What the Heck Happened at Interior This Week?

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Believe it or not, not everyone pays as much attention to goings on at the Department of the Interior as we do. But you know what will get mainstream media to pay attention? A tale as good as this one. 

Emily Atkin, from The New Republic, did a great job providing a timeline:

That, of course, begs the question: How did this happen? Glenn Thrush, of The New York Times, found out:

https://twitter.com/glennthrush/status/1053044022036570112

In case you missed it:

https://twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/1053055684777074688

All this caught the attention of Rachel Maddow, who dedicated 15 minutes of her show to the debacle:

Representative Raul Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona and the ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, sure sounded disgusted:

https://twitter.com/NRDems/status/1053085728010395649

And he has some questions:

https://twitter.com/NRDems/status/1053024242432962567 https://twitter.com/NRDems/status/1053024445466587137 https://twitter.com/NRDems/status/1053024550869508098 https://twitter.com/NRDems/status/1053024857540227072