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go drink a beer, Darrin
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go drink a beer, Darrin
Bove's Senate nomination hearing starts today
Should be y
https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphic...8d536-full.pdf
Objectively how?
phantom citation to support anti-vax policy
RFK Jr is turning HHS into a right-wing propaganda shop and wrecking US public health
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/healt...l-presentationA presentation slated to be shared at this week’s meeting of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed that a study in animals suggested that use of the vaccine preservative thimerosal can have “long-term consequences in the brain.”
But the study doesn’t appear to exist.
Lyn Redwood, a former leader of Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group that lists US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a founder, is scheduled to give the presentation Thursday at a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
The slides, posted online Tuesday, cite a 2008 study in the journal Neurotoxicology by “Berman RF, et al,” called “Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain.” The presentation claimed that results from a study in newborn rats suggest long-term “neuroimmune effects” from the vaccine preservative.
The citation appears to refer to Dr. Robert F. Berman, a professor emeritus at the University of California Davis, whose research has focused on brain injury and neurodevelopmental disorders.
However, “I don’t have a publication in Neurotoxicology by that le,” Berman told CNN. “The reference in the slide set, as far as I know – at least with me as a coauthor – does not exist.”
Berman did publish a paper with a similar le in 2008, but it was in a different journal and involved different animals. It also came to dramatically different conclusions.
“My study was published in Toxicological Sciences and did not find evidence of thimerosal exposure at vaccine levels in mouse behaviors that we thought were relevant to autism,” Berman said. He was “concerned and displeased” that his research appeared to have been cited in this way in Redwood’s slides.
Redwood’s presentation was taken off the CDC website later Tuesday and replaced with a version that does not include Berman’s citation
trumplandia favors this guy for some reason
https://apnews.com/article/billy-lon...f1262de1ede5e6The Senate confirmed Long on a 53-44 vote despite Democrats’ concerns about the Republican's past work for a firm that pitched a fraud-ridden coronavirus pandemic-era tax break and about campaign contributions he received after President Donald Trump nominated him to serve as IRS commissioner.
long-time heroin addict doesn't recall groping the babysitter
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/0...ology-00167867Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized last week to a woman he allegedly sexually assaulted in the late 1990s, according to a text message seen by The Washington Post and NBC News.
Eliza Cooney told Vanity Fair earlier this month that Kennedy forcibly groped her when she was in her 20s and worked for the Kennedy family as a babysitter.
“I have no memory of this incident but I apologize sincerely for anything I ever did that made you feel uncomfortable or anything I did or said that offended you or hurt your feelings,” Kennedy said in the text message to Cooney.
Kennedy campaign manager Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, press secretary Stefanie Spear and communication director Del Bigtree did not respond to a request for comment.
same guy told the mother of four of his children it was her fault he cheated on her with 37 women
when she committed suicide afterward, he sued for control of her remains and had her exhumed from the Kennedy family plot in the dead of night
dark money kickbacks to Noam
https://www.propublica.org/article/k...ney-dhs-ethicsIn 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show.
In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000 that year, a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 government salary. Since the nonprofit is a so-called dark money group — one that’s not required to disclose the names of its donors — the original source of the money remains unknown.
Noem then failed to disclose the $80,000 payment to the public. After President Donald Trump selected Noem to be his secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, she had to release a detailed accounting of her assets and sources of income from 2023 on. She did not include the income from the dark money group on her disclosure form, which experts called a likely violation of federal ethics requirements.
Experts told ProPublica it was troubling that Noem was personally taking money that came from political donors. In a filing, the group, a nonprofit called American Resolve Policy Fund, described the $80,000 as a payment for fundraising. The organization said Noem had brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
There is nothing remarkable about a politician raising money for nonprofits and other groups that promote their campaigns or agendas. What’s unusual, experts said, is for a politician to keep some of the money for themselves.
“If donors to these nonprofits are not just holding the keys to an elected official’s political future but also literally providing them with their income, that’s new and disturbing,” said Daniel Weiner, a former Federal Election Commission attorney who now leads the Brennan Center’s work on campaign finance.
South Dakota's money was her money too
While she is among the least wealthy members of Trump’s Cabinet, her personal spending habits have attracted notice. Noem was photographed wearing a gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona watch that costs nearly $50,000 as she toured the Salvadoran prison where her agency is sending immigrants. In April, after her purse was stolen at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, it emerged she was carrying$3,000 in cash, which an official said was for “dinner, activities, and Easter gifts.” She was criticized for using taxpayer money as governor to pay for expenses related to trips to Paris, to Canada for bear hunting and to Houston to have dental work done.
No animal or human testing for drugs is needed, says RFK, Jr
AI can do it faster and better
I always thought replacing public health with woo-woo would be a left-wing thing
Trump 2.0 has me rethinking that
sounds like the urban legends of my 10 year old social cohort in SA in 1975
maybe don't use Signal for official communications?
https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-860363An imposter posing as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has used artificial intelligence to mimic his voice and writing style, contacting foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress, according to a report by The Washington Post, citing an official do ent seen by the publication.
The campaign utilized both text messaging and the encrypted messaging app Signal, which gained widespread popularity during the Trump administration.
At least five individuals outside the State Department were targeted, including three foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress. Authorities suspect the goal of the operation was to gain access to sensitive information or accounts.
this is an upgrade?
“.. Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN.”
RoflI like Pete
Oh neat another unqualified TV personality
The Department of Education (ED) on Thursday revoked a Clinton-era rule that allowed illegal immigrants to access taxpayer funds for technical and career schools.
The Clinton administration's rule allowed illegal aliens to access federal funds in violation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), to be used toward career, technical and adult education programs, according to the Trump ED. The agency notified postsecondary education programs that the rule will no longer be interpreted by the Clinton administration's standards, saying that providers have "obligations to verify the eligibility of participants."
"Postsecondary education programs funded by the federal government should benefit American citizens, not illegal aliens," Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said.
ED will begin enforcing the new interpretation of the rule beginning Aug. 9, 2025.
Linda
If you are such a loser snowflake that immigrants who mind their own business bother you more than the billionaires who poison your food and water while paying zero taxes...
you should probably do the planet a favor and shoot yourself in the head with your MAGA hat on draped by a confederate flag for easy cleanup.
Snowflakes.
Lol seriously, who is gonna pick the tomatoes when the immigrants are all gone?
muh tomatoes
That's the start.
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