THIS WEEK IN…

ASSAULT ON HEALTHCARE

Having so far failed to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, one of President Obama’s signature achievements, which provides health insurance to millions of Americans, the second Trump administration has still found ways to significantly disrupt healthcare in the U.S. One of Trump’s campaign promises was to “let Kennedy go wild on healthcare” and now the nation’s preventative vaccinations programs are under serious threat. In “The Plot Against Vaccines” Mother Jones investigates how Robert F Kennedy III and his allies are actively undermining immunization efforts. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is struggling to fulfill its mission to protect public health, its bullet-riddled facade symbolic of the agency’s fractured leadership and depleted staff. Experts and senior officials warn that “people will die because of this.”

…in other news

Demonic symbols on a Chinese food receipt were among the signs that Stein-Erik Soelberg found as proof in communicating with ChatGPT that his mother was spying on and trying to poison him. The chatbot confirmed Soelberg’s deranged suspicion and even expanded on the misguided beliefs that he could be a target of assassination attempts. Soelberg became so convinced of the evil plans against him that he killed his mother and committed suicide.