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2025 December

2025-12-01 The Biden administration enforced a rule lowering the amount of formaldehyde it is safe for humans to be around. In December of 2025, the Trump administration not only rolled those safety standards back, but they also increased the amount of formaldehyde that is “safe” for humans to be around. Iowa AG Brenna Bird asked the Trump administration in 2026 to further loosen formaldehyde restrictions for farmers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/19/trump-epa-formaldehyde-protection-proposal

https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-formaldehyde-risk-assessment

https://www.thegazette.com/business/iowa-collects-on-asbestos-violations-in-newton/

https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/dnr-asks-crcsd-asbestos-issue-to-be-handled-by-attorney-generals-office

2025 February

2025-02-24 The Trump administration started integrating AI to automate both general population healthcare and VA health care claims.

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-press-releases/physicians-concerned-ai-increases-prior-authorization-denials

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/01/ai-algorithms-health-insurance-care-risks-research

https://department.va.gov/ai/ai-use-case-inventory/

2025 May

2025-05-29 Casey Means, Trump’s nominee for US Surgeon General in 2026, claimed Advil is toxic

https://www.comicsands.com/means-surgeon-general-advil

2025 November

2025-11-27 The Trump administration announced it will no longer commemorate World Aids Day. The State Department directed its employees and grant recipients not to promote the event.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/27/world-aids-day

https://www.eatg.org/hiv-news/tets/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davewessner/2025/12/01/on-this-world-aids-day-the-us-declines-to-participate/

2025 December

2025-12-18 Trump signed an Executive Order reclassifying marijuana from a schedule one to a schedule three drug.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/increasing-medical-marijuana-and-cannabidiol-research/

2026 February

2026-02-17 RFK and Kid Rock made a shirtless workout video together.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/02/18/rfk-jr-kid-rock-video-workout-milk/88723505007/

https://x.com/HHSGov/status/2023876258162241796

2026 April

2026-04-08 RFK received backlash for “another podcaster” after launching a podcast to “expose” alleged “lies” about health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWqK7K9Xzmk&list=WL&index=11

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/09/politics/video/rfk-health-podcast-michaelson-tell-040912aseg1-cnni-politics-fast

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5822769-secretary-kennedy-podcast-launch/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-desperately-tries-to-rebrand-with-secretary-kennedy-podcast-after-sordid-revelations/

2026-04-14 (only added for context in this section because this is the person tasked with handling the DOH) RFK wrote IN HIS OWN BOOK “RFK Jr, the Fall and Rise” that he once pulled over to carve out the penis of a dead raccoon to study later. He wrote, **“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be”. **

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/rfk-jr-road-kill-raccoon-new-book

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2026/04/14/rfk-jr-unauthorized-biography-affairs-addiction-health-claims/89587055007/

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/rfk-jr-animals-brief-history

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/rfk-jr-secret-diaries-scares-me-most-lkgck5x76

2026-04-18 Trump signed an Executive Order to loosen restrictions on psychedelic therapy treatment for military members suffering from PTSD. This came shortly after podcaster Joe Rogan texted Trump about ibogaine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWOnsAHeKLg&list=WL&index=4

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/04/18/ibogaine-lsd-and-psilocybin-trumps-new-order-medical-turning-point.html

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-is-accelerating-medical-treatments-for-serious-mental-illness/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-signs-order-to-speed-review-of-psychedelics

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/18/nx-s1-5789859/psychedelic-treatments-mental-health

https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-rogan-reveals-text-trump-helped-expedite-federal-review-psychedelics

https://time.com/article/2026/04/21/trump-psychedelics-executive-order-what-to-know/

2026-04-21 (context) The U.N. Permanent Forum on indigenous issues this year. One topic on the agenda is the AI boom driving extraction and scraping of indigenous medicinal knowledge, traditional stories and genetic data, and massive data centers threatening tribal lands and water resources. In one report, the Trump administration has allegedly made it increasingly difficult for indigenous people to obtain US Visas to attend the UN forum in New York.

https://social.desa.un.org/issues/indigenous-peoples/unpfii/25th-session

https://un-declaration.narf.org/unpfii2026-registration

https://ictnews.org/news/war-climate-change-and-ai-whats-at-stake-at-this-years-un-indigenous-forum/

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/21/headlines/delegates_arrive_in_nyc_for_united_nations_permanent_forum_on_indigenous_issues

2026-04-30 Headline in Men’s Health “Inside the Battle for Bigger and Bigger Balls”.

https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a70848194/saline-testicle-inflation/

2026 May

2026-05-08 RFK halted a ban on tanning beds for minors.

https://people.com/rfk-jr-hals-proposed-ban-minors-tanning-beds-11969258

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-tanning-beds-teen-access_l_69fbe0f3e4b06e786e3c3760

2026-05-08 Hantavirus reached 9 countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueeK3nv23pQ&list=WL&index=6&t=15s