, is a universally-successful hoax. And that’s really something.
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Times are changing for Bigfoot hunters
As evidence for the reality of Bigfoot remains objectively poor, with promising finds deteriorating under scrutiny, the future for scientific cryptozoology looks troubling for those who committed their reputation to finding a biological creature. What comes next?
Several events in the history of bigfoot studies have boosted or burned the potential reality of the sasquatch. Three recent developments, in particular, shifted the tenuous foundation on which bigfoot researchers derive any public currency and social credibility. I argue that the general tide is turning on those who promote the idea of biological bigfoot. The biological concept is being replaced by a cultural version of bigfoot, which may work just as well financially. But first, it’s worthwhile to revisit some of the past key evidence examples that were intended to bolster the reality of bigfoot and what happened to them. Then, I present three examples to show how bigfoot research has lost critical parts of its foundation in the 2020s.
Jerry Crew and the Wallace prints
In 1958, the giant hairy creature of the Pacific Northwest gained its infamous moniker after huge prints were found in Northern California by Jerry Crew and then publicized by the Humboldt Times newspaper who named the printmaker “Bigfoot”. This finding set the scene for what was to come over the next 10 years – giving shape and structure to what was previously viewed as a tall tale or myth. In 2002, the family of Ray Wallace, who owned the company doing the work where the tracks were found, admitted Wallace had made the trackways himself with fake feet. The reveal made news at the time and was fairly influential. The average uninvested citizen heard the news and thought, “Bigfoot is a hoax.” Not so for the invested believers. The Wallace hoax claim was ultimately disregarded by many Bigfooters as they had already compiled significantly more trackway evidence that, in their minds, nullified this incident.
Photo by Dave Rubert
Dale Lee Wallace of Toledo reveals the original feet made from Alderwood his Uncle, Ray L. Wallace, used to make the now-famous bigfoot tracks in 1958.Skookum cast
The Skookum cast was discovered in fall of 2000 by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) during an expedition to the Skookum Meadows area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington. On location for a TV show, the muddy area was baited with fruit with the intent to capture prints. The resulting large print was interpreted by bigfoot researchers as a body imprint, which was cast and studied. Those involved saw significant detail in the print. Just a few months later, others familiar with wildlife traces concluded this was an elk wallow, complete with elk hairs. There was no other corroborating evidence for a sasquatch. Bigfooters had mixed feelings about the cast, but the hype about the body imprint ultimately faded away due to the elk conclusion and the hard-to-accept story about it being bigfoot-generated.
Jeffrey Meldrum with an annotated Skookum cast. BFRO.Critical literature
In 2004, a book landed on the scene explaining how Patterson did his infamous film (PGF). The Making of Bigfoot by Greg Long was supported by investigative work and extensive interviews that laid bare the fact the Patterson was an unscrupulous character. The book revealed that Bob Heironimus was in the Patty suit in the iconic film clip. Later in 2012, the scholarly book Abominable Science by Loxton and Prothero detailed how Patterson had constructed the film based on the 1955 account of William Roe. It matched liked a storyboard of what Patterson would later film. Long, Loxton, and Prothero’s works were pilloried by Bigfooters who refused to engage with the confounding or outright damning evidence. They rejected Long’s claims of the suit and the filming while conceding that Patterson was no angel. The two books were critical parts of the Bigfoot story but the believers would consistently dismiss any red flags that degraded the legacy, continuing to mostly consider the PGF as legitimate bigfoot evidence. After steering clear for decades, Bob Gimlin eventually began to make the rounds to the cryptid conventions telling a dramatic story of being there. Gimlin became a revered figure, bolstering the legitimacy of the PGF once again.
Ketchum’s DNA circus
In 2008, Melba Ketchum, a veterinarian at a forensics laboratory, was picked to analyze a suspected yeti hair from Bhutan collected as part of Josh Gates’s adventure show, Destination Truth. Over the next few years, Ketchum received additional samples and funding from various sources to conduct more analyses of hair, blood, saliva and tissue of supposed hairy hominin creatures. This included a sample from Justin Smeja who claimed he shot two bigfoots (he didn’t). After promising blockbuster results that would withstand scrutiny, many Bigfooters followed her every word. As of 2012, she had vociferous defenders and a publicist but others were deserting her and her trail of empty promises. The resulting paper was rejected by Nature. In February of 2013, the fiasco culminated in a sloppy paper published in a “journal” she set up for her sole purposes. Accompanying the official version of the paper was a video which supposedly showed a sleeping sasquatch – a brown, furry figure on the forest floor. DNA was supposedly obtained from this individual, named Matilda. The video was laughably bad and the DNA results were terribly botched, showing nothing of value. The paper was roundly destroyed by genetics experts. Ketchum ironically expressed that the creature had a partly supernatural origin. Years later, she ended up in further professional trouble and is now thoroughly discredited, with the episode almost entirely forgotten. Several bigfoot-curious people who followed the Ketchum saga were disgusted and either dropped out of the scene for a while or disappeared entirely.
Canonical stories
Two specific witness stories remain a solid part of the bigfoot/sasquatch canon. Albert Ostman told a dramatic but unverified story that he was abducted by a family of sasquatches in 1924. He came forward decades later in 1957 when nothing could be confirmed and bigfoot was now a media commodity. The Ape Canyon incident, also of 1924, described how several men were attacked by “wild apemen” in a cabin at Mt. St. Helens. Fred Beck publicized his version of the account in 1967. Beck considered the creatures “supernatural beings” but this aspect was frequently left out of the retelling by those who thought of bigfoot as a human-adjacent hominin. The Ape Canyon attack was disputed by the forest rangers but remained a graphic story repeated countless times to demonstrate the reality of these creatures.
Not Finding Bigfoot
Additional key videos, photos, recordings, tracks, and eyewitness accounts still make up the body of evidence presented for the reality of bigfoot. Yet, even the “best” evidence does not hold up well to scrutiny. Beginning in 2011, a new audience was exposed to the legend and the idea that bigfoots were EVERYWHERE thanks to nine years of a semi-scripted “reality” show called Finding Bigfoot. The show successfully placed the idea of bigfoot as a real animal back into the public consciousness. Those on the show made an effort to look like they knew what they were doing and serious about it. They encouraged people to tell their stories, which sound highly convincing. The kicker was… they never found bigfoot (to the degree that the scientific world would be satisfied). Thanks to TV, the internet, and the surge of amateur paranormal investigation as a popular pastime, bigfoot was again a hot topic and now regularly “sighted” across the continent. More researchers signed on to look for evidence themselves.
Around 2000, the internet ushered in a new means of communication allowing people with fringe ideas to find each other. The internet platforms not only were a way to hear new opinions, claims, and findings, but also leveled the field whereby anyone could be heard and present themselves as qualified “experts”. The situation created new self-styled bigfoot influencers and a place for the bigfoot-curious researchers to find information. In the 2020s, Bigfoot and other cryptids became more mainstream as cultural icons, as celebrated local folklore, and as commodities. The efforts to bring accounts of anomalous creatures to the masses transformed into an explosion of casual cryptid interest by a new generation. This new model of cryptids was less about discovery of a real animal and more about the performance of investigating mysteries and the joy of indulging in edgy beliefs, an aesthetic derived from the cryptid TV shows and social media platforms.
2025 may mark the beginning of a definable shift in Bigfootery as highlighted by three major developments. Time will tell how the community responds.
Death of Dr. Jeff Meldrum
Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum was the scientific face of bigfootery. A credentialed university researcher, Meldrum went to many bigfoot related events every year, was the in-demand spokesperson for the reality of bigfoot on TV, started a journal, and embraced his role as leading bigfoot expert. He also provided a measure of reason by rejecting dubious claims such as those by the aforementioned Melba Ketchum as well as Russian Yeti promoters. When Meldrum passed away in September of 2025, it was a shock and a heavy blow to the community of Bigfooters. There is no equivalent figure to fill his shoes. While others continue to reference his legacy and opinions, they cannot replace the familiar bearded professorial guy calming telling you that he knows bigfoots are real because of “science”.
There are not many candidates who could step up to fill the role of scientists of bigfoot studies. Active scientists are generally unwilling or unable to commit to work on what, for all intents and purposes, appears to be a dead end zoological subject. After 60 years of questionable, weak, and hoaxed evidence, the subject has instead slipped into a pop cultural phenomenon that people see as fun, with a few hundreds, perhaps, who consider themselves serious researchers. Like a bigfoot Pope, (an admittedly inappropriate metaphor) Meldrum kept the faith alive, providing guidance and authority. He encompassed a role that seems unlikely to be filled soon, if ever. But the lure of being the most important fish in a small pond may be tempting (e.g., Avi Loeb).
Absence of evidence
Every day that goes by without a biological finding means that Bigfoot is more likely to not exist. After nearly 60 years, we have no better evidence for its reality as a biological entity. If people are actually experiencing a Bigfoot as they say they are – in their backyards, crossing roadways, watching in the forests, moving around with their offspring, signalling to each other across distances – there should be actual evidence of their existence. Instead, we have useless visuals, prints without a print-maker, and scads of eyewitness accounts certainly influenced by cultural contagion that prompts people to see a Bigfoot when it is unlikely to be that at all. We now have the technology to watch game trail traffic, and to use drones and infrared equipment. We can map out all areas on earth remotely and in most places in person. Even though the number of serious seekers has increased, no biological sign of an unknown ape has been secured. Yet, Bigfooters insist discovery is close.
Lewis and Bartlett’s book Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry (2026) does a good job of showing how Bigfoot knowledge claims are constructed through absences: whatever cannot be attributed to other causes is interpreted as possible evidence of Bigfoot. Such a framing can work for constructing a hypothesis – such as, the missing cause is a “Bigfoot”. However, that hypothesis has yet to be confirmed. It has failed, so far.
Typical collection of data isn’t enough. Images and video will need corroborating evidence to prevent being discarded out of hand, DNA testing will need funds, deep analysis, and continued efforts. Gathering even more eyewitness accounts is worthless when the volumes already existing have never have led to a capture. Only a body or body part will do.
Instead, the process continues as it has for six decades – amateur speculation, excuses, and criticism of existing scientific processes. Seekers see a bigfoot everywhere but find it nowhere. Bigfooters who wish to maintain the position that a bigfoot can be found will have an ever more difficult time justifying their efforts and maintaining any credibility if the same tired old evidence is all that gets presented. In reference to Meldrum’s passing, the field lacks scientific leadership.
PGF film hoax reveal
The vehement reaction by some Bigfooters to the assertion that the Patterson film has been solidly and conclusively demonstrated to be a hoax (by Patterson and Gimlin, et al.) has been a textbook example of cognitive dissonance. (See Long hidden evidence blows up the reality of the Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot film) While it is fair to say we should wait for the Capturing Bigfoot documentary to be available to assess it, it is NOT reasonable to also throw out excuses of how the debunking itself must have been faked. These same people who are denying the premise and claims of Capturing Bigfoot, as well as previous evidence of a hoax, will, ironically, take eyewitness accounts of bigfoot at face value. How will they square their rejection of facts from a physical film that everyone will be able to see? America is awash in obvious examples of how far people will reach to soothe their cognitive dissonance these days.
The hoax denialists claim the new pieces were AI generated, that the footage was from Roger’s other documentary, even that Patty Patterson is too old to remember and Clint Patterson is not a reliable claimant. None of this is remotely reasonable in the big picture. So far we have no public disputes of the claims from Bob Gimlin or the Pattersons. To me, that is the crucial point. They know it’s a hoax and this is the end of the line for this key piece of evidence. That realization hits hard with those for whom searching for a real animal has become an inherent part of their identity (and their revenue stream).
Eliminating the PGF doesn’t automatically correlate to the end of bigfoot. We still have the unsolved problem of people seeing and experiencing what they say they have. However, looking back at history, people also were sure they saw fairies, demons, angels, aliens, and spirits. This is not an easy enigma to unravel. The previous point of “absence of evidence” comes into play. Bigfooters cannot make their biological argument without outrageous mental acrobatics, distractions, and slight of hand.
A key piece of evidence revealed as invalid does not take down the whole system, but it makes some people on the inside start to doubt and many more on the outside say, “See! We told you this was nonsense.” Social ridicule also has the tendency to squelch further sighting reports and involvement. So, while some Bigfooters insist this too shall pass, I don’t think it will. What happens in response to the public release of Capturing Bigfoot will be illuminating.
Still the #1 cryptid
As documented on this blog, bigfoot and other cryptids are more popular than ever before. However, finding a body is not a primary goal. Cryptid tourism is flourishing. Places are embracing their local monster lore even if the creature is an absurdity that has no basis in biology or reality. People appear to be looking for connection, experiences, and entertainment, maybe even a sense of enchantment in the world. They want to believe. This works much better when the mystery remains active. As we see daily, even when the explanation punches us in the face, we would rather continue to believe our constructed “truth” instead. Cryptid media is on fire and there are more movies, books, and online content to peruse, including merch so you can advertise your belief to those around you. Cultural bigfoot is not equivalent to physical bigfoot, but it’s not nothing. And, it’s still important.
Those with museums, podcasts and YouTube channels, even TV shows, will still rake in the viewers who yearn for the mystery and experience. Conventions and festivals will still attract fans. Bigfoot remains the #1 North American cryptid. Bigfoot is iconic, and commodified, Americana that is not going away soon. The PGF, if not a film of a real bigfoot, is a universally-successful hoax. And that’s really something.
(Please note that comments are moderated. Substantive comments only will be posted.)
#Bigfoot #BigfootEvidence #BigfootScience #Bigfooters #CapturingBigfoot #FindingBigfoot #hoax #JeffreyMeldrum #Sasquatch -
Times are changing for Bigfoot hunters
As evidence for the reality of Bigfoot remains objectively poor, with promising finds deteriorating under scrutiny, the future for scientific cryptozoology looks troubling for those who committed their reputation to finding a biological creature. What comes next?
