Cliven Bundy

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Brendan O’Connor @ Jezebel: What Obama's New National Monuments Mean for the Militia Movement. Ed Kilgore @ New York: How About Some Democratic Outreach to Liberal People of Faith for a Change? Osita Nwanevu @ Slate: Simon & Schuster Reportedly Paying Hate-Monger Milo Yiannopoulos $250,00

NPR is reporting that the armed antigovernment activists who have taken over a federal wildlife refuge building in Oregon, after promising to stay there "for years,” are now saying that they will call a meeting with the local community within a day and leave “if the county people tell us to leave.

At first glance, it seems like a fluke that the two most recent militia movement showdowns — a showdown at a gold mine and the current occupation of a federal building by groups protesting the arson sentences of a pair of ranchers — have taken place in Oregon.