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Elizabeth ⚓️
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Officer • Mariner • NOAA
Don’t give up the ship.
Appalachian Roots 💙💛
Radicalized by Fern Gully.
Kailua Kona, HI —> 🌍

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”— Robert Swan

Views are my own.
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Did you know NOAA has 6 line offices, one of which is the NWS? Another is the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations which include the famous Hurricane Hunters and a fleet of ships that explore and chart the uncharted waters of the world, piloted and sailed by active duty NOAA officers.
Science at Risk: Protect NOAA
Scientists and other experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the ...
secure.ucsusa.org
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THEY. WERE. DOING. THIS. WITHOUT. PAY.

NOAA’s hurricane hunter pilots (and Kermit The Frog hanging from the control panel) fly into Hurricane Melissa.

Extraordinary bravery, saving lives.

(🎥 Cmdr. Danielle Varwig, NOAA Corps).
October 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I’m doing it!!! #massblackout
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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OK folks, here's the deal. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and has ignored asks to stop. It's time to tell them we won't stream fascism - by cancelling our subscriptions. Here's how to get started: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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"The pardon marks the most distinct instance yet of Trump using the powers of his office to benefit someone at the center of deals that have enriched his family."

www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Binance Boosted Trump Family’s Crypto Company Ahead of Pardon for Its Billionaire Founder
The giant crypto exchange facilitated a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty’s stablecoin and built its technology. The clemency for Changpeng Zhao—the tycoon known as CZ—surprised some in the adminis...
www.wsj.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Banana republic shit.
Breaking news: The DOJ placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they filed a document in court that referred to the Jan. 6. attack on the U.S. Capitol as a “riot” carried out by a “mob,” two people familiar with the matter said.
Two U.S. prosecutors suspended after describing Jan. 6 attack as ‘mob’
The suspensions come in the case of a 2021 Capitol rioter who faces sentencing for unrelated weapons charges.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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FOLLOW THE MONEY: Billionaires and corporations with business in front of the Trump administration are coughing up millions to build Trump's BALLROOM.

What are these companies getting in return?

I'm pushing for answers.
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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The elites in this country are basically behaving like the kids at the end of Dead Poets Society who didn't stand on their desks.
October 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
FFS ..
EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin announces his agency is launching a major investigation into the right-wing conspiracies about chemtrails and weather manipulation to get to the bottom of it.
October 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Scientists say North Atlantic right whale population slowly increasing

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Scientists say North Atlantic right whale population slowly increasing
Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for the power of the people. Let's do this. 🍂
October 23, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Big news out of @climatecentral.org today! We've brought back NOAA's billion dollar disaster dataset!
Check out our interactive website and bookmark it because there's more to come!
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
October 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Reminiscin’ this’n that and havin’ such a good time. Oo-De-Lally, Oo-De-Lally golly what a day.
October 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...
Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike
It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.
www.huffpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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ICE deports Texas man—he was born on U.S. military base to father serving in Army.

He doesn't hold citizenship in any country—so just deported to Jamaica.

His birthright citizenship case was even brought before Supreme Court—but not taken up.

Jermaine Thomas has only ever lived in the U.S.
July 1, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/c...
Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the Clinton-era rule barring road construction and logging was outdated and “absurd.”
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Important to note that his was a breakthrough infection (i.e. he had been vaccinated). Rare, but much less rare given repeated exposures, which is what will happen if vax rates drop. His unvaccinated kids getting it, though, was a foregone conclusion.
“I feel like I’m dying”
“I feel like I’ve been lied to”

The words of an anti-vax chiropractor who become seriously ill with measles and spread it to his kids, who then also became seriously ill. All four kids were hospitalized.

You *were* lied to. And you wanted to believe that lie.
‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Here we go again..
​Trump Says the U.S. Has Completed Air Strikes on Iran — The Wall Street Journal
President adds three nuclear sites in Iran were attacked
apple.news
June 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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That rumbling you feel is Teddy Roosevelt rolling in his grave.
June 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The National Parks are in Donald's crosshairs now. It began with logging National Forests and now extends to eliminating National Monuments. Nothing is sacred.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Jun 11
A Justice Department legal opinion released Tuesday disavowed a 1938 determination that monuments created by previous presidents under the Antiquities Act can't be revoked.
Justice Department says Trump can cancel national monuments that protect landscapes
A Justice Department legal opinion released Tuesday disavowed a 1938 determination that monuments created by previous presidents under the Antiquities Act can't be revoked.
n.pr
June 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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One of the most spectacular tricks that the “wellness” grift has managed to pull off is convincing people that their industry is untainted by money. That they are all doing it out of their deep concern for their customers’ health.

Yet the global supplement industry alone is worth $177 billion.
June 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM