MAHA Is Starting to Crack

The Make America Healthy Again experiment was always a strange fusion: Trump’s MAGA base plus RFK Jr.’s wellness-skeptic “MAHA moms.” For a while, it worked — uniting vaccine distrust with organic-food activism under one banner. But now the cracks are showing. The White House’s draft MAHA Commission report largely protects the pesticide and food industries. […]

From Rhetoric to Radicalization: How the CDC Became a Target

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The Darker Side of the Spectrum – Volume XI From Rhetoric to Radicalization: How the CDC Became a Target On August 8, 2025, a 30-year-old gunman opened fire on the CDC headquarters in Atlanta. He fired more than 180 rounds, piercing even blast-resistant windows. Officer David Rose, a member of the DeKalb County Police assigned […]

The MAHA Blueprint That Isn’t

Row of children’s silhouettes with hollow cut-out gaps symbolizing the missing priorities in the MAHA draft health strategy.

The long-awaited Make Our Children Healthy Again draft strategy landed this week. This was supposed to be the moment: the major policy blueprint from RFK Jr.’s HHS, the bold plan to tackle childhood chronic disease. Instead, what we got was a document of avoidance. Heavy on rhetoric, light on action. And what it leaves out […]

The Slow-Motion Gutting of Public Health: Three Quiet Moves You Shouldn’t Ignore

Graphic for The Darker Side of the Spectrum Volume VIII with crescent moon in upper left, “DS8” in upper right, and a central collage showing a pesticide bottle, syringe, and a medical form stamped “DENIED.”

🌒  The Darker Side of the Spectrum – Volume VIII The Slow-Motion Gutting of Public Health: Three Quiet Moves You Shouldn’t Ignore If you’ve been watching closely, it’s not hard to see what’s happening. One by one, the mechanisms designed to protect us—from unsafe products, unnecessary care delays, and preventable outbreaks—are being disabled. Not loudly. […]