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Monday, August 10, 2026

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations ... read more


Monday, July 13, 2026

Sam Neill, a smoothly elegant and versatile actor whose career moved from art film to blockbuster as he dodged velociraptors in "Jurassic Park" to playing Holly Hunter's husband in "The Piano," has died. He was 78. read more


Monday, June 15, 2026

Department of Homeland Security head Markwayne Mullin said he's willing to go to extreme lengths to fight the nonexistent scourge of voter fraud in the upcoming midterm elections. read more


Robert Reich publishes writings by Richard Gephardt, who represented Missouri in the United States House from 1977 to 2005, who lays out the case that Trump is preparing for a coup:
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Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Inflation accelerated in May as rising energy costs contributed to pain for consumers, though underlying pressures were less intense.


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The EO:

www.whitehouse.gov

First of all, *gag* to the tacky newsletter sign up pop up ad that says "Welcome to the Golden Age!"

Reading this, there are some real gems of idiocy that only a s*&^ for brains like RFK could say with a straight face.

For instance:

it is the policy of my Administration that Federal programs and funding should support maximal parental choice over childhood vaccines, consistent with the Federal Government's constitutional and statutory obligations and the fundamental principles of personal autonomy and informed consent.

Existing case law affirms the power of state and local governments to enforce vaccination mandates for the public good. The Jacobson decision, IIRC, is well over a century old.

The Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations also recognize that the combined measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine should be administered in three separate single-disease shots once such products are domestically available and that, to the maximum extent feasible, all childhood immunizations should be administered at separate medical visits.

So here they are meddling in markets, forcing companies to produce products they don't want to produce.

Also, the last part all but guarantees that overall vaccination rates across the board are likely to fall. Expecting constant visits ensures all won't be administered and spacing them out removes synergistic effects of co-injections that are designed into the schedule. This is anything but "gold standard science" driven. It's bulls*&^ driven.

Section 4 opens a free for all for the stupidest, least capable parents among us to ensure their little spawns have every chance to become typhoid Marys.

I hope states counter this with new laws that state any parent whose unvaccinated child causes death or serious illness to another child by transmitting a preventable disease should be criminally charged. You want "freedom"? Fine. You should also get the consequences of your negligence.

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