8/29/2025

My Dear Friend & POTUS, DJT,

                  Are you sure you want RFK Jr to stay on your team? Stephen Collinson, CNN suggests that he may be putting your political health at risk.

I know he earned you some votes among those who are worried about the influence of big food & pharmaceutical companies on Americans’ health & those who got fooled by Andrew Wakefield’s flawed study indicating that vaccines cause autism, but according to Dr. Demetre Daskalakis (DD), RFK Jr is creating chaos at the CDC. As you know DD & 3 other higher ups just quit when RFK Jr convinced you to fire Susan Monarez. Now Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) says “these high profile departures will require oversight by the HELP Committee ” & the WSJ reports on “rifts” in your MHA alliance.

I encourage you to bring your best peacekeeping skills to the CDC & broker some kind of arrangement that shows you care about public health & let’s RFK Jr save face. It will take some creativity, but I think you are up to it.

OoMs (on other matters), I look forward to some word from the WH about the courage & commitment that the citizens of NOLA continue to demonstrate 20 years after Katrina. If you want some ideas for what to say, check out today’s CSM which concludes that the humanizing force of connections among people are the “bulwark of resilience.”

What do you think of Thailand’s Constitutional Court removing PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office? How might this affect Burma? Might it be time for you to practice peacekeeping in South-east Asia?

BYBS,

RCA