2026-01-29 06:00:00
In the weeks following the killing of Renée Good, Minneapolis saw a surge in the number of federal immigration officers across the city. That escalation was met with a visible community response. People gathered day after day outside the Whipple Building, a federal detention center that is serving as a hub for agents conducting raids and returning with people they had detained.
As enforcement activity spread into residential neighborhoods, observers watched the streets, shared information, and used whistles to warn one another when agents appeared. Fear was constant, but so was the way people showed up for each other. These photographs document that period and the tension between an expanding federal presence and a community determined to respond together.
2026-01-29 03:49:47
Last night, CNN’s Anderson Cooper broadcast an exclusive interview with the woman who was first seen in early videos posted of federal agents killing Alex Pretti last Saturday. Stella Carlson was standing close to the deadly skirmish, and ended up as the citizen with the best vantage point to record the shooting—holding her camera phone through it all, and capturing the now-indispensable video that has ripped to shreds the administration’s lies about what happened.
“I am grateful that I was in a position to be there for my community.”
This interview is astonishing. And after watching so many astonishing videos of what has transpired in Minneapolis, this one has stayed with me. Carlson’s bravery is inspiring, as is how she articulates something I hold dear as a journalistic aspiration: the power of bearing witness when no one else will.
“I am grateful that I was in a position to be there for my community,” she told Cooper. “To stop the lies and the madness, and allow there to be proof.”
“Were you scared?” Cooper asked.
“I was terrified, but I was more worried about this not being documented.”
Carlson, who was described by Cooper as a children’s entertainer, a face and body painter, and an airbrush artist, didn’t choose this role. She’s not a journalist or a human rights activist. She is a person who cared about her community. Recording this brutality was foisted on her by Trump’s siege of her city, and she described it as something akin to a calling. She was there to protect her neighbors, she said, “as best I can with my whistle and my phone, which really feels not great.”
“And yet you stood there with a phone, and you documented this,” Cooper gently pressed. “You didn’t run away.”
And then her response, which struck me the most. A gut punch:
“I am not one to run when I’m afraid. I just—no way was I going to leave Alex by himself undocumented, like, that wasn’t an option. I mean, obviously somebody was just executed in the street. I knew I was in danger. We all were, but I wasn’t going to leave… I knew that this was a moment, and we all have to be brave, and we all have to take risks, and we’re all going to be given moments to make that decision… I’m grateful to myself, and I’m grateful to anybody who was supportive to me after to make sure I could get to safety and get that video uploaded to the right people.”
That is heroism, pure and simple. There were other videos of the killing. But Carlson’s was the clearest. What record would have existed had she not been there?
And what record would exist without all the journalism happening in Minneapolis. I’ve been moved while reading comments from you, our Mother Jones community, thanking us after watching dispatches by our digital producer Sam Van Pykeren, who has been relentlessly chronicling the reactions and realities on the ground in a set of emotional, viral videos. This is not to show off, but to double down on the importance of showing up, speaking to real people, and yes, bearing witness, like Carlson.
“Thank you, Sam, for being there and reporting the truth,” one said. Another: “Thank you for keeping our eyes open.”
I hope you can check out not only Sam’s videos, but also the full range of Minneapolis and ICE reporting from the frontlines of Trump’s immigration crackdown on the site right now, documenting both the brutality and the resistance.
Here’s just a sampling from our reporters over the last day or so: Kiera Butler’s look at how right-wing influencers are working to make women love ICE. Russ Choma’s revealing article about Tom Homan’s record as he takes over Minnesota operations. From Minneapolis, reporter Julia Lurie filed a stunning dispatch about the community coming together in the wake of Alex Pretti and Renée Good’s killings (with gorgeous photography by Madison Swart), describing a city under assault but also a resilient city creating mutual aid networks that will outlast federal occupation. She also interviewed a US Army vet, outraged by these new attacks on a country he once defended. Samantha Michaels published a devastating story, with a video on a warrantless ICE raid that tore apart a Memphis family. Noah Lanard analyzed how Greg Bovino proved too openly fascistic—even for Trump.
There’s much more to read and watch and interact with. And there is more to come.
“Nobody’s here for us,” Stella Carlson said during her gripping CNN interview. “So this is what we can do.”
