This is now named Milton, and while it is currently only a tropical depression with 35-mph wind it is expected to rapidly intensify and be “at or near major hurricane strength” — category 3, >110 mph — by the time it hits.

DLdavelevitan.bsky.socialOct 5, 2024 3:50pm

So, the west coast of Florida is gonna get hit again on Wednesday

Trump and Vance have a new phrase for national abortion ban, which is “national minimum standard.” That’s just an abortion ban. They’re using it to claim Trump doesn’t support an abortion ban when he does, and much of the media is falling for it www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump and Vance Are Calling Their Abortion Ban Something New

Don’t be confused by Trump and Vance’s word games.

republicans do literally everything they can to hobble disaster response and then blame the results on the people trying to do their jobs

All of Florida's Republican representatives, along with a number of GA, NC & SC Republican representatives and senators, voted against funding FEMA. Now Republicans are criticizing FEMA for not having enough funding. www.newsweek.com/republicans-...

Full list of Republicans who voted against FEMA funding before Helene hit

Congress approved $20 billion for FEMA's disaster relief fund as Hurricane Helene was heading toward Florida.

www.advocate.com/news/lauren-...

Lauren Boebert forced to refund $67,000 in anti-trans donations for Olympic boxer

The right-wing representative launched a campaign following Angela Carini's loss to Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who conservatives were falsely claiming is a transgender woman.

#filmsky#horror 🎃

And let’s not forget that the literal head of the San Jose police union, a middle aged white woman, was a serious fentanyl trafficker too

DFcoachfinstock.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 11:13pm

Holy shit. 42 members of a White Supremacist gang based in The Valley were arrested today. So it looks like it's the whites bringing in fentanyl and stealing PPP funds in LA. What a surprise.

Dozens of San Fernando Valley white supremacist gang members charged in federal indictment, DOJ says

Federal prosecutors said 42 members and associates of a San Fernando Valley white supremacist gang were arrested and indicted.

REMINDER: We can't assume events speak for themselves. We need to “narrate change” and help people understand what is actually happening to our planet. Attribution studies aren’t going to out-compete racist conspiracy narratives on their own. #ClimateSky#GreenSkygrist.org/article/fact...

Fact-checking the viral conspiracies in the wake of Hurricane Helene

Alex Jones and Marjorie Taylor Greene helped stir up a toxic stew of conspiracy theories.

... to making up failed rescue stories along with un- named sources in law enforcement, FEMA & the gov't. I get the feeling the rule of repeating lies becoming the truth is starting to take effect. Any maga leaning friends or relatives passing along misinformation? Push back with the truth.

Maga & Elon are going hard on social media, lying on FEMA's & the Biden administration's relief effort on hurricane Helene. They've got AI working overtime. Twitter & Facebook are doing overtime with this bs, everything from Trump fixing power lines, to "they" are controlling the weather, ...

PLphillewis.bsky.socialOct 4, 2024 6:35pm

A Republican state senator in North Carolina is pleading for an end to right-wing conspiracy theories about Hurricane Helene recovery efforts

North Carolina Republican Pleads To End Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories On Helene Disaster Relief

State Sen. Kevin Corbin calls out “conspiracy theory junk” about unburied bodies and FEMA stealing money.