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“President-elect Donald Trump’s eclectic roster of figures to lead federal health agencies is almost complete — and with it, his vision for a sweeping overhaul is coming into focus,” the New York Times reports. “Mr. Trump’s choices have varying backgrounds and public health views. But they have all pushed back against Covid policies or supported ideas that are outside the medical mainstream, including an opposition to vaccines.

What a surprise. Trump's former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who did all she could to destroy the department the last time he was in office, loves the new unqualified pick of Linda McMahon. DeVos, who at one time was apparently sane enough to realize it was time to jump ship after the insurrection and actually discussed the possibility of invoking the 25th amendment to remove Trump from office after he unleashed his minions to US Capitol-- is back to being a full MAGA supporter. Now she's all in, and hoping that Trump's pick of McMahon will finish the job of destroying public education in the United States that she failed to accomplish.

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This has to be one of the more pathetic attempts to pretend to "both sides" the sexual assault accusations against Hegseth and Trump that I've seen in quite a while. I'm not sure why CNN thought they were doing their viewers any sort of favor by bringing on Trump apologist Tricia McLaughlin for this segment, and they really do need to get their act together with who is invited on as a guest. Trump employees who are willing to lie for him as part of their job, or in the hope of future employment do nothing but misinform the public. Sadly, that was once again the case during the segment above.

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It looks as if the pendulum is finally swinging away from this sexual paganism and in the direction of sanity and religious liberty.