Wealthy waterfront owners' days in heaven are over per Feds, dire Antarctic collapse warning issued.
Rising seas that inundate coastal properties cause billions of dollars in damage and essentially have bankrupted FEMA. You and I ( the country's taxpayers) fund the National Flood Insurance...
CDC Report Shows an Increase of 2.2 Million Vaccinations for Friday
The Center for Disease Control report on daily covid-19 vaccinations shows a jump of 2,216,752 total, the largest one day increase. Vaccinations have been running...
Cool, science advisor is elevated to a cabinet position; the first woman will lead FEMA.
Elevating (the science adviser) role to member in the President's Cabinet clearly signals the administration's intent to involve scientific expertise in every policy discussion. Sudip Parikh,...
Cool, the Science advisor is elevated to a cabinet position; the first woman will lead FEMA.
Elevating (the science adviser) role to member in the President's Cabinet clearly signals the administration's intent to involve scientific expertise in every policy discussion. Sudip Parikh,...
Biden to Mobilize National Guard and FEMA For Vaccinations
www.cnbc.com/… President-elect Joe Biden plans to begin treating the pandemic as a national emergency according to details in report released today, reports CNBC. President-elect Joe...
WA-Gov: Loren Culp (R) Echoes Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory About Wildfires Being “Coordinated Arson”
Fuck him: Loren Culp, the Republican nominee running to unseat Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), is pushing a conspiracy theory that many of the wildfires...
Trump is Failing His Latest Test: Hurricane Laura
Hurricane Laura is now a strong Cat 4, with winds up to 150 MPH (Cat 5 is 158 MPH, and it may get there). Storm...
Full of rage and spite, Trump ordered FEMA to withhold funds from California wildfire victims.
Climate change denier Donald Trump has been credibly accused by his former DHS Chief of Staff (Miles Taylor) of ordering FEMA to withhold funds for...
Miles Taylor: Trump 'is going to hear from more people that served in his administration' and 'soon'
Yesterday, Miles Taylor, who worked in Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security for two years, including as its chief of staff, wrote an op-ed for...
Killing the US Postal Service is unconstitutional even if a quarter-million pandemic deaths isn't
Trump just said, and I quote: “absentee good, mail-in very very bad.” (Orange man… bad) President Donald Trump said the quiet part out loud, admitting he’s...
IMPOTUS* endnote: “Mitch better have my money” as the pandemic distances us all
The land of flaming nitwits. More federal government shakedowns, courtesy of the GOP, complete with payoffs to try to get re-elected. xThis may be the...
These people couldn't lead a boy scout troop to the toilet. FEMA FUBAR on Covid PPE. Again
I am so Trumped outraged out until I am having to color my hair more often because every day another bunch of grey pops over...
RNC in Florida.. It will be a disaster I predict.
It boggles the mind. Anyone with half a brain would be terrified to come to Florida during a pandemic but especially with the Idiot in...
Another Trump campaign speech, this time in Georgia because it's infrastructure week again in 1952
Trump went to another COVID "hotspot" and gave an infrastructure speech because it's that week again. CNN and MSNBC had the good taste not to...
Houston Chronicle, “Texas voter registration surges to 16.4 million, despite the pandemic”
From The Houston Chronicle: Not even the worst pandemic to hit Texas in a century was enough to stem the surge in voter registrations that...
Jared of-all-trades, son-in-law of one
Jared Kushner’s Air Bridge may have worked to not only expedite delivery of PPE, but also failed to deliver by perhaps hoarding an as yet unaccounted...
Another mask-less Trump pseudo-rally in Michigan plus African-American roundtable
Trump tells an African-American Roundtable “What do you have to lose”. President Donald Trump said African American residents were experiencing historic economic prosperity before “we...
Rachel Maddow exposes a special kind of Trump cruelty to the national guard soldiers
Rachel Maddow exposes a very cruel act by the President as he cuts national guard deployment by one day to avoid giving them retirement and...
Trump filling up Yankee Stadium with death is all he knows
Trump promises us "It will disappear — like a miracle, it will disappear." but only after there are many more deaths filling Yankee stadium. On...
LIVE BLOG another pseudo-event by Trump: “we left behind a year of tremendous death”
Live Blog below It wound up being the same as the COVID Taskforce briefing, turning into a campaign speech with the same talking points, mentioning...
KS-Sen: Bollier (D) Pushes FEMA To Distribute Medical Supplies To States Battling COVID-19 Pandemic
Received this e-mail from Dr. Barbara Bollier’s (D. KS) U.S. Senate campaign: This is simple: The federal government promised medical supplies to the states --...
“There are more important things than living.” There's Trumpian feds hijacking the supply chain
Shakedowns of materiel like PPEs that demonstrate abuses of federal power are now de rigueur and should not be confused with fiscal policy or even neoliberal austerity....
Inslee Says Trump is “Off the Rails” and “Fomenting Rebellion”
< p class="is-empty-p"> Trump is using Twitter to encourage those right-wing idiots who want Michigan and Minnesota (and also Ohio and Virginia) to drop their...
