Chris D’Angelo
@chrisdangelo.bsky.social
co-founder/ink-slinger at publicdomain.media / fomerly HuffPost / fan of trout, wood grain & Blues hockey / chrismdangelo.com / Signal: cmdangelo.33
Trump on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase: “You can’t go hunting, you can’t go fishing, you can’t do anything, you can virtually not even walk on it.” Utter lies, as @chrisdangelo.bsky.social knows from personal experience: www.publicdomain.media/p/trump-nati...
The Trump Team Lies To The Public About Utah National Monuments
"You can virtually not even walk on it," Trump falsely claimed before slashing nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.
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The conflicts of interest continue - fascinating, disturbing story reported by the folks at Public Domain @chrisdangelo.bsky.social @jamesctobias.bsky.social www.publicdomain.media/p/karen-budd...
Top Interior Official Met With Former Clients Before Intervening To Delay Wolf Release
Karen Budd-Falen, a rancher and long-time Republican operative, has been plagued by ethics scandals since taking a top role at the Interior Department.
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When it comes to cattle versus bison, federal officials are putting their thumb on the scale in favor of cattle www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-d...
A Top Interior Official’s Former Ranching Clients Wanted Bison Off Public Land. Doug Burgum Personally Intervened.
In administrative cases before DOI, Interior Secretary Burgum intervened to make policy changes that involved or benefited the former legal clients of Karen Budd-Falen, one of his top deputies.
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Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 4mo agoBaseball "poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying." — Jackie Robinson My latest for CLIMATE-COLORED GOGGLES: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/jackie-rob...
This is huge. And not at all surprising. Selling off and privatizing public lands has been the plan all along.
Chris D’Angelo@chrisdangelo.bsky.social · 4mo agoscoop: Trump Interior staff provided Sen. Mike Lee’s committee with technical data and helped craft talking points that Lee used to pitch his wildly unpopular public landa sell-off. DOI Secretary Burgum two weeks later: Sell-off wasn't part of Trump's agenda. www.publicdomain.media/p/trump-inte...
scoop: Trump Interior staff provided Sen. Mike Lee’s committee with technical data and helped craft talking points that Lee used to pitch his wildly unpopular public landa sell-off. DOI Secretary Burgum two weeks later: Sell-off wasn't part of Trump's agenda. www.publicdomain.media/p/trump-inte...
Trump’s Interior Dept. Crafted Talking Points For Mike Lee’s Public Land Sell-Off Scheme
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said a federal land sell-off “wasn’t part of the president’s agenda" even though his staff shared research with the Utah senator.
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"The fish rots from the head, and these emails make it crystal clear: Doug Burgum is only here to degrade, exploit, and eventually sell off America’s public lands. Our parks and park rangers deserve so much better.” Big scoop from @chrisdangelo.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/chrisdan...
Trump’s Interior Dept. Crafted Talking Points For Mike Lee’s Public Land Sell-Off Scheme
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said a federal land sell-off “wasn’t part of the president’s agenda" even though his staff shared research with the Utah senator.
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Ahead of what is predicted to be a dangerous wildfire season, the Trump Administration gutted the Forest Service by closing its regional headquarters along with most research facilities and experimental forests. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/QDMl4y
Trump Guts the Forest Service Ahead of Wildfire Season
Ahead of what is predicted to be a dangerous wildfire season, the Trump Administration gutted the Forest Service by closing its regional headquarters along with most research facilities and experimental forests.
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The third-ranking official in Trump's Interior Department is being allowed to working on public lands grazing issues, even though her family is in the public lands grazing business — a blatant conflict of interest: www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-k... via @chrisdangelo.bsky.social
UPDATE: Trump's Interior Dept. Issues Sudden Waiver Allowing This Controversial Official To Work On Grazing
During her stint in the first Trump administration, Karen Budd-Falen was prohibited from working on or even discussing grazing matters.
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How is Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 Interior Dept official and longtime rancher, now working on grazing-related issues? When she joined Trump 1.0, she signed a disqualification statement that barred her from "any discussion of grazing matters” NEW from me: www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-k...
This Top Interior Official Is Working On Grazing Policy — An Issue She Was Disqualified From
“I will recuse myself from any discussion of grazing matters," Karen Budd-Falen wrote in a 2018 ethics filing.
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there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran
Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers
The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.
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we got ahold of a batch of new ethics docs for Karen Budd-Falen, the high-ranking Trump Interior official who is facing a growing ethics scandal a lot in this story, but two stand outs - the docs do not include an updated ethics recusal - clients redacted www.publicdomain.media/p/new-ethics...
Documents Shed New Light On Interior Official's Growing Ethics Scandal
The Interior Department’s muddled release of Karen Budd-Falen’s ethics documents have sparked renewed calls for an investigation.
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I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
President Trump said repealing climate standards for cars and the so-called endangerment finding would save Americans $1.3 trillion. EPA chief Zeldin repeated the stat. But that's not actually what EPA's own math says. My story @bloomberg.com, with a gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Says Climate Repeal Saves $1.3 Trillion. The EPA’s Math Differs
The agency’s own cost-benefit assessment for revoking the endangerment finding points to steep costs that may outweigh the savings.
