🦬 Good! They should quit and find new jobs. They should also know that as someone with hiring power, I will never hire them into any DOI agency.

Help us stand up for our most vulnerable employees! Let DOI and NPS hear your thoughts: www.doi.gov/contact-us www.nps.gov/aboutus/cont... (Click on the link in the second bullet under the National Park Service heading for the form)

First they push 24% of rangers out the door, and tell us we can’t hire anyone to backfill those positions. Then, they tell us to fill those positions with seasonal (temporary) rangers—the positions in the NPS with the least protections.

DOGE isn’t gone. Ask any Fed who had a position affected by them. They’re embedded, in positions where they cannot be fired. @altssa.altgov.info @altcdc.altgov.info @altdoi.altgov.info @altnih4science.bsky.social @altfda.altgov.info And anyone I forgot. Feel free to chime in for Anna.

🦬 I am not kidding when I saw Dems need to start working on RIF language *now* so that new Agency heads can issue RIFs to all lingering DOGEies on day 1 of the next administration. @naturalresources.bsky.social

DOGE investigations and prosecutions are already overdue

Vought is the 'shadow president', a far-right Christian fascist who co-ran Project 2025 and hates American values of freedom, equality, democracy.

🦬 Oil bro said he was leaving in August because RIFs were supposed to be implemented by then; since they’re actually wildly illegal, he’s been hanging on by his fingertips hoping to see them through. Who knows how much longer we’re stuck with him??? 🤡🤡🤡

🦬 Speaking of DOGE, I like to keep track of all the original wreckers: One of whom is Amanda Scales, a Musk lackey who went back to xAI after failing out of DOGE after just six months. She’s unemployed now. 🤡

🦬 “DOGE” no longer exists— its employees have just burrowed into the agencies they were assigned to. Tyler Hassen. Stephanie Holmes. ⬆️ Just two of the people who need to be RIFed day one of the next administration (assuming they haven’t slunk away of their own accord before then).

🦬 Two things Elon’s little X experiment (showing users’ locations) has made clear are: 1) There are so many more of us than there are of them. 2) What a world we live in…that making rage bait is the only way some people in developing countries are able to survive.

Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.* The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.

Can we put a stop to corporations and billionaires “winning” at the expense of conservation, wildlife, and climate resilience? #ConservationOverCorporations www.doi.gov/pressrelease...

🦬 The alacrity with which this administration kneecapped federal renewables is infuriating, but also insightful, because it shows that the next Democratic administration can and should do it to oil and gas.

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day when we honor the memory of those killed simply for being. Violence comes from weapons & fists just as it can come from ink on paper. Today, I remember Elisa Rae Shupe, a veteran lost to anti-trans policies. "Love recognizes no barriers.” Maya Angelou

I couldn’t wait for #AltTacoTunesday to share this link to Jesse Welles performing his song “Join ICE” on Colbert especially after spotting this ICE add on LinkedIn yesterday. Signing bonuses, & that big, huh? Just last week we couldn’t pay SNAP benefits. 🤔 youtu.be/61I4hlig78w?...

Please comment on the proposed changes to promote big energy over endangered species. www.regulations.gov/document/FWS...

📢🦬 Since “the most transparent” administration axed the 2025 FEVS, @ourpublicservice.bsky.social has stepped up to fill the void. Fellow feds, please take the survey and share with your colleagues. Our opinions matter!

🦬 “Interior largely rolled out its consolidation effort on paper only and without overhauling operations in any practical way.” …Pay us money so nothing changes. Can confirm this is true — when I lost my local IT Specialist I asked what the biggest change was and they replied, “My email address.”

The bill prohibits the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from transferring publicly accessible federal land—or land directly contiguous to it—to any non-federal entity. #publiclands #protectpubliclands #publiclandsinpublichands

Look West: Parks crawl back online after shutdown mailchi.mp/westernprior...

‘Our mission is to change the world through eco-cultural tourism’ #iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.

🦬 I’m glad the House and Senate passed the Epstein Files Transparanecy Act, but a general reminder that this administration is anything *but* transparent. Remember when a court ordered DOI to submit its RIF plans, and they submitted 64 pages of redactions instead? I remember.

Danny is a Marine veteran + a dedicated federal worker. Veterans make up about 30% of the federal workforce, & many public services provide healthcare + benefits for those who served our country. This Veterans Day, we recommit to serving those who’ve served us — with fairness, dignity, & respect.

🦬 This is what happens when your National Parks are not staffed.

🇺🇸 This #Veterans Day, honor our vets by sharing the facts. For many veterans, service doesn’t end when they come home. Veterans make up nearly 1 in 4 federal employees, and 15% of the National Park Service. The federal government is the largest employer of veterans in the country. #VeteransDay #NPS

“Secretary Burgum’s ongoing cuts to the National Park Service are a recipe for disaster. Our national parks are the pride and joy of America—why would the administration threaten what the American public loves so much by cutting NPS funding and staffing?” #nationalparks #protectourparks #nps

Shut us down for good reason. Open back up without any of those reasons having been fixed. You want us to have confidence in you? You want us to think YOU can lead US? Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to have a chance to be back.. but our pain produced nothing in return.

🦬 Next Interior already exists, so get involved at @nextinterior.org!

🦬 Hello 911, I’d like to report a murder.

Trump's pick to oversee our public lands, former Rep. Steve Pearce, has a lifetime 4% LCV score thanks to an extensive anti-public lands and anti-environmental track record. Public lands belong to us, not polluters. A Big Oil ally has no business being in charge of our most treasured places.

Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal. The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.

This is just not true. The Trump administration has been cancelling nearly-done solar and wind projects approved by local regulators, constricting the supply of electricity

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Amen

🦬 what do they know

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🦬 …which is wage theft, plain and simple. If you are a GS-9 who was supposed to be promoted to a GS-11 in May, you have lost approximately $6,500 this year.

Saturday reading suggestion: an essay on the gutting of the #NPS from Trail Crew Stories, a project to share the stories, methods, writings, and art of the community of trail workers. www.trailcrewstories.com/stories/the-... #trailcrew

🦬 It may be day 38 of the Republican Shutdown, but DOI personnel actions have been frozen since MAY 2nd! No one has received a ladder promotion or been converted to competitive service since *May* Not only are people not getting paid, they’re not getting paid what they’re rightfully due.

We're in uncharted territory for a shutdown, and so are states and orgs helping national parks. But could offering aid backfire? I spoke with CO Gov. Polis, a former park superintendent, and others about the nuance of offering national parks support under Trump: insideclimatenews.org/news/0711202...

🦬 to be fair I’d rather him be doing…whatever this is…than trying to sell off our public lands 💁🏽

🦬 A reminder that Tyler Hassen, an oil executive, DOGE operative, and the guy pulling the strings in DOI, announced his departure THREE MONTHS AGO. And yet he’s still here, apparently working on RIFs (that are paused anyway due to the #shitdown).

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

🦬 Meanwhile the oil & gas bros puppeteering the DOI gutted our entire renewable energy program because solar is “unreliable.” In the words of Doug Burgum: “It doesn’t work at night!”

Department of the Interior is going to comply with the federal judge. There will not be a reduction in force (RIF) during the shutdown. @altfws.altgov.info @resistancerangers.altgov.info @altblmatinterior.bsky.social @altwasonps.bsky.social @altacadia.bsky.social @altdoi.altgov.info