Janet Huffman

Smell the roses along the way & watch out for bees

[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

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

Give a medal to whoever created this

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

It's only Tuesday and Trump has fucked up a pool for $14 Million, lost a war agreeing to pay Iran $300 Billion, and ballooned his already expensive ballroom budget by another $200 Million.

Where are the Republicans screaming about "waste, fraud and abuse"?

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 Absolute madness in the US right now as the Uruguay national team gets pulled to the side of the road and treated like straight-up suspects.

​They literally just landed for the World Cup and security is already ripping their luggage open on the tarmac with sniffer dogs everywhere

​Qatar and Russia hosted without this level of paranoia but the "land of the free" is handing out pure humiliation to Global South athletes before a single match is even played, the double standards are screaming.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “This week we also learned that despite the #UFC insisting that they will foot the bill for this whole thing, US taxpayers do appear to be subsidizing the event. A spokesperson for Washington DC told ESPN that the city expects to incur somewhere between $10-$12 million in supplemental security costs which will be paid for by a federal fund aka your tax dollars.” 🙄

[CONSTITUTIONAL PATRIOT🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 JOE ROGAN JUST SNAPPED 🔥
“I’m tired of the lies. Where the f*ck are the Epstein files?! Why is the JFK assassination STILL sealed after 60+ years?! And who the HELL really killed Charlie Kirk?!”
The people are DONE.
They murdered Charlie in cold blood on stage in Utah — sniper shot, September 10, 2025. They arrested some guy named Tyler Robinson… but we all know the real story isn’t being told.
They hide the truth about Epstein’s clients.
They hide the truth about JFK.
Now they’re hiding the truth about Charlie Kirk.
HOW MUCH LONGER ARE WE SUPPOSED TO TAKE THIS?!
The elites are laughing at us while America bleeds.
DROP THE FILES.
TELL THE TRUTH.
OR GET THE HELL OUT.
#EpsteinFiles #JFK #CharlieKirk #DeepState #Rogan

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Expert Ellen Kountz exposes Trump's massive UFC scam. She confirms he became a shareholder right before signing the White House event deal!

The administration is using federal property and taxpayer dollars to completely privatize profits. Total corruption!

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This is not a joke.

This is actually the reflecting Pool in Washington DC today.

Donald Trump wasted $10 million of our money on this.

No wonder why he bankrupted multiple casinos.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

"Men just wanna come home and relax"
So do women, why do men act like waiting stability, care, cleanliness, and meals is exclusive to that gender

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"The UFC event captures something about this moment in our history.

After all, it’s vulgar, it’s violent, it’s commercial, it’s grandiose, it’s tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump."

https://t.co/4JB8V0GX4L

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Not enough people are talking about this.

Trump is trying to escape a $100 million dollar tax penalty, and Senate Republicans are helping him do it.

You know about the $1.8 billion slush fund he tried to create to reward his political allies. They got so much pushback that they’ve halted that, at least for now. But what you probably don’t know is that Trump gave himself, his family, and his businesses complete immunity from IRS audits, past and future.

Everyone focused on the slush fund, and almost nobody noticed the audit immunity. It’s still in place, and it cannot be allowed to stand.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Note to anyone angry that Trump's name was taken off the Kennedy Center, don't you worry. You can still find his name in the Epstein files over 38,000 times.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

There’s literally a children’s board game whose whole premise is showing how free market capitalism ends with one person owning everything while everyone else goes bankrupt.

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

This bombshell dropped yesterday in Washington D.C. And if you live near a data center — or near land where one might be built — this news affects you directly.

The head of America’s top environmental watchdog agency just walked up to a microphone and told the entire country that the federal government will not protect you from data center water pollution, air pollution, or any other environmental harm.

Not now. Not ever. As long as this administration is in power.

The decision that just left 330 million Americans without a federal safety net — and handed Big Tech a blank environmental check.

🎤 THE WORDS THAT SHOCKED ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NATIONWIDE

The Trump administration is not going to set nationwide environmental requirements or recommendations for the rapidly growing data center industry, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Wednesday at the POLITICO Energy Summit in Washington D.C. 

No requirements. No recommendations. No national standards. Nothing.

Zeldin said: “Ten times out of 10, I’m not going to sit inside of an agency building in Washington D.C. and say that we know that local community in Georgia or Florida or Arizona or elsewhere better than everyone there locally.” 

Ten times out of ten. Zeldin was not vague. He was not ambiguous. He was categorical and absolute.

The EPA — the agency created specifically to protect Americans from environmental harm — just announced it will not protect Americans from one of the fastest-growing and most environmentally demanding industries in U.S. history.

