UNBIASED Politics (4/24/25): NIH Will Use Private (and Public) Medical Data for Autism Research, Trump Endorses $5,000 Baby Incentive, State Dept. to Reorganize, FDA to Ban More Food Dyes, and More.

Episode Format:

1. Supreme Court Reacts to LGBTQ/Parental Rights/Religion Case. Here's the Likely Winner (1:17)

2. NIH Launches to Autism Research Initiative; Will Access Private and Public Data (8:21)

3. NIH Enacts to Policy Prohibited Grants for Institutions With DEI Programs or Boycotts Against Israel (15:14)

4. FDA to Ban More Synthetic Food Dyes (18:22)

5. State Department Announces New Reorganization Plan (22:36)

6. Elon Musk Says He'll Step Away From DOGE Role (25:11)

7. Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias Task Force Holds First Meeting; Here's What It's All About (27:31)

8. Quick Hitters: Man Executed in Texas, Google Bringing Employees Back to Office, Trump Considering Reducing Chinese Tariffs, Trump's New Accreditation Order, US Kills 74 Terrorists, Trump Admin Goes to Supreme Court Over Transgender Military Ban, Illinois Parade Shooter Sentenced, Trump to Meet With Jeffrey Goldberg (30:47)

9. Rumor Has It: Is President Trump Implementing a $5,000 Cash Incentive to Give Birth? Is the Head Start Program Getting Cut? (35:18)

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Justices React to LGBTQ/Parental Rights/Religion Case. Here's the Likely Winner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXsBPLtb1hg

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/supreme-court-likely-to-rule-for-parental-opt-out-on-lgbtq-books-in-schools/

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-lgbtq-books-religion-maryland-069d155fa862d2a16619fc7f513819ab

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/supreme-court-support-md-parents-lgbtq-storybook-challenge-00303001

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-appears-side-parents-religious-liberty-dispute-over-storybooks

https://katv.com/news/nation-world/scotus-signals-support-for-maryland-parents-objections-to-lgbtq-supreme-court-arkansas-florida-new-hampshire-montana-montgomery-county-first-amendment

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/parents-objections-lgbtq-books-elementary-schools-montgomery-county-md-rcna202193

NIH Launches to Autism Research Initiative; Will Access Private and Public Data

https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/autism-vaccine-link-debunked

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/ss/ss7402a1.htm

https://www.newsweek.com/autism-registry-state-mandate-rfk-jr-2063082

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-autism-study-medical-records/

https://autismsciencefoundation.org/press_releases/statement-prevalence-study/

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/autism-registry-rfk-nih

https://dpcpsi.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/Council-of-Councils-04.21.25-Director-Update.pdf

https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/rfk-jr-nih-autism-data-collection/

https://www.nj.gov/health/fhs/autism/public/registry/

NIH Enacts to Policy Prohibited Grants for Institutions With DEI Programs or Boycotts Against Israel

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-090.html

https://san.com/cc/nih-bans-grants-to-universities-with-dei-programs-or-israeli-boycotts/

https://www.mynbc5.com/article/nih-funding-cuts-diversity-boycotts

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/us/harvard-white-house-funding

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/04/23/no-nih-grants-colleges-dei-programs-or-israel

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-090.html

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-freezes-funds-harvard-and-four-other-universities-can-t-tell-them

FDA to Ban More Synthetic Food Dyes

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/hhs-fda-phase-out-petroleum-based-synthetic-dyes-nations-food-supply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkTjAGRYWlE

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-phase-out-many-synthetic-food-dyes-fda-commissioner-says-2025-04-22/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20April%2022%20(Reuters),industry%20to%20voluntarily%20remove%20others.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/fda-announces-food-dye-ban.html

https://abcnews.go.com/US/rfk-jr-plans-phase-artificial-food-dyes-us/story?id=121034287

https://www.fooddive.com/news/natural-colors-switch-food-artificial-colors/600846/#:~:text=There's%20also%20the%20cost%20involved,where%20you%20used%20to%20be.%E2%80%9D

https://x.com/AnnaRMatson/status/1914822918749499555

https://www.foodandwine.com/fda-bans-petroleum-based-synthetic-food-dyes-11719551

https://people.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-plans-to-ban-synthetic-food-dyes-11719857

https://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/a64564842/what-are-petroleum-based-food-dyes-fda/

