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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This seems like a good time to mention that Smokey Bear is the mascot of the US Forest Service, not the National Parks.

Alt National Park Service: Our response to the State Department using Smokey last night.

[They attach a picture of a protest sign. It has Smokey Bear's face and says "Only you can prevent fascist liars"]

AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The State Department is not personally targeting the Alt National Park Service with their ad campaign. The State Department does not care about the Alt National Park Service, and neither should anyone else.

Alt National Park Service: The State Department decided to take a shot at our movement and Smokey with a new “Only you can prevent visa fraud” post. They put it on their page about two hours ago.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been busy lately, but there's always time to tap the sign.

Alt National Park Service: In a court filing late last night, the Justice Department argued that Trump has the legal authority to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, calling access a “privilege, not a right” and citing national security concerns among its reasons.

[AltNPS links to Courtlistener.com]

The "Don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says "Anytime AltNPS links to court docs, it means they saw the news somewhere else, and they're avoiding crediting a journalist.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AltNPS almost certainly got this from today's article by @erikwemple.bsky.social in the New York Times, which links to the same court document in its very first sentence. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/b...

Alt National Park Service: It appears whenever Trump runs into resistance, “national security” becomes the justification. His ballroom. His triumphal arch. And now, banning news outlets from the White House.

In a court filing late last night, the Justice Department argued that Trump has the legal authority to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, calling access a “privilege, not a right” and citing national security concerns among its reasons

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Shoutout to @musicologyduck.bsky.social for finding this: the Alt National Park Service now has copycat pages riding their scammer coattails.

National Parks and Forests Supporters on Facebook: A huge thank you to everyone who showed up on such short notice at the Kennedy Center. Seeing so many people answer the call was truly inspiring. Our numbers are clearly growing.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is literally just a list of news outlets that the Alt National Park Service has plagiarized from.

Alt National Park Service: A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great thread, and it's a reminder that we are not immune to confirmation bias. Just because you want it to be true, doesn't mean it is. Please, please exercise some healthy skepticism about salacious claims like this.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I can't overstate how ghoulish the Alt National Park Service's "coverage" of ICE is. AltNPS is not providing an "alert." They're not in North Austin, just like they weren't in Chicago, or in Houston, or in Biddeford, or in my hometown of Minneapolis.

Alt National Park Service: Alert ⚠️ An ICE officer shot 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in North Austin today after a traffic stop. He was shot in the torso and hospitalized in serious but stable condition. His attorney says Perez, a Venezuelan national, entered the U.S. legally and had a valid work permit.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If anything, I guess I should be happy about this; giving credit 27% of the time is a hell of a lot better than AltNPS used to be.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In the last week, the Alt National Park Service has posted about breaking news stories 29 times. Of those 29 posts, only eight have links to news sources, a 27% attribution rate.

Alt National Park Service: We had thought the “safety issues” at the Kennedy Center were caused by the Trump administration. It appears that might be the case. In a sworn declaration filed today, a legal observer said she witnessed a forklift carrying fencing drive to the north

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Quick break to highlight this account, which took advantage of the Ed Sheeran/Macklemore news to spam the timeline with a screed about "Jewish control." Acct seems like it got quickly nuked (RIPBOZO), but it's a reminder that weird bigots will latch onto any passing story to boost their bullshit.

An article called "MACKLEMORE EXPOSES JEWISH CONTROL" by Mark Weaver. The article features tags, one of which is "Jews."

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Genuinely, define "important." Because what I see is an account that postures as a #resistance "coalition" while blatantly plagiarizing real journalists, lying about having inside information about current events, and spreading paranoia through nonsense "codes." Avoid AltNPS at all costs.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is basically my criteria as well, but I'm also going to want some accountability for their many lies. For example, I'm never going to forget when they pretended to know who Alex Pretti's murderer was, before that information was even public.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Before you hand over your email, know who you're giving it to. Unless it's us, the anonymous LARPers who keep trying to sell you some T-shirts."

