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ancianita

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27. The intention could be benign or malignant. We'll have to see.The felon's administration has a terrible public interface
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 07:27 PM
Jan 24

and doesn't honestly care what the public knows or doesn't know. Talk about a messaging problem!!
No one within these agencies has standing to file a suit unless they can prove harm has been done in performance of the agency's mission.

Check the link of this excerpt of what the current experts are saying:

Scientists are unclear whether the pause on travel only applies to federal scientists or all federally funded scientists, for example, he says. They're also unsure whether their grants proposals should still include DEI information or whether that would result in their grants being rejected, he says.

"There's just a lot of chaos happening within the community," Gillum says. "This is pretty bad. It's unprecedented."

Others say many of these activities are not unusual during presidential transitions.

Dr. Georges Benjamin, president of the American Public Health Association, told NPR that while the communications freeze is confusing, he was giving the HHS team who issued it "the benefit of the doubt that they're simply trying to get their hands around the administration — this is a big government."


https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/24/g-s1-44613/cdc-nih-hhs-health-data-mmwr


Our first reaction is one of distrust, and so some stuff floats around the nets like this...



But even if the felon's -- or Project 2025's -- intent is to create in people, fear and uncertainty about their future safety -- and for the present, I don't think it is -- we have to make up our minds not to succumb to fear, or show anything like it, but turn instead to local experts and/or our doctors & local pharmacists to get information. They have their networks.

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Who's your senator? Jilly_in_VA Jan 24 #1
Sen Schumer. Added it in the text ty electric_blue68 Jan 24 #17
I'd call mine, but I'm in the red shithole TN SheltieLover Jan 24 #2
All the more reason for you to call yellow dahlia Jan 24 #5
Me too but I am making myself write to them . off-the-clock Jan 24 #6
Ty, and Good on you. electric_blue68 Jan 24 #20
Yes. Absolutely all the more reason to call. ancianita Jan 24 #10
Wtf would Taylor Swift live in this red hellhole? SheltieLover Jan 24 #13
lol she can't stand Marsha Blackburn, calls her a fake christian, so ancianita Jan 24 #16
TY. Ok! And Heh (re Taylor Swift) electric_blue68 Jan 24 #21
2 Red ones here. They wouldn't waste spit on my input. UTUSN Jan 24 #12
Well I'm thinking of the people who Might of called electric_blue68 Jan 24 #22
Ty but I think yellow dahlia might be right ...if the hear they constituants....like the Vets didt electric_blue68 Jan 24 #18
I live in TN, too, SheltieLover. Blue Dawn Jan 24 #35
Good idea. yellow dahlia Jan 24 #3
Ty. electric_blue68 Jan 24 #23
Has there been legal action on this yet? SheltieLover Jan 24 #4
I d k. I'll check DU for news, and listen to Rachel, Lawrence, Joy. electric_blue68 Jan 24 #24
Tyvm SheltieLover Jan 24 #26
What did the staffer say? obamanut2012 Jan 24 #7
Unfortunately for the last few weeks there's only been a Recording yo leave a message, and your phone #. electric_blue68 Jan 24 #25
It's a simple question - Nigrum Cattus Jan 24 #8
Why did Trump cut off communication? pfitz59 Jan 24 #9
You know the answer. Questions are an invitation to lingo and lies. Just tell them the answer. ancianita Jan 24 #11
Nothing pootins puppet does is intended to help Americans SheltieLover Jan 24 #14
Has anyone filed suit on this yet? SheltieLover Jan 24 #15
The intention could be benign or malignant. We'll have to see.The felon's administration has a terrible public interface ancianita Jan 24 #27
I will never give repukes benefit of the doubt. SheltieLover Jan 24 #28
I hear you. But you still have to stay clear, and not let them worry or scare you. ancianita Jan 24 #29
Absolutely! SheltieLover Jan 24 #30
... ancianita Jan 24 #32
Absolutely! SheltieLover Jan 24 #33
... ancianita Jan 24 #34
I wish people would use the word "dictator". Do you think King Charles III has that kind of power? Crunchy Frog Jan 24 #19
I use it all the time. Also "totalitarian oligarchy" and "oligarchic dictatorship" & just plain old "fascism," ancianita Jan 24 #31
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