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Topic: Burning Man

Tents between puddles and mud on the grounds of the "Burning Man" festival. Tens of thousands of visitors to the desert festival "Burning Man" are stranded on the site in the US state of Nevada after heavy rainfall over the weekend. September 2023. (David Crane/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Mocking Burning Man's muddy catastrophe

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks as the arrival of former President Donald Trump outside the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on August 24, 2023. (Benjamin Hendren/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

MTG: Burning Man floods an act of God

Attendees look at a rainbow over flooding on a desert plain on September 1, 2023, after heavy rains turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada's Black Rock desert into a mud pit. (Photo by JULIE JAMMOT/AFP via Getty Images)

Death and disaster in the high desert

A dancer juggles fire as a 52-foot tall wooden man as it goes up in flames September 2, 2000 during the 15th annual Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada. (David McNew/Newsmakers/Getty Images)

Burning Man and our thirst for ritual

Dimitris Xygalatas - The Conversation

Walkway to the Man (The Burning Man Project/ Andrew Wyatt)

Burning Man's sordid aftermath

Burning Man festival participants endure a dust storm on the playa at the Black Rock Desert in Gerlach, Nev., on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007. (AP/Brad Horn)

Has Burning Man fixed its abuse problem?

Burning Man festival participants endure a dust storm on the playa at the Black Rock Desert in Gerlach, Nev., on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007. (AP/Brad Horn)

Burning Man’s sex crime problem exposed

Burning Man participants compete in the swimming leg of the annual Black Rock City triathlon at the Burning Man festival. (AP/Brad Horn)

Burning Man is hell on the help

Keith A. Spencer, Nicole Karlis

Larry Harvey, co-founder of the Burning Man festival (AP/John Curley)

My dinner with Mr. Burning Man

Keith A. Spencer

A local porter walks towards Lukla to fetch daily supplies. (AP/Tashi Sherpa)

Silicon Valley's Orientalism

'The Man' burns during the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert (AP/Brad Horn)

Death at Burning Man

Burning Man participants walk on the playa at the Black Rock Desert (AP/Brad Horn)

Burning Man's gentrification

Keith A. Spencer

(Getty/MikeNelson)

He lived Burning Man every day

Participants dance at White Ocean during the Burning Man 2015 "Carnival of Mirrors" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, September 4, 2015. (Reuters/Jim Urquhart)

(Reuters/Jim Urquhart)

Keith A. Spencer - Jacobin

Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform (AP/Yuri Gripas)

Norquist at Burning Man

(Reuters/Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man is no tech utopia

Grover Norquist (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Grover's big summer

(Reuters/Steve Marcus)

Bundy: '60s-style protest hero

Heather Digby Parton

(Reuters/Jim Urquhart/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-658339p1.html'>Vadim Georgiev</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Armistead Maupin (AP/Jeff Chiu)

Farewell to the city

Alexander Zaitchik - Media Matters

(AP/Ron Lewis-File)

Adam Rothstein - The New Inquiry

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