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Florida is suing Pfizer over how the company marketed its COVID-19 vaccine, alleging it made deceptive claims about safety and pushed a “moral duty” to vaccinate despite not having tested whether the shot prevented transmission. The lawsuit also alleges Pfizer had information about safety concerns involving myocarditis, pregnancy, stroke, and death while publicly making broad claims about the vaccine’s safety. Florida is seeking civil penalties and the disgorgement of profits tied to the campaign. Pfizer says the allegations have no merit and stands behind the vaccine’s safety and efficacy. Read the full report by @smiddendorp22. bit.ly/FL_Sues_Pfizer
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A recap of just some of the lawsuits, petitions, letters, and other legal actions, on behalf of @ICANdecide, related to mRNA vaccines: Lawsuits 06/04/21 - ICAN Obtains Nearly 3,000 Fauci Emails from the Beginning of the Pandemic (1) 12/20/21 - ICAN-Funded Lawsuit Strikes Down COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for San Diego Schools (2) 12/29/21 - ICAN Sues CDC to Stop Hiding V-Safe Data from the Public (3) 03/02/22 - ICAN-Funded Suit Against OSHA Vaccine Mandate Prevails (4) 12/21/22 - Judge in Army Lawsuit Protects Soldiers with Religious Exemptions to COVID Shots, Grants Preliminary Injunction (5) 02/23/23 - ICAN-Funded Lawsuit Prohibiting Any Local Vaccine Mandates Wins Final Battle; Sets California Precedent (6) 02/17/23 - ICAN’s Two Lawsuits (So Far) for CDC and FDA’s VAERS Safety Signal Analyses Set to Blow Lid off their Misconduct (7) 05/02/23 - Federal Government Drops COVID-19 Vaccine Travel Mandate on Same Day It Was Due to Respond to ICAN’s Legal Challenge (8) 05/13/23 - ICAN’s Attorneys Score Another Major Win Against FDA with Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Documents (9) 07/17/23 - ICAN Obtains Critical Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Lot Information (10) 10/10/23 - ICAN’s Attorneys File Major Lawsuit to Strike Down Portions of the Prep Act (11) 01/08/24 - ICAN Obtains Data Used to Identify “Hot Lots” of Moderna and Pfizer COVID Vaccines (12) 01/11/24 - Federal Judge Orders CDC to Release All V-Safe Free-Text Entries in a Huge Win for Vaccine Safety Transparency (13) 04/30/24 - ICAN’s Attorneys File a Second CICP Lawsuit to Demand Justice for COVID-19 Vaccine Injured (14) 12/18/24 - FDA Ordered to Produce One Million More Pages of Pfizer Documents It Tried to Hide from the Public (15) 01/22/25 - ICAN Acquires Critical FDA Safety Reports Concerning COVID-19 Vaccines After Years of Litigation (16) 05/22/25 - ICAN Sues CDC for Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) Data (17) 08/01/25 - ICAN Lawsuit Reveals How CDC Misrepresented Info on COVID-19 Natural Immunity (18) FDA Petitions 07/20/20 - Require Placebo Control in Phase II and III Clinical Trials of Covid-19 Vaccines (19) 10/16/20 - Amend Study Design of Phase III Trials of Moderna Vaccine (20) 10/16/20 - Amend Study Design of Phase III Trials of Pfizer Vaccine (21) 11/06/20 - Amend Efficacy Endpoints of All Covid-19 Vaccine Phase III Clinical Trials (22) 03/24/21 - Enforce All EUA Conditions for Covid-19 Vaccines (23) 05/28/21 - Require Specific Data for Review Before Approval of Any Covid-19 Vaccine (24) 07/06/21 - Provide Same Freedom for the Convalesced as for the Vaccinated (25) 09/24/21 - Revoke EUA for Moderna and Janssen Covid-19 Vaccines (26) 05/20/22 - Revoke EUA for Pfizer Ages 12-15 and Refrain from Approving Other EUAs for This Age Group (27) 06/29/22 - Revoke EUA for Pfizer Ages 5-11 and Refrain from Approving Other EUAs for This Age Group (28) Letters 12/09/20 to VRBPAC - Emergency Use Authorization for Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine (BNT162b2) (29) 03/17/21 to CDC - VAERS System Seriously Underreporting Anaphylaxis