John Beard

4 years as a Navy Corpsman (medic) with the Marines, then some TV. There are two sides to every story, but sometimes one side is mostly BS.

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Workers begin removing Trump’s name from Kennedy Center https://t.co/MUw6mvKqr5

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Thanks Trump.

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Inflation tops 4% for the first time in 3 years on spike in gasoline prices triggered by Iran war - NPR https://t.co/uzqYkbWQPA

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"Postal Service won't deliver mail ballots for states that don't hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive" - CNN #SmartNews https://t.co/YTuoqNjTVj

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Alcohol study discarded by Trump officials is published in scientific journal - STAT https://t.co/0iaPPPmPiI

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Trump’s going to an NBA game in NYC tonight. Good time to change the locks at the White House.

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Why the US may be unprepared for a deadly storm season ahead - BBC Science Focus Magazine https://t.co/oQiGvTiKrk

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This man is a national embarrassment.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

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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