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In January, I had the lovely experience of being able to go to DC for the inauguration and attend the MAHA Ball.

The next day I went to lunch with some of my long time very close activist friends who had attended as well. A member of the Capital Hill Club, long time GOP haunt where Republicans meet to mingle, schmooze, and lobby, invited us to lunch at the membership only establishment.

I was about 10 steps behind my friends on the busy sidewalk when two well dressed Washingtonian looking young men passed me leaving the club. As they approached me one turned to the other and said, "Fuck Bobby. I'll go over his head to Suzie Wiles."

"Do you support RFKjr banning Pediatricians from getting kickbacks for vaccines?"

Newly appointed FDA Commissioner Dr. Vinay Prasad issued a class-wide safety label update for all Covid mRNA injections.

The federal agency is finally admitting to the elevated risk of myocarditis and related cardiac injury among those who received the shots.

This is what the industry press is saying about Prasad’s sudden and unexpected departure - they are claiming it’s Laura Loomer’s purity tests and enforcement of Trump love that is responsible. Plus the FDA attempting to enforce pharmaceutical law in case of Sarepta gene therapy that killed multiple patients. That’s a big no-no!

Yesterday, Secretary Kennedy announced that HHS and CMS Director Mehmet Oz repealed a long-standing Medicare reimbursement policy that financially incentivized hospitals to push covid shots. My take: I guess some people don’t like secret bribes for doctors to jam EUA drugs with no long-term safety data down patients’ throats. Weird. Something about “informed consent.” Dunno.

Thanks to the leadership of @DrOzCMS, we’ve just repealed a dangerous Biden-era provision in the CMS inpatient payment rule that pressured hospitals to mandate COVID-19 shots for doctors and nurses. This rule tied public reporting of staff vaccination rates to federal incentives—turning hospitals into enforcers instead of caregivers. It was a backdoor mandate, pure and simple—and it had no place in a system that should protect informed consent.

Patients must be free to trust their doctors—without government coercion, hidden pressures, or rigged incentives distorting their care.

At @HHSGov, we’re cutting out every last one of these corrupt incentives. We’re putting the patient—not Pharma or Washington—back at the center of healthcare.

“We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate.”

But this does nothing to stop the dangerous and defective mRNA vaxxing which is still going on, or to bring the perpetrators to justice.

A half billion here, a half billion there, and pretty soon it adds up to real money. This morning, the New York Times led with a headline to keep medical fetishists up at night: “RFK Jr. Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts.” And that’s on top of the $600 million in bird flu ‘vaccines’ that Kennedy canceled back in May.

Now, they could still privately fund these projects an reap the rewards themselves but, well, you know. For the liberal-minded, the only thing worse than no life-saving vaccine is a life-saving vaccine with a co-pay. “This is a bad day for science,” grumbled mRNA developer Scott Hensley. It was also a bad day for his investment account, since the free government money just dried up. Now he must convince private investors. Who want results.

A “bad day for science” means it was a great day for human beings.

I don’t know who needs to hear this. But Moderna, for just one example, is a publicly traded company with billions in market cap, a war chest of covid windfall cash, and obligations to shareholders. If its pipeline of mRNA products is so promising, why should taxpayers fund the research?

Anyway, in its release, HHS said the $500 million in contract cancellations covered twenty-two different projects, all managed by BARDA, the government’s hybrid health-military-espionage biomedical skunkworks, a mutant love baby between DARPA and anthrax vaccines. After being cloned from DARPA in 2006, BARDA has spent money like a tipsy Ukrainian oligarch’s wife, with free license to invest in unsupervised “lone-bidder” contracts and unaccountable, high-risk “moonshot” projects.

Like what kind of projects, you ask? Haha, never mind, silly, because BARDA awards are often classified or redacted. Don’t get mad. It’s for your own good. (All of it is ironically hilarious, because the only people who don’t know what’s going on are the people who paying the tab. Everyone else —scientists, military, congresspeople, and every spook in the world— know exactly what’s happening. You can’t hide a large-scale science operation from them. Please.)

Since 2006, BARDA’s tangible accomplishments can only be measured by billions spent. Its only visible achievement is a “national stockpile” of slowly expiring vaccines for pandemics that never happened and untested miracle drugs nobody is taking.

