Travis Mason-Bushman 🥥🌴
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public lands public servant, telling stories about 🇺🇸's wild places. FFT2/PIOC(t). engaged to clayton 🏳️🌈 he/him. opinions mine. @snarkranger .bsky.social
Baker, Nevada
Joined June 2008
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There's two national park rangers in this photo. We're engaged to each other. I am asking you once again to cry about it. 👨❤️💋👨🏳️🌈
when I was a kid park rangers were 45yo bachelors who liked being outside, now it’s a never ending they/them sleepaway camp
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"I live paycheck to paycheck, and this is Joe Biden's fault."
"Also I make more than a quarter-million dollars a year."
something something starving families, spending $3,000 on candles, we all know the meme at this point, but it's rather breathtaking to see it become reality.
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Yeah, it's absolutely awesome that the American people collectively own hundreds of millions of acres of land, which we've decided to sustainably manage to provide benefits to the American people in perpetuity. It's an honor and privilege to do that work.
Incredible how much of the land in the Western United States is still owned by the federal government
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confident that anyone making $260,000 a year who is living paycheck to paycheck should, I don't know, find a competent financial advisor and figure out a household budget that doesn't include two luxury car leases, a timeshare at Tahoe, and a bunch of Bored Ape knockoff NFTs.
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@BTC_RC_BTC
I grew up in the Bay Area. There are literally millions of families who live in those places, make far less, and make it just fine. Lifestyle choices are lifestyle choices.
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Why are community meetings a terrible way to take input and make decisions? Because these misanthropes will reliably show up to every meeting demanding nothing but endless rows of suburban tract homes marching off to the horizon, because that's how God made America in the 1950s.
@xurbanxcowboyx
NOBODY wants cafes, transit and music venues in thier neighborhood. We don't build society based on what young people want.
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Well, the park superintendent let the cat out of the bag so...
Yeah, I said park 👀
This fall, I am trading in my pickle suit for the green and gray as the next Chief of Interpretation at Great Basin National Park in Baker, Nevada.
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Hedge fund manager who got a $16,073 PPP loan forgiven says forgiving student loans is bad.
A Thread on Student Debt Forgiveness
After having a very small Twitter footprint for years, I just unleashed a veritable tweetstorm by having the temerity to oppose a blanket policy of simply forgiving $1.75+ trillion in student debt.
The first fascinating thing was the degree
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@marcoarment
@Tesla
Touchscreen controls for basic vehicle functions are exceedingly dumb, change my mind.
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There's people who want us dead because we won't go back in the closet and be ashamed of who we are. Not happening. Not in a million years. You're gonna have to see us kiss, and die mad about it.
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Today's my last day on duty with the Forest Service. 13 years. Four forests. One grassland. Three visitor centers. Uncountable thousands of stories told in service to the radical idea that we the people should hold land in public trust, to sustainably use and enjoy - forever.
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"You're not allowed to be sexy or have fun after you turn 40, therefore you must have children" is certainly a take.
Millennials who are very cavalier about not having children are in for a shock when they enter their 40s & realize life is only half over. What do you do at that point? Keep trying to be sexy & have fun? I expect to see a lot of sadness & confusion about what to do at that point.
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@quiltdungeon
@swolecialism
Why should anyone be entitled to anonymously smear LGBT people with false accusations that they are sexual predators? Like, what moral principle do you base this upon?
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@JordanUhl
"Detaching stock prices from fundamental value" - uhhhhhhh, haven't capitalists been doing that for their own profit literally since the dawn of capitalism? "Hey, look, buy more tulips."
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@orenfalkowitz
@KimZetter
I mean, or you could acknowledge that Uber and Lyft drivers are massively underpaid and the existing fare structure is unsustainably low.
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@BTC_RC_BTC
Even if we say $260k is $12k a month after taxes and take out $3,000 for housing - that's $9,000 a month for living expenses. If a family of four can't live on $9,000 a month then stop eating at Michelin-starred restaurants every week and cut out the vacation to the Caymans.
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the American political media is a catastrophic failure, chapter eleventy kabillion.
there is not a single Democratic voter who thinks that rejecting RFK Jr. is a "tough puzzle". not one. but this guy has to make it up to pretend there's some kind of horse race drama here.
