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DeSantis: I’d ‘Sic’ RFK Jr. on FDA or CDC

During an interview with Outkick released on Wednesday, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) stated that while he wouldn’t want to make Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. his running mate, he would want to “sic him

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a COVID-19 testing site, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, outs

CDC Provides List of ‘Preferred Terms’: ‘Persons with Alcohol Use Disorder’

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) features a list full of “preferred” terms for certain population groups, preferring to call alcoholics “persons with alcohol use disorder,” the uninsured “people who are medically underserved,” and encouraging the use of the terms “pansexual” and “asexual” when referencing individuals who refuse to identify as male or female.

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TIME Magazine: Exercise in U.S. Originated as ‘White Supremacy’ Project, Wrong to Presume Fat People ‘Not Fit’

Early 20th century pushes for exercise in the U.S. stemmed from “white supremacy” in order to produce “more white babies,” according to a TIME Magazine piece that also blamed the coronavirus pandemic for having “accelerated fitness inequality,” and alleged it is wrong to presume that fat people are “not fit” or that they “want to lose weight.”

Gym Class at a YMCA (Photo by Jerry Cooke/Corbis via Getty Images)