2026-06-11 05:27:56
RFK Jr. Talks About How Great A Job He’s Doing Managing The Measles Outbreak | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/10/rfk-jr-talks-about-how-great-a-job-hes-doing-managing-the-measles-outbreak/
RFK Jr. Talks About How Great A Job He’s Doing Managing The Measles Outbreak | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/10/rfk-jr-talks-about-how-great-a-job-hes-doing-managing-the-measles-outbreak/
America's doctors just voted for war with RFK Jr. (Simon J. Levien/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/10/ama-doctors-physicians-rfk-vaccines-00957489
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p120#a260610p120
'Unsettling' Accounts of HHS Leadership Fuel Calls for RFK Jr. to Resign | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rfk-jr-resign
'Checked Out' RFK Jr. Missing as Agency Spirals (Wiktoria Gucia/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/checked-out-rfk-jr-missing-as-agency-spirals/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260607/p44#a260607p44
That the US has a health problem isn’t controversial.
The Make America Healthy Again movement, led by US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, has highlighted soaring rates of obesity, diabetes and chronic disease.
The movement’s public face isn’t scientists or doctors,
but influencers posting videos from saunas, gyms and parks talking about better choices and individual discipline.
Eat more red meat. Do more push-ups. Drink raw milk. Avoid vaccines and boost your na…
"Cassidy says he will vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general: 'I will be criticized for this vote'
Senator Bill Cassidy, the last Republican who was undecided about Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general, said he would vote to confirm Blanche."
Didn't learn from his #RFK_Jr vote, it seems. And yes, he should be criticized for this vote.
"Cassidy says he will vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general: 'I will be criticized for this vote'
Senator Bill Cassidy, the last Republican who was undecided about Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general, said he would vote to confirm Blanche."
Didn't learn from his #RFK_Jr vote, it seems. And yes, he should be criticized for this vote.
Trump and RFK Jr. try again to upend vaccines for kids (Rob Stein/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/10/nx-s1-5927313/trump-rfk-jr-vaccines-autism-executive-order
http://www.memeorandum.com/260811/p69#a260811p69
RFK Jr. promised a health overhaul led by outsiders. Now many are gone.
Trump officials have increasingly swapped out RFK Jr.’s handpicked deputies for people with more traditional experience,
seeking to tamp down on health agencies’ controversies ahead of the midterms.
https://www.…
FDA Orders Food-Ingredient Disclosure, Delays RFK Jr.'s Ultraprocessed Crackdown (Liz Essley Whyte/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/rfk-jr-american-food-ingredients-3f9d922b
http://www.memeorandum.com/260810/p56#a260810p56
Three studies used by RFK Jr and allies to justify controversial vaccine policy changes facing new scrutiny (Michelle R Smith/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/04/vaccine-studies-rfk-jr
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p92#a260604p92
Donald Trump is pushing the longtime vaccine opponent and current health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr to be more aggressive on cutting vaccines in the US, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal.
Trump has a long record of anti-vaccine statements,
but the White House recently put a hold on vaccine changes after polling indicated they were a losing issue in the midterm elections.
Kennedy, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, recently…
RFK Jr.’s Push to Curb Antidepressants Has Shaken Psychiatry - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/science/rfk-jr-antidepressants-ssri-psychiatry.html
Medical school organizations sign on to RFK Jr.'s nutrition requirements (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5915249-medical-education-nutrition-requirements/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260608/p101#a260608p101
Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Tuesday added to his lengthening catalog of bizarre wild animal encounters by
posting to social media a video of himself in Florida wrestling with two snakes.
Kennedy, who has previously admitted dumping the carcass of a bear cub in New York’s Central Park,
and is also alleged to have cut the penis off a road-kill raccoon,
is seen grabbing the pair of serpents with his bare hands.
RFK Jr.'s movement was supposed to save the GOP's majorities. It's not even in the game. (Amanda Chu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/06/rfk-maha-midterms-lyons-congress-00952583
http://www.memeorandum.com/260606/p29#a260606p29
RFK Jr. rips L.A. homeless agencies, endorses faith-based alternatives - Los Angeles Times
https://archive.ph/hAUvg
RFK jr shut down Indian Point, which—at 2GW of power—supplied 80% of NYC's clean energy (that's why there is so much more pollution in the area now).
