Childless Cat Lady

Daughter | Sister | Paralegal | Cat Mom to Joie and Jasper

[Childless Cat Lady @sophernick]

@WhiteHouse More like swamp view

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Google is evil
Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers
They have nowhere else to go after Google destroyed their forest home
Authorities will now probably shoot the wolves

https://t.co/c1TFOxtZQ0

[Childless Cat Lady @sophernick]

Well if this isn’t a perfect metaphor for the ages…

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Pete Hegseth demanded his team to bring Eisenhower's globe in his office, despite warnings that only historians should move the iconic globe.

His staff dropped it and broke it.

[Childless Cat Lady @sophernick]

@atrupar Ya no shit Sherlock

[Prof. Paul Brown, PhD @pbrown4348]

Scientists Urge Consumers to Stop Buying Products Made From Antarctic Krill. A new global boycott comes as major retailers withdraw krill products from their shelves to protect whales and other marine life. https://t.co/CEzp30cET7

[Jared Shult @jared_shult]

Grindr already exists

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Huge factory ships are taking the Krill in Antarctica that whales, penguins, seals and seabirds depend on to survive
Krill is used to feed farmed fish and for Omega-3 supplements and pet food
BAN KRILL PRODUCTS NOW and do not buy them please https://t.co/thCQRTEE3H

[Childless Cat Lady @sophernick]

@donkoclock Shoulda just let him keep on keeping on

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Burgum is pushing another federal land swap at Cumberland Island National Seashore in Georgia, just like the one at Yosemite.

Both use the same move: hand federal park land to private interests, funded in part by the Land and Water Conservation Fund, money meant for conservation.

Two wealthy families want to trade land with the Park Service so they can build up to 15 private homes, some up to 15,000 sq ft, inside wilderness Congress said in 1972 must stay "permanently preserved in its primitive state."

It's loggerhead sea turtle nesting ground, home to 30% of Georgia's total, plus four other protected sea turtle species, red knots, and piping plovers. A watchdog group had to FOIA the draft deed terms just to see them. Georgia's own Camden County Commission wouldn't endorse the deal.

A former Yosemite superintendent called that deal "so ridiculous, it makes you sick."

Here's the mechanism. The Land and Water Conservation Fund exists specifically to buy and protect public land, funded by offshore oil and gas royalties, as an environmental offset for that drilling. Burgum's Interior has been trying to redirect that same money away from buying conservation land and toward "deferred maintenance" instead. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) says that diversion is illegal and expects it to get sued over.

So the fund meant to protect land from exactly this kind of loss is being hollowed out, then tapped again to help pay private developers to take park land in the first place.

This isn't one bad deal. It's a pattern. How many other national parks does this admin have waiting in the pipeline, ready to be sliced off to private interests?

Tell NPS this shouldn't move forward funded by conservation dollars it was never meant to touch. We don't have much time. Link is in the first reply.

#DemsUnited

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump's D.C. Chainsaw Massacre: Over 500 Historic Trees Gutted to Build a Millionaire's Golf Course

Donald Trump has begun actively destroying hundreds of trees in Washington, D.C., and the lack of mainstream coverage is absolutely criminal.

Please scream this from the rooftops and spread the word immediately! These aren't dead, dying, or invasive trees — these are perfectly healthy, decades-old oak and maple trees that are being brutally clear-cut. This disturbing footage from Rick Maese at The Washington Post exposes the truth: the Trump administration is massacring upwards of 500 healthy, historic trees at the East Potomac Golf Course.

But honestly, why are we surprised? This is just the latest chapter in Trump's complete and utter disregard for our nation's historic capital. It follows the exact same playbook as his shocking demolition of the White House East Wing, and the disastrous, botched "renovations" of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that left an iconic American landmark falling apart and peeling. To make matters even more sickening, they've even been dumping toxic debris from the demolished East Wing right onto this very public parkland!

The National Park Service is trying to gaslight the public by claiming this ecological disaster is just routine maintenance, but we know the truth: they are gutting public land to build a glitzy, exclusive championship golf course. Residents across the city are rightfully furious and disgusted. Witnessing 500+ majestic trees being ripped out of the ground is an absolute horror show for the people living in this city.

Do not let them slide on this. Share this everywhere, expose this environmental atrocity, and follow for updates.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.

[Childless Cat Lady @sophernick]

Again, where the fuck is Congress?

#whereiscongress

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something

[Childless Cat Lady @sophernick]

@Acyn The science of shitty haircuts?

[Childless Cat Lady @sophernick]

This man is severely sick and depraved.

Where the fuck is Congress? 😡🤬

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The Bureau of Land Management approved blasting through 100-foot canyon walls at the entrance to the world's longest art gallery. So oil tankers can drive through it.

Nine Mile Canyon, Utah holds more than 10,000 cultural, historical and archaeological resources, including over 1,000 known rock art sites containing more than 10,000 individual images. People have used this canyon for at least 8,000 years.

The blasting happens in Gate Canyon, the entrance corridor into that gallery. Federal surveys have already found 47 historic sites along this one stretch of road alone. And it's not only the rock art. Threatened Mexican spotted owls use cliff habitat in the canyon, including areas near the proposed blasting. BLM did the minimum environmental review required and barreled ahead anyway, to move oil out of the Uinta Basin faster. Up to 1,000 vehicles a day, roughly half of them heavy tankers.

This isn't BLM's first swing at this road. Duchesne County tried the same realignment in 2015 and again in 2022. Both times, public opposition killed it. This time, BLM posted it quietly in March with no public notice, denied conservation groups' request to even weigh in, and approved it in April anyway.

It's the same playbook that just got this administration stopped at Big Bend National Park, except "stopped" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. There, a judge halted construction October 2nd, but only after bulldozers had already torn through the park’s grounds. A win in court doesn't un-crush what's already crushed.

Three groups sued over Gate Canyon this week. But a lawsuit takes months. A blasting crew takes days.

#DemsUnited 🧵

[Childless Cat Lady @sophernick]

@catoftoday Can I have this one?

[Childless Cat Lady @sophernick]

@washingtonsun

[Childless Cat Lady @sophernick]

@sarperduman such a beautiful chonk 😻

[Childless Cat Lady @sophernick]

now watch the jenius change our damn name to justify this egregious mistake

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

The Golden Age of “Super Intelligence.”

[Childless Cat Lady @sophernick]

@atrupar Hey @NEWSMAX now interview @ErinBrockovich. We dare you.