{"id":15405,"date":"2025-06-03T18:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T01:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15405"},"modified":"2025-06-03T18:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T01:31:29","slug":"storm-warnings-bradcast-632025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15405","title":{"rendered":"Storm Warnings: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 6\/3\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_LongRoadGatheringStorm_060325.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Storm clouds continue to gather, even as there are fewer and fewer government scientists to warn us about what is actually coming. On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> we offer more than a few warnings of our own.  [<i>Audio link to full show follows below this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among our coverage today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t buy <b>Elon Musk<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/trump-administration\/elon-musk-trump-spending-tax-bill-disgusting-abomination-rcna210690\">pretend attack<\/a> today on <b>Donald Trump<\/b> and the <b>Republicans<\/b>&#8216; so-called &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill&#8221; as &#8220;a disgusting abomination&#8221;. Musk doesn&#8217;t really mean it. (He&#8217;s just trying to save his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/elon-musk-drug-use-ideology\/\">drug-addled<\/a> hide after the waste, fraud and abuse of his deadly, unlawful and wildly destructive DOGE scam.) But don&#8217;t let that keep you from enjoying the fireworks anyway!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Big kudos to <b>Miami&#8217;s NBC6<\/b> for featuring veteran South Florida meteorologists <b>John Morales<\/b>&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johnmoralestv.bsky.social\/post\/3lqo2siaanc2b\">chilling warning<\/a> about the &#8220;cuts, gutting and sledge hammer attack on science&#8221; by the Trump Administration and, specifically, to <b>NOAA<\/b> and the <b>National Weather Service<\/b> that, he explains, are already &#8220;degrading&#8221; the quality of forecasts as hurricane season is now under way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of hurricane season, Trump&#8217;s newly tapped, entirely inexperienced head of the <b>Federal Emergency Management Agency<\/b> &#8212; a military guy by the name of <b>David Richardson<\/b> and the fifth person to hold the position since Trump&#8217;s re- election &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02\/\">reportedly<\/a> told FEMA staffers on Monday that he had no idea there was such a thing as a hurricane season in the U.S. Following Reuters exclusive on that yesterday, a spokesperson from FEMA&#8217;s parent agency, <b>DHS<\/b>, claimed Richardson was just joking. But&#8230;was he really? If Trump&#8217;s newly sworn-in <b>Social Security<\/b> Administrator, <b>Frank Bisignano<\/b>, offers any <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/new-head-social-security-hired-wall-street-tells\/story?id=122075152\">hints<\/a>, the lack of knowledge of the people tapped to run these critical agencies may be far worse than you may think.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Some elections and democracy news today from overseas that is likely to have ramifications for the U.S. in various ways. In a closely divided election for President in <b>Poland<\/b> over the weekend, voters narrowly chose <b>Karol Nawrocki<\/b>, a rightwing historian and staunch nationalist. He will have veto power over Parliament, headed up, since 2023, by liberal Prime Minister <b>Donald Tusk<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In <b>The Netherlands<\/b>, ultra-right party leader, <b>Geert Wilders<\/b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/netherlands-wilders-coalition-withdraws-685e5ebe6b88313a0af68365fe741cd3#\">quit the governing coalition<\/a> in the Dutch Parliament today over his complaints that migration policies weren&#8217;t cruel enough. The stunning move has touched off a governing crisis until new elections can be held later this year. The nation&#8217;s liberal opposition party, however, seems to enjoying the fresh chaos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>One year to the day after <b>South Korea<\/b>&#8216;s conservative President stunned the nation by declaring martial law &#8212; before the move was undone just hours later &#8212; voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/asia\/south-korea-presidential-election-results-lee-jae-myung-rcna210547\">elected<\/a> liberal party leader <b>Lee Jae-myung<\/b> on Tuesday to be the nation&#8217;s new President. The disgraced former President, after facing impeachment charges, is currently standing trial on charges of insurrection, which is punishable by death or life in prison. Must be nice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen is here for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15404\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with predictions of a long, hot summer; <b>Canada<\/b>&#8216;s wildfire season off to an early and terrible start (and already affecting northern U.S. states); a village in <b>Switzerland<\/b> wiped off the map last week due to a glacier collapse, thanks to global warming; and the <b>Republican<\/b> plan to raise your dirty energy prices via their &#8220;Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221;&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_MuskLies-MoralesWeatherWarning-FEMAChief-ElectionsPoland-Netherlands-SK_060325.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-the-bradcast-w-brad-friedm-30973643\/\">iHeart<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storm clouds continue to gather, even as there are fewer and fewer government scientists to warn us about what is actually coming. On today&#8217;s BradCast we offer more than a few warnings of our own. [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.] Among our coverage today&#8230; Don&#8217;t buy Elon Musk&#8216;s pretend attack today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,89,675,500,543,138,513,479,1964,1736,548,883,323,1930,178,1590,477,23,1091,947,1730,300,666,959,983],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-canada","category-climate-change","category-corporate-media","category-dhs","category-donald-trump","category-election-2025","category-elon-musk","category-extreme-weather","category-fascism","category-fema","category-geert-wilders","category-impeachment","category-insurrection","category-kpfk","category-nbc","category-netherlands","category-noaa","category-poland","category-republicans","category-social-security","category-south-korea","category-switzerland"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15405"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=15405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}