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Alt National Park Service
5 months ago
Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.
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Raider
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Jasmine Crockett: "That's why they hired everybody from Fox because all they're trying to do is put on a show. I want us to refocus our attention on the American people and stop demonizing every person that ends up in ICE custody."
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Alt National Park Service
5 months ago
Musk staffer Conor Fennessy drafted a list targeting dozens of National Park Service grants for elimination including several aimed at protecting public lands from climate change.
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Alt National Park Service
6 months ago
The proposed Trump budget is brutal, unless youāre the military or Homeland Security. Hereās what gets cut: - State Department: -84% - National Science Foundation: -56% - EPA: -54% - HUD (housing): -44% - Labor: -35% - Interior: -30% - Health & Human Services: -26% - NASA: -24% - Education: -15%
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ACLU
6 months ago
The Trump administration deported two families, including three U.S. citizen children, after cutting them off from their lawyers and disregarding one of the child's need for cancer medication. This is inhumane and illegal.
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Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administrationās expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/26/us-citizen-children-deported-ice/
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Alt National Park Service
6 months ago
The Interior Department announced late yesterday that it will fast-track approvals for coal, gas, oil, and mineral projects on public lands.
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Jasmine Crockett
6 months ago
We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order š¤¦š¾āāļø. Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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Jim Musil Painter
6 months ago
My painting TIDAL WETLANDS
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š Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD š§š»āāļø
6 months ago
Thereās just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRBās IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
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Rachel Maddow
6 months ago
"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us."
www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
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āTreated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada
Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/politics/treated-like-a-criminal-us-citizen-says-he-was-detained-returning-from-canada/3686188/
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Alt National Park Service
6 months ago
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What weāre seeing is state-funded fear. Weāve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasnāt a case involving masked ICE agentsābut thatās happening too.
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Chris Geidner
6 months ago
Trump told us the plan today: The Trump administration wants the prison in El Salvador ā and, perhaps, others ā to hold Americans. Importantly, Vance, Rubio, and Bondi did not appear surprised or upset by this news ā in fact, it did not appear to be news to them at all. This is the plan. Law Dork:
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Trump told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S.
The Trump administration wants to send Americans to foreign prisons. Keeping Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is key to that lawless plan.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-told-us-the-horrifying-reason
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Alt National Park Service
7 months ago
The EPA will close a museum that tells the story of the agencyās history and mission.
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ACLU
7 months ago
Everyone deserves the freedom to say what they think about the U.S. government without fear of retaliation. Learn more about the precautions you should take to protect your devices from warrantless searches by border agents.
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Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? Itās Complicated. | ACLU
Weāve been getting a lot of questions about when border agents can legally conduct searches of travelersā electronic devices at international airports and other ports of entry. Unfortunately, the answ...
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/can-border-agents-search-your-electronic?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=soc&utm_medium=soc&initms=awr-na-tw-na-nat-na-privacytechnology-kyr-na&utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=na&utm_content=awr-na-tw-na-nat-na-privacytechnology-kyr-na&ms_aff=nat&ms_chan=soc&ms=awr-na-tw-na-nat-na-privacytechnology-kyr-na
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Alejandra Caraballo
7 months ago
What the actual fuck are these Democrats doing? This is full on collaboration that will enable Trump to shut down any website or online service he dislikes.
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BNO News
7 months ago
WATCH: Cars set on fire at Tesla in Las Vegas, "resist" painted on the building. FBI investigating
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AltYellostoneNatPar
7 months ago
If blue states, invented a method to withhold transfers to the IRS, we'd be in a much better negotiating position. Moneys transferred could be ( for instance ;-) dependent on payments made and programs continued, records maintained and aid distributed.
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Hank Green
7 months ago
In a shocking turn of events, many of the people who said they wanted "free speech" actually just wanted to be the ones in charge of which speech is free.
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Alejandra Caraballo
7 months ago
It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!
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Alt National Park Service
8 months ago
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to fire more than 80,000 employees.
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The New York Times
8 months ago
President Trumpās escalating initiative to drastically cut the federal work force has reached the Social Security Administration, a crucial program that keeps millions of older Americans out of poverty, which said on Friday that it would reduce its head count by more than 12%.
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Social Security Administration to Cut Roughly 7,000 Workers
The agency is also restructuring and closing six of 10 regional offices that coordinate and provide support to employees who serve beneficiaries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/business/social-security-administration-job-cuts.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Civil Eats
8 months ago
While the USDA has begun releasing a trickle of funds for farmers in other grant programs, there are already starting to be more permanent, long-term impacts of funding cuts and contract cancellations.
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Farmers Say Climate-Smart Commodities Projects Are Crumbling
Thousands of farmers across the country who already paid for conservation projects report not receiving USDA reimbursements.
https://buff.ly/4kfeXM0
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Alt National Park Service
8 months ago
Please readāthis is becoming serious!
