The U.S. Forest Service has been eliminated. With the stroke of a pen.
"You cannot move a thirty-year watershed study. You cannot relocate a decades-long old-growth monitoring program. You cannot box up a forest and ship it to Colorado. When these facilities close, the experiments die."
https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-administration-orders
The United States will be a hellish place after it kills all its forests.
The Forest Service was created by an Act of Congress. It can't be "dismantled" by an "order".
When people talk about "complying in advance" with fascists, they're talking about Trump illegally "ordering" the dismantling of a thing, and everyone just...dismantling it.
But the Forest Service should simply continue to do what they're doing, file lawsuits and demand injunctions.
It *literally doesn't matter* that Trump did this. Unless you comply.
https://www.nwcg.gov/6mfs/day-in-history/birthday-of-the-us-forest-service-february-1-1905
@energisch_
A piece of strings walks into a bar and asks for a drink.
The barman says, βWe donβt serve pieces of string here.β
So the string gets up, ties himself around the middle, and he pulls his ends out. And he proceeds to order drinks.
The barman says, βhere, arenβt you a piece of string?β
And the piece of string, he says, βNo, βI'm a frayed knot.β
@ColesStreetPothole @energisch_
My uncle loved that joke. He would tell it all the time. That had to be like 35 years ago.
Yes, I can't see anything bad happening from this at all..
Like... who's gonna rake the forests now?
@ColesStreetPothole βOne hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests. An area larger than Texas. The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed, on a silver platter, to the people whoβve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.
And they did it with a press release on a Tuesday.β
I hadnβt heard of this until just nowβis there zero news coverage of this travesty?!?!
Just more executive overwriting the budget defined by Congress, right?
@ColesStreetPothole The supreme court ruled that the line-item veto is unconstitutional, but the president can eliminate agencies that are funded by laws passed by congress whenever he wants.
More people need to realize that democracy in the US is dead.
Substack is evil. It platforms Nazis. No boost for this toot.
"Fossil fuel billionaires pay for policies that ignore the obvious results of their ecocide.
The year-round wildfire seasons in Colorado & California, just ignore that.
Nevermind about your burning homes & unbreathable air."
The Epstein Class can be pretty obtuse but even they will notice that their homes are threatened by fossil fuel climate change & wildfires.
Los Angeles -- $132 billion in losses
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/weather/california-heat-fire-season-snowpack.html
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article315262475.html
Colorado -- drought & water shortages
https://www.koaa.com/news/local-news/with-colorados-warmest-winter-on-record-experts-weigh-in-on-summer-wildfire-and-water-supply-concerns
https://www.denverpost.com/2025/08/29/colorado-wildfires-season-2025/
New York
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jplmvlj02o
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/climate/2025-extreme-weather.html
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-northeast-is-becoming-fire-country
Hawaii
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hawaii_wildfires
https://www.nbcnews.com/maui-wildfires
https://blogs.manchester.ac.uk/hcri/2024/05/13/the-maui-fires-an-unnatural-disaster/
They can watch the fires from the safety of their luxury yachts, or they can just fk off to one of their many other houses.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @ColesStreetPothole
As the Los Angeles and San Francisco wildfires demonstrated, firestorms can hit so fast that even the rich get trapped.
They spend all their money on destroying mutual aid groups like volunteer firefighters and publicly spirited neighborhoods.
https://dronexl.co/2025/12/14/drone-industry-private-equity-volunteer-fire-departments/
The Epstein Class make themselves very unpopular in the wake of crises.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13276163/la-wildfires-billionaires-private-firefighters-kim-kardashian/
To the people reading this - do not give into despair, the number one tool of authoritarians. Say a silent thank you for all the gifts the natural world gives us and commit yourselves to not letting the world-burners succeed. Respond to this news by steeling yourselves for a fight and discover ways you can make a difference right now.
@ColesStreetPothole I'm not American and I don't even want to visit the place (for obvious reasons) but this, honestly, hurt my soul.
What the actual fuck!?
This people is absolutely fucking deranged. They hate the world and I have no idea whatsoever why would that be.
I'm glad I am not American, I would do unspeakable things to them. But, luckily, I am too far.
Jesus christ, this guy is just stripping the whole damn nation for parts!
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@ColesStreetPothole ah yes, the many trees of utah are calling
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