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Exclusive: USDA says it won't use emergency funds for food stamps States also won't be reimbursed if they cover SNAP expenses on their own, the memo says.

BREAKING—40 million set to lose food aid next week after Trump USDA says it refuses use emergency funds for food stamps. www.axios.com/2025/10/24/g...

INSANE INFLATION: Average ACA premiums will rise ⬆️ 30% next year. The higher premiums, along with the likely expiration of subsidies, mean millions of people will see their health insurance payments double or even triple in 2026.

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$172 million can fund a lot of medical research. Or 2 fancy private jets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

2) The CDC division within the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) that directs the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) — a bellwether of the country’s health — lost all its planners in last weekend’s firings.

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CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

BREAKING—New Trump White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay. (Read: possible mass- airport sickouts if TSA & air traffic controllers refuse to work without pay during shutdown)
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Shutdown fight—to save the average American family $13k in Obamacare health insurance subsidies. GOP want to dissolve this and then allow rates to rise to any amount.

Medical experts slam Trump administration on Tylenol and autism link at Pa. House hearing Three medical experts with decades of experience in autism and epidemiology on Tuesday slammed Trump administration federal officials for spreading disinformation and distrust with new guidance falsel...

TYLENOL—“Why hasn’t the CDC refuted it? Well, RFK Jr. fired CDC director Monarez....and the acting director has no medical background is a speechwriter for Bush. So if you’re a speechwriter, you too can become a CDC director someday if you really believe in yourself”
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Donald Trump Becomes Dr. Death & Declares War on Tylenol

Trump, an ignorant man without any medical experience, repeats dangerous, unfounded, & reckless claims about Tylenol & autism in another step advancing MAGA's pro-death march.

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Eric Feigl-Ding on X: "⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr and Trump are wrong—the largest & best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol, Tylenol) use by the mother during pregnancy. A crude unadjusted analysis found only a preliminary 5% risk, https://t.co/XsIlO623Fq" / X ⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr and Trump are wrong—the largest & best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol, Tylenol) use by the mother during pregnancy. A crude unadjusted analysis found only a preliminary 5% risk, https://t.co/XsIlO623Fq

2) longer discussion thread is on twitter.

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⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr & Trump are wrong—the largest best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol/Tylenol). A crude analysis found only a tiny 5% risk, but once you adjust via sibling controls, the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0%📉

Breaking—RFK Jr’s self appointed vaccine committee voted Friday to end the CDC’s universal recommendation that people of all ages get Covid shots, moving the decision from individuals to one made in coordination with doctors instead—read: more difficult to get COVID shots.

⚠️DUMBEST ERA OF HUMANITY. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s handpicked slate of vaccine advisers voted to no longer recommend a combined shot for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chickenpox) for children under age 4. Some committee members said there was no evidence to support the move.

Western States Issue Their Own Vaccine Recommendations to Counter Kennedy

BREAKING—in rebuke to RFK Jr—the West Coast Health Alliance—health officials in California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii—recommended every resident 6 months & older receive the flu vaccine, most get Covid-19 shot, including pregnant women and all kids 0.5-2 yrs

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Nearly Half of Dog Owners Are Hesitant to Vaccinate Their Pets A new study has found that US dog owners who harbor mistrust in the safety and efficacy of childhood and adult vaccines are also more likely to hold negative views about vaccinating their four-legged ...

Dooming our dogs—A new study has found that US dog owners who harbor mistrust in the safety and efficacy of childhood and adult vaccines are also more likely to hold negative views about vaccinating their four-legged friends.
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Science dies in darkness - ignorance kills in silence MAGA’s assault on Harvard is about destroying truth itself.

Across the NIH and NSF, billions in research grants have been frozen or cancelled. The National Cancer Institute faces a $4 billion slash - a 37% cut.

Those aren’t abstract numbers. Those are cancelled Alzheimer’s trials. Stalled cancer studies. Dead-end cures.

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CDC has been ‘censored’ and ‘politicized’ under RFK Jr., former officials plan to say Two former top CDC officials plan to deliver fiery testimony about how RFK Jr. has undermined the agency.

Because of RFK Jr., “CDC scientists were blocked from using clinical data to make decisions, public communications about vaccines were halted, Covid and flu preparedness programs were scaled back,” former CDC staff tell Congress. www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

Dropping hepatitis B shots for newborns would ignore history and endanger children, scientists warn People who study, treat, or have hepatitis B say ending routine vaccination at birth - as some vaccine critics want - could lead to a resurgence of the virus.

2) Dropping hepatitis B shots for newborns would ignore history and endanger children, scientists warn

Cases in kids and teens dropped 99% after the CDC recommended universal vaccination at birth

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ONLY MASS VACCINATION WILL SAVE KIDS—Cases of Hepatitis B in kids and teens dropped 99% in the 1990s only after the CDC recommended universal vaccination at birth. Trump/RFK Jr now wants to reverse that, despite hard lessons from 1980s that casual vax wasn’t enough. www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/n...

📍RFK Jr. has crossed the Rubicon. The war on science isn’t looming - it’s here. I had hoped that after the darkest days of the pandemic, we could start rebuilding a stronger science world. I was wrong. So, starting today, I’m back. And I want you to join me.
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RFK Jr. says anyone who wants a covid shot can get one. Not these Americans. Pharmacies and doctors are struggling to adjust to a new regulatory environment for updated coronavirus vaccines that are no longer broadly recommended.

⚠️Lies, damn lies, and…. RFK Jr testified to Congress that ANYONE can get a new updated coronavirus vaccine... ➡️ total bullshit lie. Many people now have to go out-of-state to get a shot, or even get off label prescriptions from their doctor!

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ACOG Continues Recommending COVID-19 Vaccine During Pregnancy This JAMA Medical News article discusses updated guidance on COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant people from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

⚠️DEFYING RFK Jr’s CDC—The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) reaffirmed its support for COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant women, breaking from flawed advice in the most recent CDC immunization schedule set by RFK Jr.
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows. Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.

MUZZLED CANCER REPORT—For past 3 years, the alcohol industry, aided by its allies in Congress & Trump WH, sought to discredit and bury a major analysis linking alcohol and getting sick and dying, including cancer. They succeeded. Author says says Trump WH blocked it.
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We are in big trouble and entering dark times.

CDC director being ousted weeks into job Susan Monarez, a longtime federal government scientist, was confirmed by the Senate in late July to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

BREAKING—new CDC director being booted—Susan Monarez, the newly installed director of the CDC, is being ousted weeks after she was confirmed to lead the public health agency, according to multiple WH/HHS sources. Unclear why yet. She’s been CDC 1 month.

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FDA limits approval for new coronavirus vaccines to high risk people The narrowed approval marks a shift from past recommendations for everyone ages 6 months and older to receive annual coronavirus vaccines.

📍FDA has approved new variant-adapted COVID vaccine formulation (Novavax too)— but now only for those age 65+ or those “higher risk”, which is vague. Still needs CDC’s clearance—but now controlled by RFK Jr’s new dubious ACIP vaccine committee.

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Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’ A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.

PRO DEATH WHITE HOUSE—The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” says one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

JOB LOSSES—Worst monthly payroll drop off (layoffs) in recorded U.S. history since 1979… with exception of April 2020 (when that pesky virus “would just disappear”). ➡️Worse than even 2008 recession!