When you hire a real estate developer as president, every acre of protected land looks like an opportunity for profit.
Our national parks and forests belong to the people. We must protect our public lands for those who can't protect themselves from man's greed and destruction.
Why Don Lemon is skipping the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
“I’m not interested in dressing up in a tuxedo, sipping champagne, and pretending everything is normal with a president and a regime that spends every day attacking, undermining, and trying to discredit journalists and journalism.”
Watching sports has become confusing and just downright expensive.
It shouldn't take paying $1,500/year and 10 different streaming services to watch the teams you love.
I have a bill to cut costs, end black outs, and guarantee local fans can watch their teams for free.
1,000-year-old trees get turned into furniture.
Meanwhile, 100-year-old buildings are protected as "historically important."
Old growth trees support thousands of species over their lifetime, insects, birds, fungi, and entire ecosystems that younger trees simply can't match.
They’re living cathedrals.
We protect what we value. It’s time we started valuing these ancient giants the same way we value old buildings.
Global Teacher Shortage Alert:
The United Nations says the world will need 44 million more primary and secondary teachers by 2030.
Fewer people are entering the profession. More are leaving.
Is raising salaries alone enough to fix this…or is the problem deeper?
@FixingEducation Nope. Teachers need competent leaders and a discipline structure that won't disrupt the other students. Small 400 student schools are ideal. Disruptive students need to be seperated
•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States.
🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.
•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.
•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks.
•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. on.nrdc.org/4csRkwi