This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.
The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.
And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.
Record-breaking temperatures.
A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.
The response?
Yank out the instruments and walk away.
That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.
For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.
The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.
That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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@MoneyTelegraph@Telegraph Two people earning £100k each and already owning their own home. And they they can’t afford to have kids? Why doesn’t the Telegraph start a campaign to help them or something?
Marco Rubio called Trump a dangerous conman. Ted Cruz called him a pathological liar. Lindsey Graham called him a race-baiting xenophobic religious bigot. JD Vance called him America’s Hitler. Now they’re kissing his ass. The Republican Party is a fucking cult.
Thread on People Stumbling Upon Surreal Finds from the Past.. Some of these will blow your mind..!
1. Before and after of the excavation of the Ancient Greek Stadium
We've had 5000 days of Tory Rule today 😳 I've done some maths
🔹Since May 2010, the
NATIONAL DEBT HAS INCREASED,
on average,
by a staggering
£380 MILLION A DAY
- EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR #5000DAYS
Which begs the question....
Where has all our money gone?
I wouldn't trust the Tories with my shopping list, let alone the economy 😡
FACTS
David Cameron became PM, after Gordon Brown, on May 11th 2010, 5000 days ago.
In June 2010 he said the national debt was £770 billion (other sources quote £903 billion, but I'll use HIS £770 billion for the calculation)
By end Nov 2023 the National Debt had grown to a colossal £2,670 billion (Source:ONS)
That's an increase of £1,900 billion.
Divide that by 5,000 days of Tory Rule and gross mismanagement.
It means an increase, on average, of c£380 million every single day for 5,000 days.
#GeneralElectionN0W
Alan Bates turned down an OBE as Paula Vennells, the woman in charge of the Post Office through the Horizon Scandal, retains her CBE and refuses to give it back.
A man of honour 🙏🏼❤️
#MrBatesVsThePostOffice#PostOfficeScandal
Alan, 69: “The first thing that sprang to my mind while reading the letter (offering me an OBE) was Paula Vennells still had a CBE. I felt so deeply insulted. She presided over a policy of harassing hundreds of innocent people. It’s not just that the Government hasn’t asked her to return it. What’s even worse is that despite knowing the strength of feeling about it, how people have suffered and some cases died on her watch – she doesn’t feel inclined to give it back.”
Alan accepted a @PrideOfBritain award in 2023.
We were over the moon to give that to him.
Not all heros wear capes 💜
@DailyMirror https://t.co/WrffhWLyFx
Centrica, owner of British Gas, has reported underlying operating profits of £2.1bn for the first six months of the year, up from £1.3bn a year earlier.
They’ve profiteered off you while wholesale oil & gas prices have fallen.
Ofgem has failed.
It’s rigged UK.