Maybe voters are saying they want more details about Harris’s policies because we, the editors of the nation’s most prestigious newspaper, have not bothered to fucking tell them
What a glorious truth to read spelled out, so unexpectedly and necessarily and shockingly, because of where we find ourselves
Members of Congress who voted to defund FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program one day before Helene hit: Sen. Budd (R-NC) Sen. Blackburn (R-TN) Sen. Hagerty (R-TN) Reps. Bean, Bilirakis, Cammack, Donalds, Gaetz, Lee, Luna, Mills, Posey, Waltz, Webster (R-FL) Rep. Bishop (R-NC)
I was doing a thread of mainstream news because there's not enough news on Bluesky. But, I found very little on Tennessee. So, I'm attaching my earlier thread about a disaster in Erwin, TN.
Biden may call "Congress in for a special session to help with the response to what he called a 'catastrophic' and 'history-making storm." He says Asheville’s water system was “completely down.” Gift link! [Many news articles rn are on Trump claiming Biden isn't helping survivors. I'm ignoring!]
The president, who plans to travel to North Carolina this week, said he might need to call Congress in for a special session after it did not include additional disaster relief in its spending bill.
[AP story has 8 bylines] Mike Toberer decided to bring a dozen of his mules to deliver food, water and diapers to hard-to-reach mountainous areas. “We’ll take our chainsaws, and we’ll push those mules through,” he said, noting that each one can carry about 200 pounds (90 kilograms) of supplies.
The death toll after Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction across the U.S. Southeast has reached at least 133.
These mainstream pronatalist pieces are being published while Musk is ranting on X using pronatalist conspiracy theories to argue America needs to elect an authoritarian:
Imams and Muslim mayors are endorsing Trump bc his emissaries are saying he’s tough and will end the war (plan tbd). It’s really been a dream for Bibi
