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More screenshots from the grift from July 2018...
Tweets regarding the grift of AltyelloNatPark, all posted on July 18, 2018: "Who the hell was behind th e'legitimizing' interview and then proceed to use Alt credibility to grift off of thousands of followers? This is mini-Trumpism." "Last year, there was a GoFundMe established, ostensibly to hire Earthjustice as counsel to help vulnerable NPS acquire World Heritage Site status over $20K was collected. A check for $10k was offered as 'proof' of proper conduct. Since then the GoFundMe morphed into an incessant call for money to fund a variety of things...including on a 'discovery' in the park. Who is behind the Ominous Ann account, and what nefarious things are going on?"
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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I will never not be mad about this.
I took screenshots of a few things along the journey. This one is from July 2018, during the UNESCO chapter of the grift.
A July 2018 Twitter post from AltYellowstoneNatPark reads: We have a surprise announcement from Ominous Ann in regards to your generous help with our UNESCO initiative gofundme.com/AltParks Win a chance to Meet Ominous Ann and take a free 12 hr tour of Yellowstone with Ann as your guide !!!! The founder of the @AltYelloNatPark twitter account, https://twitter.com/AltYelloNatPark, and driving force behind the "UNESCO action team fund," http://www.gofundme.com/AltParks, is ready to come out of the shadows to save our parks from the auction block. Ann started the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Go Fund Me campaign to achieve the highly coveted World Heritage status for many of our unprotected national parks, monuments, and forests. This honor is reserved for sites throughout the world which represent the most outstanding cultural and natural value to mankind. Already, parks like Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Yellowstone hold the status but many of our national treasures do not. Of the 1,052 sites across the world, only 21 can be found in the United States. Ann hopes to change this. The UNESCO action team fund is currently raising $20,000 to hire a specialized legal team to represent the parks before the World Heritage Committee this summer, and we need your help! In return for each $50 donated, your name will be entered once into a drawing for a free personalized Twelve hour free tour of Yellowstone National Park with Ominous Ann. Donate today at http://www.gofundme.com/AltParks. Together we can block corporate greed, and fight to protect and preserve our parks, our nation, and our legacy. Thank you, and #Resist! Hi, I'm Ominous Ann and I want to first thank our volunteers for that great preamble. Just a couple quick things: the offer is retroactive, so anyone who's already donated S50 or more is already entered, assuming you gave us a way to identify you. Each $50 donation is one chance...
December 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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We the People say 'NO.'
Not every book is right for everyone.
But every book is right for someone.
The Library BoR draws directly from the 1st Amendment.
Parental discretion is a family's right.
Gov't censorship is a violation of the Constitution.
1A protects ALL people's access--even bigots.
Library Bill of Rights: The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services. I. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation. II. Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval. III. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment. IV. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas. V. A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views. VI. Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use. VII. All people, regardless of origin, age, background, or views, possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use. Libraries should advocate for, educate about, and protect people’s privacy, safeguarding all library use data, including personally identifiable information. Adopted June 19, 1939, by the ALA Council; amended October 14, 1944; June 18, 1948; February 2, 1961; June 27, 1967; January 23, 1980; January 29, 2019. Inclusion of “age” reaffirmed January 23, 1996.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Was this the big get you aimed for in surrendering your negotiating power?? The chance to post that 'it's his fault'???
We need heroes, Senator. Those who forge ahead with a vision for the people. Those who lead. This is not leadership.
Screenshot of a post to Threads by Senator Chuck Schumer reads: Trump said yesterday that he would never sign an extension of the ACA enhanced premium tax credits. In the middle of one of the most stressful open enrollment periods ever, Trump tells the American people to drop dead.
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Just went from a household of 5 dogs & 1 cat, to one of 4 dogs & 1 cat😢 The cat had nothing to do w/ that--but in both configs, she rules them all. Collectively, they have abt 110 lbs on her, but that doesn't hold a candle to the psychological game she is running on them. I am embarrassed for them.
A grey, cream, and white, dilute calico cat lies belly down and tail end out, straddling the wide, curved arm of a cream colored couch. Her back legs hang down on either side of it. She looks over her shoulder at something unseen--probably a dog that she is thinking about smacking around.
November 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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I hadn't even seen this.
I cannot imagine what on earth anyone that is not a mentally twisted, morally corrupt up-and-coming trillionaire sees as the good in supporting this horrific regime. They have done NOTHING but punish We the People and gleefully celebrated it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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So is the disappearance of this NPS page on a Japanese historic site in California part of the censoring by the Trump Regime, of information that refers to history they don't want people to know about?
