Betsy Heath
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In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
June 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
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Take a look at this picture. Donald Trump’s Republican Party is killing American science. Every worldwide scientist knows this. And every scientist is making plans accordingly.
American science is like someone who swallowed polonium: looks mostly ok now, but their fate…
🧪
American science is like someone who swallowed polonium: looks mostly ok now, but their fate…
🧪
Nobel Prize Laureate Kip Thorne speaking yesterday at the Albert Einstein Institute in Postdam, Germany:
"Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science]. We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️ 🧪
"Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science]. We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️ 🧪
June 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Take a look at this picture. Donald Trump’s Republican Party is killing American science. Every worldwide scientist knows this. And every scientist is making plans accordingly.
American science is like someone who swallowed polonium: looks mostly ok now, but their fate…
🧪
American science is like someone who swallowed polonium: looks mostly ok now, but their fate…
🧪
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Listen for yourself.
NEW — I’ve obtained audio of new acting FEMA head David Richardson threatening staff in an all hands meeting this morning.
As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.”
Listen to the clip here:
As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.”
Listen to the clip here:
May 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Listen for yourself.
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NOAA will stop updating a key disasters database that has publicly tracked the cost of extreme weather and climate events: cnn.it/3YzP7ZW
May 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
NOAA will stop updating a key disasters database that has publicly tracked the cost of extreme weather and climate events: cnn.it/3YzP7ZW
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OPINION:
‘The first dire signs of trouble are here’: American imports from China plunge due to Trump’s tariff
Mario Cordero, CEO of the Port of Long Beach, joins @nicollewallace.bsky.social to discuss the impact that tariff policy initiated by Donald Trump have had on imports to his port
‘The first dire signs of trouble are here’: American imports from China plunge due to Trump’s tariff
Mario Cordero, CEO of the Port of Long Beach, joins @nicollewallace.bsky.social to discuss the impact that tariff policy initiated by Donald Trump have had on imports to his port
‘The first dire signs of trouble are here’: American imports from China plunge due to Trump’s tariff
YouTube video by MSNBC
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May 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
OPINION:
‘The first dire signs of trouble are here’: American imports from China plunge due to Trump’s tariff
Mario Cordero, CEO of the Port of Long Beach, joins @nicollewallace.bsky.social to discuss the impact that tariff policy initiated by Donald Trump have had on imports to his port
‘The first dire signs of trouble are here’: American imports from China plunge due to Trump’s tariff
Mario Cordero, CEO of the Port of Long Beach, joins @nicollewallace.bsky.social to discuss the impact that tariff policy initiated by Donald Trump have had on imports to his port
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USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has opened up 73 jobs to internal candidates. They include roles just vacated by people who are receiving full pay and benefits through September.
After paying people to leave, one federal agency is scrambling to fill positions
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has opened up 73 jobs to internal candidates. They include roles just vacated by people who are receiving full pay and benefits through September.
www.npr.org
May 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has opened up 73 jobs to internal candidates. They include roles just vacated by people who are receiving full pay and benefits through September.
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The Trump administration’s cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.
Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths
The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer…
www.propublica.org
April 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Trump administration’s cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.
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BREAKING: A judge has issued a temporary restraining order allowing our client, Marshall University grad student S.V., to remain in the country. The Trump administration had revoked his legal status just weeks before graduation.
We won’t stop fighting until his status is permanently restored.
We won’t stop fighting until his status is permanently restored.
April 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
BREAKING: A judge has issued a temporary restraining order allowing our client, Marshall University grad student S.V., to remain in the country. The Trump administration had revoked his legal status just weeks before graduation.
We won’t stop fighting until his status is permanently restored.
We won’t stop fighting until his status is permanently restored.
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NEW: Pete Hegseth’s Signal chats about pending strikes in Yemen included information from a top general’s secure messages to him, three U.S. officials with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
Info Pete Hegseth shared with wife, brother came from top general’s secure messages
Hegseth has denied the information he shared was classified, but it was given to him on a system for sensitive and classified information, sources told NBC News.
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April 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
NEW: Pete Hegseth’s Signal chats about pending strikes in Yemen included information from a top general’s secure messages to him, three U.S. officials with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
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So… this was supposed to be about Paul Revere’s ride, but the Senator just unloaded about the Trump administration and its Republican enablers. Far more newsworthy than I expected. (You can probably see me shifting to “crap, this was not the interview I prepped!” but the result was memorable.)
April 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
So… this was supposed to be about Paul Revere’s ride, but the Senator just unloaded about the Trump administration and its Republican enablers. Far more newsworthy than I expected. (You can probably see me shifting to “crap, this was not the interview I prepped!” but the result was memorable.)
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil
Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil
Jewish students at Columbia University chained themselves to a campus gate across from the graduate School of International and Public Affairs Wednesday, braving rain and cold to demand the school release...
www.democracynow.org
April 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil
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Facebook is deleting Historian Heather Cox Richardson’s daily newsletters…
April 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Facebook is deleting Historian Heather Cox Richardson’s daily newsletters…
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Farmers in a West Virginia town are angry over Trump's funding cuts. The Republican president won 70% of votes in the state in his bid to regain the White House. They believed Trump's repeated campaign vows that he supported American farmers. Hunger came up, time and again reut.rs/3QQ6aCO
March 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Farmers in a West Virginia town are angry over Trump's funding cuts. The Republican president won 70% of votes in the state in his bid to regain the White House. They believed Trump's repeated campaign vows that he supported American farmers. Hunger came up, time and again reut.rs/3QQ6aCO
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The lives of American troops - and every American life - depends on the people in charge of our government taking their responsibilities seriously. But again and again, including with the incompetence that came to light today, they are demonstrating the opposite.
