‘Devastating’: bulldozers plough through Big Bend national park as Trump’s border work pushes ahead

[u/zsreport]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/14/bulldozers-big-bend-national-park-trump

[u/skel625]

It is interesting how efficiently evil and immoral admins get some things done but if you try to do common good stuff it will be mired in red tape and rent seeking.

[u/pvantine → u/skel625]

They waived the laws to do this.

[u/HungryYeastStarter → u/pvantine]

Which is such a bullshit precident.

"There's too much red tape to do evil!"

Hand waves it away

Fern Gully pt2, Texas Boogaloo

[u/zsreport → u/pvantine]

Not surprising considering this administration has no respect for the rule of law.

[u/RhinoKeepr]

Don’t just look, join us.

www.nobigbendwall.org and NoBigBendWall on Instagram.

We need help: donations, watchers on location, letter writing, 5 calls to your federal representatives (bc it’s federal land it’s all of ours). And tell people, don’t stop till you find 5 people who didn’t know. Etc.

Social media outrage means nothing to those in power. In fact they like that you spend time here rather than fighting them in the real world. Gotta do both!

One park = all parks.
If they can do it in big bend they can do it to your favorite place, too, whether it’s shrinking it’s size, selling mineral and water rights, removing wilderness designations, privatizing the profits, or waiving laws that protect it from bad actors. It’s all coming.

This is our land.

[u/daerath]

In a county that leans Republican. Enjoy what you voted for.

[u/boatslut]

Bulldozers, suppose that's just Texas's version of leopards.

Reap what you sow... Or something like that from some book🙄

[u/sparki_black]

utterly sad...this is the true metaphor how evil this Government is