How's the layoffs going? #doge #elon #hhs #health #RFKjr #trump #maga
"...laid-off employees were instructed to file any discrimination complaints they may have with Anita Pinder, identified as the director of CMS’s Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights. However, Pinder died last year, The Washington Post noted." #doge #health
#doge at it again #recalls #usa #uspol #fda #rfkjr
If you’ve ever used eye drops that didn’t blind you, thank Dr. Timothy J. Pohlhaus. As of yesterday, he’s gone.
And if you’ve ever been injected with a sterile drug that helped heal you instead of killing you, you have relied on the services of the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Manufacturing Quality, where Pohlhaus worked for 15 years and was a senior policy adviser.
#news
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-expert-who-kept-eye-drops-from-blinding-you-was-fired-yesterday
This is all a stark reminder that government is serious business, that should be left to serious people.
That's an excellent description for him. Of him.
Another day, another set of batshit-crazy #health layoffs from #RFKJr. https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/rfk-jr-lays-off-staffers-who-run-fda-s-vaccine-expert-panel/ar-AA1CbcRw
"If you’ve ever used eye drops that didn’t blind you, thank Dr. Timothy J. Pohlhaus. As of yesterday, he’s gone." #RFKJr is well on the way to being the deadliest serial killer in American history.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-expert-who-kept-eye-drops-from-blinding-you-was-fired-yesterday
Two of my comrades in @defendpublichealth.bsky.social have some thoughts about how #RFKJr and #Republicans in Congress are threatening the lives of children. https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025/04/the-trump-administration-is-betraying-our-kids-and-jeopardizing-americas-future-arthur-lavin-and-teri-mills.html?outputType=amp
#vaccines #Medicaid #disabilities
"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
“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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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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"One employee warned that NIOSH laid off veterinarians despite the bureau having laboratory animals that need care. #CDC has also eliminated its entire Freedom of Information Act office, despite agencies being required by law to maintain FOIA functions."
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/04/cancer-researchers-opioid-abuse-analysts-infectious-disease-experts-layoffs-hhs-begin-take-shape/404212/?oref=ge-home-top-story
#USpol #USpolitics #HHS #MAHA #RFKJr #TheRealRFKJr #PublicHealth #kakistocracy
Doctor Behind Award-Winning #Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From #NIH by #rfkjr
https://www.wired.com/story/doctor-breakthrough-parkinsons-research-nih-purge/
Well, shit President #Trump, appointed shit-and-worm-for-brains #RFKJr, and today they, predictably, turned #HHS to shit, but hey RFKJr, a man with no medical training whatsoever, feels kinda bad about having to fire so many actual career experts.
So, it's fine.
#FuckTheseIdiots
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“As part of the confirmation process, Kennedy disclosed to the Office of Government Ethics that as of December, he had made $100,000 from MAHA - variations of the trademark also covered stickers, hats and hoodies - before transferring it ‘to a third-party for no compensation.’”
Did you know: RFK Jr. is interested in copyrighting his “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) slogan?
He applied for a trademark to “potentially market supplements, vitamins, essential oils and cryptocurrency,” and transferred ownership of that trade trademark application to an LLC managed by a friend of his, Del Bigtree, who, like RFK Jr., does not like vaccines.
