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  • Project 2025 wants to disband NOAA and give its functions to Accuweather instead, directing taxpayer funding to a private company while also locking all weather data behind a paywall, so they get paid twice to provide the same info NOAA currently provides with a single payment (taxpayer funding). The Accuweather founder, Joel Myers, and his brother, Billy Lee Myers (unsuccessfully nominated by Trump to be the head of NOAA), are major Republican donors, but I’m sure that is completely coincidental.











  • “I’m pretty, ‘Fuck the government, and fuck everything that’s going on right now.’” She shared the sentiment with “middle fingers in the air,” the profile notes.

    Fuck which government? Federal, state, local? US? UK? China, Russia, Afghanistan? The very idea of government? You get more than three people in a group, and something that starts looking like government begins to emerge. Governments aren’t self-programmed AI robots (yet), they are groups of people. You need to be specific: “fuck insert name here”, or “fuck *particular policy.”