Paul D. Thacker

Journalist; Former Investigator U.S. Senate; Former Safra Ethics Center, Harvard.

[Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd]

It's gonna get wild.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets …

[Isaac Schorr @isaac_schorr]

Bari Weiss keeps urging her colleagues to do journalism and they, in turn, keep running to their peers to cry about it.

My column in today's @nypost
https://t.co/4X26eCuazO

[Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd]

Investigating Democrat's pervasive corruption is not revenge.

[Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait]

Investigating Trump's pervasive corruption is not lawfare https://t.co/rFhXdVIpKw

[Paul Sperry @paulsperry_]

NEW: Ten months after the FDA determined several children likely died from mRNA COVID vaccines, the agency hasn't warned parents, as Big Pharma blocks the findings
https://t.co/SsdZRLubQh

[Kim Witczak 💜 @woodymatters]

Imagine that …FDA officials withholding critical COVID vaccine safety information? The public deserves a full, independent investigation and bipartisan congressional oversight.

We’ve seen this game before.

In 2004, FDA safety officer Dr. Andrew Mosholder was prevented from presenting findings of a nearly doubled risk of suicidality in children taking antidepressants. Senior FDA officials prevented him from presenting findings at FDA hearing on this topic. That controversy helped trigger major BIPARTISAN congressional investigations into FDA leadership and Big Pharma.

You cannot demand public trust while withholding critical safety information from the very people you’re supposed to protect.

We need the same congressional scrutiny today, along with journalism willing to ask difficult questions. We don’t need media protecting a one sided narrative. What happened to the @nytimes?

Drug safety isn’t red or blue. It’s about people, transparency, and accountability.

@React19org

[Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd]

@RogerJStoneJr @Thiss_Youu

[Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd]

While I agree that @BrendanCarrFCC should enforce regulations, I think he needs to embrace our current reality that many of these media outlets just suck and can't do basic journalism.

I don't know if being incompetent and selling a crappy news product is a crime.

[Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC]

During this election season, there has been a significant surge in entirely Fake Polls and Suppression Polls designed to do nothing more than interfere with the regular functioning of the electoral process and alter the normal patterns of voter turnout and enthusiasm.

Many journalists and broadcasters have been amplifying or airing these Polls without regard to basic journalistic ethics and without informing the public that those Polls lack a scientific, accurate, or even real basis.

The FCC takes these issues seriously. Broadcasters are prohibited by the terms of their federal licenses from engaging in News Distortion or promoting Broadcast Hoaxes. It is important that broadcasters comply with their public interest obligations. After all, the country benefits greatly when Americans can trust and rely on the media to report the news fairly and accurately.

Broadcasters are advised to avoid engaging in News Distortions or running Broadcast Hoaxes by airing Polls that would violate their regulatory obligations. If broadcasters believe they should provide their viewers with additional context and information about Polls they have covered, they can now take those actions consistent with FCC regulations.

[Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd]

For a lot of various reasons, there was never going to be a massive outbreak. I didn't realise that Annie Jacobsen was hyping that.

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

And there it is

Hope you sold a few copies, @AnnieJacobsen, hope you enjoyed frightening a lot of people who think a Pulitzer Prize means something and your book was nonfiction and not a poorly written novel

[Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd]

Kara Swisher is absolute trash.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

On the Bulwak podcast, Kara Swisher says Elon might already be in jail under Kamala Harris, and "he knows what's coming for him."

Another one to put in the "what Democrats plan to do if they take power" file:

"If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, I would worry. I'd be worried if I were him."

"So they're going to start investigating again. You think he's not on the list? He's at the top of that list."

"He has a very big sense of fate. And I think it's coming for him. And real hard."

They're all just saying this stuff out loud now. There are no secrets about what they want to do.

[Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd]

"According to security officials" is doing a hell of a lot of work here.

[Financial Times @FT]

According to security officials, pro-Russian and far-right social media accounts linked to previous disinformation campaigns have spread violent videos in an attempt to sow more chaos https://t.co/do9goC9A2l

[Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd]

That tasteless ad he ran has had its effect.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Vivek Ramaswamy crashes to new all-time low in the odds to win Ohio's governor race.

30% chance.

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

The @FDA knew early on Covid shots were killing kids, but rather than start warning parents of possible adverse events, they bowed to political pressure & hid the data. The exact opposite thing these agencies are supposedly meant to do.

Great investigative reporting from my friend @thackerpd https://t.co/pDQQwGviUO

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Not a single word has appeared in a UK newspaper about this British spy team since the New York Times exposed it in June 2024

We don’t even know if they’re still in Israel

UK military and intelligence agencies were participants in the Gaza genocide from the beginning

[Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd]

This has been the same story for almost a decade now.

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (@AACAP) has, once again, shut down efforts to organize scientific discussion and debate among its members about the evidence for pediatric medical transition.

Drs. Kris Kaliebe and Kurt Miceli write in @WSJFreeEx

[Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd]

@tomselliott @FDA Thanks, Tom!

[J. Peder Zane @JPederZane]

Paul D. Thacker reports for RCI that 10 months after the FDA determined that seven adolescents had likely died from mRNA COVID vaccines the agency hasn't warned parents, as a strange-bedfellows mix of political, pharma and media interests appears to have blocked the findings. https://t.co/im8U47nTdU

[Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd]

🎯

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay has called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stand trial for genocide in Gaza. https://t.co/0b3ECHFEgo

[Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd]

Remember this?

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

Fox News: @WedgewoodPolls, which consistently showed Democrats outperforming, often in places where that would have been a surprise, admits to being completely fake.

Their numbers had been cited by the NYT, MSNBC, & other progressive media.

"Our fabricated numbers were given instant credibility across national media platforms," Wedgewood said, "including being cited on air and in reporting."

[Greg Piper @gregpiper]

Operation Warp Speed continues to blind Trump. He can't admit the harm it caused. "President Trump believes his efforts saved millions of lives, and several current and former health officials told RCI they are loath to complicate that narrative."
https://t.co/HVXB0xbcCr