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We are dedicated DOI employees who swore an oath to the constitution to protect the Nation’s natural resources and cultural heritage. Officially *unofficial* account.
Do not approach the wildlife. This bison bites back. #AltGov 🦬
Do not approach the wildlife. This bison bites back. #AltGov 🦬
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· Feb 2
The U.S. Department of the Interior manages and conserves 75% of federal lands in America.
We swore an oath to the constitution to protect the Nation’s natural resources and cultural heritage.
If this administration thinks they can undermine our mission in any way, they are sorely mistaken.
We swore an oath to the constitution to protect the Nation’s natural resources and cultural heritage.
If this administration thinks they can undermine our mission in any way, they are sorely mistaken.
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Help us stand up for our most vulnerable employees! Let DOI and NPS hear your thoughts:
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(Click on the link in the second bullet under the National Park Service heading for the form)
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Contact Interior | U.S. Department of the Interior
How to contact the U.S. Department of the Interior
www.doi.gov
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Help us stand up for our most vulnerable employees! Let DOI and NPS hear your thoughts:
www.doi.gov/contact-us
www.nps.gov/aboutus/cont...
(Click on the link in the second bullet under the National Park Service heading for the form)
www.doi.gov/contact-us
www.nps.gov/aboutus/cont...
(Click on the link in the second bullet under the National Park Service heading for the form)
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First they push 24% of rangers out the door, and tell us we can’t hire anyone to backfill those positions. Then, they tell us to fill those positions with seasonal (temporary) rangers—the positions in the NPS with the least protections.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
First they push 24% of rangers out the door, and tell us we can’t hire anyone to backfill those positions. Then, they tell us to fill those positions with seasonal (temporary) rangers—the positions in the NPS with the least protections.
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DOGE isn’t gone.
Ask any Fed who had a position affected by them.
They’re embedded, in positions where they cannot be fired.
@altssa.altgov.info
@altcdc.altgov.info
@altdoi.altgov.info
@altnih4science.bsky.social
@altfda.altgov.info
And anyone I forgot.
Feel free to chime in for Anna.
Ask any Fed who had a position affected by them.
They’re embedded, in positions where they cannot be fired.
@altssa.altgov.info
@altcdc.altgov.info
@altdoi.altgov.info
@altnih4science.bsky.social
@altfda.altgov.info
And anyone I forgot.
Feel free to chime in for Anna.
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
DOGE isn’t gone.
Ask any Fed who had a position affected by them.
They’re embedded, in positions where they cannot be fired.
@altssa.altgov.info
@altcdc.altgov.info
@altdoi.altgov.info
@altnih4science.bsky.social
@altfda.altgov.info
And anyone I forgot.
Feel free to chime in for Anna.
Ask any Fed who had a position affected by them.
They’re embedded, in positions where they cannot be fired.
@altssa.altgov.info
@altcdc.altgov.info
@altdoi.altgov.info
@altnih4science.bsky.social
@altfda.altgov.info
And anyone I forgot.
Feel free to chime in for Anna.
🦬 I am not kidding when I saw Dems need to start working on RIF language *now* so that new Agency heads can issue RIFs to all lingering DOGEies on day 1 of the next administration.
@naturalresources.bsky.social
@naturalresources.bsky.social
They’re not gone they’ve just been embedded into the higher echelons of our agencies as SES level cronies that are permanent hires without having gone through any actual job training or vetting 😒😒😒
DOGE was nothing short of a catastrophic failure, taking a wrecking ball to everything from cancer research to lifesaving humanitarian aid that will almost certainly lead to millions of preventable deaths.
The real fraud and waste is happening at the White House.
The real fraud and waste is happening at the White House.
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
🦬 I am not kidding when I saw Dems need to start working on RIF language *now* so that new Agency heads can issue RIFs to all lingering DOGEies on day 1 of the next administration.
@naturalresources.bsky.social
@naturalresources.bsky.social
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DOGE investigations and prosecutions are already overdue
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
DOGE investigations and prosecutions are already overdue
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Vought is the 'shadow president', a far-right Christian fascist who co-ran Project 2025 and hates American values of freedom, equality, democracy.
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Vought is the 'shadow president', a far-right Christian fascist who co-ran Project 2025 and hates American values of freedom, equality, democracy.
🦬 Oil bro said he was leaving in August because RIFs were supposed to be implemented by then; since they’re actually wildly illegal, he’s been hanging on by his fingertips hoping to see them through.
Who knows how much longer we’re stuck with him??? 🤡🤡🤡
Who knows how much longer we’re stuck with him??? 🤡🤡🤡
I thought that Hassen was supposed to have left already
(It is hard to keep track of everything)
(It is hard to keep track of everything)
November 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
🦬 Oil bro said he was leaving in August because RIFs were supposed to be implemented by then; since they’re actually wildly illegal, he’s been hanging on by his fingertips hoping to see them through.
Who knows how much longer we’re stuck with him??? 🤡🤡🤡
Who knows how much longer we’re stuck with him??? 🤡🤡🤡
🦬 Speaking of DOGE, I like to keep track of all the original wreckers:
One of whom is Amanda Scales, a Musk lackey who went back to xAI after failing out of DOGE after just six months.
She’s unemployed now. 🤡
One of whom is Amanda Scales, a Musk lackey who went back to xAI after failing out of DOGE after just six months.
She’s unemployed now. 🤡
🦬 “DOGE” no longer exists— its employees have just burrowed into the agencies they were assigned to.
Tyler Hassen. Stephanie Holmes.
⬆️ Just two of the people who need to be RIFed day one of the next administration (assuming they haven’t slunk away of their own accord before then).
Tyler Hassen. Stephanie Holmes.
⬆️ Just two of the people who need to be RIFed day one of the next administration (assuming they haven’t slunk away of their own accord before then).
Trump officials, including the head of OPM, are saying DOGE no longer exists. DOGE as influential entity seems to be done, but some DOGErs are in the National Design Studio and some burrowed into agencies e.g. Big Balls is at Social Security.
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bsky.app/profile/reut...
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
🦬 Speaking of DOGE, I like to keep track of all the original wreckers:
One of whom is Amanda Scales, a Musk lackey who went back to xAI after failing out of DOGE after just six months.
She’s unemployed now. 🤡
One of whom is Amanda Scales, a Musk lackey who went back to xAI after failing out of DOGE after just six months.
She’s unemployed now. 🤡
🦬 “DOGE” no longer exists— its employees have just burrowed into the agencies they were assigned to.
Tyler Hassen. Stephanie Holmes.
⬆️ Just two of the people who need to be RIFed day one of the next administration (assuming they haven’t slunk away of their own accord before then).
Tyler Hassen. Stephanie Holmes.
⬆️ Just two of the people who need to be RIFed day one of the next administration (assuming they haven’t slunk away of their own accord before then).
Trump officials, including the head of OPM, are saying DOGE no longer exists. DOGE as influential entity seems to be done, but some DOGErs are in the National Design Studio and some burrowed into agencies e.g. Big Balls is at Social Security.
bsky.app/profile/reut...
bsky.app/profile/reut...
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
🦬 “DOGE” no longer exists— its employees have just burrowed into the agencies they were assigned to.
Tyler Hassen. Stephanie Holmes.
⬆️ Just two of the people who need to be RIFed day one of the next administration (assuming they haven’t slunk away of their own accord before then).
Tyler Hassen. Stephanie Holmes.
⬆️ Just two of the people who need to be RIFed day one of the next administration (assuming they haven’t slunk away of their own accord before then).
🦬 Two things Elon’s little X experiment (showing users’ locations) has made clear are:
1) There are so many more of us than there are of them.
2) What a world we live in…that making rage bait is the only way some people in developing countries are able to survive.
1) There are so many more of us than there are of them.
2) What a world we live in…that making rage bait is the only way some people in developing countries are able to survive.
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
🦬 Two things Elon’s little X experiment (showing users’ locations) has made clear are:
1) There are so many more of us than there are of them.
2) What a world we live in…that making rage bait is the only way some people in developing countries are able to survive.
1) There are so many more of us than there are of them.
2) What a world we live in…that making rage bait is the only way some people in developing countries are able to survive.
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Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Can we put a stop to corporations and billionaires “winning” at the expense of conservation, wildlife, and climate resilience?
#ConservationOverCorporations
www.doi.gov/pressrelease...
#ConservationOverCorporations
www.doi.gov/pressrelease...
Interior Launches Expansive 11th National Offshore Leasing Program to Advance U.S. Energy Dominance | U.S. Department of the Interior
The Department of the Interior today announced a Secretary’s Order titled “Unleashing American Offshore Energy,” directing the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to take the necessary steps, in accorda...
www.doi.gov
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Can we put a stop to corporations and billionaires “winning” at the expense of conservation, wildlife, and climate resilience?
#ConservationOverCorporations
www.doi.gov/pressrelease...
#ConservationOverCorporations
www.doi.gov/pressrelease...
🦬 The alacrity with which this administration kneecapped federal renewables is infuriating, but also insightful, because it shows that the next Democratic administration can and should do it to oil and gas.
Today the Department of the Interior announced they will hold the six offshore lease sales across off of California. I wrote about Reagan’s Interior Secretary James Watt opening up 80 million acres of offshore waters to oil and gas about a year ago. The last offshore lease in California was 1984.
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
🦬 The alacrity with which this administration kneecapped federal renewables is infuriating, but also insightful, because it shows that the next Democratic administration can and should do it to oil and gas.
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day when we honor the memory of those killed simply for being.
Violence comes from weapons & fists just as it can come from ink on paper.
Today, I remember Elisa Rae Shupe, a veteran lost to anti-trans policies.
"Love recognizes no barriers.” Maya Angelou
Violence comes from weapons & fists just as it can come from ink on paper.
Today, I remember Elisa Rae Shupe, a veteran lost to anti-trans policies.
"Love recognizes no barriers.” Maya Angelou
"You cannot erase non-binary and transgender people because you give birth to more of us each day." - Elisa Rae Shupe 🏳️⚧️
I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day when we honor the memory of those killed simply for being.
Violence comes from weapons & fists just as it can come from ink on paper.
Today, I remember Elisa Rae Shupe, a veteran lost to anti-trans policies.
"Love recognizes no barriers.” Maya Angelou
Violence comes from weapons & fists just as it can come from ink on paper.
Today, I remember Elisa Rae Shupe, a veteran lost to anti-trans policies.
"Love recognizes no barriers.” Maya Angelou
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I couldn’t wait for #AltTacoTunesday to share this link to Jesse Welles performing his song “Join ICE” on Colbert especially after spotting this ICE add on LinkedIn yesterday.
Signing bonuses, & that big, huh? Just last week we couldn’t pay SNAP benefits. 🤔
youtu.be/61I4hlig78w?...
Signing bonuses, & that big, huh? Just last week we couldn’t pay SNAP benefits. 🤔
youtu.be/61I4hlig78w?...
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I couldn’t wait for #AltTacoTunesday to share this link to Jesse Welles performing his song “Join ICE” on Colbert especially after spotting this ICE add on LinkedIn yesterday.
Signing bonuses, & that big, huh? Just last week we couldn’t pay SNAP benefits. 🤔
youtu.be/61I4hlig78w?...
Signing bonuses, & that big, huh? Just last week we couldn’t pay SNAP benefits. 🤔
youtu.be/61I4hlig78w?...
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Please comment on the proposed changes to promote big energy over endangered species.
www.regulations.gov/document/FWS...
www.regulations.gov/document/FWS...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Please comment on the proposed changes to promote big energy over endangered species.
www.regulations.gov/document/FWS...
www.regulations.gov/document/FWS...
📢🦬 Since “the most transparent” administration axed the 2025 FEVS, @ourpublicservice.bsky.social has stepped up to fill the void.
Fellow feds, please take the survey and share with your colleagues. Our opinions matter!
Fellow feds, please take the survey and share with your colleagues. Our opinions matter!
Are you a current federal employee? In the absence of the 2025 FEVS, we created the Public Viewpoint Survey to assess today's federal employee view on their jobs and workplaces.
