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nycfan said:
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the Trump administration’s pursuit of fewer staff members means remaining employees have less time to spend coordinating with local officials, he said.

The Trump administration has also put strict limits on new hires at the Weather Service, Mr. Sokich said. So unlike during previous administrations, when these vacancies could have quickly been filled, the agency now has fewer options.

The Trump administration also froze spending on travel, he added, making it even harder for Weather Service staff members to meet with their state and local counterparts.…”
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Whether or not the significant and often arbitrary cuts to the NWS and other federal weather services played a role in this particular tragedy, it seems very clear that it's only a matter of time before it does lead to other tragedies and deaths around the country. Anybody who expects that "private enterprise" will step up and fill the void (and especially provide their services for free to the public) is deluded. And judging from this horrible tragedy we now know how Trumpers will respond: somehow blame it all on Biden and the Democrats ("we are using inferior tech provided by the previous administration, which we promise to update" [although not really]). It's truly disgusting all around.
 
nycfan said:

Elon Musk Says He’s Forming ‘America Party’​

The billionaire announced the new political party on social media without offering evidence he had taken steps to create it​


🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...a?st=MpBtKA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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That party will go nowhere, imo. Third parties have never gained much traction in America long-term at the national level - they've sometimes had some short-term success, like the Populists in the 1890s - but the Electoral College and gerrymandering make it nearly impossible for them to remain viable for long. Elon will likely blow a few million on a splashy rollout for his new party and then, like he does with most things, quickly lose interest and move on to something else once it's clear that the vast majority of Republicans are still loyal to Dear Leader.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
That party will go nowhere, imo. Third parties have never gained much traction in America long-term at the national level - they've sometimes had some short-term success, like the Populists in the 1890s - but the Electoral College and gerrymandering make it nearly impossible for them to remain viable for long. Elon will likely blow a few million on a splashy rollout for his new party and then, like he does with most things, quickly lose interest and move on to something else once it's clear that the vast majority of Republicans are still loyal to Dear Leader.
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He’s too much like trump to garner interest from anti-MAGA and pro-MAGA is all about the cult.

Very limited potential with this but it’s probably just for attention and trolling anyway.
 
A couple of friends of mine & their families were supposed to go to Guadalupe River State Park on Thursday to camp through the weekend. One of them ended up not being able to get out of work early on Thursday afternoon and they decided they’d wait to go down on Friday morning so they wouldn’t have to rush setting everything up Thursday night in the dark.

It’s crazy the small things that end up possibly changing your entire life (that we often may never even realize).
 
nycfan said:


This really is a tragic political decision.
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“… The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, first authorized by Bush in 2003, was the largest commitment made by any nation to address a single disease. It was, the president said, “a work of mercy beyond all current international efforts to help the people of Africa.” PEPFAR, which received strong bipartisan support, is credited with saving 26 million lives and enabling almost 8 million babies to be born without HIV. It transformed the landscape of the HIV epidemic and helped stabilize the African continent. Not only is PEPFAR the single most successful policy to date in U.S.-Africa relations; it is “also one of the most successful foreign policy programs in U.S. history,” as Belinda Archibong, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote last year.

… “The dying stopped after PEPFAR,” Margrethe Juncker, a Danish doctor who cared for urban slum dwellers living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda and who treated Engole, told Nakkazi. She called the program a “miracle.”

Then came Donald Trump.

… And although PEPFAR—which accounts for 0.08 percent of the federal budget and has been consistently judged to be a highly effective and accountable program—received a limited waiver in February allowing it to continue “life-saving HIV services,” the actual implementation of that waiver has been delayed, fragmented, and chaotic. Supply chains have been disrupted; so have diagnostic and treatment services. There have been mass layoffs of staff. Clinics have been shut down. “The result was unprecedented operational chaos, funding lapses, the collapse of implementation partnerships, and, in many cases, clinic closures,” according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Those on the ground report widespread disruption of HIV services and devastating consequences for PEPFAR beneficiaries; the infrastructure that took years to build has been decimated. That will remain true even if the Trump administration were to reactivate PEPFAR tomorrow.

More than 75,000 adults and children are now estimated to have died because of the effective shutdown of PEPFAR that began less than six months ago. Another adult life is being lost every three minutes; a child dies every 31 minutes. Ending PEPFAR could result in as many as 11 million additional new HIV infections and nearly 3 million additional AIDS-related deaths by the end of the decade. …”
 
nycfan said:
“… The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, first authorized by Bush in 2003, was the largest commitment made by any nation to address a single disease. It was, the president said, “a work of mercy beyond all current international efforts to help the people of Africa.” PEPFAR, which received strong bipartisan support, is credited with saving 26 million lives and enabling almost 8 million babies to be born without HIV. It transformed the landscape of the HIV epidemic and helped stabilize the African continent. Not only is PEPFAR the single most successful policy to date in U.S.-Africa relations; it is “also one of the most successful foreign policy programs in U.S. history,” as Belinda Archibong, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote last year.

… “The dying stopped after PEPFAR,” Margrethe Juncker, a Danish doctor who cared for urban slum dwellers living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda and who treated Engole, told Nakkazi. She called the program a “miracle.”

Then came Donald Trump.

… And although PEPFAR—which accounts for 0.08 percent of the federal budget and has been consistently judged to be a highly effective and accountable program—received a limited waiver in February allowing it to continue “life-saving HIV services,” the actual implementation of that waiver has been delayed, fragmented, and chaotic. Supply chains have been disrupted; so have diagnostic and treatment services. There have been mass layoffs of staff. Clinics have been shut down. “The result was unprecedented operational chaos, funding lapses, the collapse of implementation partnerships, and, in many cases, clinic closures,” according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Those on the ground report widespread disruption of HIV services and devastating consequences for PEPFAR beneficiaries; the infrastructure that took years to build has been decimated. That will remain true even if the Trump administration were to reactivate PEPFAR tomorrow.

More than 75,000 adults and children are now estimated to have died because of the effective shutdown of PEPFAR that began less than six months ago. Another adult life is being lost every three minutes; a child dies every 31 minutes. Ending PEPFAR could result in as many as 11 million additional new HIV infections and nearly 3 million additional AIDS-related deaths by the end of the decade. …”
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“…Because of the brazen cruelty of the Trump administration, we can expect there to be new murals of Jesus surrounded by children who died of AIDS in Ethiopia, new “Coffin Rows” in countries like Malawi, and fewer miracles like the one that saved the life of John Robert Engole. Evangelicals in America—for a dozen different reasons—have mostly turned their eyes away from what is happening on the African continent. They have other things to do. They have culture wars to fight.

Jesus knew such people in his time. They were religious figures who, when they saw that wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, passed to the other side.“
 
nycfan said:
“…Because of the brazen cruelty of the Trump administration, we can expect there to be new murals of Jesus surrounded by children who died of AIDS in Ethiopia, new “Coffin Rows” in countries like Malawi, and fewer miracles like the one that saved the life of John Robert Engole. Evangelicals in America—for a dozen different reasons—have mostly turned their eyes away from what is happening on the African continent. They have other things to do. They have culture wars to fight.

Jesus knew such people in his time. They were religious figures who, when they saw that wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, passed to the other side.“
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Trump didn't end PEPFAR. Musk ended it. He did so intentionally and with full knowledge of the likely results.
 
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