This timeline is 70% unnecessarily violent. 30% unnecessarily absurd. 100% unbelievable.

The term to describe people from Somalia is Somalis (my error below). Trump called them “garbage” and said they were ruining our country and Minnesota. His National Security Strategy is anti-immigrant. He warned Europe of “civilization erasure” from migration. America is good because of immigrants.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... Trump started his political career on the “birther” claim that Obama was born in Kenya. He is now attacking Somalians and blocking migrants from “Third World” countries. What does it say about a country that elected a man of such bigotry, cruelty, and racism?

A Battle with My Blood by Tatiana Schlossberg (New Yorker) At the delivery of her second child, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. She has undergone two transplants and immunotherapy. She writes about her illness with grace, but with anger to cousin RFK Jr. for cuts to cancer research.

www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/... The board is stacked with vaccine skeptics who are ignorant of the facts and have fealty to Kennedy. The new Chair Kirk Milhoan supports ivermectin for Covid and the Vice Chair Robert Malone is a conspiracist and critic of Anthony Fauci. America is less healthy.

Trump orders review of childhood vaccine schedule, calls U.S. an ‘outlier’ - WP No, Mr. President, you and Bobby Kennedy are removing evidence-based practice of vaccination in America. You are increasing the risk and spread of infections. We are going from leading the world to taking a back seat.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u... The Supreme Court once again fails to protect democracy by allowing gerrymandering. John Roberts has worked to weaken the Voting Rights Act even though he previously wrote in 2019, “Excessive partisanship in districting leads to results that reasonably seem unjust.”

CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine - STAT Of course, they did.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u... Bobby Kennedy with Trump’s backing is destroying public health and people’s confidence in vaccines. He is wrecking trust in doctors and the well-established vaccine schedule. It started with measles and now moves to hepatitis B. Kennedy’s death march moves forward.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/h... Beware what follows. They will make changes based on belief and bias, leaving evidence behind. RFK Jr. and his henchmen are strangling public health and confidence. They are destroying vaccine recommendations based on science and practice. How many people will die?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o... Bobby Kennedy Jr. put his lifelong lie that vaccines cause autism on the official CDC website. Senator Bill Cassidy should apologize for supporting Bobby to lead HHS and call for Kennedy’s removal. Cassidy knows Bobby likely will end hepatitis B vaccines for neonates.

Lepore praises Burns’s “The American Revolution” - “its fidelity to the best and most sophisticated scholarship—searing, challenging, and explosively interesting, especially as intellectual history. The Trump Administration won’t ‘restore truth and sanity to American history.’ But this film does.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o... Trump abuses the pardon power. The president who was the most egregious with pardons was Andrew Johnson, who like Trump, pardoned people “who directly attacked American democracy.” Trump continues to lie about the 2020 election. Trump 2.0 is the Second Lost Cause.

Promoting access to IVF, Bobby Kennedy said, “Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early, and that’s bad but also, our parents aren’t having children.” He is unmoored to reality.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o... Kennedy continues to obfuscate about autism. He added circumcision to Tylenol and will only confuse families more. Many in the GOP believe him and will be hurt by his lies. Kennedy is unqualified for the job, undermines science, and sows mistrust.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Six surgeon generals warn us about RFK Jr. He has silenced experts, spread misinformation, depleted the healthcare workforce, and cut funding for research. He is “endangering the health of the nation.” Disease and deaths follow. It “will take years to rebuild.”

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... This is the tragic story occurring in the thousands from cutting USAID. It is not true that “no one has died.”

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... Dr. Stephen Camarata exposes the inaccuracies and dangers of RFK Jr. and Trump linking Tylenol and vaccines to autism. Makary’s claim that two-thirds of patients with autism will improve with leucovorin is based on small studies and is unwarranted.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Trump is ignorant. Kennedy is deranged. Tylenol is safe. Vaccines do not cause autism. The vaccine panel is subverting the review process and “cherry-picking” data to fit a false narrative. They are promoting an agenda that will make America sick again.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o... Kristof gives examples of people who have been harmed and died from the removal of funds, medication, and food by the demise of USAID. Rubio claims that “no one has died because the United States has cut aid.” He is lying. Both he and Trump have blood on their hands.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o... The simple answer is no. If you think Dr. Bhattacharya might improve science, you just needed to witness him with his fellow charlatans behind Trump and RFK Jr. and the announcement linking Tylenol to autism, dividing and delaying vaccines, and prescribing leucovorin.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o... Kristof tells the stories of individuals who have died from the loss of USAID. These are deaths that should not have occurred and are ongoing. Trump claims to want to save lives by ending wars while silently killing hundreds of thousands by taking away food and meds.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o... Some states have formed health care alliances. Florida could be a test case if it follows Dr. Ladapo’s plan for no vaccine requirements. There is concern that vaccine access will be a problem as well. How many preventable deaths will occur before we change course?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o... Jill Lepore reviews the importance of amendments, but now we have a sclerotic Constitution. Prior times where amendments changed the course of our country: the Bill of Rights, the Reconstruction Amendments, the women’s right to vote. We need a new Constitution.

Susan Monarez, former CDC Director, and Deborah Houry, former CMO, testified before the Senate. They described how Kennedy undermined public health and failed to consult scientists. They worry that we are not prepared for the next pandemic and that children will die unnecessarily without vaccines.

