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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wow! This one is a must read! Historically accurate, tells us exactly where the country is headed if the voters don’t wake up and change direction, and cites every source discussed. Tack this one on your wall and send it to everyone you know! heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-5-...?
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October 5, 2026
Last night, on October 4, U.S.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Please read and submit a public comment. Chaco Canyon is a world Heritage site on par with The Pyramids and the Taj Mahal. open.substack.com/pub/morethan...?
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Nine Days to Save Chaco Canyon
The BLM's own environmental assessment says erasing the buffer around a World Heritage Site yields fourteen wells and fourteen jobs. Comments close July 29.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Inside the Scheme to Virtually Eliminate Bears Ears & Grand Staircase-Escalante
President Trump nearly wiped out two sprawling Utah monuments in an afternoon to the delight of Utah Senator Mike Lee and Governor Spencer Cox.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
If you think it’s about the family ranch or the cost of a burger, think again. Finally, a plan to protect our Western public lands. open.substack.com/pub/morethan...?
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The Welfare Cattle Empire That Controls Your Public Lands
How a 22,000-member lobby bought 248 million acres of your public land for $1.35 a month, and why we’re still paying for it.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
These lands beling to us. The economics mandate that they stay that way. Don’t fall for the misinformation put out by Trump and his cronies. open.substack.com/pub/morethan...?
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The Public Lands Logging Economy Doesn’t Add Up
A 4 percent harvest, a money-losing program, and a recreation economy 100 times bigger. The numbers tell a different story than the emergency declaration.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Excellent article showing how hijacking of Congressionally created entities are being turned into a grift machine for the Trump family. open.substack.com/pub/morethan...
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The Hijacking of the National Park Foundation
How Trump turned a congressionally chartered parks charity into a political ATM.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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What Power Looks Like When it Stops Pretending
A man who strongly disagrees with the idea of public lands is now the Director of the BLM.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Posting this important news story that the mainstream media is pretty much ignoring. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...?
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Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0
Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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Beware the Dangerous Lie of “Unused” Public Land
When politicians call it empty, they’re telling you what they want to take.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The Trump administration offered TotalEnergies nearly $1B to abandon their offshore wind projects and invest in fossil fuels – a deal that violates the law and Constitution. That’s why our Congress members are fighting for answers. Read their letter here: bit.ly/4uzxfvH
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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Reflections on a rough week--and why we have reason to be hopeful.
May 16, 2026
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The deliberate cruelty is unfathomable. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...?
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ICE Deports Colombian Torture Victim—to Africa
Last year, we broke the story of a woman ICE had repeatedly tried to send to Mexico or a third country. Things have gotten even worse.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
While everyone was getting ready for the White House Correspondents Dinner, Trump quietly fired the entire National Science Board. Guess that’s the end of American exceptionalism. open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...?
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Hazardous to Your Health
Why the president fired the scientists and what it means for all of us
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It’s our turn. open.substack.com/pub/morethan...?
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No One Inherits a Finished Country
History’s pendulum always swings back. It swings hardest in the direction of whoever is pushing.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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Mapping the Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Every regional office, every research station, what they protect, and what you can do to stop it.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Trump Administration To Reverse Chaco Canyon Protections
The Trump administration just launched a 7-day fire sale on one of the most sacred landscapes in the country. And they're counting on you not to notice.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Stop the balance sheet approach to our public lands. And, by the way, those of us who love our public lands aren’t stupid. open.substack.com/pub/morethan...
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The Secretary of the Interior Just Told BlackRock Executives That Americans Who Love Public Lands Are Financially Illiterate
The man in charge of 245 million acres of your land thinks protecting them is ignorance.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Yayne Abeba (@yayneabeba)
check out this new country banger ! Play it loud. Share it widely. And let the ballad travel far and wide. Check these guys out! Credit: @brucekluger1 @magacountrymusic
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Yikes! Remember what BP did to the Gulf of Mexico! open.substack.com/pub/morethan...?
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Interior Revives the "God Squad" To Approve Gulf Oil Drilling
A committee with the authority to legally condemn wildlife to extinction, dormant for 30 years, is being revived. Gulf drilling is first. It won't be last.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
So true and well said! open.substack.com/pub/msarielk...?
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Nevertheless, She Persisted
Gen X, Menopause, & The Long Game
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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The People’s Platform for Democracy
Our democracy is being destroyed by Trump and MAGA. Any chance of saving it must fix the damage already done. First, we must rid ourselves of Trump (impeach and convict). Simultaneously, we must stren...
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Learning Resources, Inc., the company that just beat Trump in the Supreme Court on tarriffs, designs and manufactures educational toys. Good ones. This is a company that will likely be targeted by Trump for retaliation. I know where I am going to look for my next gifts for my grandchildren.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Take The Ten Commitments of California. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/take-t...?
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Take The Ten Commitments of California
We Are California is a movement of people and organizations across California who are standing up to corporations and billionaires to build an economy and democracy that works for us– not the billiona...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Slavery Was Removed From the National Park System This Week
What happened at the President’s House in Philadelphia and why it matters
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
open.substack.com/pub/welivedi... She gets it.
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Minnesota Exposed Federal Power, and It Panicked
Greg Bovino is leaving, but the system that enabled him isn’t.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
More pressure on Target, Hilton, Enterprise, Home Depot, and Delta now. Call their CEOs. act.indivisible.org/go/888959?t=...
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ICE Out for Good
On January 23, people across the country are taking action in solidarity with Minnesota to demand ICE out of our communities. Join the day of action.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Our Long National Descent Grows Steeper
Minneapolis showed the playbook. The land already knows it.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/01/2026
"behind the violence in Minneapolis—captured in so many chilling photographs in recent weeks—is a different reality: a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest." from Robert worth, @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
'For Alex Pretti, Renee Good, Keith Porter & all the victims of ICE' Their light may have dimmed, but it will continue to shine through us... ...their legacy will live on forever. Solidarity with Minneapolis. 🕯️🕯️🕯️ Thread 1/5🧵
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/01/2026
ANOTHER ANGLE: the original video was deleted but I screen capped it. Here it is.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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13 Rules to Protect Yourself While Protesting
Read and share as communities across the United States rise up against ICE raids and state violence
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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274K views · 21K reactions | 🎶 We are thrilled to share our music video for the Song for Walk for Peace! This beautiful song perfectly captures the spirit of our journey from Fort Worth to Washington ...
🎶 We are thrilled to share our music video for the Song for Walk for Peace! This beautiful song perfectly captures the spirit of our journey from Fort Worth to Washington D.C., and the mission of...
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
A fable so even children can see what America’s mad king is doing. And don’t deny he is our mad king. Our history, our complacency in the face of growing tyranny and our failing institutions helped create him. Only we, together, can stop his mad destruction. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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The Mad Stamp Collector
Our Foreign Policy as Fable
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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STOP HIM
Donald Trump is the most dangerous person in the world, and must be removed from power immediately ...
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Thug World
A new world order?
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
If there must be trouble, let it be in my time, so that my children will know peace. Thomas Paine
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Picture a small-scale solar system that’s affordable, can be mounted anywhere, and plugs into a standard electrical outlet. Too good to be true? It’s real – and it’s bringing clean energy to renters and people who haven’t been able to get solar before! www.brightsaver.org/plug-in-sola...
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What is Plug-In, Balcony, and Backyard Solar? | Bright Saver
Learn about Bright Saver's plug in solar panel options. From compact balcony solar kits to larger backyard solar systems, generate clean energy at home even if you don't have a suitable roof.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Want to act on climate change but not sure where to start? Check out the CAN Action Carousel -- a new, free tool that makes it easy to contact key decision-makers about climate issues and advocate for progress. Try it here: www.climateactionnow.com/go/r6zv1yaa-...
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CAN Action Carousel - Climate Action Now
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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RaisingHumans (@raisinghumanss)
You don’t need meditation retreats, silence rooms, or disappearing from your life. You just need to replace a few invisible daily patterns that are quietly draining your emotional stability.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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RaisingHumans (@raisinghumanss)
You don’t need meditation retreats, silence rooms, or disappearing from your life. You just need to replace a few invisible daily patterns that are quietly draining your emotional stability.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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THE UNKNOWN THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY The Dangers of an Article V Constitutional Convention Within the heart of the United States Constitution lies a provision that is a tool that Americans can w...
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
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Families detail ICE arrests at San Diego green card interviews
Two people say ICE agents arrested their spouses during their green card interviews at San Diego’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office Thursday morning.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Check out this quote from Dr Michael E Mann: "There's nothing worse, as a climate scientist, than seeing your predictions play out... This is the face of climate change. It's not subtle anymore. It's not far off, distant. It's here now." #ClimateActionNow
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin on X: "We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship. https://t.co/N8lW0EpQ7r" / X
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship. https://t.co/N8lW0EpQ7r
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The federal government is trying to place the University of California under political control. Sign the UC Unbowed petition before the UC Regents meet on Nov 18 and tell them to protect UC's independence. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/un...
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University of California: Reject the federal government's political control
The federal government is trying to place the University of California under political control. Sign the UC Unbowed petition before the UC Regents meet on Nov 18 and tell them to protect UC's independ...
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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How Blue States Can Stop the Destruction of Your Public Lands
It’s time for Democratic governors to do more than issue statements. They have the power to stop this madness.
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We stopped the Trump regime from selling our public lands once. But they are not giving up unless we all stay engaged. open.substack.com/pub/morethan...
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The Ten Commandments of Public Lands Resistance – and Why They Still Matter
A field manual for anyone who refuses to let our public lands become someone else’s balance sheet.
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grvlptgrl❌🤴 @grvlptgrl.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
EMPTY CHAIR DEBATE GOP Budget Committee! Empty chair town halls WORK! @doggett.house.gov @repilhan.bsky.social @jayapal.house.gov @repscottpeters.bsky.social @morganmcgarvey.bsky.social @veronicaescobartx.bsky.social @repstaceyplaskett.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @chu.house.gov
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Billie Jo @billiejowaters.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
“It is past time to acknowledge that the whole antifa/Hamas/illegal immigrant/terrorist demonization shtick is a clumsy, unconstitutional maneuver to weaponize the federal government against anyone who does not fall into line in Trump’s autocracy.” open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Words & Phrases We Could Do Without
‘Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals...’ and antifa too!
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