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Theordore DeBlasio was awarded $670,000 in his lawsuit against New Jersey’s Essex County. He sued the county after he was fired for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine. He applied for a religious exemption, but the county refused his appeal. While he was being denied a religious exemption, Muslims in the county were not.

Another Incredible Win Against the Covid Tyrants: New Jersey Jury Delivers Unanimous 8–0 Verdict for Christian Groundskeeper Fired Over a Religious Exemption — Awarded $671,000– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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A New Jersey jury just delivered a message that the Democrat machine in Essex County did not want to hear.

On Friday, an Essex County jury returned a unanimous 8–0 verdict for Theodore “Teddy” DeBlasio, a longtime groundskeeper at Essex County Hospital Center who was fired after the county denied his religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The panel awarded him more than $670,000 for economic and emotional harm. Attorneys’ fees are still to come. Punitive damages are next.

Attorney John D. Coyle of Coyle Law Group called it New Jersey’s first jury verdict in a COVID-19 religious exemption case.

DeBlasio, raised Catholic and now a Christian, objected to taking a shot tested or developed using aborted fetal cell lines. That is a sincerely held religious belief millions of Americans share. Essex County treated it like a punchline.

According to trial evidence cited by Coyle Law Group, in February 2022 the county denied every religious exemption request submitted by Christian and Catholic employees, and approved every request submitted by Muslim employees.

Period Flu May Be The Reason You Feel Horrendous Before Your Time Of The Month– www.glamourmagazine.co.uk
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Hormonal fluctuations during the cycle:

Before your period, oestrogen and progesterone levels drop sharply. These hormones influence many processes in the body—including your well-being.

The immune system weakens:

Prof. Dr. Mangler explains: “The immune system is less active during the second half of the cycle.” This means you’re more susceptible to illness—or at least feel that way.

Prostaglandins (important signaling molecules):

Prostaglandins are hormone-like chemicals that affect bodily functions like inflammation and pain, they also prompt the uterus to contract to help dislodge your uterine lining (and trigger your period). That process can cause some unpleasant symptoms, like diarrhoea, nausea, cramps, and vomiting. The sorts of things you might mistake for being full-on sick.

Serotonin levels drop:

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that affects your mood. When levels drop, you’re more likely to feel exhausted, irritable, or sick.

Histamine and allergy-like reactions:

Your cycle also affects histamine levels. This can trigger symptoms such as sneezing, a stuffy nose, and skin reactions. This explains why some PMS symptoms feel like a cold.

OH GREAT: Los Angeles is Now Reporting an Outbreak of TYPHUS (VIDEO) * The Gateway Pundit * by Mike LaChance– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Screencap of Twitter/X video.

The city of Los Angeles is now reporting an outbreak of the disease Typhus. It is connected to fleas on rats which are flourishing in the city’s numerous homeless encampments.

California has the highest tax rate in the country. Why? What do people get for paying such high taxes? They get preventable diseases because their leaders are worthless.

There’s really no excuse for this at all.

NBC News in Los Angeles reports:

Flea-borne typhus rising in LA County with latest case reported in Wilshire Center

Typhus, a flea-borne bacterial disease, is on the rise in Los Angeles County, with the latest localized case reported in the Wilshire Center neighborhood, public health officials said Tuesday.

The disease is spread to humans by infected fleas that commonly live on rats, opossums, stray cats and other animals. Common symptoms include headaches, chills, muscle aches and rash.

The Wilshire Center case is the second localized typhus outbreak this year, according to the LA County Department of Public Health.

There were at least seven symptomatic cases linked to the outbreak, health officials said. Six of the seven patients had to be hospitalized at one point. All have recovered, the department said.

So far this year, 109 flea-borne typhus cases have been reported in Los Angeles County.

Congo running short of health workers as Ebola outbreak spreads, WHO says – National– globalnews.ca
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Congo is running short of health workers to staff treatment centres for history’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak, particularly in the eastern province of North Kivu where cases have surged 73 per cent over three weeks, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

The warning came despite signs of improvement in other provinces, including Ituri, the outbreak’s epicenter. The outbreak has spread to seven provinces, with 7,773 confirmed cases and 3,759 deaths, according to the latest government figures.

Between Aug. 31 and Sept. 20, cases fell 26 per cent in Ituri province and 15 per cent in Haut-Uele, said Marie Roseline Belizaire, the WHO’s regional emergency director for Africa. But transmission patterns vary widely and the outbreak remains uncontrolled, she said.

Vice President JD Vance announced 750,000 fraudulent Obamacare accounts have been removed from the rolls, saving taxpayers $2.2 billion yearly. “We’re actually making sure that the people receiving Obamacare subsidies are actually entitled to receive them,” Vance declared.

Trump Administration Cancels 760,000 Obamacare Enrollments in Fraud Crackdown › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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The Trump administration is canceling Affordable Care Act enrollments covering more than 760,000 people as part of a sweeping effort to combat fraud and improper taxpayer-funded subsidies.

Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that approximately 315,000 enrollments covering more than 760,000 individuals were canceled after officials determined they were unauthorized. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates the action will return roughly $2.2 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies.

“We’re actually making sure that the people receiving Obamacare subsidies are actually entitled to receive them,” Vance said.

The administration also plans additional eligibility verification for hundreds of thousands of other enrollments and has imposed a six-month suspension on new agents and brokers signing people up for coverage.