There are things wrong with our system: access, cost, unfair. We get some parts right - research, new drugs, training. Life expectancy has improved but stalled due to gun homicides, deaths of despair, infant mortality in minorities. We can do better, but not by destroying public health and research.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h... The NYT is too easy on Kennedy, GOP senators, and Trump. If the NYT thinks RFK Jr. held his own, they are endorsing overt lying. Senator Cantwell was right in calling him a “charlatan.” Senator Warnock told him to resign as did previous CDC directors. The NYT failed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o... CDC directors review how RFK Jr. is destroying public health. Residents in rural areas will have even less access to health care. Families with low incomes will have fewer health centers. Children risk losing access to vaccines due to cost or to changes in schedule.

Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o... RFK Jr. is endangering lives now and into the future. He spews his anti-vax nonsense and conspiracies. He claims autism is caused by vaccines and Covid-19 is the “deadliest” vaccine ever made. Sen. Cassidy should join Sen. Sanders.

The Public Health Disaster Everyone Saw Coming www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o... Firing Susan Monarez is not a surprise and is another step in the dismantling of public health by RFK Jr. and Trump. Bobby claimed he was not an anti-vaxxer and wanted a “gold standard science.” Senator Cassidy failed.

The $140 Billion Failure We Don’t Talk About www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o... It has been 20 years since Katrina struck New Orleans on August 29. It exposed a city that was vulnerable. There was massive rebuilding, but there was not a commitment to relieve inequality or to improve its resilience.

A Boat in the Air, a Car on the Roof: The Visual Chaos of Hurricane Katrina www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o... It makes no sense that Trump can take away funding for research on unrelated areas while charging antisemitism and civil rights abuses. Trump maybe right about some of higher education’s failures, but he is taking a sledge hammer to colleges on false pretenses.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o... They talk with physicians and scientists whose research is being blocked. Progress is halted and patients are harmed. It seems so senseless, but is cruel as well - stopping basic research and clinical trials in cancer and other diseases. Americans are losing out.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o... Rick Bright: Giving up on mRNA technology is dangerous and foolhardy. mRNA is “a platform” for research against many diseases, including cancer. The Covid vaccine averted severe disease rather than prevented infection. RFK Jr. has fostered confusion and mistrust.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/o... When working for President Reagan in 1981, John Roberts started to dismantle the Voting Rights Act. He has written two 5-4 decisions to weaken it further - Shelby County v. Holder in 2013 and Rucho v. Common in 2019. He will destroy it in Louisiana v. Callais.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o... Dr. Gounder’s husband died of a ruptured aortic aneurysm, but many said it was due to the Covid vaccine. The CDC was the target of a crazed gunman who believed his mental illness was due to the vaccine. RFK Jr. has canceled research on mRNA vaccines that saved lives.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o... Trump is getting short-term wins at the expense of our future. Republicans have never wanted to improve access to health care or to protect the environment. Trump’s idea of the future is one of destruction not building. The Democrats must present a brighter future.

The Confederates always used "state's rights" when it was convenient and the feds to control the states when it wasn't. We are still fighting the confederates...they weren't punished well enough and they never went away.

The Death of the Fourth American Republic www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o... 4 Republics: the American Revolution, the Civil War with the Reconstruction Amendments, the mid-20th century with citizen disenfranchisement, and the 1964-65 Civil Rights & Voting Rights Acts. Trump & SCOTUS will end the 4th.

The Supreme Court Has Finally Found a President It Likes www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o... The conservative majority endorses the unitary executive theory to override the lower courts. They have protected him with immunity. A second term will give Trump even more judges. This is how democracies die.

The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o... We are descending to where it will be hard to return. Trump firing Erin McEntarfer from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and revoking Jen Easterly from a professorship at West Point are examples of autocracy. Truth is killed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o... Trump’s reign of terror is anti-science with an assault on the air and water. While the International Court of Justice recognizes the impact of fossil fuels on the climate crisis, the U.S. has the EPA plan to deny their role. Trump’s disdain hurts us and the future.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o... Are there two types of genocide? You know the horror of the rapid type on October 7. You can be pro-Israel and anti-Hamas, but you cannot be for the destruction of a health care system and the starvation in Gaza causing a slow genocide of a population. It must stop.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u... Trump continues the onslaught against universities. RFK Jr. and Linda McMahon accuse Duke Medical School of violating civil rights by using “racial preferences” in hiring. They demand a Merit and Civil Rights Committee. Doctors must confront the ruse and insanity.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o... Doctors have long relied upon the federal branches of medicine - the CDC, the NIH, and the FDA. Due to funding cuts, they can no longer be trusted to provide the evidence-based guidance and state-of-the-art therapy trials. RFK is making us sick rather than healthy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o... Trump was wrong on many different levels — “the facts and the law,” morality, and decency. It is an absurd accusation against Obama, but suggests he committed a crime for which he could be executed. Trump’s lies could instigate a MAGA acolyte to carry out the verdict.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o... Vance is little more than a “fanboy” for Trump, who prefers playing the role of president rather than governing. Bouie goes back to the Dred Scott decision to expose Vance’s belief system. Lincoln had to resort to the Civil War to give us “a new birth of freedom.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/o... The Democratic brand is damaged, but Edsall finds some bright spots - less “woke” and identity politics, some moderation, and more enthusiasm than Republicans. Carville pointed out that there will be time for fighting, but they must come together for the midterms.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c... Lee Zeldin and Trump are proud of cutting regulations, research, and jobs. Thousands are departing and the EPA will be a skeleton of what it should be. Per Jennifer Orem-Zavaleta, who worked at the EPA for 40 years, it is “short-sighted … very callous and very cruel.”