“Emmitsburg Mayor Frank Davis voted for Donald Trump in hopes he would cut federal spending. Now Davis hopes those cuts don’t include the permanent cancellation of classes at the National Fire Academy, which is part of the town’s identity and helps drive its economy. Davis is also a chief at Emmitsburg’s firehouse, known as the Vigilant Hose Company.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5351764/trump-cuts-national-fire-academy-maryland-emmitsburg-fema-federal-spending

Trump killed the Fema training academy. It’s not coming back.

  • modifierEnglish
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    7 days ago

    No gas at all. Pumping the brakes in fact. Forgetting a link happens, and they were quick to address it, which is why I was just gently pushing back on their minimization of the need for a link.

    Forgetting a link is innocent, the thought process the suggests that an image alone can be informative, and that a link might be in some way redundant; in this age that is insidious and should be called out before it takes hold. You’re welcome to feel I’m overreacting, but I will politely disagree with you.

    This, truth, isn’t going to get any easier any time soon, and folks who care about it need to look out for each other with accountability.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      the thought process the suggests that an image alone can be informative,

      But it wasn’t an image alone. If it was I’d 100% understand a strong rebuke. But I included the entire paragraph headline of the article that had all the information needed to verify the story.

      The link itself is only a convience because you should verify the content against multiple sources. It’s the content that’s important, and I posted that.