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Okay, I'll cop to being overly simplistic. There ARE rules to nominations, although it's still not clear if The Nation can nominate.

Either way, it's not like AltNPS (or Cherries) mentioned that!

Finally, Cherries omits the same detail that AltNPS does: anyone can nominate anyone!

By saying that Minneapolis has been "OFFICIALLY" nominated, they're making it seem much more official than it is. It sounds a lot less impressive when it's just "a website did it."

Alt National Park Service on Facebook: A Nobel Peace Prize nomination for Minneapolis is really a recognition of people power and...[post continues, but isn't expanded] [AltNPS includes a screenshot of black text on a white background, along with a silhouette of the Minneapolis skyline. It says:] Minneapolis has officially been nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. This is the first time an entire city has ever been nominated, and it couldn't be more deserved. [The screenshot is signed "A Mouthful of Cherries"]

But the real story is in the numbers. Here on Bluesky, AltNPS's post is sitting at 11k likes. With their 889k total followers, that's 1.2%.

On Facebook, this post has *180,000* likes. That's *4%* of their 4.5 million followers.

Bluesky is a sideshow to AltNPS. Facebook is where the money is.

A screenshot of the Instagram account called "A Mouthful of Cherries." It has mostly text-based posts, with titles like "if you're wondering why they're not arresting anybody, it's simple...the people who they need to arrest are themselves." And "The universe took the wrong person from Home Alone 2."

First, A Mouthful of Cherries seems like the exact same kind of engagement farmer as AltNPS. Post after post of "like and share if you agree" type stuff.

AltNPS took a post by another engagement farmer and used it to farm engagement. Farming the farmers. FarmersOnly, you could say.

An update to this post from earlier today. AltNPS grabbed this screenshot from an Instagram account called "A Mouthful of Cherries," and frankly I'm surprised they didn't crop out the account's name.

But both accounts leave out important details, and as small as it seems, it still matters🧵:

The Alt National Park Service Can't Stop Posting ICE Raid Fanfiction To AltNPS, real-world brutality is just fuel for the Content Machine.

I've actually written a bunch of articles about AltNPS! Here's the most recent, but there's also a series about AltNPS's plagiarism at the same link:

Glad to be of service! It's interesting to hear that people are citing AltNPS IRL. I know the account is too big to stay a purely online phenomenon, but I guess I hadn't thought about their influence translating to real-life organizations. Yikes.

Newsweek: The Nation editors specified in their statement that the magazine "is proud to have included several Nobel laureates on our editorial board and masthead—including the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." although it is uncertain whether this means they are eligible to submit nominations, or whether it is possible to nominate a city.

Newsweek also explains that it's not even clear if The Nation (who, again, AltNPS did not name as the source of the nomination) is even eligible to make nominations. The Nation is, at the end of the day, just a news website.

As nice as this nomination would be, this all seems pretty performative.

Newsweek: According to the Nobel Peace Prize website, "any person or organization can be nominated by anyone eligible to nominate." The website does not specify whether cities can be nominated, but states that "there is no vetting of nominations prior to the nomination deadline" and that the task of the Norwegian Nobel Committee is "strictly limited to selecting the best candidate (or candidates) among the entire list of submissions."

Newsweek has a good writeup about the nomination. They note that the Nobel committee doesn't vet nominations, and that their role is "limited to selecting the best candidate from among the entire list."

www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...

Alt National Park Service: A Nobel Peace Prize nomination for Minneapolis is really a recognition of people power and it’s the first time a whole city has been put forward for the prize.

I guess it's nice to see my fellow Minnesotans nominated, but AltNPS's post is, as always, missing a lot of context.

They don't mention who nominated Minneapolis (it was progressive outlet The Nation), or whether it's even possible for an entire city to receive the prize.

Trump says he will lead 'movement' to end mail-in voting President Trump said on Monday that that he will lead a movement to get rid of mail-in ballots, claiming, without providing evidence, that it leads to voter fraud.

Wait, are you serious? Thank you for catching this. I had a real "I ain't reading all that" moment with that post, but WOW. They really did just repost a Trump tweet from August as though it was recent.