Several events in the history of bigfoot studies have boosted or burned the potential reality of the sasquatch. Three recent developments, in particular, shifted the tenuous foundation on which bigfoot researchers derive any public currency and social credibility. I argue that the general tide is turning on those who promote the idea of biological bigfoot. The biological concept is being replaced by a cultural version of bigfoot, which may work just as well financially. But first, it’s worthwhile to revisit some of the past key evidence examples that were intended to bolster the reality of bigfoot and what happened to them. Then, I present three examples to show how bigfoot research has lost critical parts of its foundation in the 2020s.
Jerry Crew and the Wallace prints
In 1958, the giant hairy creature of the Pacific Northwest gained its infamous moniker after huge prints were found in Northern California by Jerry Crew and then publicized by the Humboldt Times newspaper who named the printmaker “Bigfoot”. This finding set the scene for what was to come over the next 10 years – giving shape and structure to what was previously viewed as a tall tale or myth. In 2002, the family of Ray Wallace, who owned the company doing the work where the tracks were found, admitted Wallace had made the trackways himself with fake feet. The reveal made news at the time and was fairly influential. The average uninvested citizen heard the news and thought, “Bigfoot is a hoax.” Not so for the invested believers. The Wallace hoax claim was ultimately disregarded by many Bigfooters as they had already compiled significantly more trackway evidence that, in their minds, nullified this incident.
Photo by Dave Rubert
Dale Lee Wallace of Toledo reveals the original feet made from Alderwood his Uncle, Ray L. Wallace, used to make the now-famous bigfoot tracks in 1958.Skookum cast
The Skookum cast was discovered in fall of 2000 by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) during an expedition to the Skookum Meadows area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington. On location for a TV show, the muddy area was baited with fruit with the intent to capture prints. The resulting large print was interpreted by bigfoot researchers as a body imprint, which was cast and studied. Those involved saw significant detail in the print. Just a few months later, others familiar with wildlife traces concluded this was an elk wallow, complete with elk hairs. There was no other corroborating evidence for a sasquatch. Bigfooters had mixed feelings about the cast, but the hype about the body imprint ultimately faded away due to the elk conclusion and the hard-to-accept story about it being bigfoot-generated.
Jeffrey Meldrum with an annotated Skookum cast. BFRO.Critical literature
In 2004, a book landed on the scene explaining how Patterson did his infamous film (PGF). The Making of Bigfoot by Greg Long was supported by investigative work and extensive interviews that laid bare the fact the Patterson was an unscrupulous character. The book revealed that Bob Heironimus was in the Patty suit in the iconic film clip. Later in 2012, the scholarly book Abominable Science by Loxton and Prothero detailed how Patterson had constructed the film based on the 1955 account of William Roe. It matched liked a storyboard of what Patterson would later film. Long, Loxton, and Prothero’s works were pilloried by Bigfooters who refused to engage with the confounding or outright damning evidence. They rejected Long’s claims of the suit and the filming while conceding that Patterson was no angel. The two books were critical parts of the Bigfoot story but the believers would consistently dismiss any red flags that degraded the legacy, continuing to mostly consider the PGF as legitimate bigfoot evidence. After steering clear for decades, Bob Gimlin eventually began to make the rounds to the cryptid conventions telling a dramatic story of being there. Gimlin became a revered figure, bolstering the legitimacy of the PGF once again.
Ketchum’s DNA circus
In 2008, Melba Ketchum, a veterinarian at a forensics laboratory, was picked to analyze a suspected yeti hair from Bhutan collected as part of Josh Gates’s adventure show, Destination Truth. Over the next few years, Ketchum received additional samples and funding from various sources to conduct more analyses of hair, blood, saliva and tissue of supposed hairy hominin creatures. This included a sample from Justin Smeja who claimed he shot two bigfoots (he didn’t). After promising blockbuster results that would withstand scrutiny, many Bigfooters followed her every word. As of 2012, she had vociferous defenders and a publicist but others were deserting her and her trail of empty promises. The resulting paper was rejected by Nature. In February of 2013, the fiasco culminated in a sloppy paper published in a “journal” she set up for her sole purposes. Accompanying the official version of the paper was a video which supposedly showed a sleeping sasquatch – a brown, furry figure on the forest floor. DNA was supposedly obtained from this individual, named Matilda. The video was laughably bad and the DNA results were terribly botched, showing nothing of value. The paper was roundly destroyed by genetics experts. Ketchum ironically expressed that the creature had a partly supernatural origin. Years later, she ended up in further professional trouble and is now thoroughly discredited, with the episode almost entirely forgotten. Several bigfoot-curious people who followed the Ketchum saga were disgusted and either dropped out of the scene for a while or disappeared entirely.
Canonical stories
Two specific witness stories remain a solid part of the bigfoot/sasquatch canon. Albert Ostman told a dramatic but unverified story that he was abducted by a family of sasquatches in 1924. He came forward decades later in 1957 when nothing could be confirmed and bigfoot was now a media commodity. The Ape Canyon incident, also of 1924, described how several men were attacked by “wild apemen” in a cabin at Mt. St. Helens. Fred Beck publicized his version of the account in 1967. Beck considered the creatures “supernatural beings” but this aspect was frequently left out of the retelling by those who thought of bigfoot as a human-adjacent hominin. The Ape Canyon attack was disputed by the forest rangers but remained a graphic story repeated countless times to demonstrate the reality of these creatures.
Not Finding Bigfoot
Additional key videos, photos, recordings, tracks, and eyewitness accounts still make up the body of evidence presented for the reality of bigfoot. Yet, even the “best” evidence does not hold up well to scrutiny. Beginning in 2011, a new audience was exposed to the legend and the idea that bigfoots were EVERYWHERE thanks to nine years of a semi-scripted “reality” show called Finding Bigfoot. The show successfully placed the idea of bigfoot as a real animal back into the public consciousness. Those on the show made an effort to look like they knew what they were doing and serious about it. They encouraged people to tell their stories, which sound highly convincing. The kicker was… they never found bigfoot (to the degree that the scientific world would be satisfied). Thanks to TV, the internet, and the surge of amateur paranormal investigation as a popular pastime, bigfoot was again a hot topic and now regularly “sighted” across the continent. More researchers signed on to look for evidence themselves.
Around 2000, the internet ushered in a new means of communication allowing people with fringe ideas to find each other. The internet platforms not only were a way to hear new opinions, claims, and findings, but also leveled the field whereby anyone could be heard and present themselves as qualified “experts”. The situation created new self-styled bigfoot influencers and a place for the bigfoot-curious researchers to find information. In the 2020s, Bigfoot and other cryptids became more mainstream as cultural icons, as celebrated local folklore, and as commodities. The efforts to bring accounts of anomalous creatures to the masses transformed into an explosion of casual cryptid interest by a new generation. This new model of cryptids was less about discovery of a real animal and more about the performance of investigating mysteries and the joy of indulging in edgy beliefs, an aesthetic derived from the cryptid TV shows and social media platforms.
2025 may mark the beginning of a definable shift in Bigfootery as highlighted by three major developments. Time will tell how the community responds.
Death of Dr. Jeff Meldrum
Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum was the scientific face of bigfootery. A credentialed university researcher, Meldrum went to many bigfoot related events every year, was the in-demand spokesperson for the reality of bigfoot on TV, started a journal, and embraced his role as leading bigfoot expert. He also provided a measure of reason by rejecting dubious claims such as those by the aforementioned Melba Ketchum as well as Russian Yeti promoters. When Meldrum passed away in September of 2025, it was a shock and a heavy blow to the community of Bigfooters. There is no equivalent figure to fill his shoes. While others continue to reference his legacy and opinions, they cannot replace the familiar bearded professorial guy calming telling you that he knows bigfoots are real because of “science”.
There are not many candidates who could step up to fill the role of scientists of bigfoot studies. Active scientists are generally unwilling or unable to commit to work on what, for all intents and purposes, appears to be a dead end zoological subject. After 60 years of questionable, weak, and hoaxed evidence, the subject has instead slipped into a pop cultural phenomenon that people see as fun, with a few hundreds, perhaps, who consider themselves serious researchers. Like a bigfoot Pope, (an admittedly inappropriate metaphor) Meldrum kept the faith alive, providing guidance and authority. He encompassed a role that seems unlikely to be filled soon, if ever. But the lure of being the most important fish in a small pond may be tempting (e.g., Avi Loeb).
Absence of evidence
Every day that goes by without a biological finding means that Bigfoot is more likely to not exist. After nearly 60 years, we have no better evidence for its reality as a biological entity. If people are actually experiencing a Bigfoot as they say they are – in their backyards, crossing roadways, watching in the forests, moving around with their offspring, signalling to each other across distances – there should be actual evidence of their existence. Instead, we have useless visuals, prints without a print-maker, and scads of eyewitness accounts certainly influenced by cultural contagion that prompts people to see a Bigfoot when it is unlikely to be that at all. We now have the technology to watch game trail traffic, and to use drones and infrared equipment. We can map out all areas on earth remotely and in most places in person. Even though the number of serious seekers has increased, no biological sign of an unknown ape has been secured. Yet, Bigfooters insist discovery is close.
Lewis and Bartlett’s book Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry (2026) does a good job of showing how Bigfoot knowledge claims are constructed through absences: whatever cannot be attributed to other causes is interpreted as possible evidence of Bigfoot. Such a framing can work for constructing a hypothesis – such as, the missing cause is a “Bigfoot”. However, that hypothesis has yet to be confirmed. It has failed, so far.
Typical collection of data isn’t enough. Images and video will need corroborating evidence to prevent being discarded out of hand, DNA testing will need funds, deep analysis, and continued efforts. Gathering even more eyewitness accounts is worthless when the volumes already existing have never have led to a capture. Only a body or body part will do.
Instead, the process continues as it has for six decades – amateur speculation, excuses, and criticism of existing scientific processes. Seekers see a bigfoot everywhere but find it nowhere. Bigfooters who wish to maintain the position that a bigfoot can be found will have an ever more difficult time justifying their efforts and maintaining any credibility if the same tired old evidence is all that gets presented. In reference to Meldrum’s passing, the field lacks scientific leadership.
PGF film hoax reveal
The vehement reaction by some Bigfooters to the assertion that the Patterson film has been solidly and conclusively demonstrated to be a hoax (by Patterson and Gimlin, et al.) has been a textbook example of cognitive dissonance. (See Long hidden evidence blows up the reality of the Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot film) While it is fair to say we should wait for the Capturing Bigfoot documentary to be available to assess it, it is NOT reasonable to also throw out excuses of how the debunking itself must have been faked. These same people who are denying the premise and claims of Capturing Bigfoot, as well as previous evidence of a hoax, will, ironically, take eyewitness accounts of bigfoot at face value. How will they square their rejection of facts from a physical film that everyone will be able to see? America is awash in obvious examples of how far people will reach to soothe their cognitive dissonance these days.
The hoax denialists claim the new pieces were AI generated, that the footage was from Roger’s other documentary, even that Patty Patterson is too old to remember and Clint Patterson is not a reliable claimant. None of this is remotely reasonable in the big picture. So far we have no public disputes of the claims from Bob Gimlin or the Pattersons. To me, that is the crucial point. They know it’s a hoax and this is the end of the line for this key piece of evidence. That realization hits hard with those for whom searching for a real animal has become an inherent part of their identity (and their revenue stream).
Eliminating the PGF doesn’t automatically correlate to the end of bigfoot. We still have the unsolved problem of people seeing and experiencing what they say they have. However, looking back at history, people also were sure they saw fairies, demons, angels, aliens, and spirits. This is not an easy enigma to unravel. The previous point of “absence of evidence” comes into play. Bigfooters cannot make their biological argument without outrageous mental acrobatics, distractions, and slight of hand.
A key piece of evidence revealed as invalid does not take down the whole system, but it makes some people on the inside start to doubt and many more on the outside say, “See! We told you this was nonsense.” Social ridicule also has the tendency to squelch further sighting reports and involvement. So, while some Bigfooters insist this too shall pass, I don’t think it will. What happens in response to the public release of Capturing Bigfoot will be illuminating.
Still the #1 cryptid
As documented on this blog, bigfoot and other cryptids are more popular than ever before. However, finding a body is not a primary goal. Cryptid tourism is flourishing. Places are embracing their local monster lore even if the creature is an absurdity that has no basis in biology or reality. People appear to be looking for connection, experiences, and entertainment, maybe even a sense of enchantment in the world. They want to believe. This works much better when the mystery remains active. As we see daily, even when the explanation punches us in the face, we would rather continue to believe our constructed “truth” instead. Cryptid media is on fire and there are more movies, books, and online content to peruse, including merch so you can advertise your belief to those around you. Cultural bigfoot is not equivalent to physical bigfoot, but it’s not nothing. And, it’s still important.
Those with museums, podcasts and YouTube channels, even TV shows, will still rake in the viewers who yearn for the mystery and experience. Conventions and festivals will still attract fans. Bigfoot remains the #1 North American cryptid. Bigfoot is iconic, and commodified, Americana that is not going away soon. The PGF, if not a film of a real bigfoot, is a universally-successful hoax. And that’s really something.
(Please note that comments are moderated. Substantive comments only will be posted.)
#Bigfoot #BigfootEvidence #BigfootScience #Bigfooters #CapturingBigfoot #FindingBigfoot #hoax #JeffreyMeldrum #Sasquatch -
Times are changing for Bigfoot hunters
As evidence for the reality of Bigfoot remains objectively poor, with promising finds deteriorating under scrutiny, the future for scientific cryptozoology looks troubling for those who committed their reputation to finding a biological creature. What comes next?
Several events in the history of bigfoot studies have boosted or burned the potential reality of the sasquatch. Three recent developments, in particular, shifted the tenuous foundation on which bigfoot researchers derive any public currency and social credibility. I argue that the general tide is turning on those who promote the idea of biological bigfoot. The biological concept is being replaced by a cultural version of bigfoot, which may work just as well financially. But first, it’s worthwhile to revisit some of the past key evidence examples that were intended to bolster the reality of bigfoot and what happened to them. Then, I present three examples to show how bigfoot research has lost critical parts of its foundation in the 2020s.