More than 12 GW of very large loads, including data centers, are waiting to connect to New York’s grid. NY only has 41 GW capacity right now.
Glück, wenn Du in diesem Drittweltstaat eine gute (private?) Krankenversicherung und -Versorgung hast. #USA #FDA
https://ope…
RFK Jr. Appears Disengaged on Many Health Department Matters Beyond Vaccines (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/us/politics/ebola-vaccines-kennedy-health-department.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260607/p4#a260607p4
The past 18 months have seen more measles cases than the last 25 years combined.
The vast majority of infected people
—93 percent
—were unvaccinated, according to the CDC.
The number is expected to only grow higher, as new outbreaks have been reported in Wyoming, Delaware, and Arizona.
It doesn’t help that the CDC hasn’t had a permanent director for most of Trump’s second term,
and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is skepti…
NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya says "I trust the science" on childhood vaccines amid measles outbreak - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jay-bhattacharya-vaccines-rfk-jr/
How long will MAHA hold together?
However long Kennedy lasts in government, his
"Make America Healthy Again" coalition already lies in shambles,
its catalog of achievements short.
What happened?
At present, there is no confirmed head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
or of the Food and Drug Administration.
There is no surgeon general and no head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease,
effectively…
Cassidy accuses RFK Jr. of building public health "upon a foundation of lies" (Margaret Brennan/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-cassidy-rfk-jr-public-health-foundation-of-lies-face-the-nation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p17#a260628p17
RFK Jr., Scientology, and the war on antidepressants (Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/rfk-jr-scientology-and-the-war-on
http://www.memeorandum.com/260709/p42#a260709p42
The US health secretary,
Robert F Kennedy Jr, has said the ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis
– the illness caused by the cyclospora parasite that causes watery and explosive diarrhea
– is “under control”.
Kennedy made the remarks one day after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did an about-face on a 27-state recall of shredded iceberg lettuce, calling the reported product a “false positive”.
Thirty-four states have reported cyclosporiasis cases this sum…
Sen. Bill Cassidy’s Losing Legacy: He Gave America RFK Jr. – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/bill-cassidy-gop-loss-rfk-jr/
Obamacare recipients include more than 1M without Social Security numbers, Dr. Oz, RFK Jr. reveal: 'Plagued by fraud' (Ryan King/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/28/us-news/1-million-people-without-social-security-numbers-enrolled-in-obamacare-rfk-jr/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p30#a260628p30
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, is demanding answers from a medical journal that recently removed a paper suggesting a link between vaccines and infant death, saying their decision was “of great interest to me”.
The journal Toxicology Reports had removed the paper this spring after editors determined it was so seriously flawed it could harm patients and pose a risk to public health.
Public health advocates immediately criticized the move, and said Kennedy appeared t…
RFK Jr. is now handling snakes. What does this mean? (Monica Hesse/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/05/26/rfk-jr-is-now-handling-snakes-what-does-this-mean/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p108#a260526p108
For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities
— rights that some fear could be losing ground under the Trump administration.
Last month, the Department of Education announced it would shift oversight of special education to the Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
whose comments on the limits of disabilities such as autism have drawn sharp rebukes from advocates and …
RFK Jr. wrangles pair of snakes as wife, Cheryl Hines, looks on: 'Honey, let them go!' (Judy Kurtz/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5895134-rfk-jr-oz-snakes-cheryl-hines/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p59#a260526p59
Kennedy fires heads of preventive health screening task force | LiveNOW from FOX
https://www.livenowfox.com/news/rfk-jr-fires-heads-preventive-health-screening-task-force
RFK Jr. urged Iowa candidate to make deal to help GOP win House seat, per audio recording (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/25/rfk-jr-urged-iowa-libertarian-quit-house-race-recording-shows/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p59#a260625p59
New evidence casts doubt on RFK Jr testimony before Senate (Michelle R Smith/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/rfk-jr-senate-testimony-samoa-visit
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p64#a260625p64
RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!)
to finding a link between vaccines and autism.
