Here is a new twist on problems with the federal government.

Hm?

But, is killing a reproducing female actually harm? 

Yeah, it is.

Do I think this was an mistake? No. I think someone is trying to keep their job or better to prove loyalty to Trump. The species carries the name Mexican. What else is there to say? 

This is the second female to be found dead and/or killed in less than a month. Ella, the delightfully wandering female was found dead with an investigation to determine the cause of death. I don't think either of these deaths were necessary.

Ella in her wandering manner was teaching us a great deal about Mexican Wolf Habitat. It is easy to say the extent of their range in the USA was grossly under reported. Ella showed up they considered their homeland to extend far further north than originally reported.

That is the problem with threatened and endangered species, there are too few of them to accurately know why the numbers are dwindling. Ella, was showing up simply by the nature of her consistent wander the habitat was too confining.

March 31, 2025

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.”...

Mexican Grey Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) (click here)

April 16, 2025
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....

April 22, 2025
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....

April 23, 2025
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.

This is Trump’s thing. He chronically carries a white flag and that is not new. He is a weak president and because of that the USA is compromised. As a compromised country with a weak president we are not good partners at any peace table. 

Trump does not understand nor cares to understand if the USA concedes it’s strength to communists they will continue to demand more and more concessions even after the peace agreement is signed at a huge ceremony.

Trump does NOT get it.

Trump wants the ceremony. What happens to get it doesn’t matter to him.

The world is on to him. He gets played all the time. He got played by Musk and the problems the USA is facing because of Trump’s lack of character is enormous.

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He was suffering from Stockholm Syndrome after 10 days.

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The EU should continue peace talks.

The USA is not a reliable partner. Trump is carrying the torch for Putin, not peace. The EU knows better than anyone at the peace table if land sincerely belongs to Russia. These peace talks are to ensure the stability of NATO, not land dominated by the threat of Russian invasion.

Trump is irrelevant. That picture alone proves the threat. NATO must remain uncompromised.

Trump is unable and/or unwilling to protect the USA national security with a Secretary of Defense allowing insecure communications at the time the USA military is engaged in strategic actions.

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He loved the simple, faithful of God.

Pope Francis loved the people. Easter Sunday was typical of a papal truth in that God loves the flock. Francis just exuded his devotion to faith and exemplified God’s love of the faithful. It truly was the way he saw his final

hours. 

Regardless, of advice to remain at rest on Sunday it was not in his character to put himself and his physical body first. Easter Sunday belonged to the faithful. Pope Francis, as God’s messenger, needed to let the faithful know of the miracle of faith and the love God has for them.

Keeping with his practice throughout his life his funeral proceedings reflect the humility he demanded of himself and all those surrounding him. Pope Francis’ caretakers respected his expression of faith during his time as Pope and continues that respect until his final resting place. 

He will be missed. The conclave to decide his successor will be set for sometime in May. Until then Pope Francis will remain at the heart of the Roman Catholic faith. 

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That says it all doesn’t it?

Admiration by one murderer of another. I take it Trump is not complaining about it being an ugly portrait of himself?

There is no other president in history that would accept such a thing to be placed anywhere near him. Only, Trump.

That is Trump’s graduation present. He graduated from the Putin school of governance. Correspondence course is my understanding.

The school motto is kill ‘em first and ask questions later. Or maybe no questions at all.

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No accountability.

That is what is missing here. After at least 50 years since Nixon; Americans have been holding their elected officials responsible for the truth and accountability. Now, according to the Trump administration, none of that is necessary.

Lying to the electorate is okay.

Turning their backs on responsibility is okay. 

Being held accountable when things go wrong is old world.

The only thing that matters is loyalty to Trump.

Shame on everyone. 

The American people are watching.

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Continued damage to USA national security.

The greatest strength the USA has to national security is not the military alone. The USA, over decades of time, developed allies and friends sharing common moral grounds and now Trump and his minions are destroying it. 

Trump is not interested in protecting lives or ending human rights abuses. Trump wants to exert power afforded him by the nature of the USA to bring suffering and quite frankly to kill people. He is a moron and an idiot that likes feeling like a militarized strong man, but, he doesn’t even come close. 