A screenshot of an internet search hit from the National Parks Service reads: "Five Views: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey for California Mr. Hamashita is credited with being one of the first Japanese to commercially fish off San Pedro. He used the boat Columbia, purchased from a disbanded abalone company at White Point. Subsequently, other Japanese and Italians engaged in fishing at Terminal Island. By the summer of 1907, several..." Screenshot of an image of the National Parks page where the link to information on the "Ethnic Historic Site Survey" once existed. Currently, the link brings you to an NPS.gov page with the message "Page not found"...
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I remember those Christmases--& I think I like this. My tree is still old-school mash-up--other than the tinsel that featured heavily in 'olden days'--it's been replaced by a beautiful spiraling ribbon. But somewhere I decided that house & food should be as magic as Disney's Main St at the holidays.
A still from the Disney movie, Lady and the Tramp showing Lady as a puppy, wearing a big red bow as she emerges from a pink and white striped, round gift box. The scene behind her shows it is Christmas--with presents seen under the lower branches of a decorated tree.
November 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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"...that you've got one guy, Mr. Musk owning more wealth than the bottom 52% of the American people.
This statistic is cited a *lot*
There are 330,111,000 people in the United States.

I think it would make a bigger impression if you said:
Musk has more money than 171,657,720 Americans *combined*
November 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Just about everyone in or around this regime has a textbook case of antisocial personality disorder.
It is extraordinary how many thoroughly and consistently awful people crawled out from under their rocks to take part in the destruction of our nation.
Symptoms of antisocial personality disorder include repeatedly: Ignoring right and wrong. Telling lies to take advantage of others. Not being sensitive to or respectful of others. Using charm or wit to manipulate others for personal gain or pleasure. Having a sense of superiority and being extremely opinionated. Having problems with the law, including criminal behavior. A screenshot from Mayo Clinic, showing a list of symptoms of antisocial personality disorder: Being hostile, aggressive, violent or threatening to others. Feeling no guilt about harming others. Doing dangerous things with no regard for the safety of self or others. Being irresponsible and failing to fulfill work or financial responsibilities. A screenshot of a list from Mayo Clinic showing symptoms of antisocial personality disorder: Adults with antisocial personality disorder usually show symptoms of conduct disorder before the age of 15. Symptoms of conduct disorder include serious, ongoing behavior problems, such as: Aggression toward people and animals. Destruction of property. Lying and dishonesty. Theft. Serious violation of rules.
November 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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It's all psychological.
Ppl need only look at the pervasive weakness of the man--his intellect, his fragile ego, his embarrassingly undignified, pathetic daily public tantrums, the unpopularity of his actions, the neediness in his lies, the absurdity of his vile enablers...& act accordingly.
October 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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A Jan 2019 Twitter post reads: It's this. It is always this. Everything comes down to this. The Global Energy Oligarchy, whose control of the world is founded on fossil fuels & rare earth minerals, is the root cause of all the madness. A January 22, 2019 Twitter post reads: We are watching the overt takeover of the #GlobalEnergyOligarchy c They will seek to control all by controlling energy from fossil fuels. They will thwart efforts at developing alt energies by controlling access to Rare Earth Minerals. And they will return us to feudalism. You know what else should be? The legislation, both proposed and enacted, that is dismantling our environmental, public lands, and wildlife protections. They SHOULD be connecting dots: Trump/Russia/GOP/NRA is abt control of Energy. They are building a Global Energy Oligarchy. Mark it.
October 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Never seen the particulars.Holy Moly.
Stateside assignment to Fort Mason in SF was...too much? So he was transferred back to Hollywood! Assigned to '1st Motion Picture Unit" in Culver City and the Provisional Task Force Show Unit of This Is The Army in Burbank.
www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/rona...
A screenshot of a section of text from the "Military Service of Ronald Reagan" page of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library website reads: "Lieutenant Reagan was ordered to active duty on April 19, 1942. Due to his poor eyesight, he was classified for limited service only excluding him from serving overseas. His first assignment was at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation at Fort Mason, California, as liaison officer of the Port and Transportation Office. Upon the request of the Army Air Forces (AAF), he applied for a transfer from the Cavalry to the AAF on May 15, 1942; the transfer was approved on June 9, 1942. He was assigned to AAF Public Relations and subsequently to the 1st Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California. Reagan was promoted to First Lieutenant on January 14, 1943 and was sent to the Provisional Task Force Show Unit of This Is The Army at Burbank, California. Following this duty, he returned to the 1st Motion Picture Unit, and on July 22, 1943 was promoted to Captain."