🏛️ WHAT IS THE EPA SUPPOSED TO DO — AND WHY THIS DECISION IS SO ALARMING

For most Americans, the EPA is the government agency that makes sure the air you breathe and the water you drink are safe. It sets national standards — minimum floors of protection — that apply equally whether you live in Montana or Mississippi, whether your local politicians are aggressive environmental protectors or not.

That is the whole point. National standards exist precisely because not every community has the resources, the lawyers, the political will, or the technical expertise to fight billion-dollar corporations on their own.

Just 37% of Americans would support a data center being built in their area, according to a POLITICO poll earlier this year. The reasons cited by opponents are overwhelmingly environmental: water usage and air pollution are among the most common complaints. 

63% of Americans do not want a data center near them. The EPA just told those Americans: figure it out yourselves.

🤔 AND ZELDIN’S ANSWER ON WATER IN UTAH WAS EVEN MORE REVEALING

The EPA chief’s comments in Washington were not the only time this week he dodged accountability on data centers and the environment.

Just weeks ago, Zeldin appeared before hundreds of energy leaders at Utah’s Operation Gigawatt Summit in Deer Valley — where a reporter from 2News asked him directly whether data centers conflict with President Trump’s own pledge to save the Great Salt Lake, which is rapidly disappearing due to water overconsumption. Zeldin declined to give a direct answer. “I’m not coming here today to opine and place judgment like that,” he said. “I’ve had the opportunities to go across the country where they’re doing an awesome job of water reuse.” 

The Great Salt Lake is shrinking before America’s eyes. Data centers in Utah are consuming millions of gallons of water. A reporter asked the head of the EPA a direct, factual question about whether those two facts conflict with each other.

His answer: he would not say.

The man whose job is to protect America’s environment — refusing to say whether draining a disappearing lake to cool AI servers is a problem.

😤 BUT HERE IS THE PART THAT MAKES THIS DECISION EVEN MORE OUTRAGEOUS

Zeldin’s argument sounds reasonable on the surface. “Local communities know best.” “States’ rights.” “We trust people on the ground.”

It falls apart completely when you look at what is actually happening on the ground.

Communities trying to fight data centers on their own are being outgunned at every turn. They face billion-dollar corporations with armies of lobbyists and lawyers. They watch their county commissioners vote in the middle of the night without public hearings. They discover secret water wells drilled without permits. They find out their electricity bills are being raised to subsidize facilities they never voted for.

And now the federal government — the last backstop — has officially stepped aside.

This is the same EPA that in January 2026 convened a roundtable with the Data Center Coalition — an industry lobbying group — to discuss how the rapid growth of data centers can make the U.S. the AI capital of the world. The meeting was led by senior Trump EPA officials. The agency’s stated goal was explicitly to advance data center expansion — not to protect communities from it. 

The EPA — meeting with data center industry lobbyists to help them build faster. Then standing at a podium to announce it will not regulate them environmentally.

That is not cooperative federalism. That is the government choosing a side. And it did not choose yours.

⚡ AND THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN DISMANTLING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS FOR MONTHS

Yesterday’s announcement did not come out of nowhere. It is the latest in a series of moves that have systematically removed federal environmental guardrails around the data center industry.

In February 2026, the Trump administration repealed the 2009 Endangerment Finding — the central scientific finding that has allowed the EPA to regulate climate-warming emissions for over 15 years. The move strips the agency of its most powerful legal tool to control industrial pollution. 

Making the U.S. the AI capital of the world is described as a key pillar of Zeldin’s “Powering the Great American Comeback” initiative — alongside “unleashing energy dominance.” Environmental protection of communities is not listed as a pillar. 

AI capital of the world. Energy dominance. Those are the priorities. The community in Georgia watching their well go dry. The family in North Carolina whose water pressure dropped. The Nashville Zoo worried about its tigers. Not the priorities.

🗺️ SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOUR COMMUNITY?

Here is the direct, honest answer to what Zeldin’s announcement means for every American community with a data center near it — or coming to it:

You are the last line of defense. Your city council. Your county commissioners. Your state legislature. Your petition. Your vote.

The federal government has officially left the building.

While there are technologies and practices that reduce air pollution and water usage, Zeldin said states and communities know what works best for them — leaving all environmental oversight entirely to local and state authorities. 

Some states are rising to the challenge. New York passed a moratorium. Illinois suspended tax breaks. North Carolina is debating protections for its aquifers. Utah passed a first-in-the-nation water transparency law.

But many states — particularly in the South and Midwest where the most aggressive data center buildout is happening — have no protections in place. No standards. No transparency laws. No moratoriums. And now, no federal backstop either.

