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[Independent Medical Alliance @Honest_Medicine]

Independent Doctors Demand Texas Children's Hospital Give Annelise Camp Every Opportunity to Live

Two-year-old near-drowning patient puts Texas's Right to Try law directly to the test; IMA calls on hospital to stop pressuring parents toward life-ending decision

FULL STATEMENT: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Independent Medical Alliance (IMA), a national coalition representing more than 12,000 independent physicians, researchers, and clinicians, today issued an urgent statement demanding Texas Children's Hospital cease its pressure campaign against the parents of Annelise Camp, a two-year-old near-drowning patient currently fighting for her life, and honor the family's right to pursue every available avenue for their daughter's recovery.

Texas Children's Hospital (@TexasChildrens) has indicated it intends to pursue a brain death determination for Annelise, over the explicit objections of her parents, who are seeking access to alternative treatments and supportive care in accordance with the state's Right to Try law. The IMA is calling that effort premature, medically unsound given the patient's age and circumstance, and a direct violation of the principles that Texas's Right to Try legislation was designed to protect.

"Annelise must be given every opportunity to recover," said IMA Senior Fellow @DrKatLindley, Director of the IMA Fellowship Program. "Texas Children's Hospital needs to remember its mission: to treat and care for every patient. The medical literature is clear that young children who have experienced near-drowning events can and do make remarkable, even extraordinary recoveries, recoveries that would have been impossible if families had been forced into premature end-of-life decisions. These parents are not in denial. They are doing what every parent would do: fighting for their child's life. Texas Children's Hospital must stand down from this pressure campaign and work with this family, not against them."

The Science Is on the Family's Side
The medical case for giving Annelise time is grounded in well-documented neurological science. Young brains possess extraordinary neuroplasticity: the capacity to rewire, compensate, and restore functions once thought permanently lost, even following prolonged oxygen deprivation. There are many documented cases of toddlers and young children who have regained consciousness, relearned to walk and speak, and gone on to live full lives after near-drowning events and extended coma.

Any decision to foreclose the possibility of recovery, over a family's explicit objection, and in a patient population where the science supports waiting, is not a medical determination, but rather a policy determination, and exactly the kind of action that Texas's Right to Try law was designed to prevent.

"Families must have the right to give their child every chance to fight back and recover," continued Dr. Lindley. "That is precisely why Texas passed its Right to Try law, so that parents facing the most devastating moments of their lives are not also being pushed toward irreversible decisions by institutional timelines that may have nothing to do with their child's prognosis. Texas Children's Hospital has an opportunity right now to lead with compassion, to work alongside this family, and to demonstrate that patient-centered care is more than a mission statement. We are urging them, in the strongest possible terms, to take it."

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

CEO of @TexasChildrens Debra Sukin is legally battling family of 2 year old Annelise, on life-support following near drowning less than 2 weeks ago. The family wants more time- hospital is refusing and brain death test will happen soon against family’s wishes. If test is positive, TCH will remove life support.

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

Amazon faces lawsuit over Ring facial recognition software | Mary Cunningham, CBS News

A Virginia resident is suing Amazon for privacy violations after the e-commerce company's Ring video doorbell camera allegedly used facial recognition technology to record and store images of his face without his consent.

Charles Sigwalt, who filed a lawsuit on Monday in Seattle federal court, where Amazon has one of its headquarters, alleges that Ring's "Familiar Faces" feature uses facial-recognition software to scan anyone who passes by the doorbell camera and categorizes them using artificial intelligence.

The system then collects a "face print" that allows it to re-identify the person, according to his complaint, which seeks class-action status.

"When plaintiffs and class members entered the homes and businesses of places which had Ring cameras that deployed Familiar Faces, they did not consent to have their privacy rights violated at the entrance way," the suit alleges.

Sigwalt alleges Ring collected his facial recognition data without warning while he was visiting friends' and family members' homes. He believes the company is still storing his biometric data, according to the lawsuit.

Amazon declined to comment on the suit.

"Familiar Faces" draws criticism

Ring introduced the "Familiar Faces" feature in September 2025, billing it as a way for owners of its doorbell camera to receive more personalized alerts when someone arrives at their residence. Instead of seeing "Person at Front Door," for example, they might receive an alert with a name, such as "John at Front Door."

"Your camera learns to recognize friends, family and frequent visitors over time," the company says on its website.

Users can turn the feature on and off, according to Ring.

Groups like the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation have pushed back on the feature, claiming it violates people's privacy. The biometric data could be used for mass surveillance or be leaked in a potential data breach, the group has warned.

Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts has been another vocal opponent of the Familar Faces technology, noting that it could be used to record the biometric data of people who never consented to have their faces scanned.

Other Ring backlash

Amazon has faced other litigation over its Ring product. In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission filed a suit claiming that the online retailer gave its workers and contractors access to personal videos recorded by Ring and failed to protect customer security, leading to hackers threatening or sexually propositioning Ring owners. Amazon settled the case for $5.8 million.

More recently, Amazon abruptly ended a commercial partnership with security technology company Flock Safety after backlash over a Super Bowl commercial for Ring sparked concerns about unwanted surveillance.

Amazon bought Ring in 2018 for $1 billion.

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[krtv.monke @krtvdept]

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[Dr. Heidi Klessig @heidiklessigmd]

US Doctors routinely break the law when they diagnose brain death.

The US legal standard for brain death under the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) is “the irreversible cessation of ALL functions of the ENTIRE brain including the brain stem.”

But the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) brain death diagnosis guideline doesn’t check ALL brain functions, and explicitly states that the ENTIRE brain doesn’t have to be nonfunctional.

In fact >50% of people diagnosed “brain dead” under the AAN guideline still have ongoing brain function, in defiance of the law.