2026-01-29 03:21:46
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Ms. Magazine.
The brutality we are witnessing in Minnesota, at the hands of thousands of poorly trained, heavily armed and trigger-happy men who have full reign to hunt and harass anyone who is non-white, is nothing short of state-sponsored terror. It is a horrific illustration of what unfettered power does in the hands of leadership that celebrates and demands violence, especially from men.
Make no mistake: The thousands of new recruits to ICE, driven by a $100 million “wartime recruitment” push, were selected with violence in mind. Recruitment ads targeted male-dominated places and spaces where violence is either required or valorized: gun shows, military bases and local law enforcement, along with UFC fight attendees and people who spent time browsing for tactical gear and weapons.
Recruitment ads make it clear that ICE is the place to scratch the violent itch.
The content of those ads makes it clear that ICE is the place to scratch the violent itch. Recruitment posters and slogans focus on ideas of national defense and sacred duty, positioning immigrants as an existential threat by imploring applicants to “defend the homeland” against an incursion of “foreign invaders.” Veterans get a special nod with phrasing like “your nation calls once more.” The work of detaining immigrants is depicted as an epic, heroic quest, with frontier imagery and cowboy-hat clad horsemen alongside language like “one homeland, one people, one heritage.”
The ads also dehumanize and fearmonger with racist dog whistles, warning that “the enemies are at the gates” or telling applicants to join ICE to “destroy the flood.” One DHS ad uses the phrase “we’ll have our home again,” which is a lyric from a white supremacist song.
Much of this rhetoric evokes the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, which mobilized white supremacist terrorist attacks in El Paso, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo in recent years with false claims of an orchestrated effort by Jews and feminists to promote immigration, reduce white birthrates, and eliminate white majority societies.
It’s not only the homeland that’s being defended in this framing. It’s also the nation’s white women, who the administration has continually depicted as the victims of unfettered crime at the hands of undocumented immigrants. This is why we see Trump administration officials constantly invoking the names of a handful of young white women, like Laken Riley or Jocelyn Nungaray, who were killed by immigrants—even though thousands more women have died at the hands of their lovers, partners or strangers who are citizens. Last week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt railed in response to a journalist’s question about ICE, describing the “brave men and women of ICE” as “doing everything in their power to remove those heinous individuals and make our communities safer.”
False crime statistics about sexual violence have always mobilized white supremacist violence from the extremist fringe, from the KKK’s campaign of racial terror, to recent mass shootings. During his attack, the terrorist who killed nine Black worshippers in 2015 in a Charleston church told his victims he was doing this because “y’all are raping our women.”
Now, we are seeing those same false claims mobilize state-sponsored violence. The administration is recruiting, training and deploying federal agents who believe they are on some sort of noble, patriotic and manly quest, flying on horseback across the open land to rescue white women and restore the nation to its righteous place.
Protection isn’t the only way that gendered narratives mobilize violence. What we are seeing in Minnesota is also about punishment.
But protection isn’t the only way that gendered narratives mobilize violence. What we are seeing in Minnesota is also about punishment. Replacement conspiracies frame women—especially feminists—as the problem, arguing they are conspiring to have fewer babies, promote abortion, reduce white birth rates and accelerate demographic change. Women who refuse to submit to male authority, refuse God-given heterosexual relationships or reject their ‘natural’ roles as reproducers of the nation are seen as the enemy.
This is why, after an ICE agent shot Renee Nicole Good in the face after she dared to protest his authority, he lobbed the phrase “fucking bitch” as she was dying. In the days following Good’s killing, a local protester reported that another ICE agent sneered at her, “Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch.” Another woman was warned to stop obstructing agents because “that’s why that lesbian bitch is dead.”
This is how men who cannot tolerate a woman’s disrespect put her in her place: with violence or the threat of it. The shootings of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent and Alex Pretti by CBP agents—coming on the heels of numerous deaths of ICE detainees in recent months—are a predictable outcome of the institutional norms and social hierarchies the administration is valorizing.
As thousands of amped up men are deployed in the streets and taught there are no consequences for killing anyone who refuses to submit to their authority, we should anticipate more violence to come. After all: The violence is the point.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a scholar at American University, where she is the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). She is the author of several books including, Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.
