Greg Palast @gregpalast.bsky.social

6 hours ago

Trump says he's going to eliminate FEMA by December. His fantasy is, ultimately, to privatize emergency planning. Been there. Done that. The privatization of emergency evacuation led to over a thousand Americans floating face down in New Orleans in 2005. www.gregpalast.com/his-arm-slid...

Trump Plan to Kill FEMA Threatens to Drown Small Town

Twenty years ago this month, Coast Guardsman Patrick was one of the first responders sent in after hurricane Katrina drowned Gulfport and New Orleans.  He told me about recovering the bloated bodies o...

Greg Palast @gregpalast.bsky.social

1 day ago

20-years ago, Coast Guardsman Kevin Patrick was one of the first responders sent in after hurricane Katrina drowned New Orleans. He told me about recovering bloated bodies from the water, and after Trump announced the impending elimination of FEMA, Patrick shares his fears as head of a small town.

“His arm slid off like a chicken wing.”

Trump Plan to Kill FEMA Threatens to Drown Small Town

Greg Palast @gregpalast.bsky.social

2 days ago

Watch this 1-hour special—then take swimming lessons! gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/all-washed...

All Washed Away: Trump drowns FEMA—Palast investigates

Watch this 1-hour special…then take swimming lessons.

Greg Palast @gregpalast.bsky.social

2 days ago

All Washed Away: A Tale of Floods, Fraud and Fatalities

As Trump’s gutting of #FEMA takes disaster capitalism to a whole new level, Palast connects drownings in Texas and New Orleans to the privatization—and briberization—of emergency planning

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