Joanna Scheffler

Geologist. Educator. Perplexed Tired of hearing 'dumb as a rock'. If you don't speak rock maybe take intro geo at your local community college.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Since taking office, Ken Paxton has become a multi-millionaire while our pay has stagnated.

He owns 11 homes while most Texans can’t afford one.

He trades favors with rich donors while blocking overtime pay for workers.

Paxton doesn’t serve us — he serves himself.

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Not that anybody asked, but the last time the @NYKnicks won a championship, the Periodic Table had 11-percent fewer Elements.

[Jack Miller III @jackUSAmiller]

@factpostnews @LePapillonBlu2 Fucking ghouls!

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Trump is the most corrupt president in US history.

[Congressman Robert Garcia @RepRobertGarcia]

If you think California is taking a while to count votes, wait until you hear how long the Trump Administration is taking to release the Epstein files…

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Scientists at Trump’s EPA say they are being told to make chemical risks “disappear on paper.” Not to study or manage them, but to make them vanish.

When a safety test on a household chemical shows danger, supervisors reportedly ask to keep shrinking the scenario until the poison looks safe.

They have reassigned senior scientists to paperwork and handed life-and-death risk assessments to staff with less experience. They have installed former chemical industry lobbyists to run the very offices that are supposed to regulate the chemical industry.

A gift to industry, paid for with your family’s health.

They are even throwing out research on how certain chemicals hit certain communities harder, calling decades of established science “DEI.”

You can make risk disappear on paper.

The cancer does not disappear.

The birth defects do not disappear.

The infertility does not disappear.

The kids drinking the water and getting sick do not disappear.

The EPA exists to protect people, not to protect the profit margins of the people poisoning them.

Every American deserves to know what is happening. #TrumpMakesUsSick

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[Joanna Scheffler @JoScheff]

@ChristinaHambu4 @Scaramucci ?

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Wharton School of Business!

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

This might sound cynical, but I’ve always wondered why no billionaire has single-handedly used their wealth to fund the eradication of poverty, or reverse climate change just for the narcissistic satisfaction of being able to say they saved humanity.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

Good thing y’all didn’t elect an emotional woman. 😂

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Imagine an underwater Grand Canyon where corals have been growing since before the United States was founded. 🐠

Plunged in total darkness. Untouched. Protected.

Until one signature changed everything.

On February 6, 2026, that's exactly what happened.

The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is bigger than Yellowstone.

Its submarine canyons drop into depths we're still mapping. There are sea creatures here science hasn't even named yet.

It’s underwater mountains — millions of years old, rise from the ocean floor, drawing sperm whales and endangered right whales from miles away.

The cold-water corals living here? Some have been growing for over a thousand years. A trawl net destroys them in seconds. They don't grow back in our lifetimes.

The monument was created in 2016 for one reason — to keep this ecosystem off limits from exactly this kind of destruction.

It worked. Until February.

One person. One signature. Zero public input. No congressional vote. No comment period. Just a proclamation — and a thousand-year-old ecosystem lost its protection overnight.

Proclamation 11009 — "Unleashing American Commercial Fishing in the Atlantic"— erased the ban overnight. Trawl gear, dredges, otter nets. Now permitted inside monument boundaries.

And here's the part that should make you angry — this administration tried this exact move in 2020. Conservation groups sued. They won. Biden restored protections.

Now we're back here.

How many more monuments have to lose their protections before Congress does something? 🐠

#DemsUnited

[Avi Asher-Schapiro @AASchapiro]

Senator Jim Justice is a GOP Senator, a coal baron, and a friend of President Trump.

Earlier this year, his coal company found out it was under criminal investigation for environmental crimes.

But then Todd Blanche's office got involved & told investigators: pencils down.

[Arizona's Politics @AZs_Politics]

🎵All my voters live in A-Z
A-Z is a place I used to love to be
But all my voters live in A-Z
So why'd I hang my hat in Tennessee?

[Joanna Scheffler @JoScheff]

The reckless, ineffective destruction is mind-boggling.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

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.

[Joanna Scheffler @JoScheff]

Hey @DOGE , I'd like to report a govt waste of $358M of paid-for equipment, all because #Donald's extraction industry buddies want to supress uncomfortable climate data, & @RussVought47 & the #Project25 folks don't like ocean/atmosphere data b/c something something Jesus

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

The admin has now awarded $4.3 billion dollars to build border barriers through Big Bend National Park & the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River.

That's enough money to fund the entire National Park Service—all 433 units & 20,000 staff—for almost two years.

But instead, we're gutting funding for America's most popular & trusted government agency (NPS) & handing billions of dollars to contractors so they can permanently scar one of our crown-jewel national parks.

[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

[Joanna Scheffler @JoScheff]

@theliamnissan So if I've had multiple Covid vaxxes, what does that mean?? Did I expire a couple years ago and I just don't realize it??? And therefore, like #Donald, I am now immune to paying taxes???

[Joanna Scheffler @JoScheff]

Although I'm sure the 10B $ were coveted, in the end #Donald got what he wanted from that 1776 Fund nonsense. That is, the freedom to rip off the IRS (and us) to the tune of who knows how many grift $$--

[Joanna Scheffler @JoScheff]

@DarrigoMelanie Funny how the cheerleaders shorts are more "curvacious" than Donald's.