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On 2/25/2025 at 6:41 PM, Satchel said:

When I googled Abbott responds to measles outbreak in Texas, this is what I found:

Wait, I'm not seeing anyth.....ooooooh.

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On 2/23/2025 at 3:54 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

This person voted to confirm RFK Jr.

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One astute reply I saw to this news was on Jamelle Bouie's social media:

GOP ordered a shit sandwich and now complains that it's overcooked....

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On 2/25/2025 at 2:59 PM, gernblansten said:

I assume someone in the White House is going to float the idea of shipping them to Palestine to help spread the cleansing of the area.  

Here's an idea.  The White House can gather all of the blankets that were wrapped around measles victims and ship them to Gaza as a "gift" for the Palestinians.  They'll never suspect a thing!

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13 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Here's an idea.  The White House can gather all of the blankets that were wrapped around measles victims and ship them to Gaza as a "gift" for the Palestinians.  They'll never suspect a thing!

JFC, don’t give them any ideas.

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1 hour ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Per usual, The Onion with the brushback pitch:

 

That is not even a joke. He and his allies believe that the best way to achieve immunity to a disease is just to have everybody have the disease. The mass death will leave behind an immune remnant.

But of course we have centuries of this behind us. We know how it works. Eventually a new generation will be born without those immunities and the whole process repeats.

Taking vaccines achieves the same result without all the sickness and death.

And getting treatment for any of those diseases will be enormously expensive for most Americans, so they will attempt to ride it out...allowing easily treatable diseases like tuberculosis to kill thousands and spread throughout the population.

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57 minutes ago, F250 said:

It would be cool if the ghost of his dad would show up and face fuck him to death.

 

Or the ghost of his uncle show up and shoot him in the head. Either way. 

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RFK ending notice and comment at HHS:

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a document Friday proposing to strip public participation from much of the business his department conducts. The move comes during a time of major upheaval across federal health agencies, and as the public waits to see how Kennedy will enact his pledge of “radical transparency” at the department.

The statement, placed in the Federal Register, said HHS would rescind its longtime practice of giving members of the public a chance to comment on the agency’s plans. 

“This is a direct attack on the idea that HHS — a gigantic agency — should have to tell the public everything that it’s doing,” said Alex Howard, an open government advocate and former director of the Digital Democracy Project at Demand Progress Educational Fund. 

Normally, before issuing a new rule or regulation, the public is given an opportunity to submit written comments in support or in opposition to government proposals. This has been the case for years under the Administrative Procedure Act.

However, Kennedy and HHS are arguing they don’t need to seek public input when the agency is making decisions about “agency management or personnel,” or related to public property, loans and grants, benefits, or contracts. HHS can also choose to cut out public participation when it deems the process “impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest,” per the law.

The move is “hugely concerning and will almost certainly be challenged,” said a former high-level HHS official in the Biden-Harris administration. “This includes grants, loans, and benefits, which is a large portion of what HHS does.” 

HHS did not immediately respond to STAT’s request for comment.

Since 1971, HHS has chosen to involve the public in its rulemaking about the listed issues, and to err on the side of sharing more publicly — to forego the process “sparingly.” This decision, referred to as the Richardson Waiver, has made it so anyone could read through notices in the Federal Register of what HHS planned to do, and offer feedback. 

HHS says it is rescinding the Richardson Waiver because the public participation process imposes too many responsibilities on the department, “beyond the maximum” requirements of the law. Those obligations “are contrary to the efficient operation of the department, and impede the department’s flexibility to adapt quickly to legal and policy mandates,” Kennedy wrote in the document.

Cary Coglianese, a professor of law and political science at University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, said the justification Kennedy provides for his decision is “inaccurate” because agencies have always been allowed to go above and beyond the Administrative Procedure Act. “This is really troublesome in that it represents a backsliding on good government practices and it doesn’t really provide any justification for that backsliding,” he said. 

If the policy is implemented, it would mean HHS “can simply announce changes,” Coglianese said. It was not immediately clear what all would be covered under the proposed change, or why Kennedy is moving to make it at this point in time.

“What does a public benefit, exactly, entail?” said Jeffrey Davis, a director at McDermott+ and a former HHS adviser who worked with senior officials on Medicare budget and policy. “The terms are pretty broad.” The decision stands in contrast to Kennedy’s repeated promises to make HHS an agency whose processes and data are so accessible that public records requests would not even be necessary. 

