Puerto Rico drops climate lawsuit after DoJ sues states to block threats to big oil https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/02/puerto-rico-climate-lawsuit-trump #Trumpadministration #Oilandgascompanies #HurricaneMaria #Climatecrisis #Environment #PuertoRico #USpolitics #Law(US) #USnews #Law
#HurricaneMaria
San Juan, Puerto Rico, aftermath of Hurricane Maria #sanjuan #puertorico #devastation #hurricanemaria #photography #eastcoastkin
‘Setting us up for catastrophe’: Trump suggests paring back federal disaster response agency https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/trump-fema-natural-disasters #Trumpadministration #Naturaldisasters #HurricaneKatrina #HurricaneMaria #Extremeweather #DonaldTrump #Hurricanes #USpolitics #Wildfires #USnews
phillycaller.com/index.php/po...
New Year's Eve: Massive Power Outage Strikes Puerto Rico
#PuertoRicoBlackout #NewYearsEve #PowerOutage #CostaSur #Guayanilla #Electricity #LumaEnergy #Infrastructure #HurricaneMaria #Recovery #Restoration #2025 #NoPower
New Year's Eve: Massive Power ...
On Puerto Rico and TFG (links at end)
An official statement from Radical Elders:
At the Trump rally in Madison Square Garden this past Sunday, October 27, the comedian who opened the event made outrageous statements including calling Puerto Rico a “garbage island”. What makes this act of racist aggression all the worse is that the rally was held on the 50th anniversary of the Day of Solidarity with the Independence of Puerto Rico event at that same Madison Square Garden. It was the largest demonstration in favor of Puerto Rican independence in this country’s history and it filled the 20,000 seat Garden with diverse people....
(NBC 2021): New probe confirms Trump officials blocked Puerto Rico from receiving hurricane aid
The Trump administration also obstructed an investigation looking into why it was depriving the U.S. territory of congressionally approved funds, the report found.
Puerto Rico a year after Hurricane Maria (2018) Trump’s Twitter Storm shows contempt for human rights. Read Amnesty International’s stories from the field.
https://radicalelders.net/2024/10/28/the-despicable-moment/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2018/09/puerto-rico-a-year-after-hurricane-maria/
@GottaLaff One of Randy Rainbow’s best, on this very topic. When it comes to mocking monsterous asshats, Randy is an absolute genius. But I’m ready for this one to stop being so relevant…
#RandyRainbow #HurricaneMaria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTosB6V_V24
via @profabelmendez :
The National Academies has released its report on the loss of the #AreciboObservatory .
"Failure Analysis of the Arecibo Observatory 305-Meter Telescope Collapse" - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26982/failure-analysis-of-the-arecibo-observatory-305-meter-telescope-collapse
Confirming the NASA analysis of the anchors holding the cables failing due to unexpected creep of zinc: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210017934
As well as outlining damage directly caused by #HurricaneMaria in 2017.
@tomiahonen
REMEMBER that T**** actually asked to "meet with the president of #PuertoRico" when he visited after #HurricaneMaria, questioning why it was "#America's responsibility" to rescue the decimated island "nation". 🤦♂️
He then slow-walked aid & relief efforts. It was 5 months before most of the power was restored (can you just imagine being w/o electricity for 5 months... particularly during a South Atlantic Summer?) 😵
EL CENTRO, Center for Puerto Rican Studies at #CUNY Hunter College also has an infographic PDF for Florida:
https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/app/uploads/2023/01/InDesign-Infographics_FL_PR.pdf
am including the image of the PDF linked here
notice how most of the Puerto Rican population in Florida live in the path of #HurricaneHelene and #HurricaneMilton.
most of them moved there after #HurricaneMaria devastated La Isla.
#PuertoRico, which is home to >3 million #American #citizens, …experienced significant outward migration to the mainland US after #HurricaneMaria ravaged the island territory in 2017.
#PuertoRicans who live on the island are not eligible to vote in presidential elections (the commonwealth does hold elections & award delegates to both Democratic & Republican primary candidates) despite being #US citizens.
