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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Well, this isn’t going to be good. We all know how this will likely go. The Supreme Court has announced that one of the first cases it will hear when its new term begins in October is a major climate change lawsuit. Boulder County, Colorado, is seeking millions of dollars from fossil fuel

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Trump administration announced that power plants built exclusively to serve data centers (ones that never connect to the public grid) are now exempt from the Clean Air Act’s Acid Rain Program.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Well, this isn’t good. The Trump administration has filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court blocked key parts of its executive order restricting mail-in voting.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court order that blocks the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from executing the president’s March executive order attacking mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Trump’s anti-mail voting order gets blocked again, this time by federal appeals court

Trump's sweeping assault on mail voting won’t be carried out in 23 states and D.C. ahead of November's midterms.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 26/07/2026

Forty-nine of 50 states do not provide lifetime appointments for their state supreme court justices. No one should hold power for life. We're urging state legislatures to call on Congress to pass Supreme Court term limits. bit.ly/3Tdzl7e

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Model State Resolution Urging 18-Year Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices

State lawmakers should call on Congress to enact Supreme Court term limits.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

BREAKING: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Man who killed Democratic Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman is sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in prison.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Let’s talk about the government’s software, AutoMonitor. It recorded clicks, data, navigation, and form interactions before sending that data to a destination that was not publicly visible. This software has been installed by the National Design Studio on fed websites.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thank you to the outdoor industry for your quick response and standing up again for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. Once again, companies across the outdoor community joined together to defend the places that inspire millions of people to hike, camp, climb, hunt, fish, and explore.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

People want change - and not just people who usually vote Democrat. Whether it's the Iran war, cost of living, health care, or fairer taxes, we have a majority. But a majority in American public opinion doesn’t automatically mean a majority in Congress. We have to earn it.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today is a reminder that the work of protecting our country never ends. Democracy isn’t something we inherit and then forget about. Every generation has to decide whether it will stand up for it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/06/2026

lollllll -- Ossoff proposes a motion that would ban senators from trading stocks and crypto, prompting Sen. Lummis (who loves crypto) to immediately object

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A major win! A federal judge in California has vacated ICE’s nationwide courthouse-arrest policies and a related detention waiver, blocking the agency from carrying out broad immigration arrests at courthouses.

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Blue Dot of Omaha @omahabluedot.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Americans should be ashamed that we’ve NORMALIZED CORRUPTION.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Mayor Mamdani Magically Saves NYC Money,By Working Hard,And Not Being Corrupt ! Go Knicks !🏀

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Exciting news!! Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has won the New Mexico Democratic primary for Governor and if elected, she will make history as the nation’s first Native American woman to serve as governor.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The Department of Education is finalizing a rule that would judge college programs based on how much money graduates make after leaving school. Programs whose graduates don’t earn enough compared to their student debt would lose access to federal student loans.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"Mr. Pelley also wrote that senior managers at CBS News had pressured him to insert bias into stories for “60 Minutes” this past season, though he did not provide details about specific segments." Pretty important part of the story re his firing. Maybe *the* most important part. CBS = new Fox.

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CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’

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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I’m so sick of this career criminal.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is really important. “More than 100 retired NASA astronauts have banded together to form a new nonpartisan organization…” and its members believe deeply in “principles such as the rule of law, checks and balances, and the peaceful transition of power.” Follow @astronauts4america.bsky.social

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Former NASA astronauts launch new group to promote U.S. constitutional values

More than 100 NASA astronauts have signed on to a nonpartisan effort to promote “the principles that have propelled our nation for 250 years”

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The only thing more satisfying than the removal of his name from the Kennedy Center is the unwell Orange Man-Baby's entirely predictable, seething, unhinged, self-pitying, incoherent, raging, angry, vengeful meltdown reacting to the news. Someone call a wahh-mbulance! And how is your weekend going?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The SEC has formally proposed scrapping the rule that would have required publicly traded companies to disclose their climate-related risks to investors.

