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Yep, he begrudgingly says the bare minimum when he's in front of mainstream cameras and microphones and that gets a headline, then he runs off to social media to rant and rave about snake oil bullshit and that gets buried at the bottom of the article

While in Texas, Kennedy also posted on X that the "most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine." ...

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In a later post, Kennedy also said he had met with "two extraordinary healers" who he said have "healed some 300 measles-stricken Mennonite children using aerosolized budesonide and clarithromycin."

Budesonide can sometimes help to treat respiratory illnesses, reducing inflammation in the lungs, said pediatrics professor Dr. James Campbell of the University of Maryland in an email in March. CBS News reached out to Campbell after Kennedy previously hailed "miraculous and instantaneous recovery" from use of these treatments.

"In 2025, we should not have to treat measles in the US because it is completely preventable, but of course, like all preventable diseases, we do," said Campbell.

Campbell is vice chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee that develops recommendations for treating measles and other infectious diseases.

Clarithromycin, an antibacterial drug, has no effect on viruses like measles but can be used by doctors to treat coinfections from some bacterial pneumonias that sometimes develop in infected children, Campbell said. However, it does not work for all bacteria.

"These choices should be made on an individual basis by the doctors, not as sweeping recommendations for all children with measles," said Campbell. He said that the drugs don't have evidence proving they should be used as routine treatments for measles and cautioned against "sweeping statements about how those singular choices related to treatment of measles in general."

"Vaccination will prevent measles, but for those who do get measles, rigorous studies, and not anecdotal reports, will help us to better treat them," said Campbell.

John Sauer, who was confirmed as the U.S. solicitor general last week, told the justices that U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis had “ordered unprecedented relief: dictating to the United States

That's what a court order is

that it must not only negotiate with a foreign country

The one you negotiated with already to imprison your deportees for money

to return an enemy

If anyone's an enemy here it's you

alien on foreign soil,

Where you put him

but also succeed by 11:59 p.m. tonight.”

Then maybe you should stop wasting time and get to work on that

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Bold to take a conservative / right-wing / Republican at their word

the US Constitution guarantees a trial by jury

We can and should make people waive their jury rights when they sign up to be soldiers or federal employees or contractors or elected officials. Think of it like how you have to agree to arbitration with a company when installing their software or whatever, you don't sign the contract/take the oath of office/etc. if you don't want to answer to an ICC panel.

the US court system puts the highest authority under one Supreme Court

Article III of the Constitution is like two pages because everyone in the 18th century convention hall without air conditioning in the Washington DC summer was hot and tired by the time they got to it and it basically just says "Congress should make a court system of some sort." Congress could pass a law saying the Supreme Court is now the ICC and they get original jurisdiction over any international matters and we'd be fine.

Bill Clinton originally signed the treaty when he was President, but never submitted it to Congress because

He didn't want US service members to be held accountable for their war crimes because that would have cost him a lot of political capital and he never cared that about the lives of vulnerable people

it began a long time ago ((couple months)))

We've been sending people off to legal black holes for torture and execution all over the world and calling it "extraordinary rendition" for a few decades now, actually

Another really sad aspect of this, if that 8 year old has siblings they might not be any better off without their parents because Texas (and most states) systems of foster/group homes is shit.

Children need to vote harder if they want lawmakers to take their special interests like not dying seriously.

The Republican party being willfully indifferent to death and human suffering? Noooo, I mean just because they gave us the Iraq war, Sandy Hook, a supreme court decision on abortion that led to a rising maternal mortality rate, intense and unqualified support for the death penalty when we know we've imprisoned innocent people, endless attacks on workplace safety consumer safety and environmental protection regulations, etc etc etc...

Man who was literally giving people $100 to repeat his political rhetoric earlier this week says people who disagree with him are puppets, very reasonable cool and not projection /s

Let's discuss plans to commit civil disobedience in public forums, that's a great idea! /s

The headline is missing the point and downplaying what's going on here, this lawyer wasn't expressing frustration, he didn't raise his voice or make insulting remarks or anything like that. He was asked by the judge [paraphrased] "Why is your client breaking the law?" and replied [paraphrased] "I asked them that too. I guess they didn't mean to do it?" but the Trump administration wanted him to either straight up lie and say they hadn't broken the law or refuse to answer the judge's questions and pretend the court didn't have authority to ask them.

Not only is our executive branch breaking the law and ignoring court orders to follow the law, they're throwing out any attorneys who won't also break the law and ignore judges too.

Why would this administration need competent lawyers, they're playing the game with cheat codes and can't lose

You could just stop reading the news if it bothers you so much instead of trying to interfere with other people's first amendment right to rot their brains right out of their own skulls with Chinese propaganda or whatever they want

Also, we should be more scared of our domestic oligarchs and the surveillance and propaganda machines they've been running on the American people

Also also, if TikTok disappears tomorrow, China or their intermediaries can buy whatever data they want from third party data brokers that bundle datasets from a whole variety of businesses and organizations, because we basically don't regulate any of this at all, because Congress doesn't give a shit about our privacy, because it would cost their donors money if they did

The fact that Trump managed to get the credit both for passing and stopping a law that Biden signed really shows how godawful at politics the modern Democratic party has gotten

This feels wildly overblown.

Oh, but this story's got it all, no matter who you are there's an archetype in here that will annoy you

It follows a complaint by the Bradgate Park Trust, which runs the park, that Mrs Gather picked mushrooms illegally because it is a designated site of special scientific interest (SSSI).

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Mrs Gather, from Derby, revealed details of the community resolution order on TikTok this week.

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However, police have subsequently admitted that the order was not valid because the officer dealing with the case mistakenly got her husband to sign the agreement, rather than her.

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According to Leicestershire Police, the complainant said it was reported Mrs Gather had a small knife, which meant they did not feel able to approach her.

Yeah, if the situation is as the article implies then there is absolutely no issue, but if I was running a court I would want to put a pause on things and review source code or get sworn testimony from someone who built it first to be on the absolute safe side. Like, if something did go wrong it would be kind of hard to un-hear that and not allow it to influence the ultimate outcome of things.

Trump ignoring the law doesn't surprise me, but the lack of willingness to enforce anything from every other part of government still does blow my mind a little bit

Like, as someone who's got a little bit of a fascination with criminal justice stuff, I can't even remember how many times I've seen prosecutors and judges just hammer people and organizations with pre-trial detentions, freezing accounts and asset seizures, bringing in irrelevant but prejudicial evidence, compelling testimony from people by threatening them with prosecution, and just a million other coercive means of forcing guilty pleas or verdicts when they want to, but none of them are willing to do any of those things to this guy no matter how many times he just shits all over them and it's just wild to me still

Yeah, the DNC is a huge and essential part of why this country has gone to shit because there are a lot of just straight up evil people in the Democratic party, and until that changes nothing in this country is going to meaningfully improve. Anytime there's a news article about a Republican doing something awful there should be a comment pointing out how certain Democratic party members have enabled them to do that thing.

That all being said, there are also a lot of good people trying to do good things in the Democratic party as well (an essential difference between them and the GOP), when the Democratic party in general loses elections to Republicans, the evil people get stronger and the good people in the Democratic party get less influential. So, yeah, voting blue across the board is the right call, frustrating as they may be.

requiring the president to notify Congress

Oh, like he was "required" to do before cutting USAID? Cool.

That sounds like what I've read about this place.

One of these students detained solely for their political opinions is going to die in one of these dungeons and then the people responsible won't be held accountable and we'll all fall a little further down