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Jeanine Pfeiffer

@jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social
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Ethnoecologist; Essayist; Poet www.jeaninepfeiffer.com

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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The integrity and courage of this young man made me weep. Bravo Abhijeet Dipke and everyone else struggling for positive change. India’s ‘Cockroaches’ Are Fighting Back www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/o...
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Opinion | India’s ‘Cockroaches’ Are Fighting Back (Gift Article)
Inside India’s viral political movement.
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
D.I.Y. ART is born! In Fall 2025, my proposed for pop-up community art workshops in Humboldt County was approved by the Board of the Ink People Center for Arts and Culture, and D.I.Y. ART was born! D.I.Y. ART – an Ink People DreamMaker Project is a growing, community-centered creative initiative…
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D.I.Y. ART is born!
In Fall 2025, my proposed for pop-up community art workshops in Humboldt County was approved by the Board of the Ink People Center for Arts and Culture, and D.I.Y. ART was born! D.I.Y. ART – an Ink People DreamMaker Project is a growing, community-centered creative initiative rooted in inclusion, collaboration, accessibility, and playful artistic exploration. What began as a pop-up maker spaces project is now expanding into a broader network of creative and educational programming that connects people through art, storytelling, cultural awareness, science, and hands-on learning.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/02/2026
They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
THIS is the @NYTimes #OpEd that had readers (including me) & commenters in tears, fists raised ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾in preparation for what will eventually come to our cities. ll In the Resistance, We Drive Minivans www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
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Opinion | In the Resistance, We Drive Minivans
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
An issue that will impact most of us living in the West. 🔥💨😷 How Did This Family End Up Back in a Toxic House? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Insurers Said They Could Return Home. Our Tests Found Neurotoxins in Their Bodies. (Gift Article)
A Times investigation has found that insurers are driving families into homes contaminated by smoke. Lab results show how one family was exposed to neurotoxins and carcinogens.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
And everything is flawed, if you want to look at it that way. The analogy that has helped me most is this: in Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of boat-owners rescued people—single moms, toddlers, grandfathers—stranded in attics, on roofs, in flooded housing projects, hospitals, and school buildings. None of them said, I can’t rescue everyone, therefore it’s futile; therefore my efforts are flawed and worthless, though that’s often what people say about more abstract issues in which, nevertheless, lives, places, cultures, species, rights are at stake. They went out there in fishing boats and rowboats and pirogues and all kinds of small craft, some driving from as far as Texas and eluding the au- thorities to get in, others refugees themselves working within the city. There was bumper-to-bumper boat-trailer traffic—the celebrated Cajun Navy—going toward the city the day after the levees broke. None of those people said, I can’t rescue them all. All of them said, I can rescue someone, and that’s work so meaningful and important I will risk my life and defy the authorities to do it. And they did.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Fact-check: true
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Statement on the Brown University shooting.
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Climate change threatens at least 144 Native Alaskan villages. FEMA and EPA programs slated to assist threatened villages were cancelled by the #47 Regime. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...
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An Alaskan Village Confronts Its Changing Climate: Rebuild or Relocate?
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
“The focus on young women was intentional… young women are too often left on the sidelines of conversations surrounding our buffalo relatives and land-based practices.” 🦬🤎✋🏾https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/meet-your-prayer-halfway-women-led-bison-harvests-bring-tribal-food-sovereignty
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‘Meet your prayer halfway’ | Women-Led Bison Harvests Bring Tribal Food Sovereignty
Last week, cultural educator Patti Harris-Baldes introduced herself with humility to the bison on the ground in front of her on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Her greeting extended to the crowd of peopl...
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
“The philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is funneling tens of millions of dollars into tribal higher education, months after the Trump administration sought to cut one of the system’s most essential funding sources” • MacKenzie Scott Expands Giving Spree to Tribal Colleges www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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MacKenzie Scott Expands Giving Spree to Tribal Colleges
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.” Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
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CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
SCIENCE!! “By about 10,000 years ago, half of all the variation that we see today was already present in dog populations,” said Carly Ameen, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Exeter and one of the lead authors of the analysis. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/s...
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The Dogs of 8,000 B.C. Were Amazingly Diverse
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
📣 Calling all educators! Get experiments, lesson ideas, PD opportunities and more—delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for our free, monthly K-12 education newsletter today: buff.ly/gaW2Xht
Subscribe to the Science Friday Educate monthly newsletter. [image of child looking through telescope with adult]
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fund food stamps in full for roughly 42 million low-income Americans, after admonishing the government for delaying aid during the shutdown. Thank you, Judge John J. McConnell Jr.!
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
“In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing,” said Abraham Joshua Heschel, an American rabbi who opposed the Vietnam War and participated in the civil rights movement. “Some are guilty; all are responsible.” How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
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Opinion | How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“Celebrating war crimes is not patriotic.” nativenewsonline.net/opinion/pete...
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Pete Hegseth’s Wounded Knee Decision Betrays the Meaning of Honor
Opinion: When U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Sept. 25 that he would not rescind the Medals of Honor awarded to approximately 20 members of the U.S. 7th Cavalry for their actions at t...
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
300+ Lakota people (Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ancestors) were killed by US Army soldiers on 12/29/1890, one of the deadliest attacks by the US military. The #47Regime calls the killers heroes. Hegseth Says Honors for Soldiers in Wounded Knee Massacre Will Remain www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...
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Hegseth Says Honors for Soldiers in Wounded Knee Massacre Will Remain
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
“The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and other materials that state that the land once belonged to Native American tribes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/c...
