CDC Scientists Sound the Alarm - The Friday AM Quickie 8/29/25
How about national party conventions for the midterms every two years? I can't think of a better way to make more people drop out of politics. Enjoy your weekends, folks, I hope it's a long one. Whitney's back Monday. - Corey
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THE BIG NEWS
RFK Jr. Insanity Sparked CDC Chaos
If you're under 65 years old with no underlying health decisions and living in the US, you're probably going to have trouble getting a Covid-19 vaccine this year, thanks to Donald Trump and his worm-brained Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Because the Food and Drug Administration decided this week to limit approvals for new versions of the shot "your best chance of getting one is at a doctor's office, not a pharmacy," the New York Times Reports. In response to "the current regulatory environment," the country's largest pharmacy chain, CVS, won't offer Covid vaccines in at least 16 states this year.
"The current regulatory environment" is, simply put, chaos fueled by madness. "We're scared for ourselves and for the country," a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worker tells the Times. This week, RFK Jr. tried to fire CDC Susan Monarez, confirmed by the Senate only last month, because she refused to fire her senior staff and go along with his plans to gut vaccine research and availability. "Our science is going to be compromised" by RFK Jr.'s antivax crusade, Demetre Daskalakis, a top CDC official who resigned in protest this week, tells the Washington Post. "The data is going to be massaged in some way that is going to make something look wrong with the drug[s under development.]" Another top CDC official who quit, Debra Houry, tells NBC News "America's public health is significantly in danger" thanks to Trump and Kennedy.
The White House yesterday selected RFK Jr.'s top deputy, a libertarian "Peter Thiel crony" and human "longevity" crank, Jim O'Neill, to serve as acting CDC head. O'Neill, per the Post, was a loud critic of the agency during the pandemic. "We're trying to determine what kind of advice this guy's going to give, and all he can do is mumble around and say Kennedy is doing a great job," Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren complained during O'Neill's May confirmation hearings. Previously, O'Neill has suggested that corporations should be able to sell experimental drugs to Americans without FDA testing and approval.
Kennedy, it must be said, doing the opposite of a great job. And Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a medical doctor who chairs the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and whose vote secured Kennedy's confirmation, has buyer's remorse. Cassidy now wants to conduct "significant oversight" of the CDC and has called for a halt to its looming Sept. 18 meeting of immunization policy advisers. A little late, pal!
Meanwhile, clinical trials for children with brain cancer have ceased. The regime has cut funding.
MORE STORIES TO WATCH
'Immoral and Abhorrent': Trump Does Some Labor Day Union-Busting
Labor Day, honoring the struggles of American workers, is on Monday, Sept. 1. Yesterday, Donald Trump spit in those workers' faces by signing an executive order telling another half-dozen government agencies to unilaterally throw out collective bargaining agreements with employee unions, effectively banning organizing and stripping workers of their hard-won labor protections. According to the New York Times, the affected agencies include NASA, the National Weather Service, and the Bureau of Reclamation.
"Trump's decision to issue a Labor Day proclamation shortly after stripping union rights from thousands of civil servants, a third of whom are veterans, should show American workers what he really thinks about them," American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley says. "This latest executive order is another clear example of retaliation against federal employee union members who have bravely stood up against his anti-worker, anti-American plan to dismantle the federal government."
The Clampdown: DC Sandwich Man Charge Reduced to Misdemeanor as 'Horseshit' Cases Proliferate
- Judge Orders New Federal Trial for Cops in Tyre Nichols Killing After Trial Judge Claims Memphis Police 'Infiltrated to the Top with Gang Members' Judge Mark Norris, who recused himself before sentencing, allegedly said in private that one of the police defendants was a gang member, and that the same gang might have been behind the shooting of his law clerk days after the verdict in October. via NBC News and the New York Times.
- Chicago Braces for Invasion; Military Asked to Support ICE Escalation; City Leaders Left in the Dark; Mexican Group Refuses to Cancel Parade "The erosion of basic principles like due process and the expanding use of our military on domestic soil puts the liberties of all Americans at risk, and should concern Democrats and Republicans alike," Chicagoan President Barack Obama said yesterday. via the Chicago Sun-Times, the Associated Press, and the Chicago Tribune.