Dr. Michael Nair-Collins points this out in his article “The Uniform Determination of Death Act is Not Changing. Will Physicians Continue to Misdiagnose Brain Death?”

Nair-Collins sums it up this way:

“It has long been common practice to declare some patients dead by neurologic criteria even though they do not meet the legal standard for death, and the AAN has made clear that they have no intention of changing their guidelines. Thus, legally living people will continue to be declared dead, not because of a mistake, but because of a choice.

The decision to continue
misdiagnosing death according to the law will create routine violations of civil rights, will continue to violate the Dead Donor Rule that allegedly is such an important red line for organ transplantation, and will contribute to a well-deserved mistrust in the determination of death.

Most importantly, the demand that physicians accurately determine death according to the legal standard is rightful and transparently correct, with no further justification needed.”

[Sean Wyseman @StressStopper]

It once was law that ALL ingredients in food be disclosed. Then Pharma managed to get that changed so that if the amount of the chemical is less than a percent it does not have to be disclosed. Repeal & reform that law to require ALL ingredients in food be listed regardless of amount. @RFKJr_Official We need an EO or better still a bill that requires full disclosure. Then we can subject the food supply to testing against the ingredient list to ensure they don't lie. Penalties that disincentivize lying so that it's too expensive to do so anymore. We have to restore the system to what it once was. No more cheating. If they can do it in Europe we can do it here.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The U.S. should NOT use propaganda on our citizens, but that prohibition was lifted in 2013!

Thank you @RepDavidRouzer for cosponsoring HR 5704 to repeal the 2013 Smith-Mundt Modernization Act.

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: A woman in Texas was arrested after making a Facebook post warning others about the poor water quality in her town.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Spencer Pratt: I’m gonna remove the homeless druggies from in front of your kids’ elementary school, let you rebuild your homes, and arrest criminals

Karen Bass: Taxpayer funded teeth for meth heads

Nithya Raman: I’m gonna ban BBQs

How is this even a choice

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

My house burned down. I lost everything. I can’t rebuild. As a 42 year old man with 2 kids, I’ve had to move into my parents’ house, and I’m getting attacked for that? This is journalism? This is why no decent people ever get into politics. This is why you only have goblins running everything. God help you if you try to make things right for your community…if you lose your entire town, “journalists” mock you for not making your kids sleep in the toxic dirt on your burned out lot. Who raised you, dude?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Chocolate sold in America is going through 2 changes

Almost our entire candy isle for chocolate in America will be effected by 1 of these 2 new techniques:

- Lab grown chocolate
- Genetically modified chocolate by gene slicing

“California Cultured is the startup company that's growing cocoa cells in a tank. A lot of you asked, is this just one company? No, it's the entire industry”

But wait till you hear what the Mars candy company's doing that's far worse in my view.

Here's what every major player in the chocolate industry's doing right now

- Lindt is investing in lab-grown cocoa
- Mondelez, the maker of Cadbury, Oreos, and Toblerone, is investing in lab-grown cocoa butter
- Barry Callebaut, the world's largest cocoa processor, is investing in cocoa cell culture

Barry Callebaut isn't a name you'd recognize on a wrapper, but they supply chocolate to Hershey and Nestlé under long-term contracts. When they move, half the candy aisle moves with them”

Here’s where things get really scary

“Mars, the makers of M&M's, Snickers, Dove, Twix, Milky Way, Mars Bars, and Three Musketeers, among others, is doing something completely different. And this is cause for alarm in my opinion.

— Mars partnered with a lab at UC Berkeley where CRISPR, the gene editing technology, was developed. They're going to modify the cacao tree's genetic structure by clipping out certain genes to make them more resistant to disease and drought tolerant.

This is Frankenfood. Genetically modified Frankenfood

Here’s why they are doing this

Global chocolate demand's rising about 3% every year. At the same time, 70% of the world's cocoa comes from West Africa, and West Africa is getting hammered by droughts, higher temperatures, and a nasty virus

Pests and diseases cause yearly losses of about 30 to 40% of the total global cocoa production

So major companies have decided to grow it in a lab or genetically modify the trees

The question is whether the solutions they've chosen are proportionate to the risk

I’d say no, absolutely not. We all know the second these things are done they will start selling it to us with no long term safety studies and no idea how it will effect our health

It’s coming so be warned

[smokbrain @smokbrain]

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[krtv.monke @krtvdept]

#NewProfilePic i will never not collect more @sagamonkes because there is no other collection that checks all the boxes when it comes to culture, history, lore, indisputable provenance and fair distribution. in one of the most over saturated asset classes on earth, they are truly one of a kind.

[Siim Land @siimland]

Peak performance at 90!

Dr William Bell, at the age of 90, broke the pole vault world record for his age group in 2012

He cleared a height of 7 feet 2 inches (218 cm)

[Dr. Rhonda Patrick @foundmyfitness]

Sitting on the ground more is one of the simplest things you can do for long-term mobility.

It sounds almost too basic, but getting down to the floor and back up is a real marker of independence. If you lose that ability, a lot of everyday function starts to go with it.

Sit with your legs straight out. Sit cross-legged. Kneel. Shift around. These positions gently restore hip rotation, ankle mobility, and the ability to move your body in and out of different shapes.

This kind of low-level, daily movement practice helps maintain better joint mechanics, and according to @thereadystate, it might be one reason why "floor cultures" such as those in Asia often preserve mobility longer and have fewer problems related to stiffness and loss of function.

From the latest episode of the FoundMyFitness podcast.

[Mandy Arthur @mandyarthur]

Hey @grok, is Glyphosate being sprayed over millions of acres of forests across the US right now? Be very concise.