Paul D. Thacker
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Paul D. Thacker
@thackerpd
Journalist; Former Investigator U.S. Senate; Former Safra Ethics Center, Harvard. https://t.co/aD6NkYzjqM


🚨 JUST IN: Secret Service CONFIRMS a man was shot by law enforcement near the White House, causing the White House to be LOCKED DOWN More details are not immediately available. Pray for President Trump’s safety, today and every day 🙏🏻


Virologe Drosten plädiert jetzt für Pressezensur bz-berlin.de/meinung/kolumn…


May the 4th be with you


Dr. Sara Brenner is too qualified for the taste of @nytimes. Perhaps the real reason for their pearl-clutching is that she prioritized the health and life of her unborn child over compliance with the illegal Biden mandate for federal workers. If you're a Republican appointee and the NYT hasn't done a hit piece on you, you're doing it wrong. nytimes.com/2026/04/30/hea…


A small amendment to my pessimistic post of yesterday: I have come to the conclusion in the past couple of years that amidst all the Covid shambles, neither the devastation caused by the lockdowns nor the idiocy of the mask policy or even the dubious safety profile of the Covid vaccine will ever wake liberals up. If any topic has at all the potential to alert this particular crowd, who incidentally is the very last social category in Western society to entertain the illusion that the Covid response was appropriate in any way, it would be the revelation that Covid was a lab leak and that their beloved Fauci was actually largely responsible for it - calling and pushing for that type of research, funding that type of research, and skirting Obama's ban on GoF to divert US funding to Wuhan, China for that type of research, because, as he proudly claimed, it was a "risk worth taking." Hopefully, if all this moral posturing and virtue signaling turned out to have been based on lies, hubris, and highly dangerous fraud, then there would be some reckoning...? One can hope. I'm all willing to trade the acknowledgement that intentions were noble and meant for the public good against the acknowledgment that it was a terrible mistake - just as long as we take measures to restore public trust and mainly control this insane GoF research (which continues to this day, including in Wuhan!) So this is excellent news and I very much hope Rand Paul manages to bring some indictment against Fauci while there is still time. wsj.com/opinion/david-…





EXCLUSIVE: NIH has removed virologist Ralph Baric from all his grants; UNC placed Baric on leave. Senior HHS officials says UNC was complicit in starting the COVID pandemic. “Baric designed the gun,” he said. “But the Chinese built it, and then they pulled the trigger.” realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/…


I recently had the opportunity to hear Bhattacharya in person during his visit to @LifeAtPurdue. I expected to endure scientific ignorance, right-wing pandering and claims of victimisation, and I was not disappointed. @jamesglanz @fayeflam

In continued fallout from the highly politicized debate over COVID-19’s origins, the U.S. Department of Justice has indicted a former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases official, David Morens, for allegedly concealing related federal records. scim.ag/42Bv12T



