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Frankenstein is transphobic, claims non-binary director

Frankenstein is not tranphobic for the same reason Hamlet is not transphobic. There was no trans to be phobic about when the works in question were created.

Frankenstein is transphobic because it is about “a constructed body”, a non-binary filmmaker has claimed.

Jane Schoenbrun, an American director who describes herself as trans and queer, said the Frankenstein adaptations, based on Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel, are an example of older horror films featuring a “trans monster”.

“This image of the trans monster kept coming up, whether that be Norman Bates or Buffalo Bill or Frankenstein as a constructed body, and there was this lineage of trans people having really complicated feelings about those movies,” Schoenbrun told The Hollywood Reporter.

That’s a less stupid claim – typical news media trick to make the story sound more provocative than it is.

“In one sense, those are the places where they saw representations that felt familiar or comforting in some way to their own experiences – but also, those movies are super f—ing transphobic and problematic,” the filmmaker added.

Maybe that’s because trying to escape your own body is not a healthy impulse, so stories about it make it sound like an unfortunate choice.

Originally a comment by Stewart on The row over.

I’m afraid my conscience won’t permit me not to react to the suggestion that Israel has anything like South Africa’s apartheid (I am not a Zionist and my nearly thirty years lived experience of Israel between 1976 and 2005 were not something I ever wished upon myself).

Israel has Arabs and Muslims in high positions, including an Arab Christian judge (George Karra), who sentenced a former – Jewish, obviously – President of the State (Moshe Katsav) to prison. That kind of thing (of which there is plenty, though not all as dramatic as the example above) leaves comparisons to South Africa in tatters.

Yes, both sides have their racists and religious fanatics and yes, those on the (Jewish) Israeli side have been clawing away with alarming success at gaining more political and legal power, especially in the last decade or so, but for any comparison with South Africa to hold water there must be actual laws that say “Arabs/Muslims may not” do something or that only Jewish Israelis have certain rights or privileges. Daily life in Israel is simply not like that and anyone who has spent a reasonable amount of time there cannot take the apartheid accusation seriously.

The two societies may not mix much but it’s certainly not illegal, nor are marriages between Muslims and Jews, though the Interior Ministry will only recognise those that took place elsewhere (no such thing as a civil, non-religious, marriage can take place inside the country, so mixed-religion marriages are not possible there). I remember when the suburb of Neve Yaacov on the outskirts of Jerusalem was new (my father lived there for a while) that it was unpopular with some because there were also Arab families living there. My guess, in general, would be that Jewish Israelis have a far greater fear of entering Arab-only areas than the reverse.

James Dreyfus at Spiked:

The sad reality is that there are those among us who appear to believe that one’s sexuality or identity is the most interesting and important component to doing a job. That certainly seems to be the case with the LGBTQIA+ crowd, who think that having an actual gay person in charge would be the most groundbreaking event since Eddie Izzard said, ‘Call me Suzy’.

The fact is that neither Labour’s Streeting nor the Greens’ Polanski would ever ‘identify’ as gay. Both would likely talk in terms of being LGBTQIA+. Which is quite a different entity altogether.

And also a much sillier one, as I keep saying, because no one can be all those items.

Homosexuality is so unremarkable now that I’m surprised more politicians haven’t latched on to the Hollywood craze and declared themselves ‘nonbinary’. This, apparently, carries far more cachet, and – most excitingly – a smashing new wardrobe filled with assorted dungarees.

Which brings me onto the reaction to this Dual of The Divas between Streeting and Polanski. Of course, the bona fide members of the all-or-nothing LGBTQIA+ mob were outraged at the suggestion that Streeting could take the crown. Some septum-pierced, grammarless hack said he was ‘Getting out ahead of this right now’, before declaring: ‘We simply do not claim Wes Streeting as the first gay PM. A man who has thrown trans people under the bus, who backs attacks on LGBTQ migrants, on POC [people of colour], on [the] working class… is not emblematic of our movement and is certainly no trailblazer.’

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Trouble is, there seems to be rather a lot of these people about. Polanski is being touted as the champion of LGBTQIA+ politics, but it does not seem to me that this particular individual will concern himself with the first three letters of this increasingly foolish acronym, whose rights are in direct opposition to the TQIA+. Most gay people who want nothing to do with gender ideology call themselves LGB. That is because we do not want to see women’s hard-won rights demolished, we do not want to see lesbian-only spaces invaded by men, and we most certainly do not want to see gender theory in action – especially when it comes to influencing other people’s children.

Say not the struggle naught availeth.

Corporate Memphis enough yet?

It’s part of a wider study on trans understandings of transition.

Isn’t that WONDERFUL?

Bad Kennedy is getting his wish.

Before Nov. 19, 2025, the CDC’s website was unequivocal on the topic: “Studies have shown that there is no link between receiving vaccines and developing autism spectrum disorder,” it read. After Nov. 19, the guidance essentially reversed. “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism,” it now says. “Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.”

That claim, reflecting the longstanding vaccine-skeptical views of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), is false. But new research published in the journal Science suggests that it’s affecting what Americans believe about vaccines.  

Well it would be, wouldn’t it. There’s no vaccine to protect against bullshit.

Claimant successful.

Didlaw can reveal that the Claimant in the above case, heard in Leeds ET for 6 days from 23 March 2026, has been successful in her discrimination claims against NHS England.

The ET upheld the following claims:

1. The Claimant’s complaint of indirect discrimination in relation to sex under section 19 Equality Act 2010 in relation to NHS England’s Trans Equality Policy and Trans Equality Procedure which permit trans colleagues to use toilets (and showers) that correspond with their gender identity rather than their biological sex; 
2. The Claimant’s complaint of harassment related to sex and gender critical beliefs as a result of NHS England’s Trans Equality Policy of permitting trans women to use female only facilities; and; 
3. The Claimant’s complaint of harassment related to her gender critical beliefs in that the Respondent’s Trans Equality Procedure had the effect of violating her dignity or creating the Proscribed Environment on the grounds of her gender critical beliefs.

Isn’t it funny how everyone used to know that and there was no need for tribunals to discover it all over again. Of course women don’t want to share public toilets and showers with men. That’s why separate facilities exist.

The Claimant is employed by NHS England, is female, Muslim and has PTSD.  She also holds gender critical beliefs.  Her claims were pursued relating to these characteristics.  In October 2017 NHS England produced documents titled ‘Trans Equality Policy’ and ‘Trans Equality Procedure.’ These documents confirmed that trans colleagues could use the single-sex facilities that corresponded with their gender identity once they reached ‘full time presentation….in the new gender role.’ 

They had no right to do that. A new “gender role” doesn’t make a man a woman. It’s childish to pretend otherwise.

Yes but…

Ok but we shouldn’t have to have PTSD or be religious to refuse to share showers and toilets with men. Just being women should be enough.

John Knox turned inside out.

A new Green MSP previously posted online that they could not wait for the late Queen Elizabeth II to “kick the bucket”, it has emerged. 

They? Even the Telegraph does the “they” thing?

Iris Duane, a biological male who uses she/her pronouns, referred to the late Queen as “big lizard Lizzie” in a social media post in January 2022.

I don’t care about the anti-monarchism, it’s the “biological male” who “uses” female pronouns that I can’t be doing with. We don’t “use” the pronouns that other people refer to us by which. The correct word would be “demands” and the answer should be no.

The controversy came after it emerged a second newly elected trans Green MSP does not have a permanent visa to work in the UK.

Q Manivannan, an Indian immigrant who identifies as non-binary, was elected as an MSP on the Edinburgh & Lothians East list.

The former PhD student has appealed to colleagues for £2,089 of funding for a temporary graduate visa that would allow them to work as an MSP.

Golly. Who knew it was that easy?

Also why would colleagues want to give him £2,089?

Manivannan was elected on the Edinburgh & Lothians East list using the same proportional representation system.

The self-described “queer Tamil immigrant” was only able to stand in the election after SNP ministers loosened the rules on who could be a Holyrood candidate.

Foreigners could previously only become an MSP if they had indefinite leave to remain in the UK.

Last year, the SNP government introduced legislation that meant they could qualify if they had leave of any type, such as a short-term study visa.

So he’s there to study for a short term and he runs for a job in the parliament. It seems…disconnected.

How it started

How it went on

It’s “extremist” to say that men are men.

Here’s the thing. Reality is what it is. Fiddling with the names doesn’t change the reality except in cases where the naming really is subject to change. There are plenty of social names that can indeed be changed, but it doesn’t follow and it’s not the case that therefore men can be women. Male and female are not purely social categories.

The Free Speech Union declares:

The FSU is disappointed that the King’s Speech included a draft bill to ban conversion therapy. Trying to force gay people to become straight is already illegal in this country, so what does the Government want to ban?

We fear Labour wants to make it a criminal offence for parents and health professionals to try to persuade gender-confused children not to embark on irreversible, life-changing medical treatment that can leave them permanently sterile and cause other lasting harms. If that is the Government’s intention, we will vigorously campaign against the bill.

There’s a crucial difference there. Being gay requires zero medical or physical intervention of any kind. It requires no action of any kind. It requires no performance. It requires no demands placed on other people. Being trans cannot claim this level of non-interference. In theory people could just announce they’re trans while continuing to look and talk like the sex they really are, but in practice we don’t see that.

In practice what we see is people, including children, making drastic permanent changes to their bodies in a doomed attempt to become the sex they are not, motivated by a loony popular fad.

Satire, incloosion, hilarity, music, jokes, exclusion – everything.

It is considered one of the funniest episodes of a beloved sitcom, but the Father Ted storyline about Eurovision has been dragged into the row over Israel’s participation in this week’s song contest.

Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ, which is boycotting the competition in protest against Israel’s inclusion, will instead broadcast the 1996 episode A Song for Europe, in which the characters Father Ted and Father Dougal perform their song My Lovely Horse and earn nul points.

The decision prompted condemnation on Tuesday from Graham Linehan, one of the show’s creators, who accused RTÉ of using the show as “a tool of antisemitic harassment” and said it was an “act of pointed, gleeful counter-programming”. He demanded the resignation of the broadcaster’s director-general, Kevin Bakhurst.

The fact that RTÉ is boycotting the competition because Israel is in it is rather startling. The pope versus the Jews all over again is it?

Originally a comment by Sumi on To discourage the others.

Where are the US doctors willing to be jailed for their beliefs? Where are the doctors willing to rely on the necessity defense and jury nullification?

Canada has had no abortion laws for almost four decades because one doctor, Henry Morgentaler, wouldn’t back down when the government tried to shut his abortion clinics.

Morgentaler survived Auschwitz and Dachau before coming to Canada and completing his medical studies in Montreal. He set up illegal abortion clinics in several cities and dared the governments to act. In 1973, he admitted to performing over 5,000 abortions and was arrested and charged.

Between 1973 and 1975, Morgentaler was tried three times in Montreal; each time, he raised the defence of necessity, and each time, he was acquitted. Prosecutors appealed, the appeals court overturned the jury and ordered him jailed in 1975. He served 10 months, suffering a heart attack while in solitary.

On his release, Morgentaler set up more abortion clinics. By that time, the law had been changed and appeals courts could no longer substitute a conviction for a jury acquittal; they could only order a new trial. With all the jury nullifications, the cops were getting cold feet about further arrests.

In 1982, Canada amended its constitution to bring in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, codifying many of the rights in the American Bill of Rights. Morgentaler challenged Canada’s abortion law under the new Charter. In 1988, the Supreme Court struck down the law as unconstitutional and told Parliament to rewrite it. The House of Commons passed a new bill by nine votes and sent it to the Senate for approval. The bill failed on a tie vote. Since then, Canada has had no criminal restrictions on abortion and it is a publicly funded medical procedure.

I don’t think Canadian juries are more prone to nullification than American ones. Even a rural Texas jury doesn’t want to jail doctors, especially when rural hospitals are closing. Necessity is a common law defense in American law too, typically applying in emergency situations where immediate action is required to avert imminent danger – such as saving the mother’s life. Where’s the doctor crazy enough to do the right thing by the mother, damn the consequences?

