see you in another life, brotha.

Bulldozers have arrived and started clearing critical habitat in Big Bend National Park, Texas for Trump's border wall.

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DHS has waived at least 30 laws meant to protect this region and the Rio Grande with no oversight, accountability, or input from locals who will be impacted the most. This is a horrific attack on public lands, one of many inflicted by the Trump administration, and will devastate the environment, wildlife, indigenous and cultural sites, and the local tourism economy. People and wildlife in this desert ecosystem will be cut off from their water source. Local outfitters who run river trips for tourists will lose their businesses. Archeological sites will be destroyed. Indigenous communities will be cut off from their ancestral land. The darkest night skies in the lower 48 will be lit up with industrial border lighting. All of this for a sector that makes up 25% of the border but only 1.3% of crossings.

DHS has awarded $7.5 billion in contracts for border wall construction in Texas alone. The sector in Big Bend National Park will cost $1.7 billion which is at least two thirds of last year’s budget for the entire NPS. All in the name of a manufactured crisis that doesn't exist. Think of all the good we could do in this country with that money.

Your congressional representatives have the power to withhold the funding for the border wall. Please, please take two minutes to contact your representatives and tell them to withhold the funding. Many lives are counting on you.

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On Aug. 12, the FDA reclassified a recall for nearly 1.6 million dozen white and brown cage-free eggs due to potential salmonella contamination. The recall is now Class I, which is considered "a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death," according to the FDA.

As of July 24, a salmonella outbreak linked to the recalled eggs has sickened at least 98 people and hospitalized 26 across 17 states. The illnesses were reported between Nov. 21, 2025, and June 30, 2026. The FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were aware of 26 hospitalizations due to the recall, but no deaths.

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