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Saturday, April 5, 2025 6:30 PM

After promising transparency, RFK guts public records teams at HHS

April 3, 2025 5:02 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/03/g-s1-57888/h
hs-fda-rfk-foia-public-records


Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised "radical transparency," but the firings suggest that promise is a "lie," says Jason R. Baron, a former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration and current professor at the College of Information at the University of Maryland.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, April 5, 2025 7:49 PM

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Your party has been cancer for a long time.

You were warned about demanding better and not going with every line of bullshit your media masters told you.

Now they're all losing their jobs . . .

I knew and admired Elizabeth Warren’s work long before she became a senator. Back in the day she was a law professor with a special interest in rising rates of personal bankrupcty. Her book The Two-Income Trap, about how the stresses of families trying to get their children into decent schools pushed many over the brink, was a revelation. So was her dissection of the role of consumer fraud in the financial crisis.

She has been remarkably effective since transitioning into a political and policy-making role, too. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, her brainchild, has been a huge success story — which is why Trump and Musk are trying to kill it.



There has been no success. Living in America is unaffordable for most, and we're $37 Trillion in debt.

YOUR party did that.

Shut the fuck up.

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Saturday, April 5, 2025 8:14 PM

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Your party has been cancer for a long time.

You were warned about demanding better and not going with every line of bullshit your media masters told you.

Now they're all losing their jobs . . .

I knew and admired Elizabeth Warren’s work long before she became a senator. Back in the day she was a law professor with a special interest in rising rates of personal bankrupcty. Her book The Two-Income Trap, about how the stresses of families trying to get their children into decent schools pushed many over the brink, was a revelation. So was her dissection of the role of consumer fraud in the financial crisis.

She has been remarkably effective since transitioning into a political and policy-making role, too. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, her brainchild, has been a huge success story — which is why Trump and Musk are trying to kill it.



There has been no success. Living in America is unaffordable for most, and we're $37 Trillion in debt.

YOUR party did that.

Shut the fuck up.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

In the Houston area, half the population are Trumptards, half aren't. The Trumptard half aren't doing well compared to Democrats because Trumptards have mental problems connected to obsessive anxieties about illegal aliens and wokeness. Trumptards have money problems which they have no idea they could easily fix if only they were not crazy, stupid and lazy. See 6ixStringJack, who has no earned income, no employment, because of his mental disabilities. The Democrats didn't make Trumptards crazy. Trumptards did it to themselves.

I can even see the difference driving down a street in Baytown Texas looking for houses with Trump Take America Back signs. The occupants of the Trumptard houses are obviously inferior at home and vehicle maintenance.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, April 6, 2025 12:17 AM

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In the Houston area, half the population are Trumptards, half aren't. The Trumptard half aren't doing well compared to Democrats because Trumptards have mental problems connected to obsessive anxieties about illegal aliens and wokeness.



And SECOND knows this... how?
Because he's interviewed the population of Houston?
Because he knows how each person voted and every family's net worth?

Or is he just substituting obsessive anxiety about "Trumptards" to fill the void where knowledge should be?



You're funny. And I don't mean in a good way.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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Sunday, April 6, 2025 12:59 AM

I reorganized this article bc it desperately needed editing, but you can find the original here https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/04/01/follow_the_science_why_p
eter_marks_was_asked_to_leave_the_fda_1101329.html


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Follow the Science: Why Peter Marks Was Asked to Leave the FDA


Follow the Science: Why Peter Marks Was Asked to Leave the FDA

On Friday, Dr. Peter Marks announced his resignation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as Director of CEBR (Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research) citing differences with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kennedy regarding vaccines.

The New York Times, Washington Post, and other media outlets such as STAT News breathlessly reported that “FDA’s top vaccine scientist had been pushed out.” We have been told that science is at risk.The irony of these reports is that Marks didn’t resign and is not a vaccine scientist. Dr. Marks was asked to leave and then subsequently wrote that he did not want to become “subservient to [Secretary Kennedy’s] misinformation and lies.”

The media proclamation that Dr. Marks’ is “FDA’s top vaccine scientist” is ironic because he decided to give himself that position. Marks is a physician but has no clinical or scientific training in vaccines or immunology. Dr. Marks trained as an oncologist, a field far from the important and complex area of vaccine biology.

