Jurisdictional Science And The Collapse
Of Scientific Legitimacy
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 1/18/2026 12:53:59 PM
Recently, significant policy changes have begun moving the country back toward informed consent and individualized medical care. For the first time in decades, federal health agencies are retreating from long-entrenched models of coercion and centralized control, openly acknowledging the limits of what they know. The renewed emphasis on transparency, shared clinical decision-making, and rejection of one-size-fits-all medicine should feel like a long overdue correction. (snip) Just as the federal system begins to correct course, California and other coastal blue states are doubling down on the very coercive model that failed so catastrophically during Covid -- while insisting, with growing urgency, that they alone are "protecting science."
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Recently, significant policy changes have begun moving the country back toward informed consent and individualized medical care. For the first time in decades, federal health agencies are retreating from long-entrenched models of coercion and centralized control, openly acknowledging the limits of what they know. The renewed emphasis on transparency, shared clinical decision-making, and rejection of one-size-fits-all medicine should feel like a long overdue correction. (snip) Just as the federal system begins to correct course, California and other coastal blue states are doubling down on the very coercive model that failed so catastrophically during Covid -- while insisting, with growing urgency, that they alone are "protecting science."
Even after a lawyer representing Becca Good confirmed the pair were not married, news outlets and social media influencers refuse to correct the inaccurate portrayal of a "bereaved widow." (snip) Sticking with the lie that Renee and Becca were married is a critical part of the overall false narrative of their actions that day(snip)[:] A happy lesbian married couple had just dropped their young son off at school when they just happened upon an ICE operation in their community so they exercised their First Amendment rights at that moment to express their displeasure with illegal immigrant removals. But every aspect of that sympathy-promoting hagiography is untrue.
Research Suggests As Many As 6.4 Million
Unwittingly Enrolled In Obamacare With
Taxpayer Subsidies 4 replies
Unwittingly Enrolled In Obamacare With
Taxpayer Subsidies 4 replies
Obamacare abused by brokers to sign up millions for healthcare without their consent or knowledge. As a result, insurance companies reaped windfall profits, at the expense of taxpayers. In exchange for gift cards, millions of Americans were unwittingly signed up for Obamacare by brokers who scalped their information and enrolled them in [zero premium] plans where premiums were paid by the American people, a research group says. (snip) [A]t least 6.4 million more people were enrolled in these zero-premium plans than were actually eligible. (snip) Many of the enrollees never realized they had coverage because the government paid the full premium directly to insurers (snip.)
"When 91% of one ideological group believes something, and that group overwhelmingly controls media institutions, their perspective becomes "the" perspective. Their concerns become national crises (snip.) Within hours of the incident, the narrative crystallized: federal agents had become death squads hunting immigrants. (snip) But here's the question nobody's asking: If the video evidence shows a woman repeatedly breaking the law before being shot, why hasn't the story changed? Why did public perception form in minutes and calcify into certainty, impervious to new information.
"The root cause of fraud in Minnesota is the absolute total absence of any safeguards. There just aren't any there. Zero," Dr. Feinwachs said (snip.) He is former general counsel of the Minnesota Hospital Association. He was fired for asking too many questions after four HMOs were making an extraordinary amount of money from the state Medicaid program. (snip) [F]inancial safeguards seem to have been eliminated in Minnesota "because there is a larger fraud going on involving the state itself and that fraud involves the state billing for unnecessary, fictitious insurance reserve." "That fraud is in the multiple billions of dollars," Dr. Feinwachs said.
News reports published Sunday evening disclosed the Department of Justice's investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for making false statements last year related to the multi-billion dollar renovation of two Fed buildings in Washington. (snip) Powell indignantly and specifically disputed various aspects of the renovation's extravagance (snip.) But Powell's sworn statements contradict renovation plans, which were approved in 2021. (snip) [T]he project indeed involves rooftop terrace gardens, new water features, extensive amounts of new building material including marble, and what appears to be a very opulent VIP dining room.
The software engineers were confronted by protesters who surrounded the restaurant, shouting insults and blowing whistles in their ears as they attempted to leave, according to one of the men. What began as a casual lunch between five Twin Cities software engineers quickly escalated into a frightening encounter after the men were misidentified as undercover federal agents and protesters were alerted to the Minneapolis restaurant where they were dining. (snip) [T]he alert was shared among anti-ICE networks, drawing dozens of protesters to the restaurant within 15 minutes.
The Department of Justice is reportedly investigating Democratic Governor Tim Walz and Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis for obstruction (snip.) Two Department of Justice officials told WCCO, a Minneapolis-area TV station, that a federal investigation was looking into whether Walz and Frey tried to block (snip) ICE from carrying out operations to enforce immigration law (snip.) The DOJ probe is focusing on whether Walz and Frey (snip) [conspired] "to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any of the duties thereof," CBS News reported.
Pennsylvania saw a meteoric rise in the number of adolescents receiving puberty blockers through an insurance billing code currently being investigated under the Trump administration on fraud suspicions. More than 220 claims for puberty blocking drugs were reimbursed for minors aged 10-13 (snip) for precocious puberty between Jan. 1, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2024, costing taxpayers more than $1.8 million dollars (snip.) The number of claims in the 10-13 age group went from zero in 2012 and ballooned to 47 by 2016. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has raised concerns that this billing code may be fraudulently used by gender doctors for sex-rejecting interventions.
A simple, but deeply unfair and manipulative narrative (snip) congealed as soon as Trump took office: ICE enforcement amounts to egregious military raids (snip) and as such, ICE is responsible for any unfortunate violence (snip.) Obviously that narrative has gone into overdrive since the unfortunate killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis (snip) Notably we're not seeing many ugly situations like what happened in Minneapolis in red states because the police and authorities there have been directed to cooperate. So Democrats have a simple choice before them: They can choose to (snip) cooperate with ICE, or they can choose to make their communities more dangerous.
Predictably, a fresh wave of outrage against President Donald Trump and his administration's immigration policies followed the shooting in Minnesota of anti-ice activist Renee Good. Viral videos of alleged outrages committed by ICE agents are bolstering the case against the ongoing raids and deportations. While the majority of those speaking out against them are on the left, some on the right are also falling prey to the pressure campaign. These queasy conservatives now claim that their objections to the ICE raids are grounded in a suspicion that they may be detrimental to the goal of mass deportations.
Washington Post Staffers Call Out Owner
Bezos For His Silence On FBI Raid Of Reporter's Home 7 replies
Bezos For His Silence On FBI Raid Of Reporter's Home 7 replies
Washington Post staffers have responded to the silence of the newspaper's owner, Jeff Bezos, on the FBI's raid of a reporter's home, calling it "nauseating and irresponsible." (snip) The search was related to an investigation into a government contractor in Maryland with top secret security clearance (snip.) The system administrator, Aurelio Perez-Lugones, was charged earlier this month with unlawful retention of defense information (snip.) Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that the search was conducted at the request of the Defense [sic.] Department and that the reporter had been "obtaining and reporting classified and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor."
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Oh Boy—Dylan Mulvaney Set to Make Broadway
Debut as Anne Boleyn in Women's History
Musical 'SIX' 28 replies
Debut as Anne Boleyn in Women's History
Musical 'SIX' 28 replies
Dylan Mulvaney, a "transgender influencer" most famous for sparking the massive 2023 Bud Light boycott that tanked sales and alienated millions of customers, is now set to make his Broadway debut as Anne Boleyn in the hit feminist musical "SIX."
This is a good reminder that this kind of woke mind virus, widely rejected in the previous national election cycle, is still making the rounds in various corners of the entertainment world.
I mean, seriously. Not only will Mulvaney be taking a significant role in a musical about women in history, but he will be taking that role away from an actual woman. This is progress for women ... or something.
Rep. Eric Swalwell Vows to Take Away Driver’s
Licenses from ICE Agents if Elected Governor 25 replies
Licenses from ICE Agents if Elected Governor 25 replies
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) vowed that if elected to be the next governor of California, he would take away driver’s licenses from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
While speaking at an event by the Empowerment Congress, Swalwell was asked about his plan to “protect” people in the state from ICE agents, according to Mediaite.
Swalwell explained that he would “direct law enforcement” officials to use “every power to prosecute” ICE officials for “battery, false imprisonment, and murder,” according to the outlet.
“They’re gonna lose their immunity,” Swalwell said. “They’re not going to be able to drive, I will take your driver’s license. Good luck walking to work, a**holes.”
RINO Congressman Don Bacon (R-NE) floated the idea of impeaching President Trump if he invades Greenland.
“I would lean that way,” he said of supporting an impeachment over Greenland. “The off-ramp is realizing Republicans aren’t going to tolerate this and he’s going to have to back off. He hates being told no, but in this case, I think Republicans need to be firm.”
Bacon announced his retirement from Congress last July, and he’s eying impeachment as his final act.
Bacon also co-sponsored a bill with Democrats to curb Trump’s power and prevent a military invasion of Greenland, which Trump has not expressed plans for.
