This year's Atlantic and NE Pacific hurricane seasons will see an increased number and severity of storms.
On top of that, US supply chains can barely keep up with current demand. Post hurricane response times will be much longer, so:
I strongly recommend your household emergency supplies be increased, so that you can remain self sufficient for as long as possible. Upskill yourself on all aspects of prepping, even if you are far away from hurricane country. Supply chains are all interconnected.
And there are skilled labor shortages all over, including health providers, first responders, aviation workers, power line workers, gas industry workers etc etc etc.
You have to be your own first responder, now more than ever. Follow local instructions to evacuate beforehand.
Prepare now for:
Storms
Tornado
Fire
Heatwave
Water shortage
Power cuts
Mass shootings
Terrorism
and potentially further Covid waves.
T**** wanted armed supporters allowed into his rally at the Ellipse bc he worried about his crowd size looking too small. Then he denied that any of his supporters there or at the capitol were armed. Video showed hundreds of armed assaults.
Latest as of 5.15pm local time: 3 dead - 2 on train, 1 in dump truck.
Uncontrolled crossings require extra care, road users.
Controls can't be put on every crossing.
Even where a railroad crossing is controlled, and is functioning as designed, some drivers still try to get around them. Like this dump truck driver in 2018, whose truck collided with a GOP caucus chartered train near Crozet, VA:
The religious extremists who installed an authoritarian majority on the SCOTUS don't just want to relegate women to their former status as breeding livestock, they esp. want to increase the birth rate among white women.
Because they failed to persuade them to choose that.
Worldwide, increasing economic development in a country is associated with a declining birth rate. Adult women and men begin to be valued for more than their ability to reproduce.
Advanced economies find better ways to meet basic human needs sustainably and humanely.
Anyone reading on Jan 20, 2021 the list of T****'s last minute pardon palooza recipients could tell there and then that the clemency powers had been dramatically abused, and that many others would have sought clemency, too.
At the DOJ link above, there are 5 clemency dates between the defeated former president's stunning electoral loss and the day he skulked out of DC before the victorious Biden took over.
(Never forget details like those, BTW. The coward gave the country itself the bird.)
Notable pardons included the clear, long term Russian assets and criminal conspirators Michael Flynn and Stephen Bannon.
They started on the fascist project to undermine American democracy years before T**** launched his presidential run in 2015.
Thread: Do you ever wonder why some people deny that #TrumpIsACriminal, or assert that it doesn't matter?
Allow me to share some tidbits from my time inside Cult 45, and since running for the hills away from it on 1/6/21.
Most Americans accept the fact that T**** committed many crimes in his business dealings for years, prior to entering national politics as a candidate in 2015.
Those are serious enough to warrant prosecution now and in the future. But he added to them as a politician.
In 2016 when I decided to support the Republican candidate against HRC, I didn't believe he had committed crimes like tax evasion, bank fraud, wire fraud, RICO offenses, and heaven knows what else. And if you had shown me the evidence, I've had said it doesn't matter because:
That sealed the deal for me. If it was good enough for my Queen to accept her new daughter in law it was good enough for me.
Over the past 17 years Camilla has worked tirelessly for charities and the national interest and, essentially, has never put a foot wrong. That is rare.
Like all working members of the royal family Camilla has a large portfolio of charitable work including advocacy for osteoporosis research and support, and for survivors of domestic and sexual violence.