Son of Dan
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Skier, Golfer, Environmentalist, Progressive, Father, News Junkie, Perpetual Student, not in that order. RT does not = endorsement
They say free press keeps everyone honest. Reality: Foreign billionaire's 25-year-old daughter, whose only prior donation was $20 to Buttigieg, drops $3.5M into Trump PAC. Dad's bribery case? Vanishes into a full pardon. This is straight-up illegal. MSM is failing our nation. Swap Trump for Biden/Obama? We'd get 24/7 breaking news specials, endless columns, and paid right-wing influencers on full blast. Seeking Pardon, Foreign Billionaire Allegedly Funneled Millions to Trump Super PAC campaignlegal.org/update/seeking…
1 in 10 people in the American West get their drinking water from federal public lands. Trump just stripped the main protection those lands had. On May 11th, the administration quietly erased the rule that required conservation to be weighed equally with drilling, mining, and grazing on 245 million acres of land that belongs to every American. Here's what those 245 million acres actually hold: Over 300 threatened and endangered species. Another 2,460 at-risk species already trending toward extinction. And before this rule existed? 81% of that land was already open to oil and gas drilling. 60% already grazed by livestock. Only 14% set aside for lasting conservation. The rule said: before you do more damage, you have to weigh the cost. That rule is now gone. The government asked for public input before killing it. The overwhelming majority of responses said keep the rule. Didn’t matter. 26 retired federal land managers called the repeal legally unsupportable. State attorneys general called it illegal. 60+ members of Congress said don't do this. The oil, mining, and cattle industries said do it. Guess who won. So who exactly are America's public lands being managed for? #DemsUnited
Over a million acres of pristine wilderness lakes in Minnesota. The most visited canoe country in America. Generations of families have paddled it, fished it, camped it. The Senate just sold it out outright. They called it "America First." Then handed it to a Chilean billionaire — so his company can ship the copper to China. The Senate voted 50-49 to gut 20 years of Boundary Waters mining protections. Here's the deal they made. A Chilean billionaire's company digs the mine. America can't smelt the copper — we don't have the capacity. So the ore ships to China. China processes it. Sells it on the world market. Chile keeps the profits. Minnesotans don't even get the jobs. Minnesota keeps the pollution. And Americans get to buy it back from China at full market price. This same company has a documented history at their Chilean mines: pipeline spills, regulatory fines, and locals fighting back for years. They paid a former Trump Interior Secretary $380K. The protection died by one vote. Here's exactly how it happened — and who made it happen. Who do YOU think this mine actually serves? #DemsUnited