The crackdown follows evidence that vulnerabilities exist in the ACA marketplace. A Government Accountability Office investigation using fictitious applicants found the federal marketplace approved subsidized coverage for nearly all of its fake applicants during testing for the 2024 and 2025 plan years. GAO cautioned that its undercover testing was illustrative and could not be generalized to the entire ACA enrollment population.

Breaking: Vance’s Task Force Purges 760,000 Names from Obamacare Rolls After Uncovering Rampant Fraud– www.westernjournal.com
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The biggest surgery in the history of Obamacare is about to amputate more than $2 billion in fraud.

The White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, led by Vice President J.D. Vance, is cutting 760,000 individual accounts that are on the Affordable Care Act’s books,  administration officials said, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Vance and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, estimate canceling those accounts will save taxpayers $2.2 billion.

During the Biden administration, Obamacare enrollment increased from about 10 million people to more than 22 million.

Should Obamacare be ended?

A Department of Health and Human Services report issued this year estimated that nearly half of new Obamacare enrollments during Biden’s time in office were fraudulent.

CMS estimates that more than a million people never provided the required Social Security number when they enrolled.

Scientists grew algae on the ISS for 40 generations; spaceflight produced about 50% more DNA changes than on Earth |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Scientists have grown microscopic algae aboard the International Space Station to investigate how spaceflight affects their genetic stability. Space Algae-1 grew ultraviolet light-mutagenised Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in the ISS VEGGIE plant growth chamber for approximately 40 mitotic generations over one month. Whole-genome sequencing of pooled cell samples collected every 10 generations found that the spaceflight cultures had an approximately 50% increase in DNA polymorphisms compared with ground controls. According to Nasa, a novel base substitution signature among the mutations. The findings are part of research into whether microalgae could support biological life-support systems during long-duration and deep-space missions.

Why did algae grown on the ISS show about 50% more DNA changes

Whole-genome sequencing was carried out on pooled cell samples collected every 10 generations. The sequencing showed that the cultures grown in spaceflight had an approximately 50% increase in DNA polymorphisms compared with ground controls. The results therefore identified a difference in the genomic changes observed between the cultures grown aboard the ISS and those maintained in ground-based controls.The mutations identified in the spaceflight cultures also had what Nasa describes as a “novel base substitution signature”. According to the agency, suggested a risk that microalgae may be unstable for long-term production in space. The Space Algae research is therefore examining genomic stability in organisms that could have applications in biological life-support systems during space missions.

CIA Accused Of Using 23andMe And Ancestry To Hunt For ‘Alien’ DNA Bloodlines– wltreport.com
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A newly resurfaced report is making an extraordinary allegation about the CIA, consumer DNA databases and the search for bloodlines that may not be entirely human.

The claim is not that intelligence officials are merely studying family trees.

It is that the agency allegedly has a backdoor into services such as 23andMe and Ancestry — and is using it to hunt for a rare genetic marker tied to so-called “Nordic” extraterrestrials.

That is a blockbuster accusation. It is also unproven.

The report now drawing fresh attention was first published in May and was pushed back into the spotlight Sunday:

Ceuta Confirms First Monkeypox Case After Summer Border Surge from Morocco– legalinsurrection.com
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The last time we visited Ceuta at Legal Insurrection, thousands of military-age men from Morocco invaded Spain by crossing the border into this bit of Spanish territory.

That was in late July. As we head into the second half of September, conditions certainly have not improved. Now, on top of this de facto invasion, there has been a reported case of monkeypox.

Ceuta has confirmed its first recorded case of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, in a 13-year-old unaccompanied Moroccan boy who entered the Spanish enclave during the mass invasion from Morocco at the end of July.

The Instituto de Salud Carlos III confirmed the infection on Thursday, 17 September, after local health authorities sent samples for testing. According to local reporting, the minor is isolated at the Piniers reception centre, under medical supervision and receiving treatment, while health officials are tracing contacts. A second suspected case involving another minor is reportedly being investigated but has not been confirmed at the time of writing.

The appearance of mpox adds to the enclave’s already raging health crisis since July, when around 80,000 illegal migrants invaded Ceuta from Morocco, with around 10,000 still in the city of 84,000 residents.

INGESA, Spain’s public health authority responsible for the enclave, activated Level 1 of the Hospital Universitario de Ceuta’s External Catastrophe Plan on 31 July. During the first month alone, migrant patients generated 10,725 consultations—an average of 335 per day—and more than 100 additional health workers were hired.

Virtual cells built from 4D AI models and ‘digital twins’ could speed up drug discovery– phys.org
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Mitochondria—tiny structures that convert nutrients into energy—are often depicted as discrete kidney bean-shaped objects. But in reality, they form a dynamic, interconnected network throughout the entire cell, rapidly splitting and fusing as they’re transported to where energy is needed most.

Scientists discover a hidden “ID card” in cat urine– www.sciencedaily.com
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Cats rely heavily on scent to learn about one another, often gathering information from urine and other odor marks left behind in their surroundings. These chemical traces can continue communicating long after the animal that produced them has moved on.

That creates a puzzle. Many odor molecules evaporate, break down, or change with time. If a scent is constantly evolving, how can another animal still determine who originally left it?

Researchers from Japan, Germany, and Spain, led by Iwate University, may have found part of the answer in domestic cats. Their experiments point to a group of unusual fatty acids that could serve as a lasting chemical signature in cat urine.

