Adults born in the 70s, '80s '90s—the most vaccinated generations in American history—are now leading a movement to ensure their children don't receive the same protection that kept them alive. They attended schools where immunization was mandatory, benefited from herd immunity they now actively undermine, and never saw a classmate in an iron lung because vaccines worked. Now they share memes about "government propaganda" while their own vaccine scars fade on their shoulders—physical evidence of the system they reject. This selective amnesia isn't just ironic. It's lethal. As measles outbreaks surge across the United States and vaccination rates plummet, children are dying from diseases we'd already defeated. The danger isn't the vaccine. It's a vaccinated generation's willingness to doom the next generation because they've forgotten why those childhood shots were necessary in the first place.
Category: Health
Kansas is at a Crossroads as Raids, Bills increase the High Cost of Criminalizing THC
Kansas raids dozens of hemp shops while considering legalization bills that could generate $20-50 million annually. The state arrests nearly 5,000 people yearly for cannabis possession at a cost of $7-54 million in criminal justice expenses—money that could fund schools, roads, or treatment programs instead. Meanwhile, legislators debate three competing approaches: medical cannabis (SB 294), adult-use regulation (HB 2405), or tighter hemp restrictions (SB 292). The math is clear: prohibition costs Kansas taxpayers millions while generating zero revenue and saddling thousands with criminal records that reduce lifetime earnings. The question isn't whether Kansas can afford to reform—it's whether Kansas can afford not to.
Americans Are All Too Eager to Pay a Premium Only to Be Poisoned by Their Favorite Brands
In June 2022, a premium meal from Daily Harvest—backed by Gwyneth Paltrow and Serena Williams—sent hundreds to hospitals with liver damage. The culprit? An ingredient that entered America's food supply without FDA oversight. This wasn't a discount brand cutting corners. This was expensive, aspirational wellness food. And it reveals an uncomfortable truth: the price you pay has nothing to do with safety. From Burt's Bees lipstick testing positive for lead to Fenty Beauty containing "forever chemicals," from the FDA allowing 10,000 food additives it's never reviewed to cosmetics companies hiding toxins behind the word "fragrance"—Americans are paying premiums to be poisoned by the brands they trust most. As regulatory loopholes swallow consumer protection and corporate greenwashing reaches epidemic levels (52% of consumers now recognize it), this investigation exposes how the illusion of "premium equals pure" has become America's most dangerous—and profitable—lie.
Statewide TB Outbreak Shows What Happens When Public Health is Dismantled
In early 2025, Kansas became the epicenter of one of the worst tuberculosis outbreaks in recent American history—an outcome both shocking and entirely predictable. With at least 67 active and 79 latent cases, including children, the crisis has exposed a deeply fractured public health system gutted by years of legislative sabotage, professional hesitation, and a culture that mistakes defiance for freedom. Drawing on the ideological themes of What’s the Matter with Kansas, this investigation traces the origins of the outbreak through policy failures, community apathy, and medical inaction—laying bare how anti-science fervor, vaccine resistance, and erosion of public trust created the perfect conditions for an entirely preventable tragedy.
First They Came for My Milk, Then They Came for My Chicken
Budget-driven cutbacks have altered two federal pillars of U.S. food safety. The Food and Drug Administration has paused its proficiency-testing program for laboratories that certify Grade “A” milk, leaving states and processors without a federal benchmark for detecting pathogens and drug residues. At the same time, the Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has withdrawn a rule that would have treated high-risk Salmonella strains in raw poultry as adulterants, ending the first major attempt in a decade to lower infection rates linked to chicken and turkey. The second Trump administration cites regulatory streamlining; industry groups welcome the moves. Public-health officials warn that raw-milk illnesses and multidrug-resistant Salmonella strains remain significant threats, especially as independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaigns to legalize interstate raw-milk sales. Absent federal backstops, states, processors and consumers must shoulder more responsibility for keeping milk and poultry safe.