October 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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President 'Cornfield Anthony' strikes again.
A black and white image--a still from an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone--shows a little boy, Anthony, looking off camera toward the right with his eyes narrowed and a finger pointing at the unseen subject of his focus. The image is from a well-known episode of the show, featuring the little boy, Anthony, who has the ability to wish anything or anyone "into the cornfield." Every adult in his orbit--his parents, neighbors, members of the community--endlessly try to appease him out of fear. They give him everything he wants, agree with him, engage with him in whatever he wants to do--whatever they must do to avoid being the next one disappeared into the cornfield. Anthony is a little asshole.
October 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Yes! Much discussed at home.
My sweetest girl passed 1 wk ago. She'd been in treatment for cancer since Mar--finished at end of Aug w/ no sign of return🎉. Price tag: $11K. At her follow up, she was dx w/ a 2nd cancer--imminently treatable but at $30K+, beyond my means. She was gone in 1 ½ months.
A black and white, Shih Tzu dog with hair worn long looks at the camera with black, shoe-button eyes--the best, sweetest, most joyful little being that ever there was--sitting on a wooden floor next to a stuffed orca dog toy.
October 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Love rebel birds
A rebellious crow sits atop a blue and white sign indicating Handicap Parking Only A grey and yellow songbird sits atop a 'Reserved Parking' sign. A seagull sits atop a "no parking" sign.
October 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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There is solid precedent.
In fact, we are called upon by the founders to do it.
A screenshot shows a selection from the Declaration of Independence. It reads: "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good." The following segment is highlighted in the image: "But when a long train of abuse and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. "
October 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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He steals everything.
Even his inauguration cake design was stolen from Obama.
A Twitter post from January 20, 2017, from renowned baker, Duff Goldman. On the left is a photo of a multi-tiered cake in navy, royal, and light blue, interspersed with layers in silver and white, sitting atop a base layer with vertical gold and red stripes. The cake is festooned with presidential seals, red, white and blue bunting made of icing, and it is topped with stars shooting outward on dowels. A photo on the right shows Trump and Mike Pence, in formal dress, on inauguration night, cutting a cake that looks identical, as Mother Pence, dressed in a royal blue gown, looks on. In the post, Duff Goldman writes: The cake on the left is the one I made for President Obama's inauguration 4 years ago. The one on the right is Trump's. I didn't make it" and it ends with an emoji face with a raised eyebrow and a hand on chin.
October 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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The R's are all Trumpian versions of the Manson family.
They sing his praises. They mimic his madness. They shield him. They give him cover for his outrageous crimes and commit crimes on his behalf.
Three of Charles Manson's cult followers, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten, walk through through courthouse hall during trials for the grisly Tate-LaBianca murders. Each woman has long brown hair and wears prison denim blue dresses with long-sleeved navy blue sweaters. Each smiles and each has an indistinct mark on her forehead--probably Xs, which they had carved into their own foreheads during the trials. A uniformed officer and several other people can be seen behind them. A black and white photo shows a group of 'Manson Family' followers--all women with shaved heads--sitting on a sidewalk near a corner outside the Hall of Justice in Los Angeles during the Tate-LaBianca murder trials. Behind them, others gather--probably journalists and members of the public. Vehicles and a bus can be seen beyond the crowd.
October 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Sandra Bullock's character in "Two Weeks Notice" did more to protect the local community center than our Congress has done to protect the White House. Or our government.
Still from the movie Two Weeks Notice. Sandra Bullock's character sits on top of a wrecking ball in protest of the destruction of a building. Immediately behind her is a New York street with caution blockades and demolition equipment.
October 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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That deaf, dumb, and blind Speaker sure likes to lie to us all.
The image is a knock off of an ad for the rock opera movie, Tommy, which featured the band, The Who. The face of Roger Daltry, lead singer of the band, who played the eponymous character, is at center. The image is mirrored so that it is seen both upright and upside down. The two images are joined, and the meeting point is at the mouth so that the upper and lower face share it. In the movie, the character, Tommy, is supposed to be 'deaf, dumb, and blind.' That is represented in this image by showing Daltry wearing round, black-lensed glasses, and a plug in his mouth. The mirrored face is set on a black background, and is framed by a vertically oriented capsule shape outlined in blue and green. Above is a horizontal capsule shape with the same coloring, and in it in white is the word 'Mikey' where the title 'Tommy' would have been on the original advert. Under the face, in small white text are the words "Your country may never be the same." On the original advert, the line was "Your senses may never be the same."
