Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

“The Monday filing outlines where 2,050 positions would be eliminated; the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Land Management, and the main Interior office would be especially hard hit. Regional offices with the National Park Service are also targeted for significant cuts.”

Aden Ng has published a deep dive video about AltNPS (& AltYello), the dangers of their money grabs, & how your personal data may be at risk. With background info from @drsturg.bsky.social book, We Are #AltGov, & current watchdog @altwatcher.bsky.social adding context, this is quite informative.

"I wanted to stay here." - an early-career stem-cell biologist who is now looking to leave the US for a career in Europe. Reporting by Rita Akensenfeld & @jennaahart.bsky.social, for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Jeff Mow, former superintendent of Glacier National Park & Coalition Executive Council member, shares how the Trump administration’s cuts are quietly eroding our parks from the inside. Read his interview with @highcountrynews.org: www.hcn.org/articles/the...

The Interior Secretary, whose signature is on the document authorizing the placement of QR codes at National Park Service sites, claims to know nothing about it. #nationalparks thenationalparksexperience.substack.com/p/interior-s...

This is not normal

Get your National Climate Assessment from archive -dot- org: web.archive.org/web/20250629...

“So what’s neat is that you can just do command-shift-E and rank every single resident from whitest to least,” said the billionaire libertarian theonion.com/peter-t...

Our analysis found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion. Here’s how we did it.

The National Park Service is already underfunded and understaffed. To put its budget on the chopping block as we continue to see a rise in visitors at parks across the county is reckless and thoughtless. It's the worst idea for "America's Best Idea."

I hope this dude files the defamation lawsuit of a lifetime against the troves of organizations, officials, and media that dragged his name through the dirt for the crime of speaking up against a slaughter www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/n...

Trump claims climate change is a “hoax.” Now, his administration is silencing government research that proves him wrong. Climate-monitoring spacecraft will be shut down, thousands of scientists have been dismissed, invaluable data eliminated. The assault has just begun www.eenews.net/articles/how...

At least 12 DOGE staffers remain legal employees or advisers of the companies they worked at before DOGE. And at least nine continue to receive corporate benefits from their private-sector employers, including stock vesting plans.

The cruelty in today's politics feels horribly corrosive. Bringing up that hard-working immigrant families — undocumented, yes, but not violent criminals — are being ripped apart based on immigration status doesn't bring compassion or even pause, but gleeful cheers.

Saw this sticker on a car in Montana.

This weekend, President Trump federalized 2,000 National Guard personnel to respond to protests against ICE in L.A. Here’s a thread of Lawfare’s recent analysis of domestic deployments of the military:

Law enforcement injure at least 4 journalists covering protests in California amid federal crackdown cpj.org/2025/06/law-...

“I was watching a movie when I got the email and it was very cold and kind of heartless.” In Montana, 80 Americorps service workers lose jobs last month. Program had an average $34 of return for every $1 invested, per study. By @mddrew.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2025/05/29/f... #mtpol #mtnews

Remember folks, the budget cuts for NSF and NIH *can still be stopped*. That is a luxury not granted to our agency science colleagues who have or could still lose their jobs from the top down. So - Fight! Speak up! Pay attention!

Elon's legacy ranges from gutting cancer research to setting in motion millions of deaths from starvation or disease. I'll be pushing for Congress to hold Elon & DOGE accountable—for every act of corruption, every disastrous consequence, and every law they have broken.

I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Following DOGE cuts to the U.S. Forest Service and AmeriCorps, wilderness areas across Montana are facing serious staffing shortages. You can read about how these cuts are impacting the Bob, and how this may affect your summer recreating here: bit.ly/4dyNRN6

You've already heard the impact of federal cuts on health research, but what about research on the environment? That picture isn't exactly pretty either. My latest for @highcountrynews.org, on how the stellar field science at the U.S. Forest Service is under threat.

Voluntary buyouts, early retirements, and hiring freezes are hollowing out the agencies that keep public lands safe and accessible. At the Forest Service, more than 5,000 people have left the agency. And 2,500 National Park employees are taking deferred resignation offers or retiring early.

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the U.S., according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times.

GOOD NEWS - A federal judge has indefinitely paused President Trump's sweeping overhaul of the federal government.

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

The entire Republican Party has lined up solidly behind a would-be fascist dictator with a narcissistic psychopathic personality disorder. But the real problem is that Democrats spent too long backing a president who often looked and sounded old.

For my NOAA colleagues: H/T @cdelawalla.bsky.social

The general public does not fully grasp everything that the federal government does, and many are experiencing a very harsh awakening. It’s just sad, and it really doesn’t have to be this way.

A National Weather Service office in Kentucky was scrambling to cover the overnight forecast on Friday as severe storms moved through much of the eastern U.S. The office is one of several left without an overnight forecaster as a result of cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency.

New blog from me at @motherjones.com: 25 people were arrested today during a Congressional hearing while protesting Medicaid cuts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

Not sure we are fully grasping the tragedy of so many people with so much knowledge and experience who only want to offer it up to make the world better being cast aside or demonized, with nowhere to do their work.

There are many horrible things in the Ways & Means draft, but let me alert you to this underappreciated horror: They want to expand the Treasury Secretary's power to unilaterally designate nonprofits as "terrorist supporting organizations."

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

THIS is the most devastating constitutional crisis.

Cutbacks have gutted the staff at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, who work to protect the public from toxic algal blooms. Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.

A supporters group for Nashville’s Major League Soccer team canceled game-day activities following recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Tennessee that have resulted in more than 100 people taken into custody.

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies. TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.

The hits keep coming, y’all. In a new move in their continued dismantling of the National Park Service, the Trump administration, hundreds of employees were removed from their position as rangers. Employees were told Friday afternoon they were being “consolidated” to the Department of the Interior.

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

"The Interior Department is finalizing reduction-in-force plans expected to target thousands of employees, including 1,500 at the National Park Service." www.govexec.com/workforce/20... by @almsnatalie.bsky.social and Eric Katz h/t @joshtpm.bsky.social

“DOGE doesn’t care what we do and will treat us the same as all other agencies: with contempt,” an Energy Information Administration staffer emailed her bosses this year. “Shame on you for falling in line and giving up without any perceptible effort to fight.” By @peterelkind.bsky.social