As noted by CNN, the Trump administration’s deactivation of the website tracking climatic-related disasters has been partially alleviated by Climate Central‘s initiative.
Note: In 2025$ (deflated by CPI). Source: ClimateCentral.org
Note that 2025 is registering far ahead of previous years so far.
Gotta wonder what other data the Administration is happy to “deep six”.
See here for last post on this subject, before the Administration terminated the NOAA website.
Off topic – No lo ger jist the facade. Looks like most of the East Wing is gone.
If I were writing a novel about the end if democracy, I might use the destruction of the Capitol as a metaphor. But obviously, that’s not what’s happening in reality, so we’re good, right?
The White House? Let’s see… In my novel, I might has a president build some structure that is a monument to himself. Maybe something that reflects the biography of the president; maybe a large, garish building devoted to entertainmet, a place where his enablers would gather to revel in his power. In the process, he’d tear down something that had stood a long time, part of the tradition that was coming to and end.
That’s how I’d write it, anyway.
White House says that demolishing the entire East Wing is routine modifications because Obama once had a basketball hoop installed on the edge of the tennis court.
Off topic – narco-terrorism as an excuse for state-sponsored terrorism:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/22/us/trump-news#trump-drug-boat-strike-colombia
Along with Venezuela and the Caribbean, it’s now also Colombia and the Pacific.
The first time the felon-in-chief murdered Colombian sailors was in the Caribbean, so it could have been meant for Venezuelans. Venezuela doesn’t have a Pacific coast, so now it’s clear this is an escalation to include Colombia.
Peobably not coincidentally, there is an effort underway to link Petro to Venezuela’s Maduro:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/alliance-us-dismantled-leftist-petro-100001154.html
So maybe regime change is the new black is Latin America. In response, Colombian President Petro has turned the tables, suggesting regime change in the U.S.
Petro is a “leftie” in the sense that he opposes right-wing paramilitaries and their political influence in Colombia. He and the felon-in-chief are having a spat, naturally, since right-wing paramilitaries are the sort of people the felon admires.
Murdering Colombians is what we do, along with tearing down the White House ’cause it’s a dump.