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BumRushDaShow

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7. I have to clear Daily Beast cookies after each view of an actual article
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 09:15 AM
Aug 28

I think they give you one "freebie" and then throw up the paywall. Some browsers offer what they dub a "Reader view" (Firefox does this) that seems to strip the CSS stuff off the text of the article and will let you view the content.

The article that you were talking about has this -

CDC Bosses Quit With Doomsday Warning About ‘Deadly’ RFK Jr.

Cameron Adams
Reporter

Updated Aug. 28 2025 8:23AM EDT
Published Aug. 28 2025 12:40AM EDT


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saw a spree of surprise resignations on Wednesday night after a battle between Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the agency’s new director. The outgoing senior health officials issued a stark warning that Kennedy’s politicization of public health policy “will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults.” The dramatic day of resignations followed a bombshell report by the Daily Beast, in which a close adviser to Kennedy claimed that the administration plans to pull the COVID vaccine from shelves in a matter of months.

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Earlier, her lawyers said Monarez “has neither resigned nor received notification from the White House that she has been fired, and as a person of integrity and devoted to science, she will not resign.” The White House later confirmed that she had been removed from her role. “Since Susan Monarez refused to resign despite informing HHS leadership of her intent to do so, the White House has terminated Monarez from her position with the C.D.C.,” Kush Desai, a spokesman for Trump, told The New York Times.

In another twist, Monarez’s legal team, Mark S. Zaid and Abbe Lowell, told the Daily Beast on Wednesday night that only the president can fire Monarez, and she believes she remains in the role, despite the White House’s insistence. “Our client was notified tonight by a White House staffer in the personnel office that she was fired,” the statement read. “As a presidential appointee, senate confirmed officer, only the president himself can fire her. For this reason, we reject the notification Dr. Monarez has received as legally deficient and she remains as CDC Director. We have notified the White House Counsel of our position.”

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The inner turmoil has rocked the agency, with at least four top CDC leaders announcing their resignation shortly after Monarez’s apparent ouster. They include D.C.’s chief medical officer, Dr. Debra Houry; the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis; the director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Dr. Daniel Jernigan; and the director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology, Dr. Jen Layden, according to The New York Times. They joined Monarez in criticizing their former boss.

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It's a long article but it really shows that discord and chaos going on within CDC, and the highlighted section above illustrates the technicalities of the illegal "firings" that 45 has "ordered" (or allowed), via using anyone else BUT... *drumroll* 45 himself to do them!

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