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📣 Since we’re talking about AI Data Centers — thought you might like to hear what it sounds like to live next to one 24 hours a day. Take a listen y’all and let me know how you’d feel!

📣 Since we’re talking about AI Data Centers — thought you might like to hear what it sounds like to live next to one 24 hours a day. Take a listen y’all and let me know how you’d feel!

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On September 25, it was reported that 1273M, a Yellowstone wolf known as Tripod, was killed during Montana's wolf hunt, in hunting subunit 313, outside Yellowstone. He was born in 2019 into the Junction Butte Pack and became famous when he ran off with a photographer's tripod. In 2020, while the park was closed to visitors, staff hazed him with paintballs and beanbags. After successful aversive conditioning, he learned to avoid people and went on to help form the Rescue Creek Pack. He wore a research collar. When a collared wolf is killed, researchers lose all the data that wolf was giving them. A research collar doesn't protect a wolf from hunters. In Montana, the only requirement is that the hunter returns the collar to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The collar comes back. The wolf, and everything he could have taught biologists, doesn't. Montana just approved killing up to 300 wolves this season. That's roughly 4 out of every 10 of the 725 wolves the state now estimates it has, revised down from 1,094. The commission set the quota over the recommendation of the state's own biologists, who suggested 250. The state's own report says hitting that number year after year could push the population below the 450 it needs to keep. Before Wyoming's wolf hunt opened, it was reported that Mollie's Pack was safe inside Yellowstone's boundaries. The pack made it through Wyoming's hunt unharmed. Wolves don't know boundaries. Wolves that live mostly inside Yellowstone generally don't fear people, which makes them easy targets once they cross the line. Mollie's Pack made it. 1273M didn't. Wolves can't see the park boundary. Hunters can. There are a couple petitions for you today. The first one is to extend the borders of Yellowstone to protect the wolves in Wyoming. The second one is to stop the wolf hunt in Montana. 🐺 Links are in the first reply.👇 #DemsUnited 🧵

On September 25, it was reported that 1273M, a Yellowstone wolf known as Tripod, was killed during Montana's wolf hunt, in hunting subunit 313, outside Yellowstone. He was born in 2019 into the Junction Butte Pack and became famous when he ran off with a photographer's tripod. In 2020, while the park was closed to visitors, staff hazed him with paintballs and beanbags. After successful aversive conditioning, he learned to avoid people and went on to help form the Rescue Creek Pack. He wore a research collar. When a collared wolf is killed, researchers lose all the data that wolf was giving them. A research collar doesn't protect a wolf from hunters. In Montana, the only requirement is that the hunter returns the collar to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The collar comes back. The wolf, and everything he could have taught biologists, doesn't. Montana just approved killing up to 300 wolves this season. That's roughly 4 out of every 10 of the 725 wolves the state now estimates it has, revised down from 1,094. The commission set the quota over the recommendation of the state's own biologists, who suggested 250. The state's own report says hitting that number year after year could push the population below the 450 it needs to keep. Before Wyoming's wolf hunt opened, it was reported that Mollie's Pack was safe inside Yellowstone's boundaries. The pack made it through Wyoming's hunt unharmed. Wolves don't know boundaries. Wolves that live mostly inside Yellowstone generally don't fear people, which makes them easy targets once they cross the line. Mollie's Pack made it. 1273M didn't. Wolves can't see the park boundary. Hunters can. There are a couple petitions for you today. The first one is to extend the borders of Yellowstone to protect the wolves in Wyoming. The second one is to stop the wolf hunt in Montana. 🐺 Links are in the first reply.👇 #DemsUnited 🧵

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The Bureau of Land Management approved blasting through 100-foot canyon walls at the entrance to the world's longest art gallery. So oil tankers can drive through it. Nine Mile Canyon, Utah holds more than 10,000 cultural, historical and archaeological resources, including over 1,000 known rock art sites containing more than 10,000 individual images. People have used this canyon for at least 8,000 years. The blasting happens in Gate Canyon, the entrance corridor into that gallery. Federal surveys have already found 47 historic sites along this one stretch of road alone. And it's not only the rock art. Threatened Mexican spotted owls use cliff habitat in the canyon, including areas near the proposed blasting. BLM did the minimum environmental review required and barreled ahead anyway, to move oil out of the Uinta Basin faster. Up to 1,000 vehicles a day, roughly half of them heavy tankers. This isn't BLM's first swing at this road. Duchesne County tried the same realignment in 2015 and again in 2022. Both times, public opposition killed it. This time, BLM posted it quietly in March with no public notice, denied conservation groups' request to even weigh in, and approved it in April anyway. It's the same playbook that just got this administration stopped at Big Bend National Park, except "stopped" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. There, a judge halted construction October 2nd, but only after bulldozers had already torn through the park’s grounds. A win in court doesn't un-crush what's already crushed. Three groups sued over Gate Canyon this week. But a lawsuit takes months. A blasting crew takes days. #DemsUnited 🧵