Jerry Crew and the Wallace prints
In 1958, the giant hairy creature of the Pacific Northwest gained its infamous moniker after huge prints were found in Northern California by Jerry Crew and then publicized by the Humboldt Times newspaper who named the printmaker “Bigfoot”. This finding set the scene for what was to come over the next 10 years – giving shape and structure to what was previously viewed as a tall tale or myth. In 2002, the family of Ray Wallace, who owned the company doing the work where the tracks were found, admitted Wallace had made the trackways himself with fake feet. The reveal made news at the time and was fairly influential. The average uninvested citizen heard the news and thought, “Bigfoot is a hoax.” Not so for the invested believers. The Wallace hoax claim was ultimately disregarded by many Bigfooters as they had already compiled significantly more trackway evidence that, in their minds, nullified this incident.
Photo by Dave Rubert
Dale Lee Wallace of Toledo reveals the original feet made from Alderwood his Uncle, Ray L. Wallace, used to make the now-famous bigfoot tracks in 1958.Skookum cast
The Skookum cast was discovered in fall of 2000 by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) during an expedition to the Skookum Meadows area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington. On location for a TV show, the muddy area was baited with fruit with the intent to capture prints. The resulting large print was interpreted by bigfoot researchers as a body imprint, which was cast and studied. Those involved saw significant detail in the print. Just a few months later, others familiar with wildlife traces concluded this was an elk wallow, complete with elk hairs. There was no other corroborating evidence for a sasquatch. Bigfooters had mixed feelings about the cast, but the hype about the body imprint ultimately faded away due to the elk conclusion and the hard-to-accept story about it being bigfoot-generated.
Jeffrey Meldrum with an annotated Skookum cast. BFRO.Critical literature
In 2004, a book landed on the scene explaining how Patterson did his infamous film (PGF). The Making of Bigfoot by Greg Long was supported by investigative work and extensive interviews that laid bare the fact the Patterson was an unscrupulous character. The book revealed that Bob Heironimus was in the Patty suit in the iconic film clip. Later in 2012, the scholarly book Abominable Science by Loxton and Prothero detailed how Patterson had constructed the film based on the 1955 account of William Roe. It matched liked a storyboard of what Patterson would later film. Long, Loxton, and Prothero’s works were pilloried by Bigfooters who refused to engage with the confounding or outright damning evidence. They rejected Long’s claims of the suit and the filming while conceding that Patterson was no angel. The two books were critical parts of the Bigfoot story but the believers would consistently dismiss any red flags that degraded the legacy, continuing to mostly consider the PGF as legitimate bigfoot evidence. After steering clear for decades, Bob Gimlin eventually began to make the rounds to the cryptid conventions telling a dramatic story of being there. Gimlin became a revered figure, bolstering the legitimacy of the PGF once again.
Ketchum’s DNA circus
In 2008, Melba Ketchum, a veterinarian at a forensics laboratory, was picked to analyze a suspected yeti hair from Bhutan collected as part of Josh Gates’s adventure show, Destination Truth. Over the next few years, Ketchum received additional samples and funding from various sources to conduct more analyses of hair, blood, saliva and tissue of supposed hairy hominin creatures. This included a sample from Justin Smeja who claimed he shot two bigfoots (he didn’t). After promising blockbuster results that would withstand scrutiny, many Bigfooters followed her every word. As of 2012, she had vociferous defenders and a publicist but others were deserting her and her trail of empty promises. The resulting paper was rejected by Nature. In February of 2013, the fiasco culminated in a sloppy paper published in a “journal” she set up for her sole purposes. Accompanying the official version of the paper was a video which supposedly showed a sleeping sasquatch – a brown, furry figure on the forest floor. DNA was supposedly obtained from this individual, named Matilda. The video was laughably bad and the DNA results were terribly botched, showing nothing of value. The paper was roundly destroyed by genetics experts. Ketchum ironically expressed that the creature had a partly supernatural origin. Years later, she ended up in further professional trouble and is now thoroughly discredited, with the episode almost entirely forgotten. Several bigfoot-curious people who followed the Ketchum saga were disgusted and either dropped out of the scene for a while or disappeared entirely.
Canonical stories
Two specific witness stories remain a solid part of the bigfoot/sasquatch canon. Albert Ostman told a dramatic but unverified story that he was abducted by a family of sasquatches in 1924. He came forward decades later in 1957 when nothing could be confirmed and bigfoot was now a media commodity. The Ape Canyon incident, also of 1924, described how several men were attacked by “wild apemen” in a cabin at Mt. St. Helens. Fred Beck publicized his version of the account in 1967. Beck considered the creatures “supernatural beings” but this aspect was frequently left out of the retelling by those who thought of bigfoot as a human-adjacent hominin. The Ape Canyon attack was disputed by the forest rangers but remained a graphic story repeated countless times to demonstrate the reality of these creatures.
Not Finding Bigfoot
Additional key videos, photos, recordings, tracks, and eyewitness accounts still make up the body of evidence presented for the reality of bigfoot. Yet, even the “best” evidence does not hold up well to scrutiny. Beginning in 2011, a new audience was exposed to the legend and the idea that bigfoots were EVERYWHERE thanks to nine years of a semi-scripted “reality” show called Finding Bigfoot. The show successfully placed the idea of bigfoot as a real animal back into the public consciousness. Those on the show made an effort to look like they knew what they were doing and serious about it. They encouraged people to tell their stories, which sound highly convincing. The kicker was… they never found bigfoot (to the degree that the scientific world would be satisfied). Thanks to TV, the internet, and the surge of amateur paranormal investigation as a popular pastime, bigfoot was again a hot topic and now regularly “sighted” across the continent. More researchers signed on to look for evidence themselves.
Around 2000, the internet ushered in a new means of communication allowing people with fringe ideas to find each other. The internet platforms not only were a way to hear new opinions, claims, and findings, but also leveled the field whereby anyone could be heard and present themselves as qualified “experts”. The situation created new self-styled bigfoot influencers and a place for the bigfoot-curious researchers to find information. In the 2020s, Bigfoot and other cryptids became more mainstream as cultural icons, as celebrated local folklore, and as commodities. The efforts to bring accounts of anomalous creatures to the masses transformed into an explosion of casual cryptid interest by a new generation. This new model of cryptids was less about discovery of a real animal and more about the performance of investigating mysteries and the joy of indulging in edgy beliefs, an aesthetic derived from the cryptid TV shows and social media platforms.
2025 may mark the beginning of a definable shift in Bigfootery as highlighted by three major developments. Time will tell how the community responds.
Death of Dr. Jeff Meldrum
Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum was the scientific face of bigfootery. A credentialed university researcher, Meldrum went to many bigfoot related events every year, was the in-demand spokesperson for the reality of bigfoot on TV, started a journal, and embraced his role as leading bigfoot expert. He also provided a measure of reason by rejecting dubious claims such as those by the aforementioned Melba Ketchum as well as Russian Yeti promoters. When Meldrum passed away in September of 2025, it was a shock and a heavy blow to the community of Bigfooters. There is no equivalent figure to fill his shoes. While others continue to reference his legacy and opinions, they cannot replace the familiar bearded professorial guy calming telling you that he knows bigfoots are real because of “science”.
There are not many candidates who could step up to fill the role of scientists of bigfoot studies. Active scientists are generally unwilling or unable to commit to work on what, for all intents and purposes, appears to be a dead end zoological subject. After 60 years of questionable, weak, and hoaxed evidence, the subject has instead slipped into a pop cultural phenomenon that people see as fun, with a few hundreds, perhaps, who consider themselves serious researchers. Like a bigfoot Pope, (an admittedly inappropriate metaphor) Meldrum kept the faith alive, providing guidance and authority. He encompassed a role that seems unlikely to be filled soon, if ever. But the lure of being the most important fish in a small pond may be tempting (e.g., Avi Loeb).
Absence of evidence
Every day that goes by without a biological finding means that Bigfoot is more likely to not exist. After nearly 60 years, we have no better evidence for its reality as a biological entity. If people are actually experiencing a Bigfoot as they say they are – in their backyards, crossing roadways, watching in the forests, moving around with their offspring, signalling to each other across distances – there should be actual evidence of their existence. Instead, we have useless visuals, prints without a print-maker, and scads of eyewitness accounts certainly influenced by cultural contagion that prompts people to see a Bigfoot when it is unlikely to be that at all. We now have the technology to watch game trail traffic, and to use drones and infrared equipment. We can map out all areas on earth remotely and in most places in person. Even though the number of serious seekers has increased, no biological sign of an unknown ape has been secured. Yet, Bigfooters insist discovery is close.
Lewis and Bartlett’s book Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry (2026) does a good job of showing how Bigfoot knowledge claims are constructed through absences: whatever cannot be attributed to other causes is interpreted as possible evidence of Bigfoot. Such a framing can work for constructing a hypothesis – such as, the missing cause is a “Bigfoot”. However, that hypothesis has yet to be confirmed. It has failed, so far.
Typical collection of data isn’t enough. Images and video will need corroborating evidence to prevent being discarded out of hand, DNA testing will need funds, deep analysis, and continued efforts. Gathering even more eyewitness accounts is worthless when the volumes already existing have never have led to a capture. Only a body or body part will do.
Instead, the process continues as it has for six decades – amateur speculation, excuses, and criticism of existing scientific processes. Seekers see a bigfoot everywhere but find it nowhere. Bigfooters who wish to maintain the position that a bigfoot can be found will have an ever more difficult time justifying their efforts and maintaining any credibility if the same tired old evidence is all that gets presented. In reference to Meldrum’s passing, the field lacks scientific leadership.
PGF film hoax reveal
The vehement reaction by some Bigfooters to the assertion that the Patterson film has been solidly and conclusively demonstrated to be a hoax (by Patterson and Gimlin, et al.) has been a textbook example of cognitive dissonance. (See Long hidden evidence blows up the reality of the Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot film) While it is fair to say we should wait for the Capturing Bigfoot documentary to be available to assess it, it is NOT reasonable to also throw out excuses of how the debunking itself must have been faked. These same people who are denying the premise and claims of Capturing Bigfoot, as well as previous evidence of a hoax, will, ironically, take eyewitness accounts of bigfoot at face value. How will they square their rejection of facts from a physical film that everyone will be able to see? America is awash in obvious examples of how far people will reach to soothe their cognitive dissonance these days.
The hoax denialists claim the new pieces were AI generated, that the footage was from Roger’s other documentary, even that Patty Patterson is too old to remember and Clint Patterson is not a reliable claimant. None of this is remotely reasonable in the big picture. So far we have no public disputes of the claims from Bob Gimlin or the Pattersons. To me, that is the crucial point. They know it’s a hoax and this is the end of the line for this key piece of evidence. That realization hits hard with those for whom searching for a real animal has become an inherent part of their identity (and their revenue stream).
Eliminating the PGF doesn’t automatically correlate to the end of bigfoot. We still have the unsolved problem of people seeing and experiencing what they say they have. However, looking back at history, people also were sure they saw fairies, demons, angels, aliens, and spirits. This is not an easy enigma to unravel. The previous point of “absence of evidence” comes into play. Bigfooters cannot make their biological argument without outrageous mental acrobatics, distractions, and slight of hand.
A key piece of evidence revealed as invalid does not take down the whole system, but it makes some people on the inside start to doubt and many more on the outside say, “See! We told you this was nonsense.” Social ridicule also has the tendency to squelch further sighting reports and involvement. So, while some Bigfooters insist this too shall pass, I don’t think it will. What happens in response to the public release of Capturing Bigfoot will be illuminating.
Still the #1 cryptid
As documented on this blog, bigfoot and other cryptids are more popular than ever before. However, finding a body is not a primary goal. Cryptid tourism is flourishing. Places are embracing their local monster lore even if the creature is an absurdity that has no basis in biology or reality. People appear to be looking for connection, experiences, and entertainment, maybe even a sense of enchantment in the world. They want to believe. This works much better when the mystery remains active. As we see daily, even when the explanation punches us in the face, we would rather continue to believe our constructed “truth” instead. Cryptid media is on fire and there are more movies, books, and online content to peruse, including merch so you can advertise your belief to those around you. Cultural bigfoot is not equivalent to physical bigfoot, but it’s not nothing. And, it’s still important.
Those with museums, podcasts and YouTube channels, even TV shows, will still rake in the viewers who yearn for the mystery and experience. Conventions and festivals will still attract fans. Bigfoot remains the #1 North American cryptid. Bigfoot is iconic, and commodified, Americana that is not going away soon. The PGF, if not a film of a real bigfoot, is a universally-successful hoax. And that’s really something.
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Times are changing for Bigfoot hunters
As evidence for the reality of Bigfoot remains objectively poor, with promising finds deteriorating under scrutiny, the future for scientific cryptozoology looks troubling for those who committed their reputation to finding a biological creature.
Several events in the history of bigfoot studies have boosted or burned the potential reality of the sasquatch. Three recent developments, in particular, shifted the tenuous foundation on which bigfoot researchers derive any public currency and social credibility. I argue that the general tide is turning on those who promote the idea of biological bigfoot. The biological concept is being replaced by a cultural version of bigfoot, which may work just as well financially. But first, it’s worthwhile to revisit some of the past key evidence examples that were intended to bolster the reality of bigfoot and what happened to them. Then, I present three examples to show how bigfoot research has lost critical parts of its foundation in the 2020s.
Jerry Crew and the Wallace prints
In 1958, the giant hairy creature of the Pacific Northwest gained its infamous moniker after huge prints were found in Northern California by Jerry Crew and then publicized by the Humboldt Times newspaper who named the printmaker “Bigfoot”. This finding set the scene for what was to come over the next 10 years – giving shape and structure to what was previously viewed as a tall tale or myth. In 2002, the family of Ray Wallace, who owned the company doing the work where the tracks were found, admitted Wallace had made the trackways himself with fake feet. The reveal made news at the time and was fairly influential. The average uninvested citizen heard the news and thought, “Bigfoot is a hoax.” Not so for the invested believers. The Wallace hoax claim was ultimately disregarded by many Bigfooters as they had already compiled significantly more trackway evidence that, in their minds, nullified this incident.
