CHARITY TIP: If you're thinking about a charity to donate to in a disaster, look up their Form 990 compensation on ProPublica or with the IRS. (must be filed every year for a majority charity).

Scroll down to "Executive Compensation".

Ponder the dollar amounts a bit. Then choose wisely.

#charity #hurricanes #disasters

"What do these people have in common? They are key figures in Trump’s effort to redesign the federal public sector.

I am speaking of Paul Dans, the head of Project 2025 until he exited in July, John McEntee, who led the screening of Republican political appointees for both Trump and Project 2025, and Kevin Roberts, the President of the Heritage Foundation overseeing Project 2025."

#Florida #Helene #hurricanes #NOAA #Project2025 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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"Imagine being an employee so toxic that you were fired by a guy who boasted to his co-workers about beating a dog to death with a shovel. Now imagine that you are still less sketchy than the guy using the dating app he started to solicit 18 year old girls, offering them free trips to LA to 'hook up.'”

~ Don Moynihan

#Florida #Helene #hurricanes #NOAA #Project2025 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the…

The Toxic Men Who Want to Control Federal Employees

What do a horrible boss, teen predator, and dog killer have in common?

^{Don Moynihan (Can We Still Govern?)}

"[A]s late, powerful storms like Helene become more likely and common, Project 2025 would decimate the federal government’s capacity to both anticipate and respond to climate emergencies and extreme weather events. It further endangers so many Americans, and makes recovery that much more challenging."

#Florida #Helene #hurricanes #NOAA #Project2025 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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"Sadly, the devastation of Helene and the challenge of recovery and relief from the storm put into even more stark relief the recklessness of Project 2025."

David Pepper

#Florida #Helene #hurricanes #NOAA #Project2025 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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davidpepper.substack.com/p/hea…

Heartbreaking Damage from Helene

...And Ensuring Things Don't Get Worse Due to Project 2025

^{David Pepper (Pepperspectives)}

"Project 2025 also calls for dismantling the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and either eliminating its functions, sending them to other agencies, privatizing them, or putting them under the control of states and territories. It complains that NOAA, whose duties include issuing hurricane warnings, is 'one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity.'”

#Florida #Helene #hurricanes #NOAA #Project2025
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"Project 2025, a playbook for the next Republican administration, authored by allies of the right-wing Heritage Foundation and closely associated with Republican presidential candidate Trump and vice presidential candidate Ohio senator J.D. Vance, calls for slashing FEMA’s budget and returning disaster responses to states and localities."

#Florida #Helene #hurricanes #NOAA #Project2025 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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"The federal government’s efficient organization of responses to natural disasters illustrates that as citizens of a republic, we are part of a larger community that responds to our needs in times of crisis.

But that system is currently under attack."

#Florida #Helene #hurricanes #NOAA #Project2025 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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"NOAA hurricane scientist Jeff Masters noted that Helene’s landfall 'gives the U.S. a record eight Cat 4 or Cat 5 Atlantic hurricane landfalls in the past eight years (2017–2024), seven of them being continental U.S. landfalls. That’s as many Cat 4 and 5 landfalls as occurred in the prior 57 years.'

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Florida #Helene #hurricanes #NOAA #Project2025 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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September 27, 2024

Last night, at about 11:10 local time, Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida, where the state’s panhandle curves down toward the peninsula.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}