Have your voice heard. Complete the survey today. ➡️ ourpublicservice.org/PSVS
Have your voice heard. Complete the survey today. ➡️ ourpublicservice.org/PSVS
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
📢🦬 Since “the most transparent” administration axed the 2025 FEVS, @ourpublicservice.bsky.social has stepped up to fill the void.
Fellow feds, please take the survey and share with your colleagues. Our opinions matter!
Fellow feds, please take the survey and share with your colleagues. Our opinions matter!
🦬 “Interior largely rolled out its consolidation effort on paper only and without overhauling operations in any practical way.”
…Pay us money so nothing changes. Can confirm this is true — when I lost my local IT Specialist I asked what the biggest change was and they replied, “My email address.”
…Pay us money so nothing changes. Can confirm this is true — when I lost my local IT Specialist I asked what the biggest change was and they replied, “My email address.”
🧵1/2
The Bureau level staff across DOI in HR, IT, Communications & Contracts who were “consolidated” to the Department level back in May(!) continue to be in a bizarre limbo and the Bureaus are being bullied into funding staff & “fees” while having their resources taken away.
The Bureau level staff across DOI in HR, IT, Communications & Contracts who were “consolidated” to the Department level back in May(!) continue to be in a bizarre limbo and the Bureaus are being bullied into funding staff & “fees” while having their resources taken away.
Doug Burgum is charging Interior Department agencies a premium to subsume their employees
The Interior Department's consolidation efforts is coming with a cost to National Parks and other components of the agency.
www.govexec.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
🦬 “Interior largely rolled out its consolidation effort on paper only and without overhauling operations in any practical way.”
…Pay us money so nothing changes. Can confirm this is true — when I lost my local IT Specialist I asked what the biggest change was and they replied, “My email address.”
…Pay us money so nothing changes. Can confirm this is true — when I lost my local IT Specialist I asked what the biggest change was and they replied, “My email address.”
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The bill prohibits the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from transferring publicly accessible federal land—or land directly contiguous to it—to any non-federal entity.
#publiclands #protectpubliclands #publiclandsinpublichands
#publiclands #protectpubliclands #publiclandsinpublichands
"Public Lands in Public Lands Act" Receives Formal Endorsement From the House Public Lands Caucus
The bill would prevent the Interior and Agriculture secretaries from selling or transferring federal public lands
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November 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The bill prohibits the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from transferring publicly accessible federal land—or land directly contiguous to it—to any non-federal entity.
#publiclands #protectpubliclands #publiclandsinpublichands
#publiclands #protectpubliclands #publiclandsinpublichands
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Look West: Parks crawl back online after shutdown
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November 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Look West: Parks crawl back online after shutdown
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‘Our mission is to change the world through eco-cultural tourism’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
‘Our mission is to change the world through eco-cultural tourism’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
www.hcn.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
‘Our mission is to change the world through eco-cultural tourism’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
🦬 I’m glad the House and Senate passed the Epstein Files Transparanecy Act, but a general reminder that this administration is anything *but* transparent.
Remember when a court ordered DOI to submit its RIF plans, and they submitted 64 pages of redactions instead?
I remember.
Remember when a court ordered DOI to submit its RIF plans, and they submitted 64 pages of redactions instead?
I remember.
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
🦬 I’m glad the House and Senate passed the Epstein Files Transparanecy Act, but a general reminder that this administration is anything *but* transparent.
Remember when a court ordered DOI to submit its RIF plans, and they submitted 64 pages of redactions instead?
I remember.
Remember when a court ordered DOI to submit its RIF plans, and they submitted 64 pages of redactions instead?
I remember.
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Danny is a Marine veteran + a dedicated federal worker. Veterans make up about 30% of the federal workforce, & many public services provide healthcare + benefits for those who served our country. This Veterans Day, we recommit to serving those who’ve served us — with fairness, dignity, & respect.
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Danny is a Marine veteran + a dedicated federal worker. Veterans make up about 30% of the federal workforce, & many public services provide healthcare + benefits for those who served our country. This Veterans Day, we recommit to serving those who’ve served us — with fairness, dignity, & respect.