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#Ticketmaster's spectacular failure to sell tickets to Taylor Swift's first tour in five years revived scrutiny of the ticketing/venue/promotion/management monopoly, especially the #JunkFees the company sucks out of fans' pockets:
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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What's a junk fee? It's all the crap that Ticketmaster tacks onto the cost of your ticket, like a "convenience fee" for using a credit card. Once all these fees are assessed, *78% of the price of some tickets* is just fees.
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Guardians and allies @WesternLaw, @HCCACB, @CenterForBioDiv, Citizens for a Healthy Community, @WildAdvocate and @SierraClub secure agreement that prevents new oil and gas leasing across 2.2 million acres of southwestern Colorado!
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See 🧵 👇 for details!
@westernlaw @HCCACB @CenterForBioDiv @wildadvocate @SierraClub The agreement requires @BLMNational to supplement its environmental analysis and to produce an amended plan that analyzes potential harms to the #climate from #fossilfuel extraction in the area, and that considers alternatives to reduce oil and gas leasing.
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@westernlaw @HCCACB @CenterForBioDiv @wildadvocate @SierraClub @BLMNational Furthermore, @BLMNational must also complete plans that conserve the critically imperiled Gunnison sage grouse and that promote conservation of big game corridors on 20+ million acres of #publiclands in Colorado.
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed the #BuildBackBetterAct!
What will it do for our climate and communities? (Thread!)
What will it do for our climate and communities? (Thread!)
The #BuildBackBetterAct is the biggest investment in climate action in U.S. history, and the biggest investment in social programs since the New Deal.
(Plus, it's fully paid for by raising taxes on the
ultra-wealthy and corporations.)
(Plus, it's fully paid for by raising taxes on the
ultra-wealthy and corporations.)
The #BuildBackBetterAct will fight the #ClimateCrisis.
It puts us on the path to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 50% of 2005 levels by 2030. This is essential for protecting us all from climate disasters, especially the BIPOC & frontline communities that are most harmed.
It puts us on the path to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 50% of 2005 levels by 2030. This is essential for protecting us all from climate disasters, especially the BIPOC & frontline communities that are most harmed.
1/ One year ago, @highcountrynews published #LandGrabU - a two-year investigation that revealed how expropriated Indigenous land was turned into seed money for Land Grant Universities. hcne.ws/3bF1GZ9
2/ Here's how it worked: Passed in 1862, the #MorrillAct gave nearly 11 million acres of #publiclands to states to sell off to endow fledgling land-grant colleges. Those lands, of course, were not uninhabited.
3/ That land, acquired through broken treaties, illegal seizures and outright genocide, was transferred through the #MorrillAct from nearly 250 #Indigenous tribal nations to 52 institutions, including @UCLA, @Cornell and @MIT.
Vet Voice Foundation Statement on the Election of @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris from Retired Major General @PaulDEaton52⬇️ #PublicLands
Over the past 3 1/2 years, we’ve watched the Trump Administration lead the charge to sell off and destroy our nation’s public lands.
From downsizing national monuments to staffing the Interior Department with anti-public lands fanatics, every day has been a fight to save our greatest treasures. Those policies have been soundly rejected by the American people.
This is NOT healthy #publiclands mgmt. Forest Service is removing more #wildhorses from the Devil's Garden Wild Horse Territory, CA. But horses are adapted to arid lands. Putting them into feedlots & replacing them w/ cattle who are adapted to pasture-based settings is backwards.
The cost to taxpayers to have #wildhorses on #publiclands is $0. To remove them & put them into corrals costs us $50,000 per horse over their lifetime. We then pay upwards of $500 MILL in costs each yr for these private ranchers to graze their cattle & sheep on OUR public lands.
We need your voice to change the way #wildhorses and our #publiclands are currently being managed. Join us in the fight! americanwildhorsecampaign.org/join
Bureau of Land Mgmt (BLM) is working w/ US Dept. of Ag (USDA) Wildlife Services to kill native animals, particularly apex predators, is the antithesis of its mission. In the WHB issue, the BLM routinely states, WHB "have no natural predators." But they do. blm.gov/press-release/…
Studies have shown that a mature mountain lion can kill and feed off one foal every two weeks. For example, in Mongomery Pass WHT, mountain lion hunting hasn't happened in decades and the #wildhorse population is considered to be at an ecologically effective level.