- Gavin Newsom and Eric Adams Surge Cops as Muriel Boswer Praises Results of Trump's Military Occupation The California governor is sending state Highway Patrol troopers into cities to address car thefts and drug dealing; the New York City mayor is deploying 1,000 cops to the Bronx and inviting gang leaders to Gracie Mansion; and the Washington, DC mayor is under fire after saying Trump's troops have reduced petty crime. via the Los Angeles Times, Gothamist, and NBC News.
- Democratic Governors Protest 'Alarming Abuse of Power' A letter signed by all but four Democratic governors – including Minnesota's Tim Walz – says Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to occupy cities over the objections of state leaders is both unlawful and ineffective at reducing crime. via Politico.
QUICKEST QUICKIES
- Trump Shrugs as Russia Bombs EU and British Offices in Kyiv; German Chancellor Says Putin-Zelenskyy Summit Won't Happen "I think Trump is Putin's puppet," says Oleksander, a 30-year-old Ukrainian man sitting on a curb outside the ruins of his family's apartment building, waiting to learn if they survived a Russian attack. "He's scared. He's a coward." via the Washington Post, the Guardian, and Politico.
- Regime Threatens to Yank $96 Million in Federal Funding for Denver Public Schools Over Gender-Neutral Bathrooms "To turn that law [Title IX] on its head, to use it as a tool for exclusion for transpeople is just an abomination," Colorado attorney Dan Williams says of the Education Department's latest anti-trans ultimatum. via the Associated Press and the Denver Post.
- New York Times Campaign to Defeat Zohran Mamdani Continues This week the so-called paper of record said the NYC Democratic mayoral nominee was too soft on crime, too hard on millionaires, and can't pay for his promise to provide families with free child care. via The Nation, In These Times, and Gothamist.
- US Judge Rules Against Saudi Government, Says 9/11 Families' Lawsuit Can Go to Trial "Judge [George] Daniels found that one man tied to the Saudi government, Omar al-Bayoumi, 'seemed to serve as a connecting point between the hijackers and many other people who had provided assistance to the hijackers at one point or another,' and that his activity was 'inconsistent with his official employment title' as an accountant for a Saudi aviation company." via the New York Times and ProPublica.
SOME NUMBER
$1.2 billion
That's the value of the US Army contract to build a migrant concentration camp at Fort Bliss, Texas, awarded to Aquisition Logistics LLC, a mystery company with no relevant experience and no website based at the suburban Virginia home of a 77-year-old retired Navy officer who doesn't answer phone messages, email, or his front door. The Pentagon refused to answer questions from the Associated Press about the contract.
Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security plans to ban states and volunteer groups that receive government funds from helping undocumented people; lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a judge to place a gag order on Attorney General Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem; and Washington State Democrats demanded answers for a Border Patrol raid on a firefighter camp that removed two Mexican contractors from an active wildfire line.
ON THE SHOW TODAY
8/29: Today's guests will be Brendan James, co-host of the Blowback Pod, to wrap the week's news; and Amanda Seales, comedian, actress, producer, and host of Views From Amandaland, discussing her recent video, Surrounded by 20 Black Conservatives, on Jubilee.
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PARTING WORDS
"[A]fter reviewing the circumstances of Ashli's death, and considering the information that has come forward since then, I am persuaded that the previous determination was incorrect. Additionally, I would like to invite you and your family to meet me at the Pentagon to personally offer my condolences.'"
-- US Air Force undersecretary Matthew Lohmeier, who was previously fired by the Space Force for ranting about wokeness and Marxism in the military, writing this month to the parents of the late Jan. 6 insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt to share his decision to grant her a belated military funeral including "a full casket team of pallbearers, a gun-firing party, a bugler and a folded American flag." The military determined in Feb. 2021 that Babbitt's decision to storm the Capitol with a MAGA mob meant that providing her with funeral honors "would bring discredit on the Air Force."
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