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‘Help is not on the way’ - High Country News As fire season ramps up, thousands of Forest Service firefighting positions are vacant.

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🔥 Those wildfires? It's only going to get worse.

More than 4,500 Forest Service firefighting jobs — over one-fourth of all the agency’s firefighting jobs — were vacant as of July 17. #wildfires #vacancies #USFS

TAKE ACTION: Tell your Senators, “Dr. Casey Means is not qualified to be Surgeon General.” She lacks the necessary qualifications, and her views undermine public health.

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✅ TELL ACTION NOW: Tell your Senators, “Reject Casey Means’s nomination for Surgeon General. She’s not qualified and her views undermine public health.”

Click below for more information and to email your Senators. #CaseyMeans #SurgeonGeneral #Senate Follow us, “Like,” & share.

'Festering, open wound': Dems told they have the 'sword' with which to finish Trump President Donald Trump has handed the Democrats a weapon that they can use to destroy the Republicans — but they need to learn how it must be wielded, a Guardian columnist wrote Saturday.The Jeffrey E...

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‼ Hey, Democrats! Are you listening? Pay attention! Get it right!

From the author: The key is to use Trump’s Epstein scramble to tell voters where Republicans’ true allegiances lie. It goes like this: Trump protects elites. #Trump #Epstein #Democrats #messaging #TrumpProtectsElites

An awful Trump secret is about to come crashing into the open Liberals don’t usually traffic in conspiracy theories. We think of ourselves as rational people who defer to the authority of facts. We believe we can shape perceptions of reality, but not reality its...

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⁉ More than a conspiracy theory? An interesting supposition? Or something we always knew?

From the article: “... we can’t sidestep what’s becoming clearer every day about Donald Trump.

“He’s a sexual deviant.

“And there’s a conspiracy to cover it up.” #Trump #Sexual_Deviant #conspiracy #deviant

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to keep machine guns off our streets Keep our streets and neighborhoods safe—re-regulate forced-reset triggers

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✅ TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell Congress, “No automatic weapons on our streets!”

Click below for more information and to send your emails. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #ForcedResetTriggers #machinegun #commonsensegunlaws #guns

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🎯 And her place is in prison. Period. Full stop. #GhislaineMaxwell #Epstein #trafficking

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📌 It's not that difficult to understand. We propose implementing the same tax rate that the wealthy paid under President #Eisenhower. #taxes #TaxTheRich

TAKE ACTION: Stop the attack on early childhood education (Head Start) Submit your comment to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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✅ TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell AHRQ, “I support Head Start for all children.” This action isn’t limited to U.S. citizens. Everyone may submit a comment.

Click below for more information and to submit your comment. Follow us, “Like,” & share. DEADLINE August 13, 2025 #HeadStart #children

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📌 And frankly, those are the best things that can be said about him.

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress, “Don’t fund Guantánamo immigrant prison.” Find humane immigration solutions.

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✅ TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell Congress, “Being undocumented is a civil—not criminal—offense.” Click below for more information and to send your emails. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #immigration #Guantánamo

Trump Is Trying to Hide the Cost of Renovating His New Air Force One The administration transferred nearly $1 billion dollars to a Pentagon project, but those funds will be used to renovate Trump's "flying palace."

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📌 The concern is that “this administration is diverting funds from the nuclear modernization budget to finance costly renovations to this plane,” which means the U.S. is “weakening our credibility to fund a vanity project for President Trump.” #Trump #Pentagon #nuclear_weapons

'He sucks': Trump’s hateful behavior explained Salon writer Amanda Marcotte laid out the psychology behind why Trump does what he does and why his MAGA base eats it up. Marcotte joined ‘Daily Blast’ host Greg Sargent on Friday’s episode to examine...

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📌 “He’s a narcissist. He’s obsessed with the idea that he needs to be in people’s heads. But the problem is, he sucks. He’s not interesting. He’s not smart. He’s not anything. He’s just a mean, stupid, mediocre #narcissist.” #Trump #TrumpSucks

RFK Jr. to oust entire panel behind cancer screening guidelines for being too 'woke': WSJ The Trump administration is targeting the expert panel that decides which cancer screenings and other preventive services insurance plans are required to cover, according to a new report.Health and Hu...

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🔥 WTH is wrong with him (it's rhetorical, folks).

“In no world should experts be replaced with unqualified anti-science cronies of RFK Jr. who will make preventive #healthcare more expensive and harder to get over baseless #conspiracy theories or debunked disinformation.” #RFKJr #woke #cancer

TAKE ACTION: Tell the EPA, “Don’t allow toxic metal emissions to pollute our air.” Submit your comment to the U.S. EPA now

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✅ TAKE ACTION: Tell the EPA, “I support the 2024 updates that further curb poisonous metal pollution by requiring more accurate and frequent monitoring.”

Not limited to U.S. citizens. Click below for more information and to submit your comment. DEADLINE August 11, 2025 #EPA #ToxicMetals

The Working-Class Trump Voters Who Can Still Be Won Despite what Democrats say, working-class support for Trump is complicated and nuanced. Some could never be won over to a populist economic program. Others, though, are still reachable — and there are...

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📌 Hint: candidates should be more progressive.