Alt National Park Service: ⚠️ Be careful with VoteSafe .org. It is NOT an official voting website. It’s tied to Elon Musk’s America PAC and collects a lot of personal information from people who use it. Before you hand over your name, address, phone number, email and voter information, know who you’re giving it to.

A screenshot of ourparks.org, a website owned by the Alt National Park Service. It's asking you to give them your email.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Alt National Park Service actually has quite a history with polygraph tests, going back to the early days of their post-election resurgence. They claimed staffers had been forced to take polygraphs, and somehow used that to justify asking followers to "leave random comments on this post."

Alt National Park Service: please leave random comments on this post. Eighty staffers have been subjected to lie detector tests. All we can share at this time.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The master spies at the Alt National Park Service are keeping their coalition members safe from polygraph tests by giving them specific, actionable advice like "take precautions."

Alt National Park Service: So the Trump administration has brought polygraphs back to multiple departments because information keeps getting out. Just a reminder: take precautions, protect your identity, and never assume your communications are completely private.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Being cringe is hardly a crime, but I just can't stand this "lol are you triggered, MAGAts???" energy. I don't think this would "upset MAGA." If you showed them this pic, MAGA would just call you a slur and forget they ever saw it.

Alt National Park Service: We love how much this upsets MAGA. 🤣

[The image is text on a white background: It's New Mexico. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Kennedy Center. It's the Department of Defense.]

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I promise I'll get back to doing more than posting this stupid meme soon. Things are finally starting to slow down on my end!

Alt National Park Service: Trump is coming for gray wolf protections. He signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to review whether gray wolves should lose their federal endangered-species protections. Link to EO: [they link directly to whitehouse.gov]

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is the big thing I want to hammer home with my work here: we on the left are not *better* than conspiracy theorists. We are not *above* propaganda. We are not *too smart* to fall for scams. People like AltNPS know how to exploit our fears and manipulate our anxieties, and we need to be alert.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

i took this screenshot in june of 2025 lol. incredible stuff. we can’t explain the super secret code, sorry we said heil hitler accidentally while we were making stuff up!!!

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

They blocked my personal FB account too lol. Didn't take much. I think that's part of why their community and comments are so insular and monolithic: they just block anyone who says "hey, this is weird, right?"

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This was a MADDENING part of my obsession with AltNPS. To me, it seemed obvious that a secret cabal of #resistance operatives would communicate ANYWHERE except Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, but thousands and thousands of people didn't see that as a red flag.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Alt National Park Service exploded in popularity after the 2024 election, and their cryptic, mysterious "code number" posts were a big part of their rise. In the aftermath of the election, people were desperate for hope, and AltNPS was ready to exploit that desperation 🧵:

Alt National Park Service: Seventeen. Three. Twenty-eight. Thirty-six. Eleven.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The navigation app of the resistance.

Alt National Park Service: Congratulations to MapQuest for becoming the #1 navigation app in the App Store. And thanks for being the navigation app of the resistance! ✊

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm gonna wear out my sign with all this tapping.

Alt National Park Service: The Supreme Court has allowed construction on Trump’s ballroom to continue.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As @tallsprucetree.bsky.social pointed out below, this was AltNOAA, who has been getting more unglued by the day. He's also been on a streak of pushing for fusion energy, and insisting that if we throw money at it, we can make it real.

AltNOAA to a blocked post: I just bashed the fucking practicing Jews and you think I'm a Zionist? You're a dumb motherfucker

AltNOAA: If we made this a national (or even better: a global) priority and threw a "moonshot" level of resources at it. I mean a dedicated workforce of at least a half million people with 1/4th of them engineers, fusion is something we could solve in a decade and bring to commercial markets in 20 years.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's a lot we don't know about AltNPS. Their real name, for example. Their nationality. How long they've controlled the account. But there's a surprising amount that we DO know about the Alt National Park Service 🧵:

Alt National Park Service: Not all echoes are meant to return. The lights flicker not from power loss, but memory. When the clock chimes out of rhythm and the sky hums a little too low, you’ll understand what wasn’t written. Some birds don’t migrate—they vanish.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And a very special thanks to T-shirt dropshippers who pretend to be park rangers on the internet for attention. May you never run out of code numbers, and may your sticker sales never run dry. Amen.