"That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget
to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
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Trump Taps Chris Klomp as No. 2 Official at RFK Jr.'s HHS (Rachel Cohrs Zhang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/trump-taps-chris-klomp-as-no-2-official-at-rfk-jr-s-hhs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p125#a260625p125
RFK Jr. touts milk again -- this time in a district Republicans need to hold (Simon J. Levien/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/01/rfk-van-orden-wisconsin-milk-00945679
http://www.memeorandum.com/260601/p100#a260601p100
RFK Jr. seeks to peek at Americans' medical records for clues on autism and vaccines (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/health/medical-records-vaccines-autism
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p65#a260604p65
RFK Jr.’s department to make it easier to fire career staff - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/15/rfk-civil-service-job-protections-00925102
The Trump administration has paused more than $1bn in Medicaid funding to California and Minnesota,
citing “suspected fraud and noncompliance”
– withholding of funding that follows a $243m pause in Medicaid payments to Minnesota earlier this year.
“If those states want that money, they need to provide documentation that these payments are legitimate,”
said Robert F Kennedy Jr, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), at a press conference on Tue…
RFK Jr. is now in charge of helping some of the students he has publicly insulted (Eric Garcia/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-jr-special-education-hhs-disabilities-autism
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p52#a260619p52
RFK Jr. Dismisses Two Leaders of a Key Preventive Health Service Panel (Paige Winfield Cunningham/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/healthcare/rfk-jr-dismisses-two-leaders-preventive-health-service-task-force
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p87#a260520p87
#MAHA, reluctantly...
RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak | Robert F Kennedy Jr | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/02/rfk-jr-measles-vaccination
The real reason RFK Jr. is coming for your antidepressants (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/18/the-real-reason-rfk-jr-is-coming-for-your-antidepressants/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p49#a260518p49
RFK Jr. announces $700 million in funding to combat addiction and mental illness (David Zimmermann/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/4613049/rfk-jr-addiction-mental-illness-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260617/p112#a260617p112
RFK Jr. Will Oversee Disability Education Policy (Julia Métraux/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/rfk-jr-disability-special-education-hhs-kennedy-autism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260617/p3#a260617p3
RFK Jr. Orders American Exposed to Hantavirus to Stay Quarantined Against Medical Advice (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/rfk-jr-orders-american-exposed-to-hantavirus-to-stay-quarantined-against-medical-advice-a6f5b5f2
http://www.memeorandum.com/260616/p42#a260616p42
MAHA is breaking up with Trump. Now what? (Anna North/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/493107/maha-moms-maga-trump-rfk-jr-2026-2028
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p17#a260625p17
Kennedy faces anti-vax anger over hantavirus treatment legal protections (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5895553-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine-hantavirus-legal-protections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p83#a260526p83
Democrats press White House on who got special access to Eli Lilly's new obesity drug (Lizzy Lawrence/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/25/senate-hassan-questions-rfk-jr-eli-lilly-retatrutide-trial-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p61#a260625p61
We better hope we stay healthy until he is gone...
