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Cadmus 🌲

Hearing from California, Iowa, Ohio and Oregon that #FEMA and #DHS has not released any disaster grant reimbursements in over 30 days. Most requests were submitted circa 2/20/25 with no funds received as of 3/26/25.

These are critical emergency disaster recovery grants. Lack of approved disaster funding will cripple governments as they work on their budgets. These reimbursements come from American tax dollars that are put into the Disaster Relief Fund.

#doge #disaster #climatecrisis

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Laffy

Oops.

Via Anna Bower:

Yesterday, Michael Waltz claimed that he’s “never met, don’t know, never communicated with” Jeffrey Goldberg.

Here’s a photo of Waltz standing next to Goldberg during a 2021 event at the French Embassy.

The event Waltz attended—a Q&A with a French filmmaker—was moderated by Goldberg. #SignalGate

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AI6YR Ben

From The Onion #Politics #USpol

Teenage girl looking at other woman, ostensibly her mother Wearing a striped t-shirt Mother is wearing a polka dot lime green shirt Title is Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites from National Security Advisors She Doesn't Know (The Onion)
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Guy Holmes

Regular reminder for UK citizens -

🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy
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Andrea Junker :verified:

In a nutshell:

— The Espionage Act contains a provision that criminalizes the disclosure of national secrets through gross negligence.

— The law does not require that the info be classified, it refers simply to national defense information.

Arrest them. Immediately.

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europesays.com/1924937/ Governor JB Pritzker to Trump – ”What does Putin have on you?” #Ukraine #UkraineWar #UkraineWarVideoReport

Governor JB Pritzker to Trump - ''What does Putin have on you?''
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This feels like an alien invasion of the United States.

"NIH officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.

'Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started,' the scientist told his colleague.
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kffhealthnews.org/news/article
#Politics #Science
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Kim Perales

CFPB shuttered its HQ. The same banks that complained about its rules & ENFOR actions -now: allies.

For years, US FIN cos. have fought the #CFPB -portraying the agency as illegit -unfairly targeting IDU players.

If the Trump admin succeeds -banks would find themselves competing directly with non-bank FIN players.

DEREG isn't good for banks. Dimon has been lauding #DOGE, but he now realizes that the Trump admin is harming his IDU, & #corruption is on steroids.

#USPol cnbc.com/2025/03/10/why-banks-

JP Morgan Chase CEO Dimon:
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God :verified:

If you've never mentally added up your grocery total while shopping, you shouldn't be in charge of the economy.

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Molly White

Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats".

Perhaps someone should rescue her from where she's apparently stuck twenty years in the past, which is the only possible explanation for those hardware limitations and the apparent lack of access to cloud compute.

Unless, of course, she's just completely making shit up.

#USpol #USpolitics

Tweet by @DataRepublican: "In my initial run, which processed the first 60,000 rows, I did not find these awards—my hard drive overheated long before I could complete a full pass through the database. In a later run, which I referenced in another post, I did identify two such awards. That discrepancy is a matter of sampling size, not an issue with the query itself. I’ll now attempt a full run, which should capture the awards you found."
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One of the ways fascism crept in over the years is people insisted on having "debates" with people who refused to be proven wrong (e.g., vaccines, trans rights and healthcare, climate) even though they obviously were from a scientific, factual, or moral standpoint. All in the name of "free speech" and an open marketplace of ideas. What we need to learn is to tell these people to shut the fuck up.

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emptywheel

A Nazi sympathizer with suspect ties to Russia bought himself a President. And for some reason, that President decided to reverse 60 years of security to capitulate to Russia. Does that describe it?

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

I have today reached 6k followers

Thank you to you all for being interested in what I have to say... thanks also to all of those of you who have responded to posts & with whom I have had some great conversations.

Also a big shout to all of you who've spotted typos & let me know, the edit function here has saved me so often.

As someone who ran screaming from X/Twitter a few years ago I really value this community & salute you all for making this the place it is.