The Bureau of Land Management approved blasting through 100-foot canyon walls at the entrance to the world's longest art gallery. So oil tankers can drive through it. Nine Mile Canyon, Utah holds more than 10,000 cultural, historical and archaeological resources, including over 1,000 known rock art sites containing more than 10,000 individual images. People have used this canyon for at least 8,000 years. The blasting happens in Gate Canyon, the entrance corridor into that gallery. Federal surveys have already found 47 historic sites along this one stretch of road alone. And it's not only the rock art. Threatened Mexican spotted owls use cliff habitat in the canyon, including areas near the proposed blasting. BLM did the minimum environmental review required and barreled ahead anyway, to move oil out of the Uinta Basin faster. Up to 1,000 vehicles a day, roughly half of them heavy tankers. This isn't BLM's first swing at this road. Duchesne County tried the same realignment in 2015 and again in 2022. Both times, public opposition killed it. This time, BLM posted it quietly in March with no public notice, denied conservation groups' request to even weigh in, and approved it in April anyway. It's the same playbook that just got this administration stopped at Big Bend National Park, except "stopped" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. There, a judge halted construction October 2nd, but only after bulldozers had already torn through the park’s grounds. A win in court doesn't un-crush what's already crushed. Three groups sued over Gate Canyon this week. But a lawsuit takes months. A blasting crew takes days. #DemsUnited 🧵

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🚨BREAKING: GRANDMOTHER IS GONE. 💔🌳 The last ancient cottonwood in Lochiel, Arizona, known as Grandmother, has been cut down. Twelve people were arrested this morning as Border Patrol entered the property where people had been protecting the tree, according to Rally for the Valley and the Immigration Coalition. Then Grandmother was destroyed. This is the most recent video from Rally for the Valley. It documents what happened as it unfolded. Grab your tissues — rhis is hard to watch. 🌳 #DemsUnited

🚨BREAKING: GRANDMOTHER IS GONE. 💔🌳 The last ancient cottonwood in Lochiel, Arizona, known as Grandmother, has been cut down. Twelve people were arrested this morning as Border Patrol entered the property where people had been protecting the tree, according to Rally for the Valley and the Immigration Coalition. Then Grandmother was destroyed. This is the most recent video from Rally for the Valley. It documents what happened as it unfolded. Grab your tissues — rhis is hard to watch. 🌳 #DemsUnited

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Vance said they were going to go “door to door.” Looks like they’ve already begun. This is not America. This looks like 1930’s Germany. Knocking and asking neighbors to squeal on other neighbors. Shameful. #DemsUnited #AbolishTrumpsICE

Vance said they were going to go “door to door.” Looks like they’ve already begun. This is not America. This looks like 1930’s Germany. Knocking and asking neighbors to squeal on other neighbors. Shameful. #DemsUnited #AbolishTrumpsICE

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“Help me please, I have my papers!” Those were the screams of Marta Leiva, as ICE dragged her away at the SLC airport. Four plainclothes agents can be seen restraining her near baggage claim as she pleads that she has legal documentation. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, ICE told the outlet in a Thursday morning email that it was “not involved.” But later aft local police identified them as ICE, the agency reversed course & admitted “this was ICE.” SLC Mayor wants to know “why were they in plainclothes without visible identification? Nothing about this incident makes me feel safer as an American.” #DemsUnited #EndICE

“Help me please, I have my papers!” Those were the screams of Marta Leiva, as ICE dragged her away at the SLC airport. Four plainclothes agents can be seen restraining her near baggage claim as she pleads that she has legal documentation. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, ICE told the outlet in a Thursday morning email that it was “not involved.” But later aft local police identified them as ICE, the agency reversed course & admitted “this was ICE.” SLC Mayor wants to know “why were they in plainclothes without visible identification? Nothing about this incident makes me feel safer as an American.” #DemsUnited #EndICE

