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Trump's Disaster Relief Flows Like Molasses in a Minnesota January!
"A tornado tore apart the one-story brick house and damaged the truck while lifting it partly in the air. Anthony emerged unhurt. But he had to replace his vehicle with a used truck that became his home while waiting for Trump to issue a major disaster declaration allowing federal money to flow to individuals reeling from loss. That took weeks!"
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #FEMA #Breaking
Hey #MAGA states, here’s what you voted for. #FEMA won’t be there for you.
#ClimateDestruction #climatechange #disasters
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Fema denies grants to three Kentucky counties hit by storms that caused widespread devastation
Denials are latest by agency as Trump administration seeks to shift burden of disaster recovery to statesGabrielle Canon (The Guardian)
Exactly. David A. Graham at The Atlantic nailed it.
#Disasters #FEMA #TrumpAdministration #KristiNoem #ICEBarbie #Texas #FlashFloods #USPolitics #DavidAGraham
"On July 5, the day after the Texas floods hit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) received 3,027 calls from survivors and answered 3,018 of them, about 99.7%, according to Maxine Joselow of the New York Times. But that day, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not renew the contracts for four call center companies that answered those calls."
#Trump #Republicans #KristiNoem #Texas #FEMA
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As Heather Cox Richardson reports today, we now know that the day after the lethal floods occurred in Texas, Kristi Noem did not renew the contracts for four call center companies answering emergency calls for FEMA help — so that on July 6, FEMA answered only 35.8% of the calls it received and the following day, only 15.9%:
#Trump #Republicans #KristiNoem #Texas #FEMA
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July 12, 2025
On July 5, the day after the Texas floods hit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) received 3,027 calls from survivors and answered 3,018 of them, about 99.7%, according to Maxine Joselow of the New York Times.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
MAGA fascists know how to fool the ignorant and torment the innocent, but they’re clueless about running a government.
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#texas #flood #FEMA by MarkJacob bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t4i3a…
FEMA didn't answer thousands of calls from flood survivors, documents show
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.Texarkana Gazette
#uspol #FEMA #removeTrump #saveDemocracy #irony (or is it 🤔?)
DEADLY ICE BARBIE
Trump's ICE Barbie, Kristi Noem, Accused of Delaying FEMA Response to Texas Floods With New Rule
The red tape was supposed to cut costs, but could have cost lives, a former FEMA director said.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #fema
Rechte Katastrophenpolitik:
"In Texas werden die Toten geborgen, und Kristi Noem will den Katastrophenschutz (#FEMA) streichen."
Das hat System: je weniger Unterstützung Menschen in einer Katastrophe haben, desto ängstlicher & manipulierbarer werden sie.
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Wutrede von Kristi Noem: In Texas werden die Toten geborgen – und Trumps Ministerin will den Katastrophenschutz streichen
Noch immer werden im texanischen Flutgebiet viele Menschen vermisst. Die Fema-Behörde unterstützt die Suche vor Ort. Das hielt Heimatschutzministerin Kristi Noem aber nicht von scharfer Kritik ab.DER SPIEGEL
"The Guardian US reports that before his Grecian vacation last week, 'Cruz inserted language into the Republicans’ "big beautiful” reconciliation bill, before its signing by Donald Trump on Friday, that eliminates a $150m fund to “accelerate advances and improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, assessments, and dissemination of information to the public” around weather forecasting.'”
"Every Republican member of the Texas congressional delegation supports Trump’s devastating cuts to the NWS and its parent agency, NOAA. Texas Senator Ted Cruz single-handedly made the cuts even worse."
~ Jennifer Schulze
#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
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Death on a Texas River
Journalists are piecing together what was -and wasn’t- done by Texas officials and the National Weather Service as the Guadalupe River roared over its banks.Jennifer Schulze ([Indistinct Chatter] by @NewsJennifer)
"Hundreds of FEMA workers were sent to North Carolina by the 46th president, rather more than the 86 47 had sent to Texas by Monday."
~ Doktor Zoom
#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
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Welcome To Trump And Noem's Feral Emergency Management
Don't ask what the hell they're doing. They have no idea.Doktor Zoom (Wonkette)
"In a repulsive show of cowardice and buck-passing, Texas Governor Greg Abbott went on a bizarre tangent about how asking who’s to blame for the historic flood disaster that has killed at least 111 people was for 'losers' and compared the tragedy to…a football game."
~ Daily Dose of Democracy
#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas #GregAbbott
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Greg Abbott denigrates flood victims in vile outburst
Today's Action: Demand Congress punish Trump for his outrageous corruption!Mark Charles Heidinger (@advocacy)
"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point, according to figures shared with staff Monday evening. That includes a national incident management team, plus regional and headquarter staff. In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process. 'We are doing a lot less than normal,' the FEMA staffer said."
