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I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.

What you saw was treason What you saw was treason What you saw was treason What you saw was treason What you saw was treason What you saw was treason What you saw was treason What you saw was treason Trump selling out you and America to Russia in the Oval Office was TREASON!

The U.S. expects allegiance no matter what it does to its people. My family was once imprisoned for our ethnicity. Today, they’re coming for new groups. I refuse to watch the cycle repeat. My loyalty is to my family, not to a country that never protected us.

This is remarkable. The last of 8 patients who tested positive for Ebola Sudan has been discharged. Now the 42 day count down to this outbreak being officially declared over is on. Only 1 fatality is a remarkable feat.🤞 Kudos to front line responders in #Uganda www.independent.co.uk/news/ebola-u...

Uganda discharges the last Ebola patients. No new deaths from the contagious virus reported

Uganda health authorities say they discharged the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola

independent.co.uk

That’s it. That’s the last straw! Can’t paper over this any more. It just sucks for the environment. First they came for the straws but it quickly became a slippery sip after that. Paper straws were litter-ally blown away. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump signs executive order on plastic drinking straws

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging the U.S. government and consumers to purchase plastic drinking straws.

reuters.com

Do I have this right? Elon Musk - the guy in charge of preventing wasteful spending - dropped $40M on a Super Bowl ad? We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.