Summary
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an outspoken anti-vaccine activist, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Known for promoting debunked claims linking vaccines to autism, Kennedy’s appointment has sparked concerns within federal health agencies, with some FDA staff reportedly considering resignations.
Kennedy, who previously ran for president before endorsing Trump, has hinted at plans to overhaul the FDA, ban fluoride in drinking water, and reduce ultra-processed foods.
His nomination marks a significant potential shift for U.S. public health policy.
What on Earth is the NIH thinking right now?
I mean, what if an moon landing skeptic took over NASA? It’s like that. They literally produce this mountain of evidence and organize this stuff, and… yeah.
RFK has said “there is no such thing as a safe and effective vaccine”.
You voted for this, America.
i think i remember in the debates, maybe it was JaDonald Vance, saying “it is either we choose to rely in science people, or rely on wisdom and common sense Trump has”.
this is that wisdom.
Has Trump rehired anyone from his previous administration? I know he fired a shit ton of them but I know a few managed to stay on.
Because if this is all new people, it’s very telling and I have a feeling it means it’s going to be more dangerous and not less.
I feel like the only people who can do anything powerful would be the front line government workers and contractors. If they all quit their jobs en masse on January 20th, it might prevent the new administration from doing even more dangerous shit.
Lol the whole plan is to fire any government worker that doesn’t step into line and replace them with party loyalists.
Every government worker that objects to Trump’s Agenda quitting would help that agenda. There’s no shortage of cronies willing to do any job for the sake of “Making America Great Again”. And it’s not like he needs qualified people in these positions. Most of the government agencies, he wants to run into the ground. Easier to get rid of regulations or to privatize that way.
Stephen miller, which is not reassuring.
No betsy devos, yet.
Susie Wiles as White House Chief of Staff, I believe. She didn’t serve in an office before, but was high-level in his campaign in 2016, 2020, and 2024, so she’s around for a long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susie_Wiles
Didn’t just show up with Trump, has done Republican campaigns for a long time.
Next time ebola breaks out, I half expect him to eat a live bat on TV to prove it doesn’t exist and immediately become patient zero right here
But fellatioborne transmission means the president gets it. The president.
Eagle flu comin’
Make smallpox great again!
And Polio, and Mumps, And Measles, and Rubella, and… and… and…
This guy is like a Nurgle devotee or something, right?
This administration is turning out to be one of the most experienced in history. I have extremely high hopes for these picks, the combined knowledge is unheard of, nobody could imagine all of these top individuals.
I, for one, welcome our new kakistocratic overlords.
I know there’s an /s in there that you forgot. Please say that you forgot it…
Y’all still gonna trust vaccines when the next pandemic hits? Cuz I aint trusting these RFK worm-infested vaccines.
I don’t know how he thinks he’ll reduce ultra-processed foods but that’s probably not the worst. Other stuff is 🤮
Depends on what he means by “ultra-processed”, but you can bet that it’s probably not a reasonable criteria that he’ll be using.
The man isn’t rational, and doesn’t base his conclusions on sound reasoning.
Note the call to lessen regulations around “raw milk, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine”. That’s pretty insane.
And I can almost be certain that what they’ll do is eliminate funding for snap benefits and school lunches going to what they’ll classify as “ultra processed foods”, without adjusting funding to account for what they left behind being significantly more expensive. Some definitions of “ultra-processed” include things like “store bought bread”, “frozen meals”, “soup concentrate”, “yoghurt” and “sausage”.
Call me cynical, but I think if you apply the stricter work requirements for benefits they always want, while reducing the scope of the benefits to cover fewer things, and almost nothing helpful for the people with the severe time restrictions the work requirements can cause you’ll end up seeing people use the benefits far less often, because they give less usable food for the money. Then they’ll use that to justify reducing the size of the program even further.We expect people making school lunches to make hundreds of meals that finish at the same time, to have the meal be nutritionally complete, tasty, and now also not use frozen or premade ingredients. We give them literally $1 for the ingredients for these meals, and maybe another $2 for operational overhead like labor costs and equipment.
Saying you can’t use canned tomato sauce, peanut butter, pre-packaged bread or ground meats is basically just cutting funding for feeding children under the guise of not paying for a scary sounding classification of food.That tweet’s a roller coaster.
Did any other US residents just get a text from cdc’s v-safe program? 👀
Yeeees…out of the blue. Odd coincidence.
So everyone funded by kremlin, gotcha
I feel like these articles blowing up now is just a way to make people less interested when it eventually has to pass the Senate… manufacturing consent and all that
Lulz, good job guys!
