@tommyhough
Former San Diego County planning commissioner, environmental and conservation executive, public lands advocate, speaker, founding president of San Diego County Democrats for Environmental Action, former FM 94/9 and 91X morning host. Opinions are my own.
Hegseth went full fascist this a.m. because he's mad it was revealed he spent $9 million of taxpayer funds on lavish food and office expenses, that he's being mocked for photographers making him look the way he does, and because snowflakes like him hate actual journalists who ask actual questions.
The U.S. is in a huge mess, and it's attributable to Fox News, Citizens United, the GOP, and Trump. Years from now, after Trump and MAGA have laid waste to the planet and American democracy, people should use "Trump" to describe taking a stable situation and ruining it: "You really Trumped that up."
Is there anyone less masculine and more concerned about it than Hegseth? "His efforts to butch himself up are so grasping that they inevitably backfire, revealing his vanity, insecurity, and weakness — qualities very much the opposite of the John Wayne ideal of masculinity to which MAGA aspires."
This is no drill! Please email and call your U.S. senators NOW and urge them to save the Boundary Waters and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Ask friends and family in other states to please contact their U.S. senators! Public lands opponent Steve Pearce must also be rejected as BLM director!
Sickening stuff from an increasingly ghoulish White House as Trump makes what Common Dreams describes as the most blasé war crimes admission ever, justifying an attack on an unarmed Iranian ship that killed over 100 sailors. According to Trump, sinking it was "more fun" than capturing it.
Pete Hegseth doesn't realize he's the officer who would've "suffered an accident" at the hands of his own troops in the field. We all knew Hegseth was a sickening person possessed by weird teenage cruelty and Christian nationalist bloodlust. His 60 Minutes appearance has made that grotesquely clear.
Your action is needed IMMEDIATELY as today is the deadline to comment on the proposed U.S. Forest Service plan to slash comment periods to an absurd 10 days, barely enough time to alert action networks and organize responses — which, of course, is the point. PLEASE take action on this TODAY.
Under Trump the U.S. has never been weaker. We have become a vassal state, serving as Hessians for Israeli and Saudi Arabian interests. The U.S. once set global terms. Now, under Trump, the U.S. does what it's told by other nations while we leave Ukraine and its righteous cause twisting in the wind.
The regime intends to renew large-scale old-growth and mature logging on millions of acres of Oregon forests. Six decades of American conservation are in the crosshairs of a regime that relishes pointless destruction, and which has made no secret of its hatred of America's outdoors. Take action NOW!
Conservation was once popular bipartisan policy, but at some point Republicans wrote the outdoors off. Now we're about to see the kind of extinction-level ruin our public lands haven't been subjected to since the 60s. We're going fight it. We win, or we die, but our forests need your help RIGHT NOW.
In response to concerns about the impact of data centers on local economies and the environment, Oregon Sen. Khahn Pham, who represents the 23rd Senate District, is encouraging Oregonians to attend, dial in, or submit comments online for the first meeting of Oregon's Data Center Advisory Committee.
Sentators Wyden and Merkley will host a virtual town hall with Oregonians today at 2:30 p.m., and will likely address the situation with HR 655 and the proposal to transfer 150 acres of the Mt. Hood National Forest to The Dalles, home to a Google data center campus. There's more at WaterWatch.org.
"If your union membership depends on global logistics, and you boost a candidate promising sweeping, economy-crushing tariffs while surrounding himself with rabid anti-union people, don't be surprised when the fallout lands on your own members. Don't cheer for the guy swinging the wrecking ball."
What we've long feared, ever since Trump's diseased feet first entered the White House nine years ago, is coming to pass with this announcement. This will result in direct action not seen since the height of the Timber Wars in the early 90s. We will fight. We win or we die. There's no middle ground.
A vote is expected on Monday on the 1.25% for Wildlife initiative, good news today on Winchester Dam, opposition to the transfer of Mt. Hood National Forest land grows with our recent coalition letter, a bad Columbia River bill has "died" in committee, and Oregon's snow drought may be irreversible.
More of this LBJ-style utilization of power vibe, please. Nancy Pelosi: "We're gonna win the House — we only need a few to win, but I want 10 times that. If we need three to win the House, I want 30 — we came out ahead on redistricting. They should never have gone down that path. They did, we won."
They try so hard to make these batshit, totalitarian proposals sound reasonable, as though local broadcasters would somehow have local control over content, and as though all content wouldn't need to first be cleared by Big Bullshit Brother. But their icky inner North Korea always leaks through.
Whether shaking too many hands or hitting a table, the generous spread of "cover up" makeup slathered over Trump's diseased hands is disgusting. That's all I can think of when I see photos of it. How many months ago was that guy making the podcast rounds saying Trump only had four more months?
The Trump regime is a massive criminal enterprise that lies, steals, extorts, and murders while cloaked in the power of the state. The laundry list is damming, and Trump and his cabal know if Democrats win the party is over and they will be held to account to the laws ALL Americans are obliged to.
WaterWatch and a coalition of angling, land-use, and conservation .orgs submitted a letter to Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden asking him to prevent passage of HR 655 and a giveaway of 150 acres of Mt. Hood National Forest to the City of the The Dalles, ostensibly on behalf of data center water requirements.
I was in the car enjoying the reboot of Portland's KUFO when the fun was sidelined by a spot beginning with "Hi, it's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy," and that was the end of that. It's bad enough we have to live under bullshit Trump fascism. I don't need to hear goddamn commercials for it too.
Over 20,000 AI-generated emails helped kill the South Coast Air Quality Management District's clean air rules that would've protected the health of 17 million people. No surprise, climate villain Sempra was the big money behind this effort to continue their pollution of Southern California air.
They're not spending vast sums of money setting up giant concentration camps to just leave them vacant. It's eight months to the midterms and 10 months until anyone is sworn in, and this regime will still be in place. They're putting the finishing touches on their Final Solution infrasturcture NOW.
I don't agree with GOP Rep. Thomas Massie on much, but his work to release the Epstein files and opposition to Trump has been critical. Massie recently had his mic shut off by his hometown GOP in the middle of his remarks. As a principled, neighborhood-centered environmental Democrat, I can relate.
Puerto Rico has been part of the U.S. since 1898 when the U.S. occupied it during our brief war with Spain. It was ceded to the U.S. at the end of the war. You don't need a passport to go there. Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and it became a self-governing commonwealth in 1952.
WaterWatch needs your help TODAY to prevent passage of HB 4006, a bad bill for the Columbia River that would exempt certain irrigators from key water laws that every Oregon farmer must otherwise adhere to. Submit testimony now ahead of a hearing on the bill tomorrow (Monday) at 1 p.m. in Salem!
The 1.25% for Wildlife bill is back before Oregon policymakers with bipartisan support as HB 4134 and faces a public hearing Wed. at 3 p.m. in the House Revenue Committee. Submit supportive testimony for the bill NOW and put Oregon's most vulnerable wildlife and habitat on a secure path to survival.
Anyone who votes to fund DHS or ICE can't claim ignorance. You're funding an executive branch paramilitary. Forget Trump — this is a Gestapo, SS, and Stasi structure in the hands of Stephen Miller. Do you want to go down in history voting to support a regime now operating U.S. concentration camps?
As Andy Zahn notes there are only a few hours left to tell the Wash. Board of Natural Resources to reject more timber sales in legacy forests. The agency is also planning to sell off public lands in Eastern Wash. Take action at the link and follow Andy for his full thread. tinyurl.com/5en3x5xa
