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What Happened Today – September 22, 2025

🤡🐍 One in 285 Americans died during the start of the COVID pandemic while Trump and his allies lied and insisted that the disease was not dangerous.

Now he drags RFK Jr. out to revive the same vaccine-autism scam he’s been flogging for years. Today was pure snake oil pitched by two conmen with no medical or science training.

The medical establishment is furious. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the  American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists blasted them. Their blunt message: this is an assault on science and patient safety, and Trump’s lies already contributed to millions of deaths. 

We need to insist to our representatives that they make RFK Jr. as toxic as the lies he spreads. This is the only way he becomes a liability to Trump and stops harming our health.

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If you can't tough it out, if you can't do it, that's what you're gonna have to do. You'll take a Tylenol, but it'll be very sparingly. It can be something that's very dangerous to the woman's health. I think you shouldn't take it.
Donald Trump announcing without evidence that Tylenol use by pregnant women can cause autism.
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The Trump administration plans to link Tylenol use in pregnancy to autism, contradicting established guidance from the FDA and medical organizations.

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