2026-01-29 03:18:15
After Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Biden administration enforced a rule in 2022 mandating that retail pharmacies receiving any federal funding had to carry and dispense mifepristone, misoprostol, and methotrexate—drugs used in medication abortions and, in the case of methotrexate, the treatment of ectopic pregnancies and autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus—in order not to discriminate on the basis of sex and disability.
The Trump administration formally withdrew that rule on Tuesday, allowing pharmacists to refuse to stock or dispense misoprostol and methotrexate, despite their other uses.
Even under the Biden-era rule, pharmacists could still refuse to dispense the drug if they suspected or knew a pregnant person was past the date allowed in their state for a medication-induced abortion. Mifepristone was removed from the Biden rule in 2023, after a lawsuit involving anti-abortion litigators at the arch-conservative Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) in a case that was subsequently dismissed.
I asked the two leading pharmacies in the United States—CVS and Walgreens—if they will continue to stock and dispense methotrexate. A spokesperson from CVS told me that “all our pharmacies continue to stock and dispense methotrexate where legally permissible.” Walgreens did not respond by the time of publication.
ADF, meanwhile, celebrated the win it couldn’t get in court, writing that “we are grateful to the Trump administration for rescinding Biden-era guidance that forced Americans to dispense abortion-inducing drugs against their conscience.”
Days prior to the Biden administration issuing the rule, NBC’s Today Show covered the challenges faced by patients with chronic illnesses in trying to get their lifesaving medication. With the rule rescinded—and coupled with efforts to criminalize abortion drugs in states like South Carolina, raising concerns that even sympathetic doctors will be scared to prescribe mifepristone, misoprostol, and methotrexate—their availability at smaller pharmacies is likely to drop.
That’s despite the fact that people who are able to conceive are supposed to take contraceptives while on methotrexate, which can cause fetal abnormalities, according to the American College of Rheumatology, meaning that their risk of getting pregnant—let alone pursuing an abortion—is in fact quite low.
Autoimmune disorders primarily affect women, who have also been the main target of abortion restrictions, underlying how treatment for both shows how women’s health is under attack. Research from KFF found that of reproductive-age women who have used methotrexate in the previous year, over 90 percent did so for reasons unrelated to pregnancy. According to the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center, around 60 percent of rheumatoid arthritis patients currently are on or have been on methotrexate. It’s unclear how challenging filling methotrexate prescriptions for chronic illnesses remained under the Biden rule, but it will almost certainly become more difficult without it.
Without reliable access to treatment, autoimmune disorders can be very dangerous for those who have them. A 2018 brief report funded in part by the Lupus Foundation of America found that systemic lupus erythematous, one form of lupus, is tied for the top ten leading cause of death for women between the ages of 15 and 24. Among Black and Latina women, it’s the fifth leading cause of death for that age group.
2026-01-29 02:49:13
On January 15, the governor of Louisiana appeared on Fox News to discuss the fate of an autonomous European territory nearly 3,000 miles away from his home state.
“The president is serious about reinforcing the Monroe Doctrine,” Republican Gov. Jeff Landry told host Brian Kilmeade of President Donald Trump’s bellicose demands to take over Greenland. “I think this is a great opportunity for Louisiana. I think it’s a great opportunity for America. I think it’s a phenomenal opportunity for Greenlanders.”
From Venezuela to Cuba to Greenland, Trump is committed to bolstering the financial interests of US companies through imperial aggression.
When Trump appointed Landry as special envoy to Greenland a few weeks earlier—marking a significant escalation in his campaign to seize the island from the Kingdom of Denmark—the move seemed bizarre. Why is a governor, with slipping support in polls, taking on a “volunteer” job helping Trump’s campaign to control the Western Hemisphere? The Louisiana politician does not have any known expertise in global geopolitics. He has never set foot in the territory.
But in Landry there is a skeleton key to Trump’s plans. The governor is a man who can uniquely reveal the “opportunity” that Americans see from seizing the island: the extraction of Greenland’s subterranean riches.
On January 21, Trump backed off his threats to acquire Greenland through force or economic warfare, announcing on Truth Social that he’d reached a “framework of a future deal” with NATO. Negotiations are ongoing, but officials told the New York Times that the deal would potentially establish sovereign US military bases and access to mineral rights in the territory.