RFK Jr. tells CNN host that constitutional rights take priority over public health - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/02/rfk-jr-dana-bash-cnn-covid-01021641
Relief group is phasing out vaccines RFK Jr. believes are unsafe (Carmen Paun/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/22/gavi-rfk-vaccines-thimerosal-shaheen-00934540
http://www.memeorandum.com/260522/p43#a260522p43
Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump (President)
Melania Trump (1st Lady)
Howard Lutnick (Sec. Commerce)
John Phelan (Sec. Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (Sec. HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nominee)
Mehmet Oz (Admin. for CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE Appointee)
Steve Bannon (Fmr Senior Advisor)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Sec. Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Brett Ratner (Film Director "Melania")
Fear of lettuce is making RFK Jr.'s food messaging harder for consumers to swallow (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/08/cyclospora-outbreak-rfk-maha-realfood-01027408
http://www.memeorandum.com/260808/p43#a260808p43
GOP Sen. Cassidy seeks to explain RFK Jr. confirmation vote for Health and Human Services (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5944508-kennedy-vaccine-views-controversy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p33#a260628p33
New recording shows RFK Jr. may have violated federal law - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-2677105231/
RFK Jr. fires leaders of group that determines what insurers must cover (Carmen Paun/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/20/rfk-uspstf-preventive-care-task-force-00930447
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p90#a260520p90
Kennedy, balancing MAHA and White House, says he won't run for president in 2028 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-f-kennedy-rfk-jr-says-not-running-president-2028/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p11#a260515p11
The slow-motion humiliation of RFK Jr (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kennedy-hhs-out
http://www.memeorandum.com/260523/p13#a260523p13
RFK Jr’s team quietly updates CDC website to say science doesn’t know if vaccines cause autism | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-vaccine-autism-cdc-website-b3021275.html
Key Health Care Panel Is Again Blocked From Meeting (Maggie Astor/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/us/politics/uspstf-meeting-rfk-jr.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vlA.rm4r.obXFhzqw_SDa&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260706/p98#a260706p98
RFK Jr. demands journal explain removal of vaccine study used to support his childhood immunization changes (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5924878-kennedy-demands-answers-vaccine-study/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260615/p100#a260615p100
RFK Jr. targets Fauci and pushes medical misinformation in fiery CNN interview (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/politics/rfk-jr-fauci-medical-misinformation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260802/p45#a260802p45
RFK Jr. tells CNN host that constitutional rights take priority over public health (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/02/rfk-jr-dana-bash-cnn-covid-01021641
http://www.memeorandum.com/260802/p31#a260802p31
RFK Jr.'s latest overhaul aims to boost preventive care. It could get expensive. (Carmen Paun/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/05/rfk-preventive-kidney-alzheimers-colon-cancer-00986644
http://www.memeorandum.com/260705/p25#a260705p25
RFK Jr. revives Presidential Fitness Test in schools with WWE (Josie Fischels/NewsNation)
https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/rfk-jr-triple-h-presidential-fitness-test/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260630/p109#a260630p109
RFK Jr. Launches a Cooking Show Mixing 'Healthy' Recipes With MAHA Talking Points (Angie Orellana Hernandez/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/health-science/rfk-jr-cooking-show-maha-talking-points
http://www.memeorandum.com/260730/p79#a260730p79
Trump Turns Up the Heat on RFK Jr. to Cut Back Childhood Vaccines (Liz Essley Whyte/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-rfk-jr-cut-vaccine-children-78582411?st=e6gp3u
http://www.memeorandum.com/260727/p158#a260727p158
Scientists find no link between Tylenol and autism, again, after Trump warning (Beth Mole/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/trump-and-rfk-jr-still-wrong-about-tylenol-and-autism-another-study-finds/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260701/p32#a260701p32
Former CDC chief medical officer says RFK Jr. caused 'irreparable harm' (Max Rego/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5954352-cdc-robert-f-kennedy-debra-houry-hhs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260705/p51#a260705p51
Trump administration to dispense $600M for vaccines RFK Jr. held up (Carmen Paun/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/29/gavi-vaccines-rfk-rubio-thimerosal-autism-01016663
http://www.memeorandum.com/260729/p148#a260729p148
Olivia Nuzzi dating top media figure nearly 2 years after affair with RFK Jr. (Oli Coleman/Page Six)
https://pagesix.com/2026/07/04/society/olivia-nuzzi-dating-vices-shane-smith/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260704/p32#a260704p32
State Department will dispense $600M for vaccines RFK Jr. held up, Collins says (Carmen Paun/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/28/vaccines-rfk-collins-gavi-rubio-01013690
http://www.memeorandum.com/260728/p133#a260728p133
FDA Lowers Risk Profile for RFK Jr.'s Preferred Nicotine Pouches (Torrie Herrington/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/agencies/fda-zyn-modified-risk-marketing
http://www.memeorandum.com/260630/p148#a260630p148
CDC nominee struggles to convince senators she'll stand up to RFK Jr. (Sophie Gardner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/15/congress/cdc-nominee-struggles-to-convince-senators-00999399
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p78#a260715p78