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we post national parks-related stuff, also decent human stuff
that's how we party
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"The time has come for a change."

-- TR's "Conservation as a National Duty" speech, The White House, May 13, 1908

@protectparks.bsky.social @altfws.altgov.info @altdoi.altgov.info @resistancerangers.bsky.social @westernpriorities.org @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social @lincolnproject.us
Hear this, National Park Service? @deptofinterior.bsky.social

Fund the National Park Service budget at 102% of FY2025. Call your Senators and Rep.

#rehirerangers #protectourparks #noparkswithout #publicservants #ourheritageourpride #unitedwestand
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
@heritagefdn.bsky.social rewrites, edits, and erases history with an app that resembles a high-tech snitch sign.

Support #freespeech. Fund the National Park Service budget at 102% of FY2025. Call your reps.

@jmmontpelier.bsky.social @stowecenter.org @emilydickinson.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Yesterday, Senators Heinrich and Sheehy, alongside six other Senators, launched the bipartisan Senate Stewardship Caucus “to advance bipartisan efforts aimed at protecting and expanding access to public lands and waters, recovering wildlife, and restoring habitat.”

#publiclands
Senators Heinrich and Sheehy Launch New Bipartisan Public Lands Caucus
The Senate Stewardship Caucus is a bipartisan effort to protect public lands and waters, wildlife, and habitat
thenationalparksexperience.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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A great suggestion for the Forest Service employees in your life.

Odds are they won’t ask for help, and will try just tough it out by sheer force of will and determination 🤠

Don’t let them do that.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you have friends struggling through the shutdown, consider inviting them over for a family dinner this week. Make too much. Insist they take leftovers home. Some folks can't say they need help out loud but will appreciate the kindness.
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Good morning from week 4 of the #ShutdownShitshow. It’s Shrodinger’s Hatch Act, neither alive nor dead, but furloughed. Guess it’s a good time to get your grift on!
Hatch Act complaints over partisan federal website messages are stalled during shutdown
The Office of Special Counsel’s Hatch Act unit, which handles such complaints, has been furloughed. And the entire Merit Systems Protection Board – where OSC takes cases involving federal employees it...
www.kjzz.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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A furloughed IRS lawyer get his dream. A hot dog cart as performance art. We love it.

What other stories have you seen of people finding joy and connection during these ridiculous times?
Washington lawyer on furlough lives out dream of running a hot dog cart
Isaac Stein makes his living as an attorney for the Internal Revenue Service, working mostly on his own, writing retirement plan regulations in a Washington office building.
www.reuters.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"The time has come for a change."

-- TR's "Conservation as a National Duty" speech, The White House, May 13, 1908

@protectparks.bsky.social @altfws.altgov.info @altdoi.altgov.info @resistancerangers.bsky.social @westernpriorities.org @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social @lincolnproject.us
October 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Call your Senators and Rep!!!
NPS would lose support staff who literally keep the agency running & technical specialists who oversee the protection of our water, land, wildlife, & cultural resources.

AND the cuts aren't just NPS. They're trying to axe people in the Fish & Wildlife Service, BLM, USGS, and many more agencies.
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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House Republicans are heading to their home districts to **avoid** meeting with their constituents.

Please, if you see them or have the chance to engage— be ready.

Tips:
1) Write down 3 points you want to make to be ready.

2) Be polite but forceful.

3) Record it if possible.
July 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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⚠️ While the new bill from the House rejects the admin's most damaging budgetary proposals, it still suggests a $176 million cut to the National Park Service's operations budget. These cuts would force park staff to stretch even more with even less. bit.ly/44MNg6c
Parks Group to Congress: Our National Parks Need More Staff and Funding, Not Less
"Our national parks are among the most unifying and cherished places in the country. They deserve more investment, more protection and more respect than this.” - John Garder, NPCA's Senior Director of...
bit.ly
July 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Care about our natural heritage? Birdwatchers and waterfowl hunters, call your reps. The monitoring of our natural resources is being gutted.

#protectourpubliclands #worthfightingfor #publicservants #ourheritageourpride #unitedwestand #birdwatching #waterfowl #huntinglife #naturephotography
July 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Good morning.

Last night I ranted. A few reflections.

Asking to #DoSomething includes Congress, the courts, and us. My concern is lack of a vision.

This is where we need charismatic leadership to lead the way. Who will that be? Who will help us all use our energy together?
June 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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"Thank You! public servants" in natural resource & parks careers kicks off this summer at parks, national forests and refuges around New England! 💚🏞️

#rehirerangers #protectourparks #nationalparks #noparkswithout #publicservants #saveourpubliclands #ourprideourheritage #unitedwestand #federalworkers
May 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
White Rose Rally! tomorrow, 5/9 Northampton, Mass., in memory of anti-Nazi resistance activist Sophie Scholl, executed by the Gestapo for treason.

www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
White Rose Rally! · Mobilize
May 9th commemorates the White Rose Movement, a student led non-violent resistance group that urged the German people to oppose Hitler and his fascist regime. “We will not be silent,” was the power...
www.mobilize.us
May 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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We got the spork today.

Must accept by April 9, gone by April 18th. Administrative pay for those resigning until September 30. Admin pay for those retiring (optional or VERA/early) until Dec 31.

Some positions are excluded including fire, law enforcement t, permitting, some visitor engagement.
a toy fork is standing in front of a sign that says trash ?
ALT: a toy fork is standing in front of a sign that says trash ?
media.tenor.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
No Kings! Protect Our Parks! Rehire Rangers, Again! rally

www.mobilize.us/indivisible-...

Minute Man NHP 250th anniversary on April 19 at Concord, Massachusetts. Link in bio:

@rangerwoodstock.bsky.social

#rehirerangers #federalworkers #saveourparks #protectourparks #concord #nokings #minutemen
April 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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April 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Something feels different this morning. Could this be where we start to see the tide shift? Between Senator Cory Booker & the Wisconsin election, will our checks and balances start working?

Trump & Musk are not conservatives, they are narcissists.Will Congress stand up for us?

It is time.

#Resist
I spoke to an expert in authoritarianism, who explained to me that things like this are extremely meaningful and they help protect democracy, even if there’s not a straight line between this and actual legislating
Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours

Massive applause for Booker
April 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Let's not signal out anyone but....

DJT's Truth Social post today, because he thinks labor is his friend yet UAW President Shawn Fein's t-shirt says it all. #eattherich #nokings #truthsocial
April 1, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Trump's EO to restore Confederate statues & memorials in public spaces, few were on FEDERAL property where Trump would have direct authority. Military academies & bases had removed depictions: bronze panels at W. Point, R.E. Lee, historical triple-K members and a hooded, named triple-K individual.
March 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM