😖 #RFKJr. says campaign has qualified for #Nevada general election ballot https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4512458-rfk-jr-says-campaign-has-qualified-for-nevada-general-election-ballot/
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Simon Rosenberg writes,
"Watch this extraordinary video of Kennedy’s NY State Director admitting that the Kennedy campaign is a MAGA op."
The video is embedded in Simon Rosenberg's posting linked below.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/rs-running-really-scared-on-abortion
Via Stephen Fowler:
#RFKJr campaign's March campaign finance report is up.
$5.4m receipts (including $2 million from VP pick Nicole Shanahan)
$4.5m spent (including ~$500k on events/facilities)
$6m cash on hand
https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/587/202404189633473587/202404189633473587.pdf
One reason Shanahan was tapped to join RFK's longshot third party bid is her wealth/ability to infuse cash in the campaign.
This is on top of $4 million she gave to a pro-RFK super pac to fund his Super Bowl ad.
“As #RFKJr.’s pres campaign ran up debts & spent heavily on ballot access, security & consultants, he received a lifeline at the end of March in the form of a $2 million cash infusion from his newly minted running mate, Nicole Shanahan..
Kennedy’s campaign reported raising $5.4 million in March, including the money from Ms. Shanahan, which was recorded on March 27 — the day after he announced her as his running mate“
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/us/politics/rfk-jr-fec-report.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Snapshot from Decision Desk HQ. I'm only posting this because of the #RFKJr part, which pisses me off.
#Michigan Presidential
Donald #Trump (R): 37% (+3)
Joe #Biden (D): 34%
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I): 13%
https://elections2024.thehill.com/michigan/biden-trump-michigan/
#WompWomp redux, via Lis Smith:
By every indication, #RFKJr's campaign has peaked & is on life support:
- Can't raise $- his candidacy is funded by TWO billionaires. One of them is Trump's largest donor, the other is RFK Jr's running mate
- Won't be on debate stage
- Struggling to make state ballots
The New York Times:
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. failed to qualify for next week’s CNN presidential debate, the network said, deny
Via NBC’s Allan Smith:
“In a picture from that day, Kennedy is putting his fingers inside the bear’s bloody mouth, a comical grimace across his face. (When I asked Kennedy about the incident, he said, ‘Maybe that’s where I got my brain worm.’”)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/robert-f-kennedy-jr-profile-presidential-campaign
#RFKJr
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#WompWomp 1/...
“A Desperate Kennedy Campaign, and the Mystery of 110,000 Signatures
#RFKJr.’s presidential team relied on a super PAC for the signatures needed to get on the ballot in #Arizona, according to people with knowledge of the operation.”
#GiftLink 🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/us/politics/robert-f-kennedy-arizona-ballot.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EU4.fP7k.uRDqF9cmcrpV&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
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“It is a sad ending to a sad story”
Via Kerry Kennedy:
I am sharing a personal statement that my family and I have made in response to my brother’s announcement.
After all the #MarkRobinson, #Rufo, #Nuzzi and #RFKJr news broke, a late-night filing revealed that 3 witnesses gave sworn testimony that “#MattGaetz attended a drug-fueled sex party in 2017 with the 17-year-old girl at the center of the alleged sex trafficking scandal.”
Thursday was quite a news day.
#media
https://www.notus.org/florida/new-court-filings-matt-gaetz-dorworth-sex-party
UPDATE: The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide whether #RFKJr. will be listed as a presidential candidate on the state's ballot. A lower court denied RFK Jr.'s request to be removed from the ballot. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/appeals-court-will-hear-rfk-jr-s-case-to-get-off-wisconsin-ballots/
#WompWomp… & #SCOTUS #Wompage is a rarity!
“The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let #RFKJr. withdraw his name from ballots in #Michigan and #Wisconsin, battleground states where votes for his now suspended campaign could cut into support for #Trump”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/politics/rfk-jr-supreme-court-wisconsin-michigan?cid=ios_app
I’m launching a Stop Calling #AntiVax Nutjobs “Skeptics” Challenge for 2025.
Immunologists are the real vaccine skeptics, just as climatologists are the real climate change skeptics.
It’s called the scientific method. They don’t believe anything unless repeatable studies find compelling evidence for it and are open to revising their views as new data come along. Skeptics.
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Face it folks, they’re all getting in, and we knew they would.
Every day, a new atrocity.
Via Carl Quintanilla:
Cassidy is a YES on #RFKJr.
Of course #Texas, antivaxxers, and soon… #RFKJr will be all 🥱
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/health/west-texas-measles-outbreak/index.html
Edited 189d ago
#Cancer, #Covid, & #Alzheimers #Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before #RFKJr announced that 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
#Trump #health #science #medicine #AntiIntellectualism #idiocracy #USpol
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/
Dr Oz says being healthy is a patriotic duty
Worse, he says they spend 70% of Medicare & Medicaid funds on chronic illness & aren’t “getting their money’s worth”
This is the quiet part said out loud.
They don’t want to cure chronic illness, they want us to take the blame.
They don’t want to pay.
They aren’t even being subtle anymore. They’re making lists of people with autism. They deride those who can’t work or serve in the military.
“Wise decisions” would be universal healthcare. Universal basic income. Addressing poverty, food deserts and income inequality.
This isn’t “wise decisions”, it’s eugenics.
#rfkjr #uspoli #fascism #eugenics #disability #ableism #chronicillness
The Head of a New #RFKJr Group Promoted #911 Conspiracy Theories & the #ProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion
#LelandLehrman is a key figure in the #MAHA world, despite decades of pushing #extremist ideas.
…Lehrman…[has a]…long history of promoting #antisemitic & extreme #ConspiracyTheories, as detailed in a new report from the Institute for Research & Education on #HumanRights, an org which studies #extremism & the #FarRight.
#Trump #policy #law #Government #USpol #kakistocracy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/leland-lehrman-make-america-healthy-again-institute-antisemitism-september-11/
"All of this leaves Americans without the information they need to understand how genuinely bonkers the direction of current U.S. #PublicHealth policy has become under Kennedy." My latest, on the dangerous sanewashing of #RFKJr. https://48hills.org/2025/06/the-medias-dangerous-sanewashing-of-rfk-jr/
Lancet study reveals that vaccines have saved 154 million lives over the past 50 years, mostly infants, or 6 lives per minute. This would make the advent of vaccines the single greatest contribution to keeping babies alive. The measles vaccine has been the most significant, accounting for 60% of the lives saved due to immunization.
All that will likely change, thanks to Trump and RFK Jr. Not only are fewer people being vaccinated because of irrational and unfounded fear of vaccines, promoted by hucksters like RFK. The Trump administration's slashing of USAID and other international aid will also reduce vaccination rates among the poorest and most vulnerable children in the world.
#vaccinations #vaccines #antivax #publichealth #trump #rfkjr #usaid #measles #infantmortality
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"US Health and Human Services #RFKJr announced Tuesday said the #COVID vaccine will no longer be among the recommended vaccines for pregnant women and healthy children on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s immunization schedule." https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/health/covid-vaccine-pregnant-women-children-recommendation?cid=ios_app
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said prepackaged foods have “mass poisoned” tribal communities.
But the Trump administration ended a program that tribal food banks relied on for fresh, locally produced food important to their traditions and cultures.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-food-grant-cuts-trump-rfk-jr?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #RFKJr #Trump #Health #Food #Native #Indigenous #Nutrition #Culture
RFK Jr. says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women.
Yet doctors have found that stillbirths can result from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta — even for people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent.
#News #Covid #Vaccines #RFKJr #PublicHealth #Health #Pregnancy #Women
Everything we expected and worse from Brainworm Guy.
Via Bill Grueskin:
#RFKJr 's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings.
“We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher. https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors