Onward Through the Fog
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I post facts about environmental laws, regulations, and policies that protect our public lands. This is my fight; my small part of the resistance against Facists and Oligarchs.
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Shortly after hanging the banner, the group sent out a statement:
“The purpose of this exercise of free speech is to disrupt without violence and draw attention to the fact that public lands in the United States are under attack,” it reads.
“The purpose of this exercise of free speech is to disrupt without violence and draw attention to the fact that public lands in the United States are under attack,” it reads.
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Rainy day in the desert. Joshua Tree National Park.
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Rainy day in the desert. Joshua Tree National Park.
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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.
This is another connection to the bad things happening to #PublicLands. Ecosystems are connected, so what happens on Public Lands will impact all of us.
Or: How the invasion of Venezuela will save America's wetlands. wessiler.substack.com/p/what-moham...
What Mohammed Bin Salman’s White House Visit Means For The Endangered Species Act
Unintended consequences of completely predictable outcomes created by gross incompetence
wessiler.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This is another connection to the bad things happening to #PublicLands. Ecosystems are connected, so what happens on Public Lands will impact all of us.
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A man who sees his power collapsing and is trying to claw it back. This is weakness, not strength.
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A man who sees his power collapsing and is trying to claw it back. This is weakness, not strength.
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So many people have been fighting so hard. Canvassing, protesting, calling, writing. So many Federal employees have sacrificed in hopes that you were finally going to stand up for every day Americans and push back on Trump.
8 Senators threw away everything. You couldn't stop them?
8 Senators threw away everything. You couldn't stop them?
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
So many people have been fighting so hard. Canvassing, protesting, calling, writing. So many Federal employees have sacrificed in hopes that you were finally going to stand up for every day Americans and push back on Trump.
8 Senators threw away everything. You couldn't stop them?
8 Senators threw away everything. You couldn't stop them?
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Good morning ppl! Day 30 fucking 7 of the #GOPShitdown
I cannot begin to tell you how badly things are unraveling internally right now but it is starting to spill out into the public.
I cannot begin to tell you how badly things are unraveling internally right now but it is starting to spill out into the public.
a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine
Alt: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Good morning ppl! Day 30 fucking 7 of the #GOPShitdown
I cannot begin to tell you how badly things are unraveling internally right now but it is starting to spill out into the public.
I cannot begin to tell you how badly things are unraveling internally right now but it is starting to spill out into the public.
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Before us are illegal and unnecessary Republican mass firings, which they will own; behind us, millions of Americans whose health care Republicans attack, and will own.
We stand our ground.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
We stand our ground.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump’s Shutdown Layoffs Deepen Impasse, Angering Democrats
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Before us are illegal and unnecessary Republican mass firings, which they will own; behind us, millions of Americans whose health care Republicans attack, and will own.
We stand our ground.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
We stand our ground.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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Federal employees across the government are now receiving layoff notices, a devastating outcome of Trump’s political games. It’s outrageous that he would use people’s livelihoods as pawns to “score political points”.
October 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Federal employees across the government are now receiving layoff notices, a devastating outcome of Trump’s political games. It’s outrageous that he would use people’s livelihoods as pawns to “score political points”.
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Do you like national parks? Making sure America’s food is safe? Having security at airports? The Trump government shutdown is decimating all those essential services and more.
Fund the government.
Fix the health care crisis.
Put working people first.
Fund the government.
Fix the health care crisis.
Put working people first.
October 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Do you like national parks? Making sure America’s food is safe? Having security at airports? The Trump government shutdown is decimating all those essential services and more.
Fund the government.
Fix the health care crisis.
Put working people first.
Fund the government.
Fix the health care crisis.
Put working people first.
Your #PublicLands continue to suffer.
October 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Your #PublicLands continue to suffer.
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Past shutdowns have resulted in $36 million/day of damage to park infrastructure alone. This one could be worse: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...
How Bad Will A Shutdown Be For National Parks?
Rural communities could lose hundreds of millions of dollars a day, and that’s before mass layoffs
open.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Past shutdowns have resulted in $36 million/day of damage to park infrastructure alone. This one could be worse: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...
Let's remember that political appointees are not the same as career civil service. Listen to the scientists...you know, the one's who are not beholden to an orange tyrant.
Wow. Let’s not blow past this. The administrator of the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY says that climate change is a hoax/con job.
KILMEADE: The president says climate change is a hoax, it's a con job. Where do you fall on this?
EPA ADMINISTRATION LEE ZELDIN: The president is absolutely right
EPA ADMINISTRATION LEE ZELDIN: The president is absolutely right
September 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Let's remember that political appointees are not the same as career civil service. Listen to the scientists...you know, the one's who are not beholden to an orange tyrant.
Thread worth letting sink in: 🫤
"If they shutdown, then the question will be whether the parks are left open, without services. If they are and the furloughed employees are then fired under a RIF, the NPS will have lost its core workforce, families will bear the loss of jobs, and the future of the parks is rather grim.”
🤬🤬🤬
🤬🤬🤬
"For the NPS, that means pretty much all employees," explains former NPS Director
open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...
open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...
September 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Thread worth letting sink in: 🫤
Your #PublicLands being burned, and the federal employees who would typically be fighting this fire are fewer. Thank goodness CA state resources are coming to help.
The Trump Administration is once again failing to do its job — and California is cleaning up their mess.
We're deploying state resources to protect the 2,000-year old sequoias on FEDERAL LANDS from the wildfires the federal administration are supposed to handle.
We're deploying state resources to protect the 2,000-year old sequoias on FEDERAL LANDS from the wildfires the federal administration are supposed to handle.
September 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Your #PublicLands being burned, and the federal employees who would typically be fighting this fire are fewer. Thank goodness CA state resources are coming to help.
Yep.
Paid till the end of the fiscal year, which starts October 1. So yes, the government is paying them full salary to not work while we, the remaining employees, are drowning under the increased workloads. So there was no expectation that they would continue to work.
July 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Yep.
Tis true. Meanwhile, the employees "left behind" are doing more with less, little to know support, no travel, no training...just do the job. That is also not efficient. It's bad, real bad right now in government offices across the country.
Exclusive: The government is paying more than 154,000 federal employees not to work as part of the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program.
The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work
Early resignation offers and other programs have reduced the workforce, but critics say the moves are also wasting money.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Tis true. Meanwhile, the employees "left behind" are doing more with less, little to know support, no travel, no training...just do the job. That is also not efficient. It's bad, real bad right now in government offices across the country.
From a legal perspective (meaning cut to just the facts), this video highlights the state of several #Federal agencies, and how actions taken have affected the civil service. If you wonder why Federal employees morale is at a very low point...look no further...
youtu.be/WuIwYlTFtC8?...
youtu.be/WuIwYlTFtC8?...
7.29📢Leadership Failure Is Breaking Federal Workers
YouTube video by Southworth PC
youtu.be
July 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
From a legal perspective (meaning cut to just the facts), this video highlights the state of several #Federal agencies, and how actions taken have affected the civil service. If you wonder why Federal employees morale is at a very low point...look no further...
youtu.be/WuIwYlTFtC8?...
youtu.be/WuIwYlTFtC8?...
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Attention RIF’ed federal workers. 🚨🚨 a scholarship opportunity has dropped to help you. Check it out here: www.juliepalakovichcarr.com/news/2025/5/...
New Scholarship Opportunity for Displaced Federal Workers — Julie Palakovich Carr
Maryland is the proud home of many public servants who have dedicated their careers to helping others and ensuring that the essential work of our federal government happens. In light of the unpreceden...
www.juliepalakovichcarr.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Attention RIF’ed federal workers. 🚨🚨 a scholarship opportunity has dropped to help you. Check it out here: www.juliepalakovichcarr.com/news/2025/5/...
I guess MAGA doesn't want Americans to have clean air or water. EPA does so much more than that, too. The scientists and work done at the EPA helps inform the science used across lots of #PublicLands to preserve and protect our sacred American places we love to visit. #sad
Sad, but an utter rejection of science and with it, any desire to limit the damage that the burning of fossil fuels causes is where Republicanism has gone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I guess MAGA doesn't want Americans to have clean air or water. EPA does so much more than that, too. The scientists and work done at the EPA helps inform the science used across lots of #PublicLands to preserve and protect our sacred American places we love to visit. #sad
This entire thread deserves a look, so click on this and study the other posts from @donmoyn.bsky.social. I am reposting this one because even though #PublicLand sales were removed from the Big Ugly Bill, your #NPS site and other sites are at risk from #RIFs
One basic question is whether words or legal terms hold any meaning. For example, Presidents are allowed to do limited and narrow reductions in force (RIFs). They are not allowed to do large-scale reorganizations without Congress. But Trump is just calling his massive reorganization a RIF.
SCOTUS: 🤷
SCOTUS: 🤷
July 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This entire thread deserves a look, so click on this and study the other posts from @donmoyn.bsky.social. I am reposting this one because even though #PublicLand sales were removed from the Big Ugly Bill, your #NPS site and other sites are at risk from #RIFs
I wonder if he has kids, if they attend school? Maybe someone needs to look into how much of a "FREELOADER" Clay Mccallister has been over the years.
July 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I wonder if he has kids, if they attend school? Maybe someone needs to look into how much of a "FREELOADER" Clay Mccallister has been over the years.
This hit hard.
NEW: The scenes in the lobby of State Department headquarters this evening (Fri).
Tears, cheers and hugs from colleagues as some of the 1300 fired workers leave the building with their belongings in boxes.
(🎥 Alex Raufoglu)
Tears, cheers and hugs from colleagues as some of the 1300 fired workers leave the building with their belongings in boxes.
(🎥 Alex Raufoglu)
July 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This hit hard.
Exactly. We are already seeing that play out because so many took the Buyout and Early Retirement options. ...hence the devastation in TX.
A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.
July 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Exactly. We are already seeing that play out because so many took the Buyout and Early Retirement options. ...hence the devastation in TX.
Well, well, well...how do we move on after this? All of your government agencies will cease to function as they are intended.
The Supreme Court cleared the way for Trump to move forward with mass layoffs and reorganizations across 19 federal agencies and departments, even as legal challenges continue.
July 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Well, well, well...how do we move on after this? All of your government agencies will cease to function as they are intended.