Notices by Georgiann Baldino (obtener@mastodon.world)

(Reuters) - #Musk's DOGE team has slashed hundreds of jobs paid for by fees from banks, medical device companies and other forms of funding rather than taxpayer dollars, raising the question of whether the cuts will render hoped for savings.
"Most of around 200 Food and Drug Administration employees fired over the weekend held jobs that were paid for by fees, depleting staff needed to approve medically necessary products" https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-firing-federal-workers-not-110521883.html
#USPolitics #Health #WorkersRights

#Retail sales slumped 0.9% in January, down much more than expected

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/14/retail-sales-slumped-0point9percent-in-january-down-much-more-than-expected-.html?__source=androidappshare

Cost of #imported goods spiked 0.3 percent

#trumpCoup #ElonMusk

"the #Trump administration has a problem: Local jurisdictions have the legal discretion to make their own decisions on #immigration enforcement, and sanctuary policies — which limit collaboration, rather than instructing or impeding federal authorities — are perfectly legal. That’s why the Trump administration is hoping that fear and misinformation, and using threats that violate the Constitution, will cow local leaders into collaboration."

MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-local-sheriffs-ice-deportations-rcna191240
#USPolitics

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/possible-tornado-causes-damage-injuries-loss-life-tennessee-officials-rcna191146

Winter tornadoes in TN
#ClimateCrisis

"Rebel civilians followed behind the men in gray [Confederate soldiers,] pursuing people they considered 'their stolen Negroes,' ensnaring what a journalist recorded as 'gangs of Negroes … captured in the mountains in Maryland and Pennsylvania.' A diarist reported that the Rebels were 'driving them off by droves … just like we would drive cattle.'"

Smithsonian Magazine Online #BlackHistory https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/after-confederate-forces-captured-their-children-these-black-mothers-fought-to-reunite-their-families-180985994/

"This deal is almost comically #corrupt. No one should have any illusions that #Fox has hired Lara #Trump to produce anything other than crude propaganda for her father-in-law and his administration."

MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fox-news-lara-trump-new-show-rcna190874
#USPolitics

#Trump #Felon47

#VaccineStocks fall as Senate panel advances #RFK Jr.'s HHS secretary nomination

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/04/vaccine-stocks-fall-as-senate-advances-rfk-jr-hhs-nomination.html?__source=androidappshare

#TrumpMassDeportation

"The Sierra Sun Times reported the farm owned by Peter Belluomimi, a grower and packer of lemons, mandarin oranges, and navel oranges, recently had only five of 30 workers come to work. Those that are staying home are concerned about the #immigration operations."

https://progressivegrocer.com/deportation-fears-impact-californias-citrus-harvest
#USPolitics

"#Trump WH Press Secretary took hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions...Per federal campaign finance law, #Leavitt should have re-designated or returned excess funds within 60 days of receiving the donations. But NOTUS’s review of the updated filings suggests she still hasn’t done so. Leavitt’s campaign is still required to return hundreds of thousands to donors."

Salon https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-wh-press-secretary-took-200109900.html
#USPolitics

#Adopt #FosterPets #dogsofmastodon #CatsOfMastodon #Maryland

@WarnerCrocker
Local Chicago news station is now reporting the officers were Secret Service, investigating a threat to a person over the TikTok ban.

#uspolitics #ElonMusk

#fact_checkers need not apply

#Netanyahu #USPolitics

#Meta employees criticize company's new speech policy [to end third-party fact checking], board additions

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/07/meta-employees-criticize-companys-new-speech-policy-board-additions.html?__source=androidappshare

Meta policy conflates truth with "free speech"

#Tesla #ConsumerProtection

#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

#SchoolShootings