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SEC Proposes Rescission of Climate-Related Disclosure Rules

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Georgia Power is using eminent domain on 330+ properties for power lines linked to Project Sail, a massive 829-acre data center campus. They claim it’s for grid strength, but we must unite to stop these mass surveillance centers & save our future.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/05/2026

NEW: When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House.

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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.

About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

An internal National Park Service analysis flagged the no-bid Reflecting Pool repair contract as a financial outlier. The agency’s own contracting specialist found that federal construction contracts of this type typically carry a profit margin of 6 to 12 percent,

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Yesterday, we post about the Trump administration’s plan to require all federal workers to sign nondisclosure agreements. The government is not a business. It exists to serve the public and the public has a right to know how it’s being run.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

RFK Jr. has fired the two leaders (Dr. John Wong and Dr. Esa Davis) of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force the expert panel that determines which medical screenings and preventive services insurance companies must cover at no cost to patients under the Affordable Care Act.

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Comparing the devastating 1877 El Niño that killed millions with where we’re headed in 2026 is like comparing 2 different planets. We should be worried. But we should also be furious. Decades & decades have been squandered, & now we’re on track to lose everything.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

More than 70 of these facilities had active EPA violations in the past five years. They weren’t complying with the old rules, and now they don’t have to comply with the new ones either. The EDF map showing exempted facilities: www.edf.org/maps/epa-pol... Link: www.propublica.org/article/clea...

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EPA Pollution Pass Map 2025

A map of 500+ industrial facilities in the United States showing whether they've requested or been granted an EPA pollution exemption, who lives nearby, and more.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

They were already doing it. The exemptions were given to mostly coal power plants (71 of them), more than any other category. Medical sterilization facilities emitting carcinogenic ethylene oxide. Oil refineries, copper smelters and chemical plants.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

To invoke it, the president has to certify that the industry is essential to national security AND that the technology needed to comply simply doesn’t exist. Multiple utilities had already publicly said they were installing the required pollution controls. The technology exists.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

trade group was the one who set up the system. The White House reviewed the requests. The White House approved them. The legal justification was “national security”. The Clean Air Act does have a presidential exemption clause, but it had never been used this way before in U.S. history.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

monitoring data, input from Native American governments and public health groups. All gone with a signature. The EPA scientists played zero role in approving any of it. The agency itself said so. Instead, a political appointee who previously worked for a utility company and a petrochemicals

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

public records requests. The result over 180 facilities across 38 states and Puerto Rico got a presidential pass to ignore updated air quality rules for two years. Rules that took years to develop. Rules that went through public comment periods, air

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

can get a two-year exemption from Clean Air Act rules. No application or scientific review it was just an email. They came flooding in. ProPublica obtained 3,000 pages of them through

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

In March 2025, the Trump administration set up an email inbox through the EPA. They sent word to coal plants, chemical manufacturers, oil refineries and other industrial facilities telling them to send us an email by the end of the month and you

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Everyone said Trump was manipulating the stock market for personal gain. Turns out you were right. New financial disclosure forms released today by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics show Trump made at least $220 million (and potentially up to $750 million)

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The U.S. Forest Service isn’t managing forests anymore. It’s running a timber operation and poisoning everything else to do it. A yearlong investigation by Mother Jones found that the Forest Service and private logging companies are systematically spraying thousands of

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

A win! Rapid City-based Pete Lien & Sons has formally withdrawn its graphite drilling project near Pe’Sla, a sacred meadow in the Black Hills where Sioux tribes hold ceremonies and prayer gatherings throughout the year. The company told the Forest Service it won’t be filing another plan.

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Update on Brian Morales, the 25-year-old American citizen who was deported to Mexico after a Texas traffic stop last month, is still not home.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Trump is killing the economy. Spirit Airlines is gone. After 34 years, the airline shut down before dawn this morning every flight canceled, every employee out of a job, millions of passengers left scrambling. And the story of how it happened is a direct line back to Trump’s war with Iran.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Absolutely NO LIES TOLD....

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Mainstream media is starting to cover the dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. Thank you for speaking out and helping keep this story alive. #SaveUSFS

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