The Trump regime is upsetting on many levels; I'm especially peeved at attacks on NOAA and the NWS. These organizations provide charts, navigation markers, weather forecasts, and world class planetary research. What good can come from tossing this expertise and going private? So I'm showing up!

Trump’s NOAA cuts jeopardize Columbia River navigation safety, billions in trade Large Trump administration cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have hit a crucial part of the agency that runs a fleet of more than 100 coastal weather buoys. The buoys enable

Why would one intentionally degrade our weather monitoring and prediction systems?
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Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life) on Threads Jeff Bezos has set a new direction for the opinion pages of @washingtonpost and the opinion editor quit in response.

I’m slow to rouse but finally achieved the state of spittin’ mad, so I cancelled my Prime account. Remember you can still get free delivery on orders over $35 without Prime.

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Not Gulf of America. The US controls 46% of the water in the Gulf, Mexico 49%, and Cuba 6%.

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Gulf of America? Rewriting history is a favorite pastime of totalitarian regimes. From Coronelli, 1688:

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