State Department Announces New Reorganization Plan

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/DOS-Reorg-4.21.2025.pdf

https://www.state.gov/about/

https://www.state.gov/building-an-america-first-state-department/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/politics/state-department-cuts-rubio.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/major-changes-trumps-overhaul-us-state-department-2025-04-22/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/politics/rubio-state-department-cuts/index.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/state-department-reorganization-plan-00302606

https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-civilian-security-democracy-and-human-rights/

https://x.com/marcorubio/status/1913928218450579630

https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-state-department-unveils-massive-overhaul-of-agency-with-reduction-of-staff-and-bureaus/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/state-department-unveils-massive-overhaul-of-agency-15-percent-staff-reduction

Elon Musk Says He'll Step Away From DOGE Role

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5293124/special-government-employee-trump-musk-doge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESwz0FvY_Qs

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/22/elon-musk-doge-tesla-earnings-call

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/business/video/elon-musk-earnings-call-ebof-digvid

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/elon-musk-tesla-earnings-q1

https://www.businessinsider.com/teslas-dismal-quarter-rescued-energy-storage-side-hustle-elon-musk-2025-4

Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias Task Force Holds First Meeting; Here's What It's All About

https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/about-educational-outreach/activity-resources/first-amendment-and-religion

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/lemon-test/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/eradicating-anti-christian-bias/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/veterans-affairs-anti-christian-bias

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bondi-trump-cabinet-convenes-task-force-root-out-anti-christian-bias-federal-agencies

https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/04/22/trump-administration-is-launching-an-anti-christian-bias-task-force/

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/263603/federal-task-force-to-eradicate-anti-christian-bias-gets-underway

Quick Hitters

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-man-set-to-be-executed-for-the-2004-strangling-and-stabbing-death-of-a-young-mother/

https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_info/mendozamoises.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/23/google-teams-are-including-remote-workers-in-their-cuts.html

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-considers-slashing-china-tariffs-to-de-escalate-trade-war-6f875d69

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-hints-cutting-china-tariffs-substantially-from-145

https://apnews.com/article/china-us-tariff-negotiations-trump-481ff4402f5c34776ffcb8ced4c8ae42

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-accreditors-executive-order-universities-4e4366cc?mod=hp_lead_pos11

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/reforming-accreditation-to-strengthen-higher-education/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/trump-administration-supreme-court-allow-transgender-military-ban-rcna202814

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/24/highland-park-mass-shooter-robert-crimo-sentence/83208707007/

https://x.com/rapidresponse47/status/1915433979454410756?s=46&t=yxYBta0zhKqvzUP8zCYxjw

Rumor Has It

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/trump-birthrate-proposals.html

https://nypost.com/2025/04/22/us-news/trump-mulls-5k-baby-bonuses-in-bid-to-reverse-declining-birth-rates/

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/topics/births.htm

https://www.newsweek.com/baby-bonus-america-5000-2063519

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/16/hhs-budget-cut-trump/

https://www.fastcompany.com/91320429/how-will-ending-head-start-impact-you

https://ffis.org/budget-brief/first-look-leaked-budget-document-previews-potential-cuts-to-hhs-grants/

https://apnews.com/article/health-agencies-cuts-70ae99161321f0b779e2e56d8d2db304

https://www.thegravelygroup.com/blog/what-does-project-2025-say-about-head-start/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/04/11/trump-proposal-eliminating-head-start/83045346007/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/16/hhs-budget-cut-trump/

https://www.fastcompany.com/91320429/how-will-ending-head-start-impact-you

https://ffis.org/budget-brief/first-look-leaked-budget-document-previews-potential-cuts-to-hhs-grants/

https://apnews.com/article/health-agencies-cuts-70ae99161321f0b779e2e56d8d2db304

https://www.thegravelygroup.com/blog/enhancing-safe-practices-in-your-head-start-program/

https://www.thegravelygroup.com/blog/what-does-project-2025-say-about-head-start/