iris 🦬 🍉

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[iris 🦬 🍉 @acadiapml]

@SimplyNovology Hey man I’m sorry about these shitty ass comments. I wish only the best for you. It’s disgusting how many cracks our social support system has to fall through 💕

[iris 🦬 🍉 @acadiapml]

@MartinLukasMD @SimplyNovology Shut the fuck up racist ass

[iris 🦬 🍉 @acadiapml]

@nothimorhis @deershouldnt Big ass brains and narrow pelvis from standing on two legs :(

[iris 🦬 🍉 @acadiapml]

@realweirdmarth Stellar’s jay!! One of the most beautiful birds in da whole world

[Joe @electionsjoe]

I think young people should start voting

[iris 🦬 🍉 @acadiapml]

@Empty_America Ecologically not accurate. Transitioning farmland to a functioning ecosystem, let alone the historical state, can take significant effort. Letting a field stay fallow won’t magically create healthy land.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Fifty years of rules keeping off-road vehicles on designated trails — GONE.

Lifted trucks, ATVs, dirt bikes, snowmobiles.

Anywhere they want. On your public lands.

Nixon protected it. Carter protected it. Trump just erased both quietly on a Friday afternoon.

A grizzly bear will abandon its habitat when there's just one mile of road per square mile. One mile. Now there's no limit on where these vehicles can go.

In the Mojave, desert tortoises have already lost 96% of their population in some monitored areas - partly because off-road vehicles crush their burrows. A federal judge just ordered 2,200 miles of trails closed to protect what's left.

Then Trump signed this.

No designated trails. No boundaries. No framework at all. When vehicles go off trail they shatter habitat into pieces too small for wildlife to survive in. They destroy stream banks. They push predators toward humans. And when that happens, the animals always lose.

There was no vote. No public comment. Just a signature.

Now the agencies tasked with writing replacement rules are the BLM, the Forest Service, and the National Park Service - all under an administration that has spent months dismantling every protection they had.

The Interior Department, led by Doug Burgum, is in charge of most of it. The same Doug Burgum who has opened public lands to drilling, mining, and grazing at every turn.

Don't hold your breath.

When the last quiet place is gone, what do we tell the children who never got to hear it?

#DemsUnited

[iris 🦬 🍉 @acadiapml]

@BigCert412 @lukezim It’s not free, you pay for it with the rest of the hotel fees?? And a customer should be able to complain about quality. That’s like the most American thing ever

[iris 🦬 🍉 @acadiapml]

@NotChilledOut Plus warmer winters

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Six weeks ago I told you they were coming for Big Bend. Yesterday a court cleared the way for border wall construction in the Big Bend National Park region.

Here's what makes this so enraging:

Big Bend National Park is one of the quietest stretches of the entire southern border. In FY2025, the Big Bend sector recorded just 3,096 apprehensions — 1.3% of all crossings nationwide. Border encounters there have dropped 74% since 2023. The land is remote, rugged, and brutal. It has always been its own deterrent.

And yet — a 30-foot steel wall is coming anyway.

What that wall will actually do: fragment critical habitat for black bears, mountain lions, and the endangered black-capped vireo. Sever one of the last wildlife corridors connecting the U.S. and Mexican Chihuahuan Desert — an ecosystem that doesn't recognize borders.

Block the natural movement of over 450 bird species that pass through Big Bend. Flood one of the darkest night skies in North America with construction lights. Slice through 100+ miles of the Wild and Scenic Rio Grande.

To stop 1.3% of border crossings. On land that was already stopping them on its own.

The administration has now waived the Endangered Species Act, the National Park Service Organic Act, and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act — all at once — to make this happen. The first time in U.S. history any of that has been done inside a national park.

They awarded $4.3 billion in contracts. Steel bollards are already on the ground near Van Horn. Construction starts this summer.

Who do YOU think this wall is actually for?

#DemsUnited

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: We're suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over their plan to give away 715 acres of a public wildlife refuge to billionaire corporation Space X.

Americans shouldn't be sacrificing their public lands to subsidize a company owned by the richest man in the world.

[Alaska Wilderness League @alaskawild]

🚨 Today, Sen. Mike Lee’s amendment to repeal the Roadless Rule passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

The fight to protect our national forests is not over. We can still take action by telling Congress: Keep the Roadless Rule in place. 🌲https://t.co/TUHYpCdYal

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Under Trump, the Forest Service is gutting labs that cost ONE DOLLAR in rent so they can cram scientists into a Fort Collins office that costs taxpayers a million a year.

As reported by NPR, Trump's 2027 budget zeroes out Forest Service research entirely. Three hundred and nine million dollars, gone. Fifty-seven of the agency's seventy-seven research stations are on the chopping block.

These are the forests generations of Americans have hiked, hunted, camped, and prayed in. Sacred ground for almost anyone who's ever stepped outside in this country.

And the "efficiency" pitch? A scam.

The research station in Hilo, Hawaii sits on 30,000 acres the federal government rents for a one-time fee of ONE DOLLAR, locked in until 2067. The Michigan Tech lease? One dollar paid in 1963, free ever since. Another site costs the agency $600 a month for two rooms.

The destination they want everyone shipped to in Fort Collins runs taxpayers a million a year.

Read that again. They're closing dollar leases to expand a million-dollar lease.
Scientists in Baltimore have spent years planting white oak saplings that need three decades to mature. You can't FedEx a forest to Colorado. You can't manage a Hawaiian ecosystem from a cubicle in Utah.

Researchers told NPR they'll quit before they relocate. Which is the point.

Meanwhile, Trump has openly pledged to ramp up logging on federal land. Gut the scientists who document the damage, and there's nobody left to sound the alarm when ancient forests get clear-cut for profit.

These are the people who tell us when wildfire season turns deadly. Who track invasive beetles eating through pine. Who teach cities how to recycle dead trees instead of dumping them in landfills.

You don't dismantle the world's largest forestry research network because you're worried about a maintenance bill. You dismantle it because somebody plans to take a chainsaw to what the public owns and doesn't want a paper trail.

The forests don't belong to Tom Schultz. They don't belong to Trump. They belong to every American who has ever stood quiet under a hundred-year-old tree and understood, for one second, that some things are not for sale.

Defend them now, or explain it to your grandkids later.

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

The lack of morning weather balloons launched across the western and central U.S. is having a real, tangible impact on degrading forecast quality.

We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.

Today's severe weather forecast is less certain because we don't have weather balloon data to confirm the strength of jet stream winds aloft.

This is extremely frustrating, and is the result of logistical, organizational, political and budgetary decisions.

[artemis ౨ৎ @fagholmes]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH. THE LEMKIN INSTITUTE PUT OUT A 3RD RED ALERT FOR THE GENOCIDE OF TRANS AMERICANS. INDIA IS ERASING TRANS INDIANS. RESEARCHERS SAY UK IS THE MOST ANTI TRANS DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD. WE WOULDNT HAVE PRIDE MONTH WITHOUT TRANS PEOPLE. ADVOCATE 4 YOUR TRANS FRIENDS.

[iris 🦬 🍉 @acadiapml]

@SkilayneSki @NWSSaltLakeCity Yes, before doing a burn the managers have to do detailed smoke hazard analysis. If it would be harmful to structures the burn plan is changed, let alone human life. A big plume like that is actually a good sign the smoke is moving up and away, which is healthier than it sitting

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Nothing to see here.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Reporter: The DOJ has this new fund — $1.7 billion. Why should taxpayers pay for the January 6ers?

Trump: Because in my world, loyalty outranks law. They broke the rules for me, so you pay the bill for them. That’s the transaction.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket.

The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.