I’m hearing that the USFS has laid off huge numbers of firefighters, including veterans, and won’t be allowed to hire their usual seasonal firefighting force this year.

Edit: ProPublica now has a detailed article

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      I wonder if anyone cares about or respects anyone else anymore, even in the same neighborhood. We’re also raising a generation of future adults in this stew of hatreds.

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        Americans are crabs on a bucket. Of all the westernized countries I think they have one of the worst senses of civic, and social, duty and responsibility.