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[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

There was a line from Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address yesterday that took my breath away. He said he intended to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Collectivism in its various forms is responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred million people in the last century. Socialist and Communist forms of government around the world today—Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc.—are disastrous. Catholic social teaching has consistently condemned socialism and has embraced the market economy, which people like Mayor Mamdani caricature as “rugged individualism.” In fact, it is the economic system that is based upon the rights, freedom, and dignity of the human person. For God’s sake, spare me the “warmth of collectivism.”

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

This is a must watch to understand what is really happening in California. Thank you @shellenberger for breaking it down so succinctly 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Hillarious @adamthereality]

@nntaleb Brilliant, just don’t die. Problem solved.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Warren,

I'm writing to you as someone in a position you claim to represent.

I am profoundly deaf. I live with severe speech and language impairments. I am functionally nonverbal. I also have mild autism, precisely the kind of neurodivergence you and others are invoking to score points against RFK Jr.

This Xeet is one of the most disingenuous and cynical things I've seen from you, particularly given your claims of being an advocate for the disability community.

Living with a disability is not a metaphor. It is not a symbol. It is not something to be used selectively when politically convenient. Disability is real, physical, and often brutal.

You're using people with mild autism to hold them up as a shield to attack RFK Jr., ignoring the obvious context of his remarks. You know full well he was referring to severe autism. The kind that robs people of speech and autonomy.

He was not calling for the eradication of people like Elon Musk. He was talking about helping the children who scream through the night, who can't speak or hold a spoon, who wander into traffic because their sensory systems don't register danger.

To collapse all of autism into one political narrative is not advocacy, it's a betrayal of those of us with disabilities. And it reveals that your commitment is not to us, but to score political points against the other side.

If you genuinely cared about us, you would be making distinctions, loudly. Instead, you've flattened us for a talking point.

You do not speak for me.

[Hillarious @adamthereality]

@gummibear737 Our military makes USD the reserve not our low tariffs

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Reuters was literally paid by the federal government for “Large Scale Social Deception”.

That’s literally what it says on the official government documents!!

[Hillarious @adamthereality]

@algore If your executive order hasn't stopped this since you were in office, then it probably isn't gonna. May want to try something new.

[Hillarious @adamthereality]

@BleacherReport @LADEig Double dribble

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

Response to @nytimes hit piece (Part 1) - polio petition to the FDA:

The hit piece begins (and ends) with defending a certain polio vaccine, IPOL, which is not the polio vaccine of old, while playing on fear to distract from the clear safety gaps in licensing this particular product. The hit piece starts with the false claim that I “petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine.” Putting aside that it was actually @ICANdecide's petition, the hit piece never once substantively addresses the reasons for the petition, which, upon reading, is plainly eminently reasonable: https://t.co/6xv0ag2POZ

ICAN’s petition to the FDA seeks to revoke a particular polio vaccine, IPOL, and only for infants and children and only until a proper trial is conducted, because IPOL was licensed in 1990 by Sanofi based on pediatric trials that, according to FDA, reviewed safety for only three days after injection. https://t.co/QCfYadTLLK

This is not “the polio vaccine” developed by Jonas Salk or Albert Sabin that most people think of. It is instead a product based on an entirely new technology, including growing the polio virus on monkey kidney cells whose chromones were modified to cause them to multiply forever, like cancer, and which ends up in the vial of each dose.

As the FDA petition itself explained, with citations: “Moreover, unlike Salk’s vaccine, the virus used in IPOL is ‘grown in vero cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells cultivated on microcarriers.’ Vero cells have modified chromosomes which cause them to multiple forever, like cancer cells. These cells are susceptible to infection by dozens of viruses, including HPV, measles, rubella, reovirus, SV40 virus, and SV-5.” https://t.co/6xv0ag2POZ

And as the FDA approved package insert for IPOL explains: “culture technique and improvements in purification, concentration, and standardization of poliovirus antigen produce a more potent and consistent immunogenic vaccine than the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) available in the US prior to 1988.” https://t.co/TFzohKfOsu

ICAN’s petition, filed in 2022, makes the reasonable request that the FDA, as required by federal law, require a proper clinical trial for IPOL prior to licensure. This was an eminently reasonable request and one the NYT should support and hail. After all, it claims to care about consumer rights and product safety when writing about other consumer products. But clearly not when it comes to the safety of products now injected into babies 29 times in the first year of life, up from 3 injections in 1986. https://t.co/uD46i6MNrx(1983 CDC schedule); https://t.co/pWmpb50q5Q(2025 CDC schedule)

Assuring the safety of these injections is critical. Childhood chronic disease has exploded from less than 13% of children in the 1980s to well over 50% of children today, with most of the explosive rise occurring among immune and immune mediated diseases. https://t.co/j5PUhwudBJ; https://t.co/3d6VL60xqQ; https://t.co/JRVlTEVZZg. It is therefore reasonable to ask for proper clinical trials for childhood vaccines, almost all of which, including IPOL, were licensed between 1986 and today, and which are intended to systemically modify the immune system.

