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My home state of California recently survived Hurricane Hilary, who brought an earthquake with her as a housewarming present. 18 years ago today, another famous tropical storm was promoted to ...
by jck
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on Wed Aug 23, 2023 at 05:30 PM PDT
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At least three Venezuelan migrants who were recruited for Ron DeSantis’ political stunt using children and adults as human props are either already in Florida, or are on their way to Florida, as part of Hurricane Ian recovery, Miami Herald reports....
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Fri Oct 21, 2022 at 08:48 AM PDT
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Recent reports have indicated that migrants are making their way south from New York to Florida to find work aiding in Hurricane Ian cleanup and rebuilding, mirroring recovery efforts from disasters of past years. As previously noted here at Daily Kos,...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Tue Oct 11, 2022 at 08:51 AM PDT
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Hurricane Ian has hit Florida hard and is officially the deadliest hurricane in the continental United States since Hurricane Katrina. At least 119 people are confirmed dead. But Hurricane Ian has another disturbing similarity to Hurricane Katrina: the...
by VPSReports
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on Sun Oct 09, 2022 at 07:09 AM PDT
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Just weeks after Venezuelan migrants were shipped from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard to boost Ron DeSantis’ 2024 prospects, some Venezuelan migrants in New York City are reportedly being recruited to Florida to aid in Hurricane Ian cleanup. “The...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Tue Oct 04, 2022 at 08:26 AM PDT
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The meme above showed up in my social media feed the other day, in anticipation of what Hurricane Ian was going to do to Florida. Yesterday Governor Ron DeSantis was getting some front-page attention on The NY Times electronic edition with an article...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Sep 30, 2022 at 05:30 AM PDT
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The bold policy proposals that make up the Build Back Better (BBB) plan President Biden and Democratic leaders moving through both houses of Congress right now have already won the support of most ...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sat Sep 25, 2021 at 06:29 AM PDT
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by Bareerah Zafar
This story was originally published at Prism .
In August 2005, Moe Haghighi was in the water.
Hurricane Katrina had finished making landfall and the rain ...
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Thu Sep 09, 2021 at 08:15 AM PDT
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Testing the provenance or source(s) of an image must be the first intuition for reception of public objects. Even if previous guy is corpulent we shouldn’t doubt our evidence that he’s #FatNixon. Media framing is a key element of message analysis in an...
by annieli
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on Sun Sep 05, 2021 at 07:26 PM PDT
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First published in The Paradise Progressive Analysis, History September 3, 2021 9 Minutes Sept. 3, 2021 by David Silverberg Hurricane Ida shrieked onto the Louisiana coast on Sunday, Aug. 29, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina made a similar...
by Silmedia2
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on Sat Sep 04, 2021 at 08:42 AM PDT
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Today is the 79th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor — which is reason enough to pause and think of the Americans who died for their country that day. And while we honor the dead let us also use this Day of Infamy to give context to the...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Mon Dec 07, 2020 at 01:33 PM PST
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It wasn't incompetence. Adviser Limbaugh: "Why couldn't the coronavirus get Donald Trump reelected?” A few people in media and recently Senator Chris Murphy have finally suggested Trump wants the pandemic to get worse to help his reelection chances. Media is not doing its job. Trump’s intentions, plans, and actions were always very easy to...
by certainot
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on Fri Sep 11, 2020 at 07:41 AM PDT
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Joe Biden: With two hurricanes expected to hit New Orleans on Monday and Wednesday, do you expect President Trump to do anything? The Weather Channel says New Orleans could flood. Joe, you could send out the word to your networks to recruit buses...
by Will Driscoll
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on Sat Aug 22, 2020 at 06:00 PM PDT
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You may have seen a recent Daily Kos post from the always-on point Walter Einenkel, where a batshi*t crazy-as$ nutball—and believe me, that doesn’t come close to capturing the depths of this woman’s Trumpian ignorance—talked about how the teachers’...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sun Jul 19, 2020 at 11:28 AM PDT
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The presidency of George W. Bush was bookended by two catastrophic national crises: the 9/11 attacks, and the financial crash. In between, the Bush Administration catastrophically botched the invasion of Iraq, particularly its aftermath, and the...
by GrafZeppelin127
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on Mon Aug 24, 2020 at 08:00 AM PDT
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This special report from Reuters is mind-boggling — or would be if we hadn’t already seen gobsmacking levels of stupid from “All the best people” with whom Trump surrounds himself. Special Report: Former Labradoodle breeder was tapped to lead U.S....
by xaxnar
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on Thu Apr 23, 2020 at 08:51 AM PDT
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Ran across this piece from 2018 in my reading: And so, it’s long past time to stop giving credence to conservatism as a whole, to treat it as the failed intellectual exercise it has proven to be. Look where it’s gotten us—endless war, mass...
by grape crush
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on Wed Apr 08, 2020 at 02:11 PM PDT
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There are a lot of numbers going around about the coronavirus pandemic. In a time of uncertainty, everyone wants answers. It’s one way of feeling like they have control. It’s not always possible to have good answers though. New Scientist has a...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Apr 06, 2020 at 02:23 PM PDT
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A day before massive storm Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, I read the report that NOAA had issued about how dangerous Katrina would be to the United States. It was the scariest weather report I had ever seen: 000 WWUS74 KLIX 281550 NPWLIX...
by StevenJoseph
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on Fri Mar 20, 2020 at 08:16 AM PDT
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Guest-host Nicole Sandler with actor/filmmaker Harry Shearer on NOLA disaster past (Katrina), present (Barry) and future; WH correspondent Brian Karem on his Rose Garden troll scuffle...
It's Nicole Sandler here, guest hosting the BradCast on...
by TheBradBlog
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on Fri Jul 12, 2019 at 04:20 PM PDT
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