Erin Moore

Accuracy matters. Knowledge begets accuracy.

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@nytimes And, still, Jay Clayton lacks the statutorily mandated qualifications. SMH.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Let's walk through what actually happened here, in order.

DOGE cut the USAID program specifically designed to prevent screwworm from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. DOGE cut USDA's animal disease control and prevention funding. That funding had supported more than 180 outbreak investigations in 22 countries and capacity-building in more than 160 laboratories. The screwworm monitoring and response program that watched the border for exactly this parasite - cut.

Then screwworm showed up in Texas cattle. Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a disaster for Zavala and Uvalde counties this week.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins went on CNBC this morning and blamed the Biden administration, 17 months out of office.

Her specific words: "obviously not much had been done to push back."

The program that was supposed to push back existed. DOGE eliminated it in March 2025. Rollins has been Agriculture Secretary since February 13, 2025. The cuts happened on her watch.

Beef prices are already high. Ranchers in south Texas are now dealing with a flesh-eating parasite that was eradicated in this country in the 1960s - eradicated, specifically, using the sterile fly program her department defunded.

The flies existed. The program existed. The budget existed.

Until it didn't.

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@buitengebieden Those ears are everything!

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@MeriwetherFarms @ProjectLincoln You voted for this. Project 2025 was out there, it was explicit these cuts were going to happen, yet you voted for this to increase your personal wealth. It is impissy to muster any sympathy for your plummeting profits. You voted for this.

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

When you let emotional and intellectual 12-year olds cut funding, staffing, and agency missions, this is the predictable result.

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

BREAKING: Three counties in Texas have declared local state of disaster declarations on the New World Screwworm: Kinney, Jim Webb and Uvalde

Three others are pending: Webb, La Salle and Val Verde

The reasoning behind these declarations is because they feel they are not getting the federal nor state support needed to combat this crisis

Its long past due for the President to declare a National Emergency Declaration so local officials on the front lines are getting the support they need

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@LuciditySyx @NewsHour And YOU missed MY point. They are removing the sensors so no data will be gathered. The private sector is NOT going to pay over $1 billion to reinstall OOI sensors in the north Pacific and Atlantic to privatize oceanic/atmospheric data gathering.

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@LuciditySyx @NewsHour Without the sensors, there are no data. So, no, they are not privatizing data gathering; they are eliminating it.

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@KrisAnnapurna Name and shame the client and team that left him there. Unacceptable!

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@JohnJHarwood Hard to fathom he is an actual economist!

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@WilliamShatner Ya got me, @WilliamShatner. I am switching my first-day-of-the-month ritual from ‘rabbit, rabbit, rabbit’ to ‘Shrek, Shrek, Shrek’!

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@theliamnissan @TheRickWilson Ah. Northern Ireland by way of Japanese auto manufacturer by way of parody. We really do have pervasive brain rot in the keyboard warrior class.

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@HomelandDems @MalcolmNance The dumbfuckery of it all. One of the first bulwarks against illegal entry into the country — CBPUSA at international arrivals — and he thinks pulling them will enhance their efforts at combating illegal entry. Yeah. Dumbfuckery.

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@SVG__Collection Helplessly Hoping . . . . lyrically and vocally as lush as Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@ReichlinMelnick @JohnJHarwood Well he’s off by an order of magnitude for starters . . . .

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@RonFilipkowski Wait! What? Milli Vanilli? Oh, good grief.

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@bernhtp @Martina ‘Martial’ law, meaning related to the military NOT the military rank or proper name. Lincoln declared martial law AND suspended habeas corpus (a guarantee of Anglo-American law since Magna Carta). When your predicate is erroneous, your conclusions are ineluctably wrong.

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@bernhtp @klarajayavesela @Martina Let’s at least acknowledge two things that differentiate the American Civil War: The nature and capability of weaponry (it was mostly a cavalry and infantry war with cannon cover) AND the vastly different sized physical front.

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@DebbieD35391475 @tbpn @ericries The $60 annual membership does not really offset Costco taking the hit for increased fuel and product prices due to exogenous factors. It may function as a kind of fiscal Dolby — cutting off the highs and lows — but it doesn’t alter the basic analysis.

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@digiphile @AdamKinzinger @MalcolmNance Exactly! When someone is reduced to ad hominem attacks it means they are losing the point. Cheung’s vile words and ideas should be attacked and with logic, not playground taunts.

[Erin Moore @SeattleIrish91]

@RonFilipkowski It’s hard to believe he’s not housed in a secure 24-hour facility while being treated with psychotropic drugs.