Alt National Park Service: Happy 110th birthday to the National Park Service! And thank you to everyone who has taken action this week to support and defend our parks.

Alt National Park Service: Two hUndred tWenty-sEven.

Please disregard this, as our group is fighting battles on multiple fronts.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fwiw Biden set records for capturing horses and kept them in conditions that killed many of them. People are welcome to opinions on our horse population, but I can’t really take them seriously when they only have them when one party is in power.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

AltNPS chose not to include a source here, probably because this news is several weeks old, and admitting that would make it clear that AltNPS is just (slowly) reading the news, not getting inside information. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Alt National Park Service: This is stock market manipulation. Truth Social is now selling companies faster access to Trump’s posts, which can move markets in seconds. The company launched the service earlier this month, allowing paying firms to receive his posts more quickly than ordinary users.

A lot of people are completely unaware this is happening, but we wanted to highlight it because it’s yet another layer of corruption. Traders can literally pay for a speed advantage on market-moving statements from the President of the United States.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is quite a throwback, and the quirky millennial "I was all like, LOL no" language has aged as gracefully as you'd expect. I'm also not thrilled with a fake "coalition" of nonexistent park rangers appropriating Martin Niemöller's poem for their LARP.

Alt National Park Service: Thank you for everything. Tomorrow, there will be more of us.

[The attached picture says, "First they came for the scientists. And the National Park Service said, 'LOL. No.' And went rogue, and we were all, like, "I was not expecting the park rangers to lead the resistance. None of the dystopian novels I read prepared me for this. But, cool."

Alt National Park Service, Jan. 28, 2017: Hello, we know many of you are worried and scared about the future. We ask you to stay strong and together we shall overcome. The graphic below was made by a supporter. Join our movement at www.altnps.org - Arches, Shenandoah, Cuyahoga Valley, Yosemite, Everglades, Badlands, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Blue Ridge Parkway, and Great Smokey Mountains National Park.

[The attached picture says, "First they came for the scientists. And the National Park Service said, 'LOL. No.' And went rogue, and we were all, like, "I was not expecting the park rangers to lead the resistance. None of the dystopian novels I read prepared me for this. But, cool."

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 20/08/2026

So yeah... copied from Drey. At least they credited her? It's a completely AI-vibe coded website though, and provides no actual new info, insights or actions. A complete joke.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

AltNPS calling itself an "independent public lands and federal accountability research organization" is autofellatio. Self-sucking on levels I never thought possible.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just when things were calming down a bit, AltNPS introduces another project that's going to take over my fucking life.

altnds.org

Tracking the National Design Studio | AltNDS

Independent public-interest research on the National Design Studio.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Two possibilities here: 1. It's an honest coincidence, and AltNPS probably doesn't know I exist. 2. They forgot they ever promised to make a website until I mentioned it yesterday, and are now slapping something together. I know which option is funnier, so that's what I'm choosing to believe.

Alt National Park Service: Tonight we’re launching our new public-interest website about the National Design Studio. The goal is to put everything we know in one place and make it easier for people to see what the Studio is actually doing.

The Studio isn’t just giving government websites a facelift. It’s building and

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I can't believe I forgot that AltNPS already promised this EXACT thing (in the form of an "Alt DOGE" website) over a year ago, and it didn't materialize then either. The lie so nice they told it twice!

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's been over a month since the Alt National Park Service promised to have a comprehensive website dedicated to tracking DOGE/National Design Studio active in "about a week." To my knowledge, AltNPS hasn't mentioned this project again since the day they announced it.

Alt National Park Service: Thanks to everyone who helped support our new project yesterday to track the transition from DOGE to the National Design Studio. We were able to bring on a team to help develop the site, and it’s already making great progress. We’re hoping to have it live in about a week.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This post from AltNPS is effectively the same as this article from The Hill by Sarah Davis. I'm not going to accuse AltNPS of plagiarism here, but it's weird to pose as a news source and not link to...a news source. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Alt National Park Service: Trump is now accusing the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the nonprofit suing his administration over the White House ballroom project, of revealing “Top Military Secrets” in its lawsuit.

In a Truth Social post Friday evening, Trump called the group “TREASONISTS,” claimed it exposed military secrets, and said the nonprofit is “very bad for our Country.”

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

As someone from MN who loves to torment my wife with my awful Mike Lindell impression, I will say that yes, the GOP's embrace of outright election denial is scary. We should all be on guard this November. But Mike Lindell was always going to do this, because Mike Lindell is a fucking lunatic.

Alt National Park Service: This is concerning. Mike Lindell is refusing to concede the Minnesota Republican primary, claiming there are “anomalies” in the vote totals that his team plans to investigate. The problem is that this wasn’t even a particularly close race.

Alt National Park Service: But throwing out vague claims about “anomalies” immediately after losing, especially given his long history of pushing unsupported election-fraud claims, is exactly how distrust in elections gets manufactured.

Losing an election is not evidence that the election was stolen. The MAGA midterm playbook already in action.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is the first paragraph, verbatim, of this article by Madeleine Ngo, Nick Corasaniti, and @haleaziz.bsky.social in the New York Times. Add another notch to AltNPS's plagiarism counter.

Alt National Park Service: The Trump administration is making an intense push to identify and deport noncitizens who registered to vote, even if they did so inadvertently or never actually cast a ballot.

Madeline Ngo, Nick Corasaniti, Hamed Aleaziz (New York Times): The Trump administration is making an intense push to identify and deport noncitizens who registered to vote, even if they did so inadvertently or never cast ballots — an unusually aggressive approach that is helping it promote baseless claims that voter fraud is rampant.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Everyone is just being normal and having a chill day on the Internet

AltNOAA to a blocked post: I just bashed the practicing Jews and you think I'm a Zionist? You're a dumb motherfucker.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

AltNOAA has been sliding into some extremely ugly territory for a while now. It's mostly the kind of edgier-than-thou New Atheism stuff that I wish we'd left behind in like 2013.

AltNOAA: $8.2 trillion. That's a lot of golf! And a big jet from Islam.

AltNOAA: Bridget Bardot held views I don't agree with. I don't believe she was "racist" however, a lot of these remarks come from how her convictions were framed in France when her views were not connected to race, in a biological sense, but rather her anti-islam commentary related to ritual slaughters.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

And as a matter of fact, AltNPS has stolen from the Associated Press specifically, eleven times.

docs.google.com

Alt National Park Service Tracking Document

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I don't want to hear a damn thing about the freedom of the press from the Alt National Park Service. This is the account that has, by my count, plagiarized or stolen content from over 100 journalists.

Alt National Park Service: ICE has decided it’s now going to attack the global press, including the Associated Press (AP), because they are reporting the truth. This administration will stop at nothing to prevent the press from telling Americans what’s actually happening.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Because I'm in too deep, it's easy for me to forget how insane this all is. An anonymous Facebook account claiming to represent rogue members of the National Park Service has posted fake spy-like "code messages," and amassed millions of followers for doing so.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

After a few months of mostly sticking to banal news updates, the Alt National Park Service is going back to their conspiracy LARPer roots.

Alt National Park Service on Facebook: Nixonian. We will share more details. For now this will work.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

AltNPS constantly steals from journalists, so I made a list of those journalists. Give the list a follow, and you'll have a solid list of real news sources. These writers deserve your attention!

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Surely a coincidence that this post by the Alt National Park Service is identical to the opening paragraph of this NBC News article by @bengoggin.bsky.social, @danielarkin.bsky.social, and Michael Kosnar. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

Alt National Park Service: This is a serious issue, even though Trump is attempting to turn it into a political game by blaming Minnesota. Cyberattacks targeting municipal water and wastewater systems have now been reported in at least seven states this week.

In response, the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency have warned utilities nationwide that hackers are actively attempting to disrupt critical water infrastructure! Link:

Arkin, Kosnar, and Goggin, NBC News: Cyberattacks targeting municipal water systems have been reported in at least seven states this week, prompting the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency to warn utilities nationwide that hackers are trying to disrupt critical water infrastructure.

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