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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want free grazing for their cattle--and also want control of public lands. Many hold drilling/mining leases.
Horse slaughter advocates will tell you that there are too many wild horses. They'll tell you that wild horses destroy the environmet. They'll tell you they are not native. But they lie. 6/6
Image of a post to Twitter from January 2018 reads: It takes a special kind of ass to put forward such a ridiculous rationale & expect people to buy it: #PublicLands CAN'T support the reported 75,000 PROTECTED #wildhorses,but *miraculously* it CAN support 1.5 MILLION head of cattle owned by ranchers you are 'doing business with'? A post to Twitter from March, 2018 reads: Here is ANOTHER thing cattle ranchers are contributing to: Drought! The dust raised by the million plus head of cattle on #publiclands rises in the atmosphere and settles on the snowpack, causing early snowmelt. Normally we depend on rain at lower elevations for fresh A post to Twitter from May, 2018 reads: piece de resistance @nature_art_ed May 6, 2018 #BLM is lying to the people. Now why would they do that? There is a lot going on behind the scenes.They've been abusing PROTECTED #WildHorses,channeling them to slaughter, while treating cattle ranchers & Mining & Drilling interests to profits & access on #taxpayers dime.
October 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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E-bikes are part of the improvements to both. Ignorance & arrogance was a bad approach in the past and it's a bad approach now.
In spite of your undermining efforts--we won't go back.

(Photo credit:LA Herald Examiner Collection
Los Angeles Public Library)
Description "Photo shows citizens picketing the smog probe hearings. One of the signs read, "From cradle to grave, must we breathe smog?", as a picket pushes a baby buggy and a casket outside the Federal Building, in Los Angeles, May 18, 1956." Herald Examiner 1969 "Wearing masks, adults and children carry pickets which read, The Monster's come of age, 21 years of smog is enough! and S.O.S., Stamp out smog. The group demonstrates outside a building in Los Angeles. Photo dated: June 25, 1969." Herald Examiner photo, 1989 Young men and women hold hand-made, protest signs during meetings between AQMD and the Southern California Association of Governments concerning plans to combat smog. The signs read "Give us a future, give us air", "Please let us breathe", "Help fight air pollution", "Give me clean air or give me death". Photo caption reads: "Signs of support: smog-plan backers stand vigil during meeting". Photo dated: Mar. 17, 1989.
October 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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burned in smog-laden air, because of ignorance & arrogance in our practices.bIt took decades to make things better, but we did, and we continue working at ways of keeping air quality safe and healthy & improving quality of life.
(Photo credit:LA Herald Examiner Collection
Los Angeles Public Library)
In a 1954 photograph from the LA Herald Examiner, Mayor Poulson (right) and executive assistant Col. George F. Herbert are seen entering the Grand Jury room to be quizzed on smog. Mayor holds a newspaper with the headline "County Grand Jury tackles L.A. smog" LA Herald Examiner Collection Los Angeles Public Library 1955 LA Herald Examiner photo shows two men, seated in side-by-side compartments. Each is wearing an apparatus on his head and a respiratory mask. A conduit attached to the top of each apparatus brings in air that each subject breathes in through the respirator. Each was part of a voluntary study. Text from the newspaper read: "In order to find out exactly what must be removed from auto exhaust to reduce the eye irritation in smog, human reactions to various mixtures must be observed under clinical conditions. Breathing the mixtures under plastic masks, members of a panel sit in partitioned compartments, so that they cannot see each other. This prevents one person from being subconsciously influenced by seeing another person's reaction. Panel members are not told whether they are breathing mixtures containing auto exhaust, or just purified." A cartoon shows two aliens in a flying saucer, hovering above the air pollution in Los Angeles. Original caption read, "We Couldn't Live In Their Atmosphere." Photo dated: April 1, 1966.
October 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"More than 50 years of research across more than 60 studies show that students with access to well-resourced school libraries with certified librarians consistently perform better academically and score higher on standardized assessments."
More than 50 years of research across more than 60 studies show that students with access to well-resourced school libraries with certified librarians consistently perform better academically and score higher on standardized assessments.2 While underserved students see even bigger gains from robust library services, they are less likely to have access to these resources. Meanwhile, information literacy is becoming increasingly important in an age of misinformation and disinformation. Yet since 2000, there has been a nearly 20 percent drop in school librarian positions, which translates to 10,000 fewer full-time school librarians across the country.3 While more than 90 percent of schools in the United States have school libraries, only about 60 percent have full-time librarians, according to a 2019 report from the American Library Association (ALA).4
September 28, 2025 at 2:52 AM