My full interview here:
My full interview here:
Pete Responds Live to Trump Admin’s Major Security Failure
YouTube video by Pete Buttigieg
www.youtube.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The lives of American troops - and every American life - depends on the people in charge of our government taking their responsibilities seriously. But again and again, including with the incompetence that came to light today, they are demonstrating the opposite.
My full interview here:
My full interview here:
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A memo has just leaked revealing that the Trump administration is planning to sabotage the Social Security Administration.
Their plan would gut the agency’s claims process, potentially preventing millions of Americans from getting their earned benefits.
Per @juddlegum.bsky.social:
Their plan would gut the agency’s claims process, potentially preventing millions of Americans from getting their earned benefits.
Per @juddlegum.bsky.social:
EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration
An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency, cause sign...
popular.info
March 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A memo has just leaked revealing that the Trump administration is planning to sabotage the Social Security Administration.
Their plan would gut the agency’s claims process, potentially preventing millions of Americans from getting their earned benefits.
Per @juddlegum.bsky.social:
Their plan would gut the agency’s claims process, potentially preventing millions of Americans from getting their earned benefits.
Per @juddlegum.bsky.social:
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Thou shalt fire Chuck Schumer.
March 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Thou shalt fire Chuck Schumer.
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BREAKING: Two separate federal judges have determined that thousands of probationary federal employees were fired improperly, and ordered jobs restored across a wide range of government departments. @maddow.msnbc.com explains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh3A...
BREAKING: Federal judges order Trump to rehire thousands of fired probationary federal employees
YouTube video by MSNBC
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March 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
BREAKING: Two separate federal judges have determined that thousands of probationary federal employees were fired improperly, and ordered jobs restored across a wide range of government departments. @maddow.msnbc.com explains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh3A...
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A brilliant letter from a Vietnam veteran to a local newspaper.
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
March 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A brilliant letter from a Vietnam veteran to a local newspaper.
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A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC . org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe.
Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe
The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.
www.404media.co
March 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC . org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe.
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This is really well done. I hope the people who need to hear this, do. @standupforscience.bsky.social
@altnws.bsky.social @altnoaa.bsky.social @roguenasa.altgov.info
@altnws.bsky.social @altnoaa.bsky.social @roguenasa.altgov.info
With cuts happening at NOAA/NWS, I wanted to share some thoughts on what NWS data means for everyone and what may be impacted by these changes ->
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u58Q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u58Q...
Possible impact of NOAA and NWS cuts: Analysis
YouTube video by CBS Boston
www.youtube.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This is really well done. I hope the people who need to hear this, do. @standupforscience.bsky.social
@altnws.bsky.social @altnoaa.bsky.social @roguenasa.altgov.info
@altnws.bsky.social @altnoaa.bsky.social @roguenasa.altgov.info
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Mackenzie Kleinpeter logged into work Friday, thinking her job as a wildlife biologist and oil and gas specialist at the Southwest Louisiana National Wildlife Refuges Complex was safe from recent federal layoffs.
- Scientists from all kinds of backgrounds are being illegally terminated. 😢
- Scientists from all kinds of backgrounds are being illegally terminated. 😢
Here’s a story that was shared with me:
It’s a good story about a probationary employee being terminated. The FWS continues to not respond to any of the requests for comment. 🙄
Our employees deserve better.
www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/new...
It’s a good story about a probationary employee being terminated. The FWS continues to not respond to any of the requests for comment. 🙄
Our employees deserve better.
www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/new...
'Unfortunately, you're all fired': Federal layoffs hit Louisiana national wildlife refuges
Kleinpeter's position, which she started in August, came at no expense to taxpayers; her funding coming through oil and gas company fines and fees.
www.theadvocate.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Mackenzie Kleinpeter logged into work Friday, thinking her job as a wildlife biologist and oil and gas specialist at the Southwest Louisiana National Wildlife Refuges Complex was safe from recent federal layoffs.
- Scientists from all kinds of backgrounds are being illegally terminated. 😢
- Scientists from all kinds of backgrounds are being illegally terminated. 😢
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A federal judge extended her injunction against the National Institutes of Health, preventing it from implementing or enforcing planned cuts to federal funding that supports various medical and scientific research projects.
March 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A federal judge extended her injunction against the National Institutes of Health, preventing it from implementing or enforcing planned cuts to federal funding that supports various medical and scientific research projects.
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The Trump administration has its government-shrinking sights set on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where around 800 employees have been tapped for termination, according to two sources close to the agency.
NOAA fires about 800 employees, with more possible Friday | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has its government-shrinking sights set on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where around 800 employees have been tapped for termination, according to two s...
www.cnn.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The Trump administration has its government-shrinking sights set on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where around 800 employees have been tapped for termination, according to two sources close to the agency.