A tough puzzle for Democrats, who have moved their right tentpole to accommodate conservatives like Adam Kinzinger and John Giles, even Stephanie Grisham; the point is to present as the “normie” party of non-MAGA and anti-MAGA ideologies. RFK Jr doesn’t fit with that image.
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The "it's not OK for my kid to be trans" article is literally just the NYT recycling their "it's not OK for my kid to be lesbian" from the 1990s - and, I'm sure, an "it's not OK for my kid to be in an interracial relationship" article from the 1960s.
@RottenInDenmark
Here’s a clarifying read from 1997. These NYC parents sound completely retrograde and insane, like the Brearley mother who asks, “I’m supposed to say to my daughter, ‘I don’t want you to drink Coke, but it’s O.K. to be a lesbian’?”
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@BTC_RC_BTC
You do understand that the overwhelming majority of American families will never even approach that level of income, right?
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@AidanVote
@gabedsouza13
@brianschatz
I was born in Berkeley and raised in Richmond, and this is an absolutely bonkers take. You're saying nobody should move between places? You should live your entire life in the place you were born, and doing anything else is unethical?
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@DanProft
If your business is run so poorly that you can't afford to give your employees one whole paid week off per year, your business sucks and deserves to fail.
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@marcoarment
@Tesla
(Actually, I think all touchscreen controls in vehicles are dumb because they're difficult and dangerous to use when driving, but let's just start with basic vehicle functions.)
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Apropos of nothing happening on this hellsite today, I'm going to tell a story about what happens when Internet trolls interact with the real world. Call it, The Cringiest Cringe Which Ever Cringed. And it really happened in my visitor center last year.
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This thread is a must-read for anyone who thinks government regulations are unnecessary.
This is nuts. In 2016, a 10-year-old boy got decapitated while riding a Schlitterbahn water slide in Kansas City. A new indictment says the slide's designer had no training to design water slides and that the company was trying to impress TV executives.
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We're at the "dehumanize LGBTQ Americans and describe them as the enemy of the people" stage of neo-fascism, in case you were wondering.
Carrying the flag of a hostile enemy in the military. Shame.
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It is an incredibly beautiful thing, that places like the Grand Canyon and the Bighorn Mountains are not just owned outright by billionaires who can do whatever they want with it - but rather, by we the people. Don't take that for granted.
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This kinda blew up my phone overnight so quick intro for new followers: I'm a park ranger-bureaucrat in Nevada, Clayton's fiancé 🏳️🌈 and Pudge's slave 🐾 I tweet way too much, and everything you see on this account is my opinion alone - certainly not the government's.
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Finally, mercifully, the fine gentleman admitted defeat - and purchased an annual pass.
As I ran his credit card, he lamented, "I was just trying to make a joke."
"Yes," I didn't say. "You tried."
And that's what happens when an Internet troll interacts with the real world.
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Hi, I'm a park ranger, and I have absolutely no fear that my career will be replaced by AI.
I asked my students if they could think of any career paths they could pursue that wouldn't be replaced by AI within 5 years and they had zero ideas
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Huge.
The major groups that backed Medicaid expansion in South Dakota say they have won.
55% of voters are in favor of expansion w/ 74% of precincts reporting
South Dakotans Decide Health Care, the American Heart Association, and the American Cancer Society are all declaring victory.
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@TonyRuggio
Because the point isn't to dogpile a single person; it's to illustrate that there are a lot of people out there who have an incentive not to understand what a good economy for the working class actually looks like.
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@chriswithans
@oneunderscore__
@DouthatNYT
American heritage and culture literally is multiculturalism. We're a nation of recent immigrants who forcibly dispossessed the continent's indigenous people and dragged other people over here in chains.
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This is what NIMBYism always boils down to: a rich person not wanting to live near people who aren't rich.
This home in Roslyn Heights was purchased for $2.4M+ in 2021.
The owner pays $38K a year in property taxes.
The home happens to be .5 miles from the train station.
Kathy Hochul thinks she should be able to override local zoning laws to build an apartment building next door.
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Uhh I'm having dinner at Noodles and my phone blew up because
@MollyJongFast
, who has a million followers, QTed me 🤣🫠 Welcome to my new followers, this feed is usually an eclectic mix of natural resources tweets, Warriors shitposting, and stanning for student debt cancellation.
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@RepMGP
I graduated from a public community college, Marie. Then I transferred to a public four-year university, and eventually completed a master's degree at a public graduate school. Stop trying to divide us along nonsense lines that don't exist.
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Must be nice to live in a world where you can borrow $200,000 interest-free for your kids' college. The rest of us, well, I guess we can eat cake, right Larry?
Judged purely in terms of economic impacts, the Administration’s decision to extend student loan moratorium is highly problematic.
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Yeah, coming to Great Basin was the right choice.
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But visionary ecologists - with the help of the Civilian Conservation Corps - turned those lands back into the prairie they had been for centuries. Their legacy today is a four-million-acre system of public prairies managed by the Forest Service - the National Grasslands.
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Important point here. There's land marked in red which isn't actually public land, but rather Indigenous trust land.
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@mwhitmoe
Are you going to pay back your PPP loan, then? Or is debt forgiveness OK for thee, but not for me?
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@brandendurst
You work for an organization called "Idaho Freedom Foundation" yet you want to put doctors in prison for providing medical care. Very freedomy.🤔
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@mwhitmoe
Oh wait, you already had it forgiven. My bad, I guess I get to pay a hedge fund's debt.
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There is no legitimate civilian purpose for owning an AR/AK-platform weapon. There never has been and there never will be. Every politician who says otherwise is a paid tool of the murder weapon lobby.
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As a career public servant,
@brianschatz
, I can't tell you what it means to hear this from lawmakers. We aren't the "deep state" or "useless bureaucrats," we're people working to make this country a better, fairer, safer, healthier place to live, work, and play. 👏
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@markos
@SenSanders
@USPS
This is already-debunked nonsense. Obama’s appointees that Sanders blocked were corporate raiders ready to privatize and destroy USPS. They were opposed by all postal unions and a wide variety of progressive groups.
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Are there lots of arguments about how to best manage public lands? Hell yes. Are we always all going to agree on the desired goals and outcomes for a given chunk of land? Heck no. Managing public lands is messy. But it's messy because democracy is messy, too.
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@opinonhaver
I don't think it's hypocritical to believe that we should make our carnivory as ethical as reasonably possible.
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@MayaMacGuineas
Why are you calling Medicare and Social Security “entitlement programs” when they’re actually social insurance programs that beneficiaries have paid into for their entire adult lives?
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@joeferrero01
@nikicaga
Please explain how we can end a war in which we are not a belligerent party,
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@quiltdungeon
@swolecialism
Twitter should probably do that too. But if someone wants to remain completely anonymous on the Internet, they should probably avoid going on Tucker Carlson and also avoid using their real name for their Twitter handle and display name. Not exactly Secret Agent Super Dragon here.
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Tip for journalists: If you're covering a disastrous wildfire that destroyed an entire town and they're still counting the bodies, maybe it's not the right time to do cutesy stories about a wealthy woman finding her graduation present Rolex.
On Friday, Elicia Stratton searched desperately through the wreckage of her Lahaina home for the Rolex watch her parents gave her when she graduated college.
Suddenly, her fiancé pulled it from the ashes. “You found it!” she said, choking up. It was damaged but still legible.
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"But don't you see, I identify as a senior citizen?" His voice turned plaintive. "Get it?"
I stood there, feeling deeply sorry for this man, who was reduced to literally begging a complete stranger to laugh at the worst, most unfunny "joke" ever devised by humanity.
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Prairie landscapes are the rarest ecosystems in America, yet I believe the National Grasslands are America's least-known system of public lands. They're worth taking the time to explore and enjoy. For more, visit or read .
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Building cities in fire-adapted ecosystems has always been a gamble, and the odds are getting worse every year. Doesn't matter how many tankers you give CalFire - if the land wants to burn, it's going to burn someday. It's just a question of time.
It doesn't really matter whether you, personally, believe climate change is a threat. Your insurance company knows what's in store for the future, and they're going to charge you the real cost of insuring your home in a wildfire zone.
