Glonzo the Great and Powerful
@snarkranger.bsky.social
park ranger-bureaucrat in Darkest Nevada, telling stories about America's public lands. Volunteer EMT, wildfire PIO, Draymond stan, erstwhile racing flack, forever believing in the better angels of our nature. opinions are mine. 🏳️🌈
Could have been worse. Problem is, the administration can just ignore the staffing mandate...
Update: While this Senate appropriations bill will not cut funding or staffing from parks, it does strip key language affirming that national parks must remain federal lands. This removes an important guardrail preventing the selloff of national parks. www.npca.org/articles/112...
Senate Rejects Devastating National Park Funding and Staffing Cuts but Leaves Door Open to Future Threats
“NPCA and park advocates across the country have been sounding the alarm on the need for park funding and staffing for months, and Congress listened." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
www.npca.org
January 6, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Could have been worse. Problem is, the administration can just ignore the staffing mandate...
America250 is dead to me.
Watched the America250 projection on the Washington Monument tonight. Mentioned: Columbus, Ford, Edison, Lewis & Clark, both World Wars, AI. Not mentioned: The Civil War, Lincoln, Native Americans, immigration, slavery, race, civil rights, MLK, Vietnam, or any woman.
January 6, 2026 at 3:32 AM
America250 is dead to me.
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It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
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another example of our incredibly weird status quo - this happened, the cops couldn't actually charge her, and she's been confirmed as released
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 6, 2026 at 2:13 AM
another example of our incredibly weird status quo - this happened, the cops couldn't actually charge her, and she's been confirmed as released
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Here. I wrote about American threats against Greenland and the fate of NATO.
othermeans.io/p/the-next-g...
othermeans.io/p/the-next-g...
The Next Great Crisis
Greenland and the Fate of NATO
othermeans.io
January 6, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Here. I wrote about American threats against Greenland and the fate of NATO.
othermeans.io/p/the-next-g...
othermeans.io/p/the-next-g...
woke up, took a shower, got my uniform on, rammed my right little toe into the bedframe hard enough to twist it 45 degrees off-axis. ow. reduced and taped it, drove 100 miles to the clinic in Delta, and yup, it's broke.
so, how did your morning go?
so, how did your morning go?
January 5, 2026 at 8:24 PM
woke up, took a shower, got my uniform on, rammed my right little toe into the bedframe hard enough to twist it 45 degrees off-axis. ow. reduced and taped it, drove 100 miles to the clinic in Delta, and yup, it's broke.
so, how did your morning go?
so, how did your morning go?
When political historians look back on this time in our history, they're gonna call it the Years of Lead(brained).
what's up with Gen X though
I find this question from YouGov interesting for the perhaps unexpectedly smaller differences by demographics in contrast to politics.
Survey from end of last month.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
Survey from end of last month.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
January 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
When political historians look back on this time in our history, they're gonna call it the Years of Lead(brained).
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Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
January 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
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if you want the Senate to do something, Senate Republicans must do something.
People are dunking on this but I'm not really sure what plays Schumer has other than to try to peel off Rs.
People are dunking on this but I'm not really sure what plays Schumer has other than to try to peel off Rs.
Schumer: "Republicans must -- if there was ever a time, they must step up to the plate. This is the time. And if they don't, they're gonna feel the heat from their constituents."
January 5, 2026 at 4:36 PM
if you want the Senate to do something, Senate Republicans must do something.
People are dunking on this but I'm not really sure what plays Schumer has other than to try to peel off Rs.
People are dunking on this but I'm not really sure what plays Schumer has other than to try to peel off Rs.
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people were furious at establishment dems in pa endorsing lamb. many cases to criticize the dems but fetterman is on the base (me included)
Anyone who believes in democracy needs to renounce Fetterman. And the Democratic Party needs to vet its candidates better.
Fetterman on Fox & Friends: "America is a force of good, order, and democracy. And we are promoting these kinds of values. We are the good guys."
January 5, 2026 at 1:53 PM
people were furious at establishment dems in pa endorsing lamb. many cases to criticize the dems but fetterman is on the base (me included)
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"Give me one good reason why the US military shouldn't just be a bunch of gangsters?'.
Remember this guy is a serving Army Lt Colonel, elevated into a job in the Secretary of Defense's office
Remember this guy is a serving Army Lt Colonel, elevated into a job in the Secretary of Defense's office
Dort possesses a toddler’s understanding of national security. @mikeblack114.bsky.social @sharonk.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
"Give me one good reason why the US military shouldn't just be a bunch of gangsters?'.
Remember this guy is a serving Army Lt Colonel, elevated into a job in the Secretary of Defense's office
Remember this guy is a serving Army Lt Colonel, elevated into a job in the Secretary of Defense's office
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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
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When I said last year that the average American MAGA supporter closely resembles a Russian vatnik in both mindset and ideology, I meant it seriously.
