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#RFKJr Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into #Vaccines Despite Recent Public Silence

“Health” Secy Robert F Kennedy Jr has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside the #HHS, a sprawling “research” effort is top priority.

#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #HealthInsurance #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-safety.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#RFKJr Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into #Vaccines Despite Recent Public Silence

“Health” Secy Robert F Kennedy Jr has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside the #HHS, a sprawling “research” effort is top priority.

#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #HealthInsurance #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-safety.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#RFKJr Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into #Vaccines Despite Recent Public Silence

“Health” Secy Robert F Kennedy Jr has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside the #HHS, a sprawling “research” effort is top priority.

#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #HealthInsurance #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-safety.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#RFKJr Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into #Vaccines Despite Recent Public Silence

“Health” Secy Robert F Kennedy Jr has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside the #HHS, a sprawling “research” effort is top priority.

#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #HealthInsurance #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-safety.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#RFKJr Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into #Vaccines Despite Recent Public Silence

“Health” Secy Robert F Kennedy Jr has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside the #HHS, a sprawling “research” effort is top priority.

#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #HealthInsurance #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-safety.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#HHS declined to answer a series of questions for this article, instead offering a general statement that the agency “remains committed to protecting & strengthening #Medicaid for those who rely on it…while eliminating waste, fraud, & abuse.”

#Trump #law #HealthInsurance #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #PublicHealth #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy #USpol

Concerns about what the interim rule from #RFKJr could look like:

A person with debilitating #ChronicPain, or a serious #AutoimmuneDisease, may appear “able-bodied” by the standards RFK Jr appears poised to implement—even as they face hurdles in qualifying for #SocialSecurity #disability due to not being considered #disabled “enough”.

#Trump #law #Medicaid #HealthInsurance #SocialCleansing #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #PublicHealth #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy #USpol

This also highlights the cruelty of Nebraska’s implementation of work requirements before the Jan 1, 2027 deadline.

Especially because an interim rule from the #HHS Secretary #RFKJr is not even due until June 1.

#Trump #law #PublicHealth #HealthInsurance #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy #USpol

#Medicaid #WorkRequirements do not increase employment. Instead, the administrative burden of work requirements only serves to kick people off this governmental #HealthInsurance. Additionally, a majority of people on Medicaid, who are not on Supplemental Security Income, work full or part-time jobs. This underlines how rhetoric around work requirements is just false.

#Trump #law #PublicHealth #SocialCleansing #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy

Fleming represents the two men — a Venezuelan man & a Mexican man both in the country illegally — in the ongoing litigation that claims the #FederalGovernment continues to violate the 2022 Castañon Nava settlement agreement, which limits #ICE's ability to #arrest people without #warrants or #ProbableCause.

#Trump #law #immigration #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #CivilRights #DueProcess #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #CBP #Sturmabteilung #USpol

Court records show #Chicago #immigration raid was about #squatters, not Venezuelan #gangs

Newly revealed arrest records show that a high-profile immigration raid on a South Shore Chicago apartment building last year that became a symbol of #Trump's harsh immigration tactics actually targeted squatters, not Venezuelan gang members.

#law #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #CivilRights #HumanRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #ICE #Sturmabteilung #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5703603/court-records-chicago-immigration-raid-was-about-squatters-not-venezuelan-gangs

Federal “health” ofcls are weighing vaccine guidance that would encourage parents to talk to a doctor to make decisions for most shots…. This approach would mark a fundamental shift in the #healthcare system that generally relies on federal #health agencies to guide how #patients are protected against #disease [& importantly what #HealthInsurance must cover].

#PublicHealth #science #medicine #policy #law #Trump #RFKJr #eugenics #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #EconomicDiscrimination

Madness

Under #RFKJr, #US plans to stop
recommending most #vaccines

The plan, which is not finalized, suggests #children get fewer shots & shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.

#PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #law #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #eugenics #ChildEndangerment #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/19/childhood-vaccine-schedule-denmark-revisions/

#USDA Secy Brooke Rollins on Tuesday threatened to cut off federal #funding to #Democratic-leaning #states over their alleged refusal to share #SNAP program #data with the #Trump admin.