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The bluecheck discourse is lowkey hilarious. Actual verified users are like "yeah we don't care, go ahead, take them away," and the cargo cult acolytes are like "WHY AREN'T YOU MAD YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE MAD."
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This person’s house was completely surrounded by trees and brush, had zero defensible space and firefighters sadly, but correctly, made the decision that the house was almost certainly indefensible from fire. Triage is not a happy process, but it’s a necessary one.
The fire trucks zoomed by, but Ali Zadeh said he never got help as he defended his Malibu home: "I want to put a sign out front: 'Shame on you firefighters. You let our community down.'"
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This, uh, blew the heck up, and it's just unfathomably heartening. I'm going to drop a plug for the place I manage - the National Grasslands Visitor Center in Wall, SD. We're the only interpretive center in the country dedicated to our public prairies.
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@MarxistVex
That's right. That's how politics works. There is no "I win forever" button. No speedrun glitches or strats. You have to vote every time, or the people who hate you will win.
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Except when there's a wildfire, when you expect thousands of firefighters and millions of dollars worth of aircraft, engines, and equipment to materialize overnight as if by magic to protect lives, property, and natural resources.
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Before I even could say anything, he grinned even wider and eagerly blurted out the line. The line.
"I identify as a senior citizen."
...
There it was. The attack helicopter "joke." The literal "you have one joke" meme, come to life. In my goddamned visitor center.
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I dunno, someone who had $72k in student debt forgiven probably shouldn't be complaining about people who want $50k in student debt forgiven.
THREAD: If Biden forgives $10K in student debt, and you have decided you won’t vote for democrats because you want $50K, I have a favor to ask. And I’m being 100% serious. 1/
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@robrousseau
Terrorism? A bridge used to supply armed forces is the literal definition of a legitimate military target.
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Whoever yelled “that’s bullshit” and “what the fuck?” when the acting SECNAV called Capt. Crozier “too stupid to be commanding officer of this ship,” you’re my spirit animal.
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Ever wonder how much hose it takes to contain a wildfire? The answer is a lot. A lot of hose.
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Protest pro tip: Vandalizing a completely-unrelated monument, and throwing bottles and hurling verbal abuse at an interpretive park ranger is not going to convince a single person to take up your cause. It's just going to make you look like assholes.
#NOW
Park Police dances as protesters throw bottles and chant "Fascist!" at him outside of White House DC
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It's objectively the correct decision and I hope
@MazdaUSA
keeps doing it - I'll keep buying Mazdas. Touchscreens in cars are terrible from an ergonomic and safety standpoint.
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Saved you a click: the owner of Dale's Diner proudly refused to require masks for employees or customers, because "freedom." I wouldn't work for that guy if you paid me a million bucks, and apparently no one else wants his $11/hr.
Dale's Diner in Waterville, Ohio, closed last week. More customers than anytime in its 10-year history. The problem? No applicants for its many job openings.
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@ChrisMurphyCT
Chris, I'm a gay man and a civil servant. Are you telling me I should gladly share a table with folks who call me a "groomer" and demand that LGBT people be shoved back in the closet?
No, I don't think I will.
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"If you can't prove you're 62 or older, I can't sell you a Senior Pass."
"I IDENTIFY AS A SENIOR CITIZEN THOUGH," he said, half-mad and half-sad that I wasn't biting.
We went around and around for five agonizing minutes, his desperation to land something ever more agonizing.
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Congress news-dumped the budget on a Sunday when no one is paying attention, but for public lands folks, a quick comparison to the FY23 enacted omnibus indicates a $35 million cut to the National Park Service and an $111 million cut to the Forest Service.
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@selina_dedalus
well, one reason is that alpine county and mono county weren't "ski lib towns" in 1964.
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Why do we need effective, well-managed government? Because literally nothing else has the ability to effect a midnight air rescue of hundreds of people from the path of an overwhelming wildfire. Outstanding interagency cooperation saved lives last night. 🙌
Simply extraordinary, lifesaving work by the
@CalGuard
airlifting more than 200 people to safety overnight from the imminent danger of the
#CreekFire
The National Guard stands Always Ready, Always There to support our communities and nation in times of need.
