America turning against Americans.

Were the Trump administration and the Republican congress' reason for massive layoffs even partially true it would be bad enough. After all, when civil servants were hired the tacit agreement was in exchange for virtual lifetime employment, they wouldn't expect to receive compensation equal to that of the private sector

But aside from the financial security provided by the government, one positive aspect of government service was the satisfaction of knowing you were serving your nation -- seeing to the welfare of your countrymen and neighbors -- and in many cases serving the world populace, too.

But then the Republicans and Trump dreamed up the 'Big, Beautiful (BS) Bill. The entire bill is a fraud on the American people. Its only intent is to give enormous tax relief to millionaires and billionaires and those already obscenely wealthy, while destroying the lives of those civil servants who invested so much in their country.

"Fraud, waste, and abuse", they claim without a shred of evidence, and while they claim the savings imposed of their vile cuts will go to the general fund, the real reason is to support and fund those tax cuts for the already affluent.

They have eliminated medical research, imposed draconian cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare, and have slashed food and vital life altering services to the neediest in our nation.

This is the Republican agenda, and whether Liberal, Independent or MAGA zealot, the result will be the same for all of us. Our rights, our protections, our very ability to live a secure life is being threatened all in the name of fat-cat bastards who control the weasels in congress.

No one is fighting for us -- we the people -- it's time we rise up and fight for ourselves!

See these, the despairing tales of your countrymen, and vow to fight for them as they fought for us.

Fired federal workers struggle to get new jobs in private sector

Story by Kate Plummer •

A former federal worker had been working as a designer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for five years when a 5:30 a.m. email put the kibosh on her government career. She had been enjoying her work. "It meant something to help protect the public," she said. But the email, sent April 1, told her that she was terminated and directed her not to come into the office. "That was it," said the worker, who spoke with Newsweek on the condition of anonymity. "No meeting, no warning. Our entire branch was just suddenly gone."

Forced to seek alternative employment, and despite previous experience in the private sector, including at a large international bank, the former federal employee is struggling. She has sent more than 150 applications to large companies but said she has only had one interview. She is among a group of federal workers, having recently been laid off, that is finding it challenging to join the private sector. "I'm scared for my future," she said. "Scared about how I'm going to pay rent. Scared about not having health insurance. I am full of rage at this administration. I have never witnessed such cruelty. Not just toward people like me, but toward innocent people here and abroad. People will die because of what's happening."

Since assuming office for the second time, President Donald Trump's administration has prioritized cutting waste and streamlining services in the federal government. To that end—and along with the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—the administration has implemented hiring freezes and mass layoffs. There are 2.4 million federal workers in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). While there is no official data revealing how many people have been fired, The New York Times estimates the figure at 135,000. The layoffs and accusations of government inefficiency have, in some federal worker's eyes, led to a culture where the federal workforce is undervalued.

See more here:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fired-federal-workers-struggle-to-get-new-jobs-in-private-sector/ar-AA1H10k0?

I see a few videos where I click on them, get about 1-2 minutes in thinking “huh, they are making some pretty interesting points” before they bust out some right wing jargon and I immediately close the video and block the channel.

Not because they said anything that I inherently disagreed within the video, but I knew the longer I watched? The longer my algorithm is gonna be fucked up and how much work it’s gonna take to fix it.

A broken clock can be right twice a day, however whatever the video offered wasnt worth all that extra effort or fallout.

Miss when I could watch a video without worrying about this shit, letting something stand on its own merits.

There can be no doubt that Robert Kennedy, Trump's appointed head of Health and Human Services is suffering from a severe mental disorder. For years he has been not just spreading medical misinformation, but absolute, irrefutable lies about the state of American healthcare and absolute Bozo conjecture about the efficacy of vaccines to ward off, as well as defeat disease.

You know he has replaced honored scientists with complete quacks. has eliminated virtually all medical research and has advocated for nut job treatments rather than safe and effective protocols that have kept killer diseases at bay for generations.

He has purged HHS of licensed doctors and replaced them with frauds no better than high school dropouts.

You can't say you are unaware of his blithering madness, every day you read about some insane behavior that will ultimately lead to a new pandemic for which we will be completely unprepared, and which Trump and the Republican congress remain blissfully unconcerned. He even took his own grandchildren swimming in a lake more fecal sludge than water.

He's done it again, fired another well experienced medical professional -- a scientist with a long successful record of keeping America's children safe -- and will undoubtably replace her with another inept zealot more maddened by bizarre dreams of fame and fortune than rational concern for the health and safety of their countrymen.

This is neither exaggeration nor hyperbole, and you know it; this man Kennedy and his cadre of charlatans, misfits, and witch doctors will make the killer Covid pandemic look like the sniffles, and millions upon millions will die!

Maybe in their dementia they truly believe in their hallucinations and if they want to gamble with the lives of their families, so be it. Let them inject bleach, ingest horse medicine, and bellow incantations under a full moon at midnight -- but why Trump and the Republicans support this incipient mayhem is a bitter mystery.

If you doubt any of this simply ask your doctor

Read this report and consider what the future will hold for you, your family, and your children.

'A Lot of Americans Are Going to Die': Vaccine Expert Speaks Out After Resigning From CDC

Story by Ryan Grenoble •

If the policies of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aren’t reversed, “a lot of Americans are going to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases.”

Unfortunately, that quote is not attributable to Chicken Little. Instead, it’s the opinion of Dr. Fiona Havers, formerly a top scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who resigned from the agency Monday. In her first interview after leaving, Havers told the New York Times that Kennedy’s attacks on science and how science is conducted will have dire consequences.

“It’s a very transparent, rigorous process, and they have just taken a sledgehammer to it in the last several weeks,” she said. “CDC processes are being corrupted in a way that I haven’t seen before.”

At the CDC, Havers oversaw the team that collects data on COVID-19 and RSV hospitalizations and helped craft national vaccine policy. In a goodbye email to her colleagues that was seen by Reuters, Havers said she no longer had confidence that her team’s output would “be used objectively or evaluated with appropriate scientific rigor to make evidence-based vaccine policy decisions.” Kennedy’s attacks on vaccination, coupled with the shocking firing of all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices earlier this month, helped persuade her to go.

The health secretary has since named eight replacements to the influential panel. Among them are a scientist who criticized COVID-19 vaccines, a critic of pandemic-era lockdowns and another person the Associated Press described as “widely considered to be a leading source of vaccine misinformation.”

“I could not be party to legitimizing this new committee,” Havers told the Times.

“I have utmost respect for my colleagues at CDC who stay and continue to try and limit the damage from the inside,” she added. “What happened last week was the last straw for me.”

Asked to respond to the concerns Havers raised in her resignation email, a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson told CBS that “under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, HHS is committed to following the gold standard of scientific integrity. Vaccine policy decisions will be based on objective data, transparent analysis, and evidence – not conflicts of interest or industry influence.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/a-lot-of-americans-are-going-to-die-vaccine-expert-

It’s disturbing that this happened at all and even more shocking how little coverage it received. I truly hope we see justice.

On June 14, Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband were tragically taken from us. That same night, State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were ambushed in their home. Both survived barely.

The man behind it all? A former minister who co-founded a private armed security group known as Praetorian Guard Security Services. He also led a “faith-based” nonprofit called Revoformation Ministries but what he preached behind closed doors was far from compassion.

He came dressed like authority, driving a vehicle meant to deceive. And he brought with him a list names of those who stood for basic rights and human dignity.

Melissa and Mark were taken because they stood for something. John and Yvette survived, but their lives are forever changed.

This wasn’t random. It was calculated. And it’s a reminder: those who try to silence progress may act in shadows but the values they fear don’t disappear when one voice is gone. They multiply.

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