The National Park Service ran on a $3 billion budget and generated $56 billion in economic output in 2024. That’s over $17 back for every $1 invested.
With a record of 332 million visitors last year, Americans clearly care about their parks and expect them to be funded.
This New York Times story is not paywalled, and it shows a second-by-second breakdown of what happened. Please scroll through it.
This is not what America, or anywhere, should be
https://t.co/fXbS3FOWZc
Celebrating the 80th Birthday of not just a superstar artist, but a superstar human being. Dolly Parton.
Dolly and Kermit singing Everyday People (1987)
This is outrageous.
A peaceful 21-year-old protester was shot point-blank in the face by a DHS/ICE agent with a supposedly “non-lethal” round, leaving him permanently blind, skull fractured, shards of metal & glass lodged near his carotid artery, and forced into 6 hours of surgery just to save his life.
How is this acceptable? When will law enforcement be held accountable for brutalizing Americans exercising their right to protest? This is state violence, not “crowd control.”