@heidilifeldman

Trump’s return to the White House was built on the back of people’s fears. Fear of immigrants, fear of trans folks and bathroom access, fear of #affordability

The reality of #Trumpist policy is the unnecessary death of a young women unable to access once routine #healthcare

This story is drowned out by wave upon wave of madness whether it is the tragedy of #reneegood or threats directed at #Greenland. Next week it will be something else

#USPolitics #USPol

Update. "Staffers with Elon #Musk’s [#DOGE] entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA)…today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters

What's the #Trump or #Trumpist interest here?

1. "#Project2025…called for the agency to be 'broken up and downsized', claiming the agency is 'harmful to US prosperity' for its role in #climate science."

2. Andrew Rosenberg, a former NOAA official, "noted it had been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on NOAA data to prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it, such as weather forecasting services."

PS: Rosenberg is right. During the GWBush admin, Senator #RickSantorum (R-PA) repeatedly tried to take down NOAA's open weather data, to benefit AccuWeather, the for-profit weather forecaster in his state. I wrote about it often at the time and may have to dig out and reup those old pieces.

#OpenData#USPol#USPolitics