Photo by Dave Rubert
Dale Lee Wallace of Toledo reveals the original feet made from Alderwood his Uncle, Ray L. Wallace, used to make the now-famous bigfoot tracks in 1958.Skookum cast
The Skookum cast was discovered in fall of 2000 by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) during an expedition to the Skookum Meadows area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington. On location for a TV show, the muddy area was baited with fruit with the intent to capture prints. The resulting large print was interpreted by bigfoot researchers as a body imprint, which was cast and studied. Those involved saw significant detail in the print. Just a few months later, others familiar with wildlife traces concluded this was an elk wallow, complete with elk hairs. There was no other corroborating evidence for a sasquatch. Bigfooters had mixed feelings about the cast, but the hype about the body imprint ultimately faded away due to the elk conclusion and the hard-to-accept story about it being bigfoot-generated.
Jeffrey Meldrum with an annotated Skookum cast. BFRO.Critical literature
In 2004, a book landed on the scene explaining how Patterson did his infamous film (PGF). The Making of Bigfoot by Greg Long was supported by investigative work and extensive interviews that laid bare the fact the Patterson was an unscrupulous character. The book revealed that Bob Heironimus was in the Patty suit in the iconic film clip. Later in 2012, the scholarly book Abominable Science by Loxton and Prothero detailed how Patterson had constructed the film based on the 1955 account of William Roe. It matched liked a storyboard of what Patterson would later film. Long, Loxton, and Prothero’s works were pilloried by Bigfooters who refused to engage with the confounding or outright damning evidence. They rejected Long’s claims of the suit and the filming while conceding that Patterson was no angel. The two books were critical parts of the Bigfoot story but the believers would consistently dismiss any red flags that degraded the legacy, continuing to mostly consider the PGF as legitimate bigfoot evidence. After steering clear for decades, Bob Gimlin eventually began to make the rounds to the cryptid conventions telling a dramatic story of being there. Gimlin became a revered figure, bolstering the legitimacy of the PGF once again.
Ketchum’s DNA circus
In 2008, Melba Ketchum, a veterinarian at a forensics laboratory, was picked to analyze a suspected yeti hair from Bhutan collected as part of Josh Gates’s adventure show, Destination Truth. Over the next few years, Ketchum received additional samples and funding from various sources to conduct more analyses of hair, blood, saliva and tissue of supposed hairy hominin creatures. This included a sample from Justin Smeja who claimed he shot two bigfoots (he didn’t). After promising blockbuster results that would withstand scrutiny, many Bigfooters followed her every word. As of 2012, she had vociferous defenders and a publicist but others were deserting her and her trail of empty promises. The resulting paper was rejected by Nature. In February of 2013, the fiasco culminated in a sloppy paper published in a “journal” she set up for her sole purposes. Accompanying the official version of the paper was a video which supposedly showed a sleeping sasquatch – a brown, furry figure on the forest floor. DNA was supposedly obtained from this individual, named Matilda. The video was laughably bad and the DNA results were terribly botched, showing nothing of value. The paper was roundly destroyed by genetics experts. Ketchum ironically expressed that the creature had a partly supernatural origin. Years later, she ended up in further professional trouble and is now thoroughly discredited, with the episode almost entirely forgotten. Several bigfoot-curious people who followed the Ketchum saga were disgusted and either dropped out of the scene for a while or disappeared entirely.
Canonical stories
Two specific witness stories remain a solid part of the bigfoot/sasquatch canon. Albert Ostman told a dramatic but unverified story that he was abducted by a family of sasquatches in 1924. He came forward decades later in 1957 when nothing could be confirmed and bigfoot was now a media commodity. The Ape Canyon incident, also of 1924, described how several men were attacked by “wild apemen” in a cabin at Mt. St. Helens. Fred Beck publicized his version of the account in 1967. Beck considered the creatures “supernatural beings” but this aspect was frequently left out of the retelling by those who thought of bigfoot as a human-adjacent hominin. The Ape Canyon attack was disputed by the forest rangers but remained a graphic story repeated countless times to demonstrate the reality of these creatures.
Not Finding Bigfoot
Additional key videos, photos, recordings, tracks, and eyewitness accounts still make up the body of evidence presented for the reality of bigfoot. Yet, even the “best” evidence does not hold up well to scrutiny. Beginning in 2011, a new audience was exposed to the legend and the idea that bigfoots were EVERYWHERE thanks to nine years of a semi-scripted “reality” show called Finding Bigfoot. The show successfully placed the idea of bigfoot as a real animal back into the public consciousness. Those on the show made an effort to look like they knew what they were doing and serious about it. They encouraged people to tell their stories, which sound highly convincing. The kicker was… they never found bigfoot (to the degree that the scientific world would be satisfied). Thanks to TV, the internet, and the surge of amateur paranormal investigation as a popular pastime, bigfoot was again a hot topic and now regularly “sighted” across the continent. More researchers signed on to look for evidence themselves.
Around 2000, the internet ushered in a new means of communication allowing people with fringe ideas to find each other. The internet platforms not only were a way to hear new opinions, claims, and findings, but also leveled the field whereby anyone could be heard and present themselves as qualified “experts”. The situation created new self-styled bigfoot influencers and a place for the bigfoot-curious researchers to find information. In the 2020s, Bigfoot and other cryptids became more mainstream as cultural icons, as celebrated local folklore, and as commodities. The efforts to bring accounts of anomalous creatures to the masses transformed into an explosion of casual cryptid interest by a new generation. This new model of cryptids was less about discovery of a real animal and more about the performance of investigating mysteries and the joy of indulging in edgy beliefs, an aesthetic derived from the cryptid TV shows and social media platforms.
2025 may mark the beginning of a definable shift in Bigfootery as highlighted by three major developments. Time will tell how the community responds.
Death of Dr. Jeff Meldrum
Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum was the scientific face of bigfootery. A credentialed university researcher, Meldrum went to many bigfoot related events every year, was the in-demand spokesperson for the reality of bigfoot on TV, started a journal, and embraced his role as leading bigfoot expert. He also provided a measure of reason by rejecting dubious claims such as those by the aforementioned Melba Ketchum as well as Russian Yeti promoters. When Meldrum passed away in September of 2025, it was a shock and a heavy blow to the community of Bigfooters. There is no equivalent figure to fill his shoes. While others continue to reference his legacy and opinions, they cannot replace the familiar bearded professorial guy calming telling you that he knows bigfoots are real because of “science”.
There are not many candidates who could step up to fill the role of scientists of bigfoot studies. Active scientists are generally unwilling or unable to commit to work on what, for all intents and purposes, appears to be a dead end zoological subject. After 60 years of questionable, weak, and hoaxed evidence, the subject has instead slipped into a pop cultural phenomenon that people see as fun, with a few hundreds, perhaps, who consider themselves serious researchers. Like a bigfoot Pope, (an admittedly inappropriate metaphor) Meldrum kept the faith alive, providing guidance and authority. He encompassed a role that seems unlikely to be filled soon, if ever. But the lure of being the most important fish in a small pond may be tempting (e.g., Avi Loeb).
Absence of evidence
Every day that goes by without a biological finding means that Bigfoot is more likely to not exist. After nearly 60 years, we have no better evidence for its reality as a biological entity. If people are actually experiencing a Bigfoot as they say they are – in their backyards, crossing roadways, watching in the forests, moving around with their offspring, signalling to each other across distances – there should be actual evidence of their existence. Instead, we have useless visuals, prints without a print-maker, and scads of eyewitness accounts certainly influenced by cultural contagion that prompts people to see a Bigfoot when it is unlikely to be that at all. We now have the technology to watch game trail traffic, and to use drones and infrared equipment. We can map out all areas on earth remotely and in most places in person. Even though the number of serious seekers has increased, no biological sign of an unknown ape has been secured. Yet, Bigfooters insist discovery is close.
Lewis and Bartlett’s book Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry (2026) does a good job of showing how Bigfoot knowledge claims are constructed through absences: whatever cannot be attributed to other causes is interpreted as possible evidence of Bigfoot. Such a framing can work for constructing a hypothesis – such as, the missing cause is a “Bigfoot”. However, that hypothesis has yet to be confirmed. It has failed, so far.
Typical collection of data isn’t enough. Images and video will need corroborating evidence to prevent being discarded out of hand, DNA testing will need funds, deep analysis, and continued efforts. Gathering even more eyewitness accounts is worthless when the volumes already existing have never have led to a capture. Only a body or body part will do.
Instead, the process continues as it has for six decades – amateur speculation, excuses, and criticism of existing scientific processes. Seekers see a bigfoot everywhere but find it nowhere. Bigfooters who wish to maintain the position that a bigfoot can be found will have an ever more difficult time justifying their efforts and maintaining any credibility if the same tired old evidence is all that gets presented. In reference to Meldrum’s passing, the field lacks scientific leadership.
PGF film hoax reveal
The vehement reaction by some Bigfooters to the assertion that the Patterson film has been solidly and conclusively demonstrated to be a hoax (by Patterson and Gimlin, et al.) has been a textbook example of cognitive dissonance. (See Long hidden evidence blows up the reality of the Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot film) While it is fair to say we should wait for the Capturing Bigfoot documentary to be available to assess it, it is NOT reasonable to also throw out excuses of how the debunking itself must have been faked. These same people who are denying the premise and claims of Capturing Bigfoot, as well as previous evidence of a hoax, will, ironically, take eyewitness accounts of bigfoot at face value. How will they square their rejection of facts from a physical film that everyone will be able to see? America is awash in obvious examples of how far people will reach to soothe their cognitive dissonance these days.
The hoax denialists claim the new pieces were AI generated, that the footage was from Roger’s other documentary, even that Patty Patterson is too old to remember and Clint Patterson is not a reliable claimant. None of this is remotely reasonable in the big picture. So far we have no public disputes of the claims from Bob Gimlin or the Pattersons. To me, that is the crucial point. They know it’s a hoax and this is the end of the line for this key piece of evidence. That realization hits hard with those for whom searching for a real animal has become an inherent part of their identity (and their revenue stream).
Eliminating the PGF doesn’t automatically correlate to the end of bigfoot. We still have the unsolved problem of people seeing and experiencing what they say they have. However, looking back at history, people also were sure they saw fairies, demons, angels, aliens, and spirits. This is not an easy enigma to unravel. The previous point of “absence of evidence” comes into play. Bigfooters cannot make their biological argument without outrageous mental acrobatics, distractions, and slight of hand.
A key piece of evidence revealed as invalid does not take down the whole system, but it makes some people on the inside start to doubt and many more on the outside say, “See! We told you this was nonsense.” Social ridicule also has the tendency to squelch further sighting reports and involvement. So, while some Bigfooters insist this too shall pass, I don’t think it will. What happens in response to the public release of Capturing Bigfoot will be illuminating.
Still the #1 cryptid
As documented on this blog, bigfoot and other cryptids are more popular than ever before. However, finding a body is not a primary goal. Cryptid tourism is flourishing. Places are embracing their local monster lore even if the creature is an absurdity that has no basis in biology or reality. People appear to be looking for connection, experiences, and entertainment, maybe even a sense of enchantment in the world. They want to believe. This works much better when the mystery remains active. As we see daily, even when the explanation punches us in the face, we would rather continue to believe our constructed “truth” instead. Cryptid media is on fire and there are more movies, books, and online content to peruse, including merch so you can advertise your belief to those around you. Cultural bigfoot is not equivalent to physical bigfoot, but it’s not nothing. And, it’s still important.
Those with museums, podcasts and YouTube channels, even TV shows, will still rake in the viewers who yearn for the mystery and experience. Conventions and festivals will still attract fans. Bigfoot remains the #1 North American cryptid. Bigfoot is iconic, and commodified, Americana that is not going away soon. The PGF, if not a film of a real bigfoot, is a universally-successful hoax. And that’s really something.
(Please note that comments are moderated. Substantive comments only will be posted.)
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Wednesday Reads
Good Afternoon!!
I’ve been surveying the day’s top news stories and my head is spinning. I don’t know what to focus on or where to begin, and there’s no way I can cover everything. There is too much happening, so I’ve just chosen the stories that interested me the most.
Trump’s fascist crackdown on Washington DC
The New York Times: National Guard Troops in Washington Stick to Tourist Areas.
The 800 National Guard troops sent into Washington last week will soon be augmented by hundreds more, as several states with Republican governors commit to supporting President Trump’s crackdown in the city.
But Army officials appear to be trying to keep the troops on the sidelines of the mission, despite the tough-on-crime image that Mr. Trump has sought to project.
The troops have joined an array of federal agents who appeared on city streets after Mr. Trump declared last week that the federal government was assuming law enforcement responsibility in the capital, which he has falsely claimed is essentially lawless.
The first wave of troops sent to the city all came from the D.C. National Guard, which the president can call out directly. National Guard troops from Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia will soon also be deployed, according to the governors of those states. National Guard officials said that there were 869 troops in Washington as of Monday night; the Republican-led states so far have pledged 1,000 more.
The Republican governors said they were providing the additional troops at the request of the Trump administration. Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio said that Army Secretary Dan Driscoll had asked for the extra troops. “When the secretary of the Army asks for backup support to our troops that are already deployed, yes, we will back up our troops,” Mr. DeWine told the Columbus Dispatch.
The number is still expected to grow. But the role of the additional troops appears vague, and the answers to even basic questions, including whether they will be armed, have shifted.
What is the purpose of this militarization of a city beyond Trump’s effort to distract from the Epstein story and his overall fascist dictatorship project?
“There is no justification for any deployment of Guard forces in D.C., let alone the deployment of hundreds of Guard forces from multiple states, which smacks of a military occupation of the district,” said Elizabeth Goitein, a senior director at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s law school.
“Local crime is a matter to be handled by local law enforcement,” she added.
