Ben Hampton

[Ben Hampton @B_Hamp7]

Nothing says thanksgiving break like getting caught in a 5 minute conversation at the local supermarket with your old little league coach while buying 2 handles of vodka on a Tuesday

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

NOAA launches the weather balloons, floats the ocean buoys, flies the satellites, and staffs the forecasters that tell us when storms are coming. That data supports about two-thirds of the economy, roughly $1.3 trillion a year, and it paid us back $73 for every dollar we spent on it.

DOGE took a chainsaw to it anyway.

They cut 2,500 people.

They pushed out 27,000 years of experience in just a few months.

Now a charter fishing captain in Homer, Alaska has spent half a season with no idea what the wind is doing in waters he fishes every day. Kansas got hit by two tornadoes nobody saw coming. Forecasters missed how strong a typhoon was as it headed for Alaska. Farmers, insurers, airlines, and city engineers are all working with worse information than they had two years ago.

And now the Trump administration plan is to cut even deeper.

They want to pull another $1.6 billion out of NOAA next year. They want to hand the rest to private companies, so your town ends up paying a business for weather data your taxes already paid for, with no promise it will even be right.

Wrecking a 73-to-1 investment and sending the bill to fishermen, farmers, and families. Just crazy.
https://t.co/veNGkvfVTv

[MeatEater @MeatEaterTV]

The USDA is moving to repeal the Roadless Rule, which limits most new road construction across nearly 44 million acres of national forest.

Supporters cite greater management flexibility. Conservation groups warn of impacts to fish, wildlife, and backcountry habitat.

[Federal Reserve @federalreserve]

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: https://t.co/5dfrkByGyX

[lindsay 🙈🏳️‍🌈 @virtueemoir29]

"[He] intends to use the United States military against American citizens who simply disagree with him, people he calls, quote, 'the enemy from within.' This is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and out for unchecked power."

Oct. 29, 2024.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Tim Miller: “I will not be fucking gaslit by these people. I will not tone down the rhetoric. Jonathan Ross murdered her. She talked to him calmly, said dude I’m not mad. This is fucking insane. This is not a tough call. He orphaned her child and called her a fucking bitch after he killed her. Do not let Donald Trump, and JD Vance, and Kristi Noem, and these thugs try to convince you this is anything other than murder”

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Protestors set up a memorial for Renee Good, the mother of three and U.S. Citizen who was shot three times in the face by ICE.

ICE responded by stomping on the memorial candles.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Dismantling ICE is the moderate position.

Unmask these thugs, arrest them, and make them answer for these horrors.

[@jason @Jason]

As I predicted, we now have a completely unnecessary death due to these violent ICE raids and dangerous reactions to them.

The courts and a jury will sort this one out in 24 months, but we should all be profoundly sad that it’s come to this.

We need leadership to calm these situations down, but our leaders have failed us by constantly escalating the division in our country.

My prayers are with the families of both the shooter and deceased, who will have their lives destroyed and diminished forever, by a moment that could have been so easily avoided.

This is a sad day for all Americans.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

The White House officially adopts and publishes the Big Lie on its website. It can’t be overstated: these people are the most dangerous group on Earth to the health and freedom of our republic. Not immigrants, not foreigners, not foreign nations. Them.

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

It’s the year 2025 and Americans have to watch a bootlegged international version of a news program because it was censored here in our country to protect a criminal president.

[Parker Butler @parkerpbutler]

Today was the last jobs report you can trust under this administration.

And it shows the weakest jobs market since the last recession.

[River Page @river_is_nice]

The proliferation of cheap, shelf stable protein is unironically a matter of national security. We cannot be governed by the 90IQ'd who see $4 million for bean research and chimp out because they've never had more than a 30 second thought. The GOPs "elite human capital problem" is real, sorry.

[Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis]

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Barry Eichengreen: "Ultimately, the fate of the dollar will turn on the willingness of America’s leaders to uphold the rule of law, respect the separation of powers and honour the country’s commitments to its foreign partners."

https://t.co/2XwOEsqlSd via @ft

[Ben Hampton @B_Hamp7]

@york_future BOOOOOOO

[Ben Hampton @B_Hamp7]

@york_future You’re mad you don’t get Vension chili

[Ben Hampton @B_Hamp7]

@york_future Welcome to the Rich Hill era

[Ben Hampton @B_Hamp7]

@york_future add finding a wife into the parlay

[Ben Hampton @B_Hamp7]

@york_future We’re picking up the slack for you in Chicago 🤝