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There has NEVER been good data on the health and status of our federal range allotments.
"Even before Trump began to aggressively downsize the federal workforce, it was impossible for agencies’ limited staff to monitor the public lands for environmental damage from excessive grazing."
"Even before Trump began to aggressively downsize the federal workforce, it was impossible for agencies’ limited staff to monitor the public lands for environmental damage from excessive grazing."
NEW: A ProPublica and @highcountrynews.org investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment.
The Trump administration is supercharging the system.
The Trump administration is supercharging the system.
Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.
A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...
www.propublica.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
There has NEVER been good data on the health and status of our federal range allotments.
"Even before Trump began to aggressively downsize the federal workforce, it was impossible for agencies’ limited staff to monitor the public lands for environmental damage from excessive grazing."
"Even before Trump began to aggressively downsize the federal workforce, it was impossible for agencies’ limited staff to monitor the public lands for environmental damage from excessive grazing."
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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This isn’t just a bill.
It’s a fundamental restructuring of American society in which the poor are abandoned, and “immigration jails” outrank healthcare.
Billions taken from one and given to the other.
It’s a fundamental restructuring of American society in which the poor are abandoned, and “immigration jails” outrank healthcare.
Billions taken from one and given to the other.
Judd Legum explains 7 of the things in Trump's megabill:
1. Cuts $930B from Medicaid
2. 16M lose health ins
3. Slashes food asst for poor families by $186B
4. Lower incomes for bottom 40% of families
5. Increases deficit by $3.3T
6. $45B for new immigration jails
7. Billions for defense contractors
1. Cuts $930B from Medicaid
2. 16M lose health ins
3. Slashes food asst for poor families by $186B
4. Lower incomes for bottom 40% of families
5. Increases deficit by $3.3T
6. $45B for new immigration jails
7. Billions for defense contractors
7 things everyone should know about Trump's megabill
The Republican reconciliation legislation, which Trump calls his "big, beautiful bill," is massive.
open.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This isn’t just a bill.
It’s a fundamental restructuring of American society in which the poor are abandoned, and “immigration jails” outrank healthcare.
Billions taken from one and given to the other.
It’s a fundamental restructuring of American society in which the poor are abandoned, and “immigration jails” outrank healthcare.
Billions taken from one and given to the other.
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Political scientists have identified 6 steps countries go through in the process of becoming an autocracy. The United States has already made the first 3. The fourth is "the dismantling of checks and balances on executive power." www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie... by @danvergano.bsky.social
The Science of Autocracy Suggests the U.S. Is Headed for Dictatorship
The red flags abound—political research tells us the U.S. is becoming an autocracy
www.scientificamerican.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Political scientists have identified 6 steps countries go through in the process of becoming an autocracy. The United States has already made the first 3. The fourth is "the dismantling of checks and balances on executive power." www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie... by @danvergano.bsky.social
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"Internal proposals to release the food remain on hold, awaiting sign-off from the Office of Foreign Assistance, now headed by 28-year-old Elon Musk appointee, Jeremy Lewin."
Call your representatives.
Call your representatives.
Food For Millions Rots in Storage After Trump’s USAID Cuts
Over 60,000 tons of U.S. food is going to waste in warehouses while millions starve and children die.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"Internal proposals to release the food remain on hold, awaiting sign-off from the Office of Foreign Assistance, now headed by 28-year-old Elon Musk appointee, Jeremy Lewin."
Call your representatives.
Call your representatives.
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Trump’s funding cuts are currently killing almost two additional people every minute, and nearly one million people every year. It will get worse.
May 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Trump’s funding cuts are currently killing almost two additional people every minute, and nearly one million people every year. It will get worse.
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NEW: When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future.
Trump laid off nearly all of them.
Trump laid off nearly all of them.
Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths
The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.
www.propublica.org
April 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
NEW: When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future.
Trump laid off nearly all of them.
Trump laid off nearly all of them.
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Devastating. They've proposed ending nearly all NASA research as well.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
April 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Devastating. They've proposed ending nearly all NASA research as well.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
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Great scoop and use of FOIA by @byscottdance.com & Josh Partlow.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Army Corps knew Trump order would waste California water, memo shows
The Army Corps colonel responsible for releasing reservoir water at Trump’s direction knew it wouldn’t reach Southern California as he promised, a memo obtained by The Post shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Great scoop and use of FOIA by @byscottdance.com & Josh Partlow.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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A woman-led firefighting bootcamp offered a less intimidating entry point into the male-dominated field where approximately 13 percent of firefighters are women. President Trump’s orders to dismantle DEI have now cancelled this opportunity. bit.ly/3D9P5Ay
‘It’s all been scrapped’: Women in wildland firefighting bootcamps cancelled after DEI cuts
Women already had an intimidating entry point to the male-dominated field. Trump's orders to dismantle DEI in the federal government hurt years of progress.
bit.ly
February 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A woman-led firefighting bootcamp offered a less intimidating entry point into the male-dominated field where approximately 13 percent of firefighters are women. President Trump’s orders to dismantle DEI have now cancelled this opportunity. bit.ly/3D9P5Ay
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“What is going on is an attempt to make it so that our public land management can’t accomplish the goals we all want, in order to make it easier to divest these lands”
www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...
www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...
