......Kennedy uses personal responsibility as a smokescreen obscuring all his actions against public health. He is destroying the government programs that help our communities create safer environments, help people make healthier choices for their families, and improve access to healthcare. Kennedy's lies matter because they hide an ugly political agenda that the public needs to understand.
We don't have to put up with this. Soon, Americans will vote to elect a new Congress, as well as a variety of state and local offices. Voters need to make clear to candidates of every party that we cannot allow federal health leaders charged with protecting our lives to be gushers of disinformation. We must ask every candidate what they will do to protect public health and to bring honest leadership back to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Hunter Biden is willing to answer questions under oath. His condition? Bring in the Trump family, too.
In this candid Six Questions interview, Hunter joins Steven Beschloss to discuss his offer to testify alongside Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner—and the double standard he sees in how the two families are scrutinized.
“Bring in the whole family,” he says.
Hunter also addresses his addiction and recovery, why he’s speaking openly now, his criticism of media owners and their relationship with Trump, and what he calls his “single biggest disappointment” in his father’s administration: the failure to pursue accountability for January 6 quickly enough.
From defending Joe Biden to warning about Trump’s relationship with power, Hunter offers a deeply personal account of surviving public attacks—and finding the freedom to speak for himself.
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The beginning is a little rough as they get the camera settled…
The science on climate change has never been clearer – yet the political response has never felt more uncertain. What happens when the evidence and the electorate don't move in step?
Join Stand Up for Science for a timely conversation exploring the fault lines between scientific consensus, democratic governance, and the climate crisis. Our panelists will examine how climate science shapes—and fails to shape—policy, why democratic institutions sometimes struggle to act on urgent scientific warnings, and what it will take to bridge the gap between what we know and what we do.
Expect a candid, cross-disciplinary discussion among Dr. Colette Delawalla, SUFS CEO and Founder; Dr. Ticora Jones, Chief Science Officer at the Natural Resources Defense Council; and Dr. Michael Mann, climate change researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, as they explore questions like: Can democracy move fast enough to meet the pace of climate change? What role should scientists play in public life when their findings become politically inconvenient? And how do we rebuild public trust in both science and self-governance at a moment when both are under strain?
Dr. Michael Mann is a Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Deptartment of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. His research focuses on climate science and climate change.
Dr. Ticora Jones is the Chief Science Officer at the Natural Resources Defense Council. She formerly served in a number of scientific and management roles at USAID, including agency chief scientist and managing director for research, and served as a Research Congressional Fellow working on energy and environment issues.
President Trump on America.gov: "If it is the biggest thing I've ever done, I've done a shitty job as President. But you know what? It's damn good."
This week, the Senate questioned Heidi Overton for the top spot at FDA. Her answers were...not it. She hedged, dodged, and ran out the clock. Why? Because she's an anti-vax, anti-abortion advocate with a history of statements that should immediately disqualify her. Will the Senate rush her through? God help us.
And in the same week, Dr. Oz announced that the federal government was kicking around 750,000 people off their ACA coverage. It's a slash and burn operation that is going to leave thousands of people desperate, confused, and struggling.
That's the point. Dr. Rob Davidson joins Sam Osterhout to set the stakes and discuss where we go from here.
No matter what happens next, it's always worse than you expect.
Trump reportedly to form health funding board that could veto ‘woke’ initiatives
Donald Trump’s latest executive order is expected to establish a board responsible for approving National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funding, marking another attempt by the Trump administration to censor topics that do not align with the president’s agenda.
The executive order, reported by outlets including the Washington Post and Politico, was discussed in a meeting on Friday in which senior administration officials accused the NIH of funding “woke” initiatives that went against Trump’s political priorities.
Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s office of management and budget (OMB), and other administration officials proposed an executive order that would create an external committee that could veto awards in biomedical research that do not align with Trump’s goals, according to several people who spoke to the Washington Post.
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America eliminated measles in 2000. Now cases have soared past 3,000, preventable deaths have returned and diseases such as tetanus may be making a comeback.
The Bulwark’s Jonathan Cohn joins Susan J. Demas to explain how declining vaccination rates, RFK Jr.’s misinformation and the dismantling of federal health agencies created a preventable public-health crisis. He also identifies the medical organizations families can still trust—and the lawmakers who refused to hold Kennedy accountable.
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00:00 Diseases We Defeated Are Returning
00:55 Measles Cases Surge Past 3,000
01:30 America Falls Below the Herd-Immunity Threshold
02:22 Measles Can Cause Lifelong Damage
02:53 Is Tetanus Coming Back Too?
03:22 RFK Jr. Made Misinformation Federal Policy
04:55 Where Can Families Find Reliable Information?
06:21 Why Doctors No Longer Trust the CDC
07:54 Bill Cassidy’s Failure to Stop RFK Jr.
08:34 The Public-Health Stakes of the Midterms
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