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Thursday, April 24, 2025
Malicious Prosecution
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Here is a new twist on problems with the federal government.
The Mexican gray wolf (click here) who just last week was located north of Interstate 40 near Mount Taylor in New Mexico was found dead on Sunday, March 30, 2025. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has indicated that the cause of Ella’s death is under investigation. She was named “Ella” by schoolchildren and her intrepid spirit was the subject of news coverage over the weekend.
“We’re deeply saddened that her journey has come to an end, because her roaming was teaching us about where Mexican gray wolves choose to be,” said Greta Anderson, deputy director of Western Watersheds Project. “The agencies insist on keeping wolves south of Interstate 40 in Arizona and New Mexico based on the ‘historic range’ of the species, but wolves like Ella live in the present and they are showing us their species’ future is in an expanded northern range.”...
By Lisa Friedman
The Trump administration (click here) is moving to effectively eliminate a crucial protection in the half-century-old Endangered Species Act by redefining a single word: harm.
A proposed rule, issued on Wednesday from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, would repeal a longstanding interpretation of what it means to harm imperiled plants and animals to exclude the destruction of habitat....
By John Leos
A federal wildlife agency “mistakenly” (click here) killed an endangered and possibly pregnant breeding-age Mexican gray wolf in Greenlee County, according to a memo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The killing occurred after officials issued a lethal removal order for an uncollared wolf from the Bear Canyon wolf pack on April 7 in response to a series of attacks on livestock grazing on public land.
The order, signed by Brady McGee, the Mexican wolf coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, authorized the USDA’s Wildlife Services to kill one uncollared wolf from the pack, but preserve the breeding female wolf, known as AF1823, who was wearing a nonfunctioning radio collar.
“It is our intent not to remove the breeding female (wearing a nonfunctioning radio collar) who will likely whelp a new litter of pups soon,” stated the order....
By Kurt Repanshek
U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, (click here) the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, didn't hesitate when asked what he thought the Trump administration's goal was with its approach to the environment and land-management agencies.
"I think it's chaos, in a nutshell," the Californian said while recording the National Parks Traveler's upcoming podcast. "And it's the same thing that we see across the board, from their economic policy to their social policy to their foreign policy. Chaos is the point. Chaos is the feature. And it is, frankly, how authoritarians divide us and overwhelm us and consolidate power.
"That may be a little bit of an academic answer to your question, but I think it's the moment we're in, and no part of government is untouched by that agenda, including our public lands," added Huffman....
Pressure to concede.
The EU should continue peace talks.
He loved the simple, faithful of God.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
That says it all doesn’t it?
No accountability.
Continued damage to USA national security.
Companies are leaving the USA.
Monday, April 21, 2025
It is a beautiful tribute.
All other teaching institutions,…
USA ICE officers…
…by order of the President will have been involved in the murder of these men. Trump is committing cold blooded murder. This is what he is capable of including Americans he wants to deport to foreign prisons.
Trump and his ICE agents could now be facing violations in international law.
This is what Congressional Republicans are sanctioning. This is Mitch McConnell’s “wait and see.” Cold blooded murder of a protected class of Venezuelans.
Trump is closing the USA borders, not to keep people out, but, to keep Americans in. We are not safe. ICE officers need to rethink what the result comes from Trump’s orders.
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