Instead of focusing on the legitimate request in the petition, the hit piece stokes fear by ironically writing that “In 2022, an unvaccinated man New York became paralyzed after contracting polio,” while failing to mention that this person was infected with the vaccine strain of polio, not the wild polio virus. https://t.co/roe7jRUDhD. The last wild case of polio in the United States was in 1979. This hit piece also fails to mention that, as explained by the CDC, “Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) [such as IPOL] is the only polio vaccine that has been given in the United States since 2000” and “IPV… protects people from polio disease but does not stop transmission of the virus.” https://t.co/tzI83RVvBE; https://t.co/2nPdJO9hTF.

ICAN has also given HHS, and its agencies, including FDA, every opportunity to support the claim IPOL was properly trialed before filing its petition. It had an extensive letter exchange with HHS in 2017-2018 in which HHS could not support the safety of the childhood schedule. https://t.co/PvDSB69Qba. ICAN filed FOIA requests with FDA for the trial reports to support the safety of IPOL and the reports provided were plainly deficient to support safety. https://t.co/6xv0ag2POZ. ICAN also separately carefully evaluated and published regarding the available safety data. https://t.co/3c5rQtp5PT.

In contrast, the NYT hit piece does not cite any actual data or studies, just anecdotes and unsupported assertions. The hit piece's only response regarding the plainly deficient trial to license IPOL (which again was a novel product, using effectively cancerous cells to grow the virus), does not come from FDA, but rather from a Sanofi representative, the company that makes and profits from selling this product. He claims that there supposedly was more data that the FDA relied upon to license this product. But if that’s true, the FDA licensure documents would have been updated to reflect more than three days of safety review after injection and the FDA would have surely produced it in response to ICAN’s polio petition filed in 2022. Neither has happened.

In fact, ICAN already demanded via FOIA that the FDA produce “A copy of the report for each clinical trial relied upon by the FDA when approving IPOL in 1990” and the documents provided in response by FDA make plain ICAN’s petition and safety concern are more than valid, as laid out in ICAN’s petition for the world to read. https://t.co/6xv0ag2POZ. But the NYT reporters writing the hit piece plainly do not care about truth and accuracy.

If the NYT cared about at all about accuracy, the minimum it should do is update its headline from “Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine”, to “ICAN Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval for Children of a New Polio Vaccine, Using New Technology, Licensed in 1990, Until it is Properly Trialed for Safety.”

NYT Article: https://t.co/NGda615EDz

[Hillarious @adamthereality]

@realdogenews Yes

[Peter Gammons @pgammo]

For more than a decade, the Cleveland Guardian Indians has been the model of leadership, from Shapiro to Antonetti to Chernoff, from (HOF) Francona to Vogt tearing up because of teamates' interactions is a morning light that will never dim

[Kevin Bilodeau @KevinLive5]

WATCH: @LandsharkFB gets ready to defend their state championship but they'll do it in a higher class this year

The team knows they can't rely on what got them a ring last year to help them go back to back this season

Hear more from Oceanside tonight at 7 and 11 on @Live5News

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

BREAKING: Legendary broadcaster Kirk Herbstreit has doubled down saying ‘MEN DO NOT BELONG IN WOMANS SPORTS.’

He says he does not care about the backlash, saying there are different rules for Christians.

“I didn't give a sh*t. I don't really give a sh*t at all. I'm done giving any sh*ts, at all, about any of it”

“It’s almost like there are two different sets of rules and if you have a view that’s a little bit more traditional… I’m a Christian guy, it’s like there’s a different set of rules for that viewpoint, and it’s hard to just turn the other cheek time after time after time.”

(Via @Outkick)

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Look, you don’t, as a Christian, want to give your vote to Trump because of the moral failings in his past or his bombastic personality or whatever, I get that. But adultery is not a plank in the GOP platform. You cannot defend voting for a party that officially champions mass perversion along with the murder of the unborn by comparing it to Trump’s personal history.

Nobody’s voting Trump to protect a right to adultery. If you’re voting for Kamala you ARE voting for wicked policies. They are not equivalent.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

CNN, Trump and Biden blocked Robert Kennedy Jr from tonight's debate stage.

I think people should get to hear what he has to say.

So I’m moderating what his campaign calls: “Real Debate."

You can watch that on X tonight at 9pm, streaming on @RobertKennedyJr

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

Does the chickenpox (varicella) vaccine used in the U.S. stop infection and transmission of chickenpox?

Answer: In prior posts, we covered pertussis, tetanus, diphtheria, inactivated polio, meningococcal, and HepB vaccines with regard to preventing infection and transmission. These are basically all the school-required vaccines other than chickenpox and MMR. For those who were upset about the reality regarding these products (and they are just products), we finally have a vaccine that can prevent infection and transmission: the chickenpox vaccine.

Yes, the chickenpox vaccine can prevent infection with and transmission of the chickenpox virus, known as varicella. But here is the incredible thing: those vaccinated with the chickenpox vaccine can transmit the version of the virus in the vaccine to others for up to six weeks after vaccination yet are never excluded from school during this period.