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Park Service Is Ordered to Take Down Some Materials on Slavery and Tribes
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Arata ni Noni O’oanaha, the duty of past and present generations to protect the environment for future generations = the legal principle of intergenerational equity. “Climate change is undermining our ability to uphold this sacred contract.” — Cynthia Houniuhi www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...
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How a Group of Students in the Pacific Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
In a powerful video detailing the rise of #authoritarianism in the #USA, @ezraklein.bsky.social asks, are we totally screwed or not? See you on the streets Oct. 18th. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The Global Sumud Flotilla departed from Genoa & Barcelona ports on 8/31 and will eventually number around 50 vessels, 500 activists, politicians + volunteers from 44 countries attempting to bring aid to Gaza in “the largest civilian-led humanitarian mission in history”. newint.org/action/2025/...
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Italian Dockworkers Threaten to Shut Down Europe in Solidarity with Global Sumud Flotilla
The Gaza-bound aid vessel is the largest civilian-led humanitarian mission in history. Tommaso Gori reports.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 04/09/2025
In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5.  Today it’s 0.7%.  Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why.  Trust the science, it’s been proven to work safely and efficiently time and time again.
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Any Senators here? I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise. RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably. He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably. He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably. 1/
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NSWA - Northwest Science Writers @nswa.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
We’ve been on a bit of a hiatus, but we’re back—and have money to give away to 1-2 enterprising science writers! Want to go to a conference? Learn a new skill? Applications are open for two Career Development Awards of up to $1,000 from August 29th to September 26th, 2025. 💰🤑
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2025 Career Development Awards | Northwest Science Writers Association
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Nancy B 💙🐱🐶📚💀 @extremebeautylv.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
“If you think science and public health are expensive, try ignorance and pandemics.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The most recent labor statistics show that nationwide between Feb-July 2025: - Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public & private sectors - White women gained 142,000 jobs - Hispanic women gained 176,000 - White men saw the largest increase, gaining 365,000 jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
“Items in high demand can be checked out for only a week, and include a grain mill for grinding fresh flour, a nut wizard to gather acorns and other nuts, and, this being Maine, a blueberry rake.” ll Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...
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Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost)
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Our wildlands fire 🔥 crews are dying from preventable particulate cancers. ☠️ Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
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Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
#Disasters #47Regime
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“This program was probably one of a kind - we had strategies in place to target every reservation in the Midwest. Pulling this money out from under us isn’t just devastating to the tribes, but to the communities and regions where those tribes reside.” tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/ene...
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EPA terminates $7B solar program, cutting $500M in tribal energy funding
The Environmental Protection Agency announced it will end the Solar for All program, eliminating more than $500 million in funding for tribal clean energy projects across the country.
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
California Dept. of Fish & Wildlife were adamantly opposed to bringing salmon back to the McCloud. Said it didn’t made sense. Said it could not be done. The Winnemen Wintu kept petitioning, dancing, praying, speaking up for the salmon, the Ancient Ones. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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After nearly 100 years, adult winter-run Chinook salmon seen in California river
State’s fish and wildlife department posted a video showing an adult female guarding a nest of eggs
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
ICYMI: specific tactics for how neighbors can protect neighbors from random armed & masked men in the former U. S. of A. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
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Opinion | They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan.
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A brilliant, incisive, and soul-searching analysis of the perpetual Israeli war on Palestinians — as violence stemming from unhealed trauma, emulating abusers who were abused themselves —from an Ashkenazi Jew & granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6BQ4yMg/
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TikTok video by female intern
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Massive #Israeli #protests against #Gaza war; protestors forcilby removed by police. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Watch: Protesters pack Tel Aviv square to demand Gaza ceasefire
Demonstrators urged Isreal's leaders to end the war and bring back the hostages.
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Opossums + Ocelots Hanging Out Together 🐾🐾 (yet another previously undocumented ecological mutualism) ll Videos From the Amazon Reveal an Unexpected Animal Friendship www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/s...
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Videos From the Amazon Reveal an Unexpected Animal Friendship
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
“What I fear is that in the aftermath of the Gaza genocide, it will no longer be possible to continue teaching and researching the Holocaust in the same manner we did before.” 🖤 I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 11/07/2025
Regardless of where we live or how we vote, extreme weather puts us all at risk: and we know, without a shadow of a doubt, climate change is making it worse. To build resilience, we need more data, more expertise, more preparation, more communication to keep people safe—NOT LESS! More from me:
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What the Floods in Texas Tell Us About Climate Change
“Regardless of where we live or how we vote, extreme weather puts us all at risk," writes Katharine Hayhoe.
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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Scoop: Two days after floods hit Texas, FEMA did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/07/2025
Most plastics are not recyclable, largely because there is no market for materials labeled 3 through 7. from @grist.org via @climatedesk.org
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Big Plastic wants you to think you can recycle your yogurt container
Those numbered labels, vetted by private interests, can be misleading.
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
#TexasFloods
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Thank you to Mexico 🇲🇽 for stepping up and helping in Texas!
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Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
“Since January 2025, FEMA lost >20% of its most experienced, field-ready responders. Temporary staff contracts are running out & FEMA can’t replace them due to hiring restrictions. FEMA Corps, young Americans trained in response & recovery efforts, has been defunded.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...
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Opinion | Texas Hill Country Is Underwater, and America’s Emergency Lifeline Is Fraying
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BlueinOhio @sharon43302.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The U.S. Senate is currently considering a budget reconciliation bill that quietly includes language that could devastate our public lands. It would: - Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale - Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land
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