”…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.”

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✨ 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

Glad to see Amanda Scales made the list (mayhaps from my tip a few months ago? 👀). I will add that no one knows what some of the lesser known DOGE folks — Tyler Hassen and Stephanie Holmes, DOI — are up to these days. We don’t even know if they’re still in government.

timber production needs to stop being lumped in with oil & gas and mineral development humans have been practicing sustainable forest management for millennia. trees grow back in our lifetime! you know what doesn’t? a fucking copper mine.

if you care about climate change, part of YOUR responsibility is changing what you eat. i don’t eat beef. i don‘t eat almonds or pistachios, or products with those nuts in them. you don’t have to go vegan to make a difference.

u are not the boss of me blue sky

as someone who works adjacent to this industry, there’s a reason i stopped eating beef in 2020

this is incredible— the 2017 WTREX in Yosemite was one of my first introductions to prescribed fire, and it was so meaningful to have that experience surrounded by women. happy and safe burning to you all!

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just popping on here to remind everyone that being married is cool as fuck and if you don't like your partner you're doing it wrong

Enjoy your national forests folks!

helpful thread for my CA homies who don’t know who to vote for now 👇

"Project Liberal" is run by Jason Pye, whose CV includes 7 years at Freedomworks, and Tyler Harris, who worked for the Libertarian National Committee for a half-decade. if you fall for this shit you're the biggest sucker ever born

don’t know what genre this is but I’m fucking obsessed with it