Margaret Leonard

Graduate: San Diego State University, UCLA, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

No place trolls harder than Walnut Creek in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area.

[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.

[Margaret Leonard @commutequeen]

@HWarlow Thank you for posting these!!!

[Margaret Leonard @commutequeen]

@pitsenberger Used to live in Loomis and enjoyed the history there - keep on posting this great information!!!

[Dan Osborn @osbornforne]

Four companies control most of the fertilizer market in America.

They own the mines. They own the processing plants. They control the distribution network. No competition can get in.

Fertilizer prices up 150% since 2020. Farm bankruptcies up 46%. The U.S. lost 94,000 farms between 2021 and 2025.

This isn't the free market. It's a cartel.

Last week the FTC launched a historic investigation. Farmers from 18 states showed up in Texas to demand action. And Nebraska should be leading that fight.

During the worst fertilizer price crisis in a generation, Pete Ricketts was governor of one of the top agricultural states in the country and did absolutely nothing to protect Nebraska farmers from price gouging.

And if that wasn't bad enough, Ricketts has taken PAC money from the very fertilizer companies gouging Nebraska farmers! That money buys silence. And silence is exactly what Nebraska farmers have been getting.

Ricketts stands with the fertilizer monopolies. I stand with farmers.

[Margaret Leonard @commutequeen]

@Diegoranchinc ☹️💔

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

🚨 History has been made. The impeachment papers against John Roberts are officially filed. Don't let Congress sweep this under the rug—flood their offices with this letter instantly:
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[Margaret Leonard @commutequeen]

@CarlBovisNature Wonderful photo

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

I'm a grizzly.

They just decided one acre is all I need.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just redefined "secure habitat" for grizzly bears in Montana.

The science said 2,500 acres minimum.

They changed it to one.

No public input. No new science. Just a rewrite.

And it wasn't random. The change conveniently cleared the way for a 17,700-acre logging project cutting straight through the corridor grizzlies use to travel between two of their last strongholds in North America.

A former Forest Service wildlife biologist said it plainly: "A one-acre island of forest surrounded by roads isn't secure habitat. It's a death trap."

Courts already rejected this same playbook when agencies tried 10-acre patches near Yellowstone. They lost. Then they came back with one acre.

Who's going to tell the grizzly it only gets one acre?

#DemsUnited

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

The New World Screwworm Facility the USDA continues touting, even if expedited, will not come online for months and months, if not years. Also, it will only have the capacity to produce 300M weekly and we need 500M weekly to sufficiently combat this pest

There is a solution RIGHT NOW to deploy mobile sterile fly dispersal units at the border to get us to the 500M weekly fly production capacity needed to prevent this from spreading and becoming cataclysmic for the country

The National Emergency Declaration will eliminate the bottleneck at the USDA, allowing for the mobile units to be stood up IMMEDIATELY

This is last our best chance, LET'S GET IT DONE

[Margaret Leonard @commutequeen]

@FlyoverCntryGal 🙏🙏😢

[Margaret Leonard @commutequeen]

@cjwest50 regarding the photo posted of you during Rookie Camp and recent OTAs, I hope it’s fake - only 8 weeks to get ready for important Training Camp. Be well.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

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[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.

Here's what happened:

He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.

These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.

Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.

A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).

The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.

But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.

With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.

And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.

The threat does all the work.

By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.

Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.

If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.

Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR

[Dan Osborn @osbornforne]

Jim Knopik has farmed this land for 76 years. When he was five, the little village down the road closed up. The post office. The grocery store. Gone. Now Fullerton and Belgrade are barely hanging on. This is what happens when monopolies hollow out rural America.

[Save Our Parks @SaveOurParksUSA]

Doug Burgum is raiding tens of millions from our national park entrance fees to fund Donald Trump’s DC vanity projects — nevermind the $34 billion parks maintenance backlog. It's theft from the American people, plain and simple.

https://t.co/30psUQJtoq

[Margaret Leonard @commutequeen]

@pitsenberger Thankful you posted this!

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

We have been warning the public on New World Screwworm for over a year now (some much longer than us)

We even had our account on X suspended for a month when we showed a picture of what an infection looks like in a human, shortly before there was a human case confirmed in the US last August

The Secretary of Agriculture continued to assure the public that the Screwworm situation was “under control” and continued to ignore concerns and requests from producers and elected officials from her home state of Texas

This is not something to no longer downplay or brush off

The Agricultural industry is already entering into hellish conditions this summer because of drought and rising fuel and input prices, compounded now with an outbreak of flesh eating maggots

We need serious and dedicated leadership on this

We need a whole of government approach

We need states next to Texas and Mexico to be able access the resources and funding to combat this pest as they will be caught completely off guard when it reaches their states

We have asked before months ago but are asking again for President Trump to declare a National Emergency Declaration TODAY!

Thank you for your attention to this matter

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

The screwworm has shaken Texas agriculture previously. Those who lived through it in the 1950s say it was commonplace for ranchers to "scoop handfuls of worms from cattle" and other livestock. Herds decimated. Beef prices could soar, markets rattled. Buckle up, #TxLege

[Leela Gray @LeelaJGray]

You can't solve problems you refuse to measure.

Yet this month, 900 ocean monitoring instruments are being physically pulled out of the water. A $368 million system. A decade to build. Designed to run 15 more years.

Gone.

This network tracked hurricane intensity, coastal flooding, marine heatwaves, and sea level rise. The data was free, public and used in over 500 scientific publications. Congress tried to stop it... twice. They got overruled anyway.

For a coastal community like FL-13 that just lived through Helene, this isn't abstract. This is the difference between an evacuation order that comes in time and one that doesn't.

Florida deserves a representative who fights for the science that protects us, not one who looks the other way while it gets dismantled.

#LeelaGrayforCongress #LeelaJGray

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