Members of the National Guard stand near D.C.’s Union Station, within view of the U.S. Capitol.
The places where the troops have been deployed so far tell part of the story. Most have been seen near the National Mall, large monuments and other tourist-heavy areas.
Army officials said that more would be sent to 10 metro stations, most of which are also near tourist and entertainment sites. They include the Foggy Bottom, Smithsonian, Eastern Market and Waterfront stations.
Near the Washington Monument over the weekend, troops posed for photos with tourists. The National Guard presence, with desert sand-colored vehicles parked near the capital’s most visited tourists spots, is now showing up regularly on social media feeds in posts by visitors to Washington.
The rules of engagement for the troops, at the moment, remain limited to supporting, but not providing, law enforcement. That means that troops are not making arrests, though Army officials acknowledged that could change if Mr. Trump decides that he wants an even more forceful presence.
CNN: National Guard troops from GOP-led states begin arriving in DC as part of Trump’s crime crackdown.
West Virginia National Guard troops have begun to arrive in Washington, DC, to assist with President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in the nation’s capital, a defense official told CNN on Tuesday.
The troops could begin assisting the DC National Guard operationally as soon as Wednesday after they have completed their in-processing, the defense official added.
Their arrival comes after the Republican governors of six states — West Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee — announced they will send guard members to Washington, DC.
The deployment of other states’ troops marks an escalation of Trump’s efforts to amass forces in the capital. The president previously announced that he was deploying DC National Guard troops to the city, surging federal agents into the streets, and federalizing DC’s police force. The president has repeatedly complained about rising crime in DC, but overall crime numbers are lower this year than in 2024.
Servicemembers from the West Virginia and South Carolina National Guards receive an orientation brief upon their arrival at the Washington, D.C. Armory, Aug. 19, 2025
The defense official said Tuesday that while there are roughly 2,400 personnel in the DC National Guard, assistance from other states was needed because of how many troops are either undergoing training elsewhere or are on leave.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said Monday he approved about 135 National Guard troops to DC, while Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announced he would deploy approximately 200 members.
Tennessee will send roughly 160 guard members to the city this week following a request from the Trump administration, Gov. Bill Lee’s press secretary said in a Tuesday statement to CNN.
Over the weekend, West Virginia’s governor said his state was sending 300 to 400 National Guard troops to the nation’s capital. South Carolina authorized the deployment of 200 troops, and Ohio said it will send 150.
Federal officers assigned to DC are focusing on beating up food delivery people. NBC4 Washington DC: Detentions of D.C. delivery drivers leave immigrant communities on edge.
Washington, D.C., resident Tyler DeSue woke up tired and craving breakfast Saturday morning, so he did what many people in that situation would do: He used Uber Eats to put in an order for burritos.
When his driver took longer than usual, DeSue checked the app and noticed something seemed wrong — the delivery driver’s GPS location had stopped short of his address. He went outside to look for him.
“I stepped into the street, I looked down and see lights in the direction, like police lights, in the direction of where my driver was,” DeSue said in an interview. “It was my driver by himself and, like, nine different officers all wearing different uniforms. … Most of them had face coverings on.”
When DeSue went to investigate, the driver — whose name appeared on the food app as “Sidi” — was being questioned, first about his vehicle’s registration and then about his immigration status, he said.
“You’re gonna come with us, you’re gonna come with us today,” a masked agent can be heard telling Sidi in video that DeSue recorded and provided to NBC News.
“Can you tell me in Arabic, please?” Sidi says, adding that he did not understand what was being said and that he was nervous.
One of the agents, wearing a vest emblazoned “POLICE HSI” — short for Homeland Security Investigations, a part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — replies that they do not have an Arabic translator. The men then cuff Sidi’s hands, waist and feet before they put him in an unmarked car. DeSue said he has since reported the incident to Uber.
There have been other such reports.
The incident is one of several arrests of delivery drivers recorded by eyewitnesses across the Washington area that have gone viral since the Trump administration took over law enforcement in the nation’s capital last week.
An Uber Eats delivery driver is arrested Saturday in Washington, D.C.Tyler DeSue
The videos, scattered across social media and shared among D.C. delivery driver chat groups, are having a chilling effect on the drivers themselves. Some of them have chosen to stop making deliveries in the city.
It has been “five days since working, looking at what to do. And, well, closed down here waiting for things to pass, because I don’t know what to do,” a D.C.-area delivery driver who did not want to be named told NBC News in a voice message in Spanish.
On Sunday afternoon, DeSue said, an area where 15 to 20 delivery drivers typically would be parked out front of his home looking at their phones for their next orders was an empty lot.
“I haven’t seen a driver anywhere in the last two days,” he said.
There’s more at the link.
Immigration, deportation, and ICE
Paul Krugman at Substack: ICEing the U.S. Economy. Mass deportations will hurt more than people realize.
Donald Trump has been able to convert Immigration and Customs Enforcement (and Customs and Border Protection, which is effectively part of the same operation) into a huge secret police force — because what are we supposed to call an organization whose masked agents, bearing no identification, simply grab people off the street? Who shoot at a family fleeing in their truck, after agents refused to identify themselves and smashed the car window, claiming – apparently falsely according to video footage – that the driver tried to harm them?
We’ve also seen both deportations to foreign gulags and the creation of a network of domestic detention centers — call it the ICE archipelago — that are overcrowded, filthy, and breeding grounds for disease. Last week a judge ordered that detainees at ICE’s Manhattan facility be given bedding mats rather than being forced to sleep on dirty concrete floors, have access to decent hygiene, and receive three meals a day. We’ll see whether this order is obeyed, but it gives you an idea of the conditions detainees are currently facing.
And the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill gives ICE $45 billion to expand its network of detention centers, making room for around 100,000 more detainees, plus $30 billion for arrest and deportation efforts, enough to hire around 10,000 more ICE agents.
I worry, as everyone should, about how a huge expansion of this deeply un-American organization may be used as a tool of presidential power and repression. Furthermore, give people power without accountability — and it’s hard to give a better example than masked, unidentified agents authorized to use force — and some of them will abuse their position. And given what ICE has already been doing, what kind of people do you think are likely to sign up as it massively expands?
Compared with these issues, concerns about the economic impact of mass deportations are definitely second-tier. But they’re still important, and a subject I know something about. So the rest of this post will be devoted to how the Trump administration is about to ICE the economy.
A bit more:
First things first: Trump officials and some of their allies have been touting numbers that appear to show 2 million native-born Americans gaining jobs over the past year. But this claim is, as Jed Kolko of the Peterson Institute says, a “multiple-count data felony.” Read Kolko for the details showing that this is a statistical artifact, not something that really happened. No, the native-born adult population didn’t suddenly jump by 4 million in a single year.
What will actually happen is a large decline in America’s foreign-born labor force. When Stephen Miller began promising to deport 3,000 immigrants a day, many people dismissed this as an idle boast. It’s true that we can’t possibly deport people anywhere near that rapidly while obeying the law and following due process. And your point is? [….]
We don’t know how many workers will eventually be incarcerated and deported. But undocumented immigrants make up around 5 percent of the U.S. work force. It seems plausible that a significant fraction of those workers will be pushed out, along with a number of legal workers snatched up based, as Trump’s border czar has said, on their physical appearance.
Losing large numbers of workers sounds as if it will be bad for the U.S. economy. In fact, it will be worse than you may think.
The reason is that immigrant workers aren’t spread evenly across the economy. They’re strongly concentrated in certain industries and occupations, where they constitute a large share, sometimes a majority, of the work force. As a result, the Trump administration’s latter-day Edict of Expulsion will be far more disruptive to the economy than the aggregate number of workers deported might suggest.
Read the rest at the link.
Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark: Fascist Secret Police Cars.
ICE has some new cars. They are cartoonishly fascist….
What is the purpose of these vehicles?
ICE has been performing its snatch-and-grab operations largely with unmarked vehicles. ICE officers in the wild seem to eschew any sort of identification: No badges, no uniforms. Most of the time they go to great lengths to conceal their identities, wearing mask, balaclavas, and ballcaps.
Fascist ICE trucks
Are these new vehicles meant for new kinds of operations, as ICE expands to a size commensurate with its funding?
Also: What is the use-case for an ICE pickup truck? Park Rangers and firefighters can use pickup trucks to haul large loads of gear. Why would ICE need pickup trucks in its fleet?
Next, let’s look at the design. You will notice that ICE employs the slogan “Defend the Homeland.” This slogan is emblazoned in multiple spots: On side panels and on hoods. On the Mustang variant—because apparently ICE operational requirements also necessitate a two-door sports coupe—the slogan appears to be plastered on the spoiler.
It is an odd slogan for a law enforcement organization. For starters, it’s not a statement of principle, like common police tag lines: “Protect and Serve,” or “Duty, Honor, Community,” or “Service Before Self.” It’s a command: DEFEND THE HOMELAND.1
This command implies a threat. The “homeland” is under assault, right now, and must be defended from some unnamed enemy. I cannot think of any LEO that uses the specter of an enemy as part of its self-projection.
Then there’s the word “homeland.” Not “America,” or “the United States.”
The Mustang variant
America and the United States are places that anyone might join, or become a part of. But the homeland is about blood and soil. It’s the patrimony of the true volk.
Finally: “Defending the homeland” isn’t even ILstice Department weaponization chief, called for the resignation of New York Attorney General Letitia James and posed for photos outside of her Brooklyn home last week – all as he is conducting investigations into her conduct.
His investigation of James, whose office brought civil fraud charges against Trump, his adult sons, and the Trump Organization resulting in a half-billion-dollar judgment last year, is one of several the Justice Department has launched into the president’s perceived enemies.
But since beginning of the investigation into James, Martin has taken several unusual steps that fall outside the norms of prosecutorial conduct. He sent a letter to James’ attorney Abbe Lowell on August 12 suggesting New York’s top law enforcement officer resign, he appeared outside of James’ home with a colleague trailed by a photographer for the New York Post, and appeared on Fox News pledging to take an expansive look into all of James’ conduct.
In video obtained by CNN, Martin can be seen posing for photos outside of James’ home.
“This is a criminal investigation, not social media,” said Elie Honig, CNN’s senior legal analyst. “A stunt like that might get clicks, but it’s patently inappropriate for a prosecutor to do and it certainly will give James and her attorney a basis to oppose any indictment, to argue it was prejudicial to the jury pool and that an indictment was brought in bad faith.”
The conduct is “outside the bounds of DOJ and ethics rules,” Lowell said in a response to Martin.
Justice Department policy generally prohibits discussing criminal investigations publicly, and attorneys are not supposed to pursue investigations for political means or to go on fishing expeditions.
Jah’han Jones at MSNBC: Trump’s ‘weaponization’ chief seems to admit to punitive fishing expeditions.
Ed Martin is going fishing. On Sunday, the lawyer and Donald Trump loyalist tapped to lead a Justice Department “weaponization” group that’s targeting the president’s perceived enemies vowed to rummage around in the lives of New York Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., in search of what he says could be potential fraud — or … something.
Ed Martin
During his 2024 campaign, Trump repeatedly targeted people who had been investigated or opposed him with thinly veiled threats of legal prosecution. Now, Martin, in his capacity as head of the so-called Weaponization Working Group at the Department of Justice, has been tasked with putting those prosecutions into action. The list of targets includes James, who led a successful mortgage fraud case against the Trump organization that resulted in a judgment of hundreds of millions of dollars; and Schiff, who served on the House Jan. 6 select committee that documented Trump’s role in fomenting insurrection in 2021.
Officials at DOJ are investigating both Schiff and James of mortgage fraud; both deny any wrongdoing and accuse the administration of political retribution. Martin, a former “Stop the Steal” organizer and attorney for Jan. 6 insurrectionists, has been assigned to oversee the cases. He’s previously said his group would be used to “shame” people it can’t charge with crimes.
In comments to Fox News this Sunday, Martin suggested his group intends to use its powers to poke around in other parts of James’ and Schiff’s lives in search of things unrelated to the mortgage allegations.
He said, “We’re gonna go to the very bottom of the facts, and if somebody did something wrong, we’re not only gonna hold them accountable, we’re also gonna look at everything else that they’ve been doing. Because when you’re a liar, you lie not just on one thing. When you’re a cheater, you cheat not just on one thing. When you’re doing corruption, you generally don’t just do it on one thing.”
The Independent: Bongino to work alongside ‘co-deputy director’ of FBI after sparring with administration over Epstein files.
The FBI has moved to appoint Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as its new “co-deputy director,” meaning its current deputy, Dan Bongino, will be expected to share his duties in the role in the future.
The appointment was made by Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel and comes after Bongino, 50, a former Secret Service agent and podcaster, reportedly clashed with Bondi over the administration’s failure to release the Jeffrey Epstein files last month.
“I am proud to announce I have accepted the role of Co-Deputy Director of the FBI,” Bailey wrote in a brief post on X. “I extend my thanks to President Donald Trump and AG Bondi for the opportunity to serve in the mission to Make America Safe Again. I will protect America and uphold the Constitution.”
Bongino responded to a journalist’s post about the appointment by writing simply, “Welcome,” accompanied by three Stars and Stripes emojis.
Explaining the decision, Patel told The Daily Beast that the FBI “will always bring the greatest talent this country has to offer in order to accomplish the goals set forth when an overwhelming majority of American people elected President Donald J Trump again.
You have to wonder why Bongino hasn’t resigned. Maybe this is a step toward pushing him out.
The Epstein case caused controversy in early July after the FBI and Justice Department put out a statement saying that the late pedophile and sex trafficker left behind no “client list” among his possessions and died by suicide in a New York City jail cell in August 2019.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino will find himself sharing his official duties after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Mitchell was hired by the Trump administration
The assessment started a civil war among Trump’s MAGA movement, many of whose members had long been encouraged to suspect foul play in Epstein’s death and had hoped to see influential people brought to justice over their alleged involvement in the disgraced financier’s crimes.
The controversy raged for more than a month, with the president himself repeatedly urged to release all federal files on Epstein and to explain his past friendship with the disgraced financier, a cause of apparent frustration to him….