The scientists identified 13 branched-chain fatty acids (BFAs). The particular mixture and proportions of these compounds varied from one cat to another, yet remained relatively consistent within the same animal. Behavioral tests also showed that cats could detect differences between BFA profiles when the researchers controlled for other lipids in the urine.

The findings suggest that BFAs could function as a durable chemical “calling card” that helps preserve information about individual identity. The study will be published in Current Biology.

Ancient DNA reveals how plague kept returning for 400 years after the Black Death– www.sciencedaily.com
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The Black Death is best known for the catastrophic wave of plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1353, killing millions of people. But the disease did not vanish once that initial disaster passed. Plague returned again and again for more than four centuries, repeatedly disrupting cities, economies, and societies across Europe and surrounding regions.

A study led by researchers at the University of Tartu is now offering a much more detailed look at what happened during those centuries. By analyzing DNA from the plague bacterium preserved in archaeological human remains, scientists were able to reconstruct how the disease spread, evolved, and repeatedly reappeared long after the Black Death.

Ancient DNA Reveals Centuries of Plague

The team reconstructed 26 genomes of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, from human remains recovered at 11 archaeological sites in Estonia, Russia, England, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The samples date from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, covering a large portion of the period known as the Second Plague Pandemic.

The genetic evidence suggests that plague did not simply survive in one place and repeatedly spread outward from a single source. Instead, the disease appears to have resurfaced in different parts of Europe over hundreds of years, potentially creating several new reservoirs where the bacterium could persist.

Adults With Severe Mental Illness die 15 to 20 Years Earlier From Diseases Such as Cancer– www.madinamerica.com
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From The Guardian. “Adults with severe mental illness are nearly five times more likely than their peers to die from serious physical diseases before the age of 75, according to research.

The analysis of NHS data by the Rethink Mental Illness charity reveals that people with severe mental health problems die 15-20 years earlier than the wider adult population, largely due to preventable physical conditions.

The findings come before the government’s independent review of mental health, autism and ADHD, which is expected to be published this week and recommend a more holistic approach to supporting patients with these conditions.”

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Fourth Person Dies In Florida From Flesh-Eating Bacteria Linked To Raw Oysters– wltreport.com
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This is concerning if you like oysters.

The Florida Department of Health has revealed four people have died after eating raw oysters.

According to health officials the four people who died ate raw oysters that were contaminated with Vibrio vulnificus.

Yahoo News had the full scoop and shared details on how oysters can be contaminated with Vibrio vulnificus

A fourth person has died in Florida this year from an infection caused by Vibrio vulnificus, a potentially deadly bacterium commonly associated with eating raw or undercooked shellfish, particularly oysters.

The latest fatality was a Broward County resident between 75 and 79 years old, according to Florida Department of Health data last updated September 10. The state has recorded 21 Vibrio vulnificus infections in 2026, including previous fatalities in Bay, Palm Beach and Marion counties.

It remains unclear how the latest victim contracted the infection. However, most people develop vibriosis after eating raw or undercooked shellfish, particularly oysters, according to the Florida Department of Health.

Vibrio vulnificus occurs naturally in warm coastal and brackish waters. People can also become infected when an open wound comes into contact with contaminated water. The bacteria can enter the body through cuts, scrapes or other breaks in the skin, putting swimmers, boaters and people who work around coastal water at risk, particularly if they have an open wound. Recent tattoos or piercings can also provide an entry point for the bacteria, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Vibrio is more prevalent in warmer water, which is one reason infections tend to increase during the warmer months.

Oysters can pose a particular risk because they filter large amounts of seawater as they feed, allowing bacteria such as Vibrio to accumulate inside the shellfish. A contaminated oyster can look, smell and taste normal, meaning consumers cannot tell whether one contains the bacteria.

Cooking oysters thoroughly can kill the bacteria. Health officials also advise people at higher risk of severe Vibrio infection to avoid raw or undercooked shellfish.

Data Center Boom Could Supercharge Blackouts Nationwide By 2030, Pennsylvania Regulators Warn– dailycaller.com
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America’s AI gold rush could soon drive the nation’s largest power grid to blackouts.

Pennsylvania regulators warn that power-hungry facilities are arriving faster than new generation. Pennsylvania could experience as many as 13 loss-of-load events per year by 2030 if more data centers connect than currently anticipated and no new plants come online, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PAPUC) Chairman Stephen DeFrank warned.

DeFrank’s statements are based on a recent PAPUC analysis assessing electricity within the state.

“Pennsylvania is at an energy crossroads,” DeFrank said in a press release. “Data center development brings significant opportunities, but that growth cannot come at the expense of the families and businesses that already depend on reliable and affordable electric service.”

The PAPUC-commissioned analysis found that data centers are a major driver of the tightening power supply across PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest regional transmission organization. Electricity demand is rising as older power plants shut down and new generation struggles to come online quickly enough, according to the report, which was prepared by Synapse Energy Economics and other consultants.

The analysis modeled several possible futures for the grid. Under its baseline scenario, which uses PJM’s 2026 electricity demand forecast, the grid could experience the equivalent of about 5.9 instances every 10 years in which electricity supply falls short of demand by 2030, according to the report. Researchers said the increase was mainly driven by the large amount of new electricity demand expected from data centers.

Dutch Officials Claim Euthanasia of Toddler Was “Handled Well”– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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To call euthanasia a slippery slope would be an understatement.

