We went to a national PL5 this morning. “National resources are heavily committed, and additional measures are taken to support geographic areas. Active geographic areas must take emergency measures to sustain incident operations. Inactive/low activity geographic areas are reaching drawdown levels.”

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

tenet is a masterpiece.

Just watched a bit of the hearing where SC justices asked for more funding because of the threats they get. Meanwhile, if you're a regular fed employee working for the Forest Service or BLM or many other agencies, threats and confrontations are constant & you have to beg for basic safety measures.

Public lands are one of the last great equalizers we have left in our country. I refuse to stand by while these puppet politicians gut our public lands and try to privatize them just to make another buck for their rich donors.

i’m sorry but this is an insane take and the original Mother Jones article was also loaded with misinformation

I was asked to provide weather support to NPS in DC and Mt. Rushmore and and am soooo glad I was already committed to working at NIFC and my day job. Timed out at the max 21 consecutive days just in time.

on my way to the #FerrisFire #cowx

it’s the summer of leaving every other sunrise

I would pity them for how small and sad their world is, were it not for the damage they have done, both to the US and the world. Their damage will kill millions of people. I cannot forgive or absolve them for that. I only wish that they could gain the clarity to see themselves as they truly are.

We are all a little naive with our ideals, but DOGE had no ideals. It had no vision of a better world. It just had an endless conviction that nobody is really virtuous, that government is a racket and that fraud and waste are rampant, with everybody looking the other way. Pure edgelord cynicism.

As the DOGE Temporary Organization officially dissolves with a whimper, it's worth noting that all of those people were incurious minds, selected solely for their ability to follow orders without question. Many of them were paid, but some suckers just needed to be told they were the only smart ones

The arch trellis spanning my raised beds has brought me sooo much joy this summer. (Medium-sized dog for scale.)

those are the three wolves inside of me

I haven’t been online as much these days and you’d never guess, but it’s actually good for my mental health. Some things I AM doing instead: -being more involved with my union! re-building fed employee solidarity in NorCal! -mentally preparing for fire season 😮‍💨🙃 -lifting heavy things

”…The departments of Agriculture and Interior and the Forest Service have each lost between 20% and 33% of their staff — a troubling fact as the country heads into wildfire and hurricane season.”

🤞

✨ the “U.S. Wildland Fire Service” is a front for union busting ✨

I didn't know 2-sided solar panels were a thing 🌞. This is a great scenario to maximize power generation through efficient use of all that space. Which probably means there will be signs against it up & down the central valley by end of summer.

genuinely astounding the number of times the Trump administration has been presented with a “make prices higher” button and slammed it with their full fist

Update: It appears they don’t like it.

Tribal Forestry Spotlight: The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin 🌲For generations, Menominee people have managed forest guided by cultural values, responsibility to future generations, and a commitment to sustained yield. #TribalForestry #HealthyForest #IndigenousKnowledge #WorkingForests

More than a year after its formation, I continue to track DOGE's activities and try to shed light on their staffing based on what limited information I can find. dogetrack.info

Elon Musk has also disrupted, by which I mean brutally ended, the lives of over a million poor children and adults globally by means of destroying USAID, but who gives a fuck, right?

No matter how much you despise Elon Musk, it's not enough. He's going to be tried for his many crimes, especially those crimes against humanity but only if we make it so. "It'll never happen." [cynical voice] If someone described 2026 to you in 2011 you'd have said they were insane.

that is 50% more than the entire National Park Service budget, btw.

I found a career where I get to play with a camera AND play with fire (literally) and I think that’s pretty damn cool.

A lot of public service work is task specific, i.e. there is not a big private market for it. So one logic for civil service protections to recruit and retain people who see it has their career, and invest in improving their expertise. Harder to do that now. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

can’t stop thinking about that game theory video that discusses the Prisoner’s Dilemma and basically if you want to win against an oppressor, you have to learn how to strategically hit them back. Dems are now doing this and Rs are, predictably, losing their minds!

No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

👏 I’m a one issue voter: 👏 PUNISHMENT 👏👏👏

Stay anchored in the reality of the incident and be true to that reality. Don't let others force you into an alternative reality or influence what you say or how you say it. You are there, you know best, and your allegiance is always to those affected by the incident. 4/

“I’m a one issue voter. Punishment.” is also how I view every election from now until 2028.

oh oh OH i am so here for this

Please help us stop the illegal dismantling of the Forest Service actionnetwork.org/letters/cong... (we're the largest FS union representing 20,000 Forest Service employees including many of the ~7000 being forced to move) @altnps.bsky.social

Gonna get to see the inside of the more rarely used Big Claims Court, which exists almost exclusively for the tree law

don’t fuck with tree law 😤

GSA implemented significant staffing cuts without analyzing impacts on its work, and agencies throughout government are feeling the impacts via @seanthenewsboy buff.ly/rqia6uf

They did no performance evaluation of the people they laid off. So they can’t make any claims about their performance. What we do know is: 1. The people fired had more experience than the people hired 2. The new hires come via a political process where they have to detail their support for Trump

Trump gave Musk & DOGE bros unlimited power. Now we’re all paying the price. From #SocialSecurity data, to lives lost and #climate inaction, the damage is real. Demand Congress 🔍 #InvestigateDOGE Learn more: www.198methods.org/2026/04/16/d... Take Action: bit.ly/48r81av

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

seriously hope when dems get back in power they go after every single fuck involved with DOGE

Elon Musk was the “mastermind” behind this program. The next Dem president should seize this + interest from him.

We will be learning about the damage caused by DOGE for years to come, and we may not ever really ever know the full extent.

I don’t disagree with removing the college degree requirement, but it should be for *all* series, not just tech jobs. In my field, you still need a degree to count trees for a living.

DOGE baby!

alright, i’m gonna refrain from complaining about fire camp food after seeing this

The 'Musk used SpaceX to buy Cybertrucks' story is going around but Electrek was on this shit awhile ago! There's so much scammy shit out there in the wild about Elon and yet the markets keep floating his ass