Gov. Cuomo's frustration boils over after Trump Twitter attack
First of all, how refreshing is it that the actual president of the United States is at war with our nation’s governors during the worst...
CDC/FEMA draft plan ignores swab shortages and other failures in the “free-market” for testing.
A leaked CDC/FEMA draft plan tries to triage mitigation efforts, commodifies immunity without testing, and attempts to divert attention from Trump’s missteps. In the interim, swab and...
FEMA Was Planning to Seize Masks Destined for States — Until the FBI Found Out They Were Fake
The San Francisco Chronicle put a story up today about how the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) thought they had located 39 million masks that...
Stop… with the Republican Talking Points!
The President has adopted a serious tone; it is not political, and Mr. Trump is a wartime President. All the previous statements are being palmed-off...
Trump will not 'tear up the Treaty of Versailles' but there could be crimes against humanity
The last surviving prosecutor at Nuremberg trials said Trump's family separation policy is a 'crime against humanity'. Then there’s this COVID pandemic, made worse by the Trump administration’s delay, denial, and...
Live Blog: In COVID presser, Trump hypes hydroxychloroquine treatment “What do you have to lose?”
New Trump Covid-19 taskforce briefing It started early today, as it tends to on Saturdays, Sunday will likely start later. xWowTrump, who says he tested...
Rachel Maddow exposes inept COVID-19 purposeful response by the Trump Administration
Rachel Maddow exposes that there is a reason for the Trump administration's ineptitude in handling the COVID-19 pandemic, profiteering. Rachel Maddow deconstructs COVID-19 profiteering x...
Live Blog: Trump COVID taskforce briefing, Trump still confuses 1918 Flu with movie “1917”
Live Blog below COVID Taskforce briefing Livestream (5pm) xIf @presssec tries to override the @whca decision, then its members should boycott the briefing and refuse to...
Trump loses high-profile media fan over corona-incompetence
No, not Sean Hannity. Trump could mail out smallpox blankets in Swiss Colony cheese boxes and Hannity would scold us for not being grateful. It’s New York...
Live Blog: Trump's “burst of light” presser campaign rally … “Death, a lot of death”
Trump Presser / Campaign rally substitute. Live Blog below xPres Trump at WH says Dr. Fauci & Dr. Birx will be going over data &...
Trump tries to bully GM and Ford into making ventilators 'FAST!!!!!!' — via Twitter, of course
He does realize he has the authority to order companies to do this kind of thing, right? Like, through regular government channels other than Twitter...
Gov. Cuomo: 'You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators'
The Trump administration is sending out trial balloons (most recently in the form of human Hindenburg Larry Kudlow) to see if they can get the...
Trump STILL hasn't implemented Defense Production Act to supply more masks and ventilators
So people are freaking out about whether we’ll have enough masks, ventilators, and other crucial medical equipment when COVID-19 cases peak in this country. It’s...
FEMA and the Military Will Need to Open Temporary Hospitals to Treat Pandemic
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the US military will need to open temporary hospitals for the treatment of the coranavirus. No doubt some plans exist...
Trump's COVID-19 National Emergency took longer to declare than his 'wall' National Emergency
The dimensions of the Trump inaction and now profiteering from COVID-19 have become clearer. A Trump emboldened by an impeachment acquittal felt no need to...
The 2020 “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done” Year End Summary Report
Overview Since the earliest days of Donald Trump’s Presidency, we have attempted to catalog all of the harmful actions committed by his administration. Furthermore, by...
Weekly Recap: Missing From The Debates and More!
photo: right: Homeless Man In Boston by Enver Rahmanov • CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped In solidarity, Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dan, Janis, Deb,...
Weekly Recap: Demand Congress And Others Act Now!
Tell Congress To Restore Net Neutrality In solidarity, Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dan, Janis, Deb, Dr. Bill, Kimberly, and Bryan—your PDA national team....
Weekly Recap: Taking The Climate Emergency To Congress!
photo: PDA Helped Lead Climate Emergency Lobbying On The Hill In solidarity, Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F., Dan, Janis, Deb, Dr. Bill, Kimberly, Bryan—your...
The Climate Strike And You
In solidarity, Mike Hersh for Alan, Dan, Janis, Deb, Dr. Bill, Kimberly, Bryan, Mike F., and Shayna—your PDA national team. The Climate Strike Is Just...
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...
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. ...
FEMA fesses up they are 'short a few thousand employees' as Atlantic Hurricane Season begins.
“What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,” Donald J. Trump The country is currently facing unprecedented rainfall, flooding, and tornadoes in...
Shultz on the Road to Damascus
Howard Schultz swore as he wrenched the steering wheel on his rented car, barely making the freeway on-ramp. His floundering presidential campaign had him so distracted he...
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 103)
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...
Trump's attack on U.S. continues: Says he's ordered FEMA to stop funds for California
What. A. Dick. xBillions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen. Unless...