“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,” wrote five former NWS directors from both Democratic and Republican administrations in an open letter on May 2nd.
In Houston, 44% of NWS positions are vacant.
Republicans are celebrating the passage of the largest Medicaid cut in U.S. history to pay for the largest tax break for billionaires in American history.
51,000 Americans will die each year so that the top 1% can get a $1 trillion tax break.
This bill is a death sentence.
it is actually insane that a progressive muslim man can run for office and say "we should make housing/groceries/transit more affordable and not do genocide" and a massive media machine lurches into operation to call him a racist terrorist who wants to destroy his city & america