Chris Adams

“Sailors have been arriving in Norfolk, Va., home to the world's biggest naval base, since at least the middle of March. Several groups that provide aid to military personnel say that the sailors arrived with very little. A call went out to community groups, asking for basic supplies like hygiene products.

‘The base was asking for donations of toiletries and different things for the sailors coming back, because they were coming back with nothing,’ said Derrick Johnson”
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/03/nx-s1-5770491/evacuation-bahrain-norfolk-troops

Apr 5 at 12:56amWeb
Show threadHurricane M 1d ago
@acdha
#abolishice & redirect those funds to these troops.
Show threadPusher of Pixels1d ago

@acdha The utter callousness of the GOP to inflict this on families and children, let alone the troops themselves.

No planning, no prep, no strategy.

In a way it reminds me of a town hall with a staunch Conservative Tom Coburn from OK where a woman spoke through tears about how her family was being bankrupted with bills.

The man literally suggested their NEIGHBORS could have a BAKE SALE to help defray the costs instead of the gov't helping it's own damned citizens.