Notices by Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified: (bicmay@med-mastodon.com)

“Those of us who served in the military couldn’t accept a cup of coffee and a doughnut at a contractor site because of the appearance of impropriety,” retired Air Force Colonel Moe Davis, who also worked as a military prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay, wrote on X. “Now Trump is taking a 747 airplane from the government of Qatar for his personal use … grift and corruption run amuck.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/trump-qatar-plane-reaction/682811/

#corruption #grift #gifts #ethics #emoluments #qatar #planes #hotels #crypto #USpol

"The head of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and a handful of teams at the agency had their layoff notices rescinded Tuesday, multiple officials say, and several worker safety programs that had been eliminated by layoffs last month are being restored."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-howard-niosh-restored-ahead-of-rfk-jr-hearing/

#PublicHealth #OccHealth #OccSafety #NIOSH #HHS #CDC

"The winner of NPR’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest is the Bay Area’s own Ruby Ibarra.

A research scientist and fiercely poetic lyricist raised in San Lorenzo, Ibarra raps in English alongside the Filipino languages of Tagalog and Bisaya. Her Tiny Desk Contest-winning track, 'Bakunawa,' was inspired by the dragon-like serpent of Philippine mythology."

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13976039/ruby-ibarra-npr-tiny-desk-contest-winner-bay-area

#music #entertainment #art #TinyDesk #concert #aapi #aanhpi #filipino #filipina

"The bill as approved by the Senate contains many provisions that legal experts say might spark a lawsuit challenging it on constitutional grounds. But the bill also says it cannot be challenged in state court, an 'outlandish, shocking' proposition, said Dallas attorney Charles Siegel."

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/12/texas-abortion-pill-bill-state-court/

#healthcare #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #PrescriptionDrugs #mifepristone #texas #txlege

"Several U.S. regional climate centers shut down Thursday — including those in the Midwest, Great Plains and South.

Those three centers are responsible for collecting weather data across 21 states, as well as sharing drought conditions and other online tools. But their operations ceased at midnight on Thursday due to a lapse in federal funding..."

https://www.stlpr.org/2025-04-18/regional-climate-centers-shut-down-abruptly

#PublicHealth #weather #climate #drought #temperatures #agriculture #farming #healthcare #transportation #NOAA #USpol

"Boulder Abortion Clinic is no longer scheduling patients at a time when Colorado is seeing an increase in abortions for people who travel from states where the procedure has been restricted. Dr. Warren Hern, who began providing abortions in Colorado more than 50 years ago, announced the closure in a post on the clinic’s website in which he thanked his staff for their courage."

https://coloradosun.com/2025/04/23/boulder-clinic-that-offered-abortions-in-later-pregnancy-closes-after-decades-of-targeted-threats/

#healthcare #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #colorado

Tran is now feeling both the “pressure of representing a community in a specific way,” and the struggle of continuing to work through her own internalized misogyny, racism and homophobia. But the actor wants “to live in a world where there is a generation after me that does not have any of that.”

https://www.them.us/story/kelly-marie-tran-the-wedding-banquet-queerness-relationship-rom-com-interview

#aapi #aanhpi #lgbtq #queer #entertainment #movies #films #racism #sexism #homophobia #discrimination

"It might sound odd to say that kids in high school have to learn the skills to sleep,” says Mansfield health teacher Tony Davis, who has incorporated a newly released sleep curriculum into a state-required high school health class. “But you’d be shocked how many just don’t know how to sleep.”

https://apnews.com/article/sleep-teenager-social-media-mental-health-73cbe76dd122e2acbd2ba1c6ae13c7f3

#PublicHealth #sleep #teenagers #adolescents #schools #MentalHealth #technology #colleges

"In the U.S., thousands of donated organs never reach the patients who need them.