At FDA in 2021, Dr. Marks removed top career vaccine scientists so he could force through the approval of the COVID vaccine to meet an arbitrary Biden administration deadline. Marks ousted Dr. Gruber and Dr. Krause, the top scientists at the Office of Vaccine Research, due to “intransigence” of these real vaccine experts to not ram through the approval of the vaccine. Drs. Gruber and Krause had voiced concerns that they needed more time to understand the safety of the vaccine especially as it relates to inflammation of the heart, now a well known and accepted toxicity of the COVID vaccine. Marks approved the use of the vaccine in children despite the known fact that children have an extremely low risk of serious health effects of COVID-19 infection and yet a known significant increased risk of serious vaccine related toxicity. [NOT TRUE. RISK OF COMPLICATIONS FROM COVID-19 IS HIGHER THAN VACCINE RISK.] He also declined to convene the FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee to review his decision. These events are clearly outlined in the June 2023 House Judiciary Hearings.

On at least three additional, documented occasions during the Biden administration as Director of CBER, Marks disregarded the opinions and expert advice of long-time career scientists to advance his own dangerous agenda. In addition to ignoring and overruling FDA’s top vaccine scientists during the pandemic, Marks also overruled FDA career scientists and supported the approval of the Alzheimer’s drug ADUHELM; a decision later overturned.

In 2023, he overruled his own staff scientists amid their concerns and those raised by an FDA Advisory Board to grant [initial] approval of ELEVIDYS, a gene treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). After the initial FDA approval [2023], the company conducted a subsequent trial which failed to meet the primary efficacy endpoint. On top of that, ELEVIDYS has proven toxicity including liver failure (22% of patients) and increase in serious adverse events. Despite the lack of proven efficacy and the concerning toxicity profile, Dr. Marks rammed through ... the full approval in June of 2024 against the counsel of his staff and the expert panel... and without FDA Advisory Committee input.

As tragic evidence of Marks’ failed judgement, just 2 weeks ago, the company that markets the therapy ELEVIDYS announced that a treated patient died of fulminant liver failure. Marks overruled his own career staff and experts to drive through a risky and unproven therapy that has now killed a patient. This tragedy should not have happened

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Sunday, April 6, 2025 1:42 AM

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In the Houston area, half the population are Trumptards, half aren't. The Trumptard half aren't doing well compared to Democrats because Trumptards have mental problems connected to obsessive anxieties about illegal aliens and wokeness.



And SECOND knows this... how?
Because he's interviewed the population of Houston?
Because he knows how each person voted and every family's net worth?

Or is he just substituting obsessive anxiety about "Trumptards" to fill the void where knowledge should be?



You're funny. And I don't mean in a good way.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA




He's a cultist and a zealot. He's speaking out of his ass just like he's done every day since he started posting here.

Nothing he has ever said was worth the electricity to send nor the server space it occupies.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Sunday, April 6, 2025 4:02 AM

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He's a cultist and a zealot. He's speaking out of his ass just like he's done every day since he started posting here.

Nothing he has ever said was worth the electricity to send nor the server space it occupies.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

Man Who Bankrupts Casinos Really Showing the World a Thing or Two About How To Do Business

In what has been described as "a massive fucking surprise", a man who has run six companies into bankruptcy and wasn't even able to make money out of A CASINO, has absolutely no idea what he is doing while in charge of the world's largest economy.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, April 6, 2025 4:10 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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In the Houston area, half the population are Trumptards, half aren't. The Trumptard half aren't doing well compared to Democrats because Trumptards have mental problems connected to obsessive anxieties about illegal aliens and wokeness.



And SECOND knows this... how?
Because he's interviewed the population of Houston?
Because he knows how each person voted and every family's net worth?

Or is he just substituting obsessive anxiety about "Trumptards" to fill the void where knowledge should be?



You're funny. And I don't mean in a good way.

-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA


My next door neighbor, a proud Trumptard, put a hole in his air-conditioner condenser this afternoon, causing all the refrigerant to leak out. Trumptards are not prospering in America because they are stupid, lazy, drunken ignoramuses who don't realize that they sabotage their own lives.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, April 6, 2025 4:19 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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In the Houston area, half the population are Trumptards, half aren't. The Trumptard half aren't doing well compared to Democrats because Trumptards have mental problems connected to obsessive anxieties about illegal aliens and wokeness.



