More Blood on RFK Jr.’s Hands – The Monday AM Quickie 8/11/25

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THE BIG NEWS

More Blood on RFK Jr.’s Hands After Anti-Vaxxer Shoots Up CDC Headquarters

Centers for Disease Control workers and their union demanded “health secretary” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. answer for the attack they endured Friday, when a Georgia man shot up their headquarters and killed a cop because he was convinced the Covid-19 vaccine had made him depressed, according to the AP, The Guardian and The NYT. If you needed any more evidence of what a POS Kennedy is, he didn’t make a statement Friday after the attack, and then he waited over 30 minutes after posting photos of his happy little family fishing trip the next day before offering empty condolences to the people he is ultimately responsible for terrorizing. CDC workers weren’t having it. 

“Kennedy is directly responsible for the villainization of CDC’s workforce through his continuous lies about science and vaccine safety, which have fueled a climate of hostility and mistrust,” Fired but Fighting, a group of former CDC employees who Kennedy fired as part of his plan to wreck public health, said in a statement. “We don’t need thoughts and prayers. We need an administration that does not villainize federal workers who are just trying to do their job. We need a HHS Secretary who does not promote misinformation about science and vaccines.” Per the NYT:

“Inside the C.D.C., the shooting was viewed as part of a pattern in which health workers have been targets of political, verbal and physical assaults on them and their workplaces.” 
“We’re mad this has happened,” Dr. Debra Houry, the C.D.C.’s chief medical officer, said in a large group call Saturday morning with Susan Monarez, the agency’s newly confirmed director, who tried to reassure them. Another employee on the call … asked Dr. Monarez: “Are you able to speak to the misinformation, the disinformation that caused this issue? And what your plan forward is to ensure this doesn’t happen again?”

The attack was not a random incident, said the American Federation of Government Employees, Local 2883, and “compounds months of mistreatment, neglect, and vilification that CDC staff have endured.” The union demanded RFK Jr. condemn vaccine disinformation, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that. In addition to gutting health agencies, RFK also recently slashed funding for the development of lifesaving and Nobel Prize-winning mRNA vaccines, saying that they don’t work, which is a lie. I have a question: what’s the plan for this autumn, when flu season coincides with the current rise of Covid-19 infections? I’d like to know since the Trump regime has also kicked millions of people off their health insurance and cut funding so deeply that hospitals across the country are laying off staff and closing down. What’s the plan? Just let everybody die? Will that Make America Great and/or Healthy Again?  

ICE Planning to Target Gen Z With Massive Recruitment Frenzy 

“Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is urgently looking for a company to help it ‘dominate’ digital media channels with advertisements in an attempt to recruit 14,050 more personnel,” according to US government contracting records reviewed by 404 Media. “The move, which ICE wants to touch everything from social media ads to those played on popular streaming services like Hulu and HBO Max, is especially targeted towards Gen Z, according to the documents. The push for recruitment advertising is the latest sign that ICE is trying to aggressively expand after receiving a new budget allocation of tens of billions of dollars, and comes alongside the agency building a nationwide network of migrant tent camps. If the recruitment drive is successful, it would nearly double ICE’s number of personnel.” 

Texas Dems Keep Fighting the Fight

Rep. Gene Wu, the leader of the state’s House Democratic caucus, fought Gov. Greg Abbott’s attempt to kick him and other members out of office, arguing in new court papers that the Texas Constitution gives the legislature the right to discipline its members, not the governor, Politico reported. Democratic leaders around the country are continuing to rally around Wu and his colleagues, who left Texas to stop Republicans from redistricting the state in service of Trump, the increasingly unpopular wannabe dictator who needs to cheat to maintain his death grip on Congress. On Meet the Press yesterday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker correctly identified cheating as Trump’s core personality trait: “He cheats on his wives, he cheats at golf, and now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes.”

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • Trump and Putin To Meet in Alaska to Carve Up Ukraine “There’ll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both,” Trump said. via Politico and The NYT
  • Deadly Storm Drops Month-and-a-Half Worth of Rain on Wisconsin The floods stranded people and closed down the beloved Wisconsin State Fair; it was the same weather system that brought 80 mph winds to Nebraska, “where one person was killed and another was seriously injured by a large cottonwood tree that toppled onto their vehicle.” via CNN
  • Trump ‘Best Thing That’s Happened’ to Neo Nazis, says Neo Nazi “White extremists are committing a growing proportion of U.S. political violence, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data project, a nonprofit research outfit that tracks global conflicts. In 2020, such groups were linked to 13% of all U.S. extremist-related demonstrations and acts of political violence, or 57 of the events ACLED tracked. By 2024, they accounted for nearly 80%, or 154 events.” via Reuters.
  • Defense Secretary Promotes Religious Extremist Who Says Women Shouldn’t Vote Pete Hegseth’s repost of an American fundamentalist’s oppressive ideas “illustrates his deep and personal connection to a Christian nationalist pastor with extreme views on the role of religion and women,” according to the AP, though personally I think it illustrates his deep and personal connection to the ideas themselves, which is that he agrees with them. via the AP.  

SOME NUMBER

40 percent

That’s the portion of doctors who received job offers at Veterans Affairs between January and March but turned them down because they were worried about the agency’s stability, according to an analysis by ProPublica.“Nearly 4 in 10 of the roughly 2,000 doctors offered jobs from January through March of this year turned them down. That is quadruple the rate of doctors rejecting offers during the same time period last year.”

ON THE SHOW TODAY

8/11: It’s me! Join us! We’re gonna talk about this story I wrote last week about all the money private prison companies are making off Trump’s mass deportation campaign. 

DON'T MISS MR CLIPS‌

Republican Booed For Pathetic Health Care Plan

“If you chose not to work” is so infuriating, as if (a) this guy, “Sideshow Mike,” has ever had to truly struggle for a single thing in his whole comfy life and (b) it’s easy to get a job in an era of AI, mass layoffs, zero-hour contracts, and endless gig work, all of which Republicans support. There’s no way to scream at this privileged piggie enough.  

Nancy Mace Loves Cancel Culture

As a woman I am allowed to say that this chick seems nuts. If you get mad at me for saying so, you are a misogynist. Unless you’re also a woman, and then whoever cries first wins. 

PARTING WORDS

“What did that little girl do to hurt anybody? Why are they going after such a small group of people?”

-- A man in his 70s, gesturing to the trans daughter of the Phelan family, who ran the only bookstore in Vermillion, South Dakota. The Phelans had to flee the state because of a new law that would have forced their daughter to use a boy’s bathroom. By the sound of this article, the Phelans loved living in Vermillion and their community loved them back; the Phelan Pharewell at a brewery drew more than 100 people, one of whom was the bookstore’s first customers, a man who works at the local landfill, whose voice broke as he said goodbye.  


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