~ Marisa Kabas
#ClimateChange #FEMA #Trump #Texas
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FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge
Staffers sound the alarm.The Handbasket
"Scott Calvert, John West, Jim Carlton, and Joe Barrett of the Wall Street Journal reported that after a deadly flood in 1987, officials in Kerr County applied for a grant to install a flood warning system, but their application was denied. They considered installing one paid for by the county but decided against it."
"[Greg] Abbott’s defensive answer [when asked who's to blame for the Texas tragedy] reveals the dilemma MAGA Republicans find themselves in after the cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service that came before the Texas disaster."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
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July 8, 2025
One hundred and eleven people are dead and more than 160 are still missing in Texas after Friday’s tragic flood.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"Fatalities in billion-dollar storms last year alone were nearly equal to the number of such deaths counted by the federal government in the 20 years between 1980 and 2000.
What is extraordinary is that at such a volatile moment, President Donald Trump’s administration would choose not just to minimize the climate danger —"
"In the United States, which prefers to measure its losses in dollars, the damage from major storms was more than $180 billion last year, nearly 10 times the average annual toll during the 1980s, after accounting for inflation. These storms have now cost Americans nearly $3 trillion. Meanwhile, the number of annual major disasters has grown sevenfold."
"That the United States once again is reeling from familiar but alarming headlines and body counts should not be a surprise by now. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled."
"The rapid onset of disruptive climate change — driven by the burning of oil, gasoline and coal — is making disasters like this one more common, more deadly and far more costly to Americans, even as the federal government is running away from the policies and research that might begin to address it."
~ Abrahm Lustgarten
#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
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Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of Climate Chaos to Come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.ProPublica
FEMA flood maps for Kerr County, TX showing the hazards for Camp Mystic (Hunt, TX). 😬
#TXwx #FEMA #floodmapping #GIS #disasters
Multiple #deaths reported in #Texas, rescue efforts underway as #FlashFlooding threatens communities
Multiple deaths have been reported in Texas after heavy #rain caused flash #flooding of a river, while search teams used boats to conduct rescues Friday as fast-moving water threatened riverfront communities near #wildlife #habitats & campgrounds.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #FEMA #Trump
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#Trump wickelt nach dieser Hurrikansaison die Katastrophenschutzbehörde #FEMA ab. Damit bekommen die Bundesstaaten kein Geld bei Naturkatastrophen mehr. Gleichzeitig will #POTUS diese Gelder tlw. direkt selber feudal vergeben.
#Klimakatastrophe? Well, good luck...
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Los Angeles – die teuerste Katastrophe der US-Geschichte
Das Feuer wütet. Vielen sind da die weit reichenden und langanhaltenden Folgen für die Region noch nicht bewusst. Foto: Louise Parker Die Katastrophen scheinen sich im Moment zu jagen. Fluten, Stürme, Extremregen und Feuer.derklimablog.de
Just HOW bad is the Trump regime 2.0!?!
Trump's FEMA head told staff he was previously unaware US has a hurricane season
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #fema
cnn.com/2025/06/02/politics/da…
Rechte Kollapspolitik mit der Kettensäge:
"the Federal Emergency Management Agency (#Fema) 'is not ready' for the start of the hurricane season."
Warum? Damit niemand niemandem in der Katastrophe helfen kann, was dystopische rechte Erzählungen bestätigt.
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Whatever happened to Elon Musk? Tech boss drifts to margins of Trump world
The president’s billionaire backer was ever-present at the start of Trump’s term but is now pulling back from politics – and Republicans want to keep it that wayDavid Smith (The Guardian)
#Trump fires head of #FEMA right before #hurricane season
Cameron Hamilton, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was pushed out of the job on Thurs, acc/to several people familiar w/his departure. His ouster came 1 day after he told members of #Congress that FEMA — which Trump has suggested should be disbanded — was vital to communities “in their greatest times of need” & should not be eliminated.
#ExtremeWeather #DisasterRelief #aid #Climate #law
nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/poli…
To understand the T**** Admin, #Republicans, and everything they are doing, one need only realize:
THEY. ARE. TRYING. TO. #PRIVATIZE. EVERYTHING.
(#Education, #HHS, #NIH, #FEMA, #NOAA...)
And if it costs those corporations money (like increasing wages), they block it. #ItsAllAboutTheBenjamins #DisasterPresidency #Privatization
THEY'RE TRYING TO KILL EVERYBODY!
I'm listening to Alex Wagner's podcast from a couple of weeks ago talking about how the #DisasterPresidency is decimating the #EPA.
And I think…
They're also trying to shutdown #FEMA.
…and the #NIH.
…and put a lunatic in charge of #HHS.
…and ignored/dismissed #Covid.
…and are ignoring #BirdFlu. And #Measles.
…and dismiss #ClimateChange.
…and defunding #Superfund toxic waste cleanup.
…and in his first term, repealed laws against dumping toxic coal ash.