Euthanasia typically goes a little something like this. First, the powers that be claim it will solely be used for the terminally ill who are moments away from dying, but the patient is in unbearable pain. This then moves to patients with illnesses with no known cures. The bureaucracy then moves on to the mentally ill. And in the Netherlands, officials have gone so far down the slippery slope they are now applauding the first state-sanctioned killing of a TODDLER. YES. LET THAT SINK IN. And no, the young child was not terminally ill, according to reports.

According to Decision Magazine:

A Dutch review committee has determined that the decision to euthanize a nearly 2-year-old toddler with severe disabilities was “handled well”—while multiple Dutch doctors involved in the case opposed the decision, arguing the child could have improved under different medication.

To call this evil would not even begin to describe it.

The toddler, whose gender has not been disclosed, was the first child to be killed under an expanded euthanasia law in the Netherlands that extended the age limit of euthanasia to include children aged 1 to 12, if their parents agree.

Gay Dad’s Gross Diary Illuminates Dysfunctions Of Buying Babies– thefederalist.com
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New York Magazine recently published the sex diary of a 42-year-old gay dad living outside Boston. He and his “husband,” Gavin, have an infant daughter, Sophie, who was presumably born through paid surrogacy.

At 10 a.m., Dad opens Sniffies, a location-based app used primarily by men seeking anonymous sex.

Over the next seven days, he propositions a married man who initially refuses to show his face. He has sex with that stranger on his infant daughter’s leaf-shaped play mat while her stuffed giraffe knocks against his head. He sends Gavin a photo of himself in a jockstrap, hoping he will leave work early. He ends the week having sex with a police officer at a party up against a washing machine.

One infant. Two gay men. No mother. Welcome to the post-Obergefell family.

From the adult’s side, the diary is supposed to read as naughty, funny, and liberated. From Sophie’s perspective, this isn’t a cheeky account about sexual liberation. It’s a record of her fundamental biological and developmental needs being subordinated to a sex-crazed man.

Scientists Grow Human Brain Tissue Inside Engineered Mice– www.techexplorist.com
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For years, neuroscientists have faced a paradox: the human brain is the most complicated organ known, yet also the most difficult to study directly. It is almost impossible to access living tissue, and even the most sophisticated lab-grown models cannot replicate the full richness of human neural circuits.

Stanford Medicine researchers have now achieved a breakthrough that extends the limits of neuroscience by successfully transferring human cortical organoids, that is, small groups of brain tissue that are able to self-organize, into mice that have been genetically engineered so as to lack most of their own cortex.

The result is a new type of hybrid animal, the xenocortical mouse, the brain cavity of which contains human neurons that have not only survived but have grown, joined into neural circuits, and even made connections with the mouse’s spinal cord. This achievement marks a new stage in the study of human brain development, disease, and possible therapies.

To their surprise, the mice had an important nerve cell type that researchers hadn’t previously seen in laboratory culture. Researchers have found it only in autopsied human brains.

Japan is now home to more than 100,000 people aged 100 or over – National– globalnews.ca
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The number of people aged 100 years or more in Japan surpassed 100,000 for the first time, according to newly released government figures.

Japan’s Health and Welfare Ministry statistics released Tuesday confirmed the milestone, showing that Japan now has 107,677 centenarians, up 7,914 from the previous year.

Of the people over 100, 13,379 are male and 94,298 are female, meaning women made up about 88 per cent of the total.

The figures were released on Sept. 15, known in Japan as Respect the Aged Day, when centenarians are honoured by the government with a letter from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and a silver sake cup.

On the day Progressive New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to pass euthanasia legislation, a company named Quietus began selling suicide. The company offered this $12,00 deal to New Yorkers through the progressive state press: “Imagine that instead of taking medication to fend off death from a terminal illness, a person could pay to take a concoction that will end their life in minutes — giving them full control of when and where they die. …

“Before their scheduled death, patients get two medical evaluations and a mental health screening, as well as a prescription for the drugs needed, including lethal doses of cardiac medication, that will end their life. The $12,000 cost for the patient covers all of this and help for the grieving family after their passing.”

New York Company Sells Assisted Suicides for $12,000– www.lifenews.com
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Financial websites report a New York company is offering “terminally ill patients ‘a good death’ for just under $12,000.”

Late last year, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced an agreement to enact legislation letting healthcare professionals prescribe lethal drugs via so-called “Medical Aid in Dying.” New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act officially took effect on August 5.

That same day, a new company called Quiĕtus began offering assisted suicide in New York. Moneywise and Yahoo Finance write:

“Imagine that instead of taking medication to fend off death from a terminal illness, a person could pay to take a concoction that will end their life in minutes — giving them full control of when and where they die. …

“Quiĕtus was recently profiled by The New York Times. It’s made up of a group of nine doctors, nurses, psychologists and other clinicians. It has no dedicated office because it visits and treats patients in their home.

“Before their scheduled death, patients get two medical evaluations and a mental health screening, as well as a prescription for the drugs needed, including lethal doses of cardiac medication, that will end their life. The $12,000 cost for the patient covers all of this and help for the grieving family after their passing.”

Massachusetts: School Secretly Transitioned Girl, State Seized Her From Parents – RedState– redstate.com
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It’s an insane state of affairs indeed when a state can step in and yank a teenage girl out of her home, can block the girl’s parents and older brother from seeing or speaking with her, all because the family’s faith precludes them from acknowledging her school-prompted “transgender” status and because they refused to call her a boy.

Now the daughter is a ward of the state of Massachusetts, and the parents are fighting to get her back.

