Notices by William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)

"On the morning of March 25, farmworker organizer Alfredo 'Lelo' Juarez was forcibly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who stopped his car while he was driving his wife to work in Skagit County, Washington. People to whom Juarez has spoken say he requested to see a warrant, and when he attempted to get his ID after being asked, the ICE agents smashed his car window and detained him."

~ Derek Seidman

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #deportations
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https://truthout.org/articles/with-detention-of-beloved-farmworker-organizer-ice-comes-for-the-labor-movement/

Infectious disease doctor Jade Pagkas-Bather of University of Chicago responds to the Trump administration's mass firing of workers in the CDC and HHS:

“We’re going to have patients die. Unnecessary, preventable death.”

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #RFKJr #HHS #CDC #healthcare #medicine #research #science #firings #workers
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https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-gutted-rif/

“We’ve had a lot of devastating days, but this really is unfathomable. It’s astounding, it will affect patients with all kinds of different kinds of infections, and Americans will suffer, and people will die, and that’s a horrible thing to see coming.”

~ Wendy Armstrong, director of infectious diseases at the University of Colorado

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #RFKJr #HHS #CDC #healthcare #medicine #research #science #firings #workers
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/people-will-die-rfk-jr-kennedy-guts-america-health-bureaucracy-hhs-science-cdc-fda-nih-rif-layoffs-firings-health-and-human-services

"According to a report from Rachel Maddow on Tuesday evening (which I cannot independently verify), the HHS cuts will close all HHS programs that provide care and support for Alzheimer’s victims and their families."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #RFKJr #HHS #CDC #healthcare #medicine #research #science #firings #workers #Alzheimers #elderly
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/we-have-every-reason-to-be-hopeful

"The Texas health department said on Friday that the number of measles cases in the state rose 20% since its last report three days ago, as experts warn they expect the outbreak to further spread in coming weeks."

~ Reuters

#RFKJr. #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research #Texas #measles
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https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/measles-outbreak-worsens-texas-new-mexico-cases-rise-20-3-days-2025-03-28/

"Trump has no intention of stopping him because MAGA hates vaccines and has no confidence in public health authorities. He has an open field to conduct a virtual laboratory experiment designed to prove that insanity is an effective substitute for sound science & decades of public health research and experience,

Kennedy has serious emotional and mental problems and is unfit to lead an agency of this importance."

#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research
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"The mass culling of the labor force of the Department of Health and Human Services began on Tuesday morning. And early indications are that it’s a bloodbath."

~ Sam Stein

#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research #Texas #measles
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/innocent-brutal-prison-abroad-deportation-ms-13-court-salvador

In response to the mass firings at HHS about which we've learned today, David Corn of MSNBC addresses Senator Cassidy of Louisiana who strongly supported RFKJr.'s confirmation:

“Sen. Bill Cassidy, you violated the Hippocratic oath when you supported RFK Jr.’s nomination and you own this—and all the horrific consequences to come.”

#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research #Texas #measles
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https://www.alternet.org/gop-senator-rfk-jr/

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. assured the Senate that he would not interfere in the public’s right to secure vaccines. He lied. He has taken several steps to end public-private partnerships in the vaccine development area. He promised no major changes at HHS and FDA. He lied."

~ Mark Mansour

#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research
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https://mmansour.substack.com/p/robert-f-kennedy-jr-lied-to-congress

"European and Asian markets tumbled Monday morning and now that the markets are open in New York, it’s a day in Trump’s America, so best not look at your 401K.

And now Canada has officially broken up with us."

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump #economy #tariffs #recession #inflation #stagflation #StockMarket #TaxCuts #EconomicElites
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/dear-leaders-liberation-day-of-your

"The stock market is melting down. Stocks fell sharply today as traders nervously looked ahead to Trump’s tariff plans.

The S&P 500, the broadest market index, hit its lowest level since September."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #economy #tariffs #recession #inflation #stagflation #StockMarket #TaxCuts #EconomicElites
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-shock-market

"The Dow Jones suffered its worst day in weeks on Friday. … Goldman Sachs yesterday upgraded their U.S. recession risk to 35 percent … and Japan’s Nikkei index fell 4 percent during early trading this morning."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #economy #tariffs #recession #inflation #stagflation #StockMarket #Dow #TaxCuts #EconomicElites
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https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/today-is-a-do-day-mad-donalds-tariffs

"President Donald Trump is pushing the economy to a breaking point with sweeping tariffs and rapid cuts to immigration and the federal workforce. There is growing fear of not just a recession but stagflation, a frightful situation — not seen in the United States since the 1970s — in which the economy contracts and people lose jobs but prices remain high.

This is a self-inflicted wound from Trump."

~ Heather Long

#Trump #economy #tariffs #inflation #stagflation
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/31/trump-stagflation-recession-tariffs/

"Why did ICE arrest a mechanical engineering student at the University of Alabama, a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, a recent graduate of Columbia with a green card, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School who came here after protesting for Ukraine, and students at Georgetown and Cornell? What prompted Secretary of State Marco Rubio to claim at least 300 student visas had been revoked?"

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #cruelty
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-c95

"We can make an educated guess. By February 11, NBC was reporting that Trump, who had promised mass deportations while on the campaign trail, wasn’t happy with the pace of removals. They reported that a person who was 'familiar with Trump’s thinking' said that 'It’s driving him nuts they’re not deporting more people.'”

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #cruelty
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"This rivals the family separation policy of the first Trump administration for sheer inhumanity. But it also harms Americans in very real ways. Who will want to study or come work here in this climate? Just one example, nearly 25% of practicing doctors in the United States are international medical graduates, demonstrates how this harms our own future prospects."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #cruelty
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Today's my birthday, my 75th—impossibly old!—and I'm receiving this wonderful video of John Lithgow reading Timothy Snyder's twenty lessons in tyranny as a birthday gift. Which I now offer to readers here….

#tyranny #authoritarianism #dictatorship #Trump #Musk #Republicans #TimothySnyder
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow

Another birthday gift I offer to readers here: the first rose of the season bloomed in our garden today. This is a fragrant old rose we've had since the 1980s, when a sweet elderly neighbor in New Orleans, a Black gentleman named Mouton Bickham, shared a cutting with us. For years, not knowing that the rose is called Louis Philippe, we called it the Mouton Bickham rose. I love seeing it in this hand-painted vase that my favorite aunt cherished.

#birthday #roses #gifts
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"Any world in which the United States is talking about taking Greenland is a world that is completely unmoored from any semblance of sanity."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Putin #Trump #Vance #Greenland #PutinsPoodle #Europe #NATO
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https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/greenland

"DOGE’s destruction of USAID will cause the deaths of millions of Black people.

DOGE’s assault on Social Security will kill disabled & elderly people.

DOGE’s attack on SNAP & other programs will kill poor people.

DOGE & RFK Jr.’s attack on HHS & vaccines will kill millions of vulnerable Americans."

#ElonMusk #pronatalism #eugenics #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement #PopulationControl
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