Joke’s on them. Project 2025 plans to dismantle NOAA and gut/privatise the National Weather Service.

Who will pay for their weather forecasting once nobody will give them that data for free (under zero government funding)? They could just stop doing weather entirely, I guess, but millions of people rely on local weather reports to know whether to go to school or work. How do they plan to pay for that data?

I can’t believe how short-sighted some CEOs and mgmt types insist on being.

e: phrasing

The culmination of the Paradox of Tolerance.

Send those same words here. You put that quite well, and they need to hear it from as many of us as possible.

I’m sure your message was just as good; we each have our own voice. Thanks for sending one. We all need to do everything we can. Sometimes that’s protesting, sometimes that’s sending letters. Every action matters.

Same. Here’s what I wrote in case it helps anyone:

I’d like to express my deep disappointment regarding your firing of Sam Kuffel for posting on social media to call out Elon Musk’s egregious display during the presidential inauguration.

There was zero ambiguity about what Musk did – so little ambiguity, in fact, that media in Germany cannot show images or videos of the moment because his gesture is illegal there.

Your willingness to bow to this appalling display of hate is contemptible and, though I no longer visit Milwaukee regularly, when I do, I will be avoiding your programming. I will also tell my friends and relatives who still live there.

This is also a stain on CBS as a whole, and I will be avoiding all CBS programming in future.

Please consider how bad this makes you and your parent company look. It’s despicable for a media company to hold such little regard for free speech.

Only about a third of the Gulf of Mexico is US territory, so how can the US president unilaterally rename it? Seems Mexico has the larger claim to naming rights.

I appreciate what you’re saying, and did not downvote you. I think you may be underestimating how many phobias exist in the world, though. It may benefit you to have an app that filters images on your device. I’m pretty sure that exists. Everyone trying to add spoiler tags or whatever to every image that might trigger a common phobia would hide more images than you might think.

I got $380. Not life-changing, but nice anyhow.

Gold fringe!

e: seriously, though, this isn’t weird sovcit bullshit. It’s an actual thing.

Johnson also hinted at tying aid to debt ceiling negotiations

Some of us here will be directly affected by Johnson’s debt ceiling concessions. How does it feel to be commoditised like this, to the point of your household becoming a bargaining chip?

You, personally, are worth no more to Johnson & co than the number of services Newsom is willing to cut (and thus how many citizens will be pressed) in order to meet Johnson’s demands.

That’s infuriating, and it flies in the face of humanitarianism. Slaps it right in the face.

e: I can’t spell