If it sounds like a black-site, off-books funding operation for big pharma, well, you can decide for yourself.

Either way, BARDA officials swank their dark checkbooks around and have become quite popular in some places. For instance, they get invited to all the after-hours parties at pharma conventions. Wink, wink. You get what I’m saying, homie?

We saw last month in a leaked pharma memo that the jab industry is terrified of RFK, and repeatedly emphasized its new PR plan to lean into national security and fear. So, guess what the Times’ compliant pet experts said?

“Ending BARDA’s investment in mRNA technology creates a national security vulnerability,” said Chris Meekins, some kind of former pandemic official. Good doggie! He wasn’t done. He explained himself, sort of: “These tools serve as a deterrent to prevent other nations from using certain biological agents,” Meekins tweeted.

What nations? Which “certain” biological agents? Um, were those nations and certain biological agents funded by U.S. grants, too? Are we paying for both sides?? The diseases AND the cures? Like we did in, oh, dammit, what’s that city called again, Wu-something? The bat place?

(As far as I can tell, the Times found Meekins’ quote by randomly searching Twitter; Meekins’ puny tweet had only 139 views, two likes, and no replies. That, evidently, constitutes hard-breaking news nowadays.) ...

Tl;dr: Kenney wiped out $500 million in sketchy mRNA skunkworks projects and the Times predicted doom. The end.

But BARDA is allowing Arcturus Therapeutics’ bird flu shot to continue—despite using self-replicating mRNA

ARCT-2304 is backed by Bill Gates, funded by BARDA, and fast-tracked by Trump’s FDA

FDA approved the Gates-funded bird flu vaccine in November 2024, with no long-term safety data

April 2025: Arcturus vaccine receives fast track designation

May 2025: Trump admin launches $500M “Generation Gold Standard” project for government-owned bird flu + coronavirus vaccines

BARDA admits mRNA tech increases viral mutation and may prolong pandemics—yet still backs a bird flu mRNA shot

Arcturus’ jab is the only known vaccine being allowed to continue under HHS’s new policy

Gates has publicly said vaccines can be used to reduce global population by 10–15%

The stage is set for the next manmade pandemic—and the virus of choice is bird flu.

Top Vaccine Regulator Returns to FDA Two Weeks After He Was Fired

Dr. Vinay Prasad will lead the FDA’s vaccine and biologics division after resigning amid pressure from critics less than two weeks ago, HHS confirmed. ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Prasad publicly opposed masking toddlers and voiced concerns about myocarditis risks for young men who received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

While at the FDA, he and Makary limited approvals for updated COVID-19 vaccines to people over age 65 and people with one or more health conditions that put them at high risk for the virus.

However, Prasad and Makary’s framework, which they outlined in an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, did not completely take COVID-19 shots off the table for healthy people between the ages of 6 months and 64 years.

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is refusing to leave her post, despite demands from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that she quit or be fired, according to her lawyers and an administration official familiar with the events. ...

Late Wednesday afternoon, the Department of Health and Human Services announced on X that Dr. Monarez was “no longer” director of the C.D.C.’ ...

‘Dr. Monarez and Mr. Kennedy were at odds over vaccine policy, according to an administration official who is familiar with the events.’

‘The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said Mr. Kennedy summoned Dr. Monarez to his office on Monday and demanded that she resign. When she refused, Mr. Kennedy demanded that she remove the agency’s top leadership by the end of the week.’

Dr. Monarez then called Senator Bill Cassidy, the Republican chairman of the Senate health committee, who in turn called Mr. Kennedy, according to the official. Mr. Kennedy, furious, summoned Dr. Monarez to a second meeting on Tuesday and accused her of “being a leaker,” according to the official, and told her she would be fired.’

The official said Dr. Monarez spoke to other senators as well. On Wednesday, a White House official told Dr. Monarez that if she did not resign by the end of the day, President Trump would terminate her.

The four high-ranking agency officials who did resign are Dr. Debra Houry, the C.D.C.’s chief medical officer; Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the center that issues vaccine recommendations; Dr. Daniel Jernigan, who oversaw the center that oversees vaccine safety; and Dr. Jennifer Layden, head of the office of public health data.

