This wasn’t a clerical error. It was a political hit job. More than 1,300 CDC employees—lab specialists, disease trackers, and epidemiologists—were abruptly fired on October 11, 2025. Days later, about half were reinstated after officials blamed a “coding error.” The story keeps changing, but the outcome doesn’t. America’s public-health defenses are being dismantled in plain … Read more
In another strike against the cruel machinations of the Musk/Trump/Vance Central Committee, Kris Mayes and 22 other State Attorney Generals have again gone to court to get the MAGA-Project 2025 Administration to release/return $12 billion in public health grants to the states. These funds were canceled with no warning to the receiving state agencies and … Read more
Arizona coffers are brimming with revenue from taxes and gaming. With so much cash on hand, it’s time for the Arizona Legislature to invest in the health and wellbeing of children and families – instead of more tax breaks for corporations and wealthy Arizonans. Expanding access to care will save the lives of new mothers and babies. We have the money. We need the political will.
There is a historical parallel between the Southern segregationist Dixiecrats’ response to Brown v. Board of Education, requiring desegregation of the nation’s schools “with all deliberate speed,” to the Trump death cult of anti-science, anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers response to President Joe Biden’s modest plan to mandate Covid-19 vaccines to get control of the deadly Coronavirus pandemic. … Read more
When the government does something that it doesn’t want the public to pay too much attention, it announces it in a Friday night news dump. If it occurs on a Friday before a long holiday weekend, even better. The U.S. Supreme Court has clearly learned this tactic. A few minutes before midnight on Wednesday, before the … Read more