Anonymous wrote:So we don’t do gift links anymore, huh

Anonymous wrote:I read the whole article to see if I could find any mention about WHY he chose to swim in Rock Creek given the bacteria. His office didn't provide any comments, but I did find this tidbit about other risky stunts he pulled in the past. He is not right in the head

It was the latest in a series of peculiar incidents related to Mr. Kennedy’s outdoorsman persona. As a teen in the 1970s, Mr. Kennedy earned a reputation as a reckless adventurer, eating bushmeat and enduring disease on trips to South America and on African safaris. He later earned notoriety for his handling of the carcasses of dead animals — including a whale and a baby bear.

Mr. Kennedy has also said that a parasitic worm had “got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”

Anonymous wrote:Our chief public health officer ladies and gentlemen!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/rfk-jr-rock-creek-bacteria.html

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.

Rock Creek, which flows through much of Northwest Washington, is used to drain excess sewage and storm water during rainfall. The creek has widespread “fecal” contamination and high levels of bacteria, including E. coli, and the city has banned swimming in all of its waterways for more than 50 years because of the widespread contamination of Rock Creek and other nearby rivers.

“Rock Creek has high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens that make swimming, wading, and other contact with the water a hazard to human (and pet) health,” the National Park Service wrote in an advisory on its website, adding “All District waterways are subject to a swim ban — this means wading, too!”

Anonymous wrote:I read the whole article to see if I could find any mention about WHY he chose to swim in Rock Creek given the bacteria. His office didn't provide any comments, but I did find this tidbit about other risky stunts he pulled in the past. He is not right in the head

It was the latest in a series of peculiar incidents related to Mr. Kennedy’s outdoorsman persona. As a teen in the 1970s, Mr. Kennedy earned a reputation as a reckless adventurer, eating bushmeat and enduring disease on trips to South America and on African safaris. He later earned notoriety for his handling of the carcasses of dead animals — including a whale and a baby bear.

Mr. Kennedy has also said that a parasitic worm had “got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”

Anonymous wrote:In normal times it would be a call to clean up the creek: it’s crazy to rely on 100 year-old sewage pipes. Bit that seems like the least of our problems right now.

Anonymous wrote:In normal times it would be a call to clean up the creek: it’s crazy to rely on 100 year-old sewage pipes. Bit that seems like the least of our problems right now.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.

Rock Creek, which flows through much of Northwest Washington, is used to drain excess sewage and storm water during rainfall. The creek has widespread “fecal” contamination and high levels of bacteria, including E. coli, and the city has banned swimming in all of its waterways for more than 50 years because of the widespread contamination of Rock Creek and other nearby rivers.

“Rock Creek has high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens that make swimming, wading, and other contact with the water a hazard to human (and pet) health,” the National Park Service wrote in an advisory on its website, adding “All District waterways are subject to a swim ban — this means wading, too!”