I called my senators and representatives and told them the truth: that NOAA and NWS are essential to human safety, the success of small businesses, and a healthy environment (including sustainable fisheries) here in Florida.
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Me, too. I just called my reps.
These federal employees are doing important work that keeps us all safe and keeps our government running smoothly.
Keep calling and keep standing up for these dedicated workers.
Hold your own town halls. Make sure you can verify attendees are from your district. Post it online-send a copy to your rep. so they can't deny your concerns. At this point they are hurting a lot of people needlessly. Call, protest, strike just do something. Protect American and democracy.
Actually I think they should be sent out to every Republican representative in Washington. That way they couldn't lie about the "will of the people". Church groups need to get involved as well. Church's have always been active in civil disobedience. Unite and Resist America
They don't give af. They're counting on what they need to be privatized, creating more sources of campaign juice. I'm sure they're in negotiations to spend a 1% sales tax increase on Weather-X forecasting, featuring FDA appv'd Neuralink, installed in craniums spanning 12000 cities and 6 continents.
Insurance companies, banks, and home improvement stores upon hearing that a lack of national weather prediction services will result in more destroyed houses:
These are the agencies Don the Con has closed and will no longer fulfill services: 1) feed hungry kids; 2) provide medical care; 3) aid families who have lost their homes; 4) demand that corporations don't pollute; 5) promote education. Then we don't need a president. He's a useless figurehead.
Yes, but wouldn’t it be better if we could all pay a subscription to an app to get weather and climate data from a private company owned by a friend of Elon’s?
True story. I call and write just because… hoping if they get enough, it will at least irritate them. But you are correct. They don’t care. And that is why we must band together and fight in whatever ways we can.
I get your intent, but Fl has criminal Republicans. Rick Scott stoled millions from Medicare & Medicaid, pled the 5th kept the $. DeSatanic and wife stole millions from Hurricane Ian victims, they've made millions on covid, murdered thousands of Floridians. FL REPUBLICANS R KKK, WHITE SUPREMACISTS!
Cuts hit the National Weather Service.
The oil industry’s role should concern us.
They pretend climate change isn’t real.
Showering Trump with cash sealed the deal.
Everyone can relate to the weather functions, but there's so, so, much more that NOAA does. This is just criminal. If OBL had done 1/5 of this shit, we would be at war guaranteed.
I'm a native FL, 67 years. I've watched in horror and pain what R's have done to this state. I'll sit here and take another direct hit before I get on the phone and tell grownass adults something that if they don't already know, I can't teach them and if they do know, they're evil enough to ignore.
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Thank you for are your hard work keeping us safe and informed! I live less than a mile from the beach in the panhandle on 30a so I know how important your work is to our communities and our country.
I called, I spoke to someone. They were polite. I emailed my congressman. I did get a response. Blah,blah,blah. It supported Musk. Nothing from my Senator Scott.
I called my rep. and left a message saying how important NOAA/NHC and FEMA for Floridians. That our lives depend on the expertise of their employees for accurate forecasts. Which also means keeping probationary employees that are in line & developing their expertise.
I just left messages this time—they are getting enough calls that I don’t think they can answer them all—but from what I have been told that’s still pretty helpful, as staffers summarize for their bosses what calls have been coming in from constituents on what issues.
Yea but they don't care. Destruction of everything we hold dear is the point. Anyone with a little money should leave the country. There is no future here.
I am sure the strategy is to break everything, cry-See! I told you inefficient ( or broken or corrupt…)-and then privatize everything.
Government for sale. No civil service.
EGG Fukin Zackly. The entire theme of this Regime is to degrade, dehumanize, render it all dysfunctional until people demand whatever it is be privatized, sold off with min transparency to connected cronies. Putin did it. Thatcher did it. Reagan did it. This is the penultimate of oligarchy creation
Yes indeed ! But Americans arent like Europeans who march in hundreds of thousands or go on strike. 250,000 Germans were demonstrating in Berlin every night for days.. and thats happening in Georgia every night and Romania at the moment. They understand what is lost in a dictatorship.
Together with the general science denial that pervades the Trump administration, the USA now risks being left behind as the rest of the world invests in science and technology. Just as Catholic southern Europe was left behind after Galileo.
As somebody who only lived there for a month, it seems like they only care when it's invasive species (albeit ever so slightly) and they can't even do that right.
Completely agree that it’s beneficial to make your voice heard in multiple ways, but I’d love to encourage people to engage at all as a starting point—they don’t have to be able to do everything that might be useful, to do something.
Very critical to those of us living in Tornado Alley, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri. Meteorology college students also lost their jobs today. Future weather forecasters education is threatened.
You'd think Floriduhh of all places would be in full support of NOAA and NWS. Bahhh, who needs accurate hurricane prediction and tracking, it'll be fine.
They don't believe FEMA does anything anyway. They think all those trucks that show up hours after the storms pass are some kind of magic. It just happens you know, out of kindness. All those emergency supplies are donated and just appear. Guess they're going to find out.
At this point I feel like we need calling committees who call on certain issues so we can cover them all. I made 3 called to same person today alone cause it’s just too much. And the crap that happened in the sacred Oval Office where greatness ONCE sat. Shameful!!
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These federal employees are doing important work that keeps us all safe and keeps our government running smoothly.
Keep calling and keep standing up for these dedicated workers.
Fishermen, Farmers, Construction workers, Schools.. who doesn't need to know to be careful of dangerous weather?
The idea that the NWS should be only for the people who can afford to pay is one of the dumbest things coming out of this administration
and that's saying something
Cuts hit the National Weather Service.
The oil industry’s role should concern us.
They pretend climate change isn’t real.
Showering Trump with cash sealed the deal.
But hope is not over yet! Even a small donation can make a big difference.
If you can't donate, you can support us by sharing this message please 🙏
Please don't forget our children😓💔
https://gofund.me/385a3550
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=SYNFEXNZZDSZY
Can I ask, what was your experience like, and were they even willing to listen to you, to have an actual dialogue about your concerns?
Good luck.
Planning on organizing everything and making the calls on Monday! Talking points, bullet points, etc. appreciate the response!
Government for sale. No civil service.
From what I can gather anyway.
But, more importantly, if I'm a drumpf family member or musk moron how can I profit?
What part of this doesn't anyone understand?