As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the […]
Category: Dorian
Greg Sargent: RNC Withholding Data Showing Trump's Unpopularity from Down Ballot Candidates.
Columnist Greg Sargent, in his Plum Line blog at the Washington Post cites a Pro Publica piece of Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale to show that Trump’s popularity had gotten so low that the RNC […]
Trump warns of 'very bad people' fleeing from Bahamas to U.S.
Jesus Christ. It’s like we’re being governed by a guy who’s never left Hayward, Wisconsin. Today, Donald Trump said he’s wary of people who are traveling to the U.S. from the Bahamas in the wake […]
Dorian, one of the most powerful and slow-moving storms on record, decelerated the Florida Current.
The Gulf Stream, if viewed from above, is a deep dark blue stream of ocean off the Atlantic coast of Florida. It has a clockwise system of currents which transports warm water from the tropics, […]
Dorian destroyed oil storage facility on Grand Bahama resulting in catastrophic environmental damage
As if the misery of the Bahamian people was not horrifying enough, the apocalyptic winds of Hurricane Dorian have been found to have ripped the roofs off of five storage onshore oil tanks on Grand […]
“He's Deteriorating in Plain Sight”
That is a direct quote from a Republican strategist as reported two hours ago by Business Insider: “He's deteriorating in plain sight,” one Republican strategist who's in frequent contact with the White House told Insider […]
I Needed a Distraction
< p style=”text-align:justify”>After watching almost 4 days, non-stop, of disaster coverage from the Bahamas and the southeastern shores of the United States, I took a moment to distract from the horrors. Lives were lost, property […]
Trump told Fox reporter to 'hit back at Shepard Smith' over Alabama hurricane story
How ridiculous is this going to get? Will Donald Trump appoint a special task force to try to prove Alabama was in the path of Hurricane Dorian when Trump said it was? Republicans, at some […]
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 137)
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the […]
Trump's new press secretary taunts CNN on Twitter; it doesn't go well
As the saying goes, to err is human, whereas to err; double-, triple-, and quadruple-down on the erring; and then take out a Sharpie to alter an official government weather map before denying you did so is […]
Confirmed: Trump lies to reporters more often than he lies to any other group
Press advocates scored an important legal victory this week when a U.S. District Court judge ordered the White House to reinstate media credentials to reporter Brian Karem, whose access had been stripped away by Donald Trump's […]
NC-09: VoteVets Gives Progressive Marine Dan McCready (D) One More Boost To Defeat Trump's GOPer
Received this e-mail today from VoteVets in support of Dan McCready’s (D. NC-09) campaign: As you know, progressive Marine veteran Dan McCready’s special election in NC-9 is less than one week away. But it’s what […]
Trump insists he knows more about hurricanes than the National Weather Service
Oh, those pencil-necked eggheads who study things and use science and shit instead of their gut instincts. Now they think they know more about weather and where Alabama is than the president. Yesterday, Trump (being […]
It's 2019, and the media is still downplaying climate change's role in catastrophic weather events
As the slow-motion meteorological nightmare known as Hurricane Dorian approaches Florida's coast with life-threatening rain totals and historic wind speeds that are likely to leave a path of brutal devastation in its path, the media […]
London mayor mocks Trump for 'dealing with a hurricane out on the golf course'
Donald Trump canceled his weekend trip to Poland in order to “monitor” Hurricane Dorian. Yesterday, Trump proved he listens intently to his weather briefings, claiming he’d never heard of a Category 5 hurricane before (four such […]
Videos trickle out of the northern Bahamas; Donation links.
My local news channel just reported that a church filled with people riding out the storm together has had storm surge up to the rafters. No word on casualties. Rumors abound that many people on […]
Trump claims he's never heard of a Category 5 hurricane before
Four Category 5 hurricanes have hit U.S. shores since Trump became pr*sident. He has the greatest memory ever, so I guess he wasn’t listening to his weather briefings. CNN: “We don't even know what's coming at […]
Trump canceled Poland trip to monitor Hurricane Dorian … while he golfs, apparently
Heckuva job, Clownie. Now, we all know it doesn’t matter in the slightest where Donald Trump happens to be as he “monitors” Hurricane Dorian. (As long as it’s nowhere near the nuclear football, that is.) If […]
Bracing for Dorian and other nightmares
There are many models for Hurricane Dorian. From all the models, it appears this storm will hit just below Jacksonville, when it comes to Florida. It is a big Hurricane upgraded within the last few […]
Hurricane Season Is Coming
photo: Hurricane Harvey, the costliest in the history of the United States Image captured by NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite • Public Domain For a greener tomorrow, Debra Schrishuhn for Alan, Mike F, Janis, Mike H, Dan, […]
Pelosi ain't havin' it: 'We will see' the full Mueller report
Donald Trump knows not to mess with Nancy Pelosi, and AG William Barr may soon learn the same lesson. Sure, he may look like he could star with Steve Bannon in The Picture of Dorian […]