And SECOND knows this... how?
Because he's interviewed the population of Houston?
Because he knows how each person voted and every family's net worth?

Or is he just substituting obsessive anxiety about "Trumptards" to fill the void where knowledge should be?



You're funny. And I don't mean in a good way.

-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA


My next door neighbor, a proud Trumptard, put a hole in his air-conditioner condenser this afternoon, causing all the refrigerant to leak out. Trumptards are not prospering in America because they are stupid, lazy, drunken ignoramuses who don't realize that they sabotage their own lives.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two



We're all sure this is a true story.

Just like we're all sure that you've never made a mistake in your life.

You are a joke. You are a waste of carbon.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Sunday, April 6, 2025 2:49 PM

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MAHA - DIET
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Researchers Identify Diets In Mid-Life Linked To Healthy Aging in 30-year Study

A 30-year study finds a primarily plant-based diet, with minimal ultra-processed food and low to moderate amounts of animal-based foods like fish and dairy, could raise our chances of reaching 70 without developing chronic disease, according to a new study from Harvard researchers.
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Two Diets Linked to Optimal Aging

The study, recently published in Nature Medicine, examined the midlife diets and health outcomes of more than 105,000 middle-aged women and men aged 39 to 69 over 30 years.

The team evaluated how effectively the participants adhered to eight different largely-plant-based diets: the Alternative Health Eating Index (AHEI), the Alternative Mediterranean Diet (aMED), the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet (DASH), the MIND diet, the Healthful Plant-Based Diet, the Planetary Health Diet Index, the Empirically Inflammatory Dietary Pattern, and the Empirical Dietary Index for Hyperinsulinemia.
Of the participants, 10 percent were identified as aging healthfully and followed the eight diets. Those who closely followed the AEHI and PHDI diets were linked with optimal healthy aging patterns.

The AHEI diet was found to be especially beneficial. It was developed to prevent chronic disease and emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, legumes, and healthy fats while limiting red meat, refined grains, and sugar.

Participants scoring highest on this diet were found to have an 86 percent greater likelihood of healthy aging by age 70 and a 2.2-fold higher likelihood by age 75 compared to those with the lowest scores. The PHDI diet also emphasizes plant-based foods and reduces animal-based food intake.


Other diets researchers looked at that were linked to healthy aging were the aMED which follows the Mediterranean model and the DASH diet. The aMED diet prioritizes olive oil, nuts, whole grains, and moderate fish intake. DASH is known for lowering blood pressure and focuses on fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy.

“Maintaining a healthy diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, unsaturated fats, nuts, and legumes during mid-life is linked to a higher likelihood of healthy aging along with better cognitive, physical, and mental health,” Guasch-Ferré told The Epoch Times.

Conversely, higher consumption of ultra-processed foods, particularly processed meats and sugary beverages, was linked to a decreased chance of aging healthfully.


MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/researchers-identify-diets-mid-life-
linked-healthy-aging


What is the AHEI (Alternative Healthy Eating Index) diet?

You can score your diet here:

https://med.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Nutrition/Principles_of_Nutriti
onal_Assessment_3e_(Gibson_et_al.)/07%3A_

Dietary_guidelines_and_quality_(Chapter_8c)/7.04%3A_Alternate_
Healthy_Eating_Index_(8c.4) (broken up for formatting)

There's nothing new here:
Premium score on vegetables (5 servings per day, top score),
fruits (4),
whole grains (4 for women, 6 for men),
MODERATE alcohol consumption,
nuts or beans (1 per day), and
fish (2 servings per week, or fish oil)

Negative scores for
red or processed meat (>1.5 servings/ day) and
fruit juice, sugary or diet drinks.

And obviously ultra processed foods

I question the # of fruit and whole grain servings for ppl with diabetes

Wait, what? Fruit juice??

They are saying that real 100% fruit juice is as bad as red or processed meat, and sugary or diet drinks?
Diet drinks are filled with bad fake sweeteners, and processed meat surely means bathed or injected with carcinogenic chemicals.
But fruit juice has the simplest forms of sugar to process, and the human genome has been practicing for hundreds of centuries to process it efficiently and healthfully.

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