After Covid-19 Vaccination (30) 04/16/21 to POTUS - Expenditures Related to Covid-19 Vaccines (31) 08/04/21 to DOJ - Slip Opinion on Mandates for EUA Vaccines (32) 11/04/21 to Congress - EUA for Pfizer’s Vaccine for Children is Illegal and Unethical (33) 11/16/21 to FDA - Discrepancies in deaths in Pfizer clinical trial (34) 12/16/21 to FDA - Legal Distinctions Between Authorized and Approved Pfizer Vaccines (35) 12/29/21 to Covid-19 Response Team - Misconduct Relating to an MMWR Paper on Covid-19 Natural Infection (36) 01/31/22 to CDC - Americans Skipping Their Second Dose of Covid-19 Vaccine (37) 02/03/22 to ACIP - Vote on Moderna’s Spikevax for Ages 18 and Over (38) 04/18/22 to VRBPAC - April 6th Meeting on Covid-19 Booster and Strain Selection (39) 04/19/22 to VRBPAC - Upcoming Meeting on Covid-19 Booster Doses (40) 05/26/22 to CDC, WHO - WHO Changes to Definition of “Herd Immunity” (41) 05/27/22 to HHS - False Claims Regarding Covid-19 EUA Vaccines in HHS Tweet (42) 05/28/21 to CDC – CDC Recommendations for the Convalesced versus the Fully Vaccinated (43) 06/21/22 to CDC - False Claims Regarding Pediatric Covid-19 EUA Vaccines in CDC Tweet (44) 07/11/22 to FDA - Oversight of Covid-19 Vaccines by OTAT (45) 07/22/22 to CDC - Inaccurate Covid-19 Data in VRBPAC Presentation (46) 07/22/22 to CDC - Inaccurate Covid-19 Information Presented During Press Briefing (47) 07/28/22 to CDC - Covid-19 Vaccine Adverse Reaction Rate Reported by German Institute (48) 10/20/22 to ACIP - Upcoming ACIP Vote to Add Covid-19 Vaccine to Childhood Schedule (49) 11/02/22 to HHS - Remove Covid-19 Vaccines from Childhood Schedule (50) 11/07/22 to FDA, CDC - Omicron Waning and EUA for Omicron Booster (51) 11/09/22 to FDA - Peter Marks “Just a Minute” Videos Violate EUA Conditions (52) 11/10/22 to FDA, CDC - Reproductive Harms and Covid-19 Vaccines (53) 01/11/23 to FDA, CDC - Omission and Deletion of VAERS Covid-19 Vaccine Data (54) 01/17/23 to HHS, CMS - Abolish Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers (55) 03/06/23 to NIH, CDC, FDA - Alarming Rise in Deaths Among Young-Middle Age Groups (56) 04/13/23 to FDA - Violation of EUAs in Pfizer and Moderna Promotional Videos (57) 06/06/23 to CDC - Removal of Covid-19 Reports from VAERS (58) 11/22/23 to HHS, FDA - Alarming Reports of DNA Contamination in Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccines (59) 05/17/24 to HHS - Establish Covid-19 Vaccine Injury Countermeasures Table (60) 05/22/24 to VRBPAC - Covid-19 Vaccine Strain Selection (61) 04/16/25 to HHS - Repeal Covid-19 PREP Act Declarations (62) 06/24/25 to HHS - Limited Repeal of Covid-19 PREP Act Declaration (63) 05/27/26 to VRBPAC - Abandonment of Covid-19 Vaccine Injured (64) 06/16/26 to VRBPAC - Safety and Effectiveness of mFlusiva (65) 06/16/26 to CDC - $1.55 Billion in Contracts for Covid-19 Vaccines (66) 06/30/26 to HHS - Vaccine Reforms That Can Be Implemented Immediately (67) 08/21/26 to HHS – Request for Reconsideration of Denial of CICP Covid-19 Vaccine Injury Benefits (68) Other Legal Action 08/03/21 - ICAN Calls Out FDA For Agreeing Placebo Control Groups Are Critical, But Standing Back as Manufacturers Vaccinate Them All (69) 10/23/21 - ICAN Eviscerates CDC In Formal Exchange Regarding Natural Immunity (70) 07/20/22 - New Challenge to FDA on 12-15-Year-Old Covid Injections (71) 07/25/22 - ICAN Files Challenge to Authorization of Covid Injections in 5-to-11-Year-Old Children (72) 02/06/23 - FDA Doubles Down on Junk Science in Response to ICAN Petition to Revoke Use of COVID-19 Vaccines in Children (73) 01/06/23 - FDA Assigned Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine a License Number Months Prior to Actually Licensing It (74) 02/15/23 - ICAN Confronts CDC and FDA About Hiding Important Vaccine Adverse Event Reports from Public View (75) 02/27/23 - CDC Admits It Has No Data to Support Recommending COVID-19 Booster Shots