As Heather Cox Richardson reports today, we now know that the day after the lethal floods occurred in Texas, Kristi Noem did not renew the contracts for four call center companies answering emergency calls for FEMA help — so that on July 6, FEMA answered only 35.8% of the calls it received and the following day, only 15.9%:

#Trump #Republicans #KristiNoem #Texas #FEMA
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July 12, 2025

On July 5, the day after the Texas floods hit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) received 3,027 calls from survivors and answered 3,018 of them, about 99.7%, according to Maxine Joselow of the New York Times.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

Lol, CNN thought it could go hard right and avoid the wrath of Trump, making the same mistake people always do with fascists and tyrants.

"Maybe this time standing with a violent thug who promises to harm my enemies will work out for us all, this time..."

(well done for telling the world about this app, btw Dogkiller...top minds there!/s )

#ICE #KristiNoem #Dogkiller #USPOL #Trump #CNN #ICEBLOCK

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FUCK NO

#Trump makes no secret of his desire to be added to #MountRushmore.

During his first term, Trump told [dog killer] #KristiNoem —then a US rep from #SouthDakota, now Trump’s Secy of DHS—that his “dream” was to be on Mount Rushmore. She later gave Trump a model w/ his…[ugly mug] on it.

[if anything, Trump should get an asterisk on the list of POTUS, like Sammy Sosa or Roger Clemens. Theirs for steroids, Trump’s for American mass hysteria].

nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0…

Should (or Could) Trump Be Added to Mount Rushmore?

Let’s review how we got here, and closely examine what the rock would allow.

^{John Branch (The New York Times)}

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

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#News #KristiNoem #DHS #Ethics #USPolitics #Government #Nonprofit

Kristi Noem Secretly Took Personal Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirements, experts say.

^ProPublica