TIL that Charles Young was the third African-American graduate of the United States Military Academy, the first black U.S. national park superintendent, first black military attaché, first black man to become a colonel in the United States Army, and highest-ranking black officer in the regular army en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha…
Overlooking Billy's Lake under the stars inside of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, just outside Stephen C. Foster State Park in South Georgia. The park is one of the very few places with an International Dark Sky Park designation in the Southeastern United States! [OC] [6569x4379]
United States Air Force (USAF) fighter jets -- one F-15C Eagle, one F-22A Raptor -- over the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, United States of America, on 16 July 2010. Photographer: USAF Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald
TIL "The largest glaciers in North America are found in" Wrangell - St. Elias National Park & Preserve located in Alaska, United States of America. "Within Wrangell - St. Elias National Park is the largest glacial system in the United States, covering nearly 35% of the park's land." doi.gov/blog/10-things-yo…
Caught this sunset at “The window” trail In Big Bend national park. One of the most breath taking places in the United States
🔥 Grand Prismatic Spring photographed in July 2001 in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States of America. Photographer: Jim Peaco, National Park Service (NPS)
Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) -- the best mountaineer on Planet Earth, native only to North America, and not a goat -- perched on a cliff in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States of America. Photographer: Sumio Harada media.gettyimages.com/pho…
Grizzly bear caching an elk carcass in Grand Teton National Park . . . Wyoming, United States of America usgs.gov/media/images/gri…
Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) -- the best mountaineer on Planet Earth, native only to North America, and not a goat -- perched on a cliff in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States of America. Photographer: Sumio Harada[OS] media.gettyimages.com/pho…
Ro Khanna: The long list of industrialized nations that don’t guarantee paid family leave to new parents: The United States twitter.com/RoKhanna/stat…
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States of America . . . Photographed by Jim Johnston [2048 x 1367] flickr.com/photos/4202930…
Ya gotta start 'em off young. In the trees, Redwood National Park, California, United States
Decades of Hospital Closures Led to This Disaster. The United States has been closing vitally needed hospitals for decades. Now, with a pandemic afoot and triage tents popping up in Central Park, we need to stop holding our hospital system hostage to the whims of the market. jacobinmag.com/2020/04/ho…
Proposed to my girlfriend at the top! Nevada falls, John Muir Trail, Yosemite National Park, United States
The United States and Brazil top the list of nations with the most gun deaths sciencenews.org/article/u…
S. 2797: A bill to establish the White Sands National Park in the State of New Mexico as unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
Introduced: Sponsor: Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]
This bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Armed Services which will consider it before sending it to the Senate floor for consideration.
Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM] is a member of the committee.
🔥 Yosemite National Park, California, United States 🔥
My (now) fiancée proposed out on a hike. It was perfect timing on a bench overlooking Bryce. Rim Trail, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, United States
I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President [of the USA]... find that the ability of persons located... outside the [US] to interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections... constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security of the United States. -12 Sept 2018 whitehouse.gov/presidenti…
🔥 🔥 🔥 The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States and the third largest in the world
There's absolutely nothing wrong with putting the United States at the top of 'select your country' lists.
I can't be the only one tired of alphabetical lists where you have to scroll past fucking Monaco and Uganda to find the largest English speaking economy in the world. Hell, let the UK and Canada share the top with us, I'm even fine with putting China up there. Just end this nonsense where I have to scroll past microstates, developing nations where 90% of the population doesn't have internet, and half the world to find my country.
Despite bureaucratic hurdles, the vast majority of pediatricians in the United States are very supportive of the national Vaccine For Children program that provides vaccinations at no cost to low income children. news.cuanschutz.edu/news-…
🔥 Mt Rainier, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, United States 🔥
List of unusual or unusual countries in the United States wikimediafoundation.org/w…
Slow testing may be skewing numbers of U.S. COVID-19 survivors, deaths — According to congressional testimony from Dr. Anthony Fauci of National Institutes of Health and others on Thursday, just 22,000 people in the United States had been tested. South Korea has tested some 230,000 people. upi.com/Health_News/2020/…
United States Air Force SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance jets. Photo credit: Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance (CSNR) Reference Collection, National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), United States of America [1570 x 850]
🔥 Yosemite National Park, California, United States 🔥
North Cascades National Park, Washington, United States
Highline Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana, United States
The governments of 187 countries have agreed to control the movement of plastic waste between national borders, in an effort to curb the world's plastic crisis -- but the United States was not among them. cnn.com/2019/05/11/world/…
TIL Citizens living in the Territories of the United States, like Guam and American Samoa, cannot vote in the general presidential election, however they do vote for and provide delegates for the national party conventions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ter…
Vlatko Andonovski is set to become the new head coach of the United States women's football team. The 43-year-old is currently in charge of National Women's Soccer League side Reign FC in Seattle bbc.co.uk/sport/football/…
🔥 Schwabacher Landing, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States 🔥
Tomorrow is July 4rd (America Day (in the United States of the America)), also known as National Football Day, and I Will Be Playing a Football Game with my Ol' High School Buddies. I invited Tom Brody (God (Patriots Quarterbacker and Football Extraordinaire)) to my Teem, who else Should I Invite?
It's what the Founding Fathers would of wanted us to on this special day.
This isn’t a national park. This isn’t a national monument. This is a turn off on a back road in Southeast Utah. The beauty and diversity of this state is beyond words.
Earth photographed from the International Space Station while orbiting above Republic of Niger (latitude 18.3, longitude 11.0) on 7 February 2020. Photo credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Database…
List of authoritarian regimes supported by the United States ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3W…
Susan Sarandon: If the term “working homeless” has not yet entered our national vocabulary, there is reason to expect that it soon will. Theirs is the face of homelessness in the United States: people whose paychecks are no longer enough to keep a roof over their heads.