Virginia Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger reversed a high-profile immigration enforcement policy established by outgoing Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Spanberger, sworn in earlier in the day as Virginia’s 75th governor and the first woman to hold the office, signed an executive action rescinding Executive Order 47—a directive issued last year that had authorized Virginia State Police and Department of Corrections personnel to assist federal immigration authorities under a 287(g) agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The repeal ends formal cooperation between state law enforcement and federal immigration enforcement efforts.
New York fought the war to end slavery, but NYC taxpayers will be shelling out more than $200,000 for woke community groups to talk about reparations.
The taxpayer dough will be steered to select organizations who’ll collaborate with the NYC Commission on Racial Equity to develop “recommendations for repair, collect truth testimony from New Yorkers, and work with researchers leading a NYC Study on Reparations,” 160 years after the Civil War ended.
“The launch of this application represents another major step in the fight for reparations here in New York City,” gushed CORE Chair and Executive Director Linda Tigani Thursday
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) revealed that Democrats would “restore most of the cuts” that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had made.
While taking part in a discussion at the Center for American Progress, Schumer received a question about what he “can do about bringing” the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) back, after DOGE came in and made cuts.
“If you look at the budget actually, we’re working on right now — and we’ll have the T-HUD budget, you know, transportation and HUD budget, we restore most of the cuts and even go higher than previous years on many of the programs that DOGE slashed,” Schumer responded.
An obnoxious Rep. Ilhan Omar laughed off accusations she was connected to the fraud scandal rocking Minnesota’s Somali community, and belittled a reporter for asking about it, according to a videos she posted to Instagram.
“Why would there be an allegation that I’m complicit? How would I be complicit?” the Minnesota socialist snapped at a reporter asking about the recent House Oversight Committee hearing on the matter.
“Do you just ask stupid questions?” she barked.
Scrutiny is growing over Omar’s skyrocketing family wealth, after she went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year, according to her own Congressional financial disclosures.
Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib went on an emotional rant about the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recruitment posts on social media during a Friday shadow hearing in Minnesota.
The hearing, chaired by Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and Democratic Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, discussed the recent heightened presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Minnesota and the fatal shooting of Renee Good. When it was Tlaib’s turn to speak, she used her time to passionately suggest that recent DHS social media posts evoked “neo-Nazi” and “white nationalist” imagery. Tlaib held up a printed Jan. 9 social media post by the DHS’ official account, shared across multiple platforms,
MINNEAPOLIS -- Rows of businesses stood shuttered inside a sprawling complex of Somali businesses on a recent afternoon. Karmel Mall in south Minneapolis contains more than a hundred small businesses in suites offering everything from clothing and food to insurance and accounting services. On Thursday, the noisy hallways inside lay quiet, save for occasional chatter between neighboring vendors. The smell of fried food still wafted from the bakeries, the central heating hummed and the sound of Quran recitation flowed quietly from some shops. But many sellers sat alone in their clothing stores, waiting for the occasional customer to walk by. Everyone
Just the Facts, Ma'am
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The Jan. 7 shooting death of Renee Good has become a political Rorschach test. A Quinnipiac poll released on Tuesday finds that a majority of American voters, 53%, believe ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot Good on a Minneapolis street last Wednesday, was not justified in doing so. Thirty-five percent believe the shooting was justified, while 12% have no opinion. But the poll results vary widely when the respondents’ political affiliations are examined. Seventy-seven percent of Republicans believe the shooting was justified, while 28% of independents and only four percent of Democrats hold the same opinion.
These poll results are unsurprising. As news of the shooting broke,
NUUK, Greenland — Native Greenlander Amarok Petersen was 27 years old when she learned the gut-wrenching truth about why she couldn’t have children — and that Denmark was to blame.
Suffering from severe uterine problems, a medical doctor discovered an IUD birth control device in her body that she didn’t know she had.
Danish doctors had implanted it when she was just 13 as part of a population control program for thousands of native Greenlandic girls and women.
“I will never have children,” Petersen told The Post, with tears of anger and sorrow welling in her eyes. “That choice was taken from me.”
Congress created Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to briefly assist those in need. Shakespeare warned, “Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude.” In the case of TPS, “multitude” is correct. As of January 2025, approximately 1.4 million foreign nationals in the United States were shielded from removal under the program.
The Trump administration decided to terminate TPS for several countries, with Somalia as the most recent. That choice is the right step in a long-overdue course correction for an immigration program that previous administrations exploited far past its statutory purpose.
Somalia was first designated for TPS in 1991
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The battle between science and "The Science" continues.