“We’re going to work together to launch a new era of radical transparency,” Kennedy said on Feb. 19. “Only through radical transparency can we provide Americans with genuine informed consent, which is the bedrock and the foundation stone of democracy. Transparency allows diverse parties to establish common ground of mutually trusted information.”

In the 1980s, HHS attempted to overturn the same rule in order to skip public participation on decisions related to loans, grants, benefits and contracts. It faced intense backlash, according to a write-up at the time by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. Dozens of members of Congress wrote a resolution asking the health secretary to withdraw his proposal. Around that same period, officials were considering changes to public benefit programs, including to Medicare. 

HHS attorneys eventually walked back their proposal. 

From a legal standpoint, HHS can decide to do less public engagement than it had done in previous decades, Coglianese said. And there is still room under the law for individual agencies to engage the public, but it would be on more of a case-by-case basis. 

“It will, if nothing else, give the appearance that the department wants to undertake some changes that would be politically unpopular and might think that it would have a greater chance of making those decisions without a lot of public controversy,” he said. “It’s often foolhardy to short-circuit public engagement. It’s not even good regulatory practice, quite frankly.”

While the waiver change may not end up in court, RFK Jr.’s decision could face pushback from Congress. A future administration could also reinstate the public participation requirement.

Who could've seen this coming? 

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“We’re going to work together to launch a new era of radical transparency,” Kennedy said on Feb. 19. “Only through radical transparency can we provide Americans with genuine informed consent, which is the bedrock and the foundation stone of democracy. Transparency allows diverse parties to establish common ground of mutually trusted information.”

The same

But opposite 

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My new stance on public education is that we need to make sure that kids are reading 19th century novels where the little brother or sister dies of measles or scarlet fever.  At least one a year. That wasn’t just a plot device. 

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2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

My new stance on public education is that we need to make sure that kids are reading 19th century novels where the little brother or sister dies of measles or scarlet fever.  At least one a year. That wasn’t just a plot device. 

Back when every cough foreshadowed death by tuberculosis. 

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3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

My new stance on public education is that we need to make sure that kids are reading 19th century novels where the little brother or sister dies of measles or scarlet fever.  At least one a year. That wasn’t just a plot device. 

The books by Laura Ingalls Wilder have been removed from some reading lists due to stereotyping of certain minority groups, but considering they're children's literature, they do provide a window into the harsh reality of life without a safety net.

30 minutes ago, Bojack said:

Back when every cough foreshadowed death by tuberculosis. 

That glass of warm raw milk...consuming consumption.

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57 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

The books by Laura Ingalls Wilder have been removed from some reading lists due to stereotyping of certain minority groups, but considering they're children's literature, they do provide a window into the harsh reality of life without a safety net.

1 hour ago, Bojack said:

Well, shit, then, they should be brought right back.  Got plenty of shelf space without all them woke, DEI, fag books.

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“We’re going to work together to launch a new era of radical transparency,” Kennedy said on Feb. 19. “Only through radical transparency can we provide Americans with genuine informed consent, which is the bedrock and the foundation stone of democracy. Transparency allows diverse parties to establish common ground of mutually trusted information.”

I've always thought that super-duper transparency was better.

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Bobby Kennedy’s legacy is getting dragged through the mud by his completely batshit son.

Guys, remember this when you want to name your son after you.

You can do amazing things, and your son can undo them all by being a dumbass.

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5 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

Bobby Kennedy’s legacy is getting dragged through the mud by his completely batshit son.

Guys, remember this when you want to name your son after you.

You can do amazing things, and your son can undo them all by being a dumbass.

Eh, I still think well of Bobby.  He died six years before I was born, but I've read a lot about him and he's a fixture in 1960s documentaries I've seen over the years, and like many Americans I'm left to wonder what good he could have accomplished had he not been assassinated.  

Maybe if Jr.'s father hadn't died when he was young he wouldn't have grown to be so batshit crazy.

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37 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Well, RFKJ has weighed in. Basically said, you can get the vaccine if you want. Check with your doctor. Leave me out of it.

honestly this is way better than I could have ever hoped for



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