#MAGA #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #intolerance #racism #hate
…#Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov #TimWalz, responded to the comedian’s comments.…
“People in #PuertoRico are #citizens. They pay tax & they #serve in the #military at almost a higher rate than anybody else,” Walz added, knocking #Trump for his response to #HurricaneMaria in 2017 — including a now-famous video clip of the then-president tossing paper towel rolls to #PuertoRicans seeking aid.
#MAGA #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #intolerance #racism #hate
APROPOS OF EVERYTHING:
if am pretty sure portorros will tip the scales to Harris after tonight's #Trump #nazi rally
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113382205663370780
let's not forget that #Florida, no thanks to #HurricaneMaria, is now home to 1.2 million puertorriqueños
from the horse's mouth at Census.gov:
"Ocho grupos hispanos con poblaciones de 1 millón o más en el 2020"
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/09/2020-census-dhc-a-hispanic-population-spanish.html
Bad Bunny supports Kamala Harris and shares campaign video on Puerto Rico https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/27/bad-bunny-supports-kamala-harris #USelections2024 #HurricaneMaria #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump #PuertoRico #USpolitics #Democrats #BadBunny #USnews #Music
Hurricane Maria, the deadliest storm to hit Puerto Rico, was seven years ago. In a new song, Bad Bunny blasts the political corruption and energy inequality of his native territory. It’s hot on the heels of other Puerto Rican artists supporting Donald Trump, who opposed disaster funding for the island after the hurricane when he was in power. @thexylom’s Angely Mercado analyzes the song, and Bad Bunny’s political advocacy.
#BadBunny #Music #LatinMusic #PuertoRico #HurricaneMaria #USElection #USPolitics #DonaldTrump #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
99.99% of the people who lost their houses won't. insurers have left Florida in droves and Pudding Fingers, like all neoliberal fascists, is giving free reign to financial predators. people are never going to recover from this in Florida.
BTW many of those people are #hurricaneMaría refugees from Puerto Rico. they're already streaming back to the island with nowhere to go after they left the carcasses of their houses and the banks swooped in and repossessed everything.
⬆️ @Eetschrijver @DemocracyMattersALot
>> #Marjorie Two Brain Cells totally agrees and hints Joe Biden has criminally neglected to "control the weather" 🙄
Who is going to remind #MTG that #Trump also criminally neglected to control #HurricaneMaria in 2017?
Not only did he criminally neglect to "control the weather," he also criminally withheld $20 billion in aid to the people suffering the devastation.
At least, #Biden promptly approved federal aid to affected region
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/22/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-trump-delayed-aid
As am seeing news that #California is suing oil companies for lying about #plastics #recycling; a reminder that the Commonwealth of (Estado Libre Asociado de) Puerto Rico just sued #ExxonMobil #BritishPetroleum #Chevron and other companies for unfair and deceptives practices that have caused devastating #ClimateCrisis effects like #HurricaneMaria
"Puerto Rico Files $1-Billion Climate Lawsuit against Oil Companies" | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/puerto-rico-files-usd1-billion-climate-lawsuit-against-oil-companies/
Trump calls Puerto Rico hurricane effort an 'unsung success' – here's the reality
Quantifying Sediment Deposition Volume In Vegetated Areas With UAV Data
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13122391 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #sediment #deposition #UAV #drone #drones #remotesensing #flooding #flood #debrisflow #DEM #elevation #extremeevents #naturalhazard #extremeweather #hydrometeorology #risk #hazard #massmovement #soil #erosion #engineeringgeology #geomorphology #geomorphometry #damage #economicloss #survey #costs #tropical #Dominica #landslide #HurricaneMaria #hurricane #rainfall #precipitation #flashflooding #hydrology #water #alluvialfan #river #channel #LiDAR #volumes #cleanup #floodlevel #DTM #model #modeling #vegetation #prediction
Huh. This is the first year since 2018 that September 20 rolled around and didn't kick off the liturgical #hurricane year in my mind. I just literally got on with things.
Maybe you *can* recover from trauma, at least a little.
I've often said I'm trying not to be that guy whose entire personality is that he got hit by a hurricane once, but now that I'm apparently focused on the moment it's almost an empty feeling. How odd.
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