I remember Michael Brown’s disastrous handling of Katrina in 2005. Bush Jr had hired him, without any qualifications except as GOP donor, to run FEMA. "Heck of a job, Brownie!" became slang for politically connected but incompetent appointees. The current Trump picks are incompetent and unqualified but also mean spirited, nihilistic boot kickers. I wish the Trump admin was being filled with Browns, who had a good faith willingness to do the right thing, and knew when he was over his head.
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It is without hyperbole that I say the world is terrified of another Trump term.
By narrowly framing a few Kennedy claims about food, this NYT article sane washes what should be his immediately disqualifying claims about vaccines, wifi, COVId, etc. You can see in the comments how many latch on to this or that health claim as being credible so RFK deserves our consideration.
The US to me is like a former girlfriend with whom I had been madly in love, but with the years I realized how much I had been all the while ignoring the utter nasty streak deep in her personality. Yes it usually involved nastiness to someone else, usually undeserving. But it had been right there before me and I hate myself for ignoring it so long.
James GleickWeeks to go before the election, has the political press, led by the NY Times, learned anything? If only they would listen to James Fallows. (I make an appearance.)
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"President Biden just approved $ 1 BILLION in Emergency relief funds to Florida on THE DAY the #Hurricane hit.
Trump stated he would WITHHOLD relief funds for CA wild fires because he doesn’t like Gov.Newsom
And THAT is this difference between Democrats and Republicans. Between a REAL President and a whiny little b*tch baby!!
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Bytes EuropeProject 2025 plan calls for demolition of NOAA and National Weather Service https://www.byteseu.com/451067/ #EverythingScience #Science
Peter GleickTrump says October 23rd is too late for a debate because voting has started, and media reports that without comment. But...
October 21, 1960 Nixon - Kennedy
October 22, 1976 Carter - Ford
October 28, 1980 Carter - Reagan
October 21, 1984 Reagan - Mondale
October 19, 1992 Clinton -Bush - Perot
October 17, 2000 Bush - Gore
October 22, 2012 Obama - Romney
October 19, 2016 Clinton - Trump
October 22, 2020 Biden - Trump
Steve HermanDoD announces an additional $250 million worth of military aid for Ukraine, including: air defense missiles; munitions for rocket systems and artillery; armored vehicles; and anti-tank weapons.
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Man Pardoned by Trump Strangled His Wife
A convicted murderer who was pardoned by Donald Trump strangled his wife after his release, Popular Information reports.
Trump’s commutation of Jamie Davidson’s life sentence was controversial at the time because of the severity of Davidson’s offense and the atypical process that led to his release.
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Via @emptywheel:
Very important to see what Dmitri Firtash scribe John Solomon is doing here. The law is about lawful immigrants--many of whom, in CA, would be H1Bs. Solomon is lying to foster the kind of violence seen in Ireland and UK.
There's fascist transnational effort to blame housing shortages (or cost) on immigrants. It's one of the quickest way to recruit normal people to far right violence.
