Notices by Kim Perales (kimperales@toad.social)

#NSF staff were told Thurs that the agency’s🚨37 divisions—across all 8 directorate: being abolished & the# of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

NSF receives >40,000 proposals/yr, ~1/4 of which are funded. Div directors wield great authority over the outcome.

Last week, staff were briefed on a new process for vetting grant proposals that're found to be out of step with a presidential directive on DEI.
#Science #Research #Health #Firings #USPol https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-faces-radical-shake-officials-abolish-its-37-divisions

"These aren't deals. Britain didn't get a deal... Every C is getting a 10% tariff, &🚨if you wanna turn up for a photo op, you're allowed to get an asterisk next to that 10%."

We've found the $10B in promised plane purchases. As part of a long-run rpl plan, British Airways ordered 32 new planes from Boeing, & 21 new planes from its European rival, Airbus.

It's literally not in the AGT. There's a reason the WH didn't reveal the text."
-J Wolfers
#Tariffs #TrumpLies #USPol https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/business/british-airways-boeing.html

"I don't have anyone at home. They arrested my mom, my sister, & a 2-mo-old baby."

Worcester police & #ICE agents were seen on video detaining a mother & her teenage daughter, whose🚨face was slammed into the ground.

Aa lg crowd forming around the them as community members shout, "You're not supposed to work with ICE!"

A 16-yr-old girl, momentarily escaped from the police officers *seen chasing & restraining her on the ground as she screams desperately.

#Fascism #USPol
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/harrowing-video-shows-worcester-police-hold-girls-face-on-ground-during-ice-operation/3708641/

#Immigrants are a cornerstone of DC's food & svcs IDU In total, they account for 253K WKRs, making up ~36% of the WF in restaurants, hotels, & rel sectors across the metro area -incl 42K SE immigrant entrepreneurs.

IMM groups protected from deportation—such as DACA recipients, TPS holders, asylum seekers... hold ~35K positions within the IDU.

Recent #ICE I-9🚨inspections at prominent DC restaurants, heightening concerns within the local svc IDU.
#DHS #Deportations #USPol
https://migrantinsider.com/p/report-migrants-drive-washingtons

2 US officials tell CBS News the #TrumpRegime may soon start deporting migrants to Libya, expanding its mass deportation campaign to the troubled North African country.

The #deportations could start as early as this week, the officials said.

Libya is one of several far-flung nations the US govt has been asking to accept deportations of migrants from 3rd Cs.

This is unconscionable,💔but given the inhumane treatment in #CECOT in SLV .

#SCOTUS #Rights #Cruelty #USPol

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-deportation-deals-with-angola-equatorial-guinea/

St Dept:🚨warns agst traveling to Libya “due to crime, terrorism....” Conds in deten CENs: “no access to IMM cts or #dueprocess. #TrumpRegime: deported ppl to Panama were detained in a hotel for several days before being taken to a camp near the jungle.

US officials deported migrants to Costa Rica -a lawsuit filed agst the C argued that the #deportations & subsequent detention in Costa Rica “could cause irreparable harm” for a grp of children sent to the C.

#Evil #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/politics/trump-libya-migrants.html

"A very substantive reporting from on how costs of raising children are really about to get much steeper from tariffs, and why companies can't just pick up and relocate their manufacturing of those products."
-R Cohen

>70% of U.S. baby gear is made in China, & that isn’t likely to change any time soon.

#Tariffs #China #TradeWar #TrumpRegime #Trumpcession #Austerity #Stagflation #USPol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/07/car-seats-cribs-shortages-tariffs/

"A lot of ppl who're #disabled, they came to the fed govt bc it was a model employer for disabled indivs -now they've nowhere else to go."

Goidel, a fed WKR in FL, w autism, knew what he could be losing when he got laid off from his job as an equal employ opp specialist at the IRS.

Bc of his autism diagnosis, he'd been able to secure his spot as one of >500K disabled WKRs in the fed govt under Sch A -allows fed agencies to bypass the trad hiring-.
#DisabityRIghts #USPol https://apnews.com/article/disabled-federal-workers-layoffs-trump-77528e68350b62e52bab3455f0a87591

The Trump admin's 2026 fiscal budget request to Congress eliminates major fed funding for #TBI #research & education, potentially undercutting efforts to address head injuries in sports, esp at the high school & youth levels.

The WH's proposed budget includes eliminating the #CDC umbrella agency resp for TBI res, incl the $8.25M marked for brain injury res & public ED about the dangers of concussions. CDC: facing $3.59B in budget cuts.
#Health #HHS #GOPDeathCult #USPol https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/45009922/white-house-seeks-cut-funding-brain-injury-research

"The Trump administration is set to garnish the wages of the 5.3 million federal student loan borrowers in default in just a few months."

Meanwhile, it began this week alerting around 195,000 defaulted borrowers that their federal benefits will be subject to garnishment in 30 days."

There are potentially, millions more resisters, as of today.

#Austerity #Trumpcession #Stagflation #Economy #TrumpRegime #StudentLoans #Education #Resist #USPol https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/how-soon-defaulted-student-loan-borrowers-may-face-collections.html

FEMA has for yrs deployed staff to travel door-to-door in disaster areas.
Ending it, 1 #FEMA WKR says, will “severely hamper our ability to reach vulnerable ppl -usually focused on: most impacted/vulnerable communities -may be: elderly, ppl w disabilities or lack of TRANSP."