What level of hate? What hate? It’s not hate to say that a man is not a frog or a lampshade or a car or Albania or sunset over the Pacific. It’s not hate to say that people are not something they are very obviously not – it’s just stating the obvious.

It can of course be cruel to tell people they are ugly or boring or a nuisance, but saying that a man is a man isn’t like that. If there’s any cruelty in this conflict it’s the cruelty of men trying to usurp even being a woman. It’s not hate to tell men they can’t join a group that’s specifically and explicitly for women, and it’s not hate to tell them they’re not women. They may not like it, but that’s another matter.

It’s a kind of egotism, this puffing up ordinary expressions of reality into “cruelty” and wounded feelings and sleepless nights and whole piles of handkerchiefs soaked with tears. Maybe it’s time to grow up now? Hmm?

Medics think Trump’s rotting brain could get us all fried.

A group of medical experts has sounded the alarm over what they’ve described as President Donald Trump’s deteriorating health and warned he needs to be removed from being so close to the nuclear trigger.

The three dozen medical professionals have different backgrounds and political leanings, including neurologists, psychiatrists, and other physicians with extensive experience diagnosing cognitive disorders and evaluating patients.

While they have not specifically examined the 79-year-old president face-to-face, they’ve been closely following his statements and behaviors over the past year and have warned he’s “mentally unfit” and must be removed from office “with the greatest urgency” amid the escalating tension around the world.

They warned that the U.S. has more than 5,000 nuclear warheads at the ready to launch on Trump’s order, and no one now has the authority to stop him.

He’s the General Jack D. Ripper of our time.

They listed some of Trump’s observable serious medical issues, such as “Marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganized and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings.”

The group pointed to what they called the president’s “grandiose and delusional beliefs,” noting that he posts imagery of himself as the pope and as a combat pilot on Truth Social. They also observed signs of “severely impaired judgment and impulse control” in his “reckless threats of violence, advocacy of lethal force against civilians,” and more.

It comes as the president has taken to posting on social media at all hours of the night while appearing to struggle to stay awake during his pubic events. The medical experts described it as “seemingly compulsive, manic-like late-night communications” with as many as 150 posts in one night.

Mad energy in the middle of the night and falling asleep on the job during the day. Mind you, it would be great if he slept 24 hours a day, but these midnight tantrums could turn deadly.

They’ve also raised concerns about the president getting stuck on the same thoughts and being unable to move on from a subject like his ”fixation on perceived enemies, persecutory ideas, and prolonged, disproportionate attacks on specific individuals and institutions.”

The president has repeatedly attacked the same perceived Democratic political foes, including former President Joe Biden, as he continues to obsess over the 2020 election years later.

Perseveration. It’s not a healthy sign.

Well you see it’s only women, so it doesn’t matter.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.

The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found. The surge in this life-threatening condition, caused by infection, was most pronounced for patients whose fetus may still have had a heartbeat when they arrived at the hospital.

ProPublica previously reported on two such cases in which miscarrying women in Texas died of sepsis after doctors delayed evacuating their uteruses. Doing so would have been considered an abortion.

Remember Savita Halappanavar? That’s how she died at University Hospital Galway. The hospital stood by and let her die.

The new reporting shows that, after the state banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals than had in pre-pandemic years, which ProPublica used as a baseline to avoid COVID-19-related distortions. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, ProPublica found, it rose substantially in Texas.

ProPublica’s analysis is the most detailed look yet at a rise in life-threatening complications for women losing a pregnancy after Texas banned abortion. It raises concerns that the same pattern may be occurring in more than a dozen other states with similar bans.

Because women are just machines for making more humans. Men are people, but women are just the mechanism by which babies are manufactured. It doesn’t matter if they die of sepsis.

The standard of care for miscarrying patients in the second trimester is to offer to empty the uterus, according to leading medical organizations, which can lower the risk of contracting an infection and developing sepsis. If a patient’s water breaks or her cervix opens, that risk rises with every passing hour.

Sepsis can lead to permanent kidney failure, brain damage and dangerous blood clotting. Nationally, it is one of the leading causes of deaths in hospitals.

