I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

For those impacted by #PalisadesFire #EatonFire or otherwise in Los Angeles, @usc.edu has a new resource hub compiling everything from evac shelters to recovery resources publicexchange.usc.edu/lawildfires/

Get people safe. Get the fires out. Then, build back different. No more building for the climate of the 20th century. Build back like we know climate disasters are coming. Build back like we know climate disasters are here.

This is one of the neighborhoods that State Farm *already pulled out of* earlier this year, thanks in no small part to how climate change is exacerbating wildfire risk.

No one is really ready for what climate change can do