Land bordering Yosemite, Sequoia, and Pinnacles National Parks — now cleared for oil rigs and fracking. YES fracking!
Two hundred thousand people said NO. The federal government did it anyway.
Over 1 million acres of California public land just got opened up - land that touches ancient sequoia groves older than the country itself and sits right in Yosemite’s backyard.
Patagonia's CEO came out swinging, accusing the administration of putting oil profits over the planet's health and saying public land was never meant to be sold off to drilling companies.
And the man who'll make the final call? He was recently confirmed to run BLM after his own state party called him "an outright enemy of public lands."
Who's going to tell a tree older than the country that its time is up?
#DemsUnited
There’s a concerted effort led by Trump to emotionally recondition people to think that kindness, empathy, and solidarity are weaknesses. They are not. We must show there is another way than what they want us to believe.
Two men, including one whose life sentence was commuted by then-South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, have been charged in the death of a 14-year-old girl whose body was found in a rural area.. https://t.co/EqkVAgrrDX
New concerns are emerging about President Trump’s sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants after a report found that nearly 100 of them have been arrested, charged or convicted of additional crimes since the attack in 2021.
It comes as continuing efforts by Trump and his allies to recast the events of that day have reignited debate over accountability and the rule of law.
@ElizLanders has more.
US citizen Leonardo Garcia Venegas spent months trying to get DOJ and DHS to disclose the identities of the anonymous DHS agents who have illegally abducted him three times in Alabama, so that he could sue them. They refused but finally a court has ordered them to.
"A business tied to a longtime supporter of Trump was given a no-bid contract to install a water-purification system in the Reflecting Pool. The Park Service bypassed the competitive-bidding process...Cafaro was once involved in a bribery scandal."
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Just a friendly reminder. If the US had taken only a small fraction of the money and military equipment it has squandered fighting and losing to Iran, and instead helped Ukraine, the Middle East would be more stable and Russia would be facing defeat.
In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.
World Cup referee - Africa's best - is denied entry to United States and sent back after landing at Miami Airport, despite having a diplomatic passport https://t.co/2JPP5NpJpT
By the way, the reason Social Security and Medicare are called Entitlements is because you are ENTITLED to them because you paid for them via a special tax over the course of your entire life.
La seleccion de fútbol de Irán llegó a México, donde se alojará durante el Mundial. Si bien jugará todos sus partidos en EEUU, Trump les negó hospedaje y los obliga a salir del país apenas termine cada encuentro. La FIFA aceptó ese acto de mal anfitrión.
BREAKING: DHS just waived all environmental laws to blast border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park.
This marks the first time in American history the feds have gutted dozens of laws to push industrial-level construction through a national park.
https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY: ICE cannot simply declare a “perimeter” and gain unlimited access to your property.
A temporary safety zone may allow officers to restrict movement or briefly enter areas necessary to secure an operation, but it does NOT automatically give them the right to search your property or enter your home.
Without your consent, a judicial warrant, or an emergency, your home remains protected by the Constitution.
Fight ICE: https://t.co/hN8SiV9y02