What Project 2025 has to say about FEMA: * Raise threshold for states' eligibility for assistance * Max federal cost-share of 25% for "small" disasters and 75% for "truly catastrophic" ones * End the National Flood Insurance Program * End grant programs (hazard mitigation, emergency shelters, etc.)
Fun fact: Greene is currently the second-ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability. The chair, Dan Bishop (R-NC), is not running for re-election to Congress this year. More likely than not she'll become chair if Rs retain the House.
"Gawker .com is out of business because one wealthy person maliciously set out to destroy it, spending millions of dollars in secret, and succeeded. That is the only reason." web.archive.org/web/20160823...
A lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth. Peter Thiel has shut down Gawker.com.
On Trump excluding the WH Counsel from a meeting about the fake electors scheme: "It is hard to imagine stronger evidence that conduct is private than when the President excludes his White House Counsel and only wishes to have his private counsel present."On Trump excluding the WH Counsel from a meeting about the fake electors scheme: "It is hard to imagine stronger evidence that conduct is private than when the President excludes his White House Counsel and only wishes to have his private counsel present."
The officer was fined $500 and lost 60 vacation days, "which is worth about $25,000 in pay." He was also placed on modified duty. I'm trying to imagine any other profession in which you could use company resources to harass a private citizen for the better part of a year and still have a job.
A study measured the performance of 800 developers before and after getting GitHub's Copilot. It found: - No change in productivity - No change in burnout levels - A 41% increase in the bug rate!?? Aren't you thrilled we're burning the world to power these AI models?
Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.
GQP terrorism 🤬
NEW: I obtained internal emails from city government of Springfield, Ohio. These emails show the absolute chaos caused by Trump and Vance after claiming Haitian immigrants were eating pets. Racist threats, hateful emails, media bonanza. A nightmare www.404media.co/internal-ema...
Internal emails from Springfield, Ohio reveal what has happened in the city after Donald Trump and JD Vance spread the conspiracy that Haitians are eating pets.
Since going into effect on April 1, California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage has not led to overall job losses as industry groups had warned, a study by UC researchers found. (via California Sun) www.kqed.org/news/1200715...
Despite concerns, California’s fast food industry maintained stable employment, though consumers are experiencing modest price increases, new research shows.