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  1. Update. "Staffers with Elon #Musk’s [#DOGE] entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA)…today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency."
    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f

    What's the #Trump or #Trumpist interest here?

    1. "#Project2025…called for the agency to be 'broken up and downsized', claiming the agency is 'harmful to US prosperity' for its role in #climate science."

    2. Andrew Rosenberg, a former NOAA official, "noted it had been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on NOAA data to prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it, such as weather forecasting services."

    PS: Rosenberg is right. During the GWBush admin, Senator #RickSantorum (R-PA) repeatedly tried to take down NOAA's open weather data, to benefit AccuWeather, the for-profit weather forecaster in his state. I wrote about it often at the time and may have to dig out and reup those old pieces.

    #OpenData #USPol #USPolitics

  2. Remember that slimy, racist, sexist, LGBTI-hating GOP senator, Rick Santorum? And, how activist Dan Savage, coined a neologism is his honour that's become what people first think of when they hear Santorum's name? The phenomenon was known as "Santorum's Google problem".
    That was all the way back in 2003, and the Internet wasn't quite what it was compared with today.

    Today, there are billions more people on the Internet, Google has a monopoly on online search, memes travel far and wide at the speed of light, and information in our news-cycle is amplified and accelerated by AI.

    If you're searching for delight in this 2024 election circus, J.D. Vance has cemented his place in people's minds for all of history as the Couch Fucker.

    #USPol #Santorum #RickSantorum #CouchFucker #Vance #JDVance #HillbillyElegy

  3. #Ohio ballot measures, backed by #RickSantorum and the #GOP, aim to curb #Democracy by enabling partisan control over redistricting and election processes. These initiatives reflect a broader #Republican strategy to influence electoral outcomes, echoing similar efforts in other states.

    jacobin.com/2023/11/ohio-ballo

  4. “Ron DeSantorum.” That’s it!
    It’s eluded me for a while, but THAT suits the jackass perfectly — for more than a few reasons.
    #RonDeSantorum #RonDeSantis #RonDeRacist #RonDeBigot #MAGA #GOP #RickSantorum #Santorum #LGBTQIAphobia

  5. “Ron DeSantorum.” That’s it!
    It’s eluded me for a while, but THAT suits the jackass perfectly — for more than a few reasons.
    #RonDeSantorum #RonDeSantis #RonDeRacist #RonDeBigot #MAGA #GOP #RickSantorum #Santorum #LGBTQIAphobia

  6. “Ron DeSantorum.” That’s it!
    It’s eluded me for a while, but THAT suits the jackass perfectly — for more than a few reasons.
    #RonDeSantorum #RonDeSantis #RonDeRacist #RonDeBigot #MAGA #GOP #RickSantorum #Santorum #LGBTQIAphobia

  7. “Ron DeSantorum.” That’s it!
    It’s eluded me for a while, but THAT suits the jackass perfectly — for more than a few reasons.
    #RonDeSantorum #RonDeSantis #RonDeRacist #RonDeBigot #MAGA #GOP #RickSantorum #Santorum #LGBTQIAphobia