Badlab @Badlab

@SharpFootball How many years can you post videos of Lamar "Pre-injury"?

The Summer of 1982 remains undefeated

Tourists walked into Yosemite National Park for free last winter. A day pass normally runs $35 a car. Confused by their own good luck, because nobody was there to stop them or collect a fee. There were no rangers at the gate. Not short-staffed. Not slow. Gone. Without rangers around to stop it, visitors are cliff jumping. Flying drones over the valley. Driving the wrong way down one-way roads. One climber scaled Half Dome without the permit required to keep people from dying on that rock face, because there was no one at a desk to ask him for it. And drivers are parking straight onto the meadows. Some of those wildflower meadows take decades to recover from a single set of tire tracks, if they recover at all. Nobody's there to stop the car before it happens, only someone left to survey the damage after. One visitor described this spring’s opening weekend as apocalyptic. Cars squeezed onto curbs and into the dirt on both sides of the road. A climber who’d just come off Half Dome said he went looking for pizza afterward and found lines out the door everywhere, calling it a total junk show, more people than he’d ever seen in his life in that park. This is Trump's Yosemite. Months later, it's still true. The National Park Service is still down nearly a quarter of its permanent staff nationwide, gutted by DOGE layoffs, buyouts, and retirements the administration never backfilled. A government watchdog report released this week found DOGE's own claimed savings, $110 billion of them, were riddled with errors auditors couldn't even verify. The cuts were real. The savings mostly weren't. At Yosemite, the real cost shows up as people, not dollars. The scientists trained to study endangered species and plan for wildfires are the ones cleaning public toilets now, because there's no one else left to do it. In February 2025, a group of park staff rigged ropes and rappelled down the face of El Capitan to hang an upside-down flag, the universal signal for distress, 3,000 feet up. This spring, park leadership quietly killed the day-use reservation system that had actually been working, the one that gave Yosemite its sixth-highest visitation year on record in 2024 while cutting down traffic and overcrowding at the same time. The people who fought hardest to end it weren't rangers or visitors. They were private lodging developers just outside the gates, the ones who profit every time more cars pour in with nowhere to go. In the last decade, developers have built nearly 900 new hotel rooms, cabins, and glamping units in the towns surrounding the park. Another 1,500 units are already proposed. Interior's own account posted a victory lap this year, bragging that gridlock days dropped from 120-plus a year to just two, with gate waits under 30 minutes even as visitation climbed 12 percent. The replies told a different story. One commenter said they live 40 minutes from the park and called it a lie, with lines stretching to Highway 41 in July. Another put it more bluntly: "You are the epitome of mismanagement, and your lies are pathetic." A longtime Yosemite conservation advocate warns vehicle strikes are already one of the leading causes of bear deaths in the park, and that more cars on the road means more dead bears, this as the park's new superintendent claims there's "zero evidence" crowds are doing any harm at all. And the rangers who are still standing get yelled at by furious tourists for a mess they didn't create and don't have the staff left to fix. How many close calls does it take before someone gets killed in a park with no one watching? 🦋Humanity United #DemsUnited

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It seems like we have an Administration who were hired because of their association to Trump’s bestie Jeffrey Epstein and likely what they knew about Trump and what he knew about them.

@BradyDavidyak

The Global American @CurrentEvent689

2 days ago

Apparently @Verizon is having a outage. So if you are trying to make a call and can’t that’s why.

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Sen. Mitch McConnell cast his first vote in weeks - by proxy. But it didn’t count. I recall a Democrat Congresswoman had to be present with her newborn to be able to vote. Why is someone else even trying to vote for a dead turtle? wlky.com/article/mitch-…

CNN Montage of Trump praising Fauci: I told Tony Fauci, I said, why don't you move to New York, run against AOC, you will win easily

It's like being a criminal is a prerequisite for MAGA

Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ

a week ago

11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.

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Tonight, our lights will shine Tie-Dye in honor of Jerry Garcia’s birthday. 💡 See the lights live: esbo.nyc/ecx

The chilling thing about the Trump administration falsely accusing David Hearn is what it reveals: they have no hesitation targeting ordinary American citizens when it serves their agenda. It’s the same playbook they used with Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and countless others. The pattern is unmistakable. When the truth becomes inconvenient, they pick a citizen, invent a villain, and count on the wreckage to advance their interests. This is an administration willing to inflict real harm on ordinary people to protect its own power.

We're trying to get answers.

Face The Nation @FaceTheNation

a week ago

Unlike Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, where reporters embedded with U.S. troops documented the conflict from the ground, the war with Iran has largely been seen through government-produced videos, presidential social media posts and limited official briefings, leaving Americans

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Oh just Bob Weir, Sturgill Simpson and Rick Mitarotonda rippin’ an eleven minute “Sugaree” nbd

As I reported a couple of weeks ago, Trump, the DOJ and the WH were lying all along. Cases against alleged vandals were all lies. Lawsuits should be filed and the liars should be shamed.

MAGAs got a lot to say about Fauci invoking the Fifth Amendment….did they have anything to say about dear leader doing the same?

Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"

North Korea is helping Russia, China is helping Russia, Iran is helping Russia, Trump is helping Russia! So tell me again, who's the Commies?

Peter King on Latrobe Worth a listen. Segment from NBC Sports.

@PatMcAfeeShow Catching a ball in shorts is not putting on a show, c'mon man.

Bring it on

Johnny Depp surprised Comic-Con attendees going full method as Ebenezer Scrooge.