CBS News found that last year, one in three kidneys recovered from deceased donors were never transplanted."

https://www.cbsnews.com/organdonors/

#healthcare #hospitals #transplants #OrganDonation #OrganTransplants #donors

"There was also not enough time for scientists to properly shut down the laboratories before they were locked out from their email systems and the building, two CDC officials said, with equipment still running and hazardous materials left unattended."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-cdc-labs-stds-hepatitis/

#PublicHealth #HHS #CDC #InfectiousDiseases #STI #chlamydia #gonorrhea #HIV #hepatitis #syphilis #laboratories #testing #surveillance #DOGE #USpol

"As Florida officials enable Trump’s mass deportation policies, lawmakers in the state are looking to children to take on some of the jobs that have typically been done by immigrants.

Making its way through the state Senate is a new law, Senate Bill 918, that aims to loosen child labor laws and allow teenagers to work overnight shifts."

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/florida-child-labor-law-sb-918-rcna198275

#PublicHealth #OccupationalSafety #ChildLabor #labor #work #children #florida #immigrant #immigration #Project2025

"Three weeks after U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner’s death and just over a month before the state’s next uniform election, Gov. Greg Abbott has not yet called a special election to fill the seat representing parts of Houston, a Democratic stronghold, in Congress."

About 773,000 Houstonians will have no representation in Congress for about a year 🤬

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/26/greg-abbott-sylverster-turner-democrat-special-election/

#USpol #texas #houston #HarrisCounty #voter #voting #elections #CivicEngagement #VoterSuppression

"After her husband was unexpectedly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a routine check-in, a Fountain Valley woman became a single mother overnight and worries the father of her toddler may be removed from the U.S."

https://abc7.com/post/vietnamese-father-husband-fountain-valley-resident-is-held-detention-center-being-detained-ice/16088116/

#aapi #aanhpi #immigrant #immigration #refugee #vietnamese #ICE #detention

“He took information that was publicly available but labor-intensive to compile, and did something nobody else was doing...I don’t know if he expected this second career to make him basically the world’s only credible public source on U.S. deportation flights, just as they were becoming part of one of the United States’ biggest national news stories.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/ice-flight-tracker-deportations/682226/

#immigrant #immigration #migrant #refugee #asylum #ICE #deportation #activism #advocacy #planes #aircraft #flights

"Chewing gum, whether natural or synthetic, contains plant-based or synthetic plastic polymers to enhance texture and flavor retention, making it a source of microplastics, explained the pilot study, which was presented at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego. And those microplastics can be ingested through saliva—with 94% released within the first eight minutes of chewing, they found."

https://fortune.com/well/2025/03/27/chewing-gum-microplastics-study/

#PublicHealth #gum #plastics #microplastics #environment

"Monarez has previously held several prominent positions within the U.S. government. She served as deputy director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), where she led initiatives in artificial intelligence and health technology. She has also held roles at the Department of Homeland Security and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy."

https://www.newsweek.com/who-dr-susan-monarez-donald-trumps-pick-lead-cdc-2049841

#PublicHealth #CDC #HHS #science #research #vaccines #immunizations #USpol

@dakira @GreenSkyOverMe

They also fought alongside the U.S. against the communists in the Vietnam War.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/the-heroic-sacrifice-of-the-hmong-and-montagnard-tribesmen-in-vietnam

"A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded in a rooming house surrounded by military guards."

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2025/03/14/south-milwaukee-woman-deported-to-laos-is-stranded-with-few-options/82369691007/

#aapi #aanhpi #hmong #laos #immigrant #immigration #refugee #deportation #ICE

"Former television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, may have significantly underpaid his Medicare and Social Security taxes from 2021 to 2023, according to a memo obtained by POLITICO."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13/oz-medicare-social-security-taxes-00228953

#healthcare #medicare #medicaid #SocialSecurity #taxes #USpol

"Below, hear empowering words from Stacey Abrams, the well-known author, politician, and voting-rights activist; Meena Harris, founder of Phenomenal Media; Amanda Nguyen, an astronaut and civil-rights activist who founded Rise; and Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund."

https://www.popsugar.com/identity/international-womens-day-2025-activists-49431057

#advocacy #activism #CivicEngagement #vote #voting #CivilRights #WomensHealth #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice