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Justin, please remind all of us that CDC and FDA are also muzzled NOW. They can not communicate latest outbreaks of H5N1 to Health Depts around the country, nor can they distribute warnings and treatment advice to hospitals and emergency rooms to test all flu patients for the bird flu virus in addtion to Flu A & B. Rachel Maddow reported last night that a huge duck farm on Long Island detected H5N1 and has to destroy their entire flock of thousands of ducks. This disruption of the flow of public health information is very dangerous.

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Science Magazine reports that Trump froze meetings, communication, travel, and hiring at NIH and researchers are feeling "a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic." Looking close to my home, the University of Iowa received $190 million from NIH for research just last year. While this freeze is bad enough, consider the disruptions to research, our health, and our local economies if RFK Jr. is confirmed. https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devastating-freezes-meetings-travel-communications-and-hiring?fbclid=IwY2xjawIAgAdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQ1kaVjjoKOwiWiq8_BHSKUs8RtjgMnjz8UdBpjWNp6mAfxglLNIb_ZOyw_aem_hOFrG1BKzdj6ELkJGKEE4Q

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Don’t forget the Executive Order halting all foreign aid, including humanitarian food and medical aid. It will predictably result in tens of thousands of deaths ... if not many more. Trump knows this. Cares as much as Hitler cared about the Jews.

China, Russia will rush into this lunatic fiasco. Look at all the goodwill they will now build at US expense. Good luck building tech shit, VP Musk and his 7 TechBro Dwarves, all without rare earth minerals from former friendly suppliers who we’ve now completely screwed.

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This is scary stuff and I really appreciate your tenacious reporting. thank you Justin

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Trump Bans DEIA - Requires Employees to Snitch On Each Other. SNITCH for MAGA-LAND!

https://thedemlabs.org/2025/01/24/snitch-for-maga-land/

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The gov't shall not control speech, unless it's the Donald's gov't. Oh, there was that time gov r. scott prohibited gov't employees to use the phrase "climate change" so they had to talk in code, but you know, 2a...🙄

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