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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hugely thoughtful review of my book on eco-saboteurs The Earth Liberation Front from @adamfederman.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com zooming in on its central moral conundrum: at what point is it OK to break the laws of a system that is already horribly broken? newrepublic.com/article/2130...

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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Let's do this! Pacific Northwest mini-tour for my new true crime/radical politics book "Fires In The Night: The Earth Liberation Front, The FBI, and A Secret History of Eco-Sabotage"! We're hitting @powells.bsky.social in Portland, Seattle, Olympia, Eugene, Corvallis!

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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If you want to know what an undercover cop looks like, here’s a good example. While researching my book on the ELF, I interviewed detective Greg Harvey, who spent years infiltrating the environmental movement. His disguise, pictured on the right, included a wig from a Halloween costume of Jesus.

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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Dudes in ski masks cuddling fuzzy animals: a thread (Found these mostly in old animal rights zines while researching my book -- buy it! link in bio!)

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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Admiring Dave Foreman's incredible 1980s radical environmentalist drip

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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Trump is removing limits on “forever chemicals,” opening our national parks for logging and drilling, and stripping the EPA for parts. If that makes you want to burn something down (figuratively), this is the book for you. Huge thanks to @nytimesbooks for recommending FITN!

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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The Heritage Foundation, a prominent right-wing think tank, spent millions pushing back on science and arguing that pollution was a consumer choice, such that, by the 1980s, the GOP, including Reagan, had flipped and was now staunchly anti-environmentalism.

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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Environmentalism only stopped being something we all agreed when, at the end of the decade, a few right-wing titans of industry launched a gigantic campaign to convince people keeping the Earth livable was actually a bad idea.

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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

An estimated 20 million people participated in the first Earth Day, in 1970, with Congress calling a full recess. Richard Nixon created the EPA. Ronald Reagan, as governor of California, bragged loudly about being pro-regulation. The Clean Air Act passed the Senate UNANIMOUSLY.

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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It’s been largely forgotten but, in the 1970s, basically EVERYONE was an environmentalist, Democrat and Republican. Starting in the 1960s, Americans became aware we were facing a dire ecological crisis. Smog in L.A. was so bad, visibility sometimes dropped down to almost zero.

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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Photo I found in court documents while researching my book on the Earth Liberation Front: A downed 1,000,000-volt electrical tower just southeast of Bend, Oregon, which the ELF successfully pulled down on the night December 30, 2000, by unscrewing its guy wires.

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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

On October 19, 1998, the Earth Liberation Front burned down the Two Elk Lodge, a $20 million ski resort in Vail, Colorado. This required torching not just one structure but ELEVEN structures, including a ski lift. It was the most expensive act of eco-sabotage in U.S. history.

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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

On March 30, 2001, members of the Earth Liberation Front set fire to 35 brand new SUVs at the Joe Romania Chevrolet dealership in Eugene, Oregon, as a protest against global warming. Photo © Paul Carter of the Eugene Register Guard, via Imagn Images.

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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In the days leading up to my book dropping, I'm posting some rare Earth Liberation Front-related photos. This is the Superior Lumber Company, in Glendale, Oregon, which the ELF torched on January 2, 2001. In a communique, they referred to Superior as "a typical earth raper."

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Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Hey all, just sharing the beautiful cover for my forthcoming book, "Fires In The Night: The Earth Liberation Front, The FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage," coming out June 23, 2026, from Viking! Pre-orders available!

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