The NYT reports that RFK Jr has fired all the vaccine experts and replaced half with sort of real scientists and half with anti-vaxx crackpots: "Kennedy Announces Eight New Members of C.D.C. Vaccine Advisory Panel - The health secretary promised not to pick “anti-vaxxers.” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday named eight doctors and researchers, including four who have spoken out against vaccination in some way, to replace roughly half the members he fired from an expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When Mr. Kennedy fired the entire committee, known as the A.C.I.P., he cited financial conflicts of interest and said a clean sweep was necessary to restore public trust in vaccination."
Now, there is no reason to trust anything the US government says about vaccines. MAGA authoritarians and unqualified crackpots are in charge and they are shameless, chronic liars. They and their crackpot policies will cause innocent people to die. All of those deaths are the responsibility of djt, Dr. Brain Worm (RFK Jr) and the MAGA thugs who enable them. They are all malicious liars and killers.
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A NYT opinion (not paywalled) about Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) defending her assertion that we are all going to die so get rid of Medicaid: "Selfishness Is Not a Virtue -- When Christianity goes wrong, it goes wrong in a familiar way. We’re in a new normal now. That means no apologies. That means doubling down. And that can also mean tying your cruelty to the Christian cross. “I’m really, really glad that I did not have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well. But for those that would like to see eternal and everlasting life, I’d encourage you to embrace my lord and savior, Jesus Christ.” .... The fact that a sitting United States senator was that callous — and then tried to twist her cruelty into a bizarro version of the Christian gospel — is worth highlighting on its own as another instance of the pervasive “own the libs” ethos of the Republican Party. But Ernst’s fake apology was something different — and worse — than simple trolling. It exemplified the contortions of American Christianity in the Trump era. .... My former Times colleague Jane Coaston has even popularized a term — “vice signaling” — to describe MAGA’s performative transgressiveness. Trumpists think it’s good to be bad."
Vice signaling. That is a good label.
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The Hill reports: "Illinois Republican mistakes Sikh for Muslim, calls him delivering prayer in House ‘deeply troubling’ -- Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) said it was “deeply disturbing” that a Sikh delivered a prayer in the House chamber on Friday — after apparently mistaking him for a Muslim man. “It’s deeply troubling that a Muslim was allowed to lead prayer in the House of Representatives this morning. This should never have been allowed to happen,” Miller said on the social platform X. “America was founded as a Christian nation, and I believe our government should reflect that truth, not drift further from it. May God have mercy!” Miller later edited her post on X to replace “Muslim” with “Sikh” before deleting the post altogether. Her office did not respond to a request for comment about the incident."
Way too many Christian nationalist theocrat elites are ignorant, intolerant and bigoted. Some, maybe most, are outright racists. All of them are corrupt, shameless liars.