Even before the contested verdict on Epstein was published, Patel and Bongino, both of whom had stoked conspiracy theories on conservative media before joining the Trump administration, had drawn fire for attempting to pour cold water on the case during a May interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures.
The Epstein story is not going away, and now supposedly the DOJ will begin releasing the Epstein files to the House Oversight Committee on Friday.
CNN: House panel to make Epstein files public after redactions to protect victim identities.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform intends to make public some files it subpoenaed related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, though it will first redact them to shield victims’ IDs and other sensitive matters, a committee spokesperson said Tuesday.
The panel is expected to start receiving materials from the Justice Department on Friday, though it appears the public release will come some time after that. The spokesperson said the committee would work with the Justice Department on the process.
“The Committee intends to make the records public after thorough review to ensure all victims’ identification and child sexual abuse material are redacted. The Committee will also consult with the DOJ to ensure any documents released do not negatively impact ongoing criminal cases and investigations,” the spokesperson said.
Democrats on the committee complained that Comer was slow walking the release of the material by allowing the Justice Department to miss the Tuesday deadline that had been set by the panel and instead turn over the materials to the committee gradually over time starting Friday. They said DOJ had already been directed by the House subpoena to redact material related to victims’ identities and child sexual abuse – questioning the need for further delay to do so.
“Releasing the Epstein files in batches just continues this White House cover-up. The American people will not accept anything short of the full, unredacted Epstein files,” said Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the panel. “In a bipartisan vote, the Committee demanded complete compliance with our subpoena. Handpicked, partial productions are wholly insufficient and potentially misleading, especially after Attorney General Bondi bragged about having the entirety of the Epstein files on her desk mere months ago.”
I hope this will really happen, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
Trump and Putin
This post is already too long, but I couldn’t resist including this story from The Daily Beast: Trump’s Jaw-Dropping Ignorance Exposed During Putin Meet: Author.
Donald Trump displayed a stunning ignorance of the Cold War during last week’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to his biographer.
Author Michael Wolff told the Daily Beast podcast Inside Trump’s Head on Tuesday that, in the president’s telling of the decades-long 20th century engagement, “it would appear that the U.S. and USSR are on the same side.”
Michael Wolff
Wolff, who said his sources are “twice removed” from the principals, said Trump began the meeting with “a combination of flattery” and “a combination of things that he’s just pulled out of somewhere…observations, it’s both inconsequential and incoherent.”
When either Special Envoy Steve Witkoff or Secretary of State Marco Rubio interrupted him to lay out an agenda, Wolff said, Trump just talked over them.
“Again, we’re nowhere in this meeting. We’re probably now, you know, 20 minutes in. Nothing is clear about what anyone is doing there except that Putin is totally impassive,” he said.
When Putin did speak, Wolff said, he gave a “history lesson” about ”why [Russia] should conquer Ukraine.”
And a bit more:
“Trump, not to be outdone, as this is relayed to me, goes into his own history lesson, and this is a history of the Cold War,” he said. “And as this is described to me, in Trump’s history of the Cold War, it would appear that the U.S. and USSR are on the same side.” [….]
Trump, who has been attacking “woke” history museums for not talking about “the future,” then seemed to go along with Putin’s statement resisting a ceasefire, Wolff said.
“And Trump seems to accept this and seems to agree with this,” according to the author. “Yes, let’s just move on to the peace.”
Witkoff and Rubio, meanwhile, are “basically helpless.”
“They sit there occasionally trying to interject, but you can’t really interject because Trump just talks all the time,” he continued.
“And this is then to… Putin’s advantage, because rather than any discussion of the details of what might happen here, what territory—what are you going to give for that, what are the trade offs—I mean, that level of detail Trump is not interested in, probably not capable of following the logical sequences that would be necessary there.”
What’s important to Trump, Wolff said, “is to keep talking” and “to have people listen to him.”
Those are the stories that interested me today. There’s much more happening. What’s on your mind?
#AndrewBailey #DanBongino #DCFoodDeliveryDrivers #DOJ #EdMartin #EpsteinFiles #FascistCrackdownOnWashingtonDC #FascistSecretPoliceCars #ICEAndTheEconomy #LetitiaJames #MichaelWolff #NationalGuardTroopsInWashingtonDC #TrumpIgnorance #TrumpPutinSummit2025 #VladimirPutin
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Wednesday Reads
Good Afternoon!!
I’ve been surveying the day’s top news stories and my head is spinning. I don’t know what to focus on or where to begin, and there’s no way I can cover everything. There is too much happening, so I’ve just chosen the stories that interested me the most.
Trump’s fascist crackdown on Washington DC
The New York Times: National Guard Troops in Washington Stick to Tourist Areas.
The 800 National Guard troops sent into Washington last week will soon be augmented by hundreds more, as several states with Republican governors commit to supporting President Trump’s crackdown in the city.
But Army officials appear to be trying to keep the troops on the sidelines of the mission, despite the tough-on-crime image that Mr. Trump has sought to project.
The troops have joined an array of federal agents who appeared on city streets after Mr. Trump declared last week that the federal government was assuming law enforcement responsibility in the capital, which he has falsely claimed is essentially lawless.
The first wave of troops sent to the city all came from the D.C. National Guard, which the president can call out directly. National Guard troops from Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia will soon also be deployed, according to the governors of those states. National Guard officials said that there were 869 troops in Washington as of Monday night; the Republican-led states so far have pledged 1,000 more.
The Republican governors said they were providing the additional troops at the request of the Trump administration. Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio said that Army Secretary Dan Driscoll had asked for the extra troops. “When the secretary of the Army asks for backup support to our troops that are already deployed, yes, we will back up our troops,” Mr. DeWine told the Columbus Dispatch.
The number is still expected to grow. But the role of the additional troops appears vague, and the answers to even basic questions, including whether they will be armed, have shifted.
What is the purpose of this militarization of a city beyond Trump’s effort to distract from the Epstein story and his overall fascist dictatorship project?
“There is no justification for any deployment of Guard forces in D.C., let alone the deployment of hundreds of Guard forces from multiple states, which smacks of a military occupation of the district,” said Elizabeth Goitein, a senior director at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s law school.
“Local crime is a matter to be handled by local law enforcement,” she added.
Members of the National Guard stand near D.C.’s Union Station, within view of the U.S. Capitol.
The places where the troops have been deployed so far tell part of the story. Most have been seen near the National Mall, large monuments and other tourist-heavy areas.
Army officials said that more would be sent to 10 metro stations, most of which are also near tourist and entertainment sites. They include the Foggy Bottom, Smithsonian, Eastern Market and Waterfront stations.
Near the Washington Monument over the weekend, troops posed for photos with tourists. The National Guard presence, with desert sand-colored vehicles parked near the capital’s most visited tourists spots, is now showing up regularly on social media feeds in posts by visitors to Washington.
The rules of engagement for the troops, at the moment, remain limited to supporting, but not providing, law enforcement. That means that troops are not making arrests, though Army officials acknowledged that could change if Mr. Trump decides that he wants an even more forceful presence.
CNN: National Guard troops from GOP-led states begin arriving in DC as part of Trump’s crime crackdown.
West Virginia National Guard troops have begun to arrive in Washington, DC, to assist with President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in the nation’s capital, a defense official told CNN on Tuesday.
The troops could begin assisting the DC National Guard operationally as soon as Wednesday after they have completed their in-processing, the defense official added.
Their arrival comes after the Republican governors of six states — West Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee — announced they will send guard members to Washington, DC.
The deployment of other states’ troops marks an escalation of Trump’s efforts to amass forces in the capital. The president previously announced that he was deploying DC National Guard troops to the city, surging federal agents into the streets, and federalizing DC’s police force. The president has repeatedly complained about rising crime in DC, but overall crime numbers are lower this year than in 2024.
Servicemembers from the West Virginia and South Carolina National Guards receive an orientation brief upon their arrival at the Washington, D.C. Armory, Aug. 19, 2025
The defense official said Tuesday that while there are roughly 2,400 personnel in the DC National Guard, assistance from other states was needed because of how many troops are either undergoing training elsewhere or are on leave.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said Monday he approved about 135 National Guard troops to DC, while Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announced he would deploy approximately 200 members.
Tennessee will send roughly 160 guard members to the city this week following a request from the Trump administration, Gov. Bill Lee’s press secretary said in a Tuesday statement to CNN.
Over the weekend, West Virginia’s governor said his state was sending 300 to 400 National Guard troops to the nation’s capital. South Carolina authorized the deployment of 200 troops, and Ohio said it will send 150.
Federal officers assigned to DC are focusing on beating up food delivery people. NBC4 Washington DC: Detentions of D.C. delivery drivers leave immigrant communities on edge.
Washington, D.C., resident Tyler DeSue woke up tired and craving breakfast Saturday morning, so he did what many people in that situation would do: He used Uber Eats to put in an order for burritos.
When his driver took longer than usual, DeSue checked the app and noticed something seemed wrong — the delivery driver’s GPS location had stopped short of his address. He went outside to look for him.
“I stepped into the street, I looked down and see lights in the direction, like police lights, in the direction of where my driver was,” DeSue said in an interview. “It was my driver by himself and, like, nine different officers all wearing different uniforms. … Most of them had face coverings on.”
When DeSue went to investigate, the driver — whose name appeared on the food app as “Sidi” — was being questioned, first about his vehicle’s registration and then about his immigration status, he said.
“You’re gonna come with us, you’re gonna come with us today,” a masked agent can be heard telling Sidi in video that DeSue recorded and provided to NBC News.
“Can you tell me in Arabic, please?” Sidi says, adding that he did not understand what was being said and that he was nervous.
One of the agents, wearing a vest emblazoned “POLICE HSI” — short for Homeland Security Investigations, a part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — replies that they do not have an Arabic translator. The men then cuff Sidi’s hands, waist and feet before they put him in an unmarked car. DeSue said he has since reported the incident to Uber.
There have been other such reports.
The incident is one of several arrests of delivery drivers recorded by eyewitnesses across the Washington area that have gone viral since the Trump administration took over law enforcement in the nation’s capital last week.
An Uber Eats delivery driver is arrested Saturday in Washington, D.C.Tyler DeSue
The videos, scattered across social media and shared among D.C. delivery driver chat groups, are having a chilling effect on the drivers themselves. Some of them have chosen to stop making deliveries in the city.
It has been “five days since working, looking at what to do. And, well, closed down here waiting for things to pass, because I don’t know what to do,” a D.C.-area delivery driver who did not want to be named told NBC News in a voice message in Spanish.
On Sunday afternoon, DeSue said, an area where 15 to 20 delivery drivers typically would be parked out front of his home looking at their phones for their next orders was an empty lot.
“I haven’t seen a driver anywhere in the last two days,” he said.
There’s more at the link.
Immigration, deportation, and ICE
Paul Krugman at Substack: ICEing the U.S. Economy. Mass deportations will hurt more than people realize.
Donald Trump has been able to convert Immigration and Customs Enforcement (and Customs and Border Protection, which is effectively part of the same operation) into a huge secret police force — because what are we supposed to call an organization whose masked agents, bearing no identification, simply grab people off the street? Who shoot at a family fleeing in their truck, after agents refused to identify themselves and smashed the car window, claiming – apparently falsely according to video footage – that the driver tried to harm them?
We’ve also seen both deportations to foreign gulags and the creation of a network of domestic detention centers — call it the ICE archipelago — that are overcrowded, filthy, and breeding grounds for disease. Last week a judge ordered that detainees at ICE’s Manhattan facility be given bedding mats rather than being forced to sleep on dirty concrete floors, have access to decent hygiene, and receive three meals a day. We’ll see whether this order is obeyed, but it gives you an idea of the conditions detainees are currently facing.
And the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill gives ICE $45 billion to expand its network of detention centers, making room for around 100,000 more detainees, plus $30 billion for arrest and deportation efforts, enough to hire around 10,000 more ICE agents.
I worry, as everyone should, about how a huge expansion of this deeply un-American organization may be used as a tool of presidential power and repression. Furthermore, give people power without accountability — and it’s hard to give a better example than masked, unidentified agents authorized to use force — and some of them will abuse their position. And given what ICE has already been doing, what kind of people do you think are likely to sign up as it massively expands?
Compared with these issues, concerns about the economic impact of mass deportations are definitely second-tier. But they’re still important, and a subject I know something about. So the rest of this post will be devoted to how the Trump administration is about to ICE the economy.
A bit more:
First things first: Trump officials and some of their allies have been touting numbers that appear to show 2 million native-born Americans gaining jobs over the past year. But this claim is, as Jed Kolko of the Peterson Institute says, a “multiple-count data felony.” Read Kolko for the details showing that this is a statistical artifact, not something that really happened. No, the native-born adult population didn’t suddenly jump by 4 million in a single year.
What will actually happen is a large decline in America’s foreign-born labor force. When Stephen Miller began promising to deport 3,000 immigrants a day, many people dismissed this as an idle boast. It’s true that we can’t possibly deport people anywhere near that rapidly while obeying the law and following due process. And your point is? [….]
We don’t know how many workers will eventually be incarcerated and deported. But undocumented immigrants make up around 5 percent of the U.S. work force. It seems plausible that a significant fraction of those workers will be pushed out, along with a number of legal workers snatched up based, as Trump’s border czar has said, on their physical appearance.
Losing large numbers of workers sounds as if it will be bad for the U.S. economy. In fact, it will be worse than you may think.
The reason is that immigrant workers aren’t spread evenly across the economy. They’re strongly concentrated in certain industries and occupations, where they constitute a large share, sometimes a majority, of the work force. As a result, the Trump administration’s latter-day Edict of Expulsion will be far more disruptive to the economy than the aggregate number of workers deported might suggest.
Read the rest at the link.
Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark: Fascist Secret Police Cars.
ICE has some new cars. They are cartoonishly fascist….
What is the purpose of these vehicles?
