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"The National Weather Service is a government success story. … For about $4 a year, we get the best scientists in the world watching a staggering number of weather events each year. Tens of thousands of thunderstorms, 5,000 floods, 1,300 tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts and an increasing number of wildfires. Their work makes it safe to fly."

~ Jennifer Schulze

#Musk #Trump #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #NOAA #NationalWeatherService
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https://jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/your-weather-app-could-miss-the-next

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"Their work informs farmers when to plant and harvest. Their work determines when to sound tornado alarms and when to evacuate from the path of a hurricane. That all adds up to more than 3 billion weather forecasts a year. Now, as the tornado season starts and the hurricane season near, none of that seems to matter to the ideologues in charge. But it certainly should."

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"A huge percent– ultimately all of us--in this country are impacted by the destruction of a functional federal government and the attack on a whole lot of stuff we love and need, from reliable weather reports to public health to science research to sane international relations."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Musk #Trump #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #NOAA #NationalWeatherService #PublicHealth #CDC #research #healthcare #NATO
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https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/people-get-ready/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter

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"In a way, Trump and Musk may be building the broadest coalitions this country has ever seen, or at least giving us the basis for such coalitions by injuring and outraging almost everyone."

#Musk #Trump #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #NOAA #NationalWeatherService #PublicHealth #CDC #research #healthcare #NATO
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I like Rebecca Solnit's hopeful outlook about the broad-based coalition Musk-Trump may be building in response to their destruction of, well, everything. But note this report and the obstacles we Americans are up against as we hope for people to see, understand, and come to their senses about what's going on.

Jonathan Shorman reports on Kelli McGlothlin's recent firing as an IRS employee.

#Musk #Trump #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings
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https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article301316279.html

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As Shorman reports, Kelli McGlothlin of St. Joseph, Missouri, voted for Trump.

She now finds herself out of a job with the IRS due to Trump-Musk's gutting of the federal government. She's furious.

But does she regret her Trump vote? Apparently not.

Musk did this to her, she says. Not Trump.

Though Musk wouldn't be rampaging through the federal government WITHOUT TRUMP standing right with him, giving him free rein.

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We're up against great density, great thick-headedness, in trying to salvage this democracy, when so many voters are just so lamentably ill-informed and unwilling to take pains to inform themselves.

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