Federal officials seek information on manatee harass...
Princess Emily
[uspol/animal cruelty] who wants to get mad?
❆ despairmas
WHAT THE FUCK
Doge-lover Joja
Princess Emily
mobile ate your formatting, can't see your tags over the link
Princess Emily
uspol / animal cruelty?
Doge-lover Joja
thnx
Princess Emily
tl;dr somebody carved TRUMP into a manatee's back in GIANT letters, leaving the writing in giant scar tissue
Niamh Vibes
BAD
Niamh Vibes
BAD BAD BAD
Drizzmas
OKAY WE CROSSED A LINE BEFORE BUT NOW
Vehrec
are we sure that they didn't just scrape the algea and other growth off it's back-is this actually scared?
Princess Emily
yes
Vehrec
oof
Princess Emily
there was a Twitter thread where somebody kept saying that and a marine biologist stepped in
RobotApocalypse
do you have a link on the twitter thread?
Echo
WHAT THE FUCK.
Echo
IT'S A MANATEE HOW COULD YOU- WHY WOULD ANYONE- OH MY FUCKING GOD.
Echo
I AM SO ANGRY.
Princess Emily
RobotApocalypse
: nope it was on my phone and I am WAY far gone from that
Echo
Is the manatee going to be okay? 
Princess Emily
it'll be fine but also like
Princess Emily
not cool Trumpsters
Blighty
jesus fuck
Blighty
these people are heinous
Blighty
i thought it was paint when i looked at it at first
Blighty
which like, is bad, but not like 5 minutes of active torture bad
RobotApocalypse
i did some googling and it looks like the US Fish & Wildlife Service is saying it appears to be algae scraped off rather than scarring 
Someone wrote ‘Trump’ on a manatee. Feds and Florida...
RobotApocalypse
but other than that it seems unclear - news sources aren't consistent about how they describe it
RobotApocalypse
i really hope it's just the algae and that this poor manatee isn't permanently disfigured because of some stupid asshole 