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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service (www.hatchmag.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by tonytins@pawb.social to c/news@lemmy.world

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Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.

They’re ripping the headquarters out of Washington and shipping it to Salt Lake City, Utah — the beating heart of the anti-public-lands movement in America. They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Gifford Pinchot built the system over a century ago — and with them, the career professionals who spent entire lifetimes earning the expertise and the authority to push back when politicians came calling with bad ideas and worse motives. They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.

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[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Um, technically, this is what they not voted for. As many of them just abstained from voting. Also, with the electoral college most who "protest voted" lived in heavy blue areas.

The election went for the republicans because Kamala refused to distance herself from Joe Biden and also massive campaigns of vote suppression in Georgia and elsewhere.

But yeah, argue with other leftists, it's not like a fragmented left is the reason fascists keep winning or anything.

Edit: Seems like a lot of people on here don't know how the electoral college works and also want to feel smug about how they voted. Typical. I'll say it for the people in the back. We need all fucking hands on deck right now as our government is currently descending further into fascism. The last election doesn't matter. Register to vote. Organize with your neighbors to protect your local polling places. Donate time or money to local mutual aid. If you don't know where or how you can start at either link below.

https://www.fiftyfifty.one/organizer-resources

https://southerncoalition.org/resources/rapid-response-101/

Most importantly don't be a smug asshole and instead think "What would I have done in 1933 Nazi Germany." We need all the help we can get.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

They aren't leftists. -They're advocating for the old neoliberal candidate which was/is center-right

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Also leftists are anti-genocide.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Also sounds like you're looking to blame. I am looking to inform protest-non-voters what they voted for. And yes this is what they voted for.