Madison Sloan
@mmadisons.bsky.social
Disaster recovery and civil rights lawyer. Opinions my own.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.
But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.
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But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.
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Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene
An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.
But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.
With @theassemblync.bsky.social
But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.
With @theassemblync.bsky.social
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You can spend time arguing over the difference between shutting down FEMA & rebranding it but the reality is that the Trump admin has already dismantled FEMA to the point that it could not efficiently respond to a relatively small disaster in a state with a relatively large capacity EM system.
July 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
You can spend time arguing over the difference between shutting down FEMA & rebranding it but the reality is that the Trump admin has already dismantled FEMA to the point that it could not efficiently respond to a relatively small disaster in a state with a relatively large capacity EM system.
“Rapid deportations” = kidnapping people off the street and sending them to death camps. Covering this like what’s important is scoring political points is disgusting.
JUST IN: The Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump to enforce the Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now, handing the White House a significant victory.
Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to enforce the Alien Enemies Act for now, handing the White House a significant victory that will let immigration officials rely on a sweepin...
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April 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
“Rapid deportations” = kidnapping people off the street and sending them to death camps. Covering this like what’s important is scoring political points is disgusting.
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Louder for the people in the back:
If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process.
Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.
If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process.
Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.
Also I hope we're all on this same page
EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole
they were ALL wrongfully deported.
I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'
but NO ONE should've been sent there
EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole
they were ALL wrongfully deported.
I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'
but NO ONE should've been sent there
April 4, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Louder for the people in the back:
If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process.
Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.
If only citizens get due process, NOBODY gets due process.
Because then all they have to say is that you’re not a citizen, and you have no right to due process to prove them wrong — even if it’s a lie.
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If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
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"If you can eliminate the actual officials charged with carrying out a policy, then that policy fundamentally doesn’t exist."
prospect.org/politics/202...
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No Personnel Is Policy
The Trump administration is accomplishing through layoffs what it couldn’t accomplish through Congress.
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April 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"If you can eliminate the actual officials charged with carrying out a policy, then that policy fundamentally doesn’t exist."
prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org/politics/202...
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The National Weather Service warned of 'generational' floods in the US South and Midwest as storms ripped across a swath of the country from Texas to Michigan, whipping up tornadoes and killing two people reut.rs/4lgBtog
US South, Midwest face 'generational' flood threat after severe storms, two dead
The National Weather Service warned on Thursday of "generational" floods in the U.S. South and Midwest as storms ripped across a swath of the country from Texas to Michigan, whipping up tornadoes and killing two people.
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April 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The National Weather Service warned of 'generational' floods in the US South and Midwest as storms ripped across a swath of the country from Texas to Michigan, whipping up tornadoes and killing two people reut.rs/4lgBtog
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The fact that tarrifs are on the top of front pages consistently while people getting abducted off the streets for their free speech without due process is relegated far lower should tell us everything about where much of the media establishment sees our priorities as a society.
April 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The fact that tarrifs are on the top of front pages consistently while people getting abducted off the streets for their free speech without due process is relegated far lower should tell us everything about where much of the media establishment sees our priorities as a society.
Same. Every single day.
April 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Same. Every single day.
It’s tornado season, and hurricane season starts in two months.
The National Weather Service is THE ONLY source of weather data in the US. Every weather app, local broadcaster, and weather forecast map is based on NWS data from NOAA. This is a ridiculously stupid own goal for the US that will disrupt all kinds of social and economic activity, and endanger lives.
BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
March 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
It’s tornado season, and hurricane season starts in two months.
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Sharing artist/activist Micah Bazant's amazing portrait of trans activist Marsha P. Johnson who was one of the leaders of the Stonewall uprising in 1969. "No Pride for Some of Us without Liberation for All of Us. We honor her legacy by supporting Trans Women of Color to LIVE + LEAD."
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Sharing artist/activist Micah Bazant's amazing portrait of trans activist Marsha P. Johnson who was one of the leaders of the Stonewall uprising in 1969. "No Pride for Some of Us without Liberation for All of Us. We honor her legacy by supporting Trans Women of Color to LIVE + LEAD."
Evoking a book about how only hiring White men with a specific ideological viewpoint got us into the Vietnam War is certainly a choice here.
Trump also trotted out Transportation Secretary and veteran of MTV’s “Real World/Road Rules Challenge” Sean Duffy who stressed that the administration will “only accept the best and the brightest in positions of safety.” talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
The Buck Stops With Women And Minorities
After what was arguably the first major tragedy of his second term...
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January 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Evoking a book about how only hiring White men with a specific ideological viewpoint got us into the Vietnam War is certainly a choice here.
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Congress needs to act: Helene is the 2nd deadliest hurricane to hit our nation since Katrina. And one of the costliest natural disasters in US history. www.bpr.org/bpr-news/202...
'They need help now.' Biden seeks $100 billion from Congress after NC lawmakers push
The President sent a request for Congress to provide supplemental aid for the states impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
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December 2, 2024 at 1:33 AM
Congress needs to act: Helene is the 2nd deadliest hurricane to hit our nation since Katrina. And one of the costliest natural disasters in US history. www.bpr.org/bpr-news/202...