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Whistleblower responds after DOJ confirms DOGE mishandled Social Security data The Social Security Administration says members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the agency accessed and shared sensitive data. The latest disclosure from the Trump administration seemed to confirm...

The Social Security Administration says members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the agency accessed and shared sensitive data. It seemed to confirm some key concerns first raised in a whistleblower complaint. https://to.pbs.org/3LBgsry

Over a month’s-worth of rain could fall in the Desert Southwest as former Hurricane Priscilla juices up the atmosphere | CNN The ailing storm will combine with another storm system to create a prolonged rainfall event in some of the driest areas of the US.

A notable flood threat is on tap for some of the driest areas of the United States as an ailing former Hurricane Priscilla combines with another storm system to create a long-lasting rainfall event.

Tell the Trump administration to keep this landmark conservation rule in place Protect forests from massive expansion of logging

The Roadless Rule is one of the most critical policies that helps defend our forests. The Trump administration is proposing to rescind it, but we have until Friday, September 19 to speak up. Submit your comment today.

Wolf shot by authorities was part of Copper Creek pack An uncollared gray wolf that a federal wildlife official shot in mid-August in Rio Blanco County but was never found by authorities is the fifth yearling of a pack that

CO officials confirmed a yearling wolf from the Copper Creek Pack was shot in August. He had already endured life alone after his family was relocated.

Fracturing wolf families makes conflict worse. Strong, intact packs and non-lethal tools are essential for coexistence.

Read more: bit.ly/4nfmwTy

Congress is back — and wolves are in the crosshairs.

Section 128 in the Interior Bill would strip Gray Wolves of ESA protections nationwide and block courts from stopping it.

Call your reps: TeamWolf.Org

Wolves are running out of time. 🐺

#RaiseYourVoice

Earlier this week, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife killed an endangered female wolf from the Sherman pack in a misguided attempt to prevent livestock attacks. Science shows killing wolves only worsens conflict. Why does WDFW keep ignoring the evidence?

Under the sea grape tree

Friday planning session

Coastal cleanup participant

Those who follow know it is a tradition for us to meet ‘under the sea grape tree’ on Fridays to review the week and plan our weekend of research, recovery, and restoration. Today’s topic: Last week’s Global Plastics Treaty failure. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean

Walmart and Target are heading in opposite directions. https://cnn.it/45A16Ju

🚨 Brian Nesvik—the official who let Cody Roberts off with a $250 fine after torturing a wolf—was confirmed Friday as Trump’s @‌USFWS Director.

The man who excused wolf abuse now leads wildlife enforcement across the country.

Wolves need your voice now: TeamWolf.Org

Extremely relevant to our interests in #idaho. My family drove through the start of a brush fire on Saturday. There was a burned-out car on the side of the road and flames in the median, as a small crew of firefighters tried to keep it from jumping. Within hours, it had consumed 8,000+ acres.

Saw this today. Woke isn’t new, the way it’s interpreted is. I’m w/ Superman 1949 poster.

Wolf 2405, born in Colorado under the voter-approved reintroduction, was killed in May. Now, ranchers want the entire Copper Creek Pack removed.

No decisions were made during Monday’s CPW Commission meeting, but the pressure to escalate lethal action continues.
#LetWolvesLive
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Utah Sen. Mike Lee Says Selling Off Public Lands Will Solve the West’s Housing Crisis. Past Sales Show Otherwise. Last month, Lee introduced a now-removed amendment to Trump’s policy megabill that mandated the sale of up to 3 million acres. It did little to address the challenges of building affordable housing on...

NEW: Utah Sen. Mike Lee Says Selling Off Public Lands Will Solve the West’s Housing Crisis. Past Sales Show Otherwise. @abestreep.bsky.social

Trump administration proposes expansion of Arctic drilling The Trump administration wants to open up more than 80 percent of a publicly owned area of the Western Arctic for oil and gas drilling. The Interior Department said late Tuesday afternoon that it i…

The Trump administration wants to open over 80% of Alaska’s Western Arctic—one of the most ecologically rich areas in the U.S.—to oil and gas leasing. Aside from threats to vital habitat, moving in this direction would lead to staggering climate consequences.

Trump’s tariffs were expected to strengthen the dollar. So why is it the weakest it’s been in three years? | CNN Business The US dollar is weakening against other currencies. It’s the opposite of what many on Wall Street had expected this year, and a sign of just how unusual markets have behaved in President Donald Trump...

The US dollar has broadly weakened this year as Trump's tariffs — and his back-and-forth decisions on implementing them, pausing them, raising them and lowering them — have injected uncertainty into markets and clouded the outlook for the US economy.

The same Trump judge that gutted protections for mifepristone has now gutted privacy protections for women that receive reproductive care. This ruling effectively green lights a witch hunt by red states to target women that get care.

Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the Clinton-era rule barring road construction and logging was outdated and “absurd.”

The Trump administration moved to roll back the 2001 Roadless Rule, opening 58M acres of protected forest—including Alaska’s Tongass—to logging, roads, and development. The change threatens critical habitat for species like the rare Alexander Archipelago wolf.

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A truly great country knows its full history — this is strength. Denying that history is weakness and weakens that nation going forward.

A president who erases our history attacks our strength.

op: kyleclark9news

BREAKING: Trump's USDA just announced plans to repeal the Roadless Rule, a longstanding policy that has long protected National Forests from logging and harmful road building.

A photo of red wildflowers in the foreground, in the background are the Three Sisters mountains of Central Oregon.

A landscape photo of a very snowy hillside with ski tracks and trees.

A landscape photo of a very densely forested part of the Cascades

A landscape photo with a lake in the foreground and two large mountains in the background

Republicans really see places like this and think what a perfect location for a new data center or mining operation

Trump administration pulls US out of agreement to help restore salmon in the Columbia River President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled the U.S. out of an agreement with Washington, Oregon and four American Indian tribes to work together to restore salmon populations and boost tribal energy de...

President Trump just pulled the U.S. out of a historic agreement to restore salmon in the Columbia River Basin. “The Administration’s decision to terminate these commitments echoes the federal government’s historic pattern of broken promises to tribes.” - Gerald Lewis, Yakama Tribal Council Chairman

Trump Vance Johnson and every MAGA politician must be removed!

So let me get this right. Donald Trump said it was Nancy Pelosi’s responsibility to deploy the National Guard (when it was white people) but he didn’t need anyone (Gavin Newsom) to deploy the Guard on brown people. 🤨

By the way a military parade when we’re not celebrating a war victory is something a dude who never served would do.

How the Trump administration is putting hundreds of sacred sites at risk Indigenous nations are facing impossible deadlines and vanishing budgets amid sweeping federal rollbacks.

Indigenous nations are facing impossible deadlines and vanishing budgets amid sweeping federal rollbacks.

BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin

The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach

We MUST defend judicial independence👇

CEO pay rose nearly 10% in 2024 as stock prices and profits soared The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 10% in 2024 as the stock market enjoyed another banner year and corporate profits rose sharply.

The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 10% in 2024 as the stock market enjoyed another banner year and corporate profits rose sharply.