By Michael Woyton
Anyone else wish that the firehose of news would slow down just a tad?
There is so much to be pissed off about that there’s hardly any time to sit and craft a reaction.
Here is some of what has my engine idling faster than usual.
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I’ve been concerned about this country turning its back on climate change combined with the gutting of the National Weather Service since I read the plans in Project 2025 last year.
WTVJ-6 meteorologist John Morales warned his Miami-area viewers Tuesday that the staffing cuts at the National Weather Service will impact his forecasts, The Hill reported.
After reminding his audience that he was able in 2019 to confidently say that a hurricane was not going to impact south Florida at that time, he said that might not happen this hurricane season.
“And I am here to tell you, that I am not sure I can do that this year, because of the cuts, the gutting, the sledgehammer attack on science in general,” Morales said.
He explained that the NWS’s central and south Florida offices are about 20 to 40 percent understaffed.
Listen to Morales in the video below.
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Now that it’s Pride month, what better way for the administration of President TACO to assert its masculinity and warfighter vibe than by having Defense Secretary Pete “WhiskyLeaks” Hegseth order the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk.
Military.com reported that the order to change the name of the oiler ship came directly from Hegseth and that the timing — during Pride month — was intentional.
Milk, a Navy veteran, was an icon of the early 1970s gay civil rights movement. He was one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States and was assassinated while serving on the San Francisco board of supervisors.
It is also being reported that other John Lewis-class oilers — which are a group of ships named after prominent civil rights leaders and activists — are being considered for renaming. They include the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsberg and USNS Harriet Tubman.
Notice a pattern?
According to Military.com, “While there are some rare examples of Navy ships being renamed following construction and christening, those instances are outliers and, broadly, Navy traditions consider renaming a ship to be taboo.”
What a pathetic, chest-thumping small human being Hegseth is.
But then again, so is the felon-in-chief, his boss.
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The latest analysis of the adjudicated rapist’s budget bill by the Congressional Budget Office, released today, estimates that it will increase deficits by $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years and increase the number of people without health insurance by 10.9 million by 2034.
Federal spending will be reduced by nearly $1.3 trillion over the 10 years, according to reporting by The Associated Press.
“Ahead of the CBO’s release, the White House and Republican leaders criticized the budget office in a preemptive campaign designed to sow doubt in its findings,” the AP said.
Of course, if the CBO’s findings comported with what the administration wanted, then they wouldn’t be calling the nonpartisan organization “historically wrong” or “flat wrong,” now would they.
Even Elon “I’m Not on Drugs” Musk is now against the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.”
He said the spending package was a disgusting abomination and was massive, outrageous and filled with pork.
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U.S. Attorney Alina “Parking Lot Lawyer” Habba is being sued for “malicious prosecution” of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.
Baraka, who is running in the Democratic primary for New Jersey governor, claims Habba “directed and ratified” his arrest, and she defamed him in inflammatory statements on television and social media, Politico reported.
Federal prosecutors recently dropped a criminal charge against Baraka for alleged trespassing at an immigrant detention facility in his city.
The lawsuit can be read in full through this link.
His suit includes comments from a judge who admonished Habba’s office in its handling of the arrest, saying there was an “apparent rush” to charge him, followed by an “embarrassing retraction.”
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Word to the wise: Take a bag lunch if you visit one of the grifter-in-chief’s golf clubs.
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Lead art: Screen grab from WTVJ-6.
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