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Alaskans and others out West who got grant money to address erosion from climate change and smoke from wildfires have had their grants pulled. The woman who seems to think her grant shouldn’t be pulled because her town voted for Trump makes me a little nauseated.

We all know MAGA voted for Trump to punish the libs. Ooops.

https://wapo.st/41VhFiE

Alaskans and others out West who got grant money to address erosion from climate change and smoke from wildfires have had their grants pulled. The woman who seems to think her grant shouldn’t be pulled because her town voted for Trump makes me a little nauseated.

There aren't enough NOAA staff left to survey the tornado damage.

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Anonymous wrote:My cousin is the HR Director for a WV school system. She posted on social media that Friday was the first time in her almost 15-year career in the WV public school system that they sent kids home without their weekend food donation bags. Due to various contracts being canceled, the amount of food that the school district received wasn't enough to cover the number of food insecure students they have needing food to take home each weekend.

She said they are very, very worried about what will happen when summer break happens in a few weeks (they get out in May). Their school district participates (participated?) in a summer food program where food insecure families signed up to receive weekly food sent directly to their homes. Last summer they shipped 2200 boxes of food every other week. The summer food program was federally funded through a contract that no longer exists.

She ended her social media post with: Please, if anyone has any contacts working with the Trump team or in the White House, please share this so it gets in front of the right eyes. We need Trump to fix this mistake.

Mistake. They think it was a mistake. They think this was an honest mistake that he'll quickly fix if he only knew about it.

HOW CAN THEY STILL BE SO BLIND & CLUELESS? It's mindboggling.

Apparently the whole state of West Virginia is heavily dependent on federal aid, and Trump won by a landslide.

All I know is that I am not donating on cent to West Virginia or any other state that voted Republican in this election.

I’m not suggesting that you should donate money to West Virginians, but keep in mind that almost none of the schoolchildren were eligible to vote and they’re the ones going hungry.

There are plenty of people who are going hungry in my blue state right close by me. And plenty of Democrats living in red states who need help with their medical bills.

I'm sorry West Virginia parents don't care if their kids get food or not.

It is now up to West Virginains and coal.mine owners and conservatives to make up the difference.

You know there are some West Virginians who voted for Harris and some people in your blue state who voted for Trump, right?

Yes. But it's what 70% of West Virginians voted for. I'm sure there are a few good people in West Virginia who will try to help. Republican evangelicals should really get on that.

You can not assume Democrats and progressive Christians will be able to turn this around this time.

If conservatives are upset by all Trump's "accomplishments" then they need to start providing charity to the children and women and farmers and whoever else is effected.

Plenty of evangelicals and conservative Catholics need to start practicing what they preach. Democrats and the federal government aren't able to save you this time.

Unfortunately I don't see them stepping up to help. Evangelicals are now saying that empathy is a sin. I wish I were kidding, but this idea is even being touted by Al Mohler, the head of the Southern Baptist Seminary.

That’s cold, but unsurprising. I grew up in a rural, ultra red area in a red state. The Southern Baptist churches were some of the more liberal churches in my area (as opposed to Church of Christ, Pentecostal, Old Regular Baptist, etc). This is another example of them twisting rules and logic to suit what the men in charge want regardless of the results for anyone else.

I think this is partly an overreaction to the culture wars (i.e. they don't want to be tolerant) but it also stems from neo-Calvinist theological views infiltrating evangelical churches lately. Because if your God predestines people to go to hell, maybe he also predestines them to be poor, etc. And who are you to go against God's will?

Honestly, the ones I know/knew would justify whatever they wanted to do by saying god led them, spoke to them, or sent them a sign. Again, can’t argue with God’s will. But they didn’t even try to have a particular philosophy, they’d just believe what was convenient at the time. If you compared them to calvinists they’d be offended and say they’re Christians.

