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"Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times."

~ Maxine Joselow

#Trump #Republicans #Texas #TedCruz #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #ClimateChange
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nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a news conference in Kerrville, Texas, on Saturday. Ms. Noem did not renew a contract to staff call center workers until Thursday.
The New York Times · FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents ShowBy Maxine Joselow

I am going to cook some rice and make a burrito. It's logical breakfast for me. That makes it a breakfast burrito.

Vote for me. I don't rape children. That makes me more moral than at least half of Congress, currently acting in lockstep support of someone who does.

Grinning, the future American leader put his hand on a child's inner thigh for a photo at Epstein's party pad. Republicans cheered.

Georgia Republican’s Ponzi scheme defrauded people of $140m, say officials. Brant Frost IV’s First Liberty Building and Loan lied to investors about lending high-interest loans to small firms

"A prominent Georgia Republican was running a scheme that defrauded 300 investors of at least $140m, federal officials alleged in a complaint filed on Thursday."


theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · Georgia Republican’s Ponzi scheme defrauded people of $140m, say officialsBy Guardian staff reporter

"Smithsonian Pushing Back on Plans to Relocate Space Shuttle"

Estimated cost to move it from VA to TX is at least $85M (probably a lot more), and there's risk the shuttle could be damaged.

Here's an idea for these creepy #GOP jerks.

Spend the money instead of flood warning systems in #TX.

#Republicans are such thugs.

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Space Shuttle Discovery
FLYING Magazine · Smithsonian Pushing Back on Plans to Relocate Space ShuttleThe Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from northern Virginia to Houston.
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The resistance needs to alter its strategy to attack these people in nuanced (and not so subtle ways). When I look posts made by #NBC/Comcast et al., I see blistering attacks on Trump, his administration, and #Congressional #Republicans. What I don't see is a single teaspoonful of digging to ask what people were thinking when they elected them. To change the leadership we have to change the constituency.

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Sen. Ted Cruz slashed $200M in weather and climate forecasting funds, then vacationed in Greece as deadly floods killed over 100 in Texas—critics say his actions weakened early warning systems, worsening the disaster and prioritizing Big Oil over public safety.

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Republicans #Texas #TedCruz #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #ClimateChange
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aaronparnas.substack.com/p/new

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"How many fewer homes would have been destroyed if congressional Republicans hadn’t spent decades stopping bills to reduce planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions on behalf of their donors in the fossil fuel industry like ExxonMobil? How many more people will face homelessness or financial ruin because the Trump administration is gutting the Federal Emergency Management Agency?"

#Trump #Republicans #Texas #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #ClimateChange
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