While some Texas doctors have told ProPublica they regularly offer to empty the uterus in these cases, others say their hospitals don’t allow them to do so until the fetal heartbeat stops or they can document a life-threatening complication.

When in doubt, let the woman die.

Ship operators involved in Baltimore bridge collapse charged with misconduct and obstruction

Good. There were six guys on that bridge when the container ship rammed it. They were fixing potholes on the night shift, and they were all killed.

The 900-foot ship Dali lost power twice and slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early hours of March 26, 2024, as a work crew was fixing potholes.

Six construction workers died when the bridge went crumbling down into the Patapsco River. Another construction worker fell into the waters below and sustained serious injuries but survived, while an inspector working as a subcontractor for the Maryland Transportation Authority escaped the collapse without injuries. The nearly two dozen crew members on the ship survived, along with two pilots who were helping the vessel navigate the harbor.

The construction workers were Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, Carlos Daniel Hernandez Estrella, Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, Jose Mynor Lopez, Miguel Angel Luna, Maynor Yasir Suazo Sandoval and survivor Julio Cervantes Suarez.

I didn’t know there was a survivor.

NOVA did a good program on the collapse last year.

“Alejandro, Miguel, Dorlian, Maynor, Carlos and Jose were making our roads safer when they lost their lives on that fateful day in March 2024,” said Jimmy Paul, a special agent in charge with the FBI’s Baltimore Field Office.

And they were doing it at night. Six guys with Spanish names doing heavy work in the middle of the night.

“The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge was a preventable tragedy of enormous consequence,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement announcing the charges. “This indictment is a critical step toward holding accountable those whose reckless disregard for maritime safety regulations caused this disaster. Six construction workers lost their lives, critical infrastructure was destroyed, pollutants were released into the Patapsco River and Chesapeake Bay, and the economic damage now exceeds five billion dollars.”

“This Department is committed to securing justice for the victims and ensuring those responsible are held to account,” he said.

Even Trump’s DoJ. They can work around him sometimes.

Oops.

A year after followers of President Donald Trump put down $100 deposits for a Trump-branded gold phone, not one has shipped, and a recent change in the fine print has some worried they may never arrive.

Last month, the company behind Trump Mobile, T1 Mobile LLC, quietly updated its preorder terms and conditions to clarify that it “does not guarantee that a Device will be produced or made available for purchase.”

“A preorder deposit provides only a conditional opportunity if Trump Mobile later elects, in its sole discretion, to offer the Device for sale,” the most recent terms, dated April 6, read.

Purchasers like tech content creator Carter Ryan, who goes by CarterPCs online, were quick to call out the company’s vague language.

“I’m paying $100 for the chance to maybe give you more money in the future, if you decide to make the product that I’m paying for in the first place?” he said in a post on TikTok.

Again I wonder why people paid $100 in advance in the first place. Who does that? And what for? But of course that goes x 1000 when the vendor is Trump. I suppose if it’s a real Maker of Objects people make a deposit so that they’ll get their Object a few minutes sooner than everyone else, and they’re loony enough to think that’s worth doing. But this is Trump. You don’t give Trump a single thin dime until you have the Object in your hand. Yes, that means you don’t order it, you have to go to a Retail Outlet and buy it over the counter.

The terms change comes as the $500 phone, dubbed the “T1,” has had its release pushed back several times. The phone was first set to ship to depositors in August 2025. The launch was then pushed to November, then December. At the end of last year, customer service representatives for the company told Fortune the phone would arrive in “mid to late January,” and that it was delayed because of the government shutdown at the time. 

No no it was because of gremlins in the factory. No, it was the weather in one of the states no more than 500 miles from the factory. No, it was because one of the factory employees had a headache that day.

The phone, which was originally advertised as being made in America, will now be “designed with American values in mind,” the website states. 

Oh thanks, that was a great laugh. Cleared out my sinuses. The phone will be spiritually American despite being made by prisoners in Somalia.

