Tragedy —
"As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UU8.Hv44.hmYaq9ns06eP
#DOGE #USpol #USpolitics #Project2025 #ElectionsHaveConsequences #ElectionConsequences #GOP #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Texas
The grift that is trump's "big beautiful bill" — live updates as Senate Republicans force a vote:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/trump-the-next-100-days/5374611-live-updates-senate-gop-big-beautiful-bill/
#grift #ElectionConsequences #ElectionsHaveConsequences #GOP #Republicans
"Gets worse before it gets better" doesn't do nearly enough to describe the current situation —
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rjr6nfdzrfngjgc34jjyty6a/post/3lpnj3vzkgs25
#USpol #USpolitics #USelections #ElectionConsequences #ElectionsHaveConsequences
"The library with one door in Canada and the other one (now closing) in the US" - EL PAÍS English
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-05-11/the-library-with-one-door-in-canada-and-the-other-one-now-closing-in-the-us.html
#Canada #UnitedStates #US #geopolitics #USpol #USpolitics #USelections #ElectionsHaveConsequences #ElectionConsequences
"The enemy is education, knowledge, and truth."
https://steadyhq.com/de/janskudlarek/posts/0e56c1ea-8bf9-4383-a170-5ae8c457ea00
h/t @DigitalNaiv @newstik
https://mastodon.social/@DigitalNaiv/114431247492410449
#USpol #USpolitics #disinformation #misinformation #antiscience #ElectionsHaveConsequences #ElectionConsequences
Not a violation of Godwin's Law, IMO. Think about it:
"Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf"* —
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/larry-david-hitler-dinner.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BU8.gBm8.uFzMB8ClfaEj&smid==
*NB: There is an explainer available (if you need it):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/larry-david-dinner.html
#USpol #USpolitics #ElectionsHaveConsequences #ElectionConsequences #dystopia #NotNormal #humor #humour
"‘Uncertainty’ of Trump tariffs trigger worst S&P 500 quarter since 1980s amid recession fears"
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3304628/uncertainty-trump-tariffs-trigger-worst-sp-500-quarter-1980s-amid-recession-fears
#tariffs #TradeWar #TradeWars #USpol #USpolitics #geopolitics #ElectionsHaveConsequences #ElectionConsequences #SoMuchWinning #economy
re: uspol, "truth and sanity to American history", Smithsonian & National Zoo
Task force of federal judges will consider how to respond to "current risks* for the judiciary, following a spate of threats against judges who have ruled against the trump administration
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/politics/judges-threats-task-force-trump.html
#ElectionConsequences #ElectionsHaveConsequences
"Exclusive: NIH to cut grants for COVID research, documents reveal"
“"Now that the pandemic is over...'"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00954-y
#COVID #COVID19 #NIH #dystopia #USpol #USpolitics #ElectionsHaveConsequences #ElectionConsequences #pandemic
Missed this one in the frenzy of chaos and damage this administration is doing —
NASA fires Katherine Calvin, the agency's chief scientist and co-chair of Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/03/11/nasa-fires-climate-researcher-katherine-calvin-the-agency-s-chief-scientist_6739050_114.html
h/t @the_heruman
https://mastodon.social/@the_heruman/114159566354295853
#NASA #IPCC #USpol #USpolitics #antiscience #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ElectionConsequences #ElectionsHaveConsequences
Large clinical trial of a new oral Covid vaccine — a pill, not injection 
— halted by RFK Jr.
https://www.aol.com/multimillion-dollar-biden-era-covid-222505162.html
#PublicHealth #antivax #antiscience #RFKjr #USpol #USpolitics #ElectionConsequences #ElectionsHaveConsequences
Oof! "... strongest result for a far-Right party since the Second World War." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/23/germany-election-live-olaf-scholz/
via @dw https://www.dw.com/en/german-election-projections-say-cdu-csu-leads-with-29/live-71700729
To those who voted for this administration:
"... you will understand when those hospitals in rural America start closing down even more. You will understand when you don’t have your social security. You will understand when your Medicaid, your Medicare goes away. You will understand when planes continue to fall out of the sky..."
— Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas
Best to help them understand that they were wrong, rather than fuel the partisan gap.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/02/fiery-dem-heres-when-trumps-maga-finally-will-understand-whats-going-on.html
#ElectionConsequences
