"It’s not clear the Trump administration intends to do that. Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting to select the strains of flu to be included in next season’s vaccines. This year’s flu season has been severe: according to NBC News health and medical reporter Berkeley Lovelace Jr., 86 children and 19,000 adults so far have died from the flu this year and 430,000 adults have been hospitalized."

#Musk #Trump #RFKJr #flu #vaccines #vaccination
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"Cuts from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have made it hard for the country to confront the bird flu that is sweeping the poultry industry and now infecting dairy herds, as well."

#Musk #Trump #RFKJr #DOGE #Texas #measles #vaccines #vaccination #destruction #healthcare #flu #BirdFlu #AvianFlu
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Doktor Zoom notes that Musk-Trump have eliminated funding for TB, polio, malaria, HIV, and nutrition programs:

"On top of everything else, The New York Times also reports (gift link) that funding was abruptly terminated Wednesday for a huge range of international health efforts, because America First and if the rest of the world doesn’t want pandemics, the rest of the world can pay to prevent them, we’re done, losers."

~ Doktor Zoom

#Musk #Trump #RFKJr #healthcare
/5

https://www.wonkette.com/p/rfk-jr-not-concerned-about-first

@wdlindsy
If this is not terrorism from an enrmy within, I cannot imagine whst would be. With all branches of Federal government and many state and local ones complicit, the only recourse is non- governmental rebellion.
A real, lasting, nationwide strike? Blue states blocking fed taxes, maybe closing airports?
Military coup? Can't believe I can even think that, but it is probably the quickest way to end this seige.

We face worse than COVID19, by far

"The Trump administration has its government-shrinking sights set on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where around 800 employees have been tapped for termination, according to two sources close to the agency."

~ Ella Nilsen and Tami Luhby

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #destruction #NOAA #weather #FederalGovernment #firings #workers
/6

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/politics/noaa-federal-workers-firings/index.html

"More layoffs are possible Friday, one of the sources said, potentially costing the weather, climate and environmental agency more than a thousand employees by the end of the week."

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #destruction #NOAA #weather #FederalGovernment #firings #workers
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"Don’t care about science or vaccines? The Social Security Administration is reportedly going to cut its staff in half. The Department of Housing and Urban Development is going to be cut by as much as 84 percent. Hundreds of workers who keep the power grid humming in the Pacific Northwest were fired before a scramble to rehire a few of them. The National Parks Service, the Internal Revenue Service, all hit hard."

~ Brian Barrett

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #SocialSecurity
/8

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-worse-than-you-think/

"Cutting 50% of staff is especially alarming because the [Social Security] agency is already substantially understaffed. Even as the population it serves has grown, its funding and staffing levels have been consistently dropping to a 50 year low. In other words, SSA staff are already doing more with less."

~ Pamela Herd and Don Moynihan

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #workers #SocialSecurity #SSA
/9

https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-is-trying-to-kill-social-security

"An SSA employee we spoke to, who we are not naming because of concern for retribution, said:

'They are effectively looking to dismantle SSA in a matter of months. With no study. No planning. No insider knowledge. Nothing.'"

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #workers #SocialSecurity #SSA
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"What Putin wants isn’t a gain of territory or anything like that. He just wants us gone. He wants us so weak and so fighting with each other and so, you know, fatally wounded that we don’t bother their ambitions anymore. He wants us sick. He wants us broke. He wants us stupid."

~ Greg Olear

#Musk #Trump #Putin #Russia #FederalGovernment #destruction #firings
/11

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-putins-rasputin-and-trumps

"He wants us fighting with each other. He wants us firing guns at each other. And he wants us isolated from the rest of the world and the rest of our allies. That’s what he wants. He’s said as much."

Olear thinks it's no accident that "everything [Musk-Trump are] doing is designed to make us weaker." Musk and Trump are colluding with Putin to accomplish this, he maintains.

#Musk #Trump #Putin #Russia #FederalGovernment #destruction #firings
/12

"The U.S. government is currently under the control of a deeply ignorant, vengeful megalomaniac with zero impulse control. And it’s not just Elon Musk: Trump shares the same characteristics."

And "having ignorant men with poor impulse control running things has to be bad for business."

~ Paul Krugman

#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #chaos #destruction #firings #economy
/13

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/surprise-chaos-is-bad-for-business

"Since returning to office, Donald Trump has swiftly reoriented US foreign policy around Russia’s best interests. …

Whenever Trump talks about Putin or Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, he does so in much warmer terms than he does with respect to democratic leaders like France’s Emmanuel Macron or Canada’s Justin Trudeau. It’s not a performance."

~ Stephen Robinson

#Musk #Trump #Putin #Russia #FederalGovernment #destruction #firings
/14

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-vance-munich-orwellian-free-speech

"He feels a genuine rapport with autocrats, dictators, and outright thugs. There’s no such connection with our European allies, who[m] he openly antagonizes."

#Musk #Trump #Putin #Russia #FederalGovernment #destruction #firings
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