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GOP Platform Proposes To Get Rid Of National Parks And National Forests

By Jenny Rowland / Think Progress 7/15 The Republican platform committee met this week to draft the document that defines the party’s official principles and policies. Along with provisions on pornography and LGBT “conversion therapy” is an amendment calling for the indiscriminate and immediate disposal of national public lands.

The inclusion of this provision in the Republican Party’s platform reflects the growing influence of and ideological alliance between several anti-park members of the GOP and anti-government extremists, led by Cliven Bundy, who dispute the federal government’s authority over national public lands.

“Congress shall immediately pass universal legislation providing a timely and orderly mechanism requiring the federal government to convey certain federally controlled public lands to the states,” reads the adopted language. “We call upon all national and state leaders and representatives to exert their utmost power and influence to urge the transfer of those lands identified.”

The provision calls for an immediate full-scale disposal of “certain” public lands, without defining which lands it would apply to, leaving national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife refuges, and national forests apparently up for grabs and vulnerable to development, privatization, or transfer to state ownership.

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This past Otakon marks three years I’ve been cosplaying Hermione, and yet somehow I haven’t run out of feelings about this character. I could fill seven books about how much I love her, and another seven books about how Important she was to me growing up, and I could write a whole Dissertation about how very very very much a Black Hermione means to me

(“how much,” you might foolishly ask, and I’d say “So much that I’m getting my anxious butt on a plane to London in April to bear Witness to her existence on stage.”)

(So yeah, a whole lot, lol)

There’s really no limit to how long I could gush about her, but I’m sure I’m getting repetitive at this point, so just have some more pics lolol Photos taken and edited by AshB images, @ashbimages whom Black Hermione aLSO means a lot to, which meant that we were veryyyyy excited to collab on some #blackgirlmagic.

**I for one was Very Doubtful that there was somewhere that we could pass off for Hogwarts in Baltimore Harbor, but I’m learning that Ash is a Miracle Worker and I should never doubt her ever ever lololol more of my cosplay HERE

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nothing is quite as Good and Pure as owl city trying to protect his fans from the mosquitoes

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