That conversation:

Bill Hemmer (host): A devout Catholic family in Massachusetts are locked a huge legal fight to stop the state from transitioning their teen daughter to a boy without their consent. Lauren Green’s got more on this story, here in New York. What have you found out, Lauren, good morning.

Lauren Green: Hey Bill, you know, Joseph and Arlene Kutzko haven’t spoken to their daughter since the end of 2024, after the Department of Children and Families (DCF) removed her from their home. The family claims it was because of their Catholic faith, that would not allow them to affirm their daughter as a boy. An emotional Joseph Kutzko reading the birthday card his daughter Sophie gave him in October of 2024.

Joseph Kutzko: Without you, I would have nothing. So it’s wholeheartedly, fully, sincerely, I love you with no end.

Evidence Continues to Emerge Linking COVID-19 Shots to Rising Cancer Risks * The Gateway Pundit * by J.M. Phelps– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Image: Wikimedia Commons – Army Spc. Angel Laureano holds a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., Dec. 14, 2020. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)

For the last five years, the War Department has largely overlooked whistleblower warnings about the adverse effects of the COVID-19 shot on military personnel, which include rising cancer rates and even death. This total disregard by the Biden administration has long raised concerns regarding the health and safety of those who serve.

In light of this, Dr. Theresa Long, an Army doctor board-certified in aerospace medicine, has recently been appointed as the senior medical military adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Her role includes examining whether COVID-19 shots contributed to the deaths of more than 2,500 military personnel.

The previous administration may have attempted to conceal the health conditions initially identified in the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), even in the face of a “notable rise in several serious medical diagnoses,” including cancer.

New Mexico is Building Yet Another Tax-payer-Funded Abortion Center– www.lifenews.com
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As construction advances on New Mexico’s first $10 million forced taxpayer-funded abortion killing center in Las Cruces, NM, the New Mexico Alliance for Life (NMAFL) confirms that pro-abortion administrators at the University of New Mexico (UNM), in partnership with state officials, are targeting Las Vegas, NM as the site for the second state-funded abortion killing center.

The information comes directly from Christopher Arndt, M.D., Interim President and CEO of the UNM Health Sciences Center, during a 2026 University of New Mexico Board of Regents meeting earlier this year.

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Discussing the state’s plans for a second facility, Arndt said:

“And we are looking for the best locations to potentially build a like-minded clinic with another $10 million appropriation from a year ago in northern New Mexico. After discussions with the state of New Mexico, it was found that Las Vegas, New Mexico would be the ideal location for that.”

In an effort to find evidence on where the state was planning to build the second state-funded abortion killing center, NMAFL previously submitted several Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) requests. Many of these requests were denied or came up empty, indicating a concerted effort to conceal their plans for as long as possible.

Students who use AI every day may be falling behind, while moderate users pull ahead– www.digitaltrends.com
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I assumed more AI access might help students learn faster. However, a new OECD study dispels that misconception for me and everyone else who gave their children a paid version of AI chatbots, thinking it would help them through their educational journey. 

According to PISA 2025 data from 760,000 students in 91 countries, students who use AI daily score meaningfully worse on standardized tests than their peers. The full picture is more complicated than a simple ban would fix.

So what exactly does the data show?

Daily AI users trail their peers by up to 28 points on science tests. The gap, per the research, is equivalent to roughly a year and a half of schooling. However, don’t rush into believing that less AI use is automatically better. 

Students who use AI once or twice a week outscore both daily users and those who don’t use it at all. Those who’re using it to learn something are apparently performing better than those who use it to finish tasks faster. 

Students regularly asked to critique AI-generated answers in class saw science scores climb 13 points, which is about half a year of additional progress.

Why does heavy use backfire?

OECD’s Andreas Schleicher (via Bloomberg) frames the difference in a simplified manner. AI is most beneficial when it supports some mental effort. That could be learning something new or how to do something, rather than getting it done. 

A staggering 86% of students use AI for schoolwork at least once a year. However, their usage varies wildly by region. For instance, nearly 40% of Japanese students say they rarely touch it versus just 4% in Vietnam. 

Related policy frameworks are catching up fast, too. New York City just banned AI tools for elementary and middle schoolers. MIT says it needs to redesign coursework, especially since AI can complete most undergraduate assignments. 

If you’re a student reading this, using AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to learn new concepts, ask follow-up questions, and use it as a superhuman professor is the right approach. 


By Staff

  1. THE FAUCI DIARY

During the Covid-19 pandemic (or plandemic), our governments put party agenda over human life. Relying on the state for critical healthcare has proven to be an existential challenge to humanity.

Editor Paul Gordon Collier wrote in his August 7, 2026, Deep Dive “How the Smartest Man in the World Almost Killed It,” America chose a messianic General willing to play fast and loose with the facts, and willing to hack off body parts to save the whole, so long as those body parts weren’t his. That man was Dr. Anthony Fauci. He was once the center of power in much of the “free world” during the coronavirus plandemic.

“His decisions would not only influence other nations, but America’s inability to be a beacon of liberty in the time of coronavirus had profound effects on the rest of the ‘free world.’ America legitimized tyranny because ‘the smartest man in the world’ said it was the best thing to do.

“His influence in assuring the coronavirus plandemic maintained its emergency status led to the dramatic expansion of mail-in ballots, setting the stage for a 2020 election where more than 70% of the votes were ‘cast’ through the unreliable, unaccountable mass mailer system (which was even less reliable and accountable than the ones we have now).

