"Members of my faith are in positions of power in this country like never before. Vice President JD Vance is a convert. A majority of the Supreme Court are practicing Catholics. Names of past Catholic diasporas like Kennedy, Bondi, Loeffler and Rubio dot Trump’s Cabinet."

But on the other hand:

#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #Catholics #evangelicals #JDVance #SupremeCourt #PamBondi #MarcoRubio #RFKJr #KarolineLeavitt
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In the a-line-I'd-like-to-have-written category, here's Dave Karpf talking about reading Olivia Nuzzi's new book:

"I’d like to take a step back and discuss hatereading as a genre. "

#OliviaNuzzi #NewYorkTimes #RFKJr #HateReading

davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-ha…

On Hatereading as Method

Ridicule is our last, best weapon

^{Dave Karpf (The Future, Now and Then)}

Jill Marie O'Brien reposts a posting by Amy Siskind noting that even Fox News is turning on the Trump-RFKJr attack on vaccines and vaccination.

#Trump #RFKJr #CDC #vaccines #disinformation #science #research #measles #epidemic #SouthCarolina #MAGA #FoxNews
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threads.com/@democracy_dog/pos…

"We don’t simply have a measles outbreak here in South Carolina. We have an outbreak of anti-vax lunacy, and measles is one of the side effects."

~ Aaron Kretz

#Trump #RFKJr #CDC #vaccines #disinformation #science #research #measles #epidemic #SouthCarolina #MAGA
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threads.com/@aaronkretz/post/D…

Aaron (@aaronkretz) on Threads

^Threads

"Campaigning in 2024, Trump said about Kennedy, 'I’m gonna let him go wild on health. I’m gonna let him go wild on the food. I’m gonna let him go wild on medicines.'”

#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #measles #disinformation #SouthCarolina #Utah #EconomicElites #SocialDarwinism
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"According to the Johns Hopkins Measles Tracker, by the 48th week of the year in 2023, there had been 41 cases of measles in the country. In 2024, there were 284 cases. In 2025, there were 1837 cases.

All this from just a kid with a dream, that one day people would die by the millions from preventable diseases."

Paul Waldman

#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #measles #disinformation #SouthCarolina #Utah #EconomicElites #SocialDarwinism
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paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the…

The RFK Jr. Catastrophe Holds An Important Lesson In the Uses of Power

Just a kid with a dream, that one day millions more people could die from preventable diseases.

^{Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)}

"A CDC panel stacked with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. allies has dramatically altered the recommendation for infants to immediately receive the hepatitis B vaccine, upending 30 years of wildly successfully public health policy."

~ David Kurtz

morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.…

And see Jonathan Cohn's thorough report on this topic noting what real and respected scientists are saying about this RFKJr move.

thebulwark.com/p/this-is-what-…

#Trump #RFKJr #CDC #vaccines #hepatitisB #infants

This Is What It Looks Like When RFK Jr. Wins

His handpicked ‘experts’ just voted to roll back hepatitis B vaccine guidelines—and reverse a historic public health victory.

^{Jonathan Cohn (The Bulwark)}