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Do people really think we like doing this? Do people really think we're sitting in our offices cackling like a cartoon villain, "Now we can implement our cunning plan to keep the public from enjoying their national forests, just as we planned it"? Asking for a friend.
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@AlbertoPartyof6
@brian_blase
Why would I want to be exposed to the "belief" that I'm a "groomer" because I think it's OK for two men to kiss in a Disney movie?
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@amyewalter
Trump tried to violently overturn the results of a free and fair election and you're tone-policing?
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@quiltdungeon
@swolecialism
They have a First Amendment right to speak, and they have used it to cultivate a hateful moral panic. Others have a First Amendment right to speak as well, and they have used it to identify the person cultivating a hateful moral panic.
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I walked away from this - or more accurately, crawled out the moonroof. Going to buy another
@MazdaUSA
, because I probably shouldn't have.
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@parthiv645
@brandonjcarl
@DavidSacks
@elonmusk
There is no study of anything on the planet that has a sample size of 10 percent of the population. You're proposing to overturn the entire body of statistical sampling work here; please cite your sources and evidence.
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@chriswithans
@oneunderscore__
@DouthatNYT
So... yes, it's great that more people want to move to America and join this society. I don't care that they don't look like me. If it is to mean anything at all, America is about ideals, not bloodlines.
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@JLAngeline
@TomLlamasABC
Please explain what part of calling police to arrest people who are trying to find food in a flood-ravaged city is helping anyone.
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Under FDR's New Deal, the Resettlement Administration bought back millions of acres of failed homesteads and helped those families move elsewhere. The federal government was left owning worthless, blown-out moonscapes.
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@RiverTamYDN
Everyone hates middle management until you become middle management and realize how much work it actually entails.
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@JBMIANYC
@sam_d_1995
You post frog memes to main; not gonna beat the "weird" allegations, bro.
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Atop the Snowbowl, a ring and a promise: we're going to tie the knot this year. 👨❤️💋👨🏳️🌈💘
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@BudgetBen
Ben, perhaps you should realize that your “balanced budget” moralizing wins precisely zero elections and feeds into right-wing memes about “smaller government” while strangling our nation’s ability to address pressing domestic challenges.
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@rad_planner
Wait, you're saying it's a bad thing that my white working-class mom bought a house in a majority-black inner-city community which meant that I grew up in a racially-diverse neighborhood? You'd have preferred she bought a house in a white suburb? Are you for real?
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$55,000 in student debt, gone. Thank you,
@JoeBiden
, for delivering on the promise of Public Service Loan Forgiveness - and thank you to
@DebtCrisisOrg
,
@StrikeDebt
,
@mcbyrne
, and everyone else who has fought to make sure those promises were kept.
#PSLF
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@LevelInfinite
@PUBGMOBILE
@ToF_EN_Official
@Darktide40K
@MetalHellsinger
@DuneSpiceWars
@VRisingGame
You keep showing up at the top of my timeline, so you're blocked. Nothing personal.
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@neildecrypt
@peepsaregood
@HannahPosted
You don't understand how actual middle-class people live. Hint: they don't book $500/night hotels.
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He stood there grinning, clearly waiting for me to burst out laughing.
I replied, courteously but firmly, "I'll need to see photo identification that proves you're 62 or older. Driver's license, passport, something like that."
His face dropped.
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"there's no difference between Biden and Trump"
as a professional civil servant, I am literally begging the left to understand how the levers of executive branch policymaking work. do you think this investigation would be opened if Betsy DeVos was Secretary of Education?
Breaking: The US Department of Edication has opened an investigation on Nex Benedict’s school in Oklahoma:
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Personal news: I'm thrilled to say that I've accepted a 120-day temporary promotion to serve as the public affairs officer for the Kaibab National Forest this fall. It's a chance for me to fill a critical vacancy and lead a forest-wide communications program for the first time.
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The National Grasslands are an amazing American story - lands that were claimed in the homesteading boom, but should never have been plowed up in the first place. Not enough water and unsuitable soils - they were the farms first and hardest-hit by the Dust Bowl.
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