#Mastodon #politics #economics

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Sorry all! Been away from the computer.

Since re-posting this I've learned it's a fake.

President Scheinbaum did NOT say the following:

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum addresses Trump:

“So, you voted to build a wall.

Well, dear Americans, even if you don’t understand much about geography, since for you America is your country and not a continent, it is important for you to know, before the first brick is laid, that there are 7 billion people beyond that wall.

But since you don’t really know the term “people,” we will call them “consumers.” There are 7 billion consumers ready to replace their iPhones with Samsung or Huawei devices in less than 42 hours.

They can also replace Levi’s with Zara or Massimo Duti.

In less than six months, we can easily stop buying Ford or Chevrolet cars and replace them with Toyota, KIA, Mazda, Honda, Hyundai, Volvo, Subaru, Renault or BMW, which are technically better than the cars they produce. These 7 billion people can also stop subscribing to Direct TV, and we don't want to do that, but we can stop watching Hollywood movies and start watching more Latin American or European productions that have better quality, message, cinematic techniques and content.

Although it may sound incredible, we can skip Disney and go to the Xcaret resort in Cancun, Mexico, Canada or Europe: there are other great destinations in South America, East America and Europe.

And even if you don't believe it, even in Mexico there are better hamburgers than McDonald's and they have better nutritional content.

Has anyone seen pyramids in the United States? In Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Sudan and other countries there are pyramids with incredible civilizations.

Find out where to find the wonders of the ancient and modern world. None of them in the US. Shame on Trump, he would have bought them and sold them!

We know that Adidas exists, not just Nike, and we can start wearing Mexican sneakers like Panam. We know more than you think.

We know, for example, that if these 7 billion consumers don't buy their products, there will be unemployment and their economy will collapse (within the racist wall) to such an extent that they will beg us to tear down this ugly wall.

We didn't want to, but....

You want a wall, you get a wall. Sincerely yours."

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Phil Landmeier

So you want to open a restaurant, you say...

Saturday night, we had a walk-in couple (no reservation) with an 8 month-old. It was late, but okay. Seated them in the dining room, not far from the fire.

A little while after they were sat, a departing customer came back in to inform us there was a vehicle parked outside with all the doors wide open containing an expensive child seat. (Theft is a concern around here.) Made an announcement and the walk-in party said, "Oh, that's us. I'll take care of it."

All proceeds okay. The wait staff notices that the couple is letting the infant throw food on the carpet but didn't realize the extent of the problem. The couple is the last to leave, settles their bill, "Have a nice night!," and off they go.

Wait staff turns up the lights to clean the dining room and discovers what you see in the photo: pasta and salmon all over the place where the high-chair was located.

The whole restaurant staff stood there, speechless. Wut?

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US exceptionalism: 2 months into 2025, that consensus expectation hasn’t materialized. The US is toward the bottom of the list in developed country equity performance, while #Europe and #China have rallied, chart @JPMorganAM

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Kees van der Leun

Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim Cuts Ties with Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Musk shared a tweet implying Slim had connections to organized crime. Within minutes of the post, Slim canceled all collaborations with Starlink in Latin America, causing Musk to lose an estimated $7 billion.
msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-

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Peter Gleick

When parody and reality are indistinguishable.

Onion headline. RFK Jr vows to make measles deaths so common they won't be upsetting anymore.
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evacide

The Trump administration has launched a portal where you can report DEI in schools, "ensuring all students have access to meaningful learning free of divisive ideologies and indoctrination."

You know what to do: enddei.ed.gov/

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Jason Stiff

I've been a meteorologist for over 30 years, I worked for the National Weather Service my 4 undergraduate years, and I loved it.

There are NO good reasons for firing hardworking, already understaffed NWS/NOAA personnel, and it WILL cost lives!

The potential "savings" are so small compared to the benefit we get from the NWS saving lives and property daily.

STOP this madness, trump and musk! You have no idea how far-reaching the ramifications of this are.

#weather #NWS #NOAA #NationalWeatherService

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