Today in Politics, Bulletin 164. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics.

Republican congressional candidate in Georgia weighs in.

We are finally starting to get some posts from Republicans after the deadly storm in Texas.

Rural areas hit hardest by catastrophic storms are the same areas now in danger of losing their hospitals after Trump’s Medicaid cuts just passed.

He represents Texas. And today he’s talking about a random dude who burned a flag. Because that’s what Texas elected officials should be focused on today.

When experts warned for months that the NWS “is being destroyed” by Trump’s personnel cuts, Howard Lutnick assured Congress that forecasting won’t be affected. Now TX officials are blaming a faulty forecast by NWS for the deadly impact of a storm.

The people in Texas voted for government services controlled by Donald Trump and Greg Abbott. That is exactly what they getting.

When you have an entire political movement like MAGA who has sneering contempt for experts who have spent decades in a profession - like weather forecasters - and the need for govt to use those experts to save lives, the results of that too often are that many people die.

After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

Cool, cool. While he was dancing there are dozens of missing people including children in a major natural disaster in Texas that he hasn’t said a word about. Party on.

RT @FPWellman: When do we start asking if the massive destruction to the National Weather Service and NOAA is how massive flash floods came….

Congress abdicated its role as a separate and independent branch of government on January 20 while also relinquishing all oversight responsibility, so it’s entirely appropriate for Johnson to show that he has surrendered his gavel to the executive.

While the rest of the world races ahead with clean, renewable energy technology and engineering, the dipshit who mythologizes the high-tariff, monopolistic robber-baron, no regulations era has the US going all-in on coal.

Melania’s face as Trump rambles incoherently today.

Quite a festive Independence Day address for the kids in attendance. Very moving. Soaring rhetoric. Incredible message. Poetic really. 21st century Lincoln.

They just keep accidentally falling out of windows in Putin’s paradise.

RT @patriottakes: Trump Serves Reheated Hamburgers at White House July 4th Party. The burgers were pre-cooked the day before .

The NYT covered Trump’s event. But they appear to be the only mainstream news outlet in America that didn’t consider Trump using the slur “shylocks” worth mentioning.