“This would dramatically change the trajectory of America, from one challenging Chinese power, the International Order, and European elitism, to one that bowed to China, lifted up the International Order, and feted European elites.”

We do not recommend you entirely abandon the mainstream healthcare system, but we do recommend you develop “off-grid” healthcare plans so that if we are ever faced with another coronavirus-like event we can provide for our healthcare needs without having to submit to draconian rules to do so.

Here are three sources to begin your exploration of Off-Grid Healthcare:

  • Nobody Talks About Healthcare Off-Grid – Frugal Off Grid – This will introduce you to the off-grid healthcare concept, and even get you started on how to develop your own plans. It includes a video.
  • Direct Primary Care – Going “Off Grid” With Your Health – Homesteading Family – This article is aimed at people considering going off-grid, or homesteading, but it will help you build your own supplemental off-grid healthcare plan for yourself. Should another plandemic hit, you will be prepared with alternative sources for healthcare.
  • Healthcare Steps You Should Take Before Going Off-Grid – reThinkSurvival.com – This is another article aimed at people considering going off-grid, but it’s about preventative healthcare you can take in your own home (like having a supply of “brain food”).
  1. THE LAND WITH THE AI PRIZE – THE STATE OF AFGHANISTAN

In our August 21, 2026, issue of MIA, we did a Deep Dive on the state of Afghanistan. We wrote, “For most of its existence, Afghanistan has been under the thumb of conquerors who could never quite seal the deal. Its hope of achieving sovereign power in light of the jewels beneath its soil is slim to none, no matter which power, America or China, were to secure access to Afghanistan’s AI prize.

We assess that America as the hegemon will offer greater opportunity for shared flourishing for self-stewarding people than China as hegemon ever would, for China would continue to support the Taliban if they ever broke the factions.

The Islamic State has no allies, for its endgame is world domination, even over China, even over America. The other factions have strong ties to India, Russia, and some to Iran, but all have ties to America and the West as well.

The alliance of China, Russia, and Iran coming out in open support of the Taliban against Pakistan has strained those relations with the factions we featured in our report. Even Pakistan is finding itself gravitating back towards the West as it sees China’s closeness with India and Afghanistan as working against its own interests.

The war with Afghanistan has only accelerated that re-engagement with the West both from Pakistan and the major factions we cover in this report (sans the Islamic State, of course).”

Dependence on Superpower AI for your development, and even your own AI processing power, brings with it the risk we see for Afghanistan, the loss of sovereign, or self-stewarding power. In the case of Afghanistan, this has been their struggle for centuries.

For you, the rise of AI means two things, learning how to work without AI tools, or learning how to effectively use AI tools. For most, the latter is more realistic than the former. For those in the latter group, we recommend you make it a regular habit to utilize multiple AI agents, including open-source AI agents. This will prevent you from becoming too attached or dependent on one AI “voice.” It will also get you overall better results, especially with research.

We utilize multiple AIs during our research process, asking each one the same probing question.

For Afghanistan, their lack of sovereignty will be born from their dependence on a superpower to secure their lands and develop their mineral prizes. For you, AI dependence, especially on superpower AI, is risking becoming propagandized by those same tools.

Here are resources to help you prepare for a world with AI without becoming AI’s tool:

  1. USEFUL LIFE VERSUS SACRED LIFE

In our August 28, 2026, Weekly issue of MIA, Paul Gordon Collier analyzed two separate news stories that both served as bellwethers for the existential cultural divide in America today.

Paul wrote, “It is white progressive women in particular who have served as the frontline assassins of whites, males, heterosexuals, cis-gendered, and white-aligned Americans. Were they to surrender the trans to science, they would lose their savior status and be just another guilty white person in need of accountability.

“The Pink-shirted Ladies of Lindsay are the epitome of this spirit as it moves past childbearing age and settles into empty high-rise apartments. If Lindsay is guilty of murder, so are they, and they know it. Progressive women alone account for more than 57% of abortions, yet they represent less than 1/3 of the female population.

“These aging women have now hit their 40s and 50s, and they have only become more committed to violence as a means of political persuasion. They must, I think, sense a world that comes to see the nature of their murder-justifying lies will soon remove them from power, or worse. At this point, they have everything to lose and nothing to gain if they surrender, for losing means losing everything, and winning is all that matters now.

“They have engaged in decades of child murder and political corporate assassinations, and a world that rejects progressivism will soon not only reject them, but it will also prosecute them. They won’t be prosecuted for murdering the unborn, they will be prosecuted for committing treason, child abuse, and racist, sexist, hetero-phobic discrimination.

“Their habit of evil has caused them to go all in on that same evil, by any means necessary, for the good of their high-rise apartments.

“We are seeing the final desperate push by the white woman progressive army to hold on to their power. They must fight off their victims, the American people, and the disenfranchised classes they’ve ‘served,’ classes now ready to throw their saviors out.”

Our Final Thought in that same issue, by Bill Collier, was about anchoring yourself in times of great ideological uncertainty. What we see here is a fundamental break with basic reality by a significant percentage of our population. This group holds great administrative power in most “American” institutions.

So many of our readers, and their family and friends, find themselves still trapped in institutions controlled by progressives; some are even public-school teachers attempting to preserve some semblance of Americanism in a system increasingly hostile to them.

