chris argie
Dr. Lucky Tran 
Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
Also, a fired Yosemite National Park service worker rappelled down El Capitan in protest of the illegal cuts.
Statement by Yosemite NPS workers: “These losses, while deeply personal and impactful, may also be invisible to visitors and members of the public — we are shining a spotlight on them by putting a distress flag on El Capitan in view of Firefall. Think of it as your public lands on strike.”
pelha@luckytran unfortunately sfchronical won't let me in.
BakersRelay
Philip@luckytran They set the flag out to get their message across, but then ROLLED IT BACK UP before Firefall because they still wanted people to experience their park and that event 😭
fmc01@luckytran Tony Abbot’s 2014 budget (Australian PM) was a savage attack on the poor and the marginalised - it was the beginning of the end for him. Elon if you listen carefully you might just hear the wheels of the bus.
cobalt@luckytran How do you know it was workers? Fired workers?
JustNate@cobalt123 @luckytran Because they were interviewed by a credible news source. What makes you think they are not fired workers? Just trolling?
@JustNate @luckytran The OP did not have an attribution or link, so purely a question. She nicely commented later with more information. Read all the comment to see. I’m glad it was fired workers but I do have concerns they could be charged with vandalism or something. It was very brave, and very needed.
@cobalt123 @luckytran My apologies 🙏
Should be done across the country.
Metapod@luckytran I am going to mentally flip any american flag I see now.
enmodo ⚛️ 🧬 🇺🇦 🍉@luckytran
Don't let the park rangers see that, they'll drag you to their federal court and confiscate your flag!
@AlgoCompSynth
Don't let the park rangers see that, they'll drag you to their federal court and confiscate your flag!
@AlgoCompSynth
AlgoCompSynth by znmeb 🇺🇦@enmodo @luckytran LOL! The park rangers that didn't get fired probably put that up to honor their colleagues that did and to give MuskmElon the finger.
Technically that's against the law but so was burning the flag during the Vietnam war. 😉
@AlgoCompSynth @luckytran I was partly being sarcastic but that wasn't obvious.
Federal Park Rangers are famously deadly serious sticklers for following the law to the letter. From base jumping, wild camping, smoking weed, to this kind of thing.
So it's clearly a sign of just how pissed off they are. Now we just need 1000x as many to get pissed off, if not more.
R.L. LE@luckytran Not only, because it's there, 🖖
(sry, I'm having bit of a silly morning)
I fully support those who did this – the Donald is the Problem, and so are the goons before (Musk, Hegseth, RFK jr. etc.) and behind (Stephen Miller, Kevin Roberts, Steve Bannon etc.) him!
Stella Schiffczyk
Schalk Neethling@luckytran Right now I feel like we need a world flag we can hang upside down 😫
Optimist
jeffron@luckytran The president himself should climb up there and take it down. I volunteer to check his safety equipment
Catherine Schmidt
RevPudDudley@luckytran
MOURNING IN AMERICA, baby !
Patrick Vanhoucke@luckytran “Flags are important symbols and can evoke strong emotions depending on the context. Flying a U.S. flag upside down as a form of protest has existed for at least 50 years.”
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/flying-flag-upside-down/
