Mass firings across NOAA and National Weather Service ignite fury among scientists worldwide
As federal job eliminations struck the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service on Thursday, scientists and environmental advocates denounced the cuts, saying they could cause real harm to Americans.
The full extent of the layoffs across NOAA were not immediately clear, but Democratic legislators said hundreds of scientists and experts had been notified of terminated employment. NOAA — which includes the National Hurricane Center and the Tsunami Warning Center — is the latest in a string of federal agencies targeted for cuts by billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
“Musk’s sham mission is bringing vital programs to a screeching halt," Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), the ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, wrote in a statement Thursday. "People nationwide depend on NOAA for free, accurate forecasts, severe weather alerts, and emergency information. Purging the government of scientists, experts, and career civil servants and slashing fundamental programs will cost lives."
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Living under Trump 2 aka Musk!!!
10 more reasons for modest optimism
Friends,
Since I offered you 10 reasons for modest optimism last week, discontent with the Trump-Musk regime has surged even further. America appears to be waking up. Here’s the latest evidence — 10 more reasons for modest optimism.
1. Trump’s approval ratings continue to plummet.
The chief reason Trump was elected was to reduce the high costs of living — especially food, housing, health care, and gas.
A new Pew poll shows these costs remain uppermost in Americans’ minds. Sixty-three percent identify inflation as an overriding problem, and 67 percent say the same about the affordability of health care.
The corruption is so blatant and out in the open, but nobody in mainstream/legacy media is talking about it.
Trump assault on USAID leaves plant that makes peanut butter for malnourished kids scrambling
MANA Nutrition makes a special kind of peanut butter paste that many humanitarian aid workers are familiar with. It is fortified with milk and essential vitamins, packed with calories and sent to severely malnourished children around the world, including some countries in Africa.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mark Moore, the CEO and co-founder of the Fitzgerald, Georgia-based plant, got word from the US Agency for International Development: MANA’s contracts with the agency were being canceled.
CNN spoke with Moore just minutes after he said he received a series of contract termination letters from USAID. Still reeling, Moore described the furious scramble that the news had set off at his plant. One of his first orders of business: Asking his workers mid-production to immediately stop putting labels that say “USAID” on the pouches that the peanut butter paste is squirted into.
“Every one of those packets has printing on it that says, ‘From the American people. USAID.’ And if… I don’t deliver it through USAID contracts, it’s trash. I can’t distribute it,” Moore said. “It’s not like I can squeeze that peanut butter back out of that packet and put it in a new packet. So it’s a problem. A huge problem.”
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MANA Nutrition makes a special kind of peanut butter paste that many humanitarian aid workers are familiar with. It is fortified with milk and essential vitamins, packed with calories and sent to severely malnourished children around the world, including some countries in Africa.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mark Moore, the CEO and co-founder of the Fitzgerald, Georgia-based plant, got word from the US Agency for International Development: MANA’s contracts with the agency were being canceled.
CNN spoke with Moore just minutes after he said he received a series of contract termination letters from USAID. Still reeling, Moore described the furious scramble that the news had set off at his plant. One of his first orders of business: Asking his workers mid-production to immediately stop putting labels that say “USAID” on the pouches that the peanut butter paste is squirted into.
“Every one of those packets has printing on it that says, ‘From the American people. USAID.’ And if… I don’t deliver it through USAID contracts, it’s trash. I can’t distribute it,” Moore said. “It’s not like I can squeeze that peanut butter back out of that packet and put it in a new packet. So it’s a problem. A huge problem.”
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Emir of Schmoe
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This is going to impact a lot food manufacturers. I had a client - based in Inglewood, CA - who made various ground meat products as part of the national school meals program. While it's not their primary business, it was a good money maker for them to fill in open production windows. And that's solely on the ground beef side of food (they weren't the only ground beef producer). When you add in oj, bread, etc. etc. it's a lot of food producers.China wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 9:17 amTrump assault on USAID leaves plant that makes peanut butter for malnourished kids scrambling
MANA Nutrition makes a special kind of peanut butter paste that many humanitarian aid workers are familiar with. It is fortified with milk and essential vitamins, packed with calories and sent to severely malnourished children around the world, including some countries in Africa.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mark Moore, the CEO and co-founder of the Fitzgerald, Georgia-based plant, got word from the US Agency for International Development: MANA’s contracts with the agency were being canceled.
CNN spoke with Moore just minutes after he said he received a series of contract termination letters from USAID. Still reeling, Moore described the furious scramble that the news had set off at his plant. One of his first orders of business: Asking his workers mid-production to immediately stop putting labels that say “USAID” on the pouches that the peanut butter paste is squirted into.
“Every one of those packets has printing on it that says, ‘From the American people. USAID.’ And if… I don’t deliver it through USAID contracts, it’s trash. I can’t distribute it,” Moore said. “It’s not like I can squeeze that peanut butter back out of that packet and put it in a new packet. So it’s a problem. A huge problem.”
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Spaceman Spiff
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I never thought I would be masturbating to her picture...trying times.Spaceman Spiff wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:27 amNever thought I'd find myself agreeing with Laura Loomer on some shit, but here we are.
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Spaceman Spiff
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That's a bit much.Simmsy wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:43 amI never thought I would be masturbating to her picture...trying times.Spaceman Spiff wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:27 amNever thought I'd find myself agreeing with Laura Loomer on some shit, but here we are.
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This is just disgraceful from the highlights I'm watching. One of the worst things about transitioning from Biden to Trump is now we have a flat out brute on the world stage trying to bully people, being a very nasty person. I haven't seen world leaders "invited" to the WH been disrespected this badly in a very long time, maybe ever. He is your guest. You have no right to talk to him that way.