Landry’s appointment embodies a key philosophy that has guided Trump’s approach to foreign policy in his second term. From Venezuela to Cuba to Greenland, this administration is committed to bolstering the financial interests of US companies through imperial aggression. Political control over a foreign nation is less important than making sure Americans can profit there. It’s telling that Landry’s only plausible connection to the island is that he has done in Louisiana what American business moguls want to do in Greenland: unleash the energy industry.
A MAGA model for governance of Greenland would be similar to how Landry has treated the energy industry in his home state, actively boosting oil and gas while rolling back environmental rules. And even though Landry has publicly panned clean energy, no state is better prepared to profit from rare earth mining—spurred in large part by the global electrification surge—than Louisiana.
Here’s who stands to reap the biggest rewards from Trump’s push to take over Greenland’s resources and make the island, potentially, more like Louisiana.
The appointment of Landry—a longtime friend to the fossil fuel industry—as Greenland envoy arrives right as American investments in the island’s oil are ramping up.
For more than 40 years, oil executives have dreamed of striking liquid gold in Jameson Land, a remote peninsula on Greenland’s eastern shore, bounded by the Arctic Ocean, glaciated peaks, and a vast, deep network of fjords. Jameson Land is thought to be home to one of the largest untapped oil reserves in the world. According to a 2007 U.S. government estimate, as many as 31 billion barrels of oil could be lying latent beneath northeast Greenland’s ice sheets.
Actually extracting that oil has proven difficult: market volatility and harsh arctic conditions have long thwarted exploration efforts. By the mid-2010s, Exxon, BP, and Shell had all surrendered their oil drilling licenses after years of prospecting. In 2021, Greenland’s government banned new oil and gas exploration licenses entirely, citing climate change concerns. (Scientists warn that Greenland’s rapidly melting glaciers and ice sheets risk fueling a dangerous rise in global sea levels.)
But there is a loophole.
In late 2025, Texas-based energy company March GL entered into a multimillion-dollar merger agreement with the firms Greenland Exploration and Pelican Acquisition. The three-way deal formed a new US company, Greenland Energy, which will go public this year.
Greenland Energy will be the only company with onshore drilling rights in Greenland. March GL’s Robert Price, who will become CEO of Greenland Energy, told the Schwab Network in November that he had recently met in Abu Dhabi with the executives of major oil and gas companies and plans to break ground on Jameson Land this summer.
Greenland Energy seems to know its fate is tied to the Trump administration. Last December, it brought on Rubenstein Public Relations, an agency with deep ties to the Trump family. The firm is run by Richard Rubenstein—son of famed PR veteran Howard J. Rubenstein, whose clients included Trump and Rupert Murdoch. Richard notes on his agency’s website that he worked with “pre-POTUS” Donald Trump for more than 15 years.
According to a press release, Rubenstein PR’s targeted campaign will amplify Greenland Energy’s “strategic role in advancing Arctic energy security.” Executive chairman Larry Swets said in a statement that “Rubenstein PR’s leadership…will help stakeholders understand the true value of what we aim to build.” (Swets, a cryptocurrency investor, is also a business partner in a different venture with billionaire Paolo Tiramani, who donated $10 million to Trump’s White House ballroom.)
Swets, Rubenstein, and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.
Greenland Energy also holds a drilling and logistics contract with Halliburton, one of the US energy companies currently rushing to cash in on Trump’s ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the US seizure of the Venezuelan oil industry. Halliburton—which also has oil and gas hubs in Louisiana—most famously faced intense scrutiny for its “sweetheart deal” in Iraq, winning multibillion-dollar contracts to reconstruct the Iraqi oil sector amid the US invasion.
But the oil deals aren’t the only potential for profit. Greenland Energy acquired its oil exploration license from 80 Mile, a British resource development company that retains a 30 percent stake in the project. In addition to Jameson Land, 80 Mile holds the exclusive license for Greenland’s Disko-Nuussuaq mining project.
