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July 9, 2026, edition of The Tenpenny Files, streamed on Rumble

EMMA WATERS (HERITAGE FOUNDATION SENIOR POLICY ANALYST): In the course of my research on national and international surrogacy, I came across a few academic reports that noted that cross-border surrogacy — where a foreign national comes to another country to access their surrogates, their agencies, and their health services — was growing in popularity. And in fact, the biggest area that we were seeing grow was actually Chinese nationals from mainland China coming to the United States to rent the womb of American women. And it noted that one of the key drivers or motivations for this was birthright citizenship because, when that child was born, they would gain and maintain the full rights of U.S. citizenship — even though their parents were foreign nationals, and even though that child would actually be raised fully abroad. And when I read that, I thought, oh my goodness. We have a massive case of immigration fraud, national security risk, and a violation of the well-being of children and the women serving as surrogates.

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SHERRI TENPENNY (HOST): What sort of national security implications does this sort of process add? And what does this — why did the Supreme Court support this?

WATERS: Such a great question. So, speaking to the national security risks of birth tourism, and particularly of surrogacy birth tourism — because the child is simply being born here and being raised abroad, you have cases where there are thousands, even hundreds of thousands of individuals, who have full U.S. citizenship, and in the eyes of the law would be viewed as a natural-born citizen like you and I, who were born and raised here, and yet are being raised in a foreign country, predominantly China, who has a vested interest in undermining and defeating the United States.

We're in a cold war with China. And so you have these children who are being raised culturally, ethnically, geographically in China, who then have all access to sensitive research jobs in government positions or research positions. These children, when they turn 21, can actually apply for a visa to sponsor their extended family to becoming citizens. And so there are cases of surrogacy agencies openly advertising commercial surrogacy as a cheaper option than an EB-5 visa, which would be the proper immigration steps you should take. So sidestep immigration laws in the United States by citizenship through surrogacy.

But you also have to keep in mind that when that surrogate-born child — even though they're ethnically, geographically, and culturally raised in China — turns 35, he could run for president.

TENPENNY: Oh my goodness.

WATERS: He could hold office. He has — there are no restrictions on what these surrogate-born children could or couldn't do because they are full citizens, regardless of the fact that they are not raised here. They don't love America. They don't view America as their home. Right? They're not patriotic in any sense.

And so it's a massive national security risk because now the United States doesn't know who these children are. We have no idea at what point do they start reemigrating. And there are various reports on this where some will say, well, we know the CCP does have a vested interest. Others would say the CCP doesn't have a vested interest. But what we do know regardless is that the Communist Party of China will take any opportunity to subvert the United States. And if they have thousands or hundreds of thousands of young men and women growing up with full U.S. citizenship, I think that it is very likely they will use that to the best of their advantage to undermine the United States in coming years, whether that's stealing research, stealing intelligence, or running for office or secretive or select positions because of that.

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Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is an American osteopathic physician and prominent anti-vaccine activist known for spreading medical misinformation and conspiracy theories. During the conflict in Ukraine, she and other anti-vaccine figures were identified by watchdog organizations for promoting Russian propaganda and pro-Putin narratives, particularly those claiming the U.S. funded biological weapons facilities in Ukraine. [1, 2, 3]

The connection between Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, Russia, and President Vladimir Putin centers on their involvement in related conspiracy theories.

Intersection of Anti-Vaccine Figures and Russian Disinformation

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, we’ve seen how conspiracy theories can overlap and collide. I’ve documented how anti-vaccine groups embraced QAnon disinformation about liberal elites conspiring to unseat Trump, and how white nationalists find willing audiences for their racist ideology in anti-mask groups. Over the last week, a new disinformation hybrid has appeared, as online anti-vaccine groups have become a hotbed of pro-Russia conspiracy theories about the conflict in Ukraine—and some of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists are actively promoting geopolitical falsehoods.

