United States | News & Politics

2814 readers

873 users here now

Welcome to [email protected], where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.

If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.

Rules

Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.

Post anything related to the United States.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

127

Trump cancels leases on two pivotal centers for weather forecasting. One of the buildings is the nerve center for generating national weather forecasts. (www.axios.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

18 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

This is one i don't get. Everyone benefits from weather forecasting, even trump.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I read yesterday they're already talking with private companies to replace it. So they know it's important, but it's about the grift and extracting money for themselves and their friends.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

they're selling off the real estate after they fired all the workers and shutdown offices, privatizing everything and anything they can.

this is The Looting of America, Turbofuck 9000 Mode™.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The ideology that is currently in power is one where government is inherently bad, always. It doesn't matter that people benefit, that is literally not part of the equation.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

The plan has always been to sell the NWS to AccuWeather

There's a last week tonight about it.