ICE has been performing its snatch-and-grab operations largely with unmarked vehicles. ICE officers in the wild seem to eschew any sort of identification: No badges, no uniforms. Most of the time they go to great lengths to conceal their identities, wearing mask, balaclavas, and ballcaps.
Fascist ICE trucks
Are these new vehicles meant for new kinds of operations, as ICE expands to a size commensurate with its funding?
Also: What is the use-case for an ICE pickup truck? Park Rangers and firefighters can use pickup trucks to haul large loads of gear. Why would ICE need pickup trucks in its fleet?
Next, let’s look at the design. You will notice that ICE employs the slogan “Defend the Homeland.” This slogan is emblazoned in multiple spots: On side panels and on hoods. On the Mustang variant—because apparently ICE operational requirements also necessitate a two-door sports coupe—the slogan appears to be plastered on the spoiler.
It is an odd slogan for a law enforcement organization. For starters, it’s not a statement of principle, like common police tag lines: “Protect and Serve,” or “Duty, Honor, Community,” or “Service Before Self.” It’s a command: DEFEND THE HOMELAND.1
This command implies a threat. The “homeland” is under assault, right now, and must be defended from some unnamed enemy. I cannot think of any LEO that uses the specter of an enemy as part of its self-projection.
Then there’s the word “homeland.” Not “America,” or “the United States.”
The Mustang variant
America and the United States are places that anyone might join, or become a part of. But the homeland is about blood and soil. It’s the patrimony of the true volk.
Finally: “Defending the homeland” isn’t even ILstice Department weaponization chief, called for the resignation of New York Attorney General Letitia James and posed for photos outside of her Brooklyn home last week – all as he is conducting investigations into her conduct.
His investigation of James, whose office brought civil fraud charges against Trump, his adult sons, and the Trump Organization resulting in a half-billion-dollar judgment last year, is one of several the Justice Department has launched into the president’s perceived enemies.
But since beginning of the investigation into James, Martin has taken several unusual steps that fall outside the norms of prosecutorial conduct. He sent a letter to James’ attorney Abbe Lowell on August 12 suggesting New York’s top law enforcement officer resign, he appeared outside of James’ home with a colleague trailed by a photographer for the New York Post, and appeared on Fox News pledging to take an expansive look into all of James’ conduct.
In video obtained by CNN, Martin can be seen posing for photos outside of James’ home.
“This is a criminal investigation, not social media,” said Elie Honig, CNN’s senior legal analyst. “A stunt like that might get clicks, but it’s patently inappropriate for a prosecutor to do and it certainly will give James and her attorney a basis to oppose any indictment, to argue it was prejudicial to the jury pool and that an indictment was brought in bad faith.”
The conduct is “outside the bounds of DOJ and ethics rules,” Lowell said in a response to Martin.
Justice Department policy generally prohibits discussing criminal investigations publicly, and attorneys are not supposed to pursue investigations for political means or to go on fishing expeditions.
Jah’han Jones at MSNBC: Trump’s ‘weaponization’ chief seems to admit to punitive fishing expeditions.
Ed Martin is going fishing. On Sunday, the lawyer and Donald Trump loyalist tapped to lead a Justice Department “weaponization” group that’s targeting the president’s perceived enemies vowed to rummage around in the lives of New York Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., in search of what he says could be potential fraud — or … something.
Ed Martin
During his 2024 campaign, Trump repeatedly targeted people who had been investigated or opposed him with thinly veiled threats of legal prosecution. Now, Martin, in his capacity as head of the so-called Weaponization Working Group at the Department of Justice, has been tasked with putting those prosecutions into action. The list of targets includes James, who led a successful mortgage fraud case against the Trump organization that resulted in a judgment of hundreds of millions of dollars; and Schiff, who served on the House Jan. 6 select committee that documented Trump’s role in fomenting insurrection in 2021.
Officials at DOJ are investigating both Schiff and James of mortgage fraud; both deny any wrongdoing and accuse the administration of political retribution. Martin, a former “Stop the Steal” organizer and attorney for Jan. 6 insurrectionists, has been assigned to oversee the cases. He’s previously said his group would be used to “shame” people it can’t charge with crimes.
In comments to Fox News this Sunday, Martin suggested his group intends to use its powers to poke around in other parts of James’ and Schiff’s lives in search of things unrelated to the mortgage allegations.
He said, “We’re gonna go to the very bottom of the facts, and if somebody did something wrong, we’re not only gonna hold them accountable, we’re also gonna look at everything else that they’ve been doing. Because when you’re a liar, you lie not just on one thing. When you’re a cheater, you cheat not just on one thing. When you’re doing corruption, you generally don’t just do it on one thing.”
The Independent: Bongino to work alongside ‘co-deputy director’ of FBI after sparring with administration over Epstein files.
The FBI has moved to appoint Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as its new “co-deputy director,” meaning its current deputy, Dan Bongino, will be expected to share his duties in the role in the future.
The appointment was made by Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel and comes after Bongino, 50, a former Secret Service agent and podcaster, reportedly clashed with Bondi over the administration’s failure to release the Jeffrey Epstein files last month.
“I am proud to announce I have accepted the role of Co-Deputy Director of the FBI,” Bailey wrote in a brief post on X. “I extend my thanks to President Donald Trump and AG Bondi for the opportunity to serve in the mission to Make America Safe Again. I will protect America and uphold the Constitution.”
Bongino responded to a journalist’s post about the appointment by writing simply, “Welcome,” accompanied by three Stars and Stripes emojis.
Explaining the decision, Patel told The Daily Beast that the FBI “will always bring the greatest talent this country has to offer in order to accomplish the goals set forth when an overwhelming majority of American people elected President Donald J Trump again.
You have to wonder why Bongino hasn’t resigned. Maybe this is a step toward pushing him out.
The Epstein case caused controversy in early July after the FBI and Justice Department put out a statement saying that the late pedophile and sex trafficker left behind no “client list” among his possessions and died by suicide in a New York City jail cell in August 2019.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino will find himself sharing his official duties after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Mitchell was hired by the Trump administration
The assessment started a civil war among Trump’s MAGA movement, many of whose members had long been encouraged to suspect foul play in Epstein’s death and had hoped to see influential people brought to justice over their alleged involvement in the disgraced financier’s crimes.
The controversy raged for more than a month, with the president himself repeatedly urged to release all federal files on Epstein and to explain his past friendship with the disgraced financier, a cause of apparent frustration to him….
Even before the contested verdict on Epstein was published, Patel and Bongino, both of whom had stoked conspiracy theories on conservative media before joining the Trump administration, had drawn fire for attempting to pour cold water on the case during a May interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures.
The Epstein story is not going away, and now supposedly the DOJ will begin releasing the Epstein files to the House Oversight Committee on Friday.
CNN: House panel to make Epstein files public after redactions to protect victim identities.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform intends to make public some files it subpoenaed related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, though it will first redact them to shield victims’ IDs and other sensitive matters, a committee spokesperson said Tuesday.
The panel is expected to start receiving materials from the Justice Department on Friday, though it appears the public release will come some time after that. The spokesperson said the committee would work with the Justice Department on the process.
“The Committee intends to make the records public after thorough review to ensure all victims’ identification and child sexual abuse material are redacted. The Committee will also consult with the DOJ to ensure any documents released do not negatively impact ongoing criminal cases and investigations,” the spokesperson said.
Democrats on the committee complained that Comer was slow walking the release of the material by allowing the Justice Department to miss the Tuesday deadline that had been set by the panel and instead turn over the materials to the committee gradually over time starting Friday. They said DOJ had already been directed by the House subpoena to redact material related to victims’ identities and child sexual abuse – questioning the need for further delay to do so.
“Releasing the Epstein files in batches just continues this White House cover-up. The American people will not accept anything short of the full, unredacted Epstein files,” said Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the panel. “In a bipartisan vote, the Committee demanded complete compliance with our subpoena. Handpicked, partial productions are wholly insufficient and potentially misleading, especially after Attorney General Bondi bragged about having the entirety of the Epstein files on her desk mere months ago.”
I hope this will really happen, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
Trump and Putin
This post is already too long, but I couldn’t resist including this story from The Daily Beast: Trump’s Jaw-Dropping Ignorance Exposed During Putin Meet: Author.
Donald Trump displayed a stunning ignorance of the Cold War during last week’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to his biographer.
Author Michael Wolff told the Daily Beast podcast Inside Trump’s Head on Tuesday that, in the president’s telling of the decades-long 20th century engagement, “it would appear that the U.S. and USSR are on the same side.”
Michael Wolff
Wolff, who said his sources are “twice removed” from the principals, said Trump began the meeting with “a combination of flattery” and “a combination of things that he’s just pulled out of somewhere…observations, it’s both inconsequential and incoherent.”
When either Special Envoy Steve Witkoff or Secretary of State Marco Rubio interrupted him to lay out an agenda, Wolff said, Trump just talked over them.
“Again, we’re nowhere in this meeting. We’re probably now, you know, 20 minutes in. Nothing is clear about what anyone is doing there except that Putin is totally impassive,” he said.
When Putin did speak, Wolff said, he gave a “history lesson” about ”why [Russia] should conquer Ukraine.”
And a bit more:
“Trump, not to be outdone, as this is relayed to me, goes into his own history lesson, and this is a history of the Cold War,” he said. “And as this is described to me, in Trump’s history of the Cold War, it would appear that the U.S. and USSR are on the same side.” [….]
Trump, who has been attacking “woke” history museums for not talking about “the future,” then seemed to go along with Putin’s statement resisting a ceasefire, Wolff said.
“And Trump seems to accept this and seems to agree with this,” according to the author. “Yes, let’s just move on to the peace.”
Witkoff and Rubio, meanwhile, are “basically helpless.”
“They sit there occasionally trying to interject, but you can’t really interject because Trump just talks all the time,” he continued.
“And this is then to… Putin’s advantage, because rather than any discussion of the details of what might happen here, what territory—what are you going to give for that, what are the trade offs—I mean, that level of detail Trump is not interested in, probably not capable of following the logical sequences that would be necessary there.”
What’s important to Trump, Wolff said, “is to keep talking” and “to have people listen to him.”
Those are the stories that interested me today. There’s much more happening. What’s on your mind?
#AndrewBailey #DanBongino #DCFoodDeliveryDrivers #DOJ #EdMartin #EpsteinFiles #FascistCrackdownOnWashingtonDC #FascistSecretPoliceCars #ICEAndTheEconomy #LetitiaJames #MichaelWolff #NationalGuardTroopsInWashingtonDC #TrumpIgnorance #TrumpPutinSummit2025 #VladimirPutin
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Today I wanted to take a look at what we learned from the 4th level pregens that Kobold Press released ahead of the release of Tales of the Valiant. The pregens have their own names and backstories, and the company even has its own name, the Valiant 6. I know Pathfinder still has their iconics, but I kind of miss that on the 5e SRD front, so I’m happy to see that tradition revived.
I know my suppositions and observations are going to be moot in probably under a month, but I can’t help it, I like digging into new releases. All of the pregens are 4th level, so we’re not going to get a deep look at any of these classes. That was one of my laments, that most of what we saw in the playtests were lower level options, except for the full 20th level progression we got to see for the Cleric, Fighter, Rogue, and Wizard.
I’m not going to example the backstories of the characters too closely, and I’m not looking at backgrounds much, since we know that provides some skills and a talent, and I’m not all that interested in reverse engineering the exact skills, tools, languages, and talents that go to those backgrounds. I’m also going to look at these in segments, rather than as a whole. In other words, I may not specifically reference who has what talent, or who is carrying what piece of equipment that I’m commenting on. This isn’t a review of the pregens so much as looking at what these character sheets tell us.
General Observations
My first observation is that all of these characters are 4th level, and all of them have XP listed. The XP listed for each of the characters is the same amount of XP you would need to reach 4th level in the 2014 version of the D&D rules. It doesn’t look like we’ve got a radical reimagining of advancement, although we’ll likely get options like milestone and story based advancement in the full rules.
Ability scores, ability score bonuses, and saves look unchanged. I know the playtest was allowing fighters to pick Dexterity or Strength as one of their saves, but our pregen uses strength. Skills also look unchanged. No new skills, no changes to the assumed ability score for a given skill. As much as I can tell from the character sheet, tool proficiency works the same as it does in the 2014 rules. That said, there is a talent in one of the character sheets that says that if something you are doing could use either a skill or a tool proficiency, you get advantage on the roll, which means Tales of the Valiant is turning something that was an optional rule in Xanathar’s and was floated in the 2024 D&D playtest into something you only get if you have a specific talent.
I did notice that there are passive score boxes for Perception, Investigation, and Insight. I’m curious to see if this is just because some abilities grant bonuses to their passive use, or if we’re going to have different rules about passive scores (i.e. if you have a passive score it becomes the “floor” for your results, which has not been one of my favorite 2014 era rulings).
We see a few examples of armor, and it doesn’t look like there are a lot of changes there, except for clarifying some rules associated with the armor in the 2014 rules with defined qualities. For example, leather armor has the natural tag, which I assume is referenced for druids, and splint mail has the noisy trait, which just lets you know what armor causes you to have disadvantage on dexterity (stealth) checks, something that’s already in the 2014 D&D rules. I like having these defined with tags more than catching a reference on a chart or in the item description.
The character sheet has a Death Saves section, which shows three successes and three failures, which may indicate there isn’t much of a change in how Death Saves work. Exhaustion also still has six levels, although we don’t get a definition of the levels or any kind of calculation when you check a box (not saying the sheet is bad for not doing that, its just a data point that could have been mined if it did autocalculate). Luck appears to be enshrined and is replacing inspiration. You have four boxes, because when you get your fifth point of luck, you have to roll to reset how much you have, or at least you did in the playtest, which implies that Luck still works the way it did previously.
Weapons don’t look much different, as they aren’t picking up the same kind of traits that the 2024 playtest was playing with. We do get an official 5e SRD scythe, and my main takeaway from that is that it doesn’t have the same stats as the scythe that appeared in the Book of Blades supplements from Kobold Press (which is good, because it was a bit overpowered in that source).
