Mike Wiser: I also want to include "They want to get rid of weather forecasts". NOAA is kind of a big deal in many peoples' daily lives who don't realize it.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

tom nichols—of all people???—just made a good point: you have to talk about P2025 in simple real people terms. not policy wonk terms.

I also want to include "They want to get rid of weather forecasts". NOAA is kind of a big deal in many peoples' daily lives who don't realize it.

Yep! And Trump already signaled he’s cool with that! amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/10/...

Trump's pick to lead NOAA pushed for privatizing weather dataamp.cnn.com President Donald Trump's nominee to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration knows the agency very well -- he's the chief executive officer of a company that has fought over the use of...

Yeah as someone who lives near the Gulf Coast, I'm a pretty big fan of knowing when the hurricanes are coming.

I use #NOAA sites daily for best Global Weather.. they even to more important shit like Space Weather www.swpc.noaa.gov

Homepage | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Centerwww.swpc.noaa.gov

And midwesterners love weather talk

They don't want NOAA to go away, they want to be able to charge people money to see the data. Data we've paid taxes to collect, they want to sell it to us.

That in itself is terrifying

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