for 12- to 49-Year-Olds (76) 03/06/23 - ICAN’s Attorneys Uncover Early Pfizer Vaccine Study Revealing Alarming Systemic Reactions in Rats (77) 04/10/23 - FDA Lacks Adequate Safety Testing of Lipid Nanoparticles (LNPs) in COVID-19 Vaccines (78) 04/18/23 - ICAN Attorneys Obtain Another Set of Pfizer Documents (79) 05/22/23 - CMS Finally Announces the End of the Healthcare Vaccine Mandate After Months of Legal Pressure (80) 05/23/23 - 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Governor Murphy Rescinds Testing and Reporting Requirements for Unvaccinated Healthcare Workers on Heels of ICAN Legal Demand (81) 06/09/23 - FDA Admits It Has No Records Indicating COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Protocols Were Followed (82) 06/13/23 - ICAN Urges Congressional Scientific Academy to Acknowledge COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries in Report Likely to Determine Compensation (83) 07/19/23 - Latest Pfizer Documents Reveal Highly Suspicious Deaths and Hospitalizations in the Clinical Trial Data (84) 07/31/23 - ICAN Uncovers FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee Ignoring Pointed Questions from Congress (85) 08/07/23 - ICAN Confronts Federal Health Agencies About the Deletion of Over One Thousand VAERS Reports, Most from J&J COVID Vaccine (86) 08/15/23 - Latest Batch of Pfizer Documents Reveals Even More Highly Suspicious Deaths and Hospitalizations in the Clinical Trial (87) 08/21/23 - Why Are Millions of Americans Skipping Their Second COVID Shot? ICAN Presses CDC to Answer (88) 08/29/23 - Internal CDC Presentation Shows It Knew for Months That COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy Was Waning and Kept It a Secret (89) 09/13/23 - Pfizer Clinical Trial Data Errors Revealed in September Batch of Documents (90) 10/24/23 - Pfizer Monthly Safety Reports Finally Included in October’s Document Release (91) Documents Reveal CDC Was Quietly Giving Advice on How to Handle Breakthrough Infections in March 2021 (92) 12/04/23 - Final Batch of Pfizer Documents for Ages 16+ (According to FDA) Finally Released to the Public (93) 02/26/24 - December Release of FDA’s Moderna and Pfizer Data Sheds Further Light on the Purported “Safety and Efficacy” of COVID-19 Vaccines (94) 03/04/24 - ICAN Obtains FDA Report Which Shows Shocking Conditions at Moderna Vaccine Factory (95) 03/08/24 - FDA Refuses to Enforce EUA Advertising Restriction — But Also Insists It Must Keep the Provision! (96) 03/10/24 - New Case Reports Released for Pfizer Ages 12-15 and Moderna Ages 18+ Show Myocarditis, Appendicitis, Intestinal Perforation, and More (97) 03/28/24 - Early V-Safe Free-Text Entries Show Remarkable Consistency in the Frequency of Mentions of Adverse Events (98) 04/16/24 - New Moderna COVID-19 Documents from the February and March Productions Now Posted (99) 04/25/24 - Concerning Reports of Shingles after COVID-19 Vaccination Found in V-SAFE Free-Text Entries (100) 06/14/24 – CDC Stacks its Vaccine Committee with Pharma-Affiliated Members Ahead of June 2024 Vote on COVID-19 Vaccines (101) 06/18/24 - Fourth V-Safe Production Reveals a Disturbing Trend in Miscarriages and Menstrual Disturbances Following COVID-19 Vaccination (102) 07/16/24 - Litany of Suffering Continues in Moderna Clinical Trial Documents (103) 07/24/24 - Kansas Attorney General’s Suit Against Pfizer Uses Key Evidence Obtained By ICAN (104) 08/06/24 - New V-Safe Analysis Reveals Over Ten Thousand Reports of Depression or Anxiety After COVID-19 Vaccination (105) 08/23/24 - ICAN Obtains New Detailed Patient Data from Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trials (106) 09/09/24 - Latest V-Safe Analysis Uncovers Nearly Four Thousand Reports of Urinary and Bladder Issues After COVID-19 Vaccination (107) 10/04/24 - ICAN Investigation Reveals “Independent” Report on COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries is Riddled with Conflicts of Interest (108) 10/28/24 - ICAN Continues to Fight for Those Injured by a COVID-19 Vaccine – The President and HHS Secretary Can Help (109) 11/14/24 - Nearly 12,000 Reports of Kidney Issues Found in Latest Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccination V-safe Data (110) 12/02/24 - “No Records Found” — Segment 1: CDC Busted for Having No Data to Support Its Claim that Most COVID-19 Vaccine Ingredients Can Be Found in Food (111) 12/13/24 - ICAN Unveils New Dashboard for Searching V-Safe Free-Text Entries About COVID-19 Vaccine Reactions (112) 01/06/25 - Over 160,000 Skin Issues Reported to V-Safe After COVID-19 Vaccination (113) 01/10/25 - ICAN’s Attorneys Challenge Hospital That – In 2025! – Is Denying a Kidney Transplant for Refusal of a COVID-19 Vaccine (114) 01/27/25 - “No Records Found” – Segment 2: CDC Provides Zero Support for its Statement that COVID-19 Vaccines Do Not Alter DNA (115) 02/08/25 - Following a Legal Letter from ICAN Attorneys, New Hampshire Hospital Rescinds COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Kidney Transplants (116) 02/13/25 - ICAN Rebukes Cincinnati Children’s Hospital After its Draconian Vaccine Policy Threatens the Well-being of a 12-Year-Old Heart Transplant Patient (117) 05/02/25 - ICAN Helps Motocross Racer Obtain Green Card After He Was Denied Due to Refusal of the COVID-19 Vaccine (118) 07/21/25 - ICAN Releases More Than Half A Million Pages Of New Pfizer Vaccine EUA Data (119) 08/19/25 - FDA Approved Pfizer Drug to Treat Serious COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effect Just Two Months After Rollout of Covid-19 Vaccines (120) 08/27/25 - ICAN Demands Full Transparency on Safety Data for Latest Moderna and Novavax Covid-19 Vaccines (121) 09/10/25 – No Records Found – Segment 3: CDC Unable to Support Claim that Covid-19 Vaccine Spike Protein is Quickly Cleared from Body (122) 03/06/26 – ICAN Releases Recommendations for HHS’ Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines (123) 04/01/26 - CDC Internal Emails Admit COVID-19 Vaccine Risks Never Acknowledged Publicly (124) 04/08/26 - ICAN Presses CDC Yet Again to Explain Why Millions of Americans Missed Their Second Dose of the Covid-19 Vaccine (125) 04/29/26 - U.S. Military Disability Claims Rose Sharply After COVID-19 Vaccines Were Mandated (126) 06/10/26 - FDA Vaccine Committee Members Betray the Public Yet Again and Recommend Updated Formula for Covid Vaccines (127) 06/16/26 - CDC Betrays the American People—Yet Again—With Purchase of $1.55 Billion in COVID Vaccines (128) 06/29/26 - FDA’s Vaccine Committee Ignores Concerns and Greenlights Moderna’s New mRNA Flu Vaccine (129) 07/22/26 - Emails Reveal NIH Officials Knew About and Opposed Publicizing Cases of Neurological Injury After Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-Out (130) 09/04/26 - Join ICAN In Telling Secretary Kennedy: Please Help the Covid-19 Vaccine Injured (131) 09/15/26 - Emails Reveal CDC Safety Signal Analyses Were Dangerously Incomplete Due to a Backlog of 70,000 Covid-19 VAERS Reports (132) Sources See chained X post (couldn't all fit in one post)
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A pro-life advocacy group is threatening to sue the FDA over a new environmental argument against Mifepristone. Students for Life says the agency failed to consider potential effects on endangered species before expanding access to the abortion drug, and is demanding environmental testing within 60 days. The group points to a 2026 study that found anti-progesterone activity in water samples collected near wastewater treatment facilities in three U.S. cities. If the FDA does not act, Students for Life says it will sue under the Endangered Species Act. Read the full report by @smiddendorp22 below: bit.ly/mifepristone_water
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Facts check out. Jesus is King.
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Researchers measured chemical residue locked into the baby teeth of 22 children with autism and 16 without. 19 compounds turned up significantly higher in the autism group. Five of the nine chemicals most elevated in that group are found in baby bottles. The study doesn't prove those chemicals caused autism, and the sample size is small, but 39 of the 60 compounds detected are already classified as developmental toxicants or endocrine disruptors. @Smiddendorp22 breaks down what researchers found and why the exposure windows start earlier than most parents realize. Full story linked below 👇 bit.ly/AutismBabyTeeth
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Six major U.S. hospital systems have agreed to stop giving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to anyone under 18, as part of Justice Department settlements over how the procedures were billed to Medicaid. Texas Children's Hospital agreed to pay more than $10 million and build the country's first dedicated detransition clinic. NYU Langone agreed to pay $8.5 million. Four other systems, including Cleveland Clinic and Mount Sinai, settled for smaller amounts and committed millions more toward care for former patients now detransitioning. The settlements trace back to an HHS-commissioned report called Wolves in White Coats, which found tens of millions of dollars in insurance claims coded in ways that didn't match the actual diagnoses. @Smiddendorp22 has what each of the six hospitals agreed to and how the numbers add up. Full story linked below 👇 bit.ly/DOJ-Halts-Minors
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This is terrible. Brigitte Stegemann was 83, deaf, and spoke English as a second language when a Canadian care facility scheduled her for euthanasia one week after her granddaughter left on a 10-day trip. According to her granddaughter, staff never used the words "death" or "dying" with her. During her competency assessment, Stegemann said she had no living siblings. She had 13, two still alive. She was declared competent minutes later, and the procedure went ahead days after that. Belleville Police say the case is now under criminal investigation. The same week, a Dutch review committee ruled that a physician "acted with due care" in ending the life of a child not yet two years old, the first case under a 2024 protocol expansion covering children ages 1 to 12. The child's treatment team agreed to end the child's life. Independent doctors brought in for a second opinion disagreed, saying there were still pain-control options that hadn't been tried. The committee sided with the treatment team anyway. @Smiddendorp22 has the full details on both cases as similar programs continue expanding into more U.S. states. Full story linked below 👇 bit.ly/Euthanasia_cases
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A stay-at-home mom who learned to bake from her grandmother can finally sell that same pie for real money to the people who live down the road from her... That is happening in 34 states and D.C. now, thanks to cottage food and food freedom laws passed or expanded since 2015. Every state in the country allows some form of home-based food sales today, all the way up through New Jersey, the last state to come around, in 2021. And here is the sweet part. In the three states that actually track this, Wyoming, North Dakota, and Utah, there have been zero foodborne-illness outbreaks tied to a food freedom sale. @ChelleWards and @tracybeanz look at what it means for a community when your neighbor can sell you a pie again. Full editorial linked below 👇 bit.ly/neighbors_pie
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A Michigan House committee held a hearing last week on an unpublished Henry Ford Health study, the same one at the center of @ICANdecide's film "An Inconvenient Study." Epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher told lawmakers that in a peer-reviewed reanalysis of the study's raw data, all 22 chronic health conditions tracked showed up more often in vaccinated children than unvaccinated children. Several conditions, including ADHD, diabetes, and intellectual disabilities, appeared zero times in the unvaccinated group. Hulscher was careful to say the data shows an association, not proof that vaccines caused those conditions. The committee also played a clip from ICAN's film of the study's senior author, Dr. Marcus Zervos, saying he was reluctant to publish because he didn't want to "suffer what McCullough did." Henry Ford Health was offered time to open and close the hearing. They chose not to show up. @Smiddendorp22 has the full breakdown, including what happened when a lawmaker challenged how long the unvaccinated children were actually followed. Full story linked below 👇 bit.ly/Henry_Ford_Study
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NEW: I secured a legal victory to shut down a Houston-area "birth tourism" center that unlawfully facilitated over 1,000 births to foreign Chinese nationals.
