Republicans: continued

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65 year old lady that works at a food co op has invited our congressman to come by to see poor people buying food on snap.
https://www.threads.com/@thebriefingwit ... NuPqfyoFoA

He would see real disabled people. And some of those 30 year olds that play video games alm day so they can "enjoy" Medicaid.

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RFK Jr has missed his deadline for releasing the true cause of autism.

US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has pledged "a massive testing and research effort" to determine the cause of autism in five months.

Experts cautioned that finding the causes of autism spectrum disorder – a complex syndrome that has been studied for decades – will not be straightforward, and called the effort misguided and unrealistic.

Kennedy, who has promoted debunked theories suggesting autism is linked to vaccines, said during a cabinet meeting on Thursday that a US research effort will "involve hundreds of scientists from around the world."

"By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures," Kennedy said.

The environmental cause of autism has also not appeared. You would need clusters around a cause, you could map it.

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RFK Jr. has demanded that a Danish study in the "Annals of Internal Medicine" noting no link between aluminum in vaccines and 50 health conditions, including autism, be retracted. The Journal has declined, being a respectable publication. It's studies are well-documented.

Results:
Cumulative aluminum exposure from vaccination during the first 2 years of life was not associated with increased rates of any of the 50 disorders assessed. For groups of combined outcomes, adjusted hazard ratios per 1-mg increase in aluminum exposure were 0.98 (95% CI, 0.94 to 1.02) for any autoimmune disorder, 0.99 (CI, 0.98 to 1.01) for any atopic or allergic disorder, and 0.93 (CI, 0.90 to 0.97) for any neurodevelopmental disorder. For most individually analyzed outcomes, the upper bounds of the 95% CIs were incompatible with relative increases greater than 10% or 30%.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326 ... ALS2500997

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"With midterms more than a year away, a record number of lawmakers are eyeing the exit."
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/13/nx-s1-54 ... 6-midterms

This includes three sitting senators: Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Colorado Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet.
(I used to tweet to her and Boebert a lot)

some want a better job

On the House side so far, there are nine representatives, five Democrats and four Republicans, looking to make the jump to the Senate, also higher than some recent election cycles. They include Georgia Republican Reps. Buddy Carter and Mike Collins, who are looking to take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff and Alabama Republican Rep. Barry Moore, who announced Tuesday his run to fill the seat Tuberville will vacate to run for governor.

There are also eight House representatives — all Republican — running for governor.