So sad that we will be losing the credible and highly professional Dr. Daskalakis too:

Nobody in MAHA much liked former CDC Director Susan Monarez, who never met a mask or vaccine she didn’t love. Though the facts of her appointment a month ago remain mysterious, the most likely theory is that, since Secretary Kennedy made various promises to Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) to support his confirmation, Cassidy successfully demanded Monarez after Kennedy’s first choice for CDC Director fell through.

Either way, yesterday the White House finally fired her. Media reports suggested she was protecting a cascade of cartoon-like career CDC employees, such as “Monkeypox Czar” Demetre Daskalakis, pictured above. Daskalakis, who employees praised as being a “hands-on” manager, also resigned yesterday, presumably preempting his own termination. You can’t fire me, I quit!

Of course, Demetre also posted a whiny and self-pitying “resignation tweet” that both managed to include the phrase “pregnant persons” and also ended, predictably, with his pronouns. Case closed.

Unlike Demetre, but like mortgage fraud and Fed Governor Lisa Cook, CDC Director Monarez is currently refusing to quit. According to the article, her attorney insisted, “Monarez never intended to resign, never told anyone that she intended to do so, and legally remains in the position because President Donald Trump did not personally fire her.”

Well, Trump just needs to say the word.

"I think this is bullshit from Kennedy. Did anything really change?"

In related news, after Secretary Kennedy ended the jabs’ EUAs yesterday, CVS canceled covid vaccine appointments in 16 states (including Florida, New York, and DC). Those are states where pharmacies may not legally give unscheduled vaccines without a prescription.

CVS and Walgreens Clamp Down on Covid Vaccines in Many States
Because a C.D.C. panel has not yet recommended the shots, the country’s largest pharmacy chains are requiring prescriptions or holding back altogether under some state laws.

Yesterday, Axios ran a story headlined, “What to know about Jim O'Neill, new acting CDC director.” The leftwing paper warned, “O'Neill, who is not a physician, is an ally of Health Secretary Kennedy and could help him enact the Make America Health Again agenda.” Not that!

“O'Neill publicly criticized the CDC during the COVID pandemic,” Axios added, “and has pushed treatments that are not supported by scientific research, like ivermectin.”

As did most corporate media, Axios sneered at Mr. Kennedy’s transgression of the CDC’s “traditional institutional independence.” But the CDC has no legal “independence” like the Fed or the judiciary does. So the complaints are just more whining about “norms and customs.”

During the pandemic, the CDC traded away its carefully cultivated aura of scientific neutrality in exchange for short-term political utility, carrying water for mandates, school closures, and shifting narratives. That credibility capital was burned like dry tinder, on purpose, to achieve short-term political objectives.

Now they don’t want to pay the bill.

That’s why RFK can install someone like Mr. O’Neill, who is not a doctor, and is openly critical of the agency’s pandemic conduct. The CDC has lost whatever reserve of public trust that could have successfully insulated it. It can no longer plead that it’s “above politics”— after having played politics.

The CDC’s director is appointed by the President, but until this year, did not require Senate confirmation (unlike, e.g., the FBI director or Attorney General). In fact, when Biden appointed goofy Rochelle Walensky during covid, she just took the job without any Senate vote.

But in January, a new law (passed by Biden) required all future CDC nominees to be confirmed. Undoubtedly, this was done to frustrate President Trump, helped by Republicans furious about Biden’s CDC directors. Susan Monarez was the first who required confirmation.

Under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, an acting CDC director can serve for up to 210 days from the date of the vacancy, unless a nomination for a permanent director is submitted to the Senate, which can extend the acting service period while the nomination is pending, or if confirmation is attempted but fails. So O’Neill could be sticking around for a while, which is why progressive medical fetishists are freaking out.

One possibility for a permanent CDC Director making the gossip rounds this week is standout Florida Surgeon General Joe Ladapo, who’s packed to the gills with both Ivy League credentials and MAHA bona fides. While serving here, he’s beaten back mandates, nixed flouride, withered covid shots, assaulted mercury fillings, and advocated for raw milk.

Governor DeSantis lobbied hard for Dr. Ladapo after Trump’s election, but Kennedy was politically boxed into hiring Susan Monarez instead.