Workers without a 4-year college degree and in the bottom two-thirds of the income distribution have become more #progressive over time. And not just in one area but across the board—on #immigration, racial justice, and even economic issues. #economy

Republicans Will Reward Emil Bove for Sending Innocent Men to a Concentration Camp - emptywheel The Republican Party is preparing to reward Emil Bove with a lifetime seat on an appellate court because he sent hundreds of men to a concentration camp, many based on little more than their tattoos.

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🔥 They just give Trump whatever he wants.

Thune invoked cloture for Emil Bove’s nomination to the Third Circuit. While Lisa Murkowski voted against cloture and Susan Collins says she’ll vote against his confirmation, it’s virtually certain that Republicans will confirm him. #EmilBove

Evil Scheme to Purge Half a Million Voters Will control of the US Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing?

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📌 From Greg Palast @gregpalast.bsky.social

Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them ... EXCEPT. EXCEPT if the GOP can come up with a way to stop those un-white voters from voting. #votersuppression #Georgia #voterpurge

Trump’s New Tax Law Could Create Insurmountable Hurdles for LGBTQ Health Care Roughly 1.8 million LGBTQ adults in the US use Medicaid as their primary health insurance.

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📌 Millions are expected to lose health care coverage through Trump’s budget bill. LGBTQ+ Americans, who rely heavily on social services due to high rates of poverty and disability, are among those who will be most impacted. #LGBTQ+ #Medicaid From: @truthout.org

TAKE ACTION: Protect the Western Arctic from oil and gas development Submit your comment to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management now

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✅ TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell the the Bureau of Land Management, “Protect the Western Arctic from environmentally disastrous industrialization.” Not limited to U.S. citizens.

Click below for more information and to submit your comment. DEADLINE August 4, 2025 #BLM #Arctic

The national parks are not OK - High Country News Former national park supervisor explains why toilets may be clean this summer, the parks themselves are actually ‘hollowed out.’

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🔥 Trump and his fellow Republicans are making it easier to sell our public land to their cronies.

No more “public lands in public hands?” 😥 😡 #NationalParks #PublicLandsinPublicLands #Corruption #Trump #Republicans

Inequality Has Risen From 1970 To Trump Inequality in America has soared since 1970, threatening democracy through frayed social bonds and rising corruption.

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🎯 America has never been richer. But the gains are so lopsided that the top 10% controls 69% of all wealth in the country, while the bottom half controls just 3%. Surging corporate profits have benefited investors, not the broader public.

Trump’s #OBBBA will likely increase #inequality.

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🎯 Exactly right. The corruption exhibited by this administration would have been beyond belief for any previous administration in recent memory. #corruption #bribes? #political_favors #Trump

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to oppose the PEPPER Act. It removes accountability from the executive branch.

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✅ TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell Congress, “Hold Trump, his cabinet, and all future officials accountable. Vote ‘No’ on this unprincipled bill.”

Click below for more information and to send your emails. Follow us, “Like,” & share.

'Cover up': Social Security head accused of 'hiding' crisis after 7K job cuts As the Trump administration pushes to cut 7,000 jobs held by federal employees at the Social Security Administration, the agency that oversees the crucial anti-poverty program for senior citizens and ...

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🔥 Why were customer service metrics deleted from the SSA's website just as Americans were facing longer wait times and a reduced ability to speak with customer service representatives? #SocialSecurity #CustomerService #JobCuts From @rawstory.com

Experts warn of a dangerous shift in American societal norms The normalization of political violence is taking root in public life in the United States. Once shocking near-assassinations are now becoming grimly accepted chapters in political campaigns. Experts ...

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🔥 “We continue to see a normalizing of political violence, a very casual acceptance that some elected officials may be legitimate targets for violence—based on conspiracies, based on disinformation—and ... we’ve seen that that has real-world consequences.” #assassinations

The fact that MTG is not frequently struck by lightning is proof the Democrats do not control the weather.

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🎯 Sure. We could have resisted. We just didn't. 😊 #MTG #weather #Democrats

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📌 This likely to come up for a vote next week. Please send your emails or call your Senators ASAP

The Oceans Likely Contain Much More Plastic Than We Previously Thought A new study estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone has a staggering 27 million metric tons of nanoplastics.

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📌 A new study estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone contains 27 million metric tons of #nanoplastic — plastic particles 100 times smaller than the width of a human hair. That figure is 10 times higher than previous estimates of plastic #pollution of all sizes across all the world’s oceans,

'Pay attention': Supreme Court justice gives dire warning about 'state of our democracy' Recently, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked what keeps her up at night. While she didn't directly name President Donald Trump, she heavily referenced his administration in her rema...

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📌 Asked what keeps her up at night, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stated, “I would say the state of our #democracy. I am really very interested in getting people to focus and to invest and to pay attention to what is happening in our country and in our government.” #SCOTUS Credit: @alternet.org

The real reason Elon Musk wants a third party “The America Party is needed to fight the Republican/Democrat Uniparty,” Elon Musk posted on X, announcing that he’s forming a third party. Does America need a third party? Possibly, for a reason I’ll...

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🔥 Musk’s real goal? Not to reduce the federal debt (which could be done by raising taxes on the ultra-wealthy like Musk). Not to get big money out of politics (Musk is Exhibit A in how big money subverts democracy).

From Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social #democracy #Musk #3rdParty