Veteran meteorologist and hurricane expert John Morales breaks down in tears on an NBC Florida broadcast as he warns what's happening with Milton:

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@TomDB For sure.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Piousunyn Your final question is just the right question to ask. It sums the dynamic up well.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@KathyLK "When the racist and misogynist religious bigots have been entrenched for decades in 'poorly educated' states, what are we supposed to do?"

Yes, that's the question I ask myself over and over as one who lives in such a state. And I honestly can't say I have an answer. As someone whose family in this state has long been full of educators, I can say that the value my own family has long placed on education is just not shared by a lot of my fellow citizens — and I don't know why.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@KathyLK I wouldn't put it past DeSantis and his cronies to exert that kind of pressure, for sure.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Ironically, we cannot show Climate Central’s 'Climate Shift Index: Ocean' for Milton...b/ the data for that product comes from NOAA NCEI facility in Asheville, NC, which was severely affected by record flooding spawned by Hurricane Helene two weeks ago."

~ David Kurtz

#hurricane #Milton #Florida #Tampa #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #Republicans
/28

Trump Invokes The Ghastly Racist Trope Of Genetic Inferiority

INSIDE: Brett Kavanaugh ... Viktor Bout ... Elon Musk

(morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Put simply, Ecofascism is here.

Rather than address climate change as the existential threat it is, the Right will continue to deny its existence while shifting our reality as it takes place in real time. This is the same as financial crises, so-called 'immigration crises,' political crises, cultural crises, you name it."

~ Jared Yates Sexton

#hurricane #Milton #Florida #Tampa #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #Republicans
/29

ECOFASCISM IS HERE

Climate denialism was always leading us to one place: a disaster that would then be capitalized on by the deniers

(jaredyatessexton.substack.com)

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@wdlindsy No. This is dangerous pap. Eco fascists are openly aware of climate change (and pollution etc) and strike a populist pose to offer oversimplified solutions that the ignorant will think sound good but has little benefit and lays the hidden burden on the underprivileged, specifically the non-white in poor countries.

[osteopenia_powers@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy
Days after the other hurricane, he insisted no one could ever have predicted, I can’t wait for Tangerine Palpatine to say that no one could ever have predicted this one too!

[cavyherd@wandering.shop]

@wdlindsy

..."we hope"

[kentwillard@zirk.us]

@wdlindsy
Homer: Oh Lisa! There's no record of a hurricane ever hitting Springfield.
Lisa: Yes, but the records only go back to 1978 when the Hall of Records was mysteriously blown away.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"One of the jarring developments of the past few weeks of the campaign has been the sight of Republican officials begging their own to stop spreading lies that will directly harm the communities over which they preside."

~ Jonathan Weiler

#hurricane #Milton #Florida #Tampa #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #Republicans
/30

The pathological endgame

The hurricane of disinformation threatens to consume everyone in its path

(jonathanweiler.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@kentwillard I've just seen on social media the most astonishing lisst of reasons why we should all understand that "they" — the Democrats, and Biden and Harris, in particular — are "controlling" the weather right now. People's willingness to take flight from reality, sanity, reason, logic, facts, and truth right now is astonishing and frightening.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@cavyherd Yes, good caveat, for sure.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Osteopenia_Powers He's as drearily predictable as indigestion after a rich six-course banquet, isn't he?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Kierkegaanks It's not clear to me what you're calling pap – Sexton's ideas or the climate change denialism he's combating. What you say seems to me to describe exactly the point he wants to make.

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@wdlindsy ecofascism is an established term for a real genocidal movement and he’s faffing about confusing it with something else

That’s not to say denialism isn’t real or serious. But spreading possibly confused disinformation is dangerous

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Kierkegaanks I think we're seeing something very different in his essay — and I appreciate your sharing your viewpoint.

[kentwillard@zirk.us]

@wdlindsy They've passed Jim Jones and Branch Davidian paranoia and entered Heaven's Gate insanity.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@kentwillard Well-stated. Yes. It's a total cult.