While we have a few spellcasters, we don’t get a lot of information on spells. From some of the other blogs recently, we know that spells are still sorted into groups like Arcane, Divine, Primal, and Wyrd, rather than having class lists. Wyrd almost seems like its still a class spell list for Warlocks, until I see something else in the rules that references it. We appear to have the terminology for “spell level” officially shifted to “spell circles.” The playtest rules introduced the idea that spells that could be cast as rituals would just be ritual spells, which are tracked separately, and that appears to have made it into the final rules.
I thought that Doom as a monster mechanic was going to be optional, with some of the special abilities triggered by Doom removed from some of the stat blocks we saw earlier in the playtest. While this is related to one of the heritage abilities, I wanted to point this out here, because either there is a heritage ability that interacts with an optional rule, which feels like it would be disappointing for a player that picked that background, or Doom is no longer optional, even if monsters don’t have special Doom triggered abilities.
Most of the changes I see here I’m okay with. While I like Arcane, Divine, and Primal as definitions of sources of spells, I’m still not sure about using those in lieu of class spell lists, and I need to see more of some additional classes to really get a feel for how much I like this. I’m not a big fan of Wyrd as a power source (i.e. your magic comes from Lovecraftville). I hope we don’t run into too many “we’re quantifying something you may just let players do, or something you have the flexibility to use at your discretion, into a talent.” When those build up too much, as a GM, I almost feel like I need to be less flexible with my rules interpretations because otherwise I’m not honoring some of the mechanical choices my players are making.Class Observations
We already learned this from the blog posts, and from the preview of the Mechanist, but the subclass progression is standardized across classes, which for these characters means they get their subclasses at 3rd level. When it comes to things like hit dice, hit points, saves, and proficiencies, there doesn’t appear to be too much different here, although it looks like they reversed the “wizards don’t get any weapon proficiencies” trial balloon from the playtest.
Cleric
This cleric has proficiency with the Scythe in addition to simple weapons, and I’m not sure where that comes from. The backstory seems to reference it as a weapon associated with a specific god, which makes me wonder if beyond domain, there will be a god specific boon, or I could have just missed the proficiency from somewhere else.
Clerics get their bonus melee (and maybe an option for cantrips) radiant or necrotic damage earlier than 8th level. Channel Divinity still has the baseline ability to turn, but it includes fiends and not just undead.
As part of their Light Domain subclass, they get light and dancing lights as free cantrips, and they don’t need to concentrate on dancing lights. Overwhelming Flash uses a reaction to impose a -3 to an oncoming attack, and blinds the foe if they hit. I have no idea if that -3 is just standard for the ability, or if it’s derived from something. The extra Channel Divinity from the Light Domain damages foes that are within an existing light source, in bright light.
I like the flavor of the range of an ability being limited to already existing light, but I’m not a fan of the oddball -3 from Overwhelming Flash, and I hope it’s not a sign of more specific +/- effects coming back into the game.Fighter
Fighters have the second wind replacement from the playtest, which lets them spend up to their proficiency bonus number of hit dice when they are bloodied, once per long rest. It also looks like the shift from combat styles to abilities that require you to spend a bonus action to activate has made it through into the rules, as this fighter has the ability to impose disadvantage on attacks against them for allies that are within 5 ft. of them, from enemies within 5 ft., on the first attack. Action Surge is still part of the fighter and looks unchanged.
The Weapon Master subclass is the “sort of” replacement for Battle Masters, except that, at least in the playtest, all of the abilities were focused on boosting the fighter, themself, rather than allies. We get a note that the fighter can use stunts PB +1 times per day, once per turn, but we have no definitions for any stunts. The Weapon Master subclass also grants mastery in multiple weapons, allowing the fighter to reroll damage with those weapons, and also allows them to roll damage with stunts that don’t normally do damage.In the playtest, some Fighter options felt more powerful than they were before, but only in limited circumstances, and other abilities had additional limiters. I don’t think fighters are overpowered at all in the 2014 rules, but I do like the feel of spending hit dice and using actions to set up abilities, rather than having second wind exist outside of existing rules, and having abilities that are passively modifying the fighter’s abilities. Without definitions for stunts, though, that means this pregen doesn’t really do much until we see the full rules, without using the last round of playtest rules.
Mechanist
We already got a preview of the Mechanist, but if you were wondering how this would be different than Artificers, the Mechanist isn’t a spellcaster. They get light and medium armor, shields, simple, and martial weapons. Mechanists have a d10 hit points, which means they are positioned as a front line fighter.
The mechanist can detect the magical properties or spells that are active on an item. They can use an object as a bonus action, which will be handier when they get magic items. There is also a note that they can use “weapon options” with a bonus action, which seems like it’s referencing some of the rules that appeared in the Tome of Heroes. These are special abilities that aren’t tied to a weapon, but are limited to certain types of weapons (like two-handed weapons, or slashing weapons). The mechanist has a Shard of Creation, something they can reshape into objects three times per rest.
The mechanist can spend an hour to infuse an item with an ability, which can vary from adding special sight abilities to something the character looks through, providing a +1 bonus, or giving an item with the loading property an automated loading function. They can also use a reaction to lessen an incoming damage type, which then gives them resistance to that damage type for the next minute.
I have no idea how these will play. I know that this particular Mechanist does feel like it would be more at home in a less “steampunk” or “clockpunk” setting, and works as the more standard fantasy “smith that learns legendary techniques.” I like Artificers, but I also like the idea that you can have a creator/magic infusion class that doesn’t require quite as much pushing on an established setting’s feel, if it doesn’t make room for mechanization.Rogue
Rogues may be the least changed of all of these, outside of the changes that happen with subclasses, both the levels at which they grant abilities, and the unique subclasses designed for those assumptions. Expertise, cunning action, and sneak attack are all familiar abilities. Rogues do lose out on using longswords, which don’t do them much good anyway.
The Enforcer subclass seems to be aiming for a similar space as the Assassin, but with a little more reliability. You have advantage throughout the first round of combat, lining you up for more sneak attacks even if you get ahead of the party. You get a crit if you hit someone that’s surprised, which will probably be less useful. You also get to make another attack once per turn if you drop someone to zero hit points, which is less excited when you realize you can’t get sneak attack more than once per turn (but it is turn, and not round).
I’m not excited by the rogue, but I’m satisfied with it. Getting reliable sneak attack damage on round one is one of those “nutritious” options. It’s a good ability, it’s just not flashy.
Warlock
The warlock feels really weird to me, because it’s the same, but has some screenburn from changes that might have been made, and I don’t know what it’s going to do for the class overall. Our example is Fiend patron Warlock, and Warlocks still pick a Pact, which in this case is the Pact of the Chain. The warlock also gets two invocations, and the two that this warlock has, Agonizing Blast and Eldritch Spear, look a lot like the usual versions of those abilities. From the Fiend patron, they also get a familiar looking Dark One’s Blessing, which lets you trigger the ability if anyone in 30 ft. drops someone to 0 hit points, not just you. That’s a good change.
Now here are the changes. Eldritch Blast is a class ability not a cantrip. Warlocks are now a half-casting class . . . but they also have an ability called Pact Magic, which gives them the ability to use two spells at the highest level the Warlock can cast per short or long rest. We don’t know what higher level spellcasting is going to look like since this is just a 4th level character. I’m not sure what it’s going to feel like to give the warlock more spells across the board, but that’s not the thing that’s nagging at me.
Some of the ancillary material talking about the Wyrd power source implies that some casters start dabbling with stuff they shouldn’t be working with, and that many people tapping into this power need to have a Patron to keep them from blowing themselves up or shutting off their brain when they continue to use the Wyrd power source. That’s a lot different than the current Warlock’s story. The warlock becomes someone that didn’t make a deal to get power, they are occultists that natively know how to cast spells, without the patron. It means that no matter what patron your warlock has, they are using mythos magic to power themselves. Let’s assume you end up with a patron similar to the Celestial patron in 2014. Your angelic friend decides to help you continue using mythos magic in exchange for maybe doing some good once in a while? I’m not sure I like that shift in story.Wizard
As mentioned above, the biggest change we get here is a change back from the playtest trial balloon of removing all weapon proficiencies from the wizard, which has a lot of potential knock on effects, even if I understand the reasoning. The wizard looks pretty standard, with the ability to recover a spell on a short rest. They can also prepare a number of spells that looks like its still in line with their Int bonus plus their level.
The main thing that’s new is the Battle Mage, which appeared in the playtest, and doesn’t look like it was significantly changed. Two times per long rest you can make you and your allies immune to damage cause by your spell, and 2 times per long rest, when you cast a spell using spell slots, you gain a bonus to AC and resistance to piercing, bludgeoning, and slashing damage. This was one of my favorite subclasses from the playtest. The only real negative is that it works better than some of the 2014 subclasses it borrows from, but that’s only a problem if you really want those to remain viable options, and we don’t even know what subclasses we’ll see in the 2024 rules and how they might be changed.
Overall, that means I like what I see in the fighter and the wizard, I’m fine with what I see from the cleric and the rogue, I like the story ramifications for the mechanist and want to see it in play, and I don’t like the story ramifications for the warlock, and need to get a feel for it in play.Lineage and Heritage Observations
This gets a little hard to evaluate, because some of the Lineage options just don’t have any rules on the character sheet to represent them. Here is our list:
- Elf–Low light vision is a thing again, advantage on sight and hearing base perception, advantage on saves versus charms, immunity to magical sleep
- Dwarf–Darkvision, advantage on poison saves, resistance to poison damage, +1 hp per level
- Human–You got me
- Kobold–Apparently there is a choice between options, this one is medium, with natural armor, and resistance to fire
- Orc–Not sure
I’m not sure how I feel about elves reintroducing the concept of low-light vision. I kind of like it from a storytelling perspective, especially given the proliferation of darkvision ancestries in the current game. Both of the human characters have two talents, so I imagine humans are just known for being so unnoteworthy that they pick up a trait from somewhere else again. I can’t find anything on the orc’s sheet that looks like it comes from lineage.
As far as Heritages go, we get these examples:
- Cloud–cast minor illusion and disguise self
- Diaspora–grant everyone within 5 ft. advantage on saves versus fear
- Fireforge–double proficiency bonus with smithing tools, mending cantrip
- Grove–climb speed, can hide as long as concealed in natural surroundings
- Nomad–advantage on saves versus weather effects, remove exhaustion on a short rest
- Supplicant–advantage on ability checks and saves when a creature spends doom, bonus action to move 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks, do not set off traps when you do this if you know they are there
I’m not sure all of these are equal from an adventuring standpoint. The supplicant background has the best story, basically being a creature that grew up under the thumb of a big dungeon monster. I know these are trying hard to be “general” backgrounds, but I wish they had a little more personality. I loved what Thrones & Bones: Banner of the Wolf did, where the heritage really felt like it represented a fantasy culture that had context in the setting, but I guess that’s the curse of core rulebook functionality.
Talent Observations
It looks like the final rules will continue to organize talents into Magic, Martial, and Technical. I didn’t mind that quantification, because I think as feats (or your replacement for feats) go from being optional in the game to standard, there should be a few more ground rules for how they work and what they get you, and I don’t mind not throwing the gates wide open for everyone. Additionally, it’s pretty easy to pick up a background or a subclass that will get you access to a list if you really want it.
The talents on display are:
- Combat Conditioning–extra hit points and a floor to how few hit points hit dice provide
- Polyglot–three extra languages and 1/short or long rest advantage on Charisma checks involving speech, at PB to checks to understand unknown spoken or written language
- Armor Expert–AC boost and resistant to being moved
- Aware–can’t get lower than 10 on initiative, can’t be surprised, and hidden targets don’t get advantage
- Trade Skills–double proficiency bonus and get advantage if you could use either tools or a skill to accomplish something
- Scrutinous–lip reading, bonus to passive perception and investigation, ask a question after examining an object for one minute
- Vanguard–use reaction to counterattack someone that attacks you, get opportunity attacks even if you shouldn’t, get a bonus to hit and damage when you ready an action to attack, and that attack is triggered
These are fun, but not quite as within the same scope. Trade Skills gets the short end of the stick, even if you don’t take the Xanathar’s optional rule into consideration. I’m not a fan of too many ways to double proficiency bonus, but compared to some of these others, it falls behind. I like the roleplaying and story elements you can play with if you have a player that has polyglot, and I like seeing some more open ended benefits, like asking the GM a question about an object. Aware feels like a lot, but I don’t know how often I’ve actually ambushed my players where some of these would come into play. I like the idea of adding more rules options where you have a minimum to you d20 roll. We’ve seen it in a few subclasses, but I like ways to boost the ability to succeed without breaking the ceiling of what’s possible on the roll.
Final Thoughts
It’s weird, because I know this set of rules had a relatively quick turnaround, but it feels like I’ve been waiting to see them for a while. It may be due to the playtest being a little constrained, even for backers. I like that the mechanist has settled into addressing the role, but not the form, of the artificer. I think it may be fun to have more active widgets to play with when running a fighter, and I just like the feeling that the fighter “second wind,” while not called that anymore, actually feels like a second wind because it’s pulling from the character’s hit dice. If the rogue stays consistent with 2014, except for moving up their subclass abilities, as well as adding in the 10th level options worked into all of the classes, I think it will be in good shape. The wizard, the cleric, and the rogue, especially feel like my excitement is going to be invested in seeing their subclasses.
I wish I liked the warlock more. I also hope that rolling eldritch blast in as a class ability is something that we see with the ranger and hunter’s mark. I mentioned that I wanted more flavorful heritage options, but when I was making pregens in the playtest, I really enjoyed being able to mix and match elements with lineage to produce some unique results. I hope more of them have decision points like the kobold (even though we only saw one finalized option here).
I’m looking forward to next month, and also fully prepared to realize that with multiple full 5e SRD fantasy games coming out, my ideal game may exist in a Venn diagram instead of a single source.Note: This post includes an affiliate link to one of the products that I mentioned. If you are inclined to buy it and use the affiliate link, it helps me keep this website going. Thanks!
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