cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/8508766
From the Atlanta Daily World:
By Hodari Brown, Contributing Columnist On November 25, 2025, the National Park Service (NPS), under the direction of the U.S. Department of the Interior overseen by Donald Trump, announced its 2026 “fee-free” days. Gone from the list: Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth. Added instead: June 14 — the birthday of Donald Trump, which […]The post COMMUNITY VOICES: Trump Removes MLK Day & Juneteenth as Free National Park Dates, Adds His Birthday appeared first on Atlanta Daily World.
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I spent more than two years volunteering in the National Park system. Swore in thousands of Junior Rangers. Stood in gypsum dunes, Civil War battlefields, and a lot of places where kids looked at the world with the kind of hope adults forget they once had.So hearing that MLK Day and Juneteenth were dropped from the fee-free calendar and replaced with Trump’s birthday just knocked the wind out of me.
MLK Day is a day of service. Juneteenth marks freedom. These days mean something.
Trump’s birthday does not.
I cannot imagine looking a kid in the eye after that oath and explaining why the end of slavery no longer counts but a politician’s birthday does. I will not volunteer under that. Not for one more hour.
The land will outlast whoever did this. The dunes will still glow white. The mountains will still hold their shape. But the values behind the Park Service only survive if we protect them.
If you want the longer version of why this hit me so hard, I wrote about it here: https://tover153.substack.com/p/when-the-parks-stop-belonging-to
But he’s not racist.
We created President’s Day just so we wouldn’t have to deal with this sort of thing.
So…when do Americans stand up, again? I’m convinced Americans never learned to get off their hands and knees.
Republicans: That there is some of our finest work! Those folk don’t need no damn national holiday, but Dozing Donnie does! 😤
i love how he called joe biden sleepy joe even though I can’t recall a time when Joe slept in a meeting, meanwhile with sleepy donvict, he is always falling asleep. What a turdstain.
Exactly. The irony is so thick you’d need a buzzsaw to cut it.
If only Harris had done more for the working class.
Or if the senile old fuck had not tried to cling to power. Given the Dems a chance to have a real campaign with someone who knows what day of the week it is.
Throughout Biden’s whole term it was a big question if he’d run again. It being a question at all should have made the answer a clear NO. Harris never had a fair chance at a campaign because of this despite being in my opinion one of the better Democrat candidates we’ve had in recent history. Obviously she’s not as liberal as most Democrats would like nowadays, but when the alternative is an openly corrupt billionaire con artist I’ll vote for the mainstream Democrat candidate every time.
Honestly I don’t think it would have made a difference. The Harris campaign made it clear she doesn’t care for her voter base - it’s more important not to step on the Biden administrations’ toes than to properly represent the people and win. What’s the best that could have happened? Harris would have gone on stage with even more Republicans?
They would have found a way to tank it either way.
Or if they didn’t tank Bernie’s run because it was Hillary’s turn to be president.
Gaza turned out a lot better because Trump too.
Yeah, I’m sure they noticed a difference. /s
What a self-preening bitch
There’s a video going around today with a reporter following Trump down some hallways as he’s talking about blue slips, and in this 21 second video we can see at least 8 pictures of him lining the walls. Dude just cannot get over himself
Gross, TIL I share my birthday month with him
Oh, God… I don’t know if laughing or crying 😅
this guy is ready for other pills, not his blues pre-bed
In an alternate timeline July 13th is a national holiday.
At this rate, I’m surprised J6 isn’t
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