The death toll in the tragic flash floods that ravaged Texas Hill Country continues to rise, and the National Weather Service has taken some heat from officials who say the organization didn’t prepare them for the enormity of the storm. Meteorologists who talked to @WIRED paint a much different picture:

https://flip.it/Gc6dlO

#Science #Weather #CampMystic #Texas

Comme j'ai dit... (Et comme j'ai aussi dit, par coïncidence... www.inquirer.com/soccer/clair...)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gj2bc6vdtaw5mfhzhzdxr3j3/post/3ltajdyh44225

And so, it begins...

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"Jaroslav Skuta, a clarinetist from the Czech Republic, was scheduled to play four concerts - Saturday in Wilber, Sunday in Omaha, Monday in Lincoln and Tuesday in Fremont.

“For hours I was in their custody – phone and all devices confiscated, very rude bullying interrogation, threatening me with jail time. After (a) couple hours of this, they ultimately ordered to send me back home to Prague,” Skuta wrote.

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https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/nebraska-concerts-canceled-after-czech-musician-denied-entry-into-us/

#ice #czech #immigration #nebr

Brazilian table tennis star denied entry to US due to having competed in Cuba

#CubaTravelBan #BrazilianAthlete #TableTennis #WTTUSsmash #USVisaDenial

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/05/hugo-calderano-misses-wtt-us-smash-over-visa-issue

Elon Musk wanted Texas legislators to create new crimes so people who fly drones or interfere with operations at SpaceX can be arrested. And he wanted to change who controlled the highway and public beach near SpaceX’s site so he can launch his rockets according to his timeline.

He got them all.

Read the full story: https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-texas-legislature-laws-spacex-tesla?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#ElonMusk #SpaceX #Texas #Law #Business

#Weather #Climate #Meteorology picks (cont):

➡️ @W_Lucht - Climate scientist, professor of Sustainability Science

➡️ @Ruth_Mottram - Climate scientist at Danish Meteorological Inst, Arctic, Greenland, Antarctic

➡️ @ZLabe - Climate scientist at NOAA & Princeton, climate patterns, Arctic

➡️ @AlaskaWx - Climate specialist at International Arctic Research Center at University of Alaska Fairbanks

➡️ @wolfgangcramer - Ecologist & geographer at CNRS in France, works with IPCC & MedECC

3/6

What Can Improve Democracy? Ideas from people in 24 countries, in their own words www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/...

What Can Improve Democracy?

This last minute freeze of funds will cripple summer classes and camps scheduled to begin soon, leaving poor working parents without options. Shameful. Illegal. Wrong.

"Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status."

Ursula K. Le Guin

"What were you doing the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp in the Everglades?

No one can say, years from now, that nobody knew about the camp, or that no one pushed back."

~ Melissa Gira Grant

#Trump #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #AlligatorAlcatraz #ConcentrationCamp
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https://newrepublic.com/article/197508/alligator-alcatraz-trump-concentration-camp

The Reality My Medicaid Patients Face
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/medicaid-cuts-work-requirements-patients/683437/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Stories @all-stories-TheAtlantic

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You wouldn’t vacation in Dachau in 1935. Don’t vacation in Florida in 2025. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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A reminder that when Trump says DHS funded the concentration camp in Florida, DHS says it hasn’t given Florida a penny https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/florida-no-federal-funds-alligator-alcatraz-rcna216758

Good thing Marines and thousands of ICE officers are deployed in US cities to beat up Americans. Otherwise maybe they could deploy them to search for any of the 2-dozen missing kids in Texas, or to help witj flood relief there. Of course, the Texas guard is also deployed to the border and cities in Texas, so they are tired and will be suffering from equipment wear and tear, right when they are needed for their typical mission.

"Terminated #NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/nih-cuts-grant-restoration-complicated-by-limits-to-court-order-trump-dei-restrictions/
(#paywalled)

PS: It's not that #Trump officials feel more lenient toward blue-state scientists. It's that blue-state Attorneys General fight back in court. Sometimes resistance works.

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

No matter where you live, there’s likely an Indivisible group near you that’s organizing the pro-democracy majority to reclaim its power.

Find your local group: https://indivisible.org/groups

Or let us help connect you with your nearest organizers: https://indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/organize_on_your_home_turf?source=mastodon

"After severe flooding in non-evacuated areas in Texas has left at least 24 dead with dozens more missing, including several young girls at a summer camp, Texas officials are blaming their failure to act on a faulty forecast by Donald Trump’s new National Weather Service gutted by cuts to their operating budget and most experienced personnel."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #weather #Texas #flooding #NWS
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/texas-officials-blame-agency-gutted

Trump DOJ Drops Cases Against Top MS-13 Leaders (Andrew C. McCarthy/National Review)

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/07/trump-doj-drops-cases-against-top-ms-13-leaders/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250705/p14#a250705p14

Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/critical-read-about-the-bbb-federalism-and-the-future-of-american-democracy
http://www.memeorandum.com/250705/p15#a250705p15

Diddy's trial is more proof the legal system can't handle domestic violence | Arwa Mahdawi

#TakeVAWSeriously #DomesticViolence #TraumaAwareness #ArwaMahdawi #PublicOpinionFail

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/05/diddy-trial-domestic-violence