We're paying taxes, but our fed govt doesn't care if we live or die, esp if we're POC, disabled, elderly... #TrumpRegime: prefers us dead *more💰for others, esp white donors.
#Eugenics #Sadism #USPol https://www.wired.com/story/fema-ending-door-to-door-canvassing-disaster-areas/

In 2020, WHO: 3.4% of COVID patients died.

The actual mortality rate, Trump said, “is way under 1%.”

Trump lied & covered up the deaths, as he does now, e.g.:

">12 data-gathering programs that🚨track deaths & disease appear to have been eliminated in the layoffs & proposed budget cuts in the Trump admin's 1st 100 days *leaves Americans in the dark."

"An exhibit🚨honoring victims of #gunviolence is taken down at #ATF HQs."

#HHS #CDC #Data #USPol
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/cuts-eliminated-dozen-us-government-health-tracking-programs-121444192

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/04/nx-s1-5386668/atf-trump-administration-gun-violence-memorial

"This is quite consequential.

China, Japan, South Korea & the countries of ASEAN🚨just issued a joint statement in which they take a unified stance against "escalating trade protectionism", a clear reference to Trump's tariffs.

They write that their common "policy priority" is "to reinforce long-term resilience" of the region, which given the policies they detail clearly means building financial & trade infrastructure that aims at reducing their exposure to the US."
-A Bertrand
#Tariffs #USPol

“Very impt follow up on the #Signal story. The clone version of Signal WH officials are using is so insecure: already: hacked.”
-J Marshall

“The hack shows that an app gathering messages of the highest ranking officials in the govt -Waltz’s chats on an app incl recipients that appear to be Rubio, Gabbard & Vance contained serious vulnerabilities that showed a hacker to trivially access the archived chats of some ppl who used the same tool.”
#Traitors #Incompetence #USPol
https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/

“China is eating the tariffs.

Trump downplayed recession concerns, saying, “anything can happen, demonstrating a nonchalant attitude about a severe economic downturn. He insisted that the price of eggs “were down 87% under his admin…”

“When you look at the stmts that were edited out of Trump’s MTP interview that aired on TV, it is pretty rich that he’s suing 60 Mins. over edits to Harris.”
-R Filipkowski

#DelusionalDon #Stagflation #Tariffs #Trumpcession #Resist #USPol
https://meidasnews.com/news/what-trump-said-off-air-nbc-cuts-reveal-key-claims-on-tariffs-bezos-and-recession

“WaPo has discovered that🚨Rubio lied about #Venezuela not being willing to accept so-called "gang members." It only stopped accepting deportees AFTER Trump's illegal Alien Enemies Act proclamation asserted that the US was at war with VE & could seize its assets.”
-D Bier

Rubio has become as mendacious & ruthless as Trump.

“The admin rounded up some of the Venezuelans 2 days before the flights took off, pressing forward even as Ven…”

#Rubio #AEA #Deportations #USPol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/04/trump-el-salvador-alien-enemies-act-venezuelans/

“The discretionary budget request from the WH is very cleverly written to anger (& create a smokescreen)

Comm Dev Block Grants
"hey, Greenwich CT doesn't need $4M for a swimming pool!"
So…let's🚨cut $3.3B from the program that helped do things like cover the repair of 15K homes in TX after Harv…

#NIH
"hey, we don't like gain-of-function #research!"
[let's cut $18B in #health res: cancer…

EPA
"hey, too much env justic work!"
[so...let's cut all hazardous waste site cleanup?”
#Science #USPol

"Trump's #tariffs drove Hudson's Bay Co into bankruptcy.

Up to 2,000 US supply chain workers will lose jobs—costing🚨116.12M/yr to US #economy -"put the nail in the coffin" of retailer open since 1670 *already facing FIN struggles due to loss of consumer conf & uncertainty in the economy.

2025 bankruptcy: will cause 9,364 direct job losses & 18,000 indirect job losses in CAN. Costing the CAN economy $1.4B/yr incl lost wages, reduced consumer spending +supplier losses."
-LT History
#ETTD #USPol

"DC Circuit splits, 2-1, to allow Trump admin to proceed with mass layoffs & funding halts impacting #VOA, RFE, RL & others. Katsas (Trump)/Rao (Trump) maj. Pillard (Obama) dissents. Another en banc motion looms?"
-J Gerstein

Judge Pillard dissented Sat, writing: decision is tantamount to “silencing VOA for the foreseeable future.”

But even when employees were looking at a RTW, some Q whether or not the agency will be able to return to its previous state.
#Courts #USPol
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/03/voice-of-america-resume-broadcasting-00325193

“Rep Crockett says that, in private, her Republican colleagues are freaking out over MAGA.”

How long will it take for them to halt the tariffs, given the hemorrhaging that will occur later this month?

#Tariffs #Trumpcession #Resist #GeneralStrike #USPol

https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/1918743632867172835?s=46&t=3MQhP75RsT5H41TO_EXYmA