While the Trump phone remains unreleased, Trump Mobile is selling refurbished Samsung phones and iPhones that connect to its network and its so-called 47 Plan—a $47.45-per-month service that pays homage to Trump’s distinction as both the 45th and 47th president.

Words fail me.

More Polanski work history fictionality.

Zack Polanski falsely claimed to have worked at the Ministry of Justice while campaigning for elected office, The Telegraph can reveal.

The Green Party leader said on his official campaign website in 2020 that he was “currently working at the Ministry of Justice on their training & diversity programmes”.

The Telegraph, however, understands that the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has no record of Mr Polanski ever working for the department.

But he said at, not for. If you say “at” it can mean you hung around outside the building while doing something workish.

When challenged over the discrepancies, the Green Party leader eventually admitted that, rather than working at the Ministry of Justice, he had been hired through an agency that supplied actors for role-play scenarios to a quango responsible for interviewing would-be judges.

As part of the recruitment process, judicial candidates take part in mock courtroom exercises in which actors play criminals, prison guards and lawyers.

Kreate, the agency Mr Polanski was signed up to, supplied those actors. Kreate, which also provides actors and dancers for PR stunts and “high profile events”, describes its actors as a “diverse bunch of lovelies from all walks of life”.

Erm. That’s really not even like hanging around outside the building, is it. Quite different. More like if Martin Sheen claimed to be a former prez of the US.

Wait.

She is correct – but there are human beings here that feel that they are a woman, and I’m not saying that they’re right or they’re wrong what I’m saying is when you introduce this level of hate into a debate

Wait.

What “level of hate”?

Where is the connection between knowing that a man is a man and “this level of hate”?

There isn’t a connection. What there is, is one of those cartoons where Bugs or WileE or whoever it is slams to a screeching halt at the edge of a cliff.

There is a huge and absolute gap between knowing that a man is a man and this or any level of hate.

Knowing what things are is not hate.

Can we get clear on that for a change?

There are plenty of true facts that it can be rude or cruel to state or insist on or make a big noise about.

But here’s the shocker: saying that men are men is not one of them.

Is telling a particular man (who claims to be a woman) that he’s a man one of them?

That’s a tough one.

But the issue is telling men who claim to be women in general that they’re men, rather than telling individual men that one at a time. It’s not rude or cruel or any kind of hate to refuse to repeat the lie that men are women if they say they are.

Missing.

No quick dispatching of disease investigators. No televised news conference to inform the public. No timely health alerts to doctors.

In the midst of a hantavirus outbreak that involves Americans and is making headlines around the world, the U.S. government’s top public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been uncharacteristically missing in action, according to a number of experts.

That, of course, is because Trump and Evil Kennedy have gutted it.

“The CDC is not even a player,” said Lawrence Gostin, an international public health expert at Georgetown University. “I’ve never seen that before.”

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At their first briefing, held Saturday by telephone only for invited reporters, officials pledged to be transparent in updating the public but said the media could not cite the speakers by name under rules set by aides to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. They did not directly answer a question about whether the American passengers could leave the university medical facility when they wanted.

The CDC’s diminished role in this outbreak is an indicator the agency is no longer the force in international health or the protector of domestic health that it once was, some experts said.

Is that how we make America great again?

The hantavirus outbreak is “a sentinel event” that speaks to “how well the country is prepared for a disease threat. And right now, I’m very sorry to say that we are not prepared,” said Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, chief executive officer of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

And we’re not prepared because that’s how Evil Kennedy wants it and because Trump does not care.

For decades, the CDC partnered with the WHO in such situations. The CDC acted as a mainstay of any international investigation, providing staff and expertise to help unravel any outbreak mystery, develop ways to control it and communicate to the public what they should know and how they should worry.

Such actions were a large reason why the CDC developed a reputation as the world’s premier public health agency.

And Trump and Kendoll just threw that away, because they are destructive and brainless.

The administration has laid off thousands of CDC scientists and public health professionals, including members of the agency’s ship sanitation program.

As this was playing out, Kennedy said he was working to “restore the CDC’s focus on infectious disease, invest in innovation, and rebuild trust through integrity and transparency.”

By getting rid of thousands of its scientists and health professionals. My trust is not rebuilt.