7.50am. Don’t know where that V came from or what it means. It might be a V for victory sign or similar. I’m quite ill atm with an extremely painful ear infection, at least that’s what the Notional Health Service said after a remarkably cursory assessment. Basically the Emergency Care Nurse looked at the swelling in my face, said you’ve got an ear infection and no you can’t have any painkillers. I seem to be repeatedly abused by the NHS, starting to wonder whether it’s purpose is social control through pain and neglect.
Flood waters inundate the main street after Hurricane Helene passed offshore on September 27, 2024 in Tarpon Springs, Florida. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
“It’s only a matter of time before Trump and Musk’s reckless assault on disaster response and preparedness kills people in the United States,” said a researcher with government watchdog The Revolving Door Project.
President Donald Trump has openly stated his desire to dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency—a move that has left some experts fearful about how the United States will handle natural disasters such as hurricanes in the coming months.
The Revolving Door Project, a government watchdog group, has now put together a tracking tool to keep tabs on how much the administration’s attacks on both FEMA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have worsened the nation’s disaster preparedness.
The tool has two components: An interactive map showing all of the state disaster aid requests that the Trump administration has outright denied or only partially approved and an interactive timeline documenting all of the times that the administration has undermined the functionality of America’s disaster preparedness agencies through actions such as placing agency employees on administrative leave and disbanding key bodies such as FEMA’s National Advisory Council and its National Dam Safety Review Board.
All of these disruptions and cuts, argued Revolving Door Project senior researcher Kenny Stancil, are likely to come back to bite America in a big way when another natural disaster strikes.
“It’s only a matter of time before Trump and Musk’s reckless assault on disaster response and preparedness kills people in the United States,” he said in explaining the need for the initiative. “It nearly happened in mid-May in Kentucky, where a DOGE-damaged NWS forecast office had to scramble for staff before a tornado. Amid last week’s heatwave, low-income households across the country were missing the federal support they need to keep the air conditioning on. And when a major hurricane arrives, Trump, Musk, OMB Director Russell Vought, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem will almost certainly have blood on their hands.”
Revolving Door Project executive director Jeff Hauser issued a similarly dire warning about the administration’s actions on U.S. disaster preparedness and he described the actions being taken by the administration as “a matter of life-and-death.” He also accused the administration of “preventing forecasters and emergency managers at all levels from doing what is necessary to prepare for and respond to disasters.”
Trump in the past has tried to use federal disaster relief money as a cudgel against his political opponents, such as when he threatened to withhold funding from California during catastrophic wildfires unless the state did a better job of “raking” its forests.
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People watch the smoke and flames from the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood on January 7, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Tiffany Rose/Getty Images)
“This is the modern version of book burning,” said one scientist.
Amidst an ever-worsening climate emergency, the Trump administration this week took down the website hosting the U.S. government’s preeminent climate assessment, sparking outcry from experts who have worked previous versions of the report.
Considered the definitive body of research about how planetary warming is transforming the nation, the National Climate Assessment—which is required by Congress to be published every few years—gives a rundown of how global warming is impacting different sectors of the economy, ecosystems, and communities.
The five assessments that have been published so far were previously available through the website globalchange.gov, but the address stopped working Monday afternoon, according to The New York Times. As of Wednesday morning the website was still down.
However, it is still possible to access some of the climate research. The fifth assessment is available through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. An archived version of the fifth assessment is also available via Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. According to a NASA spokesperson who spoke to NPR, all five editions of the assessment will also be available on NASA’s website, though it’s not clear when.
“It’s critical for decision-makers across the country to know what the science in the National Climate Assessment is. That is the most reliable and well-reviewed source of information about climate that exists for the United States,” Kathy Jacobs, a University of Arizona climate scientist who coordinated the 2014 version of the assessment, toldThe Associated Press.
“This is evidence of serious tampering with the facts and with people’s access to information, and it actually may increase the risk of people being harmed by climate-related impacts,” she added.
“They’re public documents. It’s scientific censorship at its worst,” said Peter Gleick, a California water and climate scientist who worked on the version of the assessment published in 2000, toldThe Los Angeles Times. “This is the modern version of book burning.”
Howard Crystal, legal director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s energy justice program, said in a statement on Tuesday that “it’s downright Orwellian for the Trump administration to take the nation’s premier climate reports and just yank them offline.”
“Hiding these congressionally mandated reports won’t make climate change go away, but it will leave Americans uninformed and unprepared,” he said.
Earlier in April, the Trump administration enacted cuts to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which oversees the production of the National Climate Assessment, and later that month dismissed hundreds of scientists and experts working on the next version of the report, the 6th National Climate Assessment.
Meanwhile, a new budget document outlining fiscal year 2026 spending for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) details deep cuts to climate research at the agency, including the elimination of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, though some of its activities would be transferred to the National Ocean Service and the National Weather Service.
The budget proposal “eliminates all funding for climate, weather, and ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes. It also does not fund Regional Climate Data and Information, Climate Competitive Research, the National Sea Grant College Program, Sea Grant Aquaculture Research, or the National Oceanographic Partnership Program,” according to the document.
With the termination of Climate Competitive Research, which funds academic institutions to do climate-related research, “NOAA will no longer support climate research grants,” the document also states.
“That’s it—with that statement, the administration signals its intent to have NOAA, arguably the world’s leading oceanic and atmospheric governmental organization, completely abandon climate science,” wrote Alan Gerard, a meteorologist who previously worked for NOAA.
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ACTIVISTS protested outside five Tesla dealerships in Britain as part of a global protest marking billionaire Elon Musk’s 54th birthday on Saturday.
The demonstrations were held at Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Winchester and London Park Royal as “funding fascism through a greenwashed brand is simply not acceptable,” a spokesman for the Tesla Takedown group said.
The Tesla CEO was US President Donald Trump’s head of the Department of Government Efficiency before their acrimonious split earlier this month amid “unprecedented brand damage” to Tesla.
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Demonstrators arrested in the Russell Senate Office Building (Photo via Debt Collective/X)
Protesters denounce cuts to Medicaid, which could kick 16 million off of nation’s largest public insure
On Wednesday, US Capitol police arrested 33 demonstrators who were part of a larger protest of over 60 people in the Russell Senate Office Building, denouncing the proposed cuts to Medicaid within the Trump-backed “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Some protesters were restrained and arrested while in wheelchairs.
The demonstration was organized by the Debt Collective, Popular Democracy, and the disability rights group ADAPT. Protesters wore shirts with the text “healthcare cuts will kill” and were arrested while unfurling a banner that read “Senate Republicans, don’t kill us, save Medicaid.” The bill is currently moving through the Senate after passing in the House of Representatives.
Medicaid is the nation’s largest public insurance program, which currently insures 71 million people in the US. According to analysis by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, the Senate version of the bill would cause roughly 16 million of those people to lose health insurance by 2034. This analysis predicts that the Senate bill would lead to more losses of coverage than the version of the bill which passed in the House. Public health researchers at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania have warned that certain provisions in the House bill could lead to more than 51,000 deaths each year.
Some Republican lawmakers have been callous regarding constituent concerns over Medicaid cuts. Notably, Republican Iowa Senator Joni Ersnt faced nationwide backlash after defending the proposed cuts at a town hall meeting in late May. When one of her constituents shouted that people would die without Medicaid healthcare coverage, Ersnt replied “well, we all are going to die.
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