Eliminating natural predators to protect livestock interests in the same area where #wildhorses and burros roam is counterproductive to wild horse and burro mgmt - and to the detriment of #publiclands. #yourtaxdollarsatwork
Since @CoryGardner claims he'll fight for Colorado's #publiclands, today seems like a good day for a (THREAD) to remind folks that as Colorado's Senator, Cory:
1) As recently as 2018, voted to gut the #LWCF, the very policy he touts leading in this ad
#copolitics #cosen
1) As recently as 2018, voted to gut the #LWCF, the very policy he touts leading in this ad
#copolitics #cosen
2) Voted to confirm Ryan Zinke & David Bernhardt, nominated by Trump to oversee our public lands, whose policies have dismantled a century’s worth of advancement on environmental protection, trampling on human health and wildlife protections #cosen #copolitics
3) Voted for a resolution against the Bureau of Land Management’s Planning 2.0 which would permanently eliminate rules intended to include communities and the public in conversations about oil leasing decisions on public lands #copolitics #cosen
@realdonaldtrump, who promised to protect our #publiclands, nominated William Perry Pendley, who hates our public land, as head of
@BLMNational. He has argued loudly that the federal govt shouldn’t own public lands. @senatemajldr @Johncornyn @tedcruz
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@BLMNational. He has argued loudly that the federal govt shouldn’t own public lands. @senatemajldr @Johncornyn @tedcruz
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@realDonaldTrump @BLMNational @senatemajldr @JohnCornyn @tedcruz Pendley has spent decades trying to sue the fed govt for protecting endangered species, fought against designating natl monuments, & stood up for lawbreaking cattlemen who held an armed standoff with BLM employees. @lisamurkowski @SenatorCollins @LindseyGrahamSC @tomudall @GOP
@realDonaldTrump @BLMNational @senatemajldr @JohnCornyn @tedcruz @lisamurkowski @SenatorCollins @LindseyGrahamSC @tomudall @GOP Pendley has argued loudly that the federal govt ~shouldn’t~ own #publiclands. It makes no sense to put someone who has such antipathy for our public lands, &the public servants who protect them, in charge of the agency that manages 248 million acres of them @senategop @senatedems
1. The #mining industry’s (and their advocates’) arguments against #miningreform proposed by @NRDems & @SenatorTomUdall are built on untruths.
@NRDems @SenatorTomUdall 2. @NationalMining, and @CatoInstitute in @thehill, claim that onerous U.S. oversight obstructs #mining investment, never mind real #miningreform.
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@NRDems @SenatorTomUdall @NationalMining @CatoInstitute @thehill 3. They are wrong. Don’t take @earthworks word for it if you don’t want to. But you should believe mining industry executives: they report, year after year, the U.S. has the most attractive #mining investment jurisdictions in the world.
1/ @DOIDepSec #Bernhardt is up for nomination as @Interior Secretary today. The lobbyist and lawyer is seen as a skilled bureaucrat who can avoid the limelight while pursuing @DonaldJTrump’s “energy dominance” agenda on #publiclands Thread 👇
@DOIDepSec @Interior @DonaldJTrump 2/ Two weeks ago, @DOIDepSec announced significant rollbacks of the 2015 sage grouse conservation policies. Some Western governors did their best to soften the #publiclands regulation cuts. hcne.ws/2FzUD5o
@DOIDepSec @Interior @DonaldJTrump 3/ Oil industry execs gloated about “unprecedented access” to staff @Interior. Bernhardt is a former lobbyist for #oilandgas interests, coal-fired power plants and fracking. Enviros call him a “walking conflict of interest.” From our partner @reveal
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Today, the U.S. Senate took decisive action on a #PublicLands package with major wins for WA state — safeguarding our environment, bolstering outdoor recreation and restoring ecosystems. We owe a debt of gratitude to @SenatorCantwell for her unwavering leadership.
All Washingtonians will benefit from the permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund. This program has invested nearly $700 M in over 600 projects in WA state over its 50 year history, protecting our natural resources and promoting our quality of life. #LWCF
I'm grateful for the bipartisan work of @RepNewhouse and @RepKimSchrier to secure funding for the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan in the #PublicLands package. As an issue I've worked on since serving Yakima Valley in Congress in '94, I know this is huge for the people of Central WA.
ATTENTION .. READ ENTIRE THING! Excerpt.. “increasing health treatments as part of USDA’s offering for sale at least 3.8 billion board feet of timber from USDA FS lands” That’s now annual minimum people. Plus so much more. Don’t let this go unexamined and demand new House reject!
So many things in the EO seem super nefarious, but this really feels dangerous: “(iii) Review land designations and policies that may limit active forest management and increase the risk of catastrophic wildfires;” REVIEW DESIGNATIONS??
And the #EndangeredSpeciesAct is here of course: “(vii) Identify and assess methods, including methods undertaken pursuant to section 3(b)(iv) of this order, to more effectively and efficiently streamline consultation under the Endangered Species Act;”
1/ NEW EPISODE: As Trump speeds up #oilandgas drilling on #publiclands, Native American artifacts- scattered all over large swaths of land in Utah - are at risk of being destroyed. ow.ly/B9Zn30kYF1x
2/ It all started last spring with Trump’s executive order pushing for America’s energy dominance: bit.ly/2HrsYn1
@jennoldham & @LeighSPaterson traveled to a remote corner of Utah to find out what this policy actually means on the ground.
@jennoldham & @LeighSPaterson traveled to a remote corner of Utah to find out what this policy actually means on the ground.
@jennoldham @LeighSPaterson 3/ #NativeAmerican artifacts are everywhere in SE #Utah. After a long drive down a dirt road, @jennoldham & @LeighSPaterson stumbled across these ancient carvings and the remains of a wall.