As the FDA-approved package insert for the chickenpox vaccine explains: “transmission of varicella vaccine virus [] resulting in varicella infection including disseminated disease may occur between vaccine recipients (who develop or do not develop a varicella-like rash) and contacts susceptible to varicella including healthy as well as high-risk individuals” and that “[d]ue to concern for transmission of vaccine virus, vaccine recipients should attempt to avoid whenever possible close association with susceptible high-risk individuals for up to six weeks following vaccination” including immunocompromised individuals, pregnant women, and newborn infants of mothers without documented history of varicella.*

However, no child (either those recently vaccinated or those unvaccinated) needs to be excluded from school to protect these individuals. This is because (i) anyone immunocompromised to the degree that chickenpox could seriously harm them is already not attending school because if the chickenpox virus can seriously harm them, so can around 1,400 other known human pathogens**, (ii) an estimated over 98% of women aged 20-49 in the U.S. are immune to chickenpox, and pregnant women are routinely screened so those who aren’t immune can take appropriate measures***, and (iii) newborns do not attend school.

You may also be interested to know that each vial of chickenpox vaccine contains DNA and cellular pieces (approximated to be in the trillions) from the cell line of aborted fetal tissue.**** For a small window into the use of aborted fetuses, here an excerpt from a deposition I took of the world's leading vaccinologist: https://t.co/nwCA2hBWcL

The above doesn’t even touch on whether risks from chickenpox are more or less than risks from the chickenpox vaccine. On that, I will note that the clinical trials for varicella (Chickenpox) vaccine, injected at 12 months and 4 years of age, did not show that it was safe.

Varivax (Merck) was licensed based on trials with no placebo control (the purported “placebo” was actually an injection of 45 mg of neomycin, an antibiotic, per milliliter). There was only one controlled trial of 956 children in which around half received Varivax and half received the injection of 45 mg of neomycin per milliliter, and there was one trial in which 32 children received Varivax and 29 children received nothing and then received Varivax eight weeks later; during this eight-week period, the Varivax group had double the rate of ear infection and a 50% increase in respiratory infection. As for serious adverse events, Merck did not consider any related to Varivax.*****

Sources:
*https://t.co/JQOrDCy675
**https://t.co/p2DoGYw07Z
***https://t.co/fblqRe9Vq0; https://t.co/fuWh5bPi2Y
****https://t.co/cYKMYEv5Xy (Varivax contains "MRC-5 human diploid cells including DNA & protein"); https://t.co/klsh1uK6ib ("MRC-5 is a diploid cell line d in the production of vaccines, including hepatitis A, polio, and MCR-5, and is made up of fibroblasts isolated from the lung tissue derived from a White, male, 14-week-old embryo");
https://t.co/q2DNedq3MC ("approximately 2ug of cellular DNA per dose of vaccine" and "nearly 2ug of unmodified mammalian DNA present in each dose of VARIVAX"); https://t.co/WpyUEoJI4b (FDA guidelines: "the level of residual cell-substrate DNA should be ... a median DNA size of 200 bp or lower")
*****https://t.co/wdSsVWhPDv(See Section 6.1 of the package insert for Varivax); https://t.co/ztw0s85IMB (Merck study explaining the “placebo” was in fact an injection of neomycin); https://t.co/2cxrXq1zYQ (clinical trial reports for Varivax)

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

When my last child was born, on the first day of her life we were told that she needed a HepB vaccine. It was not presented as a choice and I foolishly did nothing to stop the nurse. My older three daughters did not receive the vaccine at birth.

Those that question the growing, now 72-shot regimen for children are considered by some to be wackos and anti-vaxxers.

I think the skepticism is appropriate and prudent as we are obligated as parents to make sure that we are not causing harm to our children who are not capable of providing informed consent.

Our society needs to complete a careful review of vaccine protocols including the risks associated with the cumulative effect of all of the vaccines we are giving children.

We have been working for more than a year to find a credible and independent group to do such an investigation but so far have not been able to do so. If you can help us do this important work, please contact us at [email protected].

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

All who deceived, lied, betrayed, & blackmailed the American people during COVID should be held accountable to the fullest extent.

Every AG in the country should follow his lead.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

DR. PETER MCCULLOUGH: “Autism was one in 10,000 when I was a kid. It’s now one in 36.”

The rise in autism “appears to be associated with the expanding childhood vaccine schedule,” Dr. McCullough explained.

In the 1960s, kids got three shots. “Now, a child today faces 108 shots.”

“At one of the visits between age one and two, there’s 13 shots administered altogether in children. And it’s been well demonstrated that if a child gets sick with a big round of shots, and they have a seizure, there’s about a 40% chance that the brain is injured, and they develop autism.”

@P_McCulloughMD

[Jay Bhattacharya @DrJBhattacharya]

In October 2020, Francis Collins labeled me, Harvard prof. @MartinKulldorff, and Oxford prof. @SunetraGupta "fringe epidemiologists" for opposing lockdowns and school closures. He embraced and recommended "social distancing" on the basis of nothing.