Investigation: Trump Carried Out the Largest Monument Land Clawback in U.S. History
theemancipator.org
President Donald Trump’s recent clawback of nearly 3 million acres of protected land in Utah represents the largest removal of land from federal monument status in American history, an Emancipator investigation found. It is more than five times the amount of land all previous presidents combined had removed from monument status.    The land included Bears […]
    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      You’re not wrong. Though the media they watch never brought it up either. There’s enough failure to go around. I mentioned today to my mother, a lifelong Democrat and Union member not at all a trump fan. That the east wing of the whitehouse had been demolished. And she replied incredulously shocked “really?!”. Yeah, like a year ago. And it’s not like they don’t watch the news or get information generally. It’s just the news in general is a failure.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Even the mainstream supposedly “liberal” media barely talked about Project 2025. If anything, they often acted like it was some kind of blue equivalent of Qanon, and anyone talking about it was just being hyperbolic and hysterical, etc.

        The Murc’s Law Media (the only “liberal” media we really have) is generally terrible at informing people of just how awful the Republicans and the conservatives really are.

        And of course the average conservative chud either didn’t know about it, or, if they were told about it, they were either in favor of whatever it had because that’s how they are, or just thought it was a “conspiracy theory”.

        • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
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          13 days ago

          Yeah and I’m not exactly sure what to do about it. Where to tell your average person where to get their information from right now. Definitely none of these mainstream corporate owned outlets. Unfortunately I really don’t know of anything too similar to suggest as a substitute often. A lot of stuff I watch the people are half my age. So even a lot of people my age wouldn’t be crazy about that in the first place. Let alone even older friends and family. There’s a few things like breaking points with Crystal ball. She’s generally decent even if her co-host is pretty trash. But outside of that it’s pretty tough. I enjoy her husband’s content as well. But yeah that’s going to be too abrasive for a lot of older people the way he talks. Which is stupid but it’s still a fact.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      I mean, to be fair: it’s 920 pages. Sure, these days, you might be able to throw it into an AI and have it summarize for you, but if we had a media that took seriously the notion of being “the fourth estate”, they would have moved heaven and Earth to inform virtually everyone about it, and they would have done the summary, all in the run-up to the election.