shannon o’hehir

[shannon o’hehir @shannonoooooooo]

@backupweenie Same!

[shannon o’hehir @shannonoooooooo]

@taylr GETITTTT

[shannon o’hehir @shannonoooooooo]

@financeguy725 Sending this to Jack. He eats cereal lmao

[shannon o’hehir @shannonoooooooo]

@SouthPark @AaronParnas Lmao

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Big Bend has the darkest measured night sky in the entire lower 48.

The kind of dark you can't get back once you start cutting roads and putting up lights.

I’m sure you saw that contractors started clearing land near Santa Elena Canyon this weekend. Mariscal Mountain is next.

Willow and mesquite trees that stood for generations, gone. Habitat for the yellow-billed cuckoo, a threatened species, gone with them.

Reports on the ground say pottery shards were found during construction this weekend. They say the National Park Service hasn't been allowed to inspect the site.

No archaeological survey was done before this started. DHS has waived dozens of environmental and historic protection laws to fast-track this project. Big Bend holds an estimated 26,000 archaeological sites, most never surveyed. Nobody knows what's underneath those roads until it's already gone.

Contractors have drilled water wells across the region to support this construction. The Rio Grande, the park's only real water source, is already stretched thin by drought. NPS itself says the river is "hanging only by a thread."

Here's who's cashing in. DHS waived the rules that normally make companies compete for these contracts. Almost $14 billion in new Texas wall contracts went out. Nearly three quarters of it went to just two companies.

Barnard Construction. Fisher Sand & Gravel.

Barnard's chairman personally donated $1 million to Trump's campaign fund in 2024. His company has pulled in $5.6 billion in border contracts since, nearly $2 billion for Big Bend alone.

Fisher Sand & Gravel is run by Tommy Fisher, a longtime Trump ally and GOP donor. His company has landed over $2 billion in border wall contracts. He was also tied to the "We Build the Wall" scheme, whose leaders, including Steve Bannon, were later convicted of fraud.

The crew bulldozing Santa Elena Canyon this weekend, Southwest Valley Constructors, got their $1.7 billion contract through that same no-bid process.

DHS isn't answering for any of it, and it's waiving every law in the book to keep building. Abbott is the one staying silent while bipartisan Texas lawmakers from his own party beg him to intervene.

And they're doing this to stop crossings that barely happen. Big Bend logged 9,624 encounters over the last three fiscal years. One single sector on our northern border with Canada, Swanton, logged more than double that.

$1.7 billion, to stop something that happens this rarely.

The mountains and canyons already are the biggest deterrent.
They're already the wall here.

🦋HumanityUnited #DemsUnited

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

As temperatures rise, “America is making a concerted effort to make the problem worse as fast as it possibly can,” argues environmentalist Bill McKibben.

“We've shut down wind farms that are 90% finished off the Atlantic seaboard, put the federal land off-limits to solar panels, done every possible thing we could to buck up 18th century energy technology.”

[Adriana Porter Felt @__apf__]

every city name in California has three ways to pronounce it:
(1) the Spanish way
(2) the way an English speaker would pronounce it if they hadn't heard the name before
(3) the way locals actually pronounce it, which is neither of the previous two. like San Rafell and Beneesha

[shannon o’hehir @shannonoooooooo]

@GovPressOffice Fuckin why

[Berwyn Choobs @sabatonfan69]

The meeting lasted 15 minutes

[Rebecca Tan @rebtanhs]

Thailand is one of the first ag countries to enter a planting season since the Iran war. We went to document the impact of supply shocks to fuel/fertilizer — It was worse than I anticipated.

Farmers are leaving huge tracts of land barren bc they can’t afford to plant.

[Wilson Ricks @wilson_ricks]

Seems to be flying enormously under the radar that Trump has banned wind power in the United States. A full 10% of our electricity. Just imagine if another administration did this extrajudicially to any other industry.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[shannon o’hehir @shannonoooooooo]

PREACH

[Tom Steyer @TomSteyer]

So let me get this straight: PG&E has $10 million to spend against me in the governor’s race, but can’t afford to cut your electricity bills?

[shannon o’hehir @shannonoooooooo]

@drvolts When is CA fire safety code going require utility companies to update their infrastructure to prevent fires? A huge amount of undue pressure is being placed on homeowners even tho utility co’s are responsible for over half of the most devastating fires in CA history.

[barney @barneyxbt]

let me make sure i’m understanding this correctly

the supreme court is refunding all tariff money back to corporations.

the same corporations that didn’t pay a single cent of those tariffs to begin with.

they passed every dollar directly to you through higher prices on everything you buy

you went to the store and paid more for groceries. you paid more for clothes. for car parts. for literally everything.

that money came out of YOUR pocket not theirs

and now the refund goes to THEM?

the corporations who used the tariffs as an excuse to raise prices even higher than the tariff itself and pocket the difference

the american people funded the tariffs.

the corporations profited off the tariffs.

and now the corporations get a refund on money they never spent in the first place
and nobody in washington thinks the people who actually paid should get the money back.

not a single person has even suggested it

guess we are never getting our DOGE checks either

this country does not work for you.

it works for them. it’s a joke

and they’re not even pretending anymore

[Natural Resources Democrats @NRDems]

🚨Republicans just voted 50-49 to hand the Boundary Waters to a foreign mining company that will pollute its headwaters & ship every last mineral to China.

Now it goes to Trump's desk, who has financial ties to the billionaire behind the deal. They're not even pretending anymore.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Loss of millions of acres of ancient forests will bring death and destruction
Not just to birds and wildlife who will perish without a home
But to people too as land will dry up and rivers become even more polluted without these billions of Trees
American people must stop this

[Oxygen @Oxygen_Token]

Tongass National Forest spans ~16.7 million acres, making it the largest national forest in the U.S. It contains one of the world’s largest remaining intact temperate rainforests.

Old growth stands can be 500 to 800+ years old and store significantly more carbon than younger forests. These ecosystems support salmon runs, brown bears, wolves, and thousands of other species.

Once old growth is removed, it can take centuries to recover its ecological function.
You can cut it in days
You can’t rebuild it in a lifetime

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

The forest service does lots of things, but they're the frontline in fighting wildfires. There is literally no issue Republicans aren't maximally evil on. You cannot hate them enough.

[chels @gremlingardener]

when the trees are gone & the water is no longer clean & our natural resources are depleted & they’re trying to sell us bottled air like the fucking lorax, when nature becomes a luxury & the bees disappear and the food supply dwindles, at least you owned the libs, am I right?!