“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,” wrote five former NWS directors from both Democratic and Republican administrations in an open letter on May 2nd.
In Houston, 44% of NWS positions are vacant.
Republicans are attempting to ram through a provision to sell millions in acres in California, including land around Yosemite, Mt. Shasta, Lake Tahoe & Big Sur, as part of their big ugly bill.
Our federal public treasures shouldn't be sold off to the highest bidder.
I will fight this, tooth & nail.
This is all wild national forest in the San Juan and Rio Grande National Forests. No affordable housing will be built here cause no working class people would move here cause there's no jobs here. As soon as this is sold, fences go up and nobody has access. It will all be closed.
.@BasedMikeLee is secretly trying to sell 3 MILLION acres of America’s public land for development.
And it includes some of my favorite places, specifically ones in the pictures below.
Americans across the political spectrum are **overwhelmingly** against the sale of our beauty
I was literally taught my whole life that if someone in plain clothes and a mask tries to detain you and refuses to identify themselves, you call 911 and you’re absolutely within your rights to not comply for safety reasons. What’s happening is kidnapping. Full stop.
There is absolutely zero reason, full stop, to sell off public land, including National Forests, for “affordable housing.” This is complete nonsense. In fact, there is plenty of available land in our Cities, where the jobs are, if only we rezoned these areas for more density.
🚨 BREAKING: The largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history is being buried in the fine print of a Senate budget bill.
Over 120 million acres; wilderness, forests, sacred tribal sites, wildlife corridors, all up for grabs.
And here’s the kicker:
-No hearings
-No public input
-No guarantee any of it goes to affordable housing
Local governments and Tribal Nations aren’t even given first shot.
Instead, they’re forced to compete with Wall Street developers and lose.
This is not housing policy.
It’s a land liquidation scheme dressed up as reform; a Trojan horse for billionaires.
They’re selling off your public lands to fund tax cuts and fossil fuel profits.
And unless stopped, it sets the precedent that every wild place in America is now for sale.
I'm totally against selling this land. Nobody is going to build "affordable housing" deep in the Olympic Peninsula, which is one of the most beautiful places in the country. I want my kids hiking, fishing, and camping on those lands, not selling them for some tax-credit scam.
Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this
His plan is clear: Incite violence and chaos in blue states, have an excuse to militarize our cities, demonize his opponents, keep breaking the law and consolidate power.
It’s illegal and we will not let it stand.
BREAKING: The US Marines have detained a US citizen in Los Angeles. This is the first time in known US history that the marines have been used in this way to detain an American without the Insurrection Act being invoked.
The Posse Comitatus Act (1878) Prohibits the use of the U.S. military (Army and Air Force, and by extension Navy and Marines under DoD policy) to enforce domestic laws without explicit Congressional or constitutional authorization.
In other words, Trump is breaking the law once again.
Maybe it’s time the press stops sleepwalking through the fall of American democracy — because let there be no doubt, they’ll come for journalists next.