On World Ranger Day, we celebrate the dedication, courage, and commitment of rangers who protect and care for national parks and protected areas around the world.
Theodore Roosevelt said the national parks were the greatest gift this country ever gave itself, and the greatest idea we ever gave the world.
More than 100 nations copied it.
Donald Trump looks at that gift and sees a piggy bank for his own pet projects.
This week we learned where our national park money has been going. Not to Yellowstone. Not to Yosemite. To the walkway outside his office, where Trump ripped out American flagstone and laid down Italian granite at a cost of $689,000 to taxpayers. He said he paid for it himself.
That was a lie.
To cover his vanity projects, they are robbing the parks. Spending on parks outside Washington is down $854 million. More than 900 projects went unfunded. They even pulled money from a guardrail on a Colorado cliff that the Park Service flagged as a safety hazard.
I serve on Appropriations.
The power to spend belongs to Congress, not to a king redecorating his palace. These parks are not Trump’s to loot.
They belong to all of us, and I will fight for every dollar.
Holy shit. Not only did three Supreme Court justices just rule that the president can change the Constitution with an executive order, but Kavanaugh only upheld birthright citizenship because of a law that was passed in the 1950s.
So four Supreme Court justices are basically arguing that you can change the Constitution through executive decree if you’re a Republican president. How much you wanna bet they wouldn’t let a Democratic president do that?
my husband watches the guardians every single night. without fail. props up his ipad & watches them on the little screen.
i've never seen someone do something so religiously while seemingly hating every single second of it. it's impressive.
Half the cost of Trump's Reflecting Pool renovations is being paid for by National Park entrance fees, money that was previously used for park maintenance and preservation.
I posted these last year and had a thousand chuds in the comments calling me slurs and saying that they would never touch national parks. I’d like to take this moment to say: fuck you.
A gunman killed eight children, ranging in age from 1 to 14 years old, early Sunday in Shreveport, Louisiana, authorities said, describing the incident as a "domestic disturbance."
The incident happened around 6 a.m. local time, according to Shreveport Police Corporal Chris Bordelon, who said the suspect was shot and killed after a police chase.
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With five innings completed, José Ramírez is the only active player to currently lead a franchise in games played.
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