CURRENT EVENTS July 6 - July 13

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Criminal neglect all around, but of course nothing is going to happen to any of these local, state, or federal officials that neglected dealing with any of this. They'll all just walk away scot-free. It will be interesting to see if Camp Mystic is allowed to reopen with no regard to safety improvements, and whether state and local officials just allow it to be rebuilt and reopen with no regard to the fact that much of the camp sits in a floodplain.
 

Active shooter faces violent death after bursting into border patrol building near major airport​


An active shooter who burst into a Border Patrol building and ambushed federal agents next to an airport in Texas has been killed.

The unnamed gunman entered the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol building near McAllen International Airport early Monday morning.

He was shot and killed by federal agents, McAllen Police Department spokesman Sergeant John Saenz said during a press conference.

 
wtf is this?
It is the Noem version and the DOGE automated response version of whether there is any actual issue with updating federal weather systems related to this tragedy in Texas. Noem suggested early on that notices to campers of flood risk may have been delayed the to necessary software improvements by the Trump Admin. No one knew what she was talking about and it sounded vague like the Feds could be to blame for failure to provide timely warnings and she has been cleaning up since, trying to clarify her intent was to blame Biden somehow.
 
“… Conceived by a Kansas farmer and created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Food for Peace has sent burlap sacks of grain stamped “From the American People” to more than four billion people in 150 countries around the world.

Now it is effectively dead.

The program was administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development, which Elon Musk fed “into the wood chipper” on a weekend in February. Kansas’s Republican lawmakers tried to save it but failed to persuade President Trump, who last month proposed cutting the entire 2026 budget for Food for Peace as well as another food aid program dear to Kansans, the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition program.

… Last year Kansas sold half its annual wheat crop abroad, but those buyers have mostly dried up. At least one big grain broker is now trying to sell Kansas grain that once fed people overseas for use in dog food.

Paul Penner, a Kansas wheat farmer and former president of the National Association of Wheat Growers, is frustrated that there have not been more objections to the administration from wheat growers and the state’s largely Republican congressional delegation.

We need people who are willing to speak up,” he said. “I think privately they say things, but publicly, no. And I’m not sure what their pain threshold is.”…”
 
It’s odd to me that Ruskan is receiving all the recognition with none going to those who were in the helicopters conducting the evacuations.
 
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Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro charged in connection with alleged coup plot​



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In 2022, Bolsonaro allegedly met with ambassadors and diplomatic representatives to discuss the accusations of voting fraud “in an attempt to prepare the international community for disrespecting the popular will in the presidential elections,” a statement from the Attorney General’s Office read.

Despite finding no evidence of election fraud, the defendants allegedly continued their campaign to discredit the electoral system, prosecutors said.

They also allege that Bolsonaro approved a plan to carry out the coup, which they say included the death of the elected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his vice president.

Prosecutors said the last attempt to overturn the election happened on January 8, 2023, when defendants allegedly encouraged groups of Bolsonaro supporters to mobilize in Brasília, where they stormed and vandalized the three seats of government.…”
 
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