The admin "will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states" starting next week "until they comply," Rollins told Trump during a White House #Cabinet meeting.

#law #extortion #RevengePolitics #FoodStamps #privacy #InfoSec #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #PublicHealth #HealthyIfYoureWealthy

🚨🚨🚨

#Extortion

#Trump admin says it will withhold #SNAP food aid from #Democrat-led states unless they provide recipient records.

#law #RevengePolitics #FoodStamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #PublicHealth #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/trump-usda-snap-funding-rollins.html

…Comments Rollins made in recent weeks that everyone on #SNAP would have to reapply sparked confusion among SNAP recipients, state officials & food policy experts. SNAP recipients already have to go through a recertification process—in most cases every 6 or 12 months, & it is unclear what #legal #authority #USDA would have to add additional steps.

#hunger #FoodStamps #LowIncome #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #law #Congress #Trump #EconomicDiscrimination #SocialCleansing #plutocracy #aristocracy #USpol

#GiftArticle

They bought #HealthInsurance promoted by #Trump. Then they needed surgery.

The cheap #health #insurance promoted by Trump officials has a catch.

Some states have banned “short-term” insurance plans with limited coverage, & consumer advocates have warned of the drawbacks.

#law #scammers #affordability #healthcare #HealthcareCrisis #CostOfLiving #economy #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #policy #USpol
https://wapo.st/4oRpNtt

“There are people who have been living in those units for 5 years, 8 years,” said Ann Oliva, the chief executive of the National Alliance to End #Homelessness, an advocacy group. “No one can wrap their head around the idea that #HUD is about to kick 170,000 #vulnerable people out of their homes. People don’t know what’s about to hit them.”

#Trump #law #policy #unhoused #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

By cutting #aid for permanent #housing by TWO-THIRDS next year, the plan risks a sudden end of support for most of the people the Continuum places in such housing nationwide, beginning as soon as January. All are #disabled — a condition of the aid — & many are 50 or older [WTF?]. The document does not explain how they would find housing.

#Trump #law #policy #unhoused #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

Although the guidelines primarily impact people outside the #US or those seeking to renew their #visas, experts warn that they could also affect #family members of people already living in the US who would like to come to visit or live with them.

Adriana Cadena, exec dir at Protecting Immigrant Families, said the policy is “dangerous” & impacts #immigrant #families living legally in the US.

#Trump #law #immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination

It also tells consular officials that whenever an applicant is seeking to use finances to satisfy #PublicCharge requirements, they should request to view the applicant’s bank & financial documents, evidence of their assets, checking, savings, brokerage, trust funds & retirement accounts.

#Trump #law #immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #fascism #Nazis #Republicans #USpol

Among the #medical conditions that could disqualify a #visa applicant are chronic conditions; obesity; high blood pressure; cardiovascular, metabolic & neurological diseases; depression; anxiety; & mental health conditions that can require [in the admin’s words] “hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of care,” the cable says.

#Trump #law #immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #fascism #Nazis #Republicans #USpol

#Immigrants seeking entry into the #US already undergo a medical exam by a physician who’s been approved by a US Embassy. They are screened for communicable diseases, like tuberculosis, & asked to disclose any history of drug or alcohol use, mental health conditions or violence. They’re also required to have a number of vaccinations [don’t tell #RFKJr].

#Trump #law #immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #fascism #Nazis #Republicans #USpol

…#Immigration policy experts say the latest guidance could reduce the number of #immigrant & non-immigrant #visas granted & could disproportionately affect some groups of foreigners seeking access to the #US, such as older adults & people with low incomes.

The cable was sent from #State Dept headquarters to every US Embassy & Consulate around the world.

#Trump #law #immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #fascism #Nazis #Republicans #USpol

While federal #law already required those seeking permanent residency or legal status to prove they wouldn’t be a #PublicCharge, #Trump in his first term widened the range of benefit programs that could disqualify applicants, & the guidelines in the cable appear to go even further in scope.

#immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #fascism #Nazis #Republicans #USpol

The directive reveals how the #Trump admin interprets #PublicCharge, the concept in #immigration #law that foreigners can be refused entry or permanent residency status if they are likely to rely on US govt resources, such as certain types of cash & food #aid.

#discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #fascism #Nazis #Republicans #USpol

And they call Democrats elitists

New #Trump directive could deny more #visas based on applicants' #health & #wealth

A new directive by Trump’s admin could make it more difficult for foreigners to visit or live in the #US if they have certain #medical conditions such as #diabetes or #obesity or lack the economic resources & assets to support themselves.

#law #immigration #discrimination #ableism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #fascism #Nazis #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-public-charge-trump-benefits-visas-0929b2c8f635479173929300cb683a27

Update

#Trump admin CANNOT withhold full #funding for #food #aid, US appeals court rules

A federal appeals court late on Sunday allowed a judge's order to stand that directs Trump's admin to FULLY fund this month's #SNAP benefits for 42 million #LowIncome Americans during the ongoing US government shutdown.

#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Aristocracy #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #FoodStamps #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-cannot-withhold-4-billion-food-aid-us-appeals-court-rules-2025-11-10/

…there ain’t no rest for the wicked…

#SCOTUS granted #Trump *emergency* appeal to temporarily block a #CourtOrder to FULLY fund #SNAP #food #aid payments amid the government #shutdown.

#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Aristocracy #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #Aporophobia #FoodStamps #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #HealthInequity #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-07-SNAP+update

US District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. had given #Trump’s admin until Friday to make the #SNAP payments. But Trump’s admin instead asked the appeals #court to suspend any #CourtOrders requiring it to spend more money than is available in a contingency fund.

#law #judiciary #FoodStamps #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

Bullshit

#Trump Admin Tells #Court It Has Money It Can’t Spend to Prevent #FoodStamp Cuts

#States have sued the #FederalGovernment to force the release of #aid during the #shutdown, with a key hearing set for Thursday.

#law #SNAP #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/food-stamps-shutdown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[In the campaign video, #Trump accused] #homeless people of turning great cities into “unsanitary nightmares,” he pledged “to use every tool, lever & authority to get the homeless off our streets.” He said the admin would “open up large parcels of inexpensive land” where “dangerously deranged” people “can be relocated & their problems identified.”

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISTu6JRtJTI

While the #Utah effort began before Trump’s return to office, it mirrors his pledge to move the #homeless from urban cores to “tent cities” with *services*. And it accelerated after #Trump issued an EO in July, calling for strict camping bans & expanded power to #involuntarily treat homeless people.

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

“An accountability center is #involuntary, OK — you’re not coming in & out,” Randy Shumway, chairman of the state #Homeless Services Board, said in an interview. #Utah will end a harmful “culture of permissiveness,” he said, & guide homeless people “towards human thriving.”
[sure, Jan.]

#Trump #law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

With outdoor sleeping banned, removal to the edge of town may become the only way some #homeless Utahns can avoid #jail. Planners say the facility will also hold hundreds of mentally ill homeless people under #CourtOrdered civil commitment & the effort will include an “accountability center” for those with addictions.

#Trump #law #unhoused #Utah #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

They also vow *stern* measures to move #homeless people to the remote site & #force many of them to undergo treatment, reflecting a nationwide push by some #conservatives for a new approach to #homelessness, one embraced & promoted by #Trump.

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

#GiftArticle

In #Utah, #Trump’s Vision for #Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

The proposed site where Utah plans to place as many as 1,300 homeless people outside of Salt Lake City.

State officials promise large-scale #involuntary #addiction & #MentalHealth treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/politics/utah-trump-homeless-campus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU8.-Nd0.pGnMZllHXOAG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

However, according to a memo seen by Reuters, the #USDA indicated that it would not do so.

Governors in Louisiana & Virginia declared states of emergencies this week to make funds available to help with #hunger relief in anticipation of #SNAP benefits not being issued next month.

#FoodStamps #Trump #RFKJr #PublicHealth #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

And that’s if you’re lucky enough to qualify for the #ACA. If not, you’re looking at #Medicaid [again if you qualify], paying for private #HealthInsurance which runs $6,000 – $20,000+ a year depending on coverage , or going entirely without.

