Trump Begins Mass Layoffs at FDA, CDC, Other US Health Agencies
The Trump administration began mass layoffs of 10,000 staffers at US health agencies on Tuesday, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation, with security guards barring entry to some employees just hours after they received dismissal notices.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has described the cuts, which combined with other recent departures will reduce total headcount to 62,000 from 82,000, as essential to streamlining a bloated bureaucracy.
Brian King, the head of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products division, was fired, according to an email sent by King to FDA staff seen by Reuters. That followed the ouster of Peter Marks, the FDA's highly regarded top vaccine official.
An FDA staff member said 17 employees in the press office were let go. FDA's Chief Information Officer Vid Desai said he was also let go.
Jeanne Marrazzo, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director who succeeded Anthony Fauci, was fired from her position and offered a job in the Indian Health Service, according to a source who confirmed her departure with sources inside NIH.
A large-scale attack on Iran will begin soon, an unprecedented assault since World War II.
— Israeli Channel 14
Why do people say "bless you" after you sneeze, & why not when you fart?
People used to believe a sneeze caused someone to expel their soul out of their body, and so “God bless you” or “Bless you” was used as a protection. When some people fart it sure smells like they have expelled the devil out of their body.
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How can someone, an active special forces sergeant be this inept?
How it hell can it be legal for active duty members to be running a recruitment campaign for mercenaries to go to the Ukraine?
Something is seriously wrong with our military!
We need Pete Hegseth to clean up our military and get these bad actors out of it as fast as possible.
A US Army spokesperson confirms to FoxNews that the suspect in the Las Vegas truck explosion, Matthew Livelsberger, was an active duty Special Forces Operations sergeant who was on leave from Germany where he was serving w/ the 10th Special Forces Group. h/t
Look at her nose. It looks like she hits the bottle harder than Kampala.