HHS- what's left of it- isn't too happy about this. "The newly formed Vaccine Integrity Project aims to start meeting with medical associations, state health officials, insurers, pharmacies and others next month on steps such as establishing a network of subject matter experts to conduct science-based reviews of vaccines. The effort is supported by an unrestricted gift from Alumbra, a foundation established by Walton, the widow of Walmart heir John Walton."
All these years later, right wing militias are back and the right says the dead at Murrah were actors. "Even elements of the radical right, McVeigh’s fellow travelers, were stunned by the sight of firefighters pulling dead babies out of the wreckage. Before the bombing, they had been full of heady talk of war against the government, but many of them imagined this would involve an attack on federal judges who had displeased the movement, or blowing up a building at night." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/timothy-mcveigh-oklahoma-bombing-far-right-1995
"...not everybody got the idea. Eric Trump tweeted, 'I wouldn’t want to be the last country that tries to negotiate a trade deal with @realDonaldTrump. The first to negotiate will win - the last will absolutely lose. Eric’s father apparently didn’t get the memo either. Asked by reporters whether he planned to negotiate the tariff rates, the president said, 'The tariffs give us great power to negotiate. They always have.' ”
This is what happens when so-called law enforcement is given a consequence free hand and is even able to twist the definition of words to meet arrest quotas. One of the words being used by ICE is detention. The actual word is imprison- what you call it when you take someone shackled wrists and ankles with chains and put them in a locked cell. In any case, look for Becky Burke's graphic novel about the experience.
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