Trump has withdrawn the US from numerous United Nations organizations

 

Click the above graphic, or here, to see the list of organizations.  How they - particularly environmental conventions - can be contrary to the interests of the US is beyond me.

Total destruction in record time

 

America has fallen

 

Will they destroy all the past records?

UPDATE 10:57 am:

Destroyer of worlds

 If Trump 2.0 intended to destroy the country (and maybe the planet), what would they do differently than they are doing now?

The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions.

[...]

The data the two missions collect is widely used, including by scientists, oil and gas companies and farmers who need detailed information about carbon dioxide and crop health. They are the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases.

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The equipment in space is state of the art and is expected to function for many more years, according to scientists who worked on the missions. An official review by NASA in 2023 found that "the data are of exceptionally high quality" and recommended continuing the mission for at least three years.

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It is unclear why the Trump administration seeks to end the missions.

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Two current NASA employees also confirmed that NASA mission leaders were told to make termination plans for projects that would lose funding under President Trump's proposed budget for the next fiscal year, or FY 2026, which begins Oct. 1. The employees asked to remain anonymous, because they were told they would be fired if they revealed the request.

  NPR

 They are our elected administration.

Also...anything Biden did, Trump will undo, regardless of its success or usefulness.

Earth is drying up

 

Obviously, NASA research is going to have to be shut down.

Gaslighting

 

Is this MAHA?

Trump 2.0 - Crash the U.S.

 

How did Murkowski not see it coming?

 

No sense?  No integrity?  Self-serving? Let's ask this other Senator...

Burn it all down

 If I close my eyes, you can't see me.

Speaking of natural disasters

 

Texas tragedy

 

Looks like it might have been simply a natural disaster, and blame isn't helpful.  But, things aren't going to improve under the Trump regime.

Water rose fast along the Guadalupe River, causing more than two dozen deaths. Local officials said they couldn’t have seen it coming.

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A flood watch was issued by the National Weather Service at 1:18 p.m. that predicted up to 7 inches of isolated rainfall early Friday morning in South Central Texas, including Kerr County.

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The Guadalupe River gauge at the unincorporated community of Hunt, where the river forks, recorded a 22-foot rise in just two hours, said Bob Fogarty, meteorologist with the NWS Austin/San Antonio office.

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At least 32 people were killed by the flooding. Dozens more remained missing as of Saturday morning, including 27 young girls from a Christian summer camp, according to the Kerr County sheriff’s office.

The scale of the disaster — and the fact that major flooding is common in this part of Texas — has raised questions over whether more could have been done to warn people in the path of the flood waters.

Local and state officials were quick to point to weather forecasts that did not accurately predict the intensity of the rainfall.

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“The heartbreaking catastrophe that occurred in Central Texas is a tragedy of the worst sort because it appears evacuations and other proactive measures could have been undertaken to reduce the risk of fatalities had the organizers of impacted camps and local officials heeded the warnings of the government and private weather sources, including AccuWeather,” AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter wrote in a statement Saturday morning.

Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, on Friday pointed to NWS forecasts from earlier in the week that projected up to 6 inches of rain.

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The most serious warning came at 4:03 a.m. when the NWS issued a flash flood emergency, warning of an “extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation” and urging immediate evacuations to higher ground.

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The flooding came amid concerns about staffing levels at the NWS, after the Trump administration fired hundreds of meteorologists this year as part of Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts. The NWS Austin/San Antonio office’s warning coordination meteorologist announced in April that he was retiring early due to the funding cuts, leading to speculation that vacancies could have impacted forecasters’ response.

The NWS forecasting offices were operating normally at the time of the disaster, said Greg Waller, service coordination hydrologist with the NWS West Gulf River Forecast Center in Fort Worth.

“We had adequate staffing. We had adequate technology,” Waller said. “This was us doing our job to the best of our abilities.”

Staffing data provided by the NWS’s labor union showed the San Angelo forecasting office currently has four vacancies out of 23 positions and San Antonio has six vacancies out of 26.

Legislative Director Tom Fahy said that was adequate to issue timely forecasts and warnings before and during the emergency.

At least one independent meteorologist working in Texas echoed that statement, writing on his website that “we have seen absolutely nothing to suggest that current staffing or budget issues within NOAA and the NWS played any role at all in this event.”

[...]

Between 2 and 7 a.m., the Guadalupe River in Kerrville rose from 1 to more than 34 feet in height, according to a flood gauge in the area.

  Texas Tribune

UPDATE 06:07 pm:

 

UPDATE 07/06/2025:

Before taking any questions, Texas’s governor Greg Abbott, the homeland security secretary Kristi Noem, the Texas senator John Cornyn and the representative Chip Roy opened today’s press conference with long statements of self-congratulation and praise for the response from local, state and federal officials. They also repeatedly thanked Donald Trump in effusive terms.

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Much of the statements from Abbott, Noem, Cornyn and Roy focused on praising their own efforts, thanking Trump and the White House and encouraging people to pray.

“Prayer matters,” Abbott said. Prayers “could have been the reason why water stopped rising”.

[...]

There are still 27 people missing from the flooding event. Of the bodies recovered so far, five adults and three children are still unidentified.

  Guardian

Then maybe more than 27 are still missing?

Dalton Rice, the Kerrville city manager, said that 27 girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp along the Guadalupe River, are still missing. Other people who were in the area but not at the camp could also be missing, Rice added.

[...]

Following two long statements from the Texas governor and US homeland security secretary praising their own response efforts, the senator John Cornyn took the mic at the press briefing and began: “My thanks to President Trump.”

Next to speak is representative Chip Roy, who opened with a joke, saying: “Before I was crazy enough to run for Congress” he spent a lot of time in this area. He goes on to praise the governor and the homeland security secretary.

[...]

Officials have said the floods were not predicted by forecasts and that the river rose by 26ft (8 meters) in just 45 minutes. A local weather forecaster disputed that and said that warnings were issued hours before the disaster.

UPDATE 07/06/2025:

Huh, what?

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Going down

 

You can't escape the heat

 

America is on its deathbed

 

UPDATE 04/29/2025:

Every day, another Trump admin nightmare for the US

The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.

[...]

“The FBI has told Citibank that recipients of EPA climate grants are being considered as potentially liable for fraud. That is, the Trump administration wants to criminalize work on climate science and impacts.” Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts at the FBI’s request. The reason? The FBI alleges that the groups are involved in “possible criminal violations,” including “conspiracy to defraud the United States.”

[...]

The Appalachian Community Capital Corporation, the Coalition for Green Capital, and the DC Green Bank are just some of the nonprofits being targeted.

[...]

“The idea of criminalizing community climate work wouldn’t have originated at the FBI—it likely comes from EPA director Lee Zeldin, who today cut all EPA’s environmental justice offices, which try to reduce pollution in poor and minority communities.”

Zeldin’s order eliminates 10 EPA regional offices as well as the one in Washington, D.C.

  New Republic

Trump 2.0 - Deregulation (MAGA)

The State Department on Tuesday halted efforts to monitor air quality levels around the world, ending a program that had provided data about a major global health risk.

The program had used air quality sensors at more than 80 U.S. embassies and consulates — mostly in countries where such data was otherwise limited or unreliable. The move follows other actions by the Trump administration to curtail environmental monitoring and climate-related science.

[...]

A 2022 research paper found air pollution reductions of a “statistically significant level” in places where U.S. embassy monitors had been installed. Cities without U.S. monitoring did not show similar declines. The study said that U.S. efforts had succeeded in building awareness about air quality risks, with Google searches for terms like “air quality” increasing once the embassy gauges were in place.

[...]

“Starting on March 4, the Department’s Air Quality Monitoring Program will no longer be able to transmit air pollution data from our embassies and consulates … due to budget constraints,” the spokesperson said.

  WaPo

Meaning, we're slashing their budget, because the oligarchs want even more money to go to themselves.

It was unclear whether billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service had played a role in the decision.

Unclear only when you cut regulations so the smog can impair your vision, and you don't want to understand what's happening anyway.

Climate change is woke

 

Is it progress if they've gone to calling it climate change instead of jeering at the idea of "global warming" every winter?

We just didn't heed the warnings

"A few" centuries.  Or one.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Yes, we ARE going back

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 12/12/2024:

UPDATE 12/13/2024: