"B-B-B-B-Bad Bad to the Bone" as performed by the National Park Service

January 25, 2017 6:54 AM

For a few hours, Badlands National Park was bad to the bone in defiance of Trump With the Trump administration placing a gag order on the Environmental Protection Agency, shutting down its Twitter feed, forcing employees off their individual accounts and dismantling Web pages with climate-change information, Badlands went rogue.

Trump admin tells National Park Service to halt tweets - CNN

After Silent Period, Park Service Says It Regrets* 2 Trump-Related Retweets - NY TIMES

*Yah, not so much ... See @GoldenGateNPS twitter feed w/MLK quotes on Inauguration day
- or - the all new
@AltBadlandsNPS feed
Bigly fake #badlandsnationalpark. SAD! #badlands #climate #science #datarefuge
Location: In exile
Joined: January 2017

And don't miss the brand new - Bad Hombre Lands NPS @BadHombreNPS
Unofficial feed of Badlands NP. Protecting rugged scenery, fossil beds, 244,000 acres of mixed-grass prairie & wildlife from two-bit cheetoh-hued despots.
Location: Interior, SD
nps.gov/badl
Joined January 2017

posted by pjsky (4 comments total)

As some wag on twitter put it, authors of dystopian science fiction must feel terrible that they never predicted a resistance movement led by renegade park rangers, Teen Vogue, and the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
posted by Zonker at 7:00 AM on January 25, 2017 [14 favorites]

As some wag on twitter put it, authors of dystopian science fiction must feel terrible that they never predicted a resistance movement led by renegade park rangers, Teen Vogue, and the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

Even if they had, their editor would have knocked it back as too implausible.
posted by acb at 7:02 AM on January 25, 2017 [1 favorite]

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posted by spitbull at 7:02 AM on January 25, 2017

As some wag on twitter put it, authors of dystopian science fiction must feel terrible that they never predicted a resistance movement led by renegade park rangers, Teen Vogue, and the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

Working on my pitch now. Trump is great for certain industries!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:05 AM on January 25, 2017