https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/noem-fema-restructure-eliminate-grants-00250610 Fema has less than 6 months to live...
I didn't. Stuck it out for my team, and to lower the risk of being replaced by a Nazi. Theres a site collecting public comment on fema service: https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...ces-with-fema-disaster-responses#open-comment I bet the comments will be curated to justify rescinding the EO for the council to review fema and moving fema missions to other agencies like SBA. . The red state lawmakers who would object will be pacified by the premise of more money and less oversight, and couldn't survive a staredown with Trump. Trump needs a distraction from the signal chat fiasco, and crucifying us seems to work just fine.
Wow... recent stats are showing airline flight bookings to the US from Canada are down 70%. That's honestly way more than I was expecting. https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/...e-united-states-plummet-by-an-astonishing-70/
Add in warnings about traveling to the US from other countries and tourism is going to collapse.Nice job MAGA. Edited for clarity
Whose liver is in worse shape, a child taking the HHS Secretary's measles advice, or the Secretary of Defense?
Our timing of our periodic Acadia National Park vacations was off by a couple of years. When we went in 2023 it was more crowded than I’ve ever seen it, and expensive. This is the year to go, but plans are already in place for the Keys, somewhere we’ve never been. Maine is really going to suffer without Canadian tourists.
The local news is beginning to fill with stories of US border town companies going under due to lack of Canadian border crossings. The general consensus seems to be "thoughts and prayers".
I was in Maine a few summers ago and was surprised by how much French I was hearing until I listened a little closer and realized it was all Quebecois. As someone who lives about an hour from the border, I will say that I have had exclusively neutral to positive experiences with Canadian border control and a surprising number of negative experiences with the Americans, despite being a citizen and always bringing my passport. Makes me a little concerned about future trips. I couldn’t fault people for wanting to avoid the risk of harassment, let alone all the tariffs and posturing and bullshit.
Hey everyone, y’all can relax now. Trump has assigned Elon to investigate the Signal Group Chat stuff, so it’ll all get sorted out soon enough.
New Executive Order: “PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS” https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1jjujdx/new_executive_order_preserving_and_protecting_the/ The new EO states intent to strictly enforce 2 U.S.C. 7 and 3 U.S.C. 1. It gives requires DHS/DOGE analysis of state voter registration lists, reporting of foreign nationals unlawfully registered to vote, cutting federal funding to states which don’t comply, and documentation of US Citizenship to be eligible for national mail in voter registration