Foto Friday: Autumn 2025 from the road edition

Plus: Interior official Karen Budd-Falen's financial ties to controversial lithium mine revealed

🐓 Regulatory Capture Chronicles 🦊

Mere minutes after I had sent out Tuesday’s dispatch detailing associate deputy Interior secretary Karen Budd-Falen’s vast landholdings, Land Desk reader and indefatigable desert protector Patrick Donnelly sent me some very interesting Securities Exchange Commission documents.

They showed that in 2018, when Budd-Falen …