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Michelangelo Signorile
8 months ago
The new lavender scare. "The Department of Homeland Security has eliminated policies preventing the investigation of individuals or groups solely based on their sexual orientation or gender identity."
www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...
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DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity
The DHS quietly updated its policy manual earlier this month, removing LGBTQ+ identities from the section prohibiting surveillance based solely on immutable characteristics.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/dhs-allows-surveillance-sexual-orientation
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Chris Geidner
8 months ago
NEW: Federal judge DENIES Trump administration request to implement the birthright citizenship-ending EO during appeal. "[T]his was not a close case," Judge Sorokin reminded the government in denying DOJ's request, noting that the administration had lost the at the injunction phase "lopsidedly."
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Alt National Park Service
8 months ago
Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the DOGE. Please donāt be distracted by thisāit was only done because federal judges were questioning who was actually running the operation. Gleason is completely controlled by Musk, and he is doing this to avoid testifying.
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AltYellostoneNatPar
8 months ago
The Gestapo have arrived. Republicans appear to have engaged the secret (not) police to remove dissenters from town hall meetings. No insignia Nobody willing to say who hired these clowns Yet here we are. Lear Asset Management 707-489-9663 Ā·
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Alt National Park Service
8 months ago
DOGEās expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.
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ACLU
8 months ago
Hunter, like every trans person, has a right to accurate identification. We've taken Trump to court to block this policy barring trans people from passports with our correct gender markers.
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Hunter Schafer āShockedā Her New Passport Lists Her Gender As Male
āIām never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport canāt change that, and fuck this administration.ā
https://www.vulture.com/article/hunter-schafer-passport-gender-trump.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=bluesky
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Chris Geidner
8 months ago
BREAKING: DOJ announces that administrative law judge removal protections are unconstitutional, although DOJ Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle's wording leaves unclear whether all such protections are unconstitutional or just certain ones. It also leaves unclear what DOJ is actually doing as a result.
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The New York Times
8 months ago
The National Park Service fired many of its park rangers as part of a reduction in the federal work force. Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about the cuts and share their love of the Park Service. āItās scary, but it was the right thing to do.ā
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Fired Park Rangers Try to āOpen Some Heartsā on Social Media
Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about their firings and share their love of the National Park Service.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/style/national-park-rangers-firings-reactions.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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AltYellostoneNatPar
8 months ago
Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight
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Chris Geidner
8 months ago
BREAKING: Nonprofits sue over Trump's anti-diversity, anti-trans executive orders, alleging they violate the First Amendment & equal protection guarantees, are void for vagueness, exceed the president's authority, & violate the Administrative Procedure Act.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Don Moynihan
8 months ago
"America has no king" seems like a good theme to rally around
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Alt National Park Service
8 months ago
Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded an FBI task force investigating foreign influence operations, including those targeting U.S. elections. Additionally, she restricted enforcement actions against individuals who fail to disclose lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.
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Phil Lewis
8 months ago
The White House says it will bar the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely due to the news outlet's use of Gulf of Mexico
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Chris Geidner
8 months ago
We are too alike.
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ACLU
8 months ago
Students donāt check their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse doors. After a Houston school suspended dozens of students who participated in a walkout to support immigrants' rights,
@aclutx.bsky.social
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ACLU of Texas sends letter urging Houston ISD to repeal suspensions of Northside student protesters | Houston Public Media
The civil rights organization said the dozens of students who are being punished for being disruptive during a protest last week is "harsh" and "may be out of line" with the school district's code of ...
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/hisd/2025/02/11/513539/aclu-of-texas-sends-letter-urging-mike-miles-to-repeal-suspensions-of-northside-student-protesters/
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Taniel
8 months ago
oof at this footnote in the letter that the (resigning) U.S. Attorney of SDNY sent to Pam Bondi.
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Phil Lewis
8 months ago
NEW YORK (AP) ā New York's governor refuses extradition request for doctor charged with prescribing abortion pills to Louisiana minor.
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Alt National Park Service
8 months ago
The Trump administration is now allowed to proceed with the federal employee buyout program after a federal judge denied a request to halt the program entirely. Judge George A. OāToole Jr., a U.S. District Court judge in the District of Massachusetts, did not rule on the programās legality.
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The New York Times
8 months ago
A protester unfurled a combined Palestinian and Sudanese flag on the field during Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime performance. The NFL said in a statement that the person was part of the 400-member field cast.
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Alt National Park Service
8 months ago
While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Muskās staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal governmentās computer systems.
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Patton Oswalt
8 months ago
This is VERY good news. Love
bookshop.org
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www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...
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Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon
"Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/28/bookshoporg-enters-the-e-book-arena-giving-indie-stores-a-new-way-to-compete-with/
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Alt National Park Service
8 months ago
America, you broke throughāthe media, from small outlets to large, is finally picking up on whatās happening. Legislators, judges, and attorneys general across the country are speaking out. They hear you. We love you and are honored to serve you! š¦¬ššŗšø
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Ezra Levin āš
9 months ago
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
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