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TechdirtNov 7, 2026

America Records Its 8th Measles Death Of The Year In Wisconsin

The national embarrassment that is America’s measles problem continues to have devastating effects. While the federal government generally, and RFK Jr. specifically, blissfully ignores the thousands getting sick from a disease that was declared eradicated more than two decades ago, it all continues to get worse and worse. We have the tools at our disposal...

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TechdirtNov 6, 2026

One Subplot To The GOP’s Midterm Debacle Was A Repudiation Of The MAHA Movement

The midterms are over and the Republicans got their asses waxed. We can point to any number of reasons why the country delivered a stinging rebuke to the GOP across the union. It was a slap to Donald Trump. It was about the economy. It was the war in Iran. It was all of the...

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TechdirtNov 5, 2026

Post Midterms, Pete Hegseth & RFK Jr. Stare Down Likely Impeachment Efforts

The impact of the midterm election result is going to be felt for years, to be sure. But some of the effects will be far more swift than that, likely kicking off right after the new Congress is sworn in. We’re mere hours removed from the election, with some votes still being tallied, but already...

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TechdirtNov 4, 2026

7th Measles Death Of The Year Recorded In New York State

It’s very gross for this to be any sort of “I told you so” opening to this post, but the measles outbreak in America continues to get worse, as predicted. While last years case counts and deaths from the disease, which had been vaccinated to the point of eradication back in 2000, were a record-breaking...

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TechdirtNov 3, 2026

American Measles Cases Have More Than Doubled Last Year’s Record Totals

As I continue to say, you may be done with the measles, but the measles is not done with you, nor the entire country. Coinciding with the profane installment of RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2025 saw the largest number of cases of measles in America in 3 decades. After decades...

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TechdirtOct 31, 2026

RFK Jr. Steps In To Personally Approve Peptide Use In America Over FDA’s Objections

If you go through all of the bloviations from RFK Jr. when it comes to his stance on vaccines, one of his chief refrains is that vaccines that have been in wide use for many years haven’t been tested properly for safety, or that data about their safety has been hidden or ignored. He’s generally...

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TechdirtOct 30, 2026

Study: America’s Measles Problem Is Domestic, Not RFK Jr.’s Dirty Foreigners

To state that RFK Jr. says things that are just plainly wrong is to state the obvious. His waffling claims about the dangers of vaccines are wrong. His various other pet conspiracy theories, such as chemtrails and damage to humans from EMF, are also wrong. The data HHS is putting out under his leadership about...

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Little Green FootballsOct 19, 2026

Meidas: Trump Lies About an "Economic Boom," Announces "Women's Health" Program Led by RFK Jr.

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s Monday going sideways as he rushes out of the White House claiming prices are falling and makes bizarre remarks during an event with Melania on women’s health. Meiselas also highlights Kevin Hassett’s desperate claims of an economic boom and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s visit to Iran, undercutting Trump’s claims that Russia is not providing material support to the country.

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TechdirtOct 16, 2026

RFK Jr. Sets Up Program To Pay Doctors To Report Vaccine “Injuries”

We just talked about how the majority of the American public either believes that RFK Jr. recommends they not get the MMR vaccine that protects people from measles, or are otherwise unsure of what his stance even is on the topic. When Kennedy sycophants (sickophants?) attempt to point at all the times Kennedy has said...

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Little Green FootballsOct 12, 2026

John Oliver: Generic Drugs

John Oliver does a deep dive on generic drugs, why they’re so important, why they can be so vulnerable to shortages and quality issues, and why Kevin Bacon can’t solve everything all on his own.

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TechdirtOct 10, 2026

Polling: Americans Uncertain On RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Stance, Very Certain That They Hate Him

In my many, many posts about RFK Jr. and his disastrous tenure as Secretary of HHS, there are two themes that have hopefully broken through all the noise. The first is that Kennedy is a miserable communicator, in a way that is totally purposeful. He talks out of both sides of his mouth all the...

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TechdirtOct 8, 2026

New York Declares State Of Emergency As Measles Cases Spread Fast

It's becoming very apparent that we failed to learn a key lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic: infectious diseases aren't partisan; they will come for us all. While Donald Trump and RFK Jr. play their little partisan games over the measles outbreak, the disease is spreading. Spinning conspiracy theories, falsely claiming that the government has it...

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TechdirtOct 6, 2026

A 5th Person In PA Has Suffered A Measles-Related Death

The measles outbreaks in America, and specifically in Pennsylvania, are getting worse instead of getting better. And, while RFK Jr. has and will continue to attempt to lay blame for this total failure of federal leadership at the feet of state officials, anyone with a few brain cells to rub together knows that's bullshit. While...

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TechdirtOct 2, 2026

CDC Opens Up COVID Vaccine Procurement Without Explanation

Among the many promises that RFK Jr. offered in his confirmation hearings, promises that he has gone about breaking in spectacular fashion, one was a promise of "radical transparency". His approach, in his own words, was laid out directly to Congress. My approach to administration HHS will be transparency. If members of this committee or...

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TechdirtSep 30, 2026

CDC Finally Gets Around To Acknowledging Half Of The Measles Fatalities We Know Exist

While the game-playing that RFK Jr.'s CDC has conducted is ongoing, they can only keep up the charade for so long. The nation is undergoing the worst outbreak of measles in over three decades, with Pennsylvania currently the hardest hit of all the states. As we've discussed, there have now been four measles-related deaths in...

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TechdirtSep 25, 2026

Promises Made, Promises Broken: RFK Jr. Keeps COVID Vaccines From Children

The velocity with which RFK Jr. continues to break the promises he made during his confirmation hearings is simply incredible. As we get further and further away from those hearings, which amazingly occurred only 21 months ago, we may lose sight of the assurances Kennedy gave directly to Congress about his plans if appointed to...

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TechdirtSep 24, 2026

RFK Jr. Yoinks Millions Meant To Keep Minority Infants Alive For His Security Detail

What if all this time, we have completely misunderstood RFK Jr.'s obsession with keeping children from being vaccinated? What if the notion that he was a true anti-vaxxer, or was ignorant and confused on how this whole science things works, was completely wrong? What if he just hates children, particularly black and brown children, and...

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TechdirtSep 19, 2026

RFK Jr. Assclown Jambaroo: Anti-Vaxxer Bullshit, A New Panel Of Misfits, EMFs, & Chemtrails, Oh My!

Well, as we previously discussed was going to occur, RFK Jr. gave his keynote speech and appearance at the Children's Health Defense conference of anti-vaxxer conspiracy-mongers, and he was certainly firmly on brand. In fact, he did so much to make news during and around this appearance that we're going to have to break this...

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TechdirtSep 17, 2026

4th Measles Death In PA & All The Federal Govt. Can Do Is Disrespect The Dead By Ignoring Them

As Pennsylvania continues to endure the worst of the current measles outbreaks ravaging the country, a fourth measles-associated death has now been confirmed. As of the time of this writing, the CDC's public website tracking case counts and deaths has still not acknowledged a single one of these fatalities, reportedly at the direction of RFK...

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TechdirtSep 16, 2026

RFK Jr. To Give Keynote At Conference For Anti-Vaxxer Organization He Co-Founded

Whatever mask RFK Jr. was attempting to wear to convince the world he isn't a pure anti-vaxxer clown is now officially off. The man who has spent his time as Secretary of HHS overseeing the worst outbreak of measles in America in decades, who just can't stop citing fake health studies and misinterpreting others, who...

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TechdirtSep 15, 2026

Adult Woman Dies From Measles Complications In Pennsylvania

Despite RFK Jr.'s assurances that he's absolutely killing it combating this pesky measles thing that resurfaced after decades under his leadership, the only thing that is being killed are American citizens who contract measles. While we first eclipsed the measles case count of 2025 in mid-summer of 2026, there has also been no slowdown of...

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TechdirtSep 10, 2026

1 Of 2 Children Dead In PA Confirmed To Be From Measles

I want to start this whole thing off with a disclaimer. Nothing in this post should be misconstrued as gloating, as being pleased, or as having a connotation that is anything beyond sadness and the need for change. Nobody is happy to have the obvious confirmed when it comes to a child's death. There is...

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TechdirtSep 9, 2026

Reporting Indicates RFK Jr. Directly Intervened To Keep PA Deaths Off CDC Measles Report

The measles outbreak, that began in America nearly two years ago, has only increased in velocity. We recently talked about the deaths of two children in Pennsylvania who both died while infected with measles. I'm altering my language slightly here from that original post in which I described those children as having died of measles...

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TechdirtSep 4, 2026

RFK Jr. Wants Your Medical Records

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. You might assume that what you tell a doctor stays between you, your physician and perhaps your insurer. But the reality is more complicated. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the federal privacy law that governs health information...

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