Chaz Rolfer

SCOOP: A report showing the effectiveness of the covid-19 vaccine that was previously delayed by the head of the CDC has now been blocked from being published in the agency’s flagship scientific journal, per sources. My latest. washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04…

Last year NIH cut mRNA vaccine research by $500 million because the HHS Sec does not believe in mRNA vaccines. Now, acting CDC Dir Jay Bhattacharya is blocking publication of a paper that reportedly shows that the COVID vaccine cut emergency department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half this past winter. If this is true, Congress should remove both RFK Jr and Bhattacharya.

Platner sounds radically honest by the standards of American politics, including when he talks about his own service. “There’s this thing I often think about,” he said, recalling the incident near Falluja. “Those kids were killed because we were spending money to build this base that probably doesn’t exist anymore.” His voice slipped into the present tense as he put himself back into the moment when the mothers arrived to pick up the remains, his own life in front of him like a storm cloud. “How horrifically wasteful this is.”

Mother in ICE custody asks to go to son's funeral—agents took her to a "punishment room" instead. "They took my clothes and left me all alone with a single blanket," she says. "That is how they punish me for having cried after telling me my son had died." Her 1-year-old baby was still breastfeeding—when ICE separated him from mother along with her other 3 children. She had already lost a son to cancer in 2020—and says the only immigration check-in she ever missed was to take care of him on his deathbed. María de la Luz Loredo is afraid to cry or show any emotion now that she is back in her regular cell—for fear of being punished again. She is locked up at the El Valle ICE Processing Center in Raymondville, Texas.

A little background on who the Southern Poverty Law Center is and what kind of work they’ve been doing for decades makes it clear that DOJ’s indictment (which is of the center, not of any individuals) is vindictive & malicious, an attack on civil rights work itself. open.substack.com/pub/joycevance…

Russia eased vaccination standards when diphtheria seemed beaten. 157,000 infections. 5,000 dead. Japan dropped mandates after a trust collapse. Rubella came back. Babies born blind and deaf. Nigeria boycotted polio shots. The virus paralyzed 2,500 children and spread to 20 countries. That is the documented pattern. Kennedy has now dropped six vaccines from routine schedules and pulled $1.6 billion from global immunization. Measles is already in 46 states.

To be clear: Trump’s FBI is going after the Southern Poverty Law Center because they infiltrated and exposed the same dangerous right-wing extremist groups that many Trump allies are associated with.

@SenBooker They’re targeting an experienced resistance network Senator. Make sure your party gives the SPLC all the support it needs!

The DOJ just indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that has spent more than half a century fighting the Klan, tracking hate, and defending civil rights. Let's be clear about what's happening. This administration is using the full weight of federal prosecution to target an organization whose mission is rooting out violent extremism. This is part and parcel of Trump's assault on free speech, on nonprofits, and on anyone who dares to disagree with him. First it was lawfare against political opponents. Then it was revoking the tax status of universities. Now it's a federal indictment against one of the most historic civil rights organizations in America. The SPLC has saved lives. It will not be silenced — and neither will we.

REPORTER: I just want to make sure I understand. You're alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders of KKK and other groups? BLANCHE: I'm not alleging it. The grand jury returned an indictment that says that

Trump told you he’d run America like a business. He is. It’s called asset stripping. You sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, and walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag. Congratulations. You didn’t elect a president. You hired a liquidator.

Not war crimes. Just straight up crimes carried about by the U.S. military, on the orders of Trump and Hegseth.

Israel shot a little girl in front of her brother while she was collecting water.

Hegseth is blaming Biden for military vaccine mandates. The flu shot’s been required since 1945. Joe Biden was 2.

Are they all horrible people? Billionaire CEO John Catsimatidis: The homeless should “live in Uganda for $8.13 a day. We'll give them the check for $8.13 a day, let them live somewhere else.”

Won’t be taking advice about the soul of America from the guy that killed the Child Tax Credit then went back to his yacht

If Trump can’t be trusted in the Situation Room, then he shouldn’t be president. This isn’t complicated.

BREAKING — Virginia voters approve temporary measure to re-district the state, creating more Democratic seats. Huge blow to Trump. His effort to gerrymander seats to rig the 2026 midterms backfired spectacularly.

Conservative Judge J. Michael Luttig is warning that Trump is already preparing to rig the 2026 midterms, not by one single scheme but by a whole “buffet of options” to throw the election into chaos. Think about what that menu looks like in plain English: – Flooding the country with lies about “fraud” before a single vote is counted – Trying to get control of voting machines and election administration – Looking for excuses to call out troops under the Insurrection Act to intimidate and suppress Luttig warns that if we don’t defend the system in 2026, we may not get anything resembling a real election in 2028. In other words: this is not a normal midterm. It’s a stress test of whether we still have a functioning democracy at all.

Totally crazy that companies aren’t getting their tariff money back bc they are afraid of government retaliation if they apply. Gangster socialism.

So the Southern Poverty Law Center has informants deep inside neo-Nazi organizations reporting on their violent and hateful activities, and Trump’s DOJ is indicting them for that? Are you fucking kidding me? These people are evil.