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“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a dark view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” NBC News reports. “In 2019, he called the federal agency’s vaccine division a fascist enterprise and accused it of knowingly hurting children. He also compared what he saw as a widespread conspiracy to hide harms from the child vaccination program to the cover-up of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.”

Trump's pick for Immigration Czar, Tom Homan, has been prancing around every Fox News program and right-wing site, proclaiming his authority and power to destroy anyone who gets in his way of deporting migrants. Homan joined Laura Ingraham Tuesday, dressed up like a US military general inspecting the troops and threatened every governor and mayor in the country to do his bidding or else. HOMAN: So if they're not going to do it, we'll do it for them. You can not help, but don't impede us, and don't knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien from ICE because that is a felony. And we got one hell of an attorney general coming in, Pam Bondi, I think she'll read that statute the same way I do it. I'm not a lawyer, but I can read, and we're going to have consequences if people violate the law and try to prevent us from doing our job. Shut the fuck up, you wanker. The iIrc writes: The Tenth Amendment of the U.

Any legit pro-life medical review committee would be clamoring to review the skyrocketing rate of maternal and infant deaths in Texas since its abortion ban. That is, unless the forced-birth crowd doesn’t want Texans to know that the “pro-life” law is killing women and babies. The Washington Post: The Texas committee that examines all pregnancy-related deaths in the state will not review cases from 2022 and 2023, the first two years after Texas’s near-total abortion ban took effect, leaving any potential deaths related to abortion bans during those years uninvestigated by the 23 doctors, medical professionals and other specialists who make up the group. The decision by the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee was supposedly done to make their review “more contemporary,” and skip over a backlog that will allow “more relevant recommendations to policymakers,” as The Post put it.read more

President-elect Donald Trump has announced a plan to impose tariffs on all products imported from America’s three largest trading partners: Mexico, Canada, and China. The move could impact the prices of a range of imported goods, from cars to electronics, experts say. Trump said on Truth Social on Monday night that he intends to sign an executive order on Jan.

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