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[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

I told you they were coming for the Roadless Rule.

Yesterday, Republicans made their move — and they hid it inside a wildfire bill.

Here's what makes this so enraging:

59 million acres of America's wildest national forests are now on the table.

The 2001 Roadless Rule has protected nearly 60 million acres across 39 states for 25 years. No logging. No road construction. No drilling. No mining.

Built after 1.6 million Americans showed up — at 430 public hearings nationwide — to demand it.

What lives here: bald eagles, elk, black bears, Cerulean warblers, marbled murrelets. Species that need large, intact, unfragmented habitat to survive. For many of them, roadless forests aren't just home — they're the last places left.

What the amendment does: guts the rule. Opens the backcountry to logging and road construction under the cover of "fire prevention."

The administration is pursuing repeal through the executive branch at the same time. And unlike the original rule — they aren't holding a single public hearing.

1.6 million people showed up to protect these forests.
The administration isn't asking anyone this time.

What do you call a wildfire bill that opens forests instead of protecting them?

#DemsUnited

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

The Trump administration is paying back its fossil fuel donors with someone else’s money: yours.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: This Is A Pretty Stunning "I Told You So."

A year ago, Sen. Alex Padilla warned that Los Angeles was being used as a testing ground for Trump's immigration crackdown.

Most people dismissed it.

Now Padilla says the same tactics have spread city by city across America.

Washington.

Chicago.

Portland.

Minneapolis.

And others.

Then came his bigger warning.

The highly publicized street operations may be fading from the headlines, but he says the crackdown has simply moved behind closed doors into detention facilities and immigration proceedings.

First came Los Angeles.

Then came the expansion.

According to Padilla, the test run became national policy.

[TheSteadyState @steadystate2025]

Mullin is lying. He says ICE is taking “the worst of the worst” off the street. The data says otherwise. TRAC found 70% of people in ICE detention had no criminal conviction, and Cato says only 6% booked into detention in 2026 had a violent conviction. This is propaganda, nothing else.

https://t.co/IdXAgjr0xG

https://t.co/j1ERAbfisi

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 The White House May Have Just Confirmed The Most Important Part Of The Epstein Story Without Meaning To.

New reporting comes out.

The response isn't:

"None of this happened."

The response is:

"Find the leaker."

Think about the logic.

If officials are launching a leak probe, they're looking for people inside the administration who spoke to reporters.

That means they're treating the conversations as real.

[Dr. Smith @Mrbandot1]

@YourAnonNews I can’t believe I am saying this, I agree with Eric Trump, his daddy has Never Used Intelligence once during his administration.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[ABC News @ABC]

A lawsuit has been filed seeking to block the event scheduled for this weekend on President Trump’s 80th birthday as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations, calling it “deeply corrupt.”

Mary Bruce reports. Read more: https://t.co/wDyaqKcQEn

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: We didn't know it, but we've all been trusting our lives to the restraint of whoever the president might be. And now we have a president who is completely unrestrained. And so the only answer to that is a functioning Congress.

It turns out we do not have a functioning Congress. The House of Representatives is not representative. One of the most important organs of our democracy is not democratic.

They say, "Oh, no. We're not manipulating the map to disempower black people. We're manipulating the map to disempower Democrats who happen to be black people.”

So, the time has come to make it impossible to manipulate the map for any reason and just have fair maps.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! MSNBC's Ari Melber exposes the Trump administration's massive panic over the Epstein files.

Instead of denying the NYT report that they misused the Situation Room to spin Epstein, Trump launched a massive leak hunt, proving the story is 100% true!

[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.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Fmr. DOJ Prosecutor Brendan Ballou exposes Trump's massive UFC scam. He confirms the administration is selling $1.5M VIP packages for White House cage fights.

Washington is openly using public monuments to generate private profits. Pure corruption!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections.

Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it.

Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win.

(via @LeverNews)

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

MARSHA: “we believe in robust, respectful, bipartisan debate” 🤔

REALITY: @MarshaBlackburn hasn’t held a town hall since 2017 and refuses to debate even her Republican primary opponents 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

“It’s time to wake the fuck up”

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Half of my fellow graduate students when I was getting my PhD were foreign nationals. Do you realize one third of all the Nobel Prizes in sciences won by Americans were won by immigrants to America? If you’re gonna trail the world in practically everything, including your economy, it’s time to wake the fuck up”

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country. 

We could have 13 seats matching the district structure of the federal judiciary, but also a process that makes it less partisan. We cannot have partisan warfare every time there's an opening on the court

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Referring to trump's threat to leave the trashy UFC cage up on the White House lawn, Marco Rubio says "Maybe we'll just host weekly fights between people in politics."

We don't have a Secretary of State, folks. We have a sad, sycophantic clown. 🤡

[Auntie Mame knows trump is a grifter @mgn53]

@PoliticalRICO @NBCNews What a dumb and dishonest comparison. 🤡

[Stephanie ✨Meidas Mighty @Islandgirlpixie]

@NBCNews CORRECTION: He LIED during his confirmation hearings.
STOP SOFT PEDALING IT WHEN THESE PEOPLE INTENTIONALLY LIE TO THE WORLD. He LIED when he said he considered it “settled law.” He lied so he would have a better chance of being put in SCOTUS. He should’ve never been there.