Feds Fire 4,400+ Public-Land Employees, Including Forest Service Workers, National Park Staff
Massive layoffs at the Department of the Interior included thousands of U.S. Forest Service and National Park employees.
www.outdoorlife.com
February 15, 2025 at 5:22 AM
“What is going on is an attempt to make it so that our public land management can’t accomplish the goals we all want, in order to make it easier to divest these lands”
www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...
www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...
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Glad to be a source used as fact-checking to push back against Trump's lies. Since they're going to be more and more such false claims in the future, this kind of fact-checking is going to be increasingly valuable and important
www.verifythis.com/article/news...
www.verifythis.com/article/news...
Trump’s claim about CA Gov. Newsom refusing to sign water restoration declaration is false
Contrary to Trump's claims, a “water restoration declaration” doesn’t exist and there are no water shortages hindering firefighting efforts.
www.verifythis.com
January 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Glad to be a source used as fact-checking to push back against Trump's lies. Since they're going to be more and more such false claims in the future, this kind of fact-checking is going to be increasingly valuable and important
www.verifythis.com/article/news...
www.verifythis.com/article/news...
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Faculty mentoring in academic institutions, a thread.
As I advance in my academic career (read: as I keep getting more gray hair), I've come to appreciate, even more than before, the profound responsibility we (senior-ish faculty) have to support and nurture emerging talent, not diminish it.
As I advance in my academic career (read: as I keep getting more gray hair), I've come to appreciate, even more than before, the profound responsibility we (senior-ish faculty) have to support and nurture emerging talent, not diminish it.
November 21, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Faculty mentoring in academic institutions, a thread.
As I advance in my academic career (read: as I keep getting more gray hair), I've come to appreciate, even more than before, the profound responsibility we (senior-ish faculty) have to support and nurture emerging talent, not diminish it.
As I advance in my academic career (read: as I keep getting more gray hair), I've come to appreciate, even more than before, the profound responsibility we (senior-ish faculty) have to support and nurture emerging talent, not diminish it.
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Also, the Trump-appointed Postmaster General (also a major Trump donor) has been systematically trying to destroy the postal service. These delays are not a coincidence; they are by design. If your ballot isn't in by tomorrow, please vote in person!
Dear mail-in voters,
If your state's return deadline is Election Day (Nov. 5), the U.S. Postal Service recommends that you mail your ballot by Tuesday (Oct. 29).
Sincerely,
The reporter who wrote this:
www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...
If your state's return deadline is Election Day (Nov. 5), the U.S. Postal Service recommends that you mail your ballot by Tuesday (Oct. 29).
Sincerely,
The reporter who wrote this:
www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...
Voters are advised to return their ballots early because of mail delay concerns
Election officials are raising concerns about the U.S. Postal Service's ability to handle this fall’s expected influx of election mail. But USPS say it’s ready to deliver the country’s ballots.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Also, the Trump-appointed Postmaster General (also a major Trump donor) has been systematically trying to destroy the postal service. These delays are not a coincidence; they are by design. If your ballot isn't in by tomorrow, please vote in person!
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For all y'all who are forming research teams, work teams, committees etc. Here's some fascinating research that is both revealing (in an explanatory way) and instructive (in a helpful way). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women's Influence in Teams
Policies that increase women's representation often intend to provide women with influence over processes and decisions of the organization in which they a
papers.ssrn.com
October 20, 2024 at 10:37 AM
For all y'all who are forming research teams, work teams, committees etc. Here's some fascinating research that is both revealing (in an explanatory way) and instructive (in a helpful way). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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For anyone keeping up with giant sequoia fire regeneration and the recent severe mortality/wildfire events: Stephenson, Soderberg, Flickinger, Caprio and Das published a response to Hanson, et al.
Fundraising on litigation puts one into a motivated frame; where environmentalism is a costume.
Fundraising on litigation puts one into a motivated frame; where environmentalism is a costume.
Effects of recent wildfires on giant sequoia groves were anomalous at millennial timescales: a response to Hanson et al. - Fire Ecology
Background The giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum [Lindley] Buchholz) of California’s Sierra Nevada recently suffered historically unprecedented wildfires that killed an estimated 13–19% of seed-...
fireecology.springeropen.com
October 2, 2024 at 6:14 AM
For anyone keeping up with giant sequoia fire regeneration and the recent severe mortality/wildfire events: Stephenson, Soderberg, Flickinger, Caprio and Das published a response to Hanson, et al.
Fundraising on litigation puts one into a motivated frame; where environmentalism is a costume.
Fundraising on litigation puts one into a motivated frame; where environmentalism is a costume.