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Showing posts with label Kennedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kennedy. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Bird Flu, Measles, and Trump’s Ticking Time Bomb (Reveal podcast)
On this week’s episode of “More To The Story,” how public health emergencies and the dismantling of federal agencies are colliding.
This month marks the five-year anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed 1.2 million people in the US alone. While life has returned to normal for most Americans, the threats to our health haven’t disappeared. Hundreds of people in the US continue to die of Covid each week, while millions more suffer complications from Long Covid. We’re experiencing the worst flu season in at least 15 years. There are multiple outbreaks of measles, the most serious occurring in an undervaccinated West Texas community. Then there’s the threat of bird flu, which has spread through dairy and poultry farms, sickening dozens of people and killing one so far.
At the same time, the second Trump administration has been actively reshaping and even dismantling the country’s public health infrastructure. Hundreds of employees across the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and Food and Drug Administration have been handed termination notices. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the country’s new secretary of health and human services, still questions the use of vaccines, specifically the MMR vaccine to prevent measles.
On this week’s episode of More To The Story, host Al Letson talks with infectious disease epidemiologist Jessica Malaty Rivera about the collision course between the Trump administration’s health priorities and developing public health emergencies.
Rivera says the US is still not testing enough people to determine whether these diseases and others are spreading. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is making things even more difficult by withholding regular public health data that infectious disease experts routinely rely on to assess whether a larger health emergency is emerging. “Without good data, we can’t make good informed choices,” she says. “And it is conceivable that [a pandemic] can be happening and brewing right underneath our nose and us not pick it up.”
Interview:
This month marks the five-year anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed 1.2 million people in the US alone. While life has returned to normal for most Americans, the threats to our health haven’t disappeared. Hundreds of people in the US continue to die of Covid each week, while millions more suffer complications from Long Covid. We’re experiencing the worst flu season in at least 15 years. There are multiple outbreaks of measles, the most serious occurring in an undervaccinated West Texas community. Then there’s the threat of bird flu, which has spread through dairy and poultry farms, sickening dozens of people and killing one so far.
At the same time, the second Trump administration has been actively reshaping and even dismantling the country’s public health infrastructure. Hundreds of employees across the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and Food and Drug Administration have been handed termination notices. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the country’s new secretary of health and human services, still questions the use of vaccines, specifically the MMR vaccine to prevent measles.
On this week’s episode of More To The Story, host Al Letson talks with infectious disease epidemiologist Jessica Malaty Rivera about the collision course between the Trump administration’s health priorities and developing public health emergencies.
Rivera says the US is still not testing enough people to determine whether these diseases and others are spreading. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is making things even more difficult by withholding regular public health data that infectious disease experts routinely rely on to assess whether a larger health emergency is emerging. “Without good data, we can’t make good informed choices,” she says. “And it is conceivable that [a pandemic] can be happening and brewing right underneath our nose and us not pick it up.”
Interview:
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Morbidity and Mortality (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)
We celebrate the fact that Pew reports 43 percent of young adults are nonreligious, and that overall the “Nones” (nonreligious) are larger than any religious denomination.
Mandisa Thomas, founder and president of Black Nonbelievers, tells us about the upcoming Revival of Reason conference in Atlanta.
Then, we speak with public-health expert Professor Patrick L. Remington, who is on the board of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly about the dangers that religion and the right-wing administration pose to the work of the CDC.
Interview:
Friday, February 21, 2025
Thursday, May 9, 2024
RFK Jr’s ‘history lesson’ on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine flunks the fact test - The Washington Post
A line-by-line dissection shows he's often echoing Russian talking points...
RFK Jr. claims a doctor told him a worm ate part of his brain, reports New York Times - POLITICO
"I have cognitive problems, clearly … I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me," Kennedy said in the deposition…
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Dallas lives with JFK legacy – but hate that spawned assassination simmers
In Dallas, the buckle on the Bible belt, the hostility was a toxic mix of racism, anti-communism and religious bigotry aimed at America's first Catholic president – some feared that Kennedy was being controlled by the pope. Extremist groups such as the John Birch Society and the Minutemen were small but vociferous.
Mike Rawlings, a Democrat who was mayor of Dallas from 2011 to 2019, said: "There was definitely a very conservative bent. The John Birchers were the worst of it but still there was a lot of folks that were that way. It was the Tea Party and Maga [Make America great again] before the Tea Party and Maga."…
Thursday, July 27, 2023
DeSantis suggests he could pick RFK Jr. to lead the FDA or CDC - POLITICO
Kennedy, who remains a long shot for the Democratic presidential nomination, has aired contentious views over vaccines, having questioned their effectiveness on several occasions. In the past few weeks, hecame under sharp fire from liberals for suggesting that Covid was engineered to be less lethal to Asian and Jewish people. He has also been a critic of Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, commenting once that he would prosecute him if "crimes were committed."…
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
US senator denounced as ‘profoundly ignorant man’ over remarks on Mexico | Republicans | The Guardian
Mexicans "would be eating cat food out of a can and living in a tent behind an Outback" Steakhouse restaurant if it were not for their nation's proximity to the US, and their country should be invaded because of the presence of drug cartels there, the US senator John Neely Kennedy said...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
High court Justice Alito assured Kennedy on abortion rights: NY Times
"So I recognize there is a right to privacy. I'm a believer in precedents. I think on the Roe case that's about as far as I can go," Alito said to Kennedy, a staunch defender of abortion rights who died in 2009...
Friday, July 1, 2022
The Supreme Court’s “praying coach” decision rests on a bed of lies - Vox
…Moreover, because Gorsuch's opinion relies so heavily on false facts, the Court does not actually decide what the Constitution has to say about a coach who ostentatiously prays in the presence of students and the public. Instead, it decides a fabricated case about a coach who merely engaged in "private" and "quiet" prayer…:format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71020937/656226872.0.jpg)
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Sotomayor: SCOTUS Decision Backing Coach Prayer 'Misconstrues the Facts'
…In his opinion, Gorsuch wrote that the coach, Joe Kennedy, led a "quiet, personal prayer."
But in her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Kennedy's prayers weren't as minor as the court's opinion claimed.
"The record reveals that Kennedy had a longstanding practice of conducting demonstrative prayers on the 50-yard line of the football field. Kennedy consistently invited others to join his prayers and for years led student athletes in prayer at the same time and location," Sotomayor wrote. "The Court ignores this history."…
Coach Kennedy case: Neil Gorsuch tells kids to get over religious coercion at school.
"…Justice Neil Gorsuch's opinion for the court accepts the narrative that Kennedy was fired. Which he wasn't—he was put on paid administrative leave. And Gorsuch accepts the narrative that this was "private" and "quiet," even though there were TV cameras and elected officials and people storming the field and knocking over the tuba players to join…"
Monday, June 21, 2021
Opinion | In trying to pressure Biden, the Catholic bishops forget the lessons of JFK - The Washington Post
…At a time when some equated Catholic teachings to socialism, the Massachusetts senator said: "I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials."…
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
RFK's Grandson Blew The Whistle On Kushner's 'Lord Of The Flies' COVID Task Force: Report | HuffPost
Robert F. Kennedy’s grandson volunteered to work on a COVID-19 task force run by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner. But he ended up sending a complaint to Congress after witnessing what he described as a chaotic, dismal “Lord of The Flies” operation, The New Yorker reported Monday.
“I just couldn’t sleep,” Max Kennedy Jr., 26, told the magazine. “I was so distressed and disturbed by what I’d seen.”....
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jared-kushner-max-kennedy-rfk-covid-task-force_n_5f696a50c5b6968b276e492f
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jared-kushner-max-kennedy-rfk-covid-task-force_n_5f696a50c5b6968b276e492f
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