If it hasn’t happened already, it won’t be long before someone proposes a search of Badlands National Park for the body of the mystery person who spent part of the day tweeting about climate change from the @BadlandsNPS account. Whoever had gone rogue and taken control of the Twitter feed was hailed as a hero, but now those tweets have been deleted like so many State Department emails.
Earlier today Trump said environmentalism had gone too far. Now @BadlandsNPS is tweeting out climate change facts. pic.twitter.com/4uomKE0dQc
— Liam Stack (@liamstack) January 24, 2017
At the risk of being branded climate change deniers (again), we’re hesitant to use the term “climate change facts” here only because there’s no attribution given to the source or whichever study produced the numbers or who funded it. Gotta watch out for that fake news, you know.
Regardless, a lot of people were relieved to see that an agent with the resistance had taken over a government Twitter account to warn the world of the crappy state in which President Obama had left the environment after 8 years of talk.
Everyone quick follow @BadlandsNPS, which is tweeting out climate change stats in an awesome act of #RESISTANCE #resisttrumptuesday
— Holly LeCraw (@hollylecraw) January 24, 2017
The year is 2017. America is a tire fire. The resistance is led by Teen Vogue, Badlands National Park, and the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
— Kitty Chandler (@mightybattlecat) January 24, 2017
.@BadlandsNPS showed us today what courage in the face of fascism looks like.
Stand with them. Stand for them. Continue their work.#Resist— Sarah Gailey (@gaileyfrey) January 24, 2017
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Whoever runs the Twitter at @BadlandsNPS has some guts. Sad to say that tweeting objective facts is "guts" but it is in this mad age.
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) January 24, 2017
Don't back down. Keep the public educated and informed. You are amazing and we support you! Keep it going!
— Jenny (@yojennyc) January 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/npobliner/status/824043555199008773
@BadlandsNPS The world is watching and we're with you ❤️
— Karen ?? (@karennz) January 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/TheOracle13/status/824031193469480967
https://twitter.com/SuperSamPocket/status/824040100539539456
I truly cannot imagine a reason ANYONE would be morally opposed to protecting the environment. I wish to marry the hero at @BadlandsNPS.
— Liz Kerin (@liz_kerin) January 24, 2017
It might be too late for the rogue tweeter, but there’s still time to save the planet.
These tweets — which were scientific facts about climate change — have now all been deleted. https://t.co/uMSz13tDvs
— Liam Stack (@liamstack) January 24, 2017
The tweets are gone now…
WE REMEMBER YOU, BRAVE MEMBER OF THE RESISTANCE. pic.twitter.com/YxKvK3730m
— Amelia E. ?? (@BrowncoatAuror) January 24, 2017
the social guy who runs the badlands twitter is now the 2020 democratic nominee
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) January 24, 2017
OK, maybe dial it back just a teensy bit? Deleting tweets is a bad look and only reinforces the tyrannical image that so many imagine, but it’s highly possible Trump’s jackbooted enforcer inside Badlands is just some park manager who found out someone was sending out tweets from the park without permission and pulled them?
Or maybe the overthrow of the Trump administration has begun where no one thought to look: in the National Park Service. Then again, the Obamas did spend was seemed an inordinate amount of time touring the parks over the past year.
Golden Gate National Park has joined in, it seems.
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pic.twitter.com/c8m0e7usIx
— Golden Gate NPS (@GoldenGateNPS) January 16, 2017
I LOVE our Park Service so HARD!
— Maggie Marr (@maggiemarr) January 24, 2017
It’s been a weird week, and it’s only Tuesday.
Resistance went from guerrilla warfare against evil marching across Europe to a verified Twitter account tweeting about Climate Change
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 24, 2017
Update:
The National Park Service tells me those @BadlandsNPS tweets were from a former employee and the account was “compromised." pic.twitter.com/RfmFSyebdG
— Claudia Koerner (@ClaudiaKoerner) January 25, 2017
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 23, 2016
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