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The NPCA has calculated the Trump admin’s proposed🚨cuts to the National Park Service budget could result in >75% reduction to the #NPS. With 433 national park units across the country, that'd essentially wipe out budgets & staffing for at least 350 national park units.

The admin’s recently released budget proposal calls for a cut of >$1B to the NPS -includes a $900M cut to the ops of our national parks...

#Sabotage #Austerity #Firings #DOGE #TrumpRegime #Resist #USPol npca.org/articles/8495-preside

National Parks Conservation AssociationPresident Trump’s Proposed Budget Could Decimate At Least 350 National Park Sites“The president’s proposed budget plan is beyond extreme. It is catastrophic. If enacted by Congress, our national park system would be completely decimated." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO

HJC Dems launch probe of Trump Admin's stripping of💰from 100s of programs for crime victims & comm safety.

Dems have asked the #DOJ to detail if any of the cuts were directed by #DOGE +Q'ed whether more grant cuts: planned.

In a letter sent Mon to AG Bondi: "The Dept's notifications to grantees -fail to provide awardees with any explanation as to why their awards conflict with or don't serve the DOJ's priorities -details as to how: term decisions made."
#Sabotage #USPol cbsnews.com/news/house-democra

The new US ally, Russia-
"Bezrukavyi’s arrest was part of a Polish-led operation targeting a suspected Russian-backed criminal network. The cell is accused of sending parcels containing camouflaged explosives on cargo planes across Europe, triggering fires at three locations.
...a major escalation of a sabotage campaign that western security officials believe Moscow has unleashed over the past three years across Europe."

theguardian.com/world/2025/may
#Putin #Trump #Sabotage #Espionage #Propaganda

The Guardian · Explosive sex toys and cosmetics: the story behind the DHL parcels plotBy Pjotr Sauer

Spain: the cable theft that caused chaos to high-speed rail services between Madrid and Seville was an ‘act of sabotage’, says minister.

In a radio interview, Spain’s transport minister Óscar Puente said the network appeared to have been deliberately targeted.

“This is a low-value theft. Whoever did it knew what they were doing because there were no cameras and the financial gain is absolutely negligible compared to the enormous damage.”

mediafaro.org/article/20250505

The Guardian · Spain: the cable theft that caused chaos to high-speed rail services between Madrid and Seville was an ‘act of sabotage’, says minister.By Sam Jones
#Spain#Rail#Train

UK police arrest Iranians in terrorism probes.

Five men, four of whom are Iranian nationals, were arrested on Saturday as part of an investigation into a plot to “target specific premises,” the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

Last year, the head of the UK’s MI5 security service said that Iran and Russia are behind a “staggering rise” in attempts at assassination, sabotage and other crimes in Britain.

mediafaro.org/article/20250504

Police on a London street near parliament. | Andy Rain/EPA-EFE
Politico.eu · UK police arrest Iranians in terrorism probes.By Mari Eccles

A young man with no govt experience is working for Musk’s #DOGE at #HUD & has been tasked with using #AI to rewrite the agency’s rules & regs.

Sweet’s primary role appears to be leading an effort to🚨leverage AI to review HUD’s regs, compare them to the laws on which they're based, & identify areas where rules can be relaxed or removed altogether. *Also been given read access to HUD's data repository on public housing, & its enterprise income VER systems.
#USPol #Sabotage
wired.com/story/doge-college-s

WIRED · DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite RegulationsBy David Gilbert

"I know there's a lot going on, but I'd like to highlight that Johnson slipped lang into an otherwise routine HSE procedural vote yesterday that now🚨blocks Dems from forcing an investigation into Hegseth’s Signal scandal, thru Oct.

When the HSE voted to approve the "rules" for beginning debate on 5 bills, this unrelated provision was tucked into the rule they approved.

This provision prevents members from being able to force a vote on a "res of inquiry," thru Oct."
-J Bendery

Today in labor history April 29, 1899: Members of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) seized a train, loaded it with 3,000 pounds of dynamite, and drove it into the Bunker Hill mine in Wardner, Idaho because the mine owners refused to respect their demand to hire only union men. They completely destroyed the $250,000 colliery. President McKinley responded by sending in black soldiers from Brownsville, Texas. He ordered them to round up the miners and imprison them in specially built "bullpens." From 1899 to 1901, the U.S. Army occupied most of the Coeur d'Alene mining region in Idaho. The WFM was led by Big Bill Haywood, who would go on to cofound the more radical IWW, in 1905, along with Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons, Eugene Debs, and others.