January 5, 2026 at 5:01 AM
When I said last year that the average American MAGA supporter closely resembles a Russian vatnik in both mindset and ideology, I meant it seriously.
wide right yuengling light
January 5, 2026 at 4:36 AM
wide right yuengling light
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my strongest social media belief is that threads isn’t real
January 5, 2026 at 4:25 AM
my strongest social media belief is that threads isn’t real
Baltimore be like thank you Pittsburgh for leaving a receiver wide open, now it's your turn 😊
January 5, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Baltimore be like thank you Pittsburgh for leaving a receiver wide open, now it's your turn 😊
Karl apparently believes that we only need to mercilessly harass a couple poasters who have slightly different views of how best to implement left-of-center policies, and then the working-class masses will unite in proletarian revolution.
man, these people can get the fuck out of our movement.
man, these people can get the fuck out of our movement.
January 5, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Karl apparently believes that we only need to mercilessly harass a couple poasters who have slightly different views of how best to implement left-of-center policies, and then the working-class masses will unite in proletarian revolution.
man, these people can get the fuck out of our movement.
man, these people can get the fuck out of our movement.
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The one funny thing with this is karl tries to poast like he's some pipe smoking big brained academic when he's barely a third of a way through a BA
(he also gets very mad and will put you on one of his many dumb blocklists when you point this out, which honestly is doing you a favor)
(he also gets very mad and will put you on one of his many dumb blocklists when you point this out, which honestly is doing you a favor)
January 5, 2026 at 2:51 AM
The one funny thing with this is karl tries to poast like he's some pipe smoking big brained academic when he's barely a third of a way through a BA
(he also gets very mad and will put you on one of his many dumb blocklists when you point this out, which honestly is doing you a favor)
(he also gets very mad and will put you on one of his many dumb blocklists when you point this out, which honestly is doing you a favor)
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One thing that I’ve discovered is that there’s a kind of leftist that believes anyone who contradicts what they say should be first against the wall for slighting their ideology and it’s made me better understand how revolutions end up like that once in power
January 5, 2026 at 2:38 AM
One thing that I’ve discovered is that there’s a kind of leftist that believes anyone who contradicts what they say should be first against the wall for slighting their ideology and it’s made me better understand how revolutions end up like that once in power
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its incredible to read how the regime has to do a hard sell on the oil companies for this. president grandpas 1989 brain does it again. oil is 50 dollars a barrel and the infrastructure is degraded and the situation completely confused and politically volatile. oil ceos not exactly excited. amazing
whatever the real reason for this was by the smart guys, the stated reason for the addled moron in charge is oil. and that's darkly funny considering we don't need it
January 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
its incredible to read how the regime has to do a hard sell on the oil companies for this. president grandpas 1989 brain does it again. oil is 50 dollars a barrel and the infrastructure is degraded and the situation completely confused and politically volatile. oil ceos not exactly excited. amazing
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taking this stupid, tortured analogy seriously for a moment, the american people gave the republican party an exclusive two-year contract to handle extermination duties. you're mad at the exterminator you didn't hire because they're not doing the job you hired someone else to do.
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 4, 2026 at 6:23 PM
taking this stupid, tortured analogy seriously for a moment, the american people gave the republican party an exclusive two-year contract to handle extermination duties. you're mad at the exterminator you didn't hire because they're not doing the job you hired someone else to do.
Good article but a terrible pull quote.
The real news here is that Trump threatened to murder Delcy Rodriguez and land troops in Greenland.
The real news here is that Trump threatened to murder Delcy Rodriguez and land troops in Greenland.
NEW: In a phone call this morning, I asked President Trump why Venezuelan regime change was different from Iraq. “I didn’t do Iraq. That was Bush. You’ll have to ask Bush that question, because we should have never gone into Iraq," he told me. Here is the story: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Trump: Delcy Rodríguez Might Be Next
The president told The Atlantic that the interim Venezuelan president will meet a fate worse than Maduro’s unless she complies with U.S. wishes.
www.theatlantic.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Good article but a terrible pull quote.
The real news here is that Trump threatened to murder Delcy Rodriguez and land troops in Greenland.
The real news here is that Trump threatened to murder Delcy Rodriguez and land troops in Greenland.
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This is the journalism equivalent of a toddler saying, "Look, Mommy, I made a poop."
The essence of this article is that a NY Times reporter called Trump’s cellphone at 4:30am and that Trump answered the call but said nothing of importance, other than wait for the press conference.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/i...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/i...
Why I Cold-Called President Trump at 4:30 in the Morning
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:37 PM
This is the journalism equivalent of a toddler saying, "Look, Mommy, I made a poop."
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What if we made the whole foreign policy out of special ops
January 4, 2026 at 3:20 PM
What if we made the whole foreign policy out of special ops
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Oh my god he admit it
A former staffer said that U.S. officials would not be performing a formal occupation like in Iraq. “We’re going to tell them: ‘Hey, this is what you have to do in order for there not to be another strike. That’s what [Trump] sees as running the country.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio takes on most challenging role yet: Viceroy of Venezuela
The top U.S. diplomat has pushed for regime change for over a decade. Now the hard part begins.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Oh my god he admit it