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history has a funny way of repeating itself www.publicdomain.media/p/republican...
Republicans Keep Invoking Teddy Roosevelt. The Roosevelt Family Keeps Pushing Back.
"It is now time for all of you to get in the arena with him," four descendants of the late president wrote in a letter to GOP senators.
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Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 6mo agoFirst the Washington Post gutted its climate desk. Now its editorial board is cheerleading for Trump’s biggest and most dangerous climate rollback. My latest for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/jeff-bezos...
@chrisdangelo.bsky.social and I first reported in 2020 that Trump hired him to a top role at the Interior Department. I can confirm he was not very bright. www.huffpost.com/entry/interi...
Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6mo agoTrump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
NEW: Hunting influencer Ryan Lampers, who faces multiple poaching-related charges in Idaho, was also cited in Montana last year for failing to submit a black bear hide and skull for inspection. A warden seized the animal. Lampers paid $155 for the offense. www.publicdomain.media/p/ryan-lampe...
Hunting YouTuber Had A Bear Violation Before Facing Felony Poaching Charges
Ryan Lampers built a following on social media and podcasts before criminal charges led to his downfall.
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Spoiler alert: The Republican Study Committee is just making shit up
Chris D’Angelo@chrisdangelo.bsky.social · 6mo agoHouse Republicans say they want to sell off "underutilized" federal buildings, claiming it would generate $115 billion in federal revenue. I went down a rabbit hole here...and their math isn't mathing. www.publicdomain.media/p/gop-budget...
House Republicans say they want to sell off "underutilized" federal buildings, claiming it would generate $115 billion in federal revenue. I went down a rabbit hole here...and their math isn't mathing. www.publicdomain.media/p/gop-budget...
The Flimsy Numbers Behind The GOP Push To Sell Off Federal Properties
House Republicans say they want to offload "underutilized" federal buildings. Their math isn’t mathing.
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how members of the newly formed bipartisan House Public Lands Caucus voted on yesterday’s resolution to lift the 20-year ban on mining near the Boundary Waters... 11 Republicans: Yay 11 Democrats: Nay open.substack.com/pub/chrisdan...
House Public Lands Caucus Fails Test With Boundary Waters Vote
Partisanship trumped common ground on conservation in the long-simmering fight over a proposed mine in northern Minnesota.
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Why does Steve Pearce own up to $2 million in gold bars and coins? www.publicdomain.media/p/trump-blm-... via @chrisdangelo.bsky.social
Docs Detail Trump BLM Nominee’s Vast Wealth, Financial Entanglements
Last year, Steve Pearce raked in up to $1.1 million off of frac tank leases and water sales — to whom remains unclear.
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PERC, the Montana-based property rights and "free market environmentalism" nonprofit w/ a history of advocating for privatizing America’s federal lands and rolling back environmental laws, will be the primary beneficiary of the 2026 "conservation-focused" Wildlands event
one important point on the Karen Budd-Falen/Thacker Pass scandal... it's not just that her family struck a lucrative deal to sell water to the mine the relationship is ongoing...the mine is relying on the Budd-Falen ranch to monitor for drawdown impacts www.publicdomain.media/p/karen-budd...
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our little"blog" (as Trump's Interior loves to call us) — a “blog” that recently blew the door open on Interior official Karen Budd-Falen’s financial ties to a massive lithium mine on federal land in Nevada — has sued the Trump Interior Dept … …again www.publicdomain.media/p/public-dom...
Public Domain Sues Trump Administration Again
Plus, our investigation cited in NYT and featured on Rachel Maddow.
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SCOOP: A Top Trump Official Has Financial Ties To Controversial Nevada Lithium Project
Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation agreed to sell water rights to the company developing the Thacker Pass lithium mine.
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Chris D’Angelo@chrisdangelo.bsky.social · 7mo agoaudio of Maddow’s show below…first segment highlights our “explosive reporting” (her words) on Trump Interior official's financial ties to massive lithium mine “If there’s a public corruption child’s picture book, this is the kind of story that would be pictured." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgIW...
audio of Maddow’s show below…first segment highlights our “explosive reporting” (her words) on Trump Interior official's financial ties to massive lithium mine “If there’s a public corruption child’s picture book, this is the kind of story that would be pictured." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgIW...
my colleague @jamesctobias.bsky.social and I first reported this in our newsletter Public Domain three weeks ago link here: www.publicdomain.media/p/karen-budd...
SCOOP: A Top Trump Official Has Financial Ties To Controversial Nevada Lithium Project
Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation agreed to sell water rights to the company developing the Thacker Pass lithium mine.
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Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7mo agoBigger than Teapot Dome in terms of scandals, but in the age of Trump, it doesn't even raise an eyebrow: Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5m water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine approved by Interior.
Public Domain, an environmental news outlet, earlier reported some of the details of Mr. Falen’s financial relationship with Thacker Pass www.publicdomain.media/p/karen-budd...
SCOOP: A Top Trump Official Has Financial Ties To Controversial Nevada Lithium Project
Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation agreed to sell water rights to the company developing the Thacker Pass lithium mine.
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