Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Money, Money, Money!

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Money, Money, Money!

It is a rich man's world!

The latest attack by Trump & Company is on the environment... money is more important than breathing. Money is more important than wildlife! Mass Audubon said in an email...

A major loss for the nature of Massachusetts. A critical moment for action.
Earlier this month, you heard from our President, David O’Neill, about the devastating news: the largest federal grant in Mass Audubon’s history—$25 million that would have protected 10,000 acres, restored critical wetlands, and fueled innovation—was terminated.

This loss was more than a funding cut. It was a blow to the bold, science-driven conservation solutions our communities and climate desperately need. But we’re not giving up and hope you won’t either. Will you stand with us as a monthly donor to protect our natural world in the months ahead?

Were they alone in getting their grants cut... nope!

This animal is on the edge of extinction. Trump just fired the people trying to save it: Job cuts and frozen funding could inch one of the world’s rarest species even closer to extinction. (VOX)
Defenders Condemns Administration's Dangerous Proposed Budget Cuts to Wildlife Conservation (Defenders of Wildlife)
Trump cuts would scrap USGS biological research arm: Scientists are lobbying Congress and others to save the almost $300 million program, which pays for a wide array of work and supports research centers. (E&E News)
President’s FY26 Budget Outline Slashes Funding for Ag Land Conservation (Quail Forever)
Federal budget cuts threaten Jamestown Wildlife Research Center’s future (KSJB am)
Proposed Trump budget cuts target NOAA climate research agencies that Texas relies on (Houston Chronicle)
‘Is it “woke” to care about the environment?’: how Trump’s cuts are dismantling global conservation work (Guardian)

Drill baby drill! Or dig or cut, or otherwise destroy national resources for the almighty dollar!

Trump administration revives plan to open most of Arctic Alaska land unit to oil development (Alaskan Beacon)
Trump officials consider shrinking 6 national monuments in the West: Interior Department officials are considering scaling back the boundaries of national monuments in the West to encourage energy development on public lands. (Washington Post)
Trump Administration Resurrects Oil Drilling Threat to 850,000 Acres of Central Coast Public Lands (Forest Watch)
Executive order from Trump seeks to ramp up mining operations on federal public lands (Reddit)

The billionaires bought this election and they want their money's worth from their investments! The environment is to make money off of... screw the next generation!

Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world
Aha
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It's a rich man's world
It's a rich man's world
ABBA Money, Money, Money

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

"We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason."
– Edward R. Murrow

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

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