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The Gift of Artemis II

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  YOUR FREE TRIAL HAS EXPIRED.   The Gift of Artemis II By David Corn  April 11, 2026 NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window on April 2, after completing the translunar injection burn. Reid Wiseman/NASA   Your free trial of  Our Land  has expired , so you're no longer getting the full version of each newsletter. We’re glad you signed up for  Our Land  in the first place and opened today's email, so here's David's lead story and a  friendly reminder that for just $5 a month  you can receive the behind-the-scenes and interactive features with each issue—and at the same time support  Mother Jones ’ reporting. I Want the Full Version   It was late on a summer evening. Our counselors roused us out of our beds and brought us to the main dining hall. On a rolling AV stand was a television. We had never seen a television before in the hall—or anywhere else at this sleepa...
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Tell US Interior Secretary Burgum: Our public lands are NOT for sale!

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  THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE IS INCLUDED TO EDUCATION AND INFORMATION IN  ORDER TO JOIN WITH OTHERS AND WORK TO PROTECT ALL PUBLIC LANDS  FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!    Act today to protect America's public lands. Send a quick message! Bad news for America’s public lands.  Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is deeply embedded in the oil industry . And his nomination is closer to approval.  We can fight back by urging the current Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, to make sure our public lands are protected from being sold off to the fossil fuel industry. Send a quick message today! Tell Interior Secretary Burgum and tell him to keep public lands protected. It takes less than a minute! Voters across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support protecting public lands.   It’s one of the rare issues that actually unites people right now. But the new BLM head, Steve Pearce, could put millions of acres at risk of being opened u...
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A small town takes a solar developer to court and four more stories

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  ADVERTISEMENT The Saturday Send Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from  CommonWealth Beacon  that you may have missed. This week, reporter Jordan Wolman covers the legal battle between solar developer Sunpin and the small town of Petersham over a project to  install 12,000 panels , generating 4.3 megawatts of power but requiring the clearing of 14 acres of forest. The Supreme Judicial Court, which heard arguments on Wednesday on the matter, will make a decision sometime in the next couple of months that could shape siting and permitting decisions for projects to come. Plus, the  feud  between Auditor Diana DiZoglio and Attorney General Andrea Campbell takes a strange turn over a text message, a Bellingham man grapples with the  last-mile costs  of greening his home's electricity, a family  child care incubator  in Worcester gives providers a boost, and House Speaker Ron Mariano calls the  ballot initiat...
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