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This is a canary in the coal mine ofr the rest of academia. Its going to be a hard decade. hpherald.com/evening_digest…
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Breaking: Texas Congressional reps are urging DHS to back off plans to blast barriers & roads through Big Bend National Park. They demand DHS rescind the recent waiver of environmental laws to speed construction & listen to local sheriffs, who unanimously oppose the project.
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RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved this.
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Just flew right by the reflecting pool on approach to DCA. Looks like this morning’s hydrogen peroxide bleaching is having an effect on the perimeter.
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I think I discovered the problem with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
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There would have been blotting-out-the-sun outrage if a Dem president ranted for weeks about how shitty the reflecting pool looked, handed a $13 million no bid contract to a business partner, only to see workers dumping toxic chemicals into it days after the job was finished.
Anonymous@YourAnonNews
They're literally dumping hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning... 😳
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@charise_lee well, it also kills all aquatic life in the process.
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When hydrogen peroxide is exposed to sunlight, it undergoes a process called photolysis, where the ultraviolet (UV) energy rapidly accelerates its decomposition into ordinary water and oxygen gas. This reaction fundamentally changes the chemical makeup, rendering it harmless but ineffective for its original purpose.
Anonymous@YourAnonNews
They're literally dumping hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning... 😳
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@Logically_JC Violates the Clean Water Act if done without a permit. At 12% H2O2, this is a level of toxicity that kills aquatic life.
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The ducks will be thrilled.
Molly Ploofkins@Mollyploofkins
Workers dumping hydrogen peroxide into the Reflecting Pool this morning
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@volcaholic1 No, kill off aquatic life and disrupt the watershed ecosystem. Way worse. Crooks and fiends everywhere you look.
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Make
Algae
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Again
Molly Ploofkins@Mollyploofkins
Workers dumping hydrogen peroxide into the Reflecting Pool this morning
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@DrOBrienMD And done without a permit, which is likely, it's a clear violation of the Clean Water Act.
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Y’all, not to be a huge nerd but for the reflecting pool you would need a minimum of about 8,000 liters of 12% hydrogen peroxide to reach the 50 parts per million concentration to kill algae…
Is this what happens when you have 0 scientists in your administration?
Anonymous@YourAnonNews
They're literally dumping hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning... 😳
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@Angry_Staffer I wanna know if they bothered to get a permit to do this. If not, clear violation of the Clean Water Act. Also, this water drains right back into the Tidal Basin. We just had the Interceptor break. This screwing around with the ecosystem is beyond dumb. It's criminal.
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Also…
The sun breaks hydrogen peroxide down.
Into water.
Michael O’Brien@DrOBrienMD
Y’all, not to be a huge nerd but for the reflecting pool you would need a minimum of about 8,000 liters of 12% hydrogen peroxide to reach the 50 parts per million concentration to kill algae… Is this what happens when you have 0 scientists in your administration?
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Probably just a coincidence that a man becomes a trillionair about a year after having unfettered access to our government's finances, right? 🤔
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@gtconway3d This is poisoning the watershed - better described as criminal behavior. We are still suffering from the Interceptor break!
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RFK Jr. will announce at a press conference today that swimming in the reflecting pool is safe and that a major international diving competition will be held there in the president's honor next month
Anonymous@YourAnonNews
They're literally dumping hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning... 😳
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@tomsherwood This is poisoning the watershed - better described as criminal behavior. We are still suffering from the Interceptor break.
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We were told it was just a little leftover algae lurking in the supply lines. … this emergency home remedy won’t work.
Anonymous@YourAnonNews
They're literally dumping hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning... 😳
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@1goodtern @YourAnonNews On top of that, the water drains right back into the Tidal Pool - the Potomac -, which is already suffering from the Interceptor pipe break.
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Ha ha ha hahah ha.
This is brilliant.
They would need to put about 1,200 of those bottles into the pool to start killing the algae, which at the rate they're going would take about ten hours. But then you'll have a pool full of foamy, murky, rotting green-brown sludge, released cell contents, possible cyanobacterial toxins, and a nutrient-rich soup ready to grow the next disgusting bloom, which will reappear within days, because peroxide will only last in that water for a max of two days, so they'll have to do it all again. At a cost of $30k of chemicals each time.
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tern@1goodtern
Ha ha ha hahah ha. This is brilliant. They would need to put about 1,200 of those bottles into the pool to start killing the algae, which at the rate they're going would take about ten hours. But then you'll have a pool full of foamy, murky, rotting green-brown sludge, released cell contents, possible cyanobacterial toxins, and a nutrient-rich soup ready to grow the next disgusting bloom, which will reappear within days, because peroxide will only last in that water for a max of two days, so they'll have to do it all again. At a cost of $30k of chemicals each time.
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@YourAnonNews This is poisoning the watershed - better described as criminal behavior. We are still suffering from the Interceptor break!
@PotomacRiver
@WaterkeepersCP
@chesapeakebay
@Waterkeeper
@OIGDC
@EPAregion3
@jamie_raskin
@DCCityWildlife
@dcwater
@CleanH2oDC
@maustermuhle
@WTOP
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Environmental and conservation groups recently filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a land swap approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that would give SpaceX more than 700 acres of a national wildlife refuge in South Texas. democracynow.org/2026/6/16/elon…
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Trump's White House ballroom is no longer projected to be $400 m. It is now $600 m. and taxpayers are projected to pick up half the tab. WaPo with a big report
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this is what blows my mind when people act like elon is wildly intelligent instead of just good at extracting wealth from a broken system. DOGE saved us $15 million dollars a year by cutting this program which within two years led to a cost of $1 billion lol. a five year old could tell you that’s not a good deal.
Luke Miani@LukeMiani
> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program > screwworm outbreak almost immediately > $1B to combat it Government efficiency
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@bkovoDC No! This is poisoning the watershed - better described as criminal behavior. We are still suffering from the Interceptor break! @PotomacRiver @WaterkeepersCP @chesapeakebay @Waterkeeper @OIGDC @EPAregion3 @jamie_raskin @DCCityWildlife @dcwater @CleanH2oDC @maustermuhle @WTOP
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