Not only was grifting a contract for someone to make the reflecting pool blue stupid from an efficacy standpoint, but this is precisely the kind of thing that gives someone like David Fahrenthold "surface area" to document graft. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u…

— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) 2026-05-12T22:54:19.620Z

LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@drericding.bsky.social) 2026-05-12T21:51:57.935Z