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MAGA calls threatens to call ICE because he doesn’t want to pay for services rendered. He keeps mentioning “ICE” and “deporting” during phone call. What a way to get out of paying your bill. The man’s name and details are in comments below ⬇️ #DemsUnited #ICEAbuse

MAGA calls threatens to call ICE because he doesn’t want to pay for services rendered. He keeps mentioning “ICE” and “deporting” during phone call. What a way to get out of paying your bill. The man’s name and details are in comments below ⬇️ #DemsUnited #ICEAbuse

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11/11/25 Agents from ICE arrested Adán Núñez Gonzalez, who’s lived in Northfield, MN for over a decade. He is a father of four & his wife & children are US citizens. He worked as a house painter doing small jobs. Agents wore plain clothes & masks, broke a car window, pointed guns, & pulled him out of the passenger seat. Without showing a warrant or identifying themselves. All in front of his 15 yr old son who was visibly traumatized. He will be deported to Mexico. #DemsUnited #EndIceAbuse

11/11/25 Agents from ICE arrested Adán Núñez Gonzalez, who’s lived in Northfield, MN for over a decade. He is a father of four & his wife & children are US citizens. He worked as a house painter doing small jobs. Agents wore plain clothes & masks, broke a car window, pointed guns, & pulled him out of the passenger seat. Without showing a warrant or identifying themselves. All in front of his 15 yr old son who was visibly traumatized. He will be deported to Mexico. #DemsUnited #EndIceAbuse

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A gray wolf walked into Sequoia National Park this spring for the first time in over a CENTURY. Her name is BEY03F. This is a big deal, wolves haven’t set foot here in a hundred years, and she just did it on her own. 🐺 She’s three years old, alone, looking for a mate. Months before her family was killed by the state after livestock attacks, she’d already left, already walking south alone — gone before it happened. She crossed the Mojave and made history in LA County. Now she’s made history in Sequoia. Still walking, still looking, still free. Nobody released these wolves. Nobody funded a program. California hunted, trapped, and poisoned every wolf out of this state by the 1920s, and they walked themselves back anyway, starting in 2011, all the way from Oregon. That’s what she is. Proof it can still happen. She’s protected today under the Endangered Species Act. That’s good. But what worries me is the direction this administration is taking that same law — this July, they took habitat destruction out of the definition of “harm.” And her own family’s death proves the state can still pull the trigger itself. One wolf. A hundred years of silence, broken. It’s so good to see the wolf return. Now, let’s hope she finds a mate. 🐺 #DemsUnited

A gray wolf walked into Sequoia National Park this spring for the first time in over a CENTURY. Her name is BEY03F. This is a big deal, wolves haven’t set foot here in a hundred years, and she just did it on her own. 🐺 She’s three years old, alone, looking for a mate. Months before her family was killed by the state after livestock attacks, she’d already left, already walking south alone — gone before it happened. She crossed the Mojave and made history in LA County. Now she’s made history in Sequoia. Still walking, still looking, still free. Nobody released these wolves. Nobody funded a program. California hunted, trapped, and poisoned every wolf out of this state by the 1920s, and they walked themselves back anyway, starting in 2011, all the way from Oregon. That’s what she is. Proof it can still happen. She’s protected today under the Endangered Species Act. That’s good. But what worries me is the direction this administration is taking that same law — this July, they took habitat destruction out of the definition of “harm.” And her own family’s death proves the state can still pull the trigger itself. One wolf. A hundred years of silence, broken. It’s so good to see the wolf return. Now, let’s hope she finds a mate. 🐺 #DemsUnited

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Nine wolves. Four pups, three yearlings, two adults. Wisconsin's DNR ordered them killed; federal Wildlife Services carried it out. 🐺 Before the traps, before the kill order — this is what that pack might have looked like: hunting, raising pups, moving through water and forests, playing their part in the ecosystem. That's what nine wolves were, before Wisconsin decided they were a threat. The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), in the Ojibwe ceded territory, says they were never consulted. No warning before the decision, no threat data, no criteria, just told afterward that the entire pack was already dead. In their own words: "Simply handing us the remains of our relatives after killing them does not constitute meaningful consultation." DNR says the wolves had lost their fear of people after repeated verified conflicts, and that relocation wasn't possible, no open habitat to send them to. DNR Secretary Karen Hyun apologized for the communication failure afterward. But GLIFWC's Jenny Van Sickle says federal rules required relocation to actually be attempted, not just considered — DNR says it ruled relocation out as infeasible. Whether that satisfies the law is the real dispute. Four of the nine were pups. This wasn't nine wolves removed one at a time — it was a family, killed together. These weren't Wisconsin's wolves to kill. They were someone's family. An apology doesn't bring back nine wolves. And it doesn't answer the real question: what do we actually owe the animals, and the people with treaty rights to them, that we share this land with? Tell your senators to vote no — link in first reply. #DemsUnited 🧵

