This 🧵contains video I took at the #StandUpForScience rally 9 months ago. Sparsely attended then, rally crowds have grown! But these scientists’ voices need to be heard! Public needs to know how science impacts their daily lives.
NCAR is #PublicWealth being destroyed
#NCAR
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Done.
And please remind these legislators that they are allowing the dismantling and destruction of #PublicWealth. It is our tax dollars that have paid for and invested in these important scientific research projects.
My husband just had his hip replaced. If there’s an issue with his new device, how will his doctor know? How will we know? We need these folks working at the federal agencies that our tax dollars fund and our Congress has allocated money for! Trump is stealing #PublicWealth
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Brilliant @cmmonwealth.bsky.social thread on the public wealth give-away that was 'right to buy'. Love the idea of right to buy back. 🔥 #publicwealth
Besides decimation of US research and far-reaching effects on our economy, the corruption will be unlike anything we’ve seen so far as federal research grants (ie #PublicWealth) are transferred to “schools” such as Trump University, Prager U, etc
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Look forward to watching this. Sounds gruesome - because it’s real & it’s happening and we are sitting ducks!
UT Sen Mike Lee tried to sell off our #PublicLands in #TrumpsHorribleBill just like DOGE is dismantling our #PublicWealth
Not only a land grab - also #WaterGrab
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This staggeringly huge sale of #PublicLands is also a #WaterGrab! They are stealing #PublicWealth
Check out the LinkedIn post by Samuel Cuthell
Post contains link to #SaveTheForestService Action Guide @savetheforestservice on Instagram
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#LandGrab
#WaterGrab
#PublicWealth Grab
Watch @ricksteves.bsky.social at #HandsOff rally discuss how all of this dismantling and selling off our public (taxpayer -funded) infrastructure, institutions, agencies, and LAND is destroying #PublicWealth
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More re despicable GOP "Clean Water" bills
Summary of Anti-Clean Water Bills Introduced by House Transportation & Infrastructure Republicans
Please read - these bills will affect all of us
#PublicHealth
Decimation of our clean water infrastructure #PublicWealth
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New DOJ “opinion” says Trump can revoke National Monuments & now #MikeLee puts first
3.3 million acres up for sale that lie primarily in the high country of USFS lands…The high country is where the headwaters for 60% of West's freshwater originates #WaterGrab #PublicWealth
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Via Salt Lake Tribune DOJ says Trump can revoke national monuments. What does that mean for Utah? Sen. Mike Lee said an earlier interpretation of the Antiquities Act was “flawed” and has “allowed presidents to unilaterally lock up millions of acres of land.” (Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Indian Creek area of Bears Ears National Monument near Monticello on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Indian Creek area of Bears Ears National Monument near Monticello on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. By Addy Baird and Anastasia Hufham | June 11, 2025, 2:48 p.m. | Updated: 3:59 p.m. The president can undo national monuments, according to a new opinion from the Department of Justice, while environmentalists say the move could endanger protected land across the country, including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah.
“I want to commend the recent opinion by DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, which affirms what many of us have long argued: the president has legal authority to reconsider monument designations that are over-broad, duplicative, or disconnected from statute’s purpose”~ Sen #MikeLee #PublicWealth selloff
Thank Utah Senator #MikeLee for adding this #WaterGrab #PublicWealth Sell Off to #TrumpsHorribleBill
Who will be buying up the water?
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Screenshot via #SaveTheForestService Action Guide:
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Sen #MikeLee added this #PublicWealth land and #WATERgrab into #TrumpsHorribleBill??
“Forest Service is largest source of municipal water in our country. Urban areas are included in this. Portland, LA, Denver, and Atlanta specifically receive a huge portion of this water”
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Trump’s #HorribleBill is not just about dismantling our agencies and stealing #PublicWealth - it’s also a #WATERgrab!
No public hearings or comments - is a buyer is already lined up?
The bill passes and it’s a done deal.
#SaveTheForestService ActionGuide:
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Terrible cuts everywhere! Largest transfer of #PublicWealth from the citizens to oligarchs in our history! Not only our agencies & institutions but also our land! The damage wrought to the land will echo in our own health.
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Public lands available for sale in Senate Reconciliation Bill
Interactive map via Wilderness Society
visualizes the 250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in the Senate budget reconciliation package.
Take Action! #PublicWealth land transfer to oligarchs
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We really need to reframe all of these actual and proposed budget “cuts” as the #PublicWealth transfer that they are: the largest transfer of public wealth to oligarchs in US history.
US taxpayers via our govt’s policies crafted over decades by our elected representatives
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"The proposed budget represents an unprecedented assault on America's health security, slashing up to 54% of the funding deemed essential by Congress for CDC operations."
Our #PublicWealth is dismantled & redirected.
Please watch Rick Steves’s inspiring #HandsOff speech
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Inconceivable loss, not just for the US but for the world. For our children.
I’ve been downloading reports & toolkits - I encourage others to do so. toolkit.climate.gov/tool
This is #PublicWealth, paid for with taxpayer dollars as investment in our collective future.
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Dismantling of #PublicWealth
US taxpayers have invested BILLIONS of $ in science research. This dismantling is the largest transfer of #PublicWealth to oligarchs in our history.
See @ricksteves.bsky.social #HandsOff rally youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo?...
“Especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, the US has invested billions of dollars in preparedness efforts to make sure what happened in 2020 doesn’t happen again.
..amid “abrupt, poorly thought out, & devastating budget cuts,” public health infrastructure “has been largely dismantled”
#PublicWealth
Yes! Trump’s dismantling of the federal government really needs to be framed as the largest transfer of #PublicWealth to oligarchs in our history. It’s our collective investment in technology and agencies that serve public interest that is being destroyed or transferred.
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Our parks, monuments, historic sites are #PublicWealth! #HandsOff!
Listen to Rick Steves define public agencies as such - he’s right! We must stop this egregious transfer of public wealth to oligarchs.
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And with no CDC tracking teams in place, we’re left to get our news from GoFundMe??
These federal agencies are #PublicWealth, as @ricksteves.bsky.social phrased it in his #HandsOff rally speech. This dismantling of public wealth into the hands of oligarchs is criminal. youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo?...
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Followed your link to @5calls.org and contacted my US Senators from Utah.
We have so much to LOSE, now and in the future.
As of 3pm MDT, there are 7,338 calls on this subject.
WE CAN AND MUST DO MORE!! Federal Agencies are built by taxpayers & are #PublicWealth
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Bob Kopp started this running thread 25 days ago, chronicling the absolute destruction of the US scientific infrastructure that our government has built over decades and decades, paid for and invested in by our taxes.
Largest theft of #PublicWealth in our history with devastating repercussions
This is an example of #PublicWealth funded by US taxpayers Images of 2014 US National Climate Assessment highlights, Overview, 2015 Soil Atlas , 2018 Arctic Ocean Acidification Assessment via Arctic Council Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme “Welcome to the National Climate Assessment The National Climate Assessment summarizes the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future. A team of more than 300 experts guided by a 60-member Federal Advisory Committee produced the report, which was extensively reviewed by the public and experts, including federal agencies and a panel of the National Academy of Sciences. EXPLORE THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE GlobalChange.gov vauionar clmale Assessment GlobalChange.gov Expio Welcome to the National Climate Assessment The National Climate Assessment summarizes the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future. A team of more than 300 experts guided by a 60-member Federal Advisory Committee produced the report, which was extensively reviewed by the public and experts, including federal agencies and a panel of the National Academy of Sciences. EXPLORE THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE GlobalChange.gov U.S. Global Change Research Program The National Climate Assessment summarizes the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future. A team of more than 300 experts guided by a 60-member Federal Advisory Committee produced the report, which was extensively reviewed by the public and experts, including federal agencies and a panel of the National Academy of Sciences.
Years ago, public could request free hard copies of US National Climate Assessment. I would order extra copies of Overview & pass to my kids’ teachers, dentist, neighbors in [vain] hope that facts from trusted institutions #PublicWealth could trump ideology
2014 link:
nca2014.globalchange.gov/index
WeThePeople have invested in public education, research universities, public lands, public health, etc: we have to make #PublicWealth connection for neighbors, friends. Hit the streets, boycott, pressure representatives.
Largest transfer of public wealth in 🇺🇸 history!
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social
#HandsOff: research institutions, public lands, social security, etc are all #PublicWealth that is being illegally transferred from WeThePeople to oligarchs. “Think of institutions as the fabric of our democracy”
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