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Federal Forecasters Lose Access to Critical Tool as Hurricane Season Begins
The change marks another blow to NOAA’s forecasting abilities, adding to growing concerns about the agency’s readiness for hurricane season.

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Most of it already is.the Southeast is about to become a shithole country after a few years of this.
Let’s be honest…..aside from isolated pockets (Charlotte, RTP, Boone, Asheville, Wilmington, Triad, Greenville-SC, Atlanta, etc.), the Southeast has been a shithole country since at least the antebellum days.^ refusing to pay to find out where storms are going to go, then crippling FEMA so they refuse to pay after the storm hits the unprepared area.
the Southeast is about to become a shithole country after a few years of this.
And the Supreme Court opens the floodgates
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Supreme Court grants Trump appeal to lift order blocking his mass federal worker firings
It’s the latest Supreme Court action on a Trump administration request for emergency relief from a lower court ruling.www.msnbc.com
In my view, this was the wrong decision at the wrong moment, especially given what little this Court knows about what is actually happening on the ground. ... This case is about whether that action amounts to a structural overhaul that usurps Congress’s policymaking prerogatives — and it is hard to imagine deciding that question in any meaningful way after those changes have happened. Yet, for some reason, this Court sees fit to step in now and release the President’s wrecking ball at the outset of this litigation.
Seems like this one could also fall under Trump v. musk Will their battles become legend threadThe Fight Between Musk Acolytes and the White House for Control of DOGE
Elon Musk’s allies are fighting for influence at DOGE as the White House moves to neuter the office
—> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...7?st=r7XZqV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“… Musk’s influence continues to be felt at DOGE largely through Steve Davis, who was his top lieutenant at DOGE before leaving the government in May, according to some of those people. Despite no longer being a government employee, Davis continues to give directions to DOGE officials regularly and has privately told some of them that his departure was “fake news,” say people familiar with the conversations.
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Some current and former DOGE officials say allies of Musk want to finish the work they started and usher in a DOGE 2.0 focused more on revamping government websites and information-technology systems than cutting government workers. But others, including some inside the White House, say they believe Musk and Davis are keeping tentacles in government to help their businesses.
During his time at DOGE, Musk and his allies helped SpaceX, Tesla and X employees get jobs across the government.
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Some senior DOGE officials have expressed concerns about Davis—an outside businessman connected to the world’s richest man—continuing to potentially have access to sensitive government information through his DOGE contacts. Some of them have conveyed their concerns to White House officials.
Davis subsequently pushed for their firing, calling their back-channeling an attempted coup, according to current and former employees close to DOGE. …”
AgreedSeems like this one could also fall under Trump v. musk Will their battles become legend thread
Do not have a gift link and imagine this would go here. This is just
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.www.theatlantic.com
This is infuriating, but unless I'm mistaken, we've been paying red state farmers billions of dollars per year for decades now for product that we've subsequently destroyed. I'm more than happy to pay a substantial subsidy to remain relatively food independent. But for fuck's sake, can't we figure out a way to put our agricultural surplus to use rather than letting it rot in the barn???![]()
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.www.theatlantic.com
“… Sometime near the end of the Biden administration, USAID spent about $800,000 on the high-energy biscuits, one current and one former employee at the agency told me. The biscuits, which cram in the nutritional needs of a child under 5, are a stopgap measure, often used in scenarios where people have lost their homes in a natural disaster or fled a war faster than aid groups could set up a kitchen to receive them. They were stored in a Dubai warehouse and intended to go to the children this year.
Since January, when the Trump administration issued an executive order that halted virtually all American foreign assistance, federal workers have sent the new political leaders of USAID repeated requests to ship the biscuits while they were useful, according to the two USAID employees. USAID bought the biscuits intending to have the World Food Programme distribute them, and under previous circumstances, career staff could have handed off the biscuits to the United Nations agency on their own. But since Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency disbanded USAID and the State Department subsumed the agency, no money or aid items can move without the approval of the new heads of American foreign assistance, several current and former USAID employees told me.
… Over the coming weeks, the food will be destroyed at a cost of $130,000 to American taxpayers (on top of the $800,000 used to purchase the biscuits), according to current and former federal aid workers I spoke with. One current USAID staffer told me he’d never seen anywhere near this many biscuits trashed over his decades working in American foreign aid. Sometimes food isn’t stored properly in warehouses, or a flood or a terrorist group complicates deliveries; that might result in, at most, a few dozen tons of fortified foods being lost in a given year. But several of the aid workers I spoke with reiterated that they have never before seen the U.S. government simply give up on food that could have been put to good use.“