That is the same site where a few Silicon Valley oligarchs have sought to use artificial intelligence to extract critical minerals. Through a joint venture agreement with 80 Mile, a Bay Area startup called KoBold Metals aimed to use AI to find nickel, cobalt, and copper—crucial resources for battery-powered technology and the AI boom—in western Greenland’s Disko Island and Nuussuaq Peninsula region.
Over the past year, a series of news articles have tied Trump’s Greenland aspirations to KoBold and the aspirations of its early investors, including tech billionaires and Trump megadonors Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Sam Altman, as well as the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. (Altman and Andreessen have also invested in billionaire Peter Thiel’s effort to create a cryptocurrency-backed zone of corporate deregulation in Greenland.)
But, if you will follow me through some complex shell company trades, it’s more interesting than it may appear.
Recent reporting has largely missed that KoBold in fact sold its Greenland interests back to 80 Mile last May, though it will continue to receive royalties from the project. Six months later, a Colorado-based shell company called USFM Corporation took a 51 percent stake in 80 Mile’s Disko-Nuussuaq project. State business records show that this company, USFM, was created by Greenland Energy’s Robert Price. (80 Mile and March GL did not respond to requests for comment.)
That means that a Greenland Energy executive—who would profit from the oil drilling—also has a major stake in a Greenland critical minerals mine and would profit from that, too.
Price and Swets, the men behind Greenland Energy, have insisted their effort is unrelated to Trump’s push to annex Greenland. Indeed, with some of the few grandfathered licenses, their plan to drill for oil in Jameson Land can move forward regardless of geopolitical negotiations. But a MAGA takeover of the region would undeniably bode well for their interests writ large, especially if Landry’s deregulatory approach in Louisiana serves as a model for future governance.
As Louisiana Attorney General, Landry called climate change a “hoax” and fought vigorously against President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency, suing the administration over policies that aimed to limit oil leases on public lands and curb pollution in the petroleum industry-dense strip of Louisiana known as Cancer Alley. While he pursued fossil fuel-friendly litigation, Landry served as a paid board member for the oil services company Harvey Gulf International, flouting a Louisiana statute that bars the state attorney from engaging in private legal work. And he hired Harvey Gulf CEO Shane Guidry, one of his major political donors, to serve as a “special agent/investigator” in the AG’s office. (Landry’s office did not respond to a request for comment.)
Landry stepped down from the Harvey Gulf board in 2023 after he announced his bid for governor. But his support for expanding and deregulating the oil and gas industry has continued. In 2024, Landry launched the Governors Coalition for Energy Security to fight emissions standards and environmental permitting rules, recruiting fellow Republican governors and right-wing Canadian officials to his cause. Last year, under Landry’s governorship, Louisiana adopted language from a conservative think tank to redefine natural gas as “green energy” akin to solar and wind. On January 22, Landry announced a “Whole-of-Louisiana Energy Strategy” that includes a dictate to “drill, baby, drill.”
And Guidry has remained a close Landry confidant, recently offering several statements to The Times-Picayune about his friend’s new role as Greenland’s special envoy. The exact contours of the governor’s job were unclear, Guidry said in December, “but when the president calls, you try to help him.”
If Trump does manage to boost mining in Greenland, there are only a few US facilities that could actually refine the materials. But one US state in particular is quietly building out its mineral processing capabilities alongside its petroleum infrastructure: Louisiana.
In addition to “drill, baby, drill,” Landry’s new state energy strategy highlights the importance of “Louisiana’s emergence as a leader in next-generation strategic materials,” with several recent public and private investments in the state and a string of major facilities under construction. Most notably, Critical Metals has a long-term agreement to supply rare earth minerals from its Greenland mine to the Ucore Rare Metals processing facility in Alexandria, Louisiana. That facility has received more than $22 million in funding from the US Department of Defense since 2022.
Syrah Resources, the only US supplier that refines graphite for industrial use, announced last year that it would expand its Vidalia, Louisiana, plant through a $165 million Inflation Reduction Act tax credit. While Syrah currently sources its graphite from Mozambique, Greenland has one of the highest-grade graphite deposits in the world. Meanwhile, Aclara Resources announced in October that it would invest $277 million to build America’s first heavy rare earth separation facility in Vinton, Louisiana. And one week before Landry’s appointment as special envoy to Greenland, Louisiana announced that ElementUSA would invest $850 million to build a rare earth and critical minerals refining facility in the state. ElementUSA has also received nearly $30 million in DOD funding for gallium and scandium production.