Nine wolves. Four pups, three yearlings, two adults. Wisconsin's DNR ordered them killed; federal Wildlife Services carried it out. 🐺 Before the traps, before the kill order — this is what that pack might have looked like: hunting, raising pups, moving through water and forests, playing their part in the ecosystem. That's what nine wolves were, before Wisconsin decided they were a threat. The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), in the Ojibwe ceded territory, says they were never consulted. No warning before the decision, no threat data, no criteria, just told afterward that the entire pack was already dead. In their own words: "Simply handing us the remains of our relatives after killing them does not constitute meaningful consultation." DNR says the wolves had lost their fear of people after repeated verified conflicts, and that relocation wasn't possible, no open habitat to send them to. DNR Secretary Karen Hyun apologized for the communication failure afterward. But GLIFWC's Jenny Van Sickle says federal rules required relocation to actually be attempted, not just considered — DNR says it ruled relocation out as infeasible. Whether that satisfies the law is the real dispute. Four of the nine were pups. This wasn't nine wolves removed one at a time — it was a family, killed together. These weren't Wisconsin's wolves to kill. They were someone's family. An apology doesn't bring back nine wolves. And it doesn't answer the real question: what do we actually owe the animals, and the people with treaty rights to them, that we share this land with? Tell your senators to vote no — link in first reply. #DemsUnited 🧵

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Yesterday, Trump blocked $25 million already approved for national parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion, and Joshua Tree, over 130 projects, rejected, with no warning. Interior's excuse? These groups are supposedly "working against the best interests of the American people." That's it. That's the whole explanation. Trump has spent his second term purging anything tied to DEI, climate change, or anything he considers "woke" or liberal. This fits that same pattern. A former NPS acting superintendent and wildlife biologist, Elaine Leslie, asked the obvious question out loud: "The real question is where did this $25 million go to? Where is it?" This isn't the first time this has happened this year. Park entrance fees are supposed to stay with the parks. Instead, $323 million of that money got redirected straight to his vanity projects. In 2024, that number was only $7.5 million. This money is supposed to stay at the parks. Instead, it's funding a loophole nobody's bothered to close. Democratic senators keep demanding transparency. Republicans haven't lifted a finger. These are our lands. Public lands. Tell Congress to fully fund the National Park Service and hold Trump accountable. Link in first reply👇 #DemsUnited

Yesterday, Trump blocked $25 million already approved for national parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion, and Joshua Tree, over 130 projects, rejected, with no warning. Interior's excuse? These groups are supposedly "working against the best interests of the American people." That's it. That's the whole explanation. Trump has spent his second term purging anything tied to DEI, climate change, or anything he considers "woke" or liberal. This fits that same pattern. A former NPS acting superintendent and wildlife biologist, Elaine Leslie, asked the obvious question out loud: "The real question is where did this $25 million go to? Where is it?" This isn't the first time this has happened this year. Park entrance fees are supposed to stay with the parks. Instead, $323 million of that money got redirected straight to his vanity projects. In 2024, that number was only $7.5 million. This money is supposed to stay at the parks. Instead, it's funding a loophole nobody's bothered to close. Democratic senators keep demanding transparency. Republicans haven't lifted a finger. These are our lands. Public lands. Tell Congress to fully fund the National Park Service and hold Trump accountable. Link in first reply👇 #DemsUnited

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“Don’t Call Us Nazi’s!” Sure my dudes. As soon as you stop running around with guns pointed in people’s faces, wearing masks, breaking windows, with no identification, disappearing people, depriving people of their fourth amendment right. Maybe then we’ll stop calling you “Nazi’s.” #DemsUnited #EndICEAbuse

“Don’t Call Us Nazi’s!” Sure my dudes. As soon as you stop running around with guns pointed in people’s faces, wearing masks, breaking windows, with no identification, disappearing people, depriving people of their fourth amendment right. Maybe then we’ll stop calling you “Nazi’s.” #DemsUnited #EndICEAbuse

