Shane Jones shuns UN bottom trawling meet, blasting global 'talk fests' - Newsroom
This pathetic man’s arrogance is beyond belief! Who knew that he knows more about the sea than UN scientists? Good grief! https://t.co/8DusycQaWV
@AucklandIsland Remember how most Kāinga Ora projects were cancelled (paused!) after the ‘Review’ by Bill English. These were not only consented but many were actually being built. Lost all those homes and hundreds of apprenticeships. This was so damaging to so many people. Utterly shameful!
@mhdksafa THREATENING Genocide is itself a war crime as defined by the Geneva Convention.
Has any other President been declared a #WarCriminal by such a leading student of history and political movements?
No wonder New Zealanders are feeling #costofliving pressures: @OECD report shows #NZ 2026 “wages were 6.4 percent below 2021's in real terms” & that #OECD-wide “real wages are near the trough of the cost-of-living crisis only in NZ & Australia." https://t.co/qWkTWICYf3
2019: Trump admin ends pandemic early-warning program
2020: COVID-19 hits; kills more than 1.25 million Americans, 7 million globally
2025: Trump admin fires all of the CDC'S Vessel Sanitation Program employees
2026: Major noravirus outbreaks on cruise ships
2025: Trump admin makes cyclospora monitoring optional (was mandatory)
2026: Cyclospora outbreaks
These systems are developed because we need them, because an outbreak revealed gaps in our ability to monitor, report, and respond to public health threats.
Other major changes/cuts to public health that should concern you:
Making vibrio monitoring optional. That's the "flesh eating" bacteria that sickens 80,000 Americans a year - with a hospitalization rate of 83% and fatality rate of 23% in V. vulnificus cases.
Major cuts to laboratories that track antimicrobial-resistant bacteria. 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the US each year, causing more than 35,000 deaths. Cutting labs makes it harder to detect resistant organisms early, contain outbreaks, guide treatment decisions, and monitor how resistance is evolving, increasing the risk that dangerous strains spread before public health officials realize there's a problem.
Layoffs of 20,000 HHS staff, including one-fifth of the CDC. Withdrawal from WHO, cutting of USAID, and losing all of the local disease surveillance both agencies do.
You would have thought the abject failure of the US' handling of COVID-19 would have led to greater investment in public health.
Yet, because of the unqualified people in charge, we are in an even worse place now than we were before.
@MeidasTouch@Michell8632484 33 deaths, reported in ICE custody in /25 , highest in 20+ years & as of early July/26, at least,21 more have occurred this year, putting 2026 to breaking that record. Congress was told of 17 deaths in B.P custody in the 1st year of this term, aren't included in ICE's own count