In case you are following Alt-NPS on BlueSky,

[Qutzupalotl]

maybe don’t.

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers.

This thread will dive into its activity.
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— Hypoautonomic, BS (@hypoautonomic.bsky.social) 2025-06-17T21:54:43.906Z

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers.

This thread will dive into its activity.
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The strangest thing this account does is claim to be communicating in code with its "coalition".

More on the coalition later.
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As many have pointed out, these are reminiscent of Q-drops, where secret ambiguous messages are inexplicably released to the public in the age of email. You can read more here: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2021/01/29/the-qanon-timeline/?post_id=31617

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What is this coalition? Here they subtly imply that it might be made up of 100,000 federal employees. They also claim that their movement started as Park Rangers.
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The latest count I could find claimed the coalition had 200k members. This photo is presented as what the coalition can accomplish. The reader might believe its a photo from the altnps. It is, however, a photo from the Associated Press as seen on CNN: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-tariffs-news-04-05-25
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On facebook the altnps account claimed that 140k of its coalition members attended the No Kings protests. Are you getting skeptical yet?

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The coalition follows the rules of fight club. Don't talk about fight club. Also, the nps website would like you to know that contacting them is not a way to join...

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The coalition is claimed to be targeted relentlessly by this admin but you won't be reading anything to confirm its existence any time soon. I have been looking. 8/x.

…much more at link.