For a few hours, Badlands National Parks was bad to the bone in defiance of Trump

[highplainsdem]

Source: WaPo

Badlands National Park stepped on Superman’s cape Tuesday. It spit into the wind. It pulled the mask off the old Lone Ranger, and it messed around with President Trump.

In a series of tweets about climate change that lit up Twitter, the park ignored Jim Croce’s advice in his 1972 hit song and thumbed its nose at the president.

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.

“Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years,” it declared in one of at least four tweets.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/24/for-a-few-hours-badlands-national-parks-was-bad-to-the-bone-in-defiance-of-trump/

[Solly Mack]

2. Fuck Trump

That's what has to be done and needs to continue. Trump has left thinking people with a conscience with no choice.

[herding cats]

3. They deleted them

I'm not surprised, but I am very pissed off!

[Qutzupalotl]

5. They retweeted someone who got a screenshot of their tweets:

Link to tweet

[herding cats]

15. Thanks for that!

I did get to see, and like them before they were removed, but I appreciate that and will like those as well.

[Qutzupalotl]

4. They're back, and sassier than ever:

Link to tweet

https://twitter.com/BadIandsNPS

[MissB]

6. Omg

[LisaM]

7. Well!

Good for them.

[herding cats]

9. Twitter never fails to rise to the occasion

I wonder if this account was started by recently fired Badlands National Park employee?

[Qutzupalotl]

10. It's the same handle as the one with the deleted climate change tweets,

so I think it's legit, and the same account. Just a very disgruntled employee who doesn't like being muzzled. I'm loving it.

[Lucinda]

19. It's different. No blue checkmark

https://twitter.com/BadlandsNPS - real

https://twitter.com/BadIandsNPS - not

Glad someone screencapped the real one! This may be a pissed off employee

[Qutzupalotl]

32. Yep. I stand corrected.

In the font I use, the lowercase L looks just like the capital I. They got me.

[Lucinda]

33. I couldn't see the difference until I pasted both links into the post here.

I posted them both knowing one was different...easier to see here!

[yardwork]

30. I'm following them now!

[MissB]

8. Under their handle/pic/symbol it says

Schmofficial account of South Dakota's Badlands National Park, Great Again edition

So apparently it's a spoof twitter account

[Qutzupalotl]

12. It has the same handle as the one with the deleted tweets.

If you scroll through their timeline, they retweeted a screenshot of their deleted climate change tweets. Same handle, so same account.

[MissB]

14. I'm seeing references to a capital L

Vs the lowercase l.

Either way I think it's hilarious

[mainer]

16. does lower/upper case matter on Twitter?

I'm not sure it does.

[MissB]

17. I admit I'm completely clueless.

I don't do twitter.

[highplainsdem]

25. Parody account is using an uppercase I instead of a lowercase L - look the same on Twitter

but not here. Twitter address copied below:


BadlandsNPS
?@BadIandsNPS


Badlands Nat'l Park Verified account
?@BadlandsNPS

[highplainsdem]

26. You could try the same thing with Trump's handle, but someone already did. account suspended

[Lucinda]

20. It is a spoof....but I'm glad they are continuing the fight of the real account!

[Phoenix61]

11. Imagine

People who work for the park service love the planet. Keep it coming.

[mainer]

13. OMG is right. It's the same Twitter handle, too.

Someone's blowing a big fat raspberry as he walks out the door.

[Lucinda]

21. Different account. I have both links above

Still I love what they are doing!

[mainer]

23. Thanks for pointing it out. Very hard to tell the difference in the handle.

whoever's doing it is very clever indeed -- and hilarious.

[Lucinda]

24. I couldn't see the difference until I pasted both links in the post.

I knew there had to be a difference, it was just hella clever!

[mainer]

18. EVERYONE should follow this twitter handle. It's hilarious.

An NPS employee gone very, very rogue.

[Lucinda]

22. It's a different account. I link to both in post 19

I'm glad someone screencapped the real twitter feed before it was deleted, and happy to see someone fighting back though.

[JudyM]

27. As much time as we have to click through articles on this on the various news sites, the more

they'll have incentive to report more deeply on these troubling issues.

[mainer]

28. Everyone: PLEASE keep tabs on @NASAClimate

I fear they will be the next to be gagged. They are tweeting constantly on climate change, and i don't see how they can avoid the same fate as the NPS.

[C_U_L8R]

29. Badass Badlands

Sticking to Trump like a champ. Right on.

[Eugene]

31. Per CNN: Tweet was made by unauthorized former employee.

The take-down was handled "in house."

CNN reported the National Parks Service statement on air..

EDIT: Link to story now available.
Source: CNN

Badlands National Park deletes tweets on climate change

By Daniella Diaz, CNN
Updated 0210 GMT (1010 HKT) January 25, 2017

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In a statement, the National Park Service blamed "a former employee who was not currently authorized to use the park's account" for the tweets, which the NPS said they deleted of their own accord.

"The park was not told to remove the tweets but chose to do so when they realized that their account had been compromised. At this time, National Park Service social media managers are encouraged to continue the use of Twitter to post information relating to public safety and park information, with the exception of content related to national policy issues," the National Park Service statement said.

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Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/24/politics/badlands-tweets-climate-change/

[saidsimplesimon]

34. Stephen King's theme song?

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

35. LAist has an article about this too, with links to additional Twitter feeds.

I had to look at "BadLands" vs. "Badlands" closely too.

Badlands National Park Has Gone Totally Rogue And Started Tweeting Climate Facts {Updated}

by Julia Wick in News on Jan 24, 2017 1:55 pm

On Tuesday, the keeper of the keys to the official Badlands National Park Twitter account went blissfully rogue and decided to drop some science knowledge on the public. And we're not just talking vanilla science, we're talking climate science.

It's 23 degrees out in South Dakota, on a day when now-President Donald Trump muzzled EPA employees and signed executive actions advancing the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipeline, and whoever is running the Badlands account had clearly reached their boiling point. He or she didn't care that a gag order had been temporarily placed on all Department of Interior Twitter accounts, which happened after another hero employee had kicked up a hell of a storm by retweeting two less-than-favorable sentiments about Trump on the main National Parks account (which they "regret&quot .* Climate change is real, and they were ready to tweet about it.

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Link to tweet

Additional link, with even more Twitter accounts: Renegade Park Service Staffers Taunt Trump With Climate Change Facts From Private Twitter Account