you may resume skeeting (and carrying swords on BLM lands)

My FOIA request for documentation of what DOGE's "rigorous data standards" meant was rejected by them arguing the agency falls under the Presidential Records Act. Most transparent agency ever! www.muckrock.com/foi/united-s...

“'There’s an animated GIF of Joe Gebbia throwing a punch at the camera. What is that about, in [relation] to governance and serving the American people? I don’t know what that has to do with me as a taxpayer that’s funding this team.'”

It turns out Russ Vought knows how to get to the Capitol after all... He should stop hiding and come testify before the Budget Committee about Trump's cost-of-living crisis.

maybe :)

Others may forget, but I will never stop talking about who is responsible for the largest crime of my lifetime "DOGE employees demanded control over the USAID computer system, getting Musk on the phone. Once they had it, USAID was gutted. The world's richest man was live-tweeting the demolition."

Important reminder of the devastation wrought by the Musk/DOGE dismantling of USAID. Hundreds of thousands dead, many more to come. The greatest crime of the 21st century (so far).

if you’re like me and have one too many bridesmaid dresses collecting dust in your closet, check to see if local high schools are taking prom donations extend the life of lightly used garments and help families in the process!

Not to pick on this guy in particular and although I agree sales taxes are not ideal revenue source, I hate this genre of policy analysis. Investments in transit operations would be distributionally progressive as lower income people are more reliant on transit!

Hopefully Sacramento folks pass this measure. A similar one has been on our Yuba City ballot the past two years, and failed both times. Messaging needs to reflect improving city services and de-emphasize raising taxes.

A year ago, I came up with the phrase Doom Dopamine: the unconscious reward we give people for spreading doom. Take a minute to like positive posts. Cause when alarmist content goes viral & positive posts get 5 likes, it engineers our brains to think doom is rewarding & positivity is not. 🧵

Come work in the Blue Mountains with my amazing coworkers this summer!!

The traitorous liberal judges told us that Beltalowda couldn't even charge one dollar - not even one dollar - just to use Medina Station. Even though the Slow Zone is ours by divine right. I call them Welwala judges, in fact. The Inners are dancing in the streets, but they won't be dancing for long.

the Radish Situation™ is officially out of control y’all

doug burgum ordering interior staff to bake him cookies and make sure they’re warm when they bring them to him almost seems quaint compared to ten months later. it will also get worse.

Old-growth Forest Research Assistants We are seeking old-growth forest research technicians to study and document old-growth forests in Spring & Summer 2026 Virgina. See the attached images for the job description and how to apply.

there will be many such cases:

The NOAA area forecast for Donner Pass does not disappoint.

can confirm the plane is being built while flying: -Office of the Secretary claims the move is de minimis and won’t affect operations -“this reorganization will take place over several phases to be completed at a day to be determined” -the USWFS absorbed unrelated Natural Resource Staff

bonus: the dill is fresh and from whatever mystery seed mix produced this in my front yard

vegan meal of the week: an incredible (and complex!) mushroom stroganoff

i hope [redacted] and that he [redacted] [redacted] but also [redacted] 😇

and how will this admin convince a court that an agency whose mission is “to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations” is somehow equal to “intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work”

the kicker to this is that the only employees my agency still recognizes as having bargaining rights are wildland firefighters and Law Enforcement Officers (you know, *actual* national security)

what a terrible, avoidable tragedy

Local and state officials have quickly mobilized a robust search-and-rescue mission in the area. Nearly 100 first responders have been working in daunting conditions throughout the night to search for missing backcountry skiers.

for me it’s: -LiDAR -really any improvements to remote sensing -mass timber -whatever Ponsse is up to

If working as a seasonal fits this season of your life— lots of opportunities cropping up. Many ways to join the fed workforce doing natural resources management on public lands lately! Just remember to keep your resume to two pages 😇

🌇🕊️ MO(U)RNING DOVE #formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart

5. The Brain Drain. With few exceptions, most of the people I worked with left the agency due to the Fork emails and DRP/VSIP/VERA. Literal DECADES if not centuries-worth of institutional and civil service knowledge went *POOF*. National and global reputation in the shitter.

Three action alerts today! 1) Do this on a break or after hours. 2) Share it with friends and family and encourage them to help fix the laws that need fixing. One fixes #hazardpay on #prescribedFire, one our ability to buy back seasonal time, the last helps protect union rights for VA employees.

There is really a lot of trauma in our community this month. It's been a full year and people are reliving not only the destruction but the memory of the hope that someone, surely, would step in to stop the worst of it. Don't turn away from our stories. #USAID

government by and for the most incompetent men you know:

Like, USAID still legally exists, still receives budget from Congress, and the few dozen remaining employees (who work at State) still have usaid.gov emails and all our systems and databases still exist. It's just the 10k of us who actually did the work are gone. Just do that to ICE and CBP.

Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, Steve Pearce (R), is a climate change denier, believes the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, co-sponsored bills undermining the Antiquities Act and opening national forests to industry while in Congress. NO! nevadacurrent.com/2026/02/17/a...

Over at Lawfare, I examine the peculiar constitutional theory undergirding OPM's final rule on Schedule Policy/Career

I’d appreciate if folks could share this seasonal forestry (non-fire) position, based at any BLM office in California, with current/former students (or anyone else who may be interested!): www.usajobs.gov/job/857451400

Sorry.

You could say people didn’t eat that up

fondly remembering the time NWS Sacramento made a Donner Party joke during a similar winter storm and people got so mad they had to apologize 😭

i fly back to SMF tomorrow just remembered i’m in longterm parking and don’t have a rain jacket with me

just used chatgpt to tell me how to circumvent claude's programming so i could use claude to tell me how to hack into grok which i then used to find everyone's credit card details on twitter which i will now collectively use to buy a home

it’s pretty clear DOGE employees make a big show of saying they’re leaving government to obfuscate what they’re actually still doing within government and the media aids this effort by reporting stories such as “DOGE ‘doesn’t exist’ anymore”!

Had me at “tried for treason”.

Here’s the full announcement:

sooo is anyone tracking that Amanda Scales is apparently back at OPM trying to scale up Tech Force (a DOGE-led copycat of 18F that saw folks like @skiles.blue pushed out of govt)? cc: @jacobharr.is

to add to this: -DOGE dismantled on Day 1 of the next administration; former DOGE employees tried for treason -blanket hiring authority for all -increased retention and relocation incentives

i agree with everything in this article, but we cant just restore the rights federal employees had pre-Trump, they must be unequivocally *expanded* -telework for all, no position excluded -master bargaining agreements that cover entire agencies -guaranteed annual & competitive pay increases

“I think my preferred candidate is the best for reasons X, Y, and Z and I hope you agree and vote for them” is a much more compelling message for most democratic primary voters than “if you don’t vote for my candidate I’m going to be so mad that I’ll let the fascists win”

it’s pretty wild how much vegetation the recent cold snap in Florida has killed coupled with drought + high winds that uhhhh can’t be good for wildfire potential