Also, it does look like AltNPS's new gag is starting their posts with "ALERT."

I wonder if it's their new way of distracting the audience when they don't want to provide links!

ICE *is* drawing weapons on observers. That part is true!

It makes me wish AltNPS would say WHERE this is happening, or TO WHO, or WHO REPORTED this news. Their audience, especially in the Twin Cities, deserves the details for their own safety.

That's the bare minimum.

Good call! I pinned those links to my profile, and maybe I'll end up just posting my full articles as FB posts at some point.

For anyone who still ventures into the cursed lands of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, I finally bit the bullet and made an AltWatcher FB account.

Facebook is home to the biggest chunk of AltNPS's audience, so hopefully I'll get some traction. Wish me luck!

www.facebook.com/share/1CuKXr...

Don't worry, I'm frothing right now!

"Some federal workers [employees] have started [are starting] to receive furlough notices, as Washington waits to see if Congress will [as lawmakers IN Washington weigh how to] end a [the] partial government shutdown that began over the weekend."

Alt National Park Service: And here we go again. Some federal employees are starting to receive furlough notices as lawmakers in Washington weigh how to end the partial government shutdown that began over the weekend.

Karoun Demirjian, NYT: Some federal workers have begun to receive furlough notices, as Washington waits to see if Congress will end a partial government shutdown that began over the weekend.

AltNPS carefully did find-and-replace on a few specific words, but they can't hide that this is the opening paragraph of Keroun Demirjian's article in the New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

tbh, most Alts are basically fine. AltNPS is the only one that lies, steals, and builds a "resistance spy" narrative.

Most of the others just claim to be current/former govt staff, and don't make claims beyond that. I understand not trusting them, but AltNPS is the one that's truly a PROBLEM

Yes! I was just about to talk about this one when the ProPublica post hit. I'll get to it soon, thanks for the tag

Also, AltNPS claimed to know the identity of the "ICE agent," singular, that murdered Pretti. The article they link names TWO men as the killers, plural.

For how much AltNPS lies, you'd think they'd at least be better at it.

Commenter #1: we have their names!!! Blast them all over the Internet. They don't sound legal? Commenter #2: So they are Immigrants?

I know AltNPS doesn't control their replies, but MAN these comments wasted no time getting racist.

AltNPS claimed to know the killer's identity A WEEK AGO. Weird that they're leaving that part out.

I've said it before, but I don't want to hear a damn thing from AltNPS about Alex Pretti, Renee Good, Keith Porter, or anyone else killed by ICE. They can't be trusted.

Alt National Park Service: A federal appellate judge has thrown out an ethics complaint that Justice Department officials lodged against Judge James E. Boasberg. The complaint followed backlash from Trump over Boasberg’s effort to halt the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security facility in El Salvador.

As far as I can tell, this one came from @nateraymond.bsky.social at Reuters, at 4:49 PM CST yesterday.

Again, I don't care WHICH source AltNPS provides, I just need them to provide one.

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Don't be! AltNPS is very good at what they do, and they definitely had me fooled at first.

Alt National Park Service: A win! Congratulations to Taylor Rehmet on flipping a Texas Senate seat that had long been in Republican hands!

This was reported many places, but let's go with CNN. @ethanbencohen.bsky.social reported on Rehmet's victory last night at 11:09 PM CDT, seven hours before AltNPS.

AltNPS could have linked to ANY source, and chose not to.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/p...

It's definitely hard to explain! Most people just see the occasional post from AltNPS, and the grift doesn't always become clear if you aren't looking at the whole picture.

Alt National Park Service Tracking Document

Here's a link to the master list. As an update, I've highlighted the authors who aren't on Bluesky with PINK cells, and bold text.

I haven't updated this sheet in a bit, but I'll work on keeping it current!

Hi folks! Here's a list of the journalists who have had their work lifted by AltNPS.

This list is VERY much incomplete. A lot of the people affected aren't on Bluesky, and I need to update my master list, but this is a decent way to follow (and credit!) some great journalists.

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