National Parks Service just launched a ‘resistance’ Twitter account to bypass Trump’s censorship
Tom Cahill |Administrators for National Parks Service Twitter accounts are refusing to be silenced, and are taking their resistance to Trump to a new account.
The account @AltNatParkSer, which was launched on Tuesday, already has over a quarter million followers as of this writing, and is growing quickly. The account describes itself as “The Unofficial “Resistance” team of U.S. National Park Service. Not taxpayer subsidised!” One tweet says the account is being run by active park rangers in their free time.
Hi @JettGoldsmith This accnt being run by several active NPS rangers and friends.
— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017
We promise 100 percent that we include environmental scientists and far too much coffee. #ResistTrump https://t.co/dV5DZjtmfh
— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017
Donald Trump previously ordered all National Parks Service accounts to stop tweeting indefinitely when the verified @NatlParkService account retweeted images comparing the inaugural crowds of Presidents Obama and Trump. However, the @BadlandsNPS account, which is the verified account for the Badlands National Park, ignored that gag order and tweeted factoids about climate change that were later deleted. The account for the Golden Gate National Park followed suit.
However, with the advent of @AltNatParkSer, National Parks Service employees vow to continue publishing facts about climate change and resisting President Trump.
Can't wait for President Trump to call us FAKE NEWS.
You can take our official twitter, but you'll never take our free time!
— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017
The people behind the account explained that their rationale was to do everything they could to protect and safeguard America’s National Parks, saying that climate change was the single greatest threat that national parks face.
Here's the DL on the National Park Service. Most of us are in the job for one reason. We LOVE our outdoors. It IS the greatest.
— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017
To understand what's best for our parks, we need to have access to US science data on climate & the environment. We must not be silenced.
— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017
"Climate change is fundamentally the greatest threat to the integrity of our national parks that we've experienced." https://t.co/8CoUXu5gyH
— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017
In addition to their own gag order, the account also condemned Trump’s silencing of the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and the EPA’s grant program, both of which research and study how the rapidly changing climate affects everything from the food supply to local wildlife populations.
President Trump has called climate change a hoax & the White House deleted the climate change policies on its website on inauguration day.
— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017
A media blackout has also been introduced over our colleagues at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017
This is the National Park Service's Cultural Resources Climate Change Strategy. Pls download before it is removed. https://t.co/oO3ZMVxxwN
— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017
Aside from the advocacy for science, the account also regularly pokes fun at the new president, and promises that even if the administration fires employees who defy his gag orders, others will continue to rise up.
"We will not go quietly into the night!
We will not vanish without a fight!
We're going to live on!
We'll fight climate change denial" pic.twitter.com/HWNhAKmaBz
— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017
US election was tough for park rangers, but Dems & Reps united over common fear of CFCs from President Trump's excessive use of hairspray
— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017
Did no one tell President Trump about the Streisand Effect?
You silence our colleagues officially, and we will scream when we get home.— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017
Correct. It's not the first former employee to go rogue. Or the last. https://t.co/mJzmVP5cv9
— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017
Tom Cahill is a writer for US Uncut based in the Pacific Northwest. He specializes in coverage of political, economic, and environmental news. You can contact him via email at [email protected], or follow him on Facebook.
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