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On March 5, 2021, the CDC told the public no safety concerns had been found in early COVID vaccine monitoring, aside from rare anaphylaxis. Documents @ICANdecide obtained through its own FOIA request show the agency's VAERS contractor had reported a backlog of more than 70,000 unprocessed reports weeks earlier. A BMJ investigation published this week goes further, finding US officials knowingly used a broken algorithm for detecting vaccine harm signals and suppressed efforts to fix it. The flaw meant Pfizer and Moderna were essentially being compared against each other instead of against normal background rates, so no myocarditis alert was ever triggered, even as one CDC official privately admitted he was "perplexed" by the missing signal. Full story by @smiddendorp22 linked below 👇 bit.ly/CDC_VAERS_BACKLOG
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A wealthy Orange County community has seen 6 to 9 cases of Ewing sarcoma, a cancer so rare it affects only about 3 in a million children nationally, since 2013. Unofficial calculations put the community's rate at 15 to 20 times the national average. Residents are demanding the HOA stop spraying pesticides on the neighborhood's lawns and common areas. The HOA has paused some products for 120 days, but one board member defended continuing traditional pesticide use so the landscaping "looks pretty," a comment made as a mother who lost her son to cancer this year sat in the room, visibly shaken, in tears. No official cause has been confirmed. Investigations are now underway at the federal, state, and university level. Full story linked by @smiddendorp22 below 👇 bit.ly/Cancer-Cluster
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The stories shared at Canada’s Allison Inquiry are heartbreaking and deserve to be heard. Canadians who say they were injured after COVID-19 vaccination are finally bringing their experiences to Parliament Hill. Read the full report from @smiddendorp22 below. @AllisonInquiry @ShawnBuckleyLaw @DeanAllisonMP
🙏A 46-year-old dentist with no pre-existing conditions developed an elevated heart rate and chest tightness within an hour of her first COVID vaccine dose. After her second, she lost vision, developed nerve damage and brain lesions, and now lives with constant electric-shock pain. She sold her practice and paid $148,000 for brain surgery in the US after Canadian specialists wouldn't take her case. "You cannot treat what you refuse to acknowledge," she said. A mother of three who ran a seed farm developed what she calls "fire in my brain," burning pain that hasn't stopped in five years. Her face dropped. Hospitals sent her home with a Bell's palsy diagnosis. She spent 17 days in the hospital with a feeding tube and now has permanent facial dysfunction and memory loss that tested as early-onset Alzheimer's. Canada's vaccine injury program accepted her claim, then denied the medications and therapies she needs. A store manager and father of seven collapsed after his shot. He developed seizures, 13 brain lesions, and violent tremors lasting hours. Emergency rooms tested him for drugs first. His compensation file has been lost twice. He's still waiting after four years. The inquiry is ongoing, and runs through Friday. Full story by @smiddendorp22 linked below 👇 bit.ly/TheAllisonInquiry
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Foster youth are nearly three times more likely to be prescribed a psychotropic drug and four times more likely to be on multiple at once compared to other kids on Medicaid, according to a 2023 JAMA Pediatrics study. As the number of licensed foster homes nationwide has dropped 19 percent since 2019, some states have started placing kids in hotel rooms, offices, and hospital emergency rooms when no foster home is available. Seven states have gone further, holding foster youth in juvenile detention facilities simply because there's nowhere else to put them. Four of those states have locked up children with no criminal record and no charges at all. One state's own audit couldn't even find records showing what these kids were actually being given, or how much. Details, in the column by @smiddendorp22 👇 bit.ly/Foster_Care_Crisis
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An Anthropic researcher resigned this month, warning that superhuman AI systems capable of hacking anything and revolutionizing any field overnight could arrive by the end of the decade. He says AI executives and researchers privately believe the same thing. Anthropic's own alignment science lead confirmed it, writing that he personally believes there's greater than a 10 percent chance AI kills everyone within the next decade, and that Anthropic doesn't yet have a plan to solve the problem. Critics question the timing. The researcher's X account sat untouched since January before posting a single professionally produced thread that hit 164 million views, followed within hours by a Wall Street Journal exclusive and cable news appearances the next day. Even @elonmusk called it "a setup," saying he'd never seen an account with zero history explode like that organically. Full story by @smiddendorp22 linked below 👇 bit.ly/AI-Panic
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Call me crazy, but I think reporting on allegations and rental history of a private citizen is unethical. The message this sends is you must toe the line if you serve your civic duty on a high-profile trial. This is a travesty of the judicial system and journalism.
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🙏THE ALLISON INQUIRIES: This has been a very hard week. People across the globe who are suffering from COVID vaccine injury have been ostracized and abandoned by the institutions and governments that implored, and in many cases, threatened, them to vaccinate Canada's Allison Inquiries have highlighted some painful stories. A mother held her 23-year-old daughter as she took her last breath. Abigail never smoked. She was healthy. She got her second COVID vaccine to keep her job. Months later, doctors found her lungs full of cancer. She sadly passed away. Carrie used to run a dental practice. Now she has eight brain lesions and counting, cystic masses in her liver, pancreas, cervix, and brain, and burning nerve pain that hasn't stopped. She sold her practice. She sold her assets. She's crowdfunding to survive. More than 1,400 vaccine-injured Canadians applied to testify. These are just two of their stories. "If we can't be treated, how do we get better? If we can't be acknowledged, how do we heal?" This isn't being covered anywhere else. Watch the full testimony. Send it to the person in your life who still thinks this isn't real. Stand with your brothers and sisters. Share this everywhere.
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Somehow, everything @TyTheFisch - Tyler Fischer posts is "sensitive content." When I try to search for his name in the search bar, his account doesn't show up even though I follow his account. What is happening with this "free speech" platform?
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It’s the kind of grief that tears you in half and sets you on fire. I don’t know how else to describe what I felt when I heard confirmation that Charlie was dead. It was as if the floor had been pulled out from beneath me and I was falling through the earth itself. It hurt to move. It hurt to eat. Every time I tried to speak during that first week, the grief caught in my throat, and I felt as though I would choke on my own tears. I think about him every single day. I miss him deep in my bones. Everything is worse. I knew immediately that America, and the conservative movement as a whole, would never be the same. I’m devastated to have been right. The past year has felt like one long gnashing of teeth: dark, hopeless, and demoralizing. The person who kept everyone in check is gone, and what has followed feels like a free-for-all of relentless abuse, torment, and destruction directed at the people Charlie loved most in this world. I wish I could tie a hopeful ribbon about America or conservatism around this post, but I can’t. Others will have something encouraging to say today. I do not. The only way I know to end this is by reminding you that, on the evening of September 9, Charlie had no idea it would be his last night on earth. Many people are facing that same reality tonight without knowing it. If this were your last night on earth, do you know what would happen after you died? Charlie did. He knew Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, and I believe he is in heaven for eternity. You could give millions of dollars to charity, love America, vote conservative, be a wonderful mother or father, eat well, spend time in nature, and volunteer with children and still not enter heaven if you have not accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and repented of your sins. You might say, “That isn’t fair, Alex. How can you say that a good person wouldn’t be in heaven?” But I am not the author of that truth. God is. That is the beauty of Christianity: it isn’t about jumping through hoops or proving that you are a good person through works or merit. None of us is good on our own; only God is good. We are sinners in need of a Savior, so God sent His Son, Jesus, to die on the cross for our sins. And God has made the way clear: believe, repent, and you will know where you will go when you die. It is that simple. In the end, that was what Charlie cared about most: that you would know Jesus, too. And I just want to honor CK today by reminding you of that. Thank you to those of you who never stopped praying for and loving on Erika, their children, and TPUSA the past year. There is a famous quote you probably know from Mr. Rodgers about looking for the helpers after great tragedy. Whether it was restaurants who provided staff with food, children praying during bedtime, sending us cards and letters, or even defending us on social media…If that was you, you were a helper of Erika and TPUSA and your name is engraved on my heart until the day I die. For Charlie 🇺🇸, Alex
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🙏A 46-year-old dentist with no pre-existing conditions developed an elevated heart rate and chest tightness within an hour of her first COVID vaccine dose. After her second, she lost vision, developed nerve damage and brain lesions, and now lives with constant electric-shock pain. She sold her practice and paid $148,000 for brain surgery in the US after Canadian specialists wouldn't take her case. "You cannot treat what you refuse to acknowledge," she said. A mother of three who ran a seed farm developed what she calls "fire in my brain," burning pain that hasn't stopped in five years. Her face dropped. Hospitals sent her home with a Bell's palsy diagnosis. She spent 17 days in the hospital with a feeding tube and now has permanent facial dysfunction and memory loss that tested as early-onset Alzheimer's. Canada's vaccine injury program accepted her claim, then denied the medications and therapies she needs. A store manager and father of seven collapsed after his shot. He developed seizures, 13 brain lesions, and violent tremors lasting hours. Emergency rooms tested him for drugs first. His compensation file has been lost twice. He's still waiting after four years. The inquiry is ongoing, and runs through Friday. Full story by @smiddendorp22 linked below 👇 bit.ly/TheAllisonInquiry
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