The #FDA is suspending
a quality control program for testing of fluid milk & other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its #foodsafety & nutrition division.
The suspension is another disruption to the nation's food safety programs after the termination & departure of 20,000 employees of the #HHS, which includes the FDA, as part of Trump's effort to shrink the fed WF.
Nothing is safe under the Trump regime.
#legal #Tesla #ElonMusk #PublicSafety
'Former Tesla engineer Cristina Balan, who was fired in 2014, said in an interview that her entire team was threatened with deportation for taking her side when she brought up a brake safety issue directly to Elon Musk. She’s now succeeded in throwing out Tesla’s arbitration case against her, and hopes to meet Tesla directly in open court in a case that could influence corporate policy nationwide.'
Stand Up for NOAA Research — The Time to Act Is Now
April 17, 2025
A Statement of the American Meteorological Society in Partnership with the National Weather Association
The administration’s 2026 budget passback plan, currently under consideration, eliminates NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Office and its 10 research laboratories and 16 affiliated Cooperative Institutes, and moves the few remaining research efforts to different NOAA departments. If enacted, the passback would close all of NOAA’s weather, climate, and ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes.
The speed at which these decisions are being made translates into little to no opportunity for feedback or consideration of long-term impacts. Without NOAA research, National Weather Service (NWS) weather models and products will stagnate, observational data collection will be reduced, public outreach will decrease, undergraduate and graduate student support will drop, and NOAA funding for universities will plummet. In effect, the scientific backbone and workforce needed to keep weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective will be drastically undercut, with unknown — yet almost certainly disastrous — consequences for public safety and economic health. As key stakeholders, AMS and NWA stand ready to provide our expertise so that the U.S. can maintain its competitiveness in the years ahead.
https://blog.ametsoc.org/2025/04/17/stand-up-for-noaa-research-the-time-to-act-is-now/
"WH seeks to cut $40B in funding for HHS."
The Trump admin is seeking to slash budgets for fed #health programs, a ~1/3 cut in discretionary spending by the #HHS.
It shows how the Trump admin plans to reshape the fed health agencies that oversee food & drug safety, manage: nation’s response to infectious-disease threats & drive biomedical research.
The #TrumpMusk regime is imperiling #PublicHealth, #PublicSafety, the future of med research...
#Resist #April19 #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/16/hhs-budget-cut-trump/
Chicago's recent uptick in violent fan behavior raises concerns for local law enforcement and cybersecurity in managing public safety. As seen in Rome, clashes can result in significant damage and injuries. How can Chicago enhance its security measures to prevent similar incidents? #Chicago #PublicSafety
The Conversation: Software is increasingly being built by AI – so it’s vital to know if it can be trusted. “Software developers are already very familiar with tools such as GitHub Copilot, a kind of ChatGPT for programmers. It works something like a smart autocomplete tool to increase the productivity of human programmers. But we are now witnessing a more radical revolution, where AI […]
"CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks."
It's obvious, as Trump & the oligarchs profiteer, the rest of us are sickened, disabled, laid off, financially ruined, or DIE. #Resist
All of the FT employees in the CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program are now off the job -gutting the agency's ability to investigate outbreaks & conduct health inspections on cruise ships. A smaller group of 12 US #publichealth svc officers will remain.
#PublicSafety #USPol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cruise-ship-inspectors-layoffs-outbreaks-norovirus/
National Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers
For you who like me deal with anti-vaccination conspirators . I feel for you and I pitty the fool. I especially feel for the children who are needlessly harmed by the lack of solid education of the adults who put them and our communities in harms way. #pittythefool #vaccines #who #health #conspiracy #publicsafety
From: @erosalie
https://infosec.exchange/@erosalie/114297199958168358
Staff working on childhood lead exposure and cancer clusters fired from CDC… #CDC #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #Cancer #RepublicansDidThis #AmericanCoup
Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say
The Department of Agriculture is no longer allowed to use the phrase “safe drinking water.”. #Environment #Agriculture #AmericanCoup #Coup #TrumpCoup #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #DrinkingWater #water #EnvironmentalProtection
https://newrepublic.com/post/193395/agriculture-department-ban-words-safe-drinking-water
In a little-noticed #FAA filing last month, fed regulators requested comments on a proposed rule that would mandate #Boeing update a critical communications malfunction in their 787 Dreamliner plane that could lead to disastrous accidents.
VHF radio channels are transferring b/w the active & standby settings w/o flight crew input. “The uncommanded frequency changes could result in missed communications between the flightcrew & Air Traffic Control."
#PublicSafety #USPol https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2025-04-04-faa-warns-boeing-787-radio-can-cut-off-air-traffic-control/
Workers at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants say the Abbott Labs facility is engaging inunsanitary practices similar to those that led it to temporarily shut down just 3 yrs ago, sparking a nationwide formula shortage.
The plant takes shortcuts when cleaning MANU EQP & testing for microbes.
The new head of the FDA division that oversees baby formula is a corporate lawyer who previously defended Abbott against a lawsuit.
#Health #FDA #PublicSafety #USPol https://www.propublica.org/article/baby-formula-abbot-sturgis-michigan-shortages-unsanitary-conditions-workers-say
When Americans died, were blinded, had eyeballs removed from tainted eye drops, the FDA relied on Dr Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies April 1.
RFK Jr & #DOGE terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals Tues. We’re all about to pay the price.
#Firings #HHS #FDA #Sabotage #Health #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #DOGE #Trump #USPol
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-expert-who-kept-eye-drops-from-blinding-you-was-fired-yesterday
High on our list of gratitudes this April 2 are two faithful donors to the Bicycling Monterey work: Kathleen Jones / @Kleen and Martin Dehmler Fine Cabinetmaking. Both donated again today! Both know that regardless of what else is happening in our country or world, we can all find ways to keep on doing what we can, right where we are, to make our country and world a better place!
We don’t take support for this grassroots bike advocacy work for granted. Thank you, donors! https://bikemonterey.org/about/financial-donations/donors
"Europe just canceled $25B in US military deals. NATO allies are planning to replace American l'ship. Japan, France & the UK are prepping deployments w/o us. And now Trump says allies only get ‘toned-down’ jets bc ‘someday they’re not our ally.'
News flash: They’re already walking away."
-R Saddler
Trump is destroying the #economy, #GDP, America's #reputation, #tourism, #jobs, #freepress, #freespeech, #rights, #nationalsecurity, relationships with allies, #publicsafety, #publichealth...
#USPol
#Tesla #CyberTrucks #recalls #PublicSafety
'Tesla
said Thursday it is recalling nearly all Cybertrucks in the United States to fix an exterior panel that could detach while driving, the latest in a series of call-backs for the pickup truck.
The recall covers just over 46,000 vehicles built from November 2023 through Feb. 27 of this year, Tesla said in a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.'
The Trump administration halted some food testing and shut down a committee studying bacteria in infant formula.
The admin has gone too far with cost savings, we must protect infants' health & all American's lives against the genocidal #TrumpMusk regime.
#FoodSafety #PublicSafety #FDA #HHS #DOGE #Musk #Trump #Resist #UPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/health/food-safety-trump-fda-cutbacks-deadly-outbreaks.html
Monash University: Moving beyond ‘cyberwashing’ to ensure robust digital security. “A new Monash University report highlights the growing problem of organisations resorting to ‘cyberwashing’ to mislead the public about their data privacy practices and recommends measures to build a genuine culture of cybersecurity.”
