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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/us/gunman-cdc-shooting-vaccines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c08._ZkG.eahPryB3V8JO&smid=url-share

Mr. Kennedy has been a prominent voice raising doubts about Covid vaccinations, as well as many routine immunizations. He has made provocative statements — including calling the Covid vaccine the “deadliest” ever made — that directly contradict evidence that has shown the shot to be overwhelmingly effective.Critics of Mr. Kennedy argued that he also helped fuel the animosity directed at the C.D.C. Federal officials have blamed the agency for botching the country’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Mr. Kennedy has previously called the C.D.C. a “cesspool of corruption,” and a fascist enterprise. He accused C.D.C. employees of covering up vaccine harms to children, comparing it to the Catholic Church’s coverup of child sex abuse.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/us/politics/cdc-shooting-staff.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c08.2euU.O3HDol_S_L8j&smid=url-share

Inside the C.D.C., the shooting was viewed as part of a pattern in which health workers have been targets of political, verbal and physical assaults on them and their workplaces.

Many Americans, and even some top federal health officials in the Trump administration, have blamed the C.D.C. for lockdowns, school closings and vaccine mandates, even when some of those decisions were made by state and local governments, or businesses.

Mr. Kennedy has previously called the C.D.C. a “cesspool of corruption” and a fascist enterprise. He has accused the agency’s scientists of ignoring vaccine harms to children, comparing it to the Catholic Church’s coverup of child sex abuse. He has also disparaged the Covid-19 vaccine, calling it the “deadliest” vaccine ever made.

“We’re mad this has happened,” Dr. Debra Houry, the C.D.C.’s chief medical officer, said in a large group call Saturday morning with Susan Monarez, the agency’s newly confirmed director, who tried to reassure them. Another employee on the call, a recording of which was obtained by The New York Times, asked Dr. Monarez: “Are you able to speak to the misinformation, the disinformation that caused this issue? And what your plan forward is to ensure this doesn’t happen again?”

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https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2025/08/09/as-hearings-occurred-the-city-councils-progressive-caucus-texted-bluntly-about-colleagues-and-police/

There’s no indication that this was against the rules. Oregon’s public meetings law requires hearings be public only if a quorum is present—meaning seven councilors, or one more than was included in the Peacock thread. But the texts were still a savvy maneuver: The result was that the six Peacock members moved in lockstep on votes in which the council was split, and used the text thread to coordinate their strategy in real time on the dais as hearings unspooled. (The progressive councilors also hold standing Peacock meetings.)

#pdx #portland #orpol #peacock

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https://www.thewrap.com/steve-bannon-jeffrey-epstein-michael-wolff/

“You’re engaging, you’re not threatening, you’re natural, you’re friendly, you don’t look at all creepy, you’re a sympathetic figure,” said Bannon during the early 2019 coaching and feedback session, per the book. Bannon, once a top strategist for former president Donald Trump, confirmed to the Times that he encouraged Epstein to do a “60 Minutes” interview and recorded more than 15 hours of interviews with the disgraced financier.

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I really have no problem with this, and they’re right about the fights they’re picking.
the worst critique I have is that some of their “mic drop” remarks are pretty fucking cringe, but that’s just aesthetic, & it’s always a part of any public politics. https://convo.casa/@b/115001609793151010

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https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2025/08/09/as-hearings-occurred-the-city-councils-progressive-caucus-texted-bluntly-about-colleagues-and-police/

There’s no indication that this was against the rules. Oregon’s public meetings law requires hearings be public only if a quorum is present—meaning seven councilors, or one more than was included in the Peacock thread. But the texts were still a savvy maneuver: The result was that the six Peacock members moved in lockstep on votes in which the council was split, and used the text thread to coordinate their strategy in real time on the dais as hearings unspooled. (The progressive councilors also hold standing Peacock meetings.)

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https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2025/08/08/councilors-approve-375-million-settlement-in-case-of-man-fatally-shot-by-police-officer

Police Chief Bob Day decided not to discipline Sathoff, despite an Internal Affairs investigator concluding in a 2024 report that Sathoff had acted out of bureau policy when he fired three shots at Clark as he ran away. Sathoff remains in an “off-street” position within the Police Bureau, Day said.

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