Notices by Georgiann Baldino (obtener@mastodon.world)

#FDA employee learned she'd been let go by email at 5 a.m.

Her role was to release info about meds that people needed to stay safe.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/thousands-of-health-department-workers-laid-off-by-trump-admin-doge.html?__source=androidappshare

Her salary was not paid by tax dollars; it was covered by user fees.

#TrumpRegime and Russian assets

#DeptOfEducation #uspolitics

"eligible New Hampshire #voters experienced significant roadblocks to participating in the state’s first elections since it enacted a law that requires a birth certificate, passport, or other proof of citizenship to register to vote. The mess provided a preview of the steep hurdles prospective voters across the country will face if Congress passes the #SAVEAct, a bill that will imperil Americans’ ability to participate in elections."

MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/save-act-voter-id-new-hampshire-elections-rcna197153
#USPolitics #TrumpRegime

"The #MAGA scare: #Trump’s attacks on free speech won’t stop at college students
"The Trump administration is escalating its attacks on the First Amendment by targeting institutions that challenge his agenda, including universities, law firms, and federal judges. Trump's attacks on academia are especially egregious, as these institutions have historically served as important centers of dissent and protest."

MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/the-maga-scare-trump-s-attacks-on-free-speech-won-t-stop-at-college-students-235121221618
#FreeSpeech #USPolitics #TrumpRegime

"HAMPTON, Iowa — Republican Sen. Chuck #Grassley fielded questions from a packed room of heated Iowans on Friday who urged him to 'stand up for what's right' in the face of the Trump administration's massive federal downsizing.
“My question, which I think is on our minds here, is where is #Congress?” asked one audience member, which was met with cheers from the audience at the Franklin County Courthouse in central Iowa." USA Today https://www.yahoo.com/news/where-congress-sen-chuck-grassley-193007091.html
#HealthCare ##USPolitics

"Trump administration sets out to create an America its people have never experienced − one without a meaningful government." Sidney Shapiro, Wake Forest University and Joseph P. Tomain, University of Cincinnati https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-sets-create-america-140644313.html
#USPolitics

"Trump’s administration is thinking about getting rid of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s division that focuses on HIV prevention and giving those responsibilities to the Department of Health and Human Services. There’s apparently another potential plan, a source told NBC News, that would cut up to $700 million from the #CDC’s HIV division."

MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-aids-funding-hiv-treatment-rcna197529
#HealthCare ##USPolitics

"The campaign for Susan Crawford, the Democratic-backed candidate for #Wisconsin Supreme Court, said #Musk was trying to buy #votes ahead of the April 1 election. The offer was made two days after early voting started in the hotly contested race between Crawford and Brad Schimel, the preferred candidate of Musk and Republicans."

AP https://www.yahoo.com/news/musk-group-offers-100-wisconsin-142333249.html
#USPolitics

"Trump’s FTC firings...another sign Donald #Trump is governing not on behalf of the people but for the benefit of America’s biggest and most powerful businesses and billionaires."

MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-ftc-commissioner-firings-lina-khan-rcna197317
#USPolitics #TrumpRegime

https://www.motherjonesmuseum.org/

Mother Jones, "I belong to a class robbed, exploited, jailed, persecuted all down the ages and...have an instinct to go and help break the chains."
#WomensHistory #bigotry

#3goodthings
1. Found a great Polish deli filled with great produce in addition to their traditional dishes
2. Cabbage rolls for supper
3. At the resale shop I found a pair of platform tennis shoes [never worn] for $14.

"PORT COQUITLAM, British Columbia (Reuters) - Phil Smith is going to buy more Canadian grain and Chinese cans as he, like millions of Canadians, responds to the U.S. #tariffs imposed on his country....Canadians react with upset and anger to the tariffs and some of the statements coming out of the White House." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/canadian-brewer-buys-local-grain-190416779.html

“The president I voted for, the man who says ‘Let’s make America great again, let’s help small businesses grow,’ that man is going to put me out of business.”

Washington Post https://www.yahoo.com/news/bet-life-savings-paper-straws-161301480.html
#WorkersRights #ClimateCrisis #USPolitics

Idaho "doctors said it could force them to airlift women to other states to get standard critical care without the risk of running afoul of the law. During an emergency hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill called the Justice Department's sudden move a “ticking time bomb” for the Idaho hospital system that recently brought its own lawsuit in an effort to keep the legal claims alive."

AP https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-moves-drop-idaho-163624153.html
#USPolitics #Health #WomensRights

"Even in deep-red Trump country, business conditions are quickly collapsing...Such sudden pessimism is notable given the Dallas Fed covers Texas, northern Louisiana and southern New Mexico—areas that voted for Trump by wide margins in 2024."

Fortune https://finance.yahoo.com/news/even-deep-red-trump-country-194802888.html
#inflation #tariffs #USPolitics

FDA cancels #vaccine advisory meeting for choosing flu strains for next shots

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/26/fda-cancels-vaccine-advisory-meeting-for-choosing-flu-shots.html?__source=androidappshare

This meeting, now canceled, has been held every March to select the flu vaccine strains for the next fall flu season.

#Meta approves plan for bigger executives bonuses [one week] following 5% layoffs [of workers]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/meta-approves-plan-for-bigger-executives-bonuses-following-5percent-layoffs.html?__source=androidappshare

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: #DOGE's FDIC firings put #banking system at risk

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/elizabeth-warren-doge-purge-at-fdic-threaten-nations-banking-system.html?__source=androidappshare

#uspolitics

"Ella P. Stewart was endowed with persistence and motivation in equal measure. She was the first Black female graduate of the University of Pittsburgh’s pharmacy school; the owner and operator—with her husband—of Toledo, Ohio’s first Black-owned pharmacy; and a formidable figure in the early movement for civil rights in the United States, serving as the president for the National Association of Colored Women, among other illustrious posts." JSTOR https://daily.jstor.org/ella-p-stewart-toledo-most-singular-pharmacist/ #BlackHistory