This mother and her grief -- only the latest gut punch as we watch our Southern Resident killer whales slowly starve to death -- are the face of the Trump administration's war on endangered species.
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2) Anyone who still wishes to delude themselves into believing we will ever be able to persuade any elected Republican, and particularly those in this administration, to take any action other than to actively harm this population needs to wake up.
3) Not just Trump, but Republicans in general are placing the Endangered Species Act under attack.
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4) They passed a bill in the House that would render the four Lower Snake River dams essentially permanent -- thus cutting off their once greatest single source of the Chinook on which they rely for survival.
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Saving these orcas is going to be a long, uphill battle. And we need to be clear about just who the enemy is. They are embodied by the man with the orange hair. It is his policies that will kill off this population forever.
