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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 10h

Don't let them tell you everything is fine. Everything is not fine. #ShutdownStories

www.aspentimes.com/news/rocky-m...

Rocky Mountain National Park leans on volunteers to maintain services during shutdown

As the U.S. government shutdown approaches hits its two-week mark, Rocky Mountain National Park is relying on its partners and volunteers to stay afloat. On Oct. 11, park entrance station rangers gree...

www.aspentimes.com

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 10h

We knew this would happen, and this will keep happening. #ShutdownStories

www.backpacker.com/news-and-eve...

Government Shutdown Brings Waves Of Illegal Activity To Yosemite National Park

Crowded campsites, unpermitted hiking, and illegal sport is running rampant in this national park right now.

www.backpacker.com

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 18h

More of this, please.

NPR @npr.org · 20h

NPR is highlighting Indigenous stories from across its network in celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day. n.pr/47nGDK8

Highlighting Indigenous stories from across NPR's network

NPR is highlighting Indigenous stories from across its network in celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day.

n.pr

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 18h

He insults everyone who has a PTSD diagnosis with this ridiculous hyperbole.

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 18h

Intentionally destroying all that is good.

thehill.com/homenews/adm...

thehill.com

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 18h

Snorted my coffee over this one.

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 1d

Shameful disregard of the humanity of public servants.

The White House is using layoffs of federal workers as leverage to end the shutdown www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...

The White House is using layoffs of federal workers as leverage to end the shutdown

Federal workers, many already furloughed, may now face unemployment as the White House uses them as leverage in negotiations to end the federal government shutdown.

www.npr.org

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 1d

Last year, I made the mistake of switching to AT&T for our cellular service, and today, I am switching back to Verizon.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on

Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.

www.npr.org

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 1d

Let's be super clear about something: Federal civil servants are Americans. Linguistic gymnastics to try to dehumanize them as bureaucrats is nonsense. JD Vance knows it and so does my 7th grader.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 5d

Relatable.

Night Of The Living Jam @monkyjamm.bsky.social · 5d

Can't stop sniffing my fingers (I chopped a lot of garlic)

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 5d

"The federal shutdown that started Oct 1 left large swaths of public land accessible but unstaffed as Congress members fought over the 2026 budget. That temporary situation could become the new normal, according to plans published by the Trump administration."

mountainjournal.org/shutdown-smo...

Shutdown Smokescreen? Public Lands Furloughs Could Become Layoffs - Mountain Journal

Trump administration leaders planned more job cuts before budget impasse closed federal government

mountainjournal.org

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 6d

Canadians shouldn't negotiate with felon fascists.

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 6d

The law still exists, even if OMB deletes the reference. Congress would need to change the law for something to change...And that would mean the House would need to be in session. #ShutdownStories

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 8d

Also true.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 8d

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owl standing on a mound of dirt, perched on one leg.

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 8d

Well, not technically. We're in London for my father-in-law's 80th birthday.

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 8d

You're up early!

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 8d

Yum! I'm seeing artichoke hearts, pepperoni, banana peppers, zuccs...amazing.

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 8d

I need a framed print of this for my home gallery wall.

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 9d

Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952, US printmaker and sculptor who focused on the lives and the struggle for Civil Rights of US Black communities #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 8d

If men could contract cervical cancer, this, of course, would not be an issue.

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 8d

It's #BannedBooksWeek!

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 8d

That's truly beautiful.

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 8d

I am also this old!

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 8d

We have the original of this print framed and hanging in the kitchen of our NPS home. I just love Robert Decker's work.

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