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The ASSAULT on nature from this administration, Doug Burgum and Mike Lee never ends.
What I didn't expect is two DEMOCRATIC Senators to be party to it. Assuming good intentions from @SenWhitehouse and @SenatorHeinrich for sponsoring this bill as way to expedite the expansion of a green energy grid, the absolute non-starters, especially now that we'll have a majority, are as follows.
1. REMOVE Section 1401 - which essentially makes any destructive permitting done by this corrupt administration permanent and legally irreversible.
2. REMOVE the agreement that allows "No Judicial Pauses."
To put this in real terms, remember how the Trump administration just cut down 429 healthy mature full growth trees in DC despite a court order, or how they began BULLDOZING Big Bend National
Park in Texas without environmental review?
Now imagine that happening on our natural lands, on tribal lands, and in protected natural habitats all across the country without any ability to stop it.
That's what these two senators have agreed to.
MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD.
#ProtectPublicLands
🚨 URGENT: The Senate votes Monday on a bill that would make permits on our public lands nearly impossible for ANY future president to undo.
And Trump's admin is still handing them out on those very lands right now.
They're calling it the permitting bill, and it's a sneaky one. It's far worse than the name sounds.
Any permit still in effect on September 16, 2026 gets shielded, no matter who issued it or when. Older permits count too, even decades old, if they're still active. So does every one Trump's admin signs from here on.
The thing I want you to understand is this. Federal oil and gas leases don't expire as long as they keep producing. A lease signed in the 70s or 80s is still in effect today if it's still producing. Earthjustice warns this bill makes leases like that "virtually impossible to overturn."
To change or cancel a permit, a future admin would have to prove it by "clear and convincing evidence."
Only five reasons count:
1. A court orders it.
2. The permit holder broke the law.
3. The permit was obtained through fraud.
4. The permit holder asks for it.
5. An urgent threat to life, property, or national security the original review missed.
If none apply, the permit stays. Locked in. Trumped in.
If a judge finds the government botched the environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act, the judge can order a redo. But the judge can't cancel the permit or stop the project. The bulldozers keep running during the redo.
Tribes don't get a say until AFTER agencies have already made up their minds about work on their ancestral lands and sacred sites.
Two Democrats, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), top Democrat on the Senate Energy Committee, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), signed on to the bill Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) introduced, with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
Voters just handed Democrats Congress. Two of them put their names on a bill that locks in Trump's permits anyway.
This sitting Congress is trying to push it through Monday. Please call your members of Congress today. We don't have much time.
I've tagged the four senators behind this. Let them know how you feel about it by saying no to the bill to your MOC.
Thank you for standing up for our public lands.
#DemsUnited
📷 Hart Van Denburg / CPR News
WWWendy retweeted
PREDICTION: Ukraine is going to come under intense pressure to surrender over the next two months.
Ukrainian intelligence believes fascist Russia’s dictator Putin has stockpiled enough ballistic missiles and other strategic weapons for a campaign to destroy Ukraine’s energy and water infrastructure over the winter. The aim is to make major Ukrainian cities unlivable in the winter months, and provoke a mass refugee crisis from Ukraine into Europe that will further destabilize the political situation in the EU.
Why over the next two months? For these three main reasons:
1. The next U.S. Congress sits in early January 2027. The Democrats will then have majorities in the Senate and House, and thereafter Trump’s administration could well be seriously constrained. Before that, however, there are two months left for the Trump administration to provide useful aid to the Kremlin. That includes withholding Patriot system interceptors, which will make Ukraine more vulnerable to missile attacks.
2. With key EU member states heading into critical electoral cycles in early 2027, political leaders in Western Europe will be under immense pressure to prioritize domestic economic demands over underwriting Ukraine’s defense and state budget, leaving Kyiv facing a catastrophic funding shortfall just as its winter needs reach their peak.
3. Ukraine's rapidly maturing deep-strike campaign – which has systematically taken offline nearly a third of Russia's refining capacity while striking missile propellant plants and airfields deep inside the Russian interior – is inflicting severe domestic economic and operational costs on Moscow. The Kremlin calculates that its narrow window to force a Ukrainian capitulation is now in the next few months, before Kyiv’s expanding domestic long-range missile and drone capabilities permanently erode Russia's own industrial stability and home-front security.
This upcoming period will thus be an intense attritional race between Putin's attempt to weaponize winter and Western flaccidity, and the West's ability to sustain Kyiv until these fleeting strategic windows close.
WWWendy retweeted
Thanks for being here again at #Paws4Music. My final song tonight is from Jimmy Eat World, remember that were all different & it doesn't matter because we're all equal.
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WWWendy retweeted
AIPAC HAS CHANGED THEIR NAME TO UNITED DEMOCRACY PROJECT
PASS THIS ALONG, WE WILL NOT LET THEM HIDE BEHIND A NEW NAME!!!
WWWendy retweeted
The SINGLE BILL STRATEGY could actually make the Republican party EXTINCT…AND I’M HERE FOR IT!!!
WWWendy retweeted
One of the first things the new Congress should do is pass legislation that requires CLARITY OF TITLE and INTENT of all bills - especially with Omnibus bills loaded with pork.
Case in point, the Senate is voting Monday on a bill that's called "Bipartisan Affordability and Jobs Act."
Sounds good right?
That bill allows this corrupt administration to make
all destructive permits they've issued on our protected lands PERMANENT, and legally irreversible.
Republicans will destroy it all.
WWWendy retweeted
Multiple posts on Scott Colom’s page featuring Pete Buttigieg. ☺️
Secretary @PeteButtigieg said it best: Cindy Hyde-Smith voted no on building more infrastructure, but voted yes to cutting healthcare for Mississippi families.
Well, on November 3rd, we're going to vote her out. Make your Election Day plan today and let's show the world together Mississippi Matters.
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