'Germ Games': NIH emails reveal the military strategy behind pandemic planning

New emails show how pandemic preparedness was reframed through a military lens at Davos in 2016, with senior NIH officials drawn into the discussions. internal planning documents show that officials arranged a closed-door roundtable with Collins, Fauci and nearly every NIH institute director. The agenda covered pandemic preparedness, airborne threats and deeper collaboration between the NIH and the World Bank. Collectively, these internal documents show how, from 2016 onwards, pandemic preparedness was increasingly shaped by military planning concepts and biodefence thinking. What began as discussions at Davos evolved into a sustained international effort to embed simulation-based, war-game-style approaches into global health security — approaches that would later become central to the response to Covid-19.

In Monopoly the Get Out of Jail Card Is Free. Trump (Allegedly) Charges Two Million.

Real life never hands you that card. The President will sell you one, and the buyers include a child sex trafficker.

Why the SCOTUS Had to Save the Left from Itself

they invented the crisis of being “born in the wrong body,” an ideology that was flourishing among adolescent girls online, wherein heterosexual males were scary and predatory, so they sank into this fantasy world where anything but that was “safe.” It all seemed to happen at once, and by the time my daughter came home from school in 9th grade, right around 2012 exactly, talking about “top surgery” and “bottom surgery,” it was too late. My daughter had just one “trans” friend. By the time my daughter graduated from college, one boy she knew had fully transitioned, two of her roommates were in the process, and all were declared bisexual except one. I don’t think there is any stopping it because it is such a deeply held belief by now. Thanks to the Supreme Court, states are now free to ban biological boys from competing against biological girls but all that means is that the red states will enact those laws and the blue states won’t.

Trump’s financial disclosure lists $1.4 billion in crypto earnings, powered largely by meme coins

The annual report also included $80 million in income from settlements tied to lawsuits he filed against companies like ABC, CBS, Meta and YouTube

Spy chiefs in revolt over president's demand for master list of secret agents

CIA and FBI leaders are resisting Donald Trump's mandate that intelligence agencies compile a master list of every US spy and potential recruit, amid fears it could endanger their own agents

Merck's Sequivity is self-amplifying RNA

They're going to inject pigs meant for consumption with this technology and the outcomes could be disastrous - have the big questions been properly addressed?

The Arguments Against Citizen Vigilante

Rebutting the fatalistic paranoia

Benjamin Netanyahu: IDF to remain in Lebanon Security Zone until Hezbollah threat ends | The Jerusalem Post

Imagine Your Tax Dollars Bailing Out Bitcoin

Sick and inconceivable idea right? Sadly, not as inconceivable as we think.

Five Theories, One Bench: What the Birthright Citizenship Fracture Actually Tells Us

The standard complaint about Trump v. Barbara — the one you’ll read everywhere by Wednesday — is that Barrett crossed over and cost conservatives a win they were supposed to have. That’s true as far as it goes, but it treats “conservatives” as a bloc with a shared theory that one defector left short of a majority. The dissents make clear there was no shared theory to defect from. Thomas’s “primary allegiance via domicile,” Alito’s “unimpaired allegiance independent of domicile,” and Kavanaugh’s “this is a statutory case, not a constitutional one” are not three articulations of the same originalist conclusion. They are three different originalisms, arrived at by three justices using the same interpretive method and reading substantially the same historical record.

Trump Wants YOUR Medical Data for His Drug War

A proposed surveillance system is supposed to target fentanyl, but there are fears it could be used to monitor abortion, pregnancy, gender transition, or any behavior the government wants to go after.

Citizen Vigilante: Right Message, Catastrophically Wrong Targets

Callum McMichael explores why Citizen Vigilante fails to confront the political architects of mass migration despite capturing widespread public frustration

DeSantis cuts free tax prep for working families but approves money for Mike Huckabee

A look at what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis chose to cut — and what he agreed to fund — when he signed the new state budget into law on Monday.