Notices by Kim Perales (kimperales@toad.social)

The announcement was written as if it had come from the NIH Office of the Dir. No one at the #NIH had seen the text until that Fri PM. “None of us had anything to do with that doc -but: memo was dressed up in a way -intended to make it look like a🚨 homegrown NIH initiative.

Memo announced: new policy for many univs/insts., would hamstring scientific research -NIH planned to cap so-called indirect costs funded by grants to 15%.

#TrumpMusk & enablers: LIE & CHEAT.

#USPol https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/nih-indirect-cost-memo-hhs/681736/

Just about all of Trump’s policies, home/abroad: rapidly destroying -FND of American power. Main beneficiary will be the Xi *planning for the moment when DC stumbles -allows #China to replace: US the world’s superpower.

#Trump is choosing to retreat even though the US has its adversaries on the back foot. Pres Biden’s foreign policy was working. By supporting UA’s defense against RU’s invasion, Biden weakened Moscow so severely -Putin had to turn to NK for help.
#USPol
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/foreign-policy-mistake-china/681732/

"We’re already seeing fed workers speaking out & planning to run for office. Dems should lift these people up & direct them to resources.

If you’re a federal worker considering running for office, hit up Amanda Litman & Run for something. They’ll help you get started.
-A Baba

"A Reddit thread of terminated federal employees considering running for office."
-A Litman

A month into the #TrumpMusk regime & some Americans are planning to run for office to ensure Rs never gain power again.

#USPol

Trump Defies Court Order:

"The Trump admin has just told a federal judge in a court filing that it will not comply with the court's order to resume funding for USAID and State Department foreign assistance."
-B Allen Ebr

We're in the midst of a Constitutional Crisis, & people around the world are ill & dying because the Trump admin is withholding the aid from #USAID.

#USPol #SCOTUS #Constitution #Trump #HumanitarianAid #HumanitarianCrisis #Starvation #FoodScarcity #HumanRights

“Court pushback against Trump executive actions reaches intelligence community as judge halts firing of CIA & ODNI personnel involved in DEI. Judge Anthony Trenga (GWBush appointee) grants administrative stay blocking dismissals of 11 officials.”
-J Gerstein

“We’re very gratified by the judge deciding to do an administrative stay for a week, basically while the govt answered some of the questions.
-ATTY K Carroll

#Trump #USPol #DEI

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/judge-halts-firing-dei-personnel-00204803

The measles outbreak in rural West Texas has grown to 58 cases as of Tuesday, and eight people in neighboring eastern New Mexico also have been diagnosed with measles.

New Mexico health department spokesman Robert Nott said Tuesday that the agency hadn’t “identified any direct contact” between cases in its state and cases in Texas.

Measles is a highly contagious disease.

#PublicHealth #GOPDeathCult #Measles #TrumpMusk #USPol #AntiVax #RFKJr #HHS #CDC
https://apnews.com/article/measles-texas-new-mexico-mmr-outbreak-vaccines-408371700e3ab548777bf0354e586549

OP: Hornfeldt, snr A/P captain: MAX FATAL FLAW -problem is re to sequence of events following a bird strike (failure of 1 of the fan blades INDEP of a bird strike) to the engines fitted on the #737MAX.

When these mechanisms don’t work -can result in a crash. Bird remains were found in the engines of the Boeing 737 in SK in Dec... Problem: oil within the failed engine, where it's routed -ends up—the AC system.

#TrumpMusk has began the mass firing of #FAA staff...

#USPol https://www.donotpanic.news/p/boeing-is-covering-up-another-fatal

DHS prepares to fire 100s of snr ldrs.

Career employees at high levels of may be removed from agencies to remove employees *admin sees as potentially standing in the way of goals the Trump admin.

#DHS, incl: #CPB #ICE, is the primary agency tasked with enforcing #immigration law. Trump has relied heavily on CBP to secure the border & #deportations of undoc. #immigrants.

As if CPB/ICE aren't abusive enough already. *CBP no longer uses body cams.

#Abuse #Cruelty #USPol
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/18/department-of-homeland-security-preparing-to-fire-hundreds-of-senior-leaders-this-week.html

"Not Just Airborne: New Study: Highly Pathogenic #BirdFlu Can Travel Nearly 5 Miles Via 'Windborne' Route"
-C Turnhill

What's happening -since #publichealth has gone AWOL:

Worst flu season in 15 yrs. Not just number of cases but number of *severe* cases -closer to a human-to-human transmission outbreak.

Measles: resurgent thanks to low vaccination rates.

TB: making a comeback.

Many norovirus outbreaks.

Covid rates still way too high to ignore-.

#USPol #Health #H5N1 https://tryangregory.substack.com/p/how-to-be-and-make-others-sick-less

'Traumatized my kids': Furious mom slams Trump as she's caught up in mass federal layoffs. She got her termination notice on Valentine’s Day, & broke down sobbing in front of her two young children.

“It read like a copy-&-post letter that didn’t provide any specifics,”-an employee of the Dept of Education, of her termination notice.

#USPol #DOGE #Musk #Trump #Injustice

https://www.rawstory.com/doge-2671164882/

"Keir Starmer declares tonight he is willing to put British troops on the ground in Ukraine to enforce any peace deal.

Significant change in position. First time he’s explicitly said so. Comes in
Telegraph article before crunch Paris meeting."

#USPol #Trump #Putin #Russia #NATO #UK #Ukraine https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/02/16/keir-starmer-ready-to-put-british-troops-in-ukraine/

"The Admin announced they're almost completely cutting outreach that helps ppl enroll in #ACA coverage.

Instead of lowering costs & helping Americans, they’re making it harder for ppl to get #healthcare.
-Sen Klobuchar

"Musk, your doge minions just fired me/colleagues at CMMI. We're working on improving maternal health outcomes AT LOWER COSTS so that less pregnant women would die in this county -thought that'd fit nicely into your agenda? I work on #Medicaid."

#USPol
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-16/steve-bannon-us-hospitals-join-gop-rebellion-over-medicaid-cuts

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨”US Health Department Layoffs Expand to Medicare, FDA.”

#USPol #Healthcare #Medicare #FDA https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-16/us-health-department-layoffs-expand-to-medicare-fda

Americans may face power outages & blackouts. There’s an existential threat, but the media isn’t declaring the #coup as catastrophic. It’s incumbent for those who understand the peril, to warn the public.

“Trump just fired 88 employees at the Western Area Power Admin. Combined with Elon’s “buyout,” we could be looking at a 20% reduction in their workforce, crippling the western #powergrid & leading to blackouts & power outages.”
-Sen Heinrich

#USPol #DOGE #Musk #Trump

https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/trump-and-musk-are-playing-russian-roulette-with-the-northwest-power-grid/

"There's almost no way a single human could get their head around or keep track of all the functions Musk/Trump are KILLING -in tracking health threats, vet care, scientific research, foreign aid, combating election interference, nuclear sec...(+ppl) -seems it's targeted, destroy as much as possibly can as fast as possible."
L Rozen

Journalists are beginning to understand -the #TrumpMusk🚨regime is on pre-planned mission to destroy the fed govt. Please amplify their sinister plans.

#USPol #Coup

"Pres Trump just fired:

• 90 physicians
• 350 nurses
• at least 25 nurse practitioners
• nearly 20 dentists
• 85+ pharmacists
• 45 lab techs

Employed by the Indian Health Svc to provide HC. This is going to have dangerous consequences for our Indigenous brothers & sisters."
-Sen Luján

Snr officials: ~5,200 ppl on probat. employment -recent hires -across agencies incl. #NIH #CDC will be fired🚨Fri. CDC: ~1,300 WKRs...

#Racism #Trump #PublicHealth #USPol #HHS
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/federal-employee-layoffs-at-hhs-cdc-on-first-day-robert-kennedy-health-secretary/

"Pres. Trump signed an EO that would strip schools of federal aid if they mandate COVID vaccines, a pool report said — a largely symbolic move considering that no states currently require them."

Disagree, #Covid is still spreading in the US, & children can become very ill, & some die. It may be necessary to mandate vaccinations in the future.

#GOPDeathCult #Vaccines #USPol #CDC #HHS #FDA https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-bars-federal-funding-schools-covid-vaccine-mandates/story?id=118836337

‘America’s gulag’:🚨#Trump’s #GITMO ploy tars migrants as terrorists.

HR DISASTER: Migrants sent into Gitmo black hole despite no proof of crime.

Noem claims the US is shipping ‘criminal alien murderers’ to #GITMO but: #immigrants’ true stories remain enigmatic

Handcuffed & shackled -men appear in govt propaganda photos being herded in MIL cargo planes. Authorities have yet to provide proof of those claims -doubts grow if they've committed any crime.

#USPol #DueProcess https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/trump-guantanamo-bay-migrants

Good: "OK Governor Stitt, says he'll stop plan to collect kids' immigration status.

He opposes a proposed rule mandating children provide citizenship proof when enrolling in public school & replaced 3 Board of Education members this week who approved it."

#Immigrants #USPol #Oklahoma

https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-immigration-schools-kevin-stitt-ryan-walters-ff55d7d2b61410cae933c3872b4b2393

CRACKDOWN: Trump admin: makes it easier to deputize loc LE +use fed LE -for the deportation effort.

Officers from ICE/ATF waited in-around the trailer park in which their target lived for him to leave for work. They're increasingly picking up🚨 "collaterals” w/o legal status, most-w/o #dueprocess.

Deporting undoc. #immigrants *aren't a danger to society, never: charged with a crime: heinous & uneconomic, & takes LE away from pursuing serious crimes.
#USPol #Deportations https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-migration-ice/