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“The matriarch 1090F is going down on the 15th of September." Antonis K. posted that on Facebook, before vowing to bring four friends to Wyoming to "harvest" her. A second hunter said he'd take the shot too. Wildlife advocates tried offering $10,000 to expose whoever did it, then had to pull the offer, Wyoming law protects hunters' identities. 1090F is the matriarch of Mollie's Pack, Yellowstone's oldest wolf family, known for generations as skilled bison hunters, tracing back to the original 1995-96 reintroduction. At 12 years old, she's almost one hunting season away from becoming the oldest wolf ever recorded in Wyoming. Her pack left Yellowstone's protection this summer, denning right outside the boundary where hunting is legal. People begged Wyoming's Game and Fish Commission to close just that one zone, just for this pack, just for this season. One official got 1,100 emails in five minutes. "She is dangerously close to being the oldest wolf ever recorded in Wyoming," he admitted. They said no anyway. On September 15th, the exact day hunters targeted her, most of the pack was confirmed back inside Yellowstone's boundary. But there are new pups this season, now finally old enough to travel with the pack, and that makes everyone more vulnerable. Yellowstone wolves grow up used to tourists and vehicles, not guns. They haven't learned to fear humans the way wolves outside the park have. The hunt remains open, and wolves don't adhere to boundaries. There's already talk of stripping wolves of federal protection entirely. Trump signed an executive order giving his administration 90 days to decide whether to move forward. That wouldn't touch wolves inside Yellowstone's boundary, protection there doesn't come from this law anyway. But wild animals don't know where that boundary is. I'll keep you posted as this develops. But this is what you can do today. Tell Wyoming to close Wolf Hunt Area 1 before the September 22nd meeting.🐺 Link in first reply👇 #DemsUnited

“The matriarch 1090F is going down on the 15th of September." Antonis K. posted that on Facebook, before vowing to bring four friends to Wyoming to "harvest" her. A second hunter said he'd take the shot too. Wildlife advocates tried offering $10,000 to expose whoever did it, then had to pull the offer, Wyoming law protects hunters' identities. 1090F is the matriarch of Mollie's Pack, Yellowstone's oldest wolf family, known for generations as skilled bison hunters, tracing back to the original 1995-96 reintroduction. At 12 years old, she's almost one hunting season away from becoming the oldest wolf ever recorded in Wyoming. Her pack left Yellowstone's protection this summer, denning right outside the boundary where hunting is legal. People begged Wyoming's Game and Fish Commission to close just that one zone, just for this pack, just for this season. One official got 1,100 emails in five minutes. "She is dangerously close to being the oldest wolf ever recorded in Wyoming," he admitted. They said no anyway. On September 15th, the exact day hunters targeted her, most of the pack was confirmed back inside Yellowstone's boundary. But there are new pups this season, now finally old enough to travel with the pack, and that makes everyone more vulnerable. Yellowstone wolves grow up used to tourists and vehicles, not guns. They haven't learned to fear humans the way wolves outside the park have. The hunt remains open, and wolves don't adhere to boundaries. There's already talk of stripping wolves of federal protection entirely. Trump signed an executive order giving his administration 90 days to decide whether to move forward. That wouldn't touch wolves inside Yellowstone's boundary, protection there doesn't come from this law anyway. But wild animals don't know where that boundary is. I'll keep you posted as this develops. But this is what you can do today. Tell Wyoming to close Wolf Hunt Area 1 before the September 22nd meeting.🐺 Link in first reply👇 #DemsUnited

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This forest is the only place left in America where it's still legal to clearcut trees older than the country itself. 🌳 Some of what's still standing predates the Constitution by centuries, trees 500 to 800 years old. 96% of old-growth forest from California to Alaska has already been logged. This is what's left, what advocates call "the last frontier." Cut down, it's not coming back in our lifetime, or our children's, or theirs. That matters more than most people realize. This single forest stores roughly 20% of all the carbon held in the entire U.S. national forest system, more per acre than any forest on Earth. Left standing, it's doing the work of holding back roughly a year and a half of the country's entire greenhouse gas emissions. This is the Tongass, Alaska's 17-million-acre rainforest, the largest national forest in America and one of the largest intact temperate rainforests left on Earth. The Roadless Rule currently protects 9 million acres of it from new logging roads. It's named for the Tlingit Tongass people, whose homeland this has been for thousands of years, and the forest still supports Indigenous communities who rely on it today. Its streams produce 25% of the entire West Coast's commercial salmon harvest, and its old growth is critical habitat for wolves, bears, deer, and 350 species of birds. The Trump administration wants to repeal the Roadless Rule entirely, opening 44.7 million acres of national forest nationwide, including this ground, to road building and logging for the first time in 25 years. Their stated reason is wildfire prevention. New research says otherwise: wildfires are actually 4 times more likely to start in areas that already have roads. That leaves a real window to push back. Make your voices heard. Public comment is open now, through October 6th. Link is in the first reply👇 #DemsUnited

This forest is the only place left in America where it's still legal to clearcut trees older than the country itself. 🌳 Some of what's still standing predates the Constitution by centuries, trees 500 to 800 years old. 96% of old-growth forest from California to Alaska has already been logged. This is what's left, what advocates call "the last frontier." Cut down, it's not coming back in our lifetime, or our children's, or theirs. That matters more than most people realize. This single forest stores roughly 20% of all the carbon held in the entire U.S. national forest system, more per acre than any forest on Earth. Left standing, it's doing the work of holding back roughly a year and a half of the country's entire greenhouse gas emissions. This is the Tongass, Alaska's 17-million-acre rainforest, the largest national forest in America and one of the largest intact temperate rainforests left on Earth. The Roadless Rule currently protects 9 million acres of it from new logging roads. It's named for the Tlingit Tongass people, whose homeland this has been for thousands of years, and the forest still supports Indigenous communities who rely on it today. Its streams produce 25% of the entire West Coast's commercial salmon harvest, and its old growth is critical habitat for wolves, bears, deer, and 350 species of birds. The Trump administration wants to repeal the Roadless Rule entirely, opening 44.7 million acres of national forest nationwide, including this ground, to road building and logging for the first time in 25 years. Their stated reason is wildfire prevention. New research says otherwise: wildfires are actually 4 times more likely to start in areas that already have roads. That leaves a real window to push back. Make your voices heard. Public comment is open now, through October 6th. Link is in the first reply👇 #DemsUnited

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The Bureau of Land Management says a wildfire burned two thirds of their food. A drought dried up their water. So the agency planned to remove EVERY wild horse from Riddle Mountain, Oregon. All 418 of them. They called it a rescue. The horses would be held off the range for about two years. BLM says the burned range needs a break from grazing. The horses live on this land by federal law, but the cows graze on it by permit only. The environmental and wild horse groups that sued say cattle were still out there when a judge asked. And only one of them was being told to leave. Is this also DEI for cows? Across the land it manages, the agency authorizes enough forage for 631,412 cows and their calves, compared to ALL of America's wild horses and burros: 26,785 (BLM 2022 data, via Return to Freedom). I can't get past that number. I keep thinking about these horses, waiting on a courtroom with winter coming. And about the 14,830 wild horses and burros BLM has targeted for removal this year. BLM's own target for that range is just 33 to 56 horses. That plan would return just enough to reach the low end: 33. And Western Watersheds Project's director says 33 horses is too few to keep a herd genetically healthy. Why the emergency? The groups say they had been in court for two years, and BLM had agreed to hold off on a roundup. Then it announced an "emergency" the Thursday before Labor Day weekend. Is this not a little suspicious from an agency we've already come to not trust? The groups say BLM had already hired contractors to round up the horses, including a $436,500 helicopter contract. They say the judge saw through the last-minute emergency, worried it looked like gamesmanship, and said no way. So a judge blocked the roundup a day before it began. That's a temporary restraining order, a short-term pause that does not decide who is right. Another hearing is coming, and the horses stay on the range for now. The agency warns fall storms could close the roads before it can reach the horses. If there isn't enough food for the horses, why is there enough for the cows? Trump's budget request for 2027 left out the long-standing protection against sending healthy wild horses to slaughter. His 2026 request left it out too. Congress kept it in the final law last year anyway (via Roll Call). BLM can legally sell wild horses. The petition says once they're sold, they lose federal protection, with little oversight of where they end up. It asks Congress for a full audit of those sales. Add your name and make your voice heard before it’s too late! Link is in the first reply👇 #DemsUnited

The Bureau of Land Management says a wildfire burned two thirds of their food. A drought dried up their water. So the agency planned to remove EVERY wild horse from Riddle Mountain, Oregon. All 418 of them. They called it a rescue. The horses would be held off the range for about two years. BLM says the burned range needs a break from grazing. The horses live on this land by federal law, but the cows graze on it by permit only. The environmental and wild horse groups that sued say cattle were still out there when a judge asked. And only one of them was being told to leave. Is this also DEI for cows? Across the land it manages, the agency authorizes enough forage for 631,412 cows and their calves, compared to ALL of America's wild horses and burros: 26,785 (BLM 2022 data, via Return to Freedom). I can't get past that number. I keep thinking about these horses, waiting on a courtroom with winter coming. And about the 14,830 wild horses and burros BLM has targeted for removal this year. BLM's own target for that range is just 33 to 56 horses. That plan would return just enough to reach the low end: 33. And Western Watersheds Project's director says 33 horses is too few to keep a herd genetically healthy. Why the emergency? The groups say they had been in court for two years, and BLM had agreed to hold off on a roundup. Then it announced an "emergency" the Thursday before Labor Day weekend. Is this not a little suspicious from an agency we've already come to not trust? The groups say BLM had already hired contractors to round up the horses, including a $436,500 helicopter contract. They say the judge saw through the last-minute emergency, worried it looked like gamesmanship, and said no way. So a judge blocked the roundup a day before it began. That's a temporary restraining order, a short-term pause that does not decide who is right. Another hearing is coming, and the horses stay on the range for now. The agency warns fall storms could close the roads before it can reach the horses. If there isn't enough food for the horses, why is there enough for the cows? Trump's budget request for 2027 left out the long-standing protection against sending healthy wild horses to slaughter. His 2026 request left it out too. Congress kept it in the final law last year anyway (via Roll Call). BLM can legally sell wild horses. The petition says once they're sold, they lose federal protection, with little oversight of where they end up. It asks Congress for a full audit of those sales. Add your name and make your voice heard before it’s too late! Link is in the first reply👇 #DemsUnited

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"Absolutely we need to support and protect every single inch of those national parks." That's what Doug Burgum swore under oath at his Senate confirmation hearing. Yesterday, 150+ organizations called him out on that promise, by name, in writing, over the Yosemite sweetheart deal. Officials only started exploring this "land exchange" after confirming Kingsbarn couldn't legally just buy the land outright. Congress got only vague notice. The public found out through leaked reports, not disclosure. "If Yosemite can be chopped apart, no national park in America is safe." Tell Interior Yosemite isn't for sale, link in the first reply 👇 #DemsUnited 🧵

"Absolutely we need to support and protect every single inch of those national parks." That's what Doug Burgum swore under oath at his Senate confirmation hearing. Yesterday, 150+ organizations called him out on that promise, by name, in writing, over the Yosemite sweetheart deal. Officials only started exploring this "land exchange" after confirming Kingsbarn couldn't legally just buy the land outright. Congress got only vague notice. The public found out through leaked reports, not disclosure. "If Yosemite can be chopped apart, no national park in America is safe." Tell Interior Yosemite isn't for sale, link in the first reply 👇 #DemsUnited 🧵

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Date: 2-18 Time: 8:50 pm Location: Whipple Federal Building Detainees are being released from ICE custody into frigid winter conditions without coats, hats or gloves. Tell me how this is humane. #DemsUnited #ICE

Date: 2-18 Time: 8:50 pm Location: Whipple Federal Building Detainees are being released from ICE custody into frigid winter conditions without coats, hats or gloves. Tell me how this is humane. #DemsUnited #ICE

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Lance Cooper It’s pretty shocking to 👀

Lance Cooper It’s pretty shocking to 👀

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A 7 year old girl. ICE took a 7-year-old Canadian girl into custody after a checkpoint stop in Texas. They were just driving home. “My wife’s paperwork is valid.” “She has a legal right to work.” “My stepdaughter has autism.” Now she’s in the Ursula processing center in McAllen — a facility notorious for using child “cages” — with her mother. Explain this. #DemsUnited #Immigration

A 7 year old girl. ICE took a 7-year-old Canadian girl into custody after a checkpoint stop in Texas. They were just driving home. “My wife’s paperwork is valid.” “She has a legal right to work.” “My stepdaughter has autism.” Now she’s in the Ursula processing center in McAllen — a facility notorious for using child “cages” — with her mother. Explain this. #DemsUnited #Immigration

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