Those communities — often the poorest, the least politically connected, the most rural — are now completely exposed.

🔮 THE BOTTOM LINE

Lee Zeldin stood at a podium in Washington D.C. yesterday and made a decision that will affect every American community targeted by the data center industry for the next several years.

He decided that the federal government’s role is to help Big Tech build — not to protect the people living around what gets built.

He decided that trillion-dollar corporations deserve a streamlined path to construction — and that families worried about their water, their air, and their electricity bills can take their concerns to whatever city council or state legislature will listen.

He decided, in his own words, ten times out of ten — that Washington will not stand between a data center and your community.

Now the question is: will your community stand up for itself?

Because as of yesterday — nobody in Washington D.C. is going to do it for you!

🎩 The Stoic Way ✨

📰 Sources: E&E News / POLITICO Energy Summit — June 10, 2026 (Published Yesterday) | Newsmax — June 10, 2026 | ABC News 4 / The National News Desk — June 10, 2026 | KUTV Salt Lake City — May 2026 | U.S. EPA Official Website — January 2026 Roundtable | Harvard Environmental & Energy Law Program — December 2025

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Hey, @realDonaldTrump—wake up, pay attention—that's not an IQ test they keep making you take. Dude, try to stay awake!

It's a test for dementia! You still there??

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[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

2026 is the first year in 18 years in which there are zero female active duty four-star generals.

Pete Hegseth has been intervening in military promotions & fighting the military’s leaders in firing & denying promotions to women.

The military promotions board – including its Trump-appointed director – selected 31 officers for promotion as “the best qualified officers within their respective competitive category.”

Those 31 included seven women.

Nine total promotions were cancelled by Hegseth: all seven women & two black men. Not one white man was removed.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

One document is all it took to put uranium drills on the Continental Divide Trail.

Not a vote. Not a public hearing. Not an environmental review. One filing.

Because under a law signed by Ulysses S. Grant in 1872 — written to strip-mine the West during the Gold Rush — any company can stake a claim on federal public land, and the burden falls on the government to prove harm. The company just shows up.

Gamma Resources Ltd. showed up in February. Out of Vancouver.

$29 million in debt.

Zero revenue from operations.

Their own auditors have flagged them as a "going concern" — which in financial terms means: we're not sure this company will survive.

They've changed their name twice in just over a year.

And now they have a legal pathway to drill 12 uranium boreholes — up to 500 feet deep — into New Mexico’s Carson National Forest. Directly on the Continental Divide Trail.

In the Chama Basin — the headwaters of the Rio Grande’s largest New Mexico tributary, a watershed that supplies drinking water to over half of New Mexico’s population. More than one million people.

Twenty-three tribes and pueblos. Acequia farmers who have drawn clean water from this basin for over 400 years. Families on shallow wells with no alternative water source.

They've already identified nearly 3 million pounds of "yellowcake" uranium in the ground. They want to start mining by April 2027. They put it in writing, in their own investor pitch: New Mexico’s land is “low-hanging fruit”.

This isn't a loophole. This is the door that was never closed.

The General Mining Act of 1872 still governs hardrock mineral rights — including uranium — on 350 million acres of American public land.

Under it, foreign companies can freely prospect on land held in trust for every American, extract minerals worth billions, pay zero royalties to the government, and aren't even required to disclose how much they take or what it's worth.

It has never been fundamentally reformed. Not once in 154 years.

The 1872 Mining Act itself requires no reclamation bond. Zero.

No legal requirement to guarantee cleanup. No financial assurance that the land will ever be restored. Nothing.

The current administration's "Energy Dominance" orders made it worse — declaring uranium a national priority and signaling to the industry that federal land was open for business. Gamma Resources did the math and liked what they saw.

New Mexico's entire congressional delegation has demanded a full environmental review and is drafting legislation to withdraw the Chama watershed from all mineral development.

The Continental Divide Trail Coalition has raised the alarm. The Forest Service still hasn't decided if this even requires a full review.

A 154-year-old law. A foreign company with no revenue. A watershed tended for centuries by people who were here long before any of this was possible.

How is a law written for the
Gold Rush
in 1872 —

still deciding the fate of our
Public Lands
in 2026?

#DemsUnited

[Covie @covie_93]

They literally met in the Situation Room to come up with a defense for the President of the United States raping children.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history.

It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump."

https://t.co/YSuFldfj70

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr has cut Alzheimers research.

Alzheimers.

One of the most devastating, urgent and increasing health problems we face today.

He's not interested.

He's a nasty piece of work.