1)Honest question to any science types. @bettywatty.bsky.social or anyone else with thoughts on the matter. I’m reading about them dismantling our ocean temperature monitoring stations/bouys…why?
Do they think if we can’t monitor this shit that hurricanes won’t happen? Doesn’t it make it worse?
People of DC-land:
If you're in town on Wednesday evening, Deb and I will be at Amy Kaslow Gallery in Bethesda, talking about why there's still hope at the local level. See you there. (6pm-7:30)
amykaslowgallery.com/show/amy-kas...
Ths is flying under the radar, but Russ Vought is advancing a new scheme to give Trump's cronies total control of nearly $179B in federal grant funds.
Billions for lifesaving disaster relief and medical research would be subject to Trumpian loyalty oaths.
Make no mistake: this is fascism.
This is the cost of a corrupt system, where wealth perpetuates itself, and poverty, at the same time.
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1/ Five cases of New World screwworm have now been confirmed in the U.S., Texas has declared an emergency, and Canada immediately restricted livestock imports. Most people had never heard of screwworm until last week (or maybe just now). That's because we eradicated it from the U.S. in 1966.🧵