I grew up in an evangelical church and I do know what you mean. But extreme Calvinism has had a resurgence in the US in the last 20 years and has influenced the more arminian evangelical churches, and now the hateful Calvinist god appears to be propped up by zealous evangelicals who want to convert the government instead of individuals. It's a match made in hell, and the result is what's happening in the US right now. This article pretty much sums up the Calvinist views on helping the poor:

"Calvin’s universe was ruled by a petulant and vindictive deity, one who toyed with his followers by designating a select group of them to share in his divine bounty, only to leave them in the dark as to who these lucky chosen might be. The faithful were, then, left to fret and worry whether they were in God’s good graces and, more importantly, whether they would share the common and inescapable fate of eternal damnation that was the certain end of the non-elect. How, then, was one to know if they were one of the elect? The answer: material success. If a businessman’s coffers were fat and he was benefiting from what appeared to be a shrewd and effective business acumen, then surely it is evidence that the Almighty had smiled on him, welcoming him, perhaps, into the Divine’s august company. This, of course, is a ready-made philosophy for any self-flattering elite – no matter what the century – anxious to justify their good fortune as divinely mandated."

https://truthout.org/articles/calvin-and-jobs-why-the-right-hates-but-still-needs-social-welfare/

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Anonymous wrote:Big week for West Virginians FAFO:

This combined with the impending gutting of NIOSH will decimate the more affluent Fairmont and Morgantown areas of WV for sure.

https://www.wboy.com/news/monongalia/significant-downsizing-happening-at-niosh-in-morgantown-umwa/

I went to undergrad and grad school at WVU. I lived in Morgantown for many years. If you had a job with WVU, Mylan, NIOSH, or KeyLogic, you were golden. You were making very good money for WV. The Mylan plant closure in 2021 was a big hit to Morgantown and it still hasn't fully recovered from the loss of those 1500 jobs. Sure, NIOSH will only cut around 180-190 of the 600 jobs in Morgantown, but that's a lot of jobs in a place where the average salary is only barely $50k and they were making much, much more than that. There aren't many employers there who can pay the salaries they were earning. It's a big hit. Monongalia was the closest county in WV to go for Harris at 47% of the vote to Trump's 51%, but still, 51% of the county wanted Trump and his policies, so that's what they get.

Those 51% were definitely jealous of the NIOSH salaries and benefits. People in WV absolutely vote out of spite.

Spite is the MAGA raison d’etre.

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Anonymous wrote:My cousin is the HR Director for a WV school system. She posted on social media that Friday was the first time in her almost 15-year career in the WV public school system that they sent kids home without their weekend food donation bags. Due to various contracts being canceled, the amount of food that the school district received wasn't enough to cover the number of food insecure students they have needing food to take home each weekend.

She said they are very, very worried about what will happen when summer break happens in a few weeks (they get out in May). Their school district participates (participated?) in a summer food program where food insecure families signed up to receive weekly food sent directly to their homes. Last summer they shipped 2200 boxes of food every other week. The summer food program was federally funded through a contract that no longer exists.

She ended her social media post with: Please, if anyone has any contacts working with the Trump team or in the White House, please share this so it gets in front of the right eyes. We need Trump to fix this mistake.

Mistake. They think it was a mistake. They think this was an honest mistake that he'll quickly fix if he only knew about it.

HOW CAN THEY STILL BE SO BLIND & CLUELESS? It's mindboggling.

Apparently the whole state of West Virginia is heavily dependent on federal aid, and Trump won by a landslide.

All I know is that I am not donating on cent to West Virginia or any other state that voted Republican in this election.

I’m not suggesting that you should donate money to West Virginians, but keep in mind that almost none of the schoolchildren were eligible to vote and they’re the ones going hungry.

There are plenty of people who are going hungry in my blue state right close by me. And plenty of Democrats living in red states who need help with their medical bills.

I'm sorry West Virginia parents don't care if their kids get food or not.

It is now up to West Virginains and coal.mine owners and conservatives to make up the difference.

You know there are some West Virginians who voted for Harris and some people in your blue state who voted for Trump, right?

Yes. But it's what 70% of West Virginians voted for. I'm sure there are a few good people in West Virginia who will try to help. Republican evangelicals should really get on that.

You can not assume Democrats and progressive Christians will be able to turn this around this time.

If conservatives are upset by all Trump's "accomplishments" then they need to start providing charity to the children and women and farmers and whoever else is effected.

Plenty of evangelicals and conservative Catholics need to start practicing what they preach. Democrats and the federal government aren't able to save you this time.

Unfortunately I don't see them stepping up to help. Evangelicals are now saying that empathy is a sin. I wish I were kidding, but this idea is even being touted by Al Mohler, the head of the Southern Baptist Seminary.

That’s cold, but unsurprising. I grew up in a rural, ultra red area in a red state. The Southern Baptist churches were some of the more liberal churches in my area (as opposed to Church of Christ, Pentecostal, Old Regular Baptist, etc). This is another example of them twisting rules and logic to suit what the men in charge want regardless of the results for anyone else.

I think this is partly an overreaction to the culture wars (i.e. they don't want to be tolerant) but it also stems from neo-Calvinist theological views infiltrating evangelical churches lately. Because if your God predestines people to go to hell, maybe he also predestines them to be poor, etc. And who are you to go against God's will?

Honestly, the ones I know/knew would justify whatever they wanted to do by saying god led them, spoke to them, or sent them a sign. Again, can’t argue with God’s will. But they didn’t even try to have a particular philosophy, they’d just believe what was convenient at the time. If you compared them to calvinists they’d be offended and say they’re Christians.

Anonymous wrote:“Danny Lemoi took a daily dose of veterinary-grade ivermectin and told his thousands of followers to give the drug to children. He died of a common side effect of the medication.

Just before 7 am on March 3, Danny Lemoi posted an update in his hugely popular pro-ivermectin Telegram group, Dirt Road Discussions: “HAPPY FRIDAY ALL YOU POISONOUS HORSE PASTE EATING SURVIVORS !!!”

Hours later, Lemoi was dead.”
https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/03/14/an-ivermectin-influencer-died-now-his-followers-are-worried-about-their-own-severe-symptoms/

This happened in 2023, though. And he'd been taking Ivermectin since 2012 to treat Lyme disease (on his own, not prescribed by a doctor), so he wasn't someone who started during COVID. But yes, he died from a side effect of using the drug (enlarged heart).

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Anonymous wrote:My cousin is the HR Director for a WV school system. She posted on social media that Friday was the first time in her almost 15-year career in the WV public school system that they sent kids home without their weekend food donation bags. Due to various contracts being canceled, the amount of food that the school district received wasn't enough to cover the number of food insecure students they have needing food to take home each weekend.

She said they are very, very worried about what will happen when summer break happens in a few weeks (they get out in May). Their school district participates (participated?) in a summer food program where food insecure families signed up to receive weekly food sent directly to their homes. Last summer they shipped 2200 boxes of food every other week. The summer food program was federally funded through a contract that no longer exists.

She ended her social media post with: Please, if anyone has any contacts working with the Trump team or in the White House, please share this so it gets in front of the right eyes. We need Trump to fix this mistake.

Mistake. They think it was a mistake. They think this was an honest mistake that he'll quickly fix if he only knew about it.

HOW CAN THEY STILL BE SO BLIND & CLUELESS? It's mindboggling.

Apparently the whole state of West Virginia is heavily dependent on federal aid, and Trump won by a landslide.

All I know is that I am not donating on cent to West Virginia or any other state that voted Republican in this election.

I’m not suggesting that you should donate money to West Virginians, but keep in mind that almost none of the schoolchildren were eligible to vote and they’re the ones going hungry.

There are plenty of people who are going hungry in my blue state right close by me. And plenty of Democrats living in red states who need help with their medical bills.

I'm sorry West Virginia parents don't care if their kids get food or not.

It is now up to West Virginains and coal.mine owners and conservatives to make up the difference.

You know there are some West Virginians who voted for Harris and some people in your blue state who voted for Trump, right?

Yes. But it's what 70% of West Virginians voted for. I'm sure there are a few good people in West Virginia who will try to help. Republican evangelicals should really get on that.

You can not assume Democrats and progressive Christians will be able to turn this around this time.

If conservatives are upset by all Trump's "accomplishments" then they need to start providing charity to the children and women and farmers and whoever else is effected.

Plenty of evangelicals and conservative Catholics need to start practicing what they preach. Democrats and the federal government aren't able to save you this time.

Unfortunately I don't see them stepping up to help. Evangelicals are now saying that empathy is a sin. I wish I were kidding, but this idea is even being touted by Al Mohler, the head of the Southern Baptist Seminary.

That’s cold, but unsurprising. I grew up in a rural, ultra red area in a red state. The Southern Baptist churches were some of the more liberal churches in my area (as opposed to Church of Christ, Pentecostal, Old Regular Baptist, etc). This is another example of them twisting rules and logic to suit what the men in charge want regardless of the results for anyone else.

I think this is partly an overreaction to the culture wars (i.e. they don't want to be tolerant) but it also stems from neo-Calvinist theological views infiltrating evangelical churches lately. Because if your God predestines people to go to hell, maybe he also predestines them to be poor, etc. And who are you to go against God's will?

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Anonymous wrote:My cousin is the HR Director for a WV school system. She posted on social media that Friday was the first time in her almost 15-year career in the WV public school system that they sent kids home without their weekend food donation bags. Due to various contracts being canceled, the amount of food that the school district received wasn't enough to cover the number of food insecure students they have needing food to take home each weekend.

She said they are very, very worried about what will happen when summer break happens in a few weeks (they get out in May). Their school district participates (participated?) in a summer food program where food insecure families signed up to receive weekly food sent directly to their homes. Last summer they shipped 2200 boxes of food every other week. The summer food program was federally funded through a contract that no longer exists.

She ended her social media post with: Please, if anyone has any contacts working with the Trump team or in the White House, please share this so it gets in front of the right eyes. We need Trump to fix this mistake.

Mistake. They think it was a mistake. They think this was an honest mistake that he'll quickly fix if he only knew about it.

HOW CAN THEY STILL BE SO BLIND & CLUELESS? It's mindboggling.

Apparently the whole state of West Virginia is heavily dependent on federal aid, and Trump won by a landslide.

All I know is that I am not donating on cent to West Virginia or any other state that voted Republican in this election.

Most of the smart people left WVa long ago.

Yes, they got their free, quality educations from WVU and left the state to make good money elsewhere. It's been a HUGE problem for the state for many years now. They've done several studies to find out why and it all boils down to better pay elsewhere and better quality of life outside of the state.

https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/wvu-teams-up-with-marshall-to-keep-graduates-in-west-virginia/

https://wvmetronews.com/2023/08/30/university-leaders-want-more-college-graduates-staying-in-the-mountain-state-for-work/

I remember when I was there, I had a work-study position under a professor whose team was studying what was different between BYU and WVU. Both states offered free to nearly free college educations to their students (LDS members for BYU & students who passed a state test in WV-I forget the name of the program), but unlike WV, nearly 60% of BYU's graduates stay in the state of UT after graduation and contribute to the UT economy. In WV, 72% of college graduates leave the state after graduation and contribute to the economies of other states.

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Anonymous wrote:My cousin is the HR Director for a WV school system. She posted on social media that Friday was the first time in her almost 15-year career in the WV public school system that they sent kids home without their weekend food donation bags. Due to various contracts being canceled, the amount of food that the school district received wasn't enough to cover the number of food insecure students they have needing food to take home each weekend.

She said they are very, very worried about what will happen when summer break happens in a few weeks (they get out in May). Their school district participates (participated?) in a summer food program where food insecure families signed up to receive weekly food sent directly to their homes. Last summer they shipped 2200 boxes of food every other week. The summer food program was federally funded through a contract that no longer exists.

She ended her social media post with: Please, if anyone has any contacts working with the Trump team or in the White House, please share this so it gets in front of the right eyes. We need Trump to fix this mistake.

Mistake. They think it was a mistake. They think this was an honest mistake that he'll quickly fix if he only knew about it.

HOW CAN THEY STILL BE SO BLIND & CLUELESS? It's mindboggling.

Apparently the whole state of West Virginia is heavily dependent on federal aid, and Trump won by a landslide.

All I know is that I am not donating on cent to West Virginia or any other state that voted Republican in this election.

I’m not suggesting that you should donate money to West Virginians, but keep in mind that almost none of the schoolchildren were eligible to vote and they’re the ones going hungry.

There are plenty of people who are going hungry in my blue state right close by me. And plenty of Democrats living in red states who need help with their medical bills.

I'm sorry West Virginia parents don't care if their kids get food or not.

It is now up to West Virginains and coal.mine owners and conservatives to make up the difference.

You know there are some West Virginians who voted for Harris and some people in your blue state who voted for Trump, right?

Yes. But it's what 70% of West Virginians voted for. I'm sure there are a few good people in West Virginia who will try to help. Republican evangelicals should really get on that.

You can not assume Democrats and progressive Christians will be able to turn this around this time.

If conservatives are upset by all Trump's "accomplishments" then they need to start providing charity to the children and women and farmers and whoever else is effected.

Plenty of evangelicals and conservative Catholics need to start practicing what they preach. Democrats and the federal government aren't able to save you this time.

Unfortunately I don't see them stepping up to help. Evangelicals are now saying that empathy is a sin. I wish I were kidding, but this idea is even being touted by Al Mohler, the head of the Southern Baptist Seminary.

That’s cold, but unsurprising. I grew up in a rural, ultra red area in a red state. The Southern Baptist churches were some of the more liberal churches in my area (as opposed to Church of Christ, Pentecostal, Old Regular Baptist, etc). This is another example of them twisting rules and logic to suit what the men in charge want regardless of the results for anyone else.

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Anonymous wrote:My cousin is the HR Director for a WV school system. She posted on social media that Friday was the first time in her almost 15-year career in the WV public school system that they sent kids home without their weekend food donation bags. Due to various contracts being canceled, the amount of food that the school district received wasn't enough to cover the number of food insecure students they have needing food to take home each weekend.

She said they are very, very worried about what will happen when summer break happens in a few weeks (they get out in May). Their school district participates (participated?) in a summer food program where food insecure families signed up to receive weekly food sent directly to their homes. Last summer they shipped 2200 boxes of food every other week. The summer food program was federally funded through a contract that no longer exists.

She ended her social media post with: Please, if anyone has any contacts working with the Trump team or in the White House, please share this so it gets in front of the right eyes. We need Trump to fix this mistake.

Mistake. They think it was a mistake. They think this was an honest mistake that he'll quickly fix if he only knew about it.

HOW CAN THEY STILL BE SO BLIND & CLUELESS? It's mindboggling.

Apparently the whole state of West Virginia is heavily dependent on federal aid, and Trump won by a landslide.

All I know is that I am not donating on cent to West Virginia or any other state that voted Republican in this election.

I’m not suggesting that you should donate money to West Virginians, but keep in mind that almost none of the schoolchildren were eligible to vote and they’re the ones going hungry.

There are plenty of people who are going hungry in my blue state right close by me. And plenty of Democrats living in red states who need help with their medical bills.

I'm sorry West Virginia parents don't care if their kids get food or not.

It is now up to West Virginains and coal.mine owners and conservatives to make up the difference.

You know there are some West Virginians who voted for Harris and some people in your blue state who voted for Trump, right?

Yes. But it's what 70% of West Virginians voted for. I'm sure there are a few good people in West Virginia who will try to help. Republican evangelicals should really get on that.

You can not assume Democrats and progressive Christians will be able to turn this around this time.

If conservatives are upset by all Trump's "accomplishments" then they need to start providing charity to the children and women and farmers and whoever else is effected.

Plenty of evangelicals and conservative Catholics need to start practicing what they preach. Democrats and the federal government aren't able to save you this time.

Unfortunately I don't see them stepping up to help. Evangelicals are now saying that empathy is a sin. I wish I were kidding, but this idea is even being touted by Al Mohler, the head of the Southern Baptist Seminary.

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Anonymous wrote:Big week for West Virginians FAFO:

This combined with the impending gutting of NIOSH will decimate the more affluent Fairmont and Morgantown areas of WV for sure.

https://www.wboy.com/news/monongalia/significant-downsizing-happening-at-niosh-in-morgantown-umwa/

I went to undergrad and grad school at WVU. I lived in Morgantown for many years. If you had a job with WVU, Mylan, NIOSH, or KeyLogic, you were golden. You were making very good money for WV. The Mylan plant closure in 2021 was a big hit to Morgantown and it still hasn't fully recovered from the loss of those 1500 jobs. Sure, NIOSH will only cut around 180-190 of the 600 jobs in Morgantown, but that's a lot of jobs in a place where the average salary is only barely $50k and they were making much, much more than that. There aren't many employers there who can pay the salaries they were earning. It's a big hit. Monongalia was the closest county in WV to go for Harris at 47% of the vote to Trump's 51%, but still, 51% of the county wanted Trump and his policies, so that's what they get.

Those 51% were definitely jealous of the NIOSH salaries and benefits. People in WV absolutely vote out of spite.

Anonymous wrote:Big week for West Virginians FAFO:

This combined with the impending gutting of NIOSH will decimate the more affluent Fairmont and Morgantown areas of WV for sure.

https://www.wboy.com/news/monongalia/significant-downsizing-happening-at-niosh-in-morgantown-umwa/

I went to undergrad and grad school at WVU. I lived in Morgantown for many years. If you had a job with WVU, Mylan, NIOSH, or KeyLogic, you were golden. You were making very good money for WV. The Mylan plant closure in 2021 was a big hit to Morgantown and it still hasn't fully recovered from the loss of those 1500 jobs. Sure, NIOSH will only cut around 180-190 of the 600 jobs in Morgantown, but that's a lot of jobs in a place where the average salary is only barely $50k and they were making much, much more than that. There aren't many employers there who can pay the salaries they were earning. It's a big hit. Monongalia was the closest county in WV to go for Harris at 47% of the vote to Trump's 51%, but still, 51% of the county wanted Trump and his policies, so that's what they get.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump stopping food aid to hurricane victims in eastern Tennessee
https://www.wate.com/news/local-news/usda-cancels-722k-food-shipment-to-second-harvest/

They didn’t think the farmers were going to be affected by the cuts! Idiots. Farmers get large handouts and always have.

The article says the recipients are low income individuals. That food is being cut for these people is still unfortunate.

All of these cuts are unfortunate. No one is happy about them. These are just examples of people who vote Trump and getting screwed.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Anonymous wrote:“Danny Lemoi took a daily dose of veterinary-grade ivermectin and told his thousands of followers to give the drug to children. He died of a common side effect of the medication.

Just before 7 am on March 3, Danny Lemoi posted an update in his hugely popular pro-ivermectin Telegram group, Dirt Road Discussions: “HAPPY FRIDAY ALL YOU POISONOUS HORSE PASTE EATING SURVIVORS !!!”

Hours later, Lemoi was dead.”
https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/03/14/an-ivermectin-influencer-died-now-his-followers-are-worried-about-their-own-severe-symptoms/

lol. Sorry.