National security is A BALANCE of power. When that balance of power is gone people start to die and it isn’t because of old age. 

The mentally ill moron occupying the White House dominated by another meat head with a lot of money has absolutely no clue how the world works or what respect for quality of life looks like.

They will never care about what is important to Americans so don’t bother trying. They need to be removed from power to protect life. With them people are and will continue to die. Without them the world has a chance of survival with humanity at the forefront.

The State Department has grown enormously over time and the benefits from that cannot be measured. Trump and the teenyboppers of DoGE believe they have a right to raid the USA Treasury pretending the entire time it is for the benefit of the people. This arrogance is everywhere in this administration all the way ftom the corruption of plans for Greenland and Canada to Junior’s belief the USA National Forests and Parks were preserved for him to now clear cut for personal profit. I don’t remember reading USA history where Teddy Roosevelt stated, “Protect the woods as Don, Junior needs a life somewhere down the timeline of the county.”

This administration is stupid, naive, and believes the very lies they use to carry out their national security compromising racketeering.

WE ARE LESS SAFE TODAY THAN EVER BEFORE IN USA HISTORY!

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Companies are leaving the USA.

I am going to brag a little bit. I have a rather interesting family. We all seem to do well. Of course, we all have moments of faltering, but, for the most part life goes on as it should and we are appreciated as employees and/or independent business owners.

Today, it nearly blew me away to realize companies with headquarters in allied countries are leaving completely from this country. Lock, stock, and barrel; gone.

A nephew of mine. Very talented man. Has a family as well as a large extended family was told the company was moving back to their headquarters. Just like that, out of the blue, this very talented man’s reality and hopes for advancement over time vanished.

He was offered a different position in the company, but, it would mean leaving his life here, uprooting his family, and living abroad. Not only that, but, because headquarters has very few openings and lots of competition the chances of moving up the ladder was over.

He respectfully declined the job offer and was provided a wonderful reference for at least ten years with the company. He arrived home to break the news to his spouse. There were some tears, but, as the evening progressed my nephew scrolled through names of friends and companies he had a relationship before and ran across a job he left behind a long time ago. First thing in the morning he contacted said company, asked if there were any openings, and sure enough he was rehired within the hour. He is going to be able to work from home because travel time one way is hours from his home.

There is some opportunity for advancement over time, so this job is basically an interim position until other possibilities are explored over the next year.

This is the reality today in the USA because of the losing Trump economy. Companies from allied countries are finding the USA dangerous for people with Visas or are naturalized citizens. These companies don’t want the trauma of dealing with a federal administration out of control and racist. People are afraid and quite frankly they should be. Never before in all my adult life has the expression, “Be afraid, be very afraid,” clearly defined the day. 

Trump’s oath of office is to ensure domestic tranquility. He is violating his oath and stirring a pot boiling over in confusion. 

Trump needs to be impeached. He is breaking the back of this country while being unable to lead so much as hate. Trump has mental health problems. He CANNOT be trusted with the Executive Branch of the United States of America.

I don’t lie. This is happening and no wonder Wall Street dropped 1000 points today.

It is a beautiful tribute.

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CNN put together a beautiful tribute to Pope Francis. I looked at every one of the photos. Thank you.

Pope Francis was the first Pope to talk about Earth as our common home. It meant a great deal. He was a magnificent person all his life. It would be lovely if the Vatican published a book of Pope Francis, his writings, and expressions of his love of Earth,

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All other teaching institutions,…

…regardless of public or private need to join this lawsuit and hold government and it’s leaders responsible for the financial attack on them.

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We will miss you. Thank you.

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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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Trump disregarded the Rule of Law on the campaign trail.

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…found to be a harm to self and others…

While Trump was campaigning in 2024 he openly stated he would confiscate the guns first and then determine the decision to remove the gun(s) permanently. This was a statement by Trump when discussing the California law. 

In his campaign he decided early on that it is better to disregard Due Process in removing guns from potentially dangerous people. Does everyone see the abuse within his statements? To begin, he was breeding fear of others not willing to end the perceived danger immediately as he was. 

Donald Trump is on the record stating he would eliminate due process. Eliminating due process for Trump can be viewed as his dogma about his absolute power. While I can see the reason for acting quickly, it was his very own supporters of the gun lobby that OBSTRUCTED laws intended to protect citizens. It was his own supporters that protested the confiscation law. 

So, while one case was looking as though the gun owner was having problems with mental health, there could be a myriad of such possible instances where no removal of gun(s) were necessary. 

The California law was passed by the legislature while gun rights lobbyists wanted the law to fail. 

The California law isn’t what the issue is. The fact that Trump is on the record of disavowing the protections of due process is the issue. This was more than campaign rhetoric. He clearly does not respect the laws of this country. These statements by him could be laughable if he hasn’t already and in many instances removed due process from the rights of people lawfully within the borders of the USA.

Trump’s belligerent behavior is not a mistake. His obstruction of justice is obvious. This contempt of court and complete disregard of the judiciary is his idea of perfection. Trump alone decided Venezuelans were going to kill Americans and proceeded to remove them from the USA to prove only he can “do it.”

Donald Trump is a law breaker. He is a criminal. His oath of office on the podium with Chief Justice Roberts was taken without a hand on the Bible his spouse was holding (click here). 

Even at the time of his inauguration oath he was in defiance of being required to take an oath in defiance of the USA Constitution. I realize a Bible is not a constitutional requirement for the oath. But, this is a man with his own Bible. Trump claims to be devoutly Christian. His actions speak loudly of a man that has no regard for decency or loyalty to the laws of this great country.

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Education

If the educational system of the USA becomes broken ENOUGH it can begin to bring on crackpots currently not able to turn a profit. Snake oil will abound.

The snake oil salesman put Trump in office for this reason. It is no different than Musk and his dismissed investigations and the Pillow Man. Same corruption, same racketeering.

Who is the snake oil oligarch? Is there more than one? Oz will know. It might be Oz himself.

The Office of Disinformation was schuttered.

Now professional journals are under attack. They are under attack by morons hell bent on propaganda.

The DOJ is NOT qualified to ask questions about research they cannot duplicate if they tried. The DOJ can bring investigation and if the evidence leads to it, prosecution of fraud. But, alternative views based in political dogma is horseshit.

Any journal that falls under attack for publishing peer reviewed research should sue for harassment. Research does not have a political tilt, it is based in facts and scientific investigation based in long established standards taught in our finest universities.

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It was a faux ceasefire.

To be noted the ceasefire called by Putin was unilateral. Ukraine accommodated out of good will in the spirit of Easter.  Now, Ukraine knows better.

Putin called a ceasefire with Ukraine to facilitate the removal of Russian officers and their families from Crimea. What will happen now that the Russians are gone is anyone’s guess. Since Putin is screaming foul with Zelenskyy over the ceasefire it is most likely a salvo to more bombings.

Did Vance heed the Vatican’s words?

Who do these people think they are? Vance actually expected a propaganda moment with the Pope on Easter? 

Ya know, the Trump White House mistakes tolerance by others as power over them. I hope Vance learned the difference this time. 

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Greenland

Trump is NOT fascinated with Greenland as a strategic place important to national security. The reason Trump wants Greenland is to satisfy a promise to those that donated to his campaign.

More corruption.

One of his donors is already engaged in legal mining in Greenland. They want control so the people of Greenland and their values and culture won’t get in the way of profits.

Greenland pays his donors back for their support.

The Brownshirts

When Americans think of Hitler, they think of the military called “The Third Reich.” But, there was a military before the Third Reich called the “Sturmabteilung” or Brownshirts. They facilitated Hitler’s rise to power including terrorizing the public to oppress and intimidate them.

Trump’s covert cops infiltrating crowds of demonstrators and removing one or more randomly to unknown locations is exactly a tactic of the SA or Brownshirts. Trump’s assault on morality and Habeas Corpus is deliberate and pre-meditated. He is looking for intimidation of the public that is now rising up to claim their rights and their country.

We need to know what we are dealing with otherwise confusion can weaken resolve. Trump must be stopped. Habeas Corpus is  Writ of the USA Constitution. A writ is absolute and untouchable.

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