Tag: government agencies

The right-wing chopping at the American weather service.

The right-wing chopping at the American weather service.
Government Executive – DOGE enters NOAA, accesses IT systems and removes the top HR official – The Musk-led team is rooting out DEI and, some lawmakers fear, may have an eye toward grander aims at the agency. February 5, 2025 02:55 PM ET Eric Katz

My letter to reps:

There is no profit motive for maintaining public safety, that’s why the weather service has to be a community government effort. The Elon Musk people should stay the hell away from my weather service. I don’t trust things already. If I can’t trust the weather information, then where are we? Nobody can plan for anything or trust anything if NOAA is corrupted.

Please feel free to copy or repurpose the contents of my letter for your own letters to reps.

Goldbug political disinformation ops from a government agency.

EPA press release: “Administrator Lee Zeldin Finds Gold Bars from EPA at Stacey Abrams’ Connected Group, Biden-Harris Ethical Red Flags”  Actual news story: “Lee Zeldin likens Biden energy ‘scheme’ connected to Stacey Abrams to ‘throwing gold bars off the Titanic’”  There were no gold bars involved at all that I could find out. The hypothetical […]

Donald Trump is a remote worker at Mar-A-Lago.

Jesse Dollemore pointed out that Donald Trump is himself teleworking while his administration has been campaigning against telework for federal workers, he’s hanging out at Mar-A-Lago. I pointed that out last month, that Trump and also Elon Musk spent the campaign teleworking from Mar-a-Lago, not any office. Butts in seats downtown for “The Economy” (aka commercial real […]