The Guardian carried what was perhaps yesterday’s best news. The article ran below the headline, “RFK Jr critic Paul Offit removed from FDA vaccine advisory committee.” Bye, Felicia!

Grandfatherly Paul Offit isn’t the disinterested scientist that corporate media suggests. He’s the consummate insider. He co-invented the rotavirus vaccine Rotateq, cashing out for tens of millions in royalties, which makes him less of an objective adviser and more of a salesman in a lab coat.

While sitting on the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee, he helped guide policies that benefited the very industry from which he profited, a glaring conflict of interest. Offit has also become the media’s favorite go-to “expert,” quick to dismiss parental concerns about safety as “anti-science” while tossing off cavalier soundbites like “children could handle 10,000 vaccines at once.”

During the pandemic, mild-mannered Offit emerged as one of the loudest defenders of the vaccine establishment, becoming a permanent fixture on CNN, NPR, and in the pages of the New York Times. As a member of the FDA’s vaccine committee, he routinely backed emergency authorizations and aggressive rollout strategies, occasionally voicing pro-forma technical concerns, but always ultimately voting in favor of mass vaccination.

Throughout the pandemic, he positioned himself as a bulwark against asking questions, castigating even mild hesitation as dangerous. He became the human face of the “public health priesthood”: a so-called scientist with deep pharma ties, regulatory influence, and a media megaphone, pushing mandates while dismissing the lived concerns of ordinary Americans.

Now, without warning, Offit is off of it (the FDA’s vaccine panel). He said he wasn’t given a reason. Notably, the only person the Guardian quoted for its stupid, biased story (besides Offit himself) was dumpy, bow-tied wonder Peter Hotez, who has also made a fortune in vaccine sales. No other committee members, HHS staff, or anti-vaxxers had a chance to speak. So much for balance.

RFK JR is giving an absolute BEATDOWN to Democrat Senators right now

RFK JR: "Are you saying the mRNA vaccines have never been associated with myocarditis and pericarditis?"

BENNET: *rants*

RFK JR: "Is that what you're trying to tell us? You're evading the question!"

"[Americans] deserve the TRUTH. And that's what we're going to give them for the first time in the history of this agency."

RFK Jr. just walked into Congress and took down his biggest critics in one fell swoop.

This was a masterclass.

Elizabeth Warren erupted over Kennedy “taking” COVID vaccines away—only to have her $855,000 in pharma bucks exposed.

That’s when Bernie Sanders made a fatal error:

He blurted out that nearly EVERY POLITICIAN is taking Pharma dollars — as if that somehow excused Warren, himself, and his colleagues.

This is one of those head-scratching moments that leave you wondering… did he really just say that?

Before CNN starts spinning this hearing, watch all these clips they don’t want you to see.

For the past week, Democrats have been mounting pressure to get RFK Jr. to resign. They hoped this hearing would be their chance to make it happen — but things didn’t go as planned.

Right out of the gate, Kennedy announced that the CDC will be cleaning house– removing the health officials responsible for the catastrophic COVID failures.

“The people at CDC... who put masks on our children, who closed our schools, are the people who WILL BE LEAVING.”

Kennedy’s superweapon is transparency. All he needs to do is open the books. Two days ago, MedCity News ran a story (ignored by most corporate media) headlined, “Embracing Transparency, FDA Will Make All Future Drug Rejection Letters Public.” FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced yesterday that the FDA will now publish drug-rejection decision letters “in real time”...

Keeping them secret was a handshake deal between FDA and drugmakers, who really don’t want the public to learn of any problems with their drugs or approval studies.

HHS Will Link Autism to Tylenol Use During Pregnancy, Wall Street Journal Reports

Acetaminophen, the ingredient found in hundreds of prescription and over-the-counter medicines — including Tylenol products — is routinely recommended for fever reduction and the relief of mild to moderate pain. Pregnant women commonly take it.

The drug has long been linked to liver toxicity, and several studies over the last decade — including one published last month by researchers at Harvard Medical School — have found that children exposed to the drug during pregnancy may be more likely to develop neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or ADHD.

Shares of Tylenol, made by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a division of Kenvue, declined nearly 11% Friday after the WSJ published its report.