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William Lindsey :toad:And all the while, the West was the most heavily subsidized section of the entire nation when it came to infusions of federal money to make all that settlement possible….Toxic myths about our self-importance and how set off we are from everyone else in the world lead to arrogance and arrogance ALWAYS leads to a hard fall.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> /11

William Lindsey :toad:As Heather Cox Richardson's book on how the South won the Civil War documents, after the war, extensive attempts were made by groups sympathetic to the Confederacy to depict the West as the "real" America, the land of cowboys, rugged men, women supporting and submitting to those men, white settlers taming the land and running natives off.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> /10

William Lindsey :toad:I cringed when I heard that, thinking of what "freedom" had just done to their own people when rivers rose and children's camp buildings built in a floodplain — Oh, Freedom! — were swept away. The myth that we can go it alone and that anyone supporting goverment services to assist us is a freeloading lazy sponger (imagine "us" as white-skinned and "them" as brown or black, of course): this is a self-delusion.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> /9

William Lindsey :toad:It just happened that as the devastating floods hit in Texas, I watched a t.v. program in which members of a Texas family were interviewed by a British researcher. She asked them what was special about being a Texan. "Freedom!" they told her. "We're the freest people in the United States. We love it that way."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> /8

William Lindsey :toad:Ed Pilkington asks why Texans, who live in the most disaster-prone state in the US, are so resistant to governmental action to help people prepare for and deal with disaster.His answer: what counts above all in Texas is the belief that "real" Texans are rugged individualists and its equally passionate disdain for government action — since "real" rugged individualists do it on their own, by golly.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> /7<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/13/texas-disaster-weather-preparations-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/13/texas-disaster-weather-preparations-us</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"But Project 2025, the blueprint for cutting government spending prepared by top Trump advisers and reflected in the tax and spending bill he signed into law on the very day of the Texas flooding, explicitly urged massive cuts at NOAA, including elimination of the National Weather Service. Project 2025’s rationale? NOAA was 'one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future US prosperity.'”<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> /6

William Lindsey :toad:"Only hours after NWS issued its storm and flood warning did safety officials pass that warning on to the general public, Molly Taft reported in Wired. …Trump denies any responsibility, acknowledging only that 'it’s just so horrible to watch' the tragedy in Texas."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> /5

William Lindsey :toad:"The problem in Texas was that the budget cuts crippled the National Weather Service’s ability to warn residents about the oncoming flash floods. It’s not that the service’s scientists didn’t forecast the potential flooding accurately enough; it’s that the service’s communications staff had been so shrunk that the forecasts were not shared promptly with the public and emergency managers."~ David Dickson, Mark Hertsgaard<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> /4<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/texas-floods-climate-budget-cuts-weather/#" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/texas-floods-climate-budget-cuts-weather/#</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"If Kerr County had asked for $1,000,000 to booby-trap the river with alligators and other sadistic death traps to drown immigrants who tried to swim across it, Governor Greg Abbott would have found the money. But keeping children safe from preventable disasters is not Abbott’s priority.Or America’s."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> /3

William Lindsey :toad:"Texas has spent $11 billion on 'border security' since 2021 as part of 'Operation Lonestar' (I’ve written about that unconstitutional stupidity here). But it wouldn’t direct funds to the town to help keep children safe."~ Elie Mystal<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> /2<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elie-v-us-newsletter-july-11-25/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elie-v-us-newsletter-july-11-25/</a>

William Lindsey :toad:Margaret Sullivan and Gene Weingarten offer valuable commentary on how the right-wing outrage machine has placed the life of cartoonist Adam Zyglis at risk after he published the cartoon below, commenting on how the Texas floods swept away the argument that "government is the problem."The cartoon is being deliberately misread as an attack on MAGA voters now grieving in Texas.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> /1<a href="https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-right-wing-outrage-machine-strikes" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-right-wing-outrage-machine-strikes</a><a href="https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/the-time-is-now" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/the-time-is-now</a>

MatthewchatThe editorial <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cartoonist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cartoonist</a> from Buffalo that drew this is getting so many death threats he had to cancel events because <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MAGAts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MAGAts</a> got so angry over it. It would be a shame if it made the cartoon more widely distributed. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/noaa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#noaa</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascist</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#maga</a>

NWS (bot)<a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/wx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wx</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> Day 1 Weather Forecast

Democracy Matters :verified:The Republican Party wants the United States to be much less prepared for weather-related disasters <a href="https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/07/the-republican-party-wants-the-united-states-to-be-much-less-prepared-for-weather-related-disasters" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/07/the-republican-party-wants-the-united-states-to-be-much-less-prepared-for-weather-related-disasters</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NWS</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpDidThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpDidThis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RepublicansDidThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RepublicansDidThis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOPKakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOPKakistocracy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NoRepublicansEverAgain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoRepublicansEverAgain</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a>

AI6YR BenCNN: Texas NWS office had no warning coordination meteorologist during the flood. Did it make a difference? " On the night the deadly floodwaters raged down the Guadalupe River in Texas, the National Weather Service forecast office in Austin/San Antonio was missing a key leader of its team: the warning coordination meteorologist, who had retired just a few months prior.Along with about 400 other experts at the NWS, the WCM at that office...took an early retirement offer in April, according to an official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees the agency. ...That early retirement option, also given to employees at other parts of NOAA and across the government, was part of the Department of Government Efficiency-related budget cuts... "(paywall/adwall)<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/13/weather/texas-flooding-nws-meteorologist-missing-climate" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/13/weather/texas-flooding-nws-meteorologist-missing-climate</a><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/tx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tx</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/disasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disasters</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/noaa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#noaa</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/nws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nws</a>

Kim Perales“Trump’s budget would close 10 laboratories run by the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> that help predict life-threatening weather, including one in Miami that sends teams of “hurricane hunters” to fly into storms to collect critical data.Right now, 30 of the 122 Weather Service's offices are now lacking their most experienced official, known as the meteorologist-in-charge. Why cut programs that protect people's lives?” -R Stengel <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PublicSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PublicSafety</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NWS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpRegime</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/GOPDeathCult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOPDeathCult</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Protest</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/climate/floods-trump-cuts-disaster-preparedness-fema.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/climate/floods-trump-cuts-disaster-preparedness-fema.html</a>

Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!Everybody's been saying that the only warning system left for <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> is Ted Cruz fleeing the state, so there needs to be a new system based on that.Here it is!<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NWS</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal matters."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TedCruz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TedCruz</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NWS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> /5

William Lindsey :toad:"Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times."~ Maxine Joselow<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TedCruz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TedCruz</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NWS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> /4<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html</a>

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