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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 4h

"As stewards of these American treasures, we urge you to prioritize both conservation and visitor safety and protect our national parks during a potential shutdown, and into the future. If sufficient staff aren’t there, visitors shouldn’t be either."

The letter:

Former NPS Superintendents Urge Secretary Burgum To Close National Parks if Government Shuts Down – The Coalition To Protect America's National Parks

protectnps.org

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 4h

This is why dozens of former national park superintendents wrote a letter begging Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to keep parks closed during the shutdown.

Squatters, illegal BASE jumpers invade Yosemite amid federal shutdown

"It's the Wild Wild West."

www.sfgate.com

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 4h

Having some of my earliest memories growing up in CA being Loma Prieta and later Northridge... my worst nightmares are definitely bridges and overpasses.

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 5h

"why doesn't he just focus on the church" like... does this guy not know that the *vast* majority of migrants to the US are from central and south America and are more likely than not then also... Catholics?

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 5h

and always by the *worst* men

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6h

Unofficial list of Dems opposing the NDAA passage here:

Baldwin
Booker
Cantwell
Duckworth
Durbin
Kim
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Padilla
Paul
Sanders
Schatz
Schiff
Smith
Van Hollen
Warren
Welch
Wyden

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Matt vs. the relentlessness of entropy @mcs-phd.bsky.social · 6h

Primary them all. We need to destroy this Democratic rot at the source.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6h

The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces.

This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions.

Only 20 Dems opposed.

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 6h

creeper dudes who like to call themselves "alphas" but anyone who has ever had both male and female dogs knows the female dog is ALWAYS the boss

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 8h

I get a lot of “sedentary rocks”

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 10h

Tfw it’s 3 minutes til dinner time and the bowls ain’t filled yet

Two pit bull dogs staring intently at me waiting for their food

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 13h

"none of this is true but who gives a shit, because I am in charge"
-RFKjr in his own worm-eaten mind, probably

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 15h

That's not how science works. That's not how any of this works.

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 17h

Masked unidentifiable men in windowless plateless vans kidnapping people off the streets

And calling them fascists hurts their feelings?

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 19h

"Federal immigration officers wear masks and no name tags. Now some are driving cars without license plates."

Good work from @chicago.suntimes.com on how ICE is breaking Illinois law.

www.wbez.org/politics/202...

Federal immigration officers wear masks and no name tags. Now some are driving cars without license plates.

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

www.wbez.org

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 18h

“What’s braincell?”

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 18h

Like, if the pill was within 10 feet of the peanut butter jar at one point in its existence, that pill is going down the hatch

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 18h

My dogs have many behavior flaws but if I have to give them a pill, they just eat the pill

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 22h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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John Garver @geogarver.bsky.social · 20h

"the EPA asked the court to roll back the regulatory standards currently in place for PFHxS, PFNA, and HFPO-DA, meaning water utilities would no longer have to ensure levels of these chemicals are under 10 ppt in drinking water supply"

PFAS Project Lab @pfasproject.bsky.social · 1d

Check out this article about EPA actions towards PFAS regulation featuring commentary from lab member Phil Brown! www.newsweek.com/epa-drinking...

EPA moves to roll back drinking water standards

The Environmental Protection Agency is looking to roll back regulatory standards for three types of PFAS chemicals in drinking water systems.

www.newsweek.com

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 20h

Every geologist

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

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Cari Barcas @caribarcas.bsky.social · 1d

Simultaneously heartbroken and inspired to witness what's unfolding in my former hometown this week. On one side are the horrific accounts of abductions and abuse amid this unconstitutional invasion and occupation, and on the other are incredible stories of community solidarity. Bear down, Chicago.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.