FDA refuses to consider Moderna flu shot in move experts claim is part of ‘anti-vaccine agenda’

"It's all pretext and obfuscation when the real agenda is rejecting conventional science and serving a predetermined anti-vaccine agenda," said Richard Hughes IV, a partner with Epstein Becker Green and law professor at George Washington University. 

Dorit Reiss, professor of law at UC Law San Francisco, said "personally humiliating a company is not a legitimate reason to refuse to review a submission", and the refusal needs to "address substantive reasons". Angela Rasmussen, an American virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan, says "they're just coming up with reasons to not approve mRNA anything, and they're going to eventually do it to all these vaccines"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/fda-moderna-flu-vaccine

 

Former FDA commissioners condemn plan to tighten vaccine approvals - The Washington Post

They argued that his approach represents a major shift that could delay the arrival of vaccines better matched for evolving viruses, make it potentially prohibitively expensive for new shots to come to market and slow expanded approval of vaccines for more people...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/03/fda-commissioner-letter-vaccine-approval/

 

Experts say strict new FDA protocol for vaccine approval is ‘dangerous and irresponsible’

"[Prasad] says he has evidence that this vaccine killed 10 children, but that's not the way it works," Offit said. "If you think you have an extraordinary claim, you should back it up with extraordinary evidence. He should have submitted it to an excellent journal where it can be reviewed by subject matter experts who can say, 'Yes, this is clear evidence,' then it can be published. That's the way it works."…

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/29/regulator-fda-stricter-protocols-vaccine-approvals

 

Jake Tapper reveals another wrinkle in the Kimmel saga

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SR8S5uY5dbM

 

‘Ludicrous’: New report on Kristi Noem’s 3-day delay of Texas flood rescue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0IT4UksSUo

 

What It Takes To Advocate For One Of My Patients

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YRfSm8sMpKQ

 

House Republican, Democrat move to limit Trump from entering Iran war

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) plan to introduce a measure that would force President Trump to get approval to Congress to enter Israel's conflict with Iran...

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/17/trump-iran-israel-war-congress-massie-khanna 

 

 

Speaker Mike Johnson singed by a blast of conservative fury - POLITICO

The right's ire toward the Louisiana Republican isn't universal. But it's growing: One member called him a "joke," and another deemed his performance "plummeting."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/29/speaker-johnson-singed-by-a-blast-of-conservative-fury-00129180

Approval of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is more deeply embedded than you might think - The Washington Post

The undercurrent that led to the day's violence persists...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/21/approval-jan-6-capitol-riot-is-more-deeply-embedded-than-you-might-think/

Opinion | The U.S. military builds a bulwark against Trump - The Washington Post

This week Military Times came out with a poll of active-duty military finding that 50 percent of them have an unfavorable view of the president (42 percent strongly disapprove) and only 38 percent have a favorable view. They support Joe Biden over President Trump by four percentage points — an extraordinary edge for a Democrat.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/03/us-military-builds-bulwark-against-trump/

Court overturns EPA approval of popular herbicide made by Monsanto

Ruling says EPA ignored clear evidence that the new herbicide would cause widespread damage to crops
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/04/monsanto-herbicide-court-overrules-epa

Trump ‘personally’ pressured CDC, FDA, NIH to allow untested malaria drugs to be used to treat coronavirus: report – Raw Story

President Donald Trump personally intervened in the medical approval process, calling top officials from three of the nation’s leading federal government medical agencies to pressure them to allow drugs untested for use in treating the novel coronavirus to be used for that purpose. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-personally-pressured-cdc-fda-nih-to-allow-untested-malaria-drugs-to-be-used-to-treat-coronavirus-report/

FDA Keeps Brand-Name Drugs On A Fast Path To Market ― Despite Manufacturing Concerns

The agency approved Gilead’s “game changer” hepatitis C cure, bypassing concerns raised by its own federal inspectors.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fda-keeps-brand-name-drugs-on-a-fast-path-to-market-despite-manufacturing-concerns

Trump Is Planning Another Tax Cut for the 1%—Without Congress’s Approval - Vanity Fair

The White House is reportedly working on a tax break from which 86% of the benefits would go to the 1%. And it may bypass Congress to get it done.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/trump-capital-gains-tax-cut

41 Republicans vote against Iran amendment, effectively blocking bill - CNN Politics

Senate Republicans tallied enough votes Friday morning to block a largely Democratic-backed amendment that would require President Donald Trump to get congressional approval before striking Iran militarily.....
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/28/politics/iran-amendment-senate-republicans/index.html

Fact Checker: Trump says he has the record for approval among Republicans. He doesn’t. - The Washington Post

This is one of those Trump claims that initially seemed too inconsequential to be worth a full-fledged fact check. So when he first asserted on Twitter on July 10, 2018, that he was “the most popular Republican in the history of the party,” we tossed it into our database of Trump’s false or misleading claims.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/05/trump-says-he-has-all-time-record-approval-among-republicans-he-ranks-sixth/