Bill Collier wrote in his Final Thought, “Becoming aware of your own paradigms, and how they may contrast or align with others, is essential to navigating your path through the uncertainty and chaos we have faced (and will most likely continue to face for the foreseeable future).”

When do we fight defiantly within those institutions and where must you hold your fire?

To understand that question, you must first understand what is most essential to your belief system. To understand that you must understand what your core belief system really is.

Here are some resources that, in total, can give you a starting point for plumblining your own beliefs. From there, you can act more confidently, and with more courage, once you choose to act defiantly against the progressive state.

  • The Plumb Line – New Life – This is an essay about how to plumbline your own belief with scripture. This assumes you have already plumblined your own belief that scripture is your primary source for wisdom.
  • How to Chane Core Beliefs: Evidence-Based Strategies – HealthSpectra – This is a material approach to plumblining belief, so be cautious in how you approach this if you are Christian. Yet even for the Christian, there is practical value contained here, so long as you frame it within the boundaries of God’s Word.
  • How I Discovered My Core Beliefs (And How You Can Find Yours – Dr. Paul McCarthy – This essay points you to therapy, but within it is a good guide for how to identify what your core beliefs are.
  • Own Your beliefs – Under the Ancient Oaks – John Beckett – Christians beware, this is a self-confessed “pagan” writing here. He also uses the word “own,” which we assume is not actually possible for beings of limited understanding. This is why we say, “steward your beliefs,” not own them. Yet, even as God used evil for good through Pharoah and the 10 sons of Jacob who sold their brother into slavery, so too can you find good things in this essay. There are basic principles here that can help you determine what in you is stewarded and what in you has been blindly assumed.

One principle in the last article that is more important than all others is “You don’t have to figure out everything yourself,” which could be amended to include, “nor can you.”

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If you remember the early days of Covid-19, you probably remember the confusion just as much as the fear.

One week masks were “not necessary,” the next week they were “strongly recommended.” Guidance changed on travel, testing, quarantine, school closures, and boosters. Some of those changes were totally reasonable because the evidence was changing, while others were about protecting authority, not people.

Be it understood or not, the way it was communicated often made people feel like they were being managed, not informed (because, in part, they were).

And that’s the real takeaway. Covid-19 didn’t just test healthcare systems. It tested trust.

Transparency is not a “nice-to-have” during a public health crisis. It is part of the response. When it’s missing, even good policies get treated like suspicious ones.

Here are the biggest transparency lessons Covid-19 left us with, and why they still matter now.

If you remember the early days of Covid-19, you probably remember the confusion just as much as the fear.

One week masks were “not necessary,” the next week they were “strongly recommended.” Guidance changed on travel, testing, quarantine, school closures, and boosters. Some of those changes were totally reasonable because the evidence was changing, while others were about protecting authority, not people.

Be it understood or not, the way it was communicated often made people feel like they were being managed, not informed (because, in part, they were).

And that’s the real takeaway. Covid-19 didn’t just test healthcare systems. It tested trust.

Transparency is not a “nice-to-have” during a public health crisis. It is part of the response. When it’s missing, even good policies get treated like suspicious ones.

Here are the biggest transparency lessons Covid-19 left us with, and why they still matter now.

1) People can handle uncertainty. They can’t handle spin.

A lot of public messaging tried to sound confident. The intention was probably to keep people calm.

But confident messaging without clear evidence can backfire fast. The moment the guidance changes, people assume someone lied.

A more transparent approach sounds like this:

  • Here’s what we know today.
  • Here’s what we don’t know yet.
  • Here’s what we’re doing to find out.
  • Here’s what would make us change our recommendation.

That style of communication treats adults like adults. It also makes updates feel normal instead of suspicious.

2) “Show your work” builds trust faster than any slogan

During Covid-19, many decisions were presented as final answers, with little visibility into the reasoning.

But people wanted the why, not just the what.

When a government agency recommends a policy, the public shouldn’t need to reverse engineer the logic through press conferences, leaks, or Twitter threads. Publish the evidence summaries. Explain how benefits and harms were weighed. Share the assumptions.

Even better, say what you would do differently if the assumptions are wrong. That one move alone changes the tone from “obey” to “collaborate.”

3) Data transparency beats vibes, every time

A big problem throughout the pandemic was that the data people needed was often late, inconsistent, or hard to compare across regions. In some places, basic metrics were changed midstream without clear explanation. In others, dashboards looked great but hid key details like how “cases” were defined or which tests counted.

Transparent data means:

  • Clear definitions (what exactly is being measured?)
  • Consistent reporting (so trends actually mean something)
  • Open methods (how the numbers were cleaned and calculated)
  • Easy access (so researchers and journalists can sanity-check)

When data is messy, the gap gets filled by rumors. And once the rumor machine starts, it is hard to stop.

4) Conflicts of interest don’t go away. They just go underground.

Covid-19 put a spotlight on how decisions can be questioned when there are real or perceived conflicts, whether that’s pharma relationships, political pressure, or institutional incentives.

The fix is not pretending conflicts don’t exist. The fix is making them visible and manageable.

That looks like:

  • Public disclosure of financial ties and advisory roles
  • Clear rules about who can vote on what
  • Independent review processes that are not just symbolic
  • Meeting notes and rationales that can be audited later

When people think decisions were made behind closed doors, they assume the worst. Transparency doesn’t guarantee agreement, but it lowers the temperature.

5) Transparency has to include the trade-offs, not just the benefits

Some pandemic policies had real downsides: delayed care, mental health impacts, learning loss, economic pressure, isolation, burnout. Even when a policy is the right call, pretending it has no costs makes the messenger look dishonest.