#law #Trump #Republicans #OrchestratedShutdown #HealthInequality #EconomicDiscrimination #HealthyIfYoureWealthy

#HealthInsurance sticker shock begins as #Trump & #Republicans keep the government #shutdown & refuse to negotiate #healthcare subsidies

Many states have shown rising premiums ahead of open enrollment for Affordable Care Act [#ACA] plans. #Congressional Republicans remain unmovable over extending covid-era subsidies that bring #health costs down.

#law #OrchestratedShutdown #HealthInequality #EconomicDiscrimination #HealthyIfYoureWealthy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/10/22/obamacare-aca-enrollment-price-increases/

The vast majority of people enrolled in #healthcare plans under the #AffordableCareAct [#ACA] receive additional #federal #TaxCredits that were first expanded by President #Biden & #Congress in 2021.

Those subsidies, set to expire at the end of the year, are now the subject of a standoff between #Democratic & #Republican lawmakers.

#law #medicine #HealthInsurance #Trump #plutocracy #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/health/obamacare-cost-aca-health-insurance.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The #Agriculture Dept report, Household #FoodSecurity in the #UnitedStates, quantifies the share of households considered “#FoodInsecure” & “very low food secure,” a subset with a more severe designation of need that applied to 5.1% of households in 2023. It analyzes those categories by #state, #race & #ethnicity. Rates are much higher among #Black & #Latino households than among #white households.

#PublicHealth #Health #hunger #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy

The department’s report has been published every year for 3 decades, & grew in part out of battles in the 1980s over President Ronald Reagan’s statements disputing that the #US had a #hunger problem.

The most recent report found that in 2023, 13.5% of households, w/ 47M people, were #FoodInsecure, meaning that during some portion of the year, not every member of household had access to enough #food for a healthy lifestyle.

#law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

Two months after pushing through #Congress the largest #FoodStamp cuts in the program’s history, the #Trump admin has canceled the government’s annual report measuring household #FoodInsecurity.

The move by the #Agriculture Dept strips the #government of its main gauge of Americans’ ability to access adequate meals, & will impede researchers’ efforts to track the coming #cuts in #nutritional #aid.

#Health #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

Two months after pushing through #Congress the largest #FoodStamp cuts in the program’s history, the #Trump admin has canceled the government’s annual report measuring household #FoodInsecurity.

The move by the #Agriculture Dept strips the #government of its main gauge of Americans’ ability to access adequate meals, & will impede researchers’ efforts to track the coming #cuts in #nutritional #aid.

#Health #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

Two months after pushing through #Congress the largest #FoodStamp cuts in the program’s history, the #Trump admin has canceled the government’s annual report measuring household #FoodInsecurity.

The move by the #Agriculture Dept strips the #government of its main gauge of Americans’ ability to access adequate meals, & will impede researchers’ efforts to track the coming #cuts in #nutritional #aid.

#Health #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

Two months after pushing through #Congress the largest #FoodStamp cuts in the program’s history, the #Trump admin has canceled the government’s annual report measuring household #FoodInsecurity.

The move by the #Agriculture Dept strips the #government of its main gauge of Americans’ ability to access adequate meals, & will impede researchers’ efforts to track the coming #cuts in #nutritional #aid.

#Health #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

Two months after pushing through #Congress the largest #FoodStamp cuts in the program’s history, the #Trump admin has canceled the government’s annual report measuring household #FoodInsecurity.

The move by the #Agriculture Dept strips the #government of its main gauge of Americans’ ability to access adequate meals, & will impede researchers’ efforts to track the coming #cuts in #nutritional #aid.

#Health #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

In interviews, half a dozen current & former employees of #HUD’s #FairHousing office said that the #Trump political appointees had made it nearly impossible for them to do their jobs, which involve investigating & prosecuting landlords, real estate agents, lenders & others who discriminate based on race, religion, gender, family status or disability.

#law #heterosexism #racism #ableism #WhiteChristianNationalism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

In interviews, half a dozen current & former employees of #HUD’s #FairHousing office said that the #Trump political appointees had made it nearly impossible for them to do their jobs, which involve investigating & prosecuting landlords, real estate agents, lenders & others who discriminate based on race, religion, gender, family status or disability.

#law #heterosexism #racism #ableism #WhiteChristianNationalism #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol