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Seems a bit woke for a GQP appointee. /s
ETA and a sip of non-USian fizzy pop to @mindysan33 (Irn Bru? Contains “Colours Sunset Yellow FCF & Ponceau 4R: May have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.”)
If the EU is woke for banning them and RFK Jr is banning them…
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Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish
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Small aside: Grunya (a Russian Jewish woman, hence the lack of attribution for 100 years) had already diagnosed autism accurately and presented it to the world’s neurological doctors/researchers in 1925.
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This is an objectively good thing, and I believe it’s been in the works for quite some time now. I don’t even know that there’s anything particularly controversial about this. A lot of those artificial dyes are nasty stuff and we’ve known this for decades. Europe and other places have banned many of these dyes already. On a personal level, Mrs. Ficus has a Red 40 allergy which is in everything from food, to skincare products, to medication.
I don’t like the whole “accelerated approval” for alternatives, though.There’s plenty of FDA approved dyes already — why not use those instead?
If RFK Jr. wants to take a brave stance, let’s see him do something about the prevalence of corn in everything.
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I don’t object to the removal of crappy and possibly dangerous chemicals (as I said), my concern comes with the speed of the project and the potential to short-cut the replacement approval, the exceptions-for-donations grifts, the fuck-the-science shit that will come. If we could convince folks that they can live without weirdly vivid coloration of their treats it would be one thing. I don’t see that happening. I think this will be a poorly thought through, rushed and grifted piece of work that will protect no one and be turned into a way to extract more money from those with none. Could some of this be a morbid distrust of anything associated with these guys? Of course. I do not think that there is anything being pushed by these assholes that will ever be classified as an “objectively good thing.” But that’s just me.
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Noted, and agreed.
I agree, and since it wasn’t really clear in my hastily written response I was basing that on strictly the most naive and basic argument of “banning some artificial food dyes like the majority of the industrialized world has long since done seems like a good thing”. This also seems like an easy and uncontroversial softball thing to announce (that I’m pretty sure predates RFK Jr’s tenure) that they can try to use to say, “MAHA! MAHA! (Just ignore all the other terrible shit we’re doing.)”.
I completely agree with your cynicism and distrust, and I’m sure they will find some way to fuck this up and make things even worse – because that’s what they do.
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Trump: “we sure showed them, didn’t we!”
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Same here. If something good comes out of it, it was probably an unintended accident.
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Well Whiskeyseth is hard at work fixing the problems at the Pentagon (check notes)
Aw, hell
The suggestion for improving the space came from Tami Radabaugh, the deputy assistant to the secretary for strategic engagement and a former producer for Fox News and for CBS News, according to multiple sources. The chief Pentagon spokesman, Sean Parnell, and the defense secretary’s wife, Jennifer Hegseth, also a former Fox producer, expressed their approval for the upgrade before it was undertaken, one of the sources said.
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Peak warrior spirit.
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Far be it from me to police someone else’s makeup use, to each their own, but I do wonder how low paid enlisted people feel about a make up room for the big boss?
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Probably about as good as they feel knowing their lives could be compromised by one more drunk dial from him at any moment.
But at least keeping him all pretty as a princess keeps the woke away!
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The Spartans actually prepared for that battle by combing their long flowing hair, which was very important to them. Weird that movie so completely missed that detail. 
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Their eyeliner game was also on point, I hear… But perhaps the preoccupation with gender affirming care explains their middling war time record!
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Whether or not PM Modi quickly (or even slowly) follows Pope Francis, I will continue to call Vance Mr. Death. Keep raining on the insolence, I say.
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