Joe Campbell says his calling is to share God's love, but a group of women say he sexually abused them as girls. An NBC News investigation uncovered decades of missed warnings and failures to act.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said she is suspending imports of livestock through the Mexican border on a "month-by-month basis" to protect U.S. cattle from the threat of a dangerous, flesh-eating parasite infestation. The parasite is the New World Screwworm, or NWS, which is actually a fly and was eradicated in the United States almost 60 years ago.
For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s promise for "pulling back the curtain" to find autism's causes in a few months is jarring -- and unrealistic. That's because it appears to ignore decades of science linking about 200 genes that play a role -- and the quest to understand differences inside the brain that can be present at birth.
Following considerable cuts to its enforcement workforce, the US's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to use AI to supplement its ability to collect taxes from US citizens. read more
Poll: A majority of U.S. adults disapprove of President Donald Trump's handling of issues related to colleges and universities, according to a new poll ... read more
The The - This Is the Day (1983)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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Well you didn't wake up this morning
'Cause you didn't go to bed
You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red
The calendar on your wall
Is ticking the days off
You've been reading some old letters
You smile and think how much you've changed
All the money in the world
Couldn't buy back those days
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Congressional Republicans Are Planning One of the Largest-Ever Cuts to Basic Supports for Children
www.americanprogress.org
... As Republicans on various House of Representatives committees write new legislative text to enact massive tax giveaways for the wealthiest Americans, architects of the plan have aligned behind sweeping budget cuts that would harm the most vulnerable people in our country: America's kids. Specifically, this potential legislation would enact a slew of policies that cut basic needs supports for families with children by slashing funding for food assistance, health care, and even programs that support foster care.
At a time when rising prices are straining families' budgets, it's the worst moment for Congress to make these historic cuts. The portions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid cuts that likely affect kids, plus the elimination and gutting of federal dollars passed to states to support families, would add up to one of the largest-ever cuts to programs that support children. ...
And this ...
Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water
arstechnica.com
... When you don't believe in germ theory, the world is your oyster -- or maybe your bathtub.
Over the weekend, America's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shared pictures on social media of himself fully submerged in the sewage-tinged waters of Rock Creek in Washington, DC. His grandchildren were also pictured playing in the water.
The creek is known for having a sewage overflow problem and posing a health hazard to any who enter it. The National Park Service, which manages the Rock Creek Park, strictly bars all swimming and wading in Rock Creek and the park's other waterways due to the contamination, specifically "high levels of bacteria."
A notice on the NPS website advises "Stay Dry, Stay Safe," warning, "Rock Creek has high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens that make swimming, wading, and other contact with the water a hazard to human (and pet) health. Please protect yourself and your pooches by staying on trails and out of the creek. All District waterways are subject to a swim ban -- this means wading, too!"
In images shared on social media, Kennedy can be seen getting fully underwater, including his head, and then splashing around with several of his grandchildren. Kennedy, who does not have any background in medicine or science, was a long-time anti-vaccine advocate before President Trump appointed him to be health secretary.
In a 2021 book, Kennedy indicated that he does not believe in germ theory, the fundamental concept that microscopic pathogens, such as those abundant in sewage, are the cause of disease....
Then there's this ...
MAHA's messy marriage
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... Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s short time leading America's health agencies has already destabilized the uneasy alliance that vaulted him into President Trump's Cabinet.
Why it matters: The "Make America Healthy Again" movement " a loose umbrella of vaccine skeptics, wellness influencers, and anti-pharma crusaders " was envisioned as a revolution against the medical establishment.
But its attempt to integrate with the federal health apparatus " and the MAGA purists who comprise the backbone of Trump's base " has so far proven deeply dysfunctional.
The big picture: The anti-establishment takeover of Health and Human Services " a sprawling agency that accounts for the largest share of domestic federal spending " has become one of the most chaotic experiments of Trump's second term.
- - - Trump has already been forced to pull two major health nominations " former Rep. Dave Weldon for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and Fox News contributor Janette Nesheiwat for surgeon general " after scrutiny of their records.
- - - The Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine regulator, Peter Marks, abruptly resigned in March in protest of Kennedy's "misinformation and lies" about vaccines.
- - - As a measles outbreak spread in Texas, the White House became so frustrated by the lack of clear and fast communications by HHS that it set up a parallel press shop, as Axios scooped last month.
Between the lines: Kennedy's top health picks include contrarians who are critical of the medical establishment " but unwilling to fully embrace the MAHA movement's more conspiratorial views on vaccines. ...
... President Donald Trump's special envoy broke with long-standing protocol by not employing his own interpreter during three high-level meetings with Russia's Vladimir Putin . ...
So, Pres Putin's interpreter was saying things to our US envoy, and our envoy may have agreed, without actually knowing specifically what he agreed to?
The incompetence within the Trump administration seems to be not only rampant, but even encouraged and supported.