This is far worse than bulldozing the East Wing of the White House.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/14/bulldozers-big-bend-national-park-trump
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Update. "Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/dismantling-the-roadless-rule-threatens-to-disrupt-wildlife-and-water-in-us/
The #Trump admin proposes to "remove prohibitions on road construction and logging on nearly 59 million acres of national forest, arguing that the ["roadless rule"] slowed economic development."
@petersuber have you read about them killing all the wil mustangs? They’re horrible, horrible monsters.
Update. "The Trump administration on Monday 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 of a border patrol road in Big Bend National Park, following local pushback."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/08/17/trump-administration-halts-border-construction-big-bend-national-park
So far, so good. But the halt might not be permanent, and the decision by Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott focuses on local pushback, as if deliberately downplaying the cross-cutting reach of the pushback.
@petersuber Texas, isn‘t that the State that voted for Trump to Beginn with?
@petersuber A crime against nature.
The last and most evil level of all.
@petersuber Robin Williams said about walls: “The Chinese tried a wall and it did not work!”.
@petersuber He is just qrotesque.
I'm not going to click on that until "being homicidal" is the mood for the day.
