Susan Jennys (she/her)
@yellowstonenpgeek.bsky.social
Pastor; PhD anthro; author; hiker; historian; Yellowstone NP thermal geek; musician; beadworker; gardener. 🤎Windham Hill, Beegie Adair, John Denver, Brule’; NPR, Non-fiction, conservation, Indigenous sovereignty. Happily married to David since 1984. NO DMs
The critters are eating well this winter; cherries in the tree, a pumpkin wedged in the tree trunk, and lots and lots of coneflower seeds!
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The critters are eating well this winter; cherries in the tree, a pumpkin wedged in the tree trunk, and lots and lots of coneflower seeds!
IYKYK!
Sooo good!
Sooo good!
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
IYKYK!
Sooo good!
Sooo good!
Q6 #parkchat Biscuit Basin, Peanut Pool, Porkchop Geyser, Lemonade Creek, Cucumber Spring, Cauliflower Geyser…. These are Yellowstone thermal features with culinary names. How many parklands can you recall that have features on their landscapes with “edible” names?
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Q6 #parkchat Biscuit Basin, Peanut Pool, Porkchop Geyser, Lemonade Creek, Cucumber Spring, Cauliflower Geyser…. These are Yellowstone thermal features with culinary names. How many parklands can you recall that have features on their landscapes with “edible” names?
This is the way…
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is the way…
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In early Oct. 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for a national Day of Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of Nov., which that year fell on Nov. 26 (162 yrs ago today).
Here’s a link to more information on Lincoln and Thanksgiving from Lincoln Home National Historic Site.
Here’s a link to more information on Lincoln and Thanksgiving from Lincoln Home National Historic Site.
Lincoln and Thanksgiving - Lincoln Home National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
www.nps.gov
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
In early Oct. 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for a national Day of Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of Nov., which that year fell on Nov. 26 (162 yrs ago today).
Here’s a link to more information on Lincoln and Thanksgiving from Lincoln Home National Historic Site.
Here’s a link to more information on Lincoln and Thanksgiving from Lincoln Home National Historic Site.
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One of my absolute favourite monologues from Star Wars.
“There is a wound that won’t heal at the centre of the galaxy, there is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow. And now it’s here.”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKr...
“There is a wound that won’t heal at the centre of the galaxy, there is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow. And now it’s here.”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKr...
Andor | Maarva Andor’s Monologue | Disney+
YouTube video by Star Wars
m.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
One of my absolute favourite monologues from Star Wars.
“There is a wound that won’t heal at the centre of the galaxy, there is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow. And now it’s here.”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKr...
“There is a wound that won’t heal at the centre of the galaxy, there is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow. And now it’s here.”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKr...
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Today, the Interior Department rolled out one of the biggest changes to national park access and fees in years, if not decades, and it will reshape how people—both U.S. residents and international visitors—get into places like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon.
#nationalparks #parkchat
#nationalparks #parkchat
National Park Access and Fees Get Major Overhaul in 2026
Interior Department makes annual passes fully digital, increases fees for non-residents, and announces "patriotic fee-free days"
thenationalparksexperience.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Today, the Interior Department rolled out one of the biggest changes to national park access and fees in years, if not decades, and it will reshape how people—both U.S. residents and international visitors—get into places like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon.
#nationalparks #parkchat
#nationalparks #parkchat
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Bill Lee is 73. He drives through the Shoshone National Forest 2x a week, scanning for what's broken. He keeps track in a notebook. Each repair forces a decision. If he fixes it, the Trump administration can better justify its cuts to staff. If he doesn't, people could get hurt.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Bill Lee is 73. He drives through the Shoshone National Forest 2x a week, scanning for what's broken. He keeps track in a notebook. Each repair forces a decision. If he fixes it, the Trump administration can better justify its cuts to staff. If he doesn't, people could get hurt.
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Del Nelson is 81. This summer marked his 50th living in a Forest Service cabin by Louis Lake, this time as a volunteer. For $50 a day, he cleaned five bathrooms daily, using exactly one piece of paper towel per set of bathrooms, to save supplies after Trump slashed the budget.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Del Nelson is 81. This summer marked his 50th living in a Forest Service cabin by Louis Lake, this time as a volunteer. For $50 a day, he cleaned five bathrooms daily, using exactly one piece of paper towel per set of bathrooms, to save supplies after Trump slashed the budget.
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Barb Gustin is 69. After Trump cut staff, the Forest Service office she manned for 20 years closed — so she came back to keep it open. But because she was a volunteer, she couldn't sell anything. People walking in had to order the maps and supplies they could see in store online.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Barb Gustin is 69. After Trump cut staff, the Forest Service office she manned for 20 years closed — so she came back to keep it open. But because she was a volunteer, she couldn't sell anything. People walking in had to order the maps and supplies they could see in store online.
Making progress on my most recent Yellowstone #photorealistic #beadwork project. Only eleven rows to go.
And yes, I’m currently working upside down. 🙃 #art #FineArt
And yes, I’m currently working upside down. 🙃 #art #FineArt
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Making progress on my most recent Yellowstone #photorealistic #beadwork project. Only eleven rows to go.
And yes, I’m currently working upside down. 🙃 #art #FineArt
And yes, I’m currently working upside down. 🙃 #art #FineArt
As a citizen of the USA I find it egregious and EMBARRASSING (humiliating, in fact) that this administration disregards science, erases scientists, and mocks scientific inquiry.
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
As a citizen of the USA I find it egregious and EMBARRASSING (humiliating, in fact) that this administration disregards science, erases scientists, and mocks scientific inquiry.
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It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe in science. It does matter if you don’t fund it.
Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe in science. It does matter if you don’t fund it.
Yep
THIS. ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY.
Re: Kelly
They're about to give a man who would be an unbeatable presidential nominee a huge moral platform and I don't think they've thought this through.
They're about to give a man who would be an unbeatable presidential nominee a huge moral platform and I don't think they've thought this through.
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Yep
Well, the boys are up to something methinks. Just not sure what that something might be.
[or maybe Theodore is seasick?]
#AdventuresOfJackJackAndTheodore
[or maybe Theodore is seasick?]
#AdventuresOfJackJackAndTheodore
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Well, the boys are up to something methinks. Just not sure what that something might be.
[or maybe Theodore is seasick?]
#AdventuresOfJackJackAndTheodore
[or maybe Theodore is seasick?]
#AdventuresOfJackJackAndTheodore
Just finished reading the collected writings of naturalist John Muir. His descriptions of wilderness sights are simply amazing. His passion for the Sierra is palpable. A very enjoyable read!
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Just finished reading the collected writings of naturalist John Muir. His descriptions of wilderness sights are simply amazing. His passion for the Sierra is palpable. A very enjoyable read!
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Lying under oath? Seriously? The case against Comey is as hypocritical as it is weak and incompetent. From Trump on down, this is an administration people who got their jobs by misleading and outright lying to Congress. My latest at @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...
We’re Led by an Administration of Liars
Trump insisted Comey be prosecuted for supposedly lying to Congress—but his own administration is full of officials who lied to Congress.
www.thebulwark.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Lying under oath? Seriously? The case against Comey is as hypocritical as it is weak and incompetent. From Trump on down, this is an administration people who got their jobs by misleading and outright lying to Congress. My latest at @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...
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Yesterday on Truth Social, Trump shared a screenshot of a pro-Trump MAGA account on X asking if foreign-born citizens should be barred from holding elected office.
The X account in question is being run from Africa
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
The X account in question is being run from Africa
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trump Is Boosting MAGA X Accounts Operating Overseas
A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway.
www.wired.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Yesterday on Truth Social, Trump shared a screenshot of a pro-Trump MAGA account on X asking if foreign-born citizens should be barred from holding elected office.
The X account in question is being run from Africa
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
The X account in question is being run from Africa
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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American Conversations: Representative Jim Himes
Himes is the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
*Note: this upload has fixed audio & video
youtu.be/13IVUWiuHHI
Himes is the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
*Note: this upload has fixed audio & video
youtu.be/13IVUWiuHHI
A Conversation with Representative Jim Himes | American Conversations
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
American Conversations: Representative Jim Himes
Himes is the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
*Note: this upload has fixed audio & video
youtu.be/13IVUWiuHHI
Himes is the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
*Note: this upload has fixed audio & video
youtu.be/13IVUWiuHHI
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Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
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Turned out it was on defeating the public lands sell off in the Big Bad Bill. It ignored attempts to repeal the Roadless Rule and the nomination of a BLM director in Steve Pearce who wants to sell off public lands as well as the push to extract at every turn. flatheadbeacon.com/2025/11/23/m...
Montana's Public Lands Birthright Under Threat from Sell Off Steve’s Nomination - Flathead Beacon
Montanans’ way of life is inseparable from our public lands. With over 8 million acres managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)—including the Missouri River Breaks National Monument and the Lee ...
flatheadbeacon.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Turned out it was on defeating the public lands sell off in the Big Bad Bill. It ignored attempts to repeal the Roadless Rule and the nomination of a BLM director in Steve Pearce who wants to sell off public lands as well as the push to extract at every turn. flatheadbeacon.com/2025/11/23/m...
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NEW: Today we published a new investigation into something happening largely out of view: immigrant kids getting separated from their families and placed in federal shelters, in some cases after something as mundane as a traffic stop🧵 1/
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
NEW: Today we published a new investigation into something happening largely out of view: immigrant kids getting separated from their families and placed in federal shelters, in some cases after something as mundane as a traffic stop🧵 1/
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
😡😡😡
Court document reveals that the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area would be cut severely, and maybe entirely, along with critical natural resource management staff. This would be devastating for our public lands!
“The Monday filing outlines where 2,050 positions would be eliminated; the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Land Management, and the main Interior office would be especially hard hit. Regional offices with the National Park Service are also targeted for significant cuts.”
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
😡😡😡