FDA Layoffs Could Raise Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety https://www.diningandcooking.com/1997281/fda-layoffs-could-raise-drug-costs-and-erode-food-safety/ #AvianInfluenza #DonaldJ #Drugs(Pharmaceuticals) #FeesAndRates) #food #FoodAndDrugAdministration #GenericBrandsAndProducts #Kennedy #LaboratoriesAndScientificEquipment #LayoffsAndJobReductions #Makary #Marty #MedicineAndHealth #Prices(Fares #RegulationAndDeregulationOfIndustry #Research #RobertFJr #trump #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment
#Marty #Makary, MD, MPH, rose to national attention by 
skewering the medical establishment in books and papers and bashing the federal response to COVID-19 on TV.
Now the Johns Hopkins University surgeon and researcher has been 
nominated to lead the FDA.
The agency -- responsible for regulating products ranging from toothpaste to vaccines -- is famously understated, issuing carefully worded statements devoid of opinion or scientific speculation.
https://synopsi.medpagetoday.com/article/408492/marty-makary-who-made-his-name-bashing-the-medical-establishment-may
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/20/clinical-trial-by-ordeal/
Realistically, few people are going to read a 900-page group work of neofeudalist fanfic shit out by the most esoteric Fedsoc weirdos the world has ever seen.
But one person who did read Project 2025 was the leftist historian Rick Perlstein, who was the first person to really dig into what a fucking messthat thing is:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/#disassembly-manual
Perlstein's excellent analysis doesn't claim that Project 2025's authors aren't sincere in their intentions to wreak great harm upon the nation and its people;
rather, his point is that Project 2025 is filled with contradictory, mutually exclusive proposals written by people who fundamentally disagree with one another,
and who each have enough power within the Trump coalition that all of their proposals have to be included in a document like this:
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-07-10-project-2025-republican-presidencies-tradition/
Project 2025 isn't just a guide to the masturbatory fantasies of the worst people in American politics
– far more importantly, it is a detailed map of the fracture lines in the GOP coalition, the places where it is liable to split and shatter. 
This is an important point if you want to do more about Trumpism than run around feeling miserable and scared.
If you want to fight, Project 2025 is a guide to the weak spots where an attack will do the most damage.
Perlstein's insight continues to be borne out as the Trump regime makes ready to take power.
In a new story for KFF News, Stephanie Armour and Julie Rovner describe the irreconcilable differences among Trump's picks for the country's top public health authorities:
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/trump-rfk-kennedy-health-hhs-fda-cdc-vaccines-covid-weldon/
The brain-worm-infected-elephant in the room is, of course, RFK Jr, who has been announced as Trump's head of Health and Human Services.
RFK Jr is a notorious antivaxer, chairman of Children’s Health Defense, a notorious anti-vaccine group.
Kennedy's view is shared by Trump's chosen CDC boss, Dave Weldon, a physician who has repeated the dangerous lie that vaccinations cause autism.
Mehmet "Dr Oz" Oz, the TV "physician" Trump wants to put in charge of Medicare/Medicaid, calls vaccines "oversold" and advocates for treating covid with hydroxychloroquine, another thoroughly debunked hoax:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/12/17/hydroxychloroquine-study-covid-19-retracted-trump/77051671007/
However, other top Trump public health picks emphatically support vaccines.
#Marty #Makary is Trump's choice for FDA commissioner;
he's a Johns Hopkins trained surgeon who says vaccines "save lives" (but he peddles the lethal, unscientific hoax that childhood vaccines should be "spread out").
#Jay #Bhattacharya, the economist/MD whom Trump wants to put in charge of the NIH, supports vaccines
(he is also one of the country's leading proponents of the eugenicist idea of accepting the mass death of elderly, sick and disabled people rather than imposing quarantines during epidemics).
Then there's #Janette #Nesheiwat, whom Trump has asked to serve as the nation's surgeon general; she calls vaccines "a gift from God."
Like "Bidenism," Trumpism is a fragile coalition of people who thoroughly and irreconcilably disagree with one another.
During the Biden administration, this resulted in self-inflicted injuries like appointing the brilliant trustbuster Lina Khan to run the FTC,
but also appointing the pro-monopoly corporate lawyer Jacqueline Scott Corley to a lifetime seat as a federal judge,
from which perch she ruled against Khan's no-brainer suit to block the Microsoft-Activision merger:
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rules-for-microsoft-mergers
The Trump coalition is even broader than the Biden coalition.
That's how he won the 2024 election.
But that also means that Trumpism is more fractious and off-balance, and hence will be easier to disrupt,
because it is riven by people in senior positions who hate one another and are actively working for each others' political demise.
„Ich mache das nur, weil ich wieder Möwen am Fenster jagen möchte. Ihr habt es versprochen!“
#Umzug #SkeptiCat #Marty
Two billionaires, a wealthy election denier and a mysterious Russia-linked trust invested in the Trump company long before it went public.
#Marty #Davis, the wealthy Minnesota head of a kitchen countertop manufacturing company, is a steadfast supporter of Donald Trump.
He contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to help elect Mr. Trump in 2020, and encouraged him to fight to overturn the 2020 election results.
Shortly after Mr. Trump’s social media company said in October 2021 that it planned to go public by merging with a cash-rich shell company, Mr. Davis was one of the first to lend the fledgling business millions so that it could stay afloat until its merger closed and finance the launch of its Truth Social platform.
Mr. Davis gave Trump Media & Technology Group a $5 million loan, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
His loan was part of $40 million Trump Media raised from more than a dozen private investors, some of whom have helped finance efforts to elect Mr. Trump and are now likely shareholders of his social media company.
Other early backers include two Texas billionaires, a Florida hedge fund manager, and a trust with ties to a Russian American owner of an offshore bank who is the nephew of a former high-ranking Russian government official, the documents show.
One of the billionaires, #Kenny #Troutt, a retired Dallas telecommunications executive, has given more than $1.1 million to efforts backing Mr. Trump’s three White House bids.
Mr. Troutt is serving as a co-chair of a major fund-raiser on Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla., for the former president.
It’s not uncommon for start-ups to seek out wealthy investors for financing, but the stock holdings and large donations raise questions about the potential for #conflicts of #interest and #undue #influence over Mr. Trump should he return to the White House.
My last reboosts re: the overthrow of #Queen Lili’uokalani of #Hawaii for #sugar by the #US underscore part of the reason why I believe #WakandaForever is a great #movie as it explicitly calls out "resources" as a primary motivation why #colonial and #imperial powers can never be trusted.
Along with its #cinematography, #score, #SetDesign, #CostumeDesign, and story of many forms and expressions of #grief, it's a #superhero #film that is absolutely #cinema, #Marty, et. al 
Since the Fujitsu FM TOWNS Car Marty can also be used as a full-featured computer, I own most accessories to do so (only missing the ultra-rare floppy disk drive).
Here's the keyboard:
Thank you for sharing my birthday. Time to return to the 
bridge. G’night all!
#Flashback #dogsofmastodon #dogs #OTRB #Marty
Angel Marty might not have made it to Christmas last year, but he did pose for a Christmas pic! 
#flashback #dogsofmastodon #dogs #OTRB #Marty
This captures Marty’s silly, easygoing nature perfectly! #Flashback #dogsofmastodon #dogs #OTRB #Marty
Marty sent a message asking you to match his awesome happy face to bring a little happiness to everyone’s life! #Flashback #dogsofmastodon #dogs #OTRB #Marty
Angel Marty loved to model his clothes! #Flashback #dogsofmastodon #dogs #OTRB #Marty
"...#cinema is not dead...True cinema, the resonant play of ideas and behaviors against story structures, forged, implied or even ignored, wasn’t diminished by the advent of sound or color or streaming. It evolved and it’ll continue to do so, but we must push it prod it, test its tensile strength and never shy from questioning its effects and worthiness." – #DavidFincher
Those who insist cinema meet one static standard demean the #art form most, #Marty et al.
#link: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/inside-2023-lacma-art-film-gala-david-fincher-tv-movies-back-to-work-1235637312/
Manchmal muss man einfach „da“ sein!
#SkeptiCat #Marty
Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Alabama Anti-Abortion Leader Indicted on Child Sexual Abuse Charges https://jezebel.com/alabama-anti-abortion-leader-indicted-on-child-sexual-a-1850669807 #Jezebel #abortionintheunitedstates #christianityandabortion #antiabortionmovements #religionandabortion #judicialactivism #socialissues #abortion #politics #roevwade #lawcrime #wagner #marty #wade #roe
#DocsWhoRock check out this blast from the past. I played #Marty in HIGH SCHOOL - and #Frenchie just sent me this clip. @GoGrease
Marty, tall #robot assistants known for their googly eyes, are used at grocery stores, hotels, and warehouses in Northwest states. Their job is to spot garbage, accidental spills and to keep businesses tidy. And they usually stay indoors. But not this #Marty. It was seen trying to escape a Giant Food Store in #Pennsylvania. Sadly, Marty’s wild ride didn’t last long.
https://youtu.be/LUVBjvLy6A0
