9 regional offices, not 10. Region 7 was combined with region 9 in the 70’s (maybe 60’s).

More than two people have been killed by ICE since Jan 1.

Our government is very small for the size of the country and population. Most fed employees are epically overworked, often doing 2 or 3 jobs on top of what they were hired for.

P2025 calls for them firing us all anyway. They want to remove anyone who isn’t military or ICE. A shutdown would just be one more tool, despite the illegality of conducting a RIF during a lapse in funding.

A woman in my town is being threatened and bullied for not being sad enough about Charlie Kirks death.

The same people in town who said Melissa Hortmann deserved what she got, who gleefully report people to ICE, and applaud concentration camps in the US.

God help us all.

During the USDA hearing, Vaden (Vader?) said no civil rights analysis to Warnock. Civil Rights analysis is required for ALL reorganizations and workforce plannings in USDA.

Wonder if anyone will catch on to that besides the Union reps.

Listening to the deputy secretary of ag - this guy is a condescending, patronizing and disdainful. His contempt for ALL of the senators he spoke to today is apparent, even the Republican ones he talked down to all of them and spoke to them like they were uneducated children.

They did NOT tell employees first. They sent it out in a news release linked to a video from the Sec. And the memo with the actual info was a link buried at the bottom of the news release. They told USDA about the reorg in a NEWS RELEASE.

I’m listening to the recording of the Ag committee hearing and the deputy sec comparing covid to forcing 2600 people to move with little notice is so typical of this admin and their bs propaganda.

And they will say the FS is failing at wildfire duties while underfunding necessary programs, eliminating critical positions, and pushing forward with the ill-conceived reorganization the Ag Sec announced today.

We watched the whole thing in one night. It was horrifying to see the groundwork that has led us to where we are today. I hope there will be a third season talking about another group and laying open the horror of evangelical cults.

I’d be interested to see historical data showing occurrences of fires in the early/mid 1900s vs where the cutting of old growth occurred in the decades prior. I feel like there would be a lot of overlap. Even now, areas that burn repeatedly because the big trees are long gone.

We can only hope they will...but...in reality, they will not. They have shown their true colors: The Oval Office and the GOP DO NOT CARE if we die...and if we don't, then we will get over it.

Their disregard for lives is only surpassed by their cruelty for those who are not like them.

It’s eugenics via defunding services.

That’s a terrible idea for many reasons, the least of which is adding yet more weight to the already heavy packs they carry, along with the equipment they already have.

Trumps obsession with timber production, as usual, lacks any foundational knowledge in the current timber markets.

Opening those areas will not magically open more mills or companies, or provide them a place to sell the lumbered timber.

It will increase the number of timber sales that go unsold.

Couch f*cker got his feelings hurt? Aww, how sad.

Any suggestions for dinner tomorrow?

ICE caused this woman to miscarry and then denied her medical care, which could have killed her.

Where are the pro-life assholes now? Why aren’t they screaming in the streets?

Elizabeth Warren would have been an amazing President.

It makes me sad for the Army. They didn’t ask for or deserve him ruining their birthday. Something they’d been planning for literal years. And he ruined it like he ruins everything else.

How much would we have loved the Army showing off if Trump hadn’t commandeered the Army’s birthday parade? They deserved to celebrate their birthday without the Narcissist in Chief making it about him.

We were warned that people would die from DOGEs chaos.

Hurricane and fire season will be even worse.

It didn’t have to be like this.

That is a really terrible painting.

I do get the whole “analysis paralysis” and it is super frustrating sometimes.

It’s such a slippery slope back to where we were though. It is more convenient and cheaper to discharge waste into rivers. It is cheaper and faster to bulldoze TES habitat for train.

But longterm, who benefits?

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Now do Brooke Rollins who said during a hearing yesterday that she doesn’t need to follow congressional budget direction for USDA.

There’s a guy on Morning Joe who is talking about contracting and emergency declarations.

He’s speaking against environmental controls and checks. That we have to many regulations.

We have environmental reviews because when we didn’t we ended up with a dust bowl and later rivers on fire.

At a sports thing for one of the kids. Five or six teenage girls are sitting near me and raging over how expensive ordering from Temu and Shein has become.

They are blaming “that stupid old man with the bad makeup”.

God job Trump, you’ve angered the teenage girls. Now we will all suffer the weath

Brooke Rollins disagrees that she has to follow budget direction from Congress when responding to the Rep from Florida.

And then mentioned the “transgender” mice lie.

Yes. She’s being supremely rude to the Dems questioning her. Go to the senate budget committee website, there’s a link to the youtube stream