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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Health and wellness, but whose? [1]
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Date: 2025-09-03
New York Times:
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health We are worried about the wide-ranging impact that all these decisions will have on America’s health security. Residents of rural communities and people with disabilities will have even more limited access to health care. Families with low incomes who rely most heavily on community health clinics and support from state and local health departments will have fewer resources available to them. Children risk losing access to lifesaving vaccines because of the cost.
x “From my vantage point, as a doctor who’s taken the Hippocratic oath, I only see harm coming.”
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who stepped down from the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, on HHS Sec. Kennedy’s impact at the agency.
https://t.co/S4HNboo73S pic.twitter.com/Jj7qYPCMoW — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) August 31, 2025
Rachel Bedard/The Argument:
On RFK Jr.’s mitochondrial malaise Glassy-eyed kids at the airport are not tired because of mitochondrial issues. You can picture a mitochondrion, I suspect, based on how one was drawn for you in a high school textbook: It’s shaped like a kidney bean and full of squiggly lines. You might remember learning that mitochondria are “the powerhouses of the cell,” the cellular organs that provide the rest of the cell with energy to function. This is probably about as much as you know about mitochondria. This is also probably as much as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. knows about mitochondria, but he certainly thinks about them much more than you do. He sees evidence of their dysfunction everywhere. “I’m looking at kids while I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street, and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation, you can tell it from their faces, from their body movement, and from their lack of social connection,” Kennedy said Wednesday during a press briefing. This quote reads to many as batshit crazy, and has now gone viral. People are understandably confused: What is the secretary of health and human services talking about? Is this a thing? Did he make it up? Are American children afflicted with mitochondrial malaise?
x 9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced."
https://t.co/hYWnhYjCDY — Atul Gawande (@Atul_Gawande) September 1, 2025
Washington Post:
Five burning questions about Trump, Democrats in this fall’s elections While he is not on the ballot this year, views of Trump and his administration are factoring prominently into the marquee competitions. In New Jersey, the Republican nominee is Jack Ciattarelli, a former state lawmaker who came surprisingly close in the 2021 governor’s race, while in Virginia, the GOP candidate is Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears. Trump has endorsed Ciattarelli, who is running as a counterweight to long-running liberal leadership in the state, while he has withheld support for Earle-Sears, whose campaign has faced intraparty criticism that it is not organized enough. Democrats are cautiously optimistic and see helpful similarities between their two candidates, both centrists. Sherrill and Spanberger are mothers with national security backgrounds who are running on lowering costs and seeking to tie their opponents to Trump’s agenda. Some Democrats see their politics as an effective blueprint for 2026 and are eager to hold up potential victories as evidence of success.
x Fascinating excerpt from @RossBarkan's interview with New York Governor Kathy Hochul for @NYMag: pic.twitter.com/CBjMyNQqh9 — Michael Lange (@MichaelLangeNYC) September 2, 2025
Be patient with Democratic electeds on Mamdani. These things take time.
Jeff Tiedrich/everyone is entitled to my opinion:
bring out your dead!
the press continues to ignore Dear Leader’s obvious decline let me state right up top that I didn’t believe any of this past weekend’s rumors that Dear Leader had shuffled off this mortal coil. but clearly, something is very wrong with Donny, and it’s being covered up — and because it’s this White House, staffed by the most incompetent clownfuckers ever to have fucked clowns, it’s being covered up in the most inept manner possible.
Well reasoned speculation from Adam Cochran:
x 1/31
I believe there is growing evidence, that the White House is covering up the fact that Donald Trump has been dealing with TIA strokes.
AND that he likely had a more significant ischemic stroke this week. pic.twitter.com/aO327vaoCj — Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) August 31, 2025
Jonathan V Last/The Bulwark:
The Death of Trump What would happen to MAGA? And America? What would happen after Trump’s vice president took power? There would be a lot of bowing and scraping as ambitious Trumpists pretended to get onboard. But behind the scenes they’d be maneuvering to dump Vance at the first available moment. In an echo of Death of Stalin, the support of Trump’s children would be critical for conveying legitimacy. After Stalin died, Malenkov, Khrushchev, and Lavrentiy Beria all hustled to win the support of both his semi-normal3 daughter, Svetlana, and his wastrel son, Vasily. You do not need me to draw you a picture, but I will anyway: Immediately following Trump’s death, Vance et al. will be desperate to win the public backing of the Trump children, especially Ivanka and Don Jr.4
x all the trolling tweets are one thing, but this is a court win for Newsom that could have a wider effect as Trump looks at more National Guard deployments:
https://t.co/JWx6n9MsrB — Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 2, 2025
Franklin Delano Roosevelt/The Bulwark:
Labor Day: How Political and Economic Freedom Are Linked It has never been a class holiday. It has always been a national holiday. Tomorrow is Labor Day. Labor Day in this country has never been a class holiday. It has always been a national holiday. It has never had more significance as a national holiday than it has now. In other countries the relationship of employer and employee has been more or less accepted as a class relationship not readily to be broken through. In this country we insist, as an essential of the American way of life, that the employer-employee relationship should be one between free men and equals. We refuse to regard those who work with hand or brain as different from or inferior to those who live from their own property. We insist that labor is entitled to as much respect as property. But our workers with hand and brain deserve more than respect for their labor. They deserve practical protection in the opportunity to use their labor at a return adequate to support them at a decent and constantly rising standard of living, and to accumulate a margin of security against the inevitable vicissitudes of life. The average man must have that twofold opportunity if we are to avoid the growth of a class-conscious society in this country.
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