The Trump administration is reportedly eyeing direct investments in companies mining for rare earth resources in Greenland, including Amaroq and Critical Metals Corp. Last January, the New York Times reported that Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick had a direct financial stake in Critical Metals via his investment firm.
The DOD has also invested $150 million in the Atlantic Alumina Company (ATALCO), which announced this month that it will be expanding its Gramercy, Louisiana, refinery to become America’s first large-scale gallium production facility. ATALCO plans to extract gallium, used to make semiconductor chips and defense tech, on-site, but it’s worth noting that gallium is one of a handful of key resources that Amaroq is mining in Greenland.
Still, while Landry’s home state is well-positioned to profit from a Greenland mining boom, the governor himself has been off to a rocky start as special envoy. Largely absent from the spotlight amid rapidly evolving diplomatic efforts, he’s faced ire from Greenlanders and skepticism at home for his claim that he’ll win the hearts of Greenlanders using “culinary diplomacy.”
“If you bring them some crawfish and you start talking Cajun to them, I don’t think they’ll give you the country,” Landry’s mentor and retired Louisiana state senator Fred Mills told the Los Angeles Times, “but they’re going to like you.”
They apparently do not. Three days after Landry praised Trump’s Greenland gambit on Fox News, the Greenland Dog Sledding Association announced the governor had been disinvited from the race. On January 28, Landry said he plans to visit Greenland anyway and remains “on call” as envoy. He still hasn’t set a date for his trip, but he reiterated that the island has “tremendous opportunities.”
“It will benefit every[one],” he added, “to explore those opportunities.”
2026-01-29 02:06:30
With 789 cases and counting, the current measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the nation’s largest since measles was officially eliminated in 2000. The highly contagious virus “is circulating in the community, increasing the risk of exposure and the risk of infection for those who are not immune due to vaccination or natural infection,” the state’s Department of Public Health says on its website.
Measles is spreading especially quickly among unvaccinated individuals—692 of the South Carolina cases are in unvaccinated individuals—just as it did in the large outbreak in Texas last year, which ultimately sickened 762, hospitalized 99, and killed two children.
Yet despite that recent experience, the Department of Health and Human Services insisted last month that this time wouldn’t be that bad.
In a December 16 email to Mother Jones, at which time South Carolina already had more than 100 cases, a spokesperson from HHS downplayed the threat of measles in South Carolina. “CDC is not currently concerned that this will develop into a large, long-running outbreak as was seen in Texas earlier this year and whose outbreak has been declared over,” wrote HHS press secretary Emily Hilliard in bold text.
When I followed up on Tuesday this week to ask for comment on those earlier predictions, a spokesperson did not address my question but instead stated that “CDC is working closely with South Carolina health officials, including through regular coordination meetings.” The spokesperson added that the agency had provided $1.4 million in financial assistance to the state, and that “most cases are occurring in an under vaccinated immigrant community in the Spartanburg area.”
In an emailed statement, South Carolina state epidemiologist Linda Bell wrote that DPH was currently collaborating with CDC on surveillance, testing, reporting, and outbreak control measures. “Due to the fact that measles has been rare in the U.S. for over twenty years, we have benefitted from [CDC] experts,” she wrote.
In her December email to Mother Jones, HHS’ Hilliard insisted that “Secretary [Robert F.] Kennedy [Jr.] has been very clear that vaccination is the most effective way to prevent measles. Any attempts to spin this are baseless.”
In the email this week, the HHS spokesperson reiterated that “vaccination remains the most effective way to prevent measles, and the Secretary has been clear and consistent on this point.”
Yet at the height of Texas’ measles outbreak last year, Kennedy speculated that the measles vaccination had harmed children in that state. He also falsely claimed that officials “don’t know what the risk profile” is for vaccines that prevent measles.
In a press conference last week, CDC principal deputy director Ralph Abraham said of South Carolina’s outbreak, “We have these communities that choose to be unvaccinated,” he said. “That’s their personal freedom.” If the United States loses its measles elimination status, he added, that’s the “cost of doing business.”
