The most mindblowing photograph to emerge from the Nevada BLM/white militia standoff

Reuters photog Jim Urquhart captured this surreal photograph of Eric Parker, who lives in central Idaho, aiming his gun from a bridge as pro-states’ rights protesters assemble at the Bureau of Land Management base camp in Bunkerville, Nevada. The Atlantic has a good explainer on the case, which involves rancher Cliven Bundy not paying grazing fees to the BLM, and now essentially squatting his “ancestral land” with support from a lot of very angry white people with guns. This is militia culture in the United States.