FEMA “head” David Richardson has no experience in emergency or disaster management.
Does he have equestrian experience? Brownie 2.0. Lol.
FEMA “head” David Richardson has no experience in emergency or disaster management.
Does he have equestrian experience? Brownie 2.0. Lol.
Even Trump Loving Mississippi Can't Get FEMA Aid #TateReeves #FEMA #Trump #MAGA #FAFO
LA Times: Trump’s FCC delays multilingual emergency alerts for natural disasters, sparking concern in L.A.
Trump’s mass fed cuts disrupt LA wildfire recovery: ‘It’s coming tumbling down’
>400 AmeriCorps staff & volunteers: deployed in Jan megafires -helped 26K HHs affected by the fires & packed 21K food boxes. But in Apr -agency placed about 90% of its staff on immediate leave.
Cuts were among the harshest doled out by #DOGE. But AmeriCorps is just one of agencies involved in the resp to emergencies like the LA fires that's seen drastic reductions: #FEMA #EPA...
#ETTD #USPol https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/26/trump-doge-la-wildfire-recovery
If Turnip head keeps doing this, then fingers crossed, we may finally get to an ouster of Turnip head before the end of the year.
#TurnipHead #USPol #FEMA
https://climatejustice.social/@LibertyOverGov/114564675423670160
"Hurricane Helene ripped through North Carolina, leaving millions of cubic yards of destruction. Now,FEMA's sudden decision to pull direct aid threatens to force North Carolina taxpayers to shoulder a shocking hundreds of millions of dollars. It's a #betrayal.
"Maybe North Carolina should buy $1M of Trump’s meme coin & see if that gets him to approve their FEMA request."
-EM Zorbit
#FEMA #Constitution #TrumpRegime #NorthCarolina #Privatization #Austerity #Sadism #USPol
https://www.factarrow.com/north-carolina-united-states/2025-05-23-femas-shocking-decision-leaves-north-carolina-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-millions-after-helene/
"In a short memo sent to FEMA employees on Wednesday and obtained by CBS News, Richardson wrote, 'The 2022-2026 FEMA Strategic Plan is hereby rescinded. The Strategic Plan contains goals and objectives that bear no connection to FEMA accomplishing its mission. This summer, a new 2026-2030 strategy will be developed. The strategy will tie directly to FEMA executing its Mission Essential Tasks.'"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fema-rescinds-strategic-plan-less-than-2-weeks-before-hurricane-season/
LA Times: California FEMA earthquake retrofit grants canceled, imperiling critical work, Schiff says
“Less than two weeks until the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season, Federal Emergency Management Agency acting Admin David Richardson has rescinded the agency's strategic plan, a comprehensive policy document that outlines the disaster relief agency's priorities” #FEMA
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fema-rescinds-strategic-plan-less-than-2-weeks-before-hurricane-season/
There will be no more Hurricanes. So ordered by the fascists.
Wired: FEMA Has Canceled Its 4-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season
Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another in place. (paywall)
The White House said in a stmnt that it was "aware of the cyber security incident at #Smarsh" but didn't offer comment on its use of the platform. #State didn't respond. The #SecretService said #TeleMessage products had been used "by a small subset of Secret Service employees" & that it was reviewing the situation. #FEMA said in an email that it had "no evidence" that its info had been compromised. It didn't respond when sent copies of internal FEMA msgs.
One of the intercepted texts' recipients - an applicant for aid from #FEMA confirmed to Reuters that the #leaked message was authentic; a financial services firm whose messages were similarly intercepted also confirmed their authenticity.
Based on its limited review, Reuters uncovered nothing that seemed clearly sensitive & did not uncover chats by #MikeWaltz or other cabinet ofcls.
I #VioletAffleck. She wears an N95 everywhere in public, she is right, & she is a force to contend with. Wicked smart, 19 years old, & she is already a great leader!
#ClimateChange #Wildfire #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #BirdFlu #FEMA #ExtremeWeather #WindStorms #MECFS #DisabilityJustice #FollowTheScience #CleanAir #FarUVC #PublicHealth #BeProactive #Pacing #WearAnN95
A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles
Interesting, no requests for FEMA assistance after the severe weather this weekend. Curious if that's because they've been told it will not be forthcoming, or they just haven't gotten that far?
Forecasters warned Mon that more tornados & storms were possible in the central US as ppl from TX to KY cleaned up from severe weather.Killed ~26 ppl in 4 days.
In St. Louis, where officials est a tornado Fri damaged 5,000 bldgs & may cost ~$1B, the mayor warned Mon that fed asst could take weeks.
KY has been hardest hit by the storms -devastating tornado Fri-Sat damaged 100s of homes, tossed vehicles, left many homeless.
The #TrumpRegime is scaling back #FEMA.
#USPol https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/storms-and-tornadoes-continue-to-ravage-central-u-s-after-killing-dozens
No surprise. There are so many downed trees and power lines, that in order to fix the power lines, the streets need to be cleared of the trees so the power lines can be repaired. The trucks need to be able to travel.
FEMA needs to get large wood chipper trucks deployed to clear tbe streets. Currently, there is not much room to place the wood, even if you are in position to cut it up. Which most are not.
"It looks bad, ugly, violent. I am taking time to go searching for forecasts and am having to rely on independent meteorologists, experts on social media who have little in the way of a platform. The process of gathering information, of approaching the whole thing in an enlightened way, is getting harder and harder, whereas we have enjoyed so much access in the recent past that it feels maddening to be here."
"The elimination of these [weather-monitoring and -reporting] programs also serves another purpose, which is pushing the public into a new era of intentional ignorance. Yes, our climate is worsening, but a lack of empirical data and the sidelining of expert voices will curtail knowledge of that fact.
Even as I type this, I am watching a storm roll in over the horizon."
~ Jared Yates Sexton
#Trump #DOGE #NOAA #FEMA #tornadoes #ClimateChange
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https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/into-the-dark-fascist-capture-of