RFK Jr is so mad at Pallone for criticizing him that he smears him as corrupt, prompting DeGette to jump in and force RFK Jr to retract his words

RUIZ: Did you read the report & fact-check its sources prior to publication?

RFK JR: I did not fact check

RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen?

RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate

RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?

PALLONE: With regard to vaccines, are you just afraid to receive public comments on proposals? There's been no public process

RFK JR: We have a public process for regulating vaccines. It's called the ACIP committee.

PALLONE: You fired the committee!

E. Jean Carroll: This is a man who wears apricot makeup, with his hair twirled around his head like Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire.

I was so close—I heard almost every single thing he said.

The farting—you wanted to know about that?

It was a silent one… sort of.

“There is a vast chasm between the concept of freedom inscribed on paper and the reality of freedom in our lives.” Revisit Jelani Cobb‘s piece, from 2020, on Juneteenth and the meaning of freedom.

Meanwhile..

I'll say it over and over.

I do not believe in gate keeping.

I do not believe in pulling up the ladder.

I believe in kicking the wall down like the Kool-Aid man, and making room as I go for those who come next.

Just because it was hard for me, doesn't mean it has to be hard for anyone else.

At this point it feels like the “major anomaly” for SpaceX are the rare times it *doesn’t* explode?

Time for the annual schoolhouse rock style history lesson about slavery and the origins of Juneteenth from The Roots

#LockEloniaUp
#DeportElonia