The public doesn’t need perfection. They need honesty.

A transparent message might be:

“This will reduce hospital overload, but it will also cause hardship. Here are the groups most affected. Here’s what we’re doing to reduce harm. Here’s when we will reassess.”

That is how you keep credibility even when the situation is painful.

6) Local trust matters as much as national guidance

One of the most obvious lessons from Covid-19 is that trust is not evenly distributed. People trust their personal doctor more than a distant agency. They trust local community leaders more than national spokespeople. They trust what they can see.

Transparency works better when it is paired with local messengers and local context.

National guidance is important, but it has to be translated honestly for real communities with real constraints. Otherwise, it turns into a compliance problem instead of a public health effort.

7) The next crisis will punish the same blind spots

It’s tempting to treat Covid-19 as a once-in-a-century event and move on.

But the patterns that broke trust will show up again, whether the next threat is a new virus, an environmental disaster, a drug safety scandal, or a sudden health system shock.

If we want to be better next time, transparency can’t be something we improvise during chaos. It has to be built into the system:

  • how data is collected and shared
  • how decisions are documented
  • how uncertainty is communicated
  • how accountability works after the fact

The best time to build trust is before you need it.

What “better transparency” actually looks like going forward

If transparency is the goal, it helps to get specific. Here are a few standards that would have made a huge difference during Covid-19 and would still make a difference now:

This isn’t about making institutions look perfect. It’s about making them believable.

The bigger point

Covid-19 showed us something simple: people will accept tough guidance when they feel respected. They resist when they feel manipulated.

Transparency is respect in action.

And if there’s one good thing we can take from those years, it’s this: the conversation around health transparency is no longer academic. It’s practical. It affects behavior, outcomes, and trust when it matters most.

If you care about public health, research, policy, clinical leadership, or even just how information gets communicated during high-stakes moments, this is the kind of topic worth spending time on, with serious people who are trying to get it right.

 

General Mills has announced all its cereals in the U.S. are now artificial-color-free. The company made the changes in response to HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA challenge to companies to replace artificial colors with natural alternatives.

US Breakfast Giant Removes Artificial Dyes From Cereals In MAHA-Friendly Move– dailycaller.com
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General Mills announced Wednesday that all of its cereals in the U.S. are now made without artificial colors.

The American food company said in a news release that with all of its U.S. cereals — including popular options like Lucky Charms and Trix — now being free of certified colors, 90% of its total retail portfolio in the nation has completed the transition. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Americans Can Now See If Companies Are Actually Making Good On Food Dye Pledge)

“As the leader in cereal, General Mills is focused on giving people what they are looking for from the brands they know and love,” Bethany Quam, president of Big G Cereal at General Mills, said in a statement. “This achievement reflects how we are evolving with consumer needs while continuing to offer food that tastes great, delivers quality and provides value.”

General Mills also said it will launch more than twice as many new products “that align with evolving consumer nutrition preferences as it did just two years ago” during, such as products with more protein and fiber options, according to the press release. The company is currently on track to remove certified colors from its full U.S. retail portfolio by the end of 2027, per the announcement.

The announcement comes as many companies have begun phasing out artificial dyes in their food and beverage products in recent months. Nestlé announced in June that it has fully eliminated artificial colors from all of its food and beverage products in the U.S.

Scientists found that DNA once dismissed as “junk” helps chromosomes find their partners |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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For years, the dense loops of repetitive DNA clustered near the middle of chromosomes were treated as evolutionary clutter. According to the new study published in Nature, titled ‘Meiotic pairing through barcode-like satellite DNA repeats‘, researchers working with fruit flies have shown that this so-called satellite DNA forms a kind of barcode: a unique combination of repeats that lets each chromosome recognise its correct partner during the formation of egg cells. When that barcode is disrupted, chromosomes pair with the wrong partner or fail to pair at all, and the eggs carrying that error are frequently destroyed by the body’s own quality-control system before they can mature. The discovery revives an idea first floated nearly fifty years ago and offers the clearest evidence yet that “junk” DNA plays a direct hand in one of reproduction’s most exacting steps.

Every cell that produces eggs or sperm must first sort its chromosomes into matching pairs, lining up each one with its homologous partner before they exchange genetic material. According to the research team, fruit flies carry at least 19 distinct satellite DNA repeats scattered unevenly across their four chromosome pairs. Because each chromosome pair ends up with its own particular combination of these repeats, the arrangement effectively works as an identifying tag, a barcode built entirely from non-coding sequence.The idea that these repeats might guide pairing was first proposed roughly fifty years ago, but earlier experiments deleting satellite DNA from a single chromosome failed to produce any obvious defects, leading many researchers to dismiss the theory.

Question 1 in Virginia Would Legalize Unlimited Abortions Up to Birth– www.lifenews.com
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Virginia voters will decide in November whether to write a abortions up to birth into the state constitution. Ballot Question 1 would allow unlimited abortions until a baby is born.

Early in-person voting begins Friday, September 18. A simple majority would adopt or reject the amendment and the result would not return to the General Assembly or the governor.

Olivia Gans Turner, director of the Virginia Society for Human Life, said the proposal is not the modest health-care measure described on the ballot.

“The hard truth is that this amendment is not about protecting women’s safe reproductive care, but merely more political action designed to make abortion up to birth permanently legal in Virginia,” she says.