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3/3 🧵 As this kakistocracy moves to rob us of our national parks and other public lands, squandering them for the benefit of the ultra-wealthy, please don't look away.

2/3 🧵@naomiaklein.bsky.social has written about how, during times of crisis and chaos (which this administration has created aplenty), people in power will quickly move to dismantle things that are in the public interest. #ShockDoctrine

Stop Steve Pearce The most consequential public lands confirmation fight in a generation is here.

1/3 🧵Trump has nominated Steve Pearce, who has pledged to get rid of our public lands, as steward of our public lands. (Pearce has been nominated as head of the Bureau of Land Management.) Please read the article and consider the call to action. #USPublicLands #USNationalParks #Environmentalism

The Senate Vote That Could Change Public Lands Forever This week Republicans are pushing a legal maneuver that would undo a century of public land protections — starting with America’s most beloved wilderness.

Amidst all the atrocities taking place in the U.S., please don't forget the imminent threat of being robbed of our public lands. Once this happens, to paraphrase Heather Cox Richardson, we will never get them back. (Sample letter to U.S. senators included in article.)

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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

This has become a genocide of Black and Brown people in the United States. It is simultaneously shocking, horrifying, and devastating and completely on brand for this country.

And these things are certainly not mutually exclusive. :-(

I'm researching the history of the coal industry in WV, including the so-called Coal Mine Wars, as part of a book I'm writing. The first paragraph of this article alone is infuriating & heartbreaking. Of course, that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Thank you so much for the work you do.

The Senate Vote That Could Change Public Lands Forever This week Republicans are pushing a legal maneuver that would undo a century of public land protections — starting with America’s most beloved wilderness.

Amidst all the atrocities taking place in the U.S., please don't forget the imminent threat of being robbed of our public lands. Once this happens, to paraphrase Heather Cox Richardson, we will never get them back. (Sample letter to U.S. senators included in article.)

Yes. And this is why I have consistently disagreed with calls to impeach Trump. Unless the entire regime is removed, this would only hasten our demise. Vance is younger and smarter and has a longer attention span. And he understands the assignment.

This makes me physically ill.

Help out if you can. And donate to the ones that have the least please.

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Next reading: Hofstadter on the Paranoid Style in American Politics.

I'd definitely watch that movie.

LYING: It's the Lord's work!

YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

🚨The MAGA Cult wants to destroy PBS because they don’t bow down to their dear leader like 60 minutes does.

I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.

I’ve been thinking about you, imagining how agonizing this must be for you. 🙁

Mississippians Still Waiting on Full SNAP Benefits Mississippi SNAP recipients are still waiting for full payments more than a week after the government shutdown ended due to technical issues.

Mississippians who rely on SNAP to afford food are still waiting to receive full November benefits more than a week after the government shutdown ended due to technical issues with 40-year-old computer systems.

There’s no guarantee full payments will arrive by Thanksgiving or even before December.

Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.

My god.

After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck.

The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this.

Which means this is not an isolated case.

Trump's Lynching America

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

Stay classy, Donald.

James Comey handed the 2016 election to Donald Trump by announcing a sham investigation against his opponent, causing people to forget the "Access Hollywood" tape & doubt Clinton's honesty.

Today, Trump thanked Comey by corruptly indicting him. To Donald, loyalty & gratitude are one-way streets.

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We all know ‘tragedy’ comes from Greek.

‘tragos’ = goat

‘aeidein’ = to sing

So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”

Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.

This is a wonderful article, so beautifully written! Thank you for writing it. I came in contact with people of this mindset when I was a homeschooling mom, and I have been deeply troubled by it ever since. The amount of damage this man and others like him have done is incalculable. 😕

A memorandum from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, dated August 26, 2025. It is addressed to a redacted recipient and issued by Joseph A. Scallan, Chief of Staff, Office of the Administrator, FEMA.

Page 2 of a FEMA memorandum on administrative leave. The document advises confidentiality and directs questions to FEMA’s employee relations email.

🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has just unlawfully placed signatories to the Katrina Declaration on administrative leave.

See the letter below…🧵