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Chris Tebbens
@christebbens.bsky.social
Dogs, food, learning about birds, reading leftist politics, good dad jokes. Defector is a good website. 🌹 eBird profile: ebird.org/profile/MTc0MjkyOA/
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For the record, Project 2025, the blueprint for the incoming Trump administration, would privatize the National Weather Service, disband oceanic research (too climate "alarmist") and dismantle NOAA, which is the primary source of hurricane info. static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories.
• static.project2025.org
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
Break Up NOAA. The single biggest Department of Commerce agency outside of decennial census years is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which houses the National Weather Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and other components. NOAA garners $6.5 billion of the department's $12 billion annual operational budget and accounts for more than half of the department's personnel in non-decadal Census years (2021 figures).
NOAA consists of six main offices:
• The National Weather Service (NWS);
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Department of Commerce
• The National Ocean Service (NOS); |
• The Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR); |
• The National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS);
• The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS); and
• The Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and NOAA Corps.
Together, these form a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate ch
The NWS provides data the private companies use and should focus on its data-gathering services. Because private companies rely on these data, the NWS should fully commercialize its forecasting operations.
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HAsarahbc.bsky.social

Fund libraries 📚 📜 🌊 #Helene

Screenshot of article describing a crowd in Asheville, NC, gathered outside a library providing WiFi
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TKtkovach.bsky.social

Librairies are part of your city's resilience infrastructure, but that requires cities (and states) to adequately fund and staff them. You can't just heap more work on already overworked and underpaid librarians.

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My first set of binoculars was from company “attaboy” points. Little did I know what I was ACTUALLY getting when I ordered them (a new hobby and reigniting my love of nature).

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Just followed DTW

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So nice to see CIA plant Slotkin on this list! Very excited for her Senate election in 40 days!

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Reading this article, this isn’t non-consensual and she’s not being exploited. Meta paid her for her voice use and she agreed to it. What she was saying she didn’t agree with was when the training was being used without her input or compensation. Put a sack of money in front of her, and she’s ok.

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Looking forward to joining the @washtenawdems.bsky.social Black Caucus non-partisans candidate forum on Saturday to discuss library issues!

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"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime and the former police who commit them”

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Chris Tebbens
@christebbens.bsky.social
Dogs, food, learning about birds, reading leftist politics, good dad jokes. Defector is a good website. 🌹 eBird profile: ebird.org/profile/MTc0MjkyOA/
113 followers99 following450 posts