Imran Ahmed, executive director of the online extremism tracking group Center for Countering Digital Hate, has been following the convergence of the conspiracy theories, and he’s noticed they share familiar themes: alleged secret government alliances, anti-Semitic accusations, and allusions to nefarious scientists. “There are particular individuals within the anti-vaccine world who are amenable to pro-Russian propaganda,” he says, “and that would include some of the people who’ve cohered around QAnon and Trump.”

One example of this is how an old Trump-era storyline—the theory that SARS-CoV-2 was deliberately engineered in a lab and released—seems to have been reconstituted in a new form: Anti-vaccine influencers claim that the United States owns a network of secret biolabs in Ukraine where dangerous infectious disease research takes place. For them, it’s just obvious that Biden is sending aid to Ukraine in order to protect those assets. This rumor has been proven to be manifestly false—but that hasn’t stopped it from circulating and gaining momentum.

Last week, Christiane Northrup, an influential holistic medicine practitioner who regularly spreads pandemic misinformation and promotes the QAnon conspiracy theory, shared with her 78,000 Telegram followers a map that supposedly showed the secret labs in Ukraine that she insists create viruses. She also shared a post from a Bulgarian news site claiming that the US government “conducted biological experiments with a potentially lethal outcome on 4,400 soldiers in Ukraine and 1,000 soldiers in Georgia.” This is not true. On Instagram, a popular meme traveling with the hashtag “#biolabs” shows a photo of Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, with the caption “I might not be a smart man, but I do know if they lied to me about Covid for 2 years, they are probably lying to me about why Russia invaded Ukraine this week.”

Meanwhile, Candace Owens, a conservative political pundit-turned-anti-vaccine activist, used an extended metaphor involving the lab-leak Covid origin theory to describe the conflict in Ukraine. “We are now experiencing Foreign policy Covid: ‘Experts’ pretending that what is happening between Russia and Ukraine is a naturally occurring event, when in fact, it was manufactured in a lab by the people who stood to benefit trillions,” she tweeted to her 3 million followers last week.

Imran’s team has also noted that a strong current of anti-Semitism runs through many of the Ukraine conspiracy theories in anti-vaccine chats. Sherri Tenpenny, the anti-vaccine activist who has claimed that Covid shots make people magnetic, suggested in a Monday post to more than 150,000 followers that Jews were using the Ukraine conflict to distract the world from a meeting in Europe about pandemic preparedness. She shared a post from an account called End Times Newz that used echo parentheses, a widely recognized symbol that anti-Semitic hate groups use to identify Jewish people. “Whilst everyone is distracted by the events in (((Ukraine))), the (((WHO))) is ramming through an international treaty on ‘pandemic’ procedures,” the post said. “Same tribe every time ” On the same day, in a separate Telegram post, Tenpenny claimed that the hacker group Anonymous, which has carried out recent cyberattacks against Russia, is “part of the Soros/Klaus/WEF puppet army.” This refers to billionaire philanthropist George Soros and Klaus Schwab, who is the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) that holds a yearly economic symposium in Davos, Switzerland.

Ben Dubow, a fellow of the Democratic Resilience Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis, has documented the spread of Russian disinformation during Covid. He notes that anti-Semitic tropes involving Hungarian-born Soros are a hallmark of Russian disinformation campaigns, largely because Soros has promoted democracy in “what Russia considers its sphere of influence,” says Dubow. “He is very much an obsession of Russian leadership.” Anti-vaccine groups have their own diabolical Soros myth: Many believe that he worked with Bill Gates to hide microchip tracking devices in the Covid vaccines.

In a bizarre Telegram video on Tuesday, David Wolfe, a wellness influencer, also connected the invasion of Ukraine to George Soros and Klaus Schwab. He then went on to speculate wildly about American politicians’ children and pedophilia in Ukraine: “If you’re convicted of paedophilia in Russia, you’ll get chemically castrated, he’s gonna throw you out,” he told his more than 100,000 followers. “How can John Kerry’s kid, and Nancy Pelosi’s kid, and Biden’s kid all be involved in the Ukraine? I’ll tell you how, because that is the bed of corruption in Europe and in mid-Asia.”

One aspect of Putin’s rhetoric on the Ukraine invasion—that the Western hegemony is trying to force progressive values on Ukraine—will appeal to Americans steeped in far-right conspiracy theories about the Deep State and the villainous intentions of public health agencies. Putin’s message, Dubow notes, “really does throw pretty naturally off of a lot of messaging they had, to try to raise skepticism about vaccines, about the origins of Covid, about how generally you can’t trust any member of the Western establishment.”

“Go Putin! He is standing up against the New World Order with the Truckers of the world! Going against George Soros.”

Indeed, wild theories about Ukraine do seem to be gaining traction beyond just the influencers pushing them. I noticed them popping up in casual conversations among members of online anti-vaccine groups, as well. In a Telegram group with 52,000 followers called Covid Vaccine Injuries, a member posted about an upcoming video, saying, “I plan to expose, for the first time, using information I never shared before, how the conflict in Ukraine, the vaccines, and The Great Reset are all tied together.” (The Great Reset is another recurring theme in many of these posts—it’s a conspiracy theory that alleges that the government and elites are using the pandemic to brainwash citizens.) In an anti-mandate Facebook group with 3,000 members called Stop the Tyranny, one member posted last week, “Look at all the corruption installed in Ukraine. Putin is against the New World Order and child trafficking.” She shared a meme of Leonardo di Caprio that read, “The moment you realize Putin isn’t fighting Ukraine. He’s fighting the DeepState in Ukraine!”

Anti-vaccine online spaces have proliferated in the last few weeks as activists have come together to plan a US version of the anti-mandate trucker convoys that happened in Canada. Observers have noticed a pro-Putin sentiment in many of those anti-mandate convoy planning chats on Telegram, as well. In one, a member wrote, “Go Putin! He is standing up against the New World Order with the Truckers of the world! Going against George Soros.” In a Facebook group called Freedom Convoy 2022 with 22,000 members, someone posted last week about “reports that Putin Strikes are targeting US-RUN BIO-LABS in the Ukraine.” He went on:

“One thing is for sure, there is much more to this story than any of the world governments or mainstream media is reporting. If we learned anything from the media’s depiction of the Canadian Convoy, one important thing was that the media will twist the facts to support a political narrative.”

Anti-vaccine and wellness influencer Naomi Wolf predicted ominously on Telegram that “the Truckers’ Convoy [and] Ukraine, will be weaponized in a cyberattack to give more emergency powers to Pres Biden and suspend midterms.”

When I ask Dubow if he thinks that agents of Russian disinformation campaigns are specifically targeting American online antivaccine groups, he says he wouldn’t be surprised—but it would hardly be necessary. “The information environment is already set for that sort of messaging to make its way there,” he says. “You think about the profile of these groups—they’re people who deeply distrust the US government, deeply distrust any mainstream narrative.”

Center for Countering Digital Hate’s Ahmed agrees. Sherri Tenpenny and Christiane Northrup are members of his group’s Disinformation Dozen, a list of the 12 most influential spreaders of vaccine disinformation, which also includes Robert Kennedy, Jr. and Dr. Joseph Mercola. Ahmed’s group has extensively documented the cross-pollination of conspiracy theories in online anti-vaccine spaces, noting how anti-vaxxers seamlessly integrated the QAnon idea of a coming “storm” of retribution into their conversations and insisted that Covid shots were part of a comprehensive and evil government agenda called The Great Reset. “After a sufficient amount of time of cross-fertilizing each other’s follower base,” he says, “they actually started to merge their central conspiracies.”

Nonetheless, Dubow expects that Ukraine conspiracy theories will remain mostly a fringe phenomenon. “We’ve seen for the first time in a while, both in terms of total posts and in terms of total engagements, Russia’s really losing control over the narrative,” he says. Yet Ahmed cautions that above all, anti-vaccine influencers are opportunists—and they will adapt whatever happens to command the headlines into their own narratives. Indeed, as Candace Owens Tweets furiously about Ukraine, she is gaining more followers—to whom she is also promoting her forthcoming documentary series about the supposed dangers of each of the recommended childhood vaccines. Anti-vaccine activists are “always looking to see how they can mold their narrative to fit any breaking news item and fit it into a conspiracy theory,” says Ahmed. “Because the key element of conspiracy theorists is that they don’t have to rely on facts.”

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Far-right anti-vaxxers, antisemites, and QAnonconspiracy theorists apparently can't decide if Russia's invasion of Ukraine is part of the grand plan or a reprehensible act of imperialist war.

QAnon and conspiracy theorist chat channels have been filled with debate over how to view Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The consensus has largely fallen along two lines.

As reported by NBC's Ben Collins, the more sane understanding of the conflict by the conspiracy theorists is that Ukrainians are brave resisters of a powerful, tyrannical authority. They see the Ukrainians defending their country from missile barrages and tank attacks as similar to their refusal to wear masks or take a vaccine.

Another group sees the alleged hidden strings behind the conflict, theorising that Mr Putin is secretly in league with former President Donald Trump, and that the invasion is not an imperialist war but instead a cover for the duo of strongmen to dismantle biological research sites in the country. These sites, they believe, are where Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease, allegedly created the coronavirus, which he then released upon the world.

In their minds, Joe Biden is backing Ukraine over Russia in order to protect those research sites.

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None of those claims have been backed by evidence.

Mother Jones reports that prominent QAnon influencer Christiane Northrup shared a map of the research sites with her 78,000 Telegram followers. She insists the labs are secret sites where viruses are created.

She also shared a "news article" from a Bulgarian website that claimed that the US "conducted biological experiments with a potentially lethal outcome on 4,400 soldiers in Ukraine and 1,000 soldiers in Georgia”.

Right wing provocateur Candace Owens also chimed in on the theory, arguing that the invasion in Ukraine is directly tied to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We are now experiencing Foreign policy Covid: ‘Experts’ pretending that what is happening between Russia and Ukraine is a naturally occurring event, when in fact, it was manufactured in a lab by the people who stood to benefit trillions,” she tweeted out to her three million followers.

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Imran Ahmed, executive director of the online extremism tracking group Center for Countering Digital Hate, told Mother Jones that the theories also tend to include a strong element of antisemitism.

He pointed out that Sherri Tenpenny, who became famous for suggesting that the coronavirus vaccine makes people magnetic, shared to her 150,000 followers that the invasion was a distraction to allow Jewish people to hide a meeting in Europe about pandemic preparedness.

Her post came from a site called "End Times Newz," which used echo parentheses – which were once used online by anti-Semites to identify Jewish individuals in their writings – while referencing Ukraine.

“Whilst everyone is distracted by the events in (((Ukraine))), the (((WHO))) is ramming through an international treaty on ‘pandemic’ procedures,’” the post said.

"Same tribe every time," the article said, including with it an emoji depicting the Star of David, a symbol of the Jewish faith.

She and others, like wellness influencer David Wolfe, have linked the invasion to George Soros, a Jewish billionaire philanthropist who far-right extremists treat as an arch villain in their many conspiracies.

There has even been pro-Putin sentiment in the organising channels for the US based trucker convoy, which plans to protest coronavirus mandates when it arrives outside Washington DC on 5 March.

“Go Putin! He is standing up against the New World Order with the Truckers of the world! Going against George Soros,” one user wrote in a planning channel.

Another noted wellness influencer and anti-vaxxer Naomi Wolf claimed that the US trucker convoy, along with the Ukraine invasion, "will be weaponised in a cyberattack to give more emergency powers to Pres Biden and suspend midterms”.

There is no evidence to support those claims.

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USAID and the Architecture of Perception

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USAID and the Architecture of Perception

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has long portrayed itself as America’s humanitarian aid organization, delivering assistance to developing nations. With an annual budget of nearly $40 billion and operations in over 100 countries, it represents one of the largest foreign aid institutions in the world. But recent disclosures reveal its true nature as something far more systematic: an architect of global consciousness.

Consider: Reuters, one of the world’s most trusted news sources, received USAID funding for ‘Large Scale Social Deception’ and ‘Social Engineering Defence.’ While there’s debate about the exact scope of these programs, the implications are staggering: a division of one of the world’s most relied-upon sources for objective reporting was paid by a US government agency for systemic reality construction. This funding goes beyond traditional media support, representing a deliberate infrastructure for discourse framing that fundamentally challenges the concept of ‘objective’ reporting.

Source: USASpending.gov database

But it goes deeper. In what reads like a Michael Crichton plot come to life, the recent USAID revelations show a staggering reach of narrative control. Take Internews Network, a USAID-financed NGO that has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive network, ‘working with’ 4,291 media outlets. In just one year, they produced 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and ‘trained’ over 9,000 journalists. This isn’t just funding – it’s a systematic infrastructure of consciousness manipulation.

The revelations show USAID funding both the Wuhan Lab’s gain-of-function research and the media outlets that would shape the story around what emerged from it. Backing organizations that would fabricate impeachment evidence. Funding both the election systems that facilitate outcomes and the fact-checkers that determine which discussions about those outcomes are permitted. But these disclosures point to something far more significant than mere corruption.

These revelations didn’t emerge from nowhere – they come from government grant disclosures, FOIA requests, and official records that aren’t even hidden, just ignored. As my old friend Mark Schiffer noted the other day, ‘The most important truths today cannot be debated – they must be felt as totalities.’ The pattern, once seen, cannot be unseen. Some may question DOGE’s methods or the rapid pace of these disclosures, and those constitutional concerns deserve serious discussion. But that’s a separate conversation from what these documents reveal. The revelations themselves – documented in official records and grant disclosures – are undeniable and should shock anyone who values truth. The means of exposure matter far less than what’s being exposed: one of the largest narrative control operations in history.

No domain is untouched – markets, tech, culture, health, and obviously, media – and you’ll find the same design. Intelligence agencies are deeply embedded in each domain because shaping how we perceive reality is more powerful than controlling reality itself

Just as fiat currency replaced real value with declared value, we now see the same pattern everywhere: fiat science replaces inquiry with predetermined conclusions, fiat culture replaces organic development with curated influence, fiat history replaces lived experience with manufactured narratives. We live in an era of fiat everything – where reality itself is declared, not discovered. And just as they create artificial scarcity in monetary systems, they manufacture false choices everywhere else – presenting us with artificial binaries that obscure the true complexity of our world.

As Schiffer wrote elsewhere, reality no longer requires consensus, only coherence. But there’s a crucial distinction: real coherence emerges naturally across multiple domains, reflecting deeper truths that cannot be fabricated. The coherence imposed by perception management isn’t truth – it’s a controlled discourse engineered for consistency, not discovery. The USAID receipts now provide concrete evidence of how this manufactured coherence is built: a scripted reality where the appearance of logic is more important than actual substance.

This isn’t just pattern matching – it’s pattern prediction. Just as algorithms learn to recognize and anticipate behavioral patterns, those who understand this system’s architecture can see its next moves before they’re made. The question isn’t whether something is “true” or “false” – it’s understanding how information flows shape consciousness itself.

To understand how deep this goes, let’s examine their methodology. As Dr.:(style="background-color:#ffbb16ff"):}: **:{SherriTenpenny and others have meticulously documented through FOIA requests and government grant disclosures, the pattern emerges through two primary vectors of control:

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The $2 million figure stems from a grant awarded to Asociacion Lambda, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group in Guatemala. However, the claim that the money funded "sex changes" has been widely debunked as a mischaracterization used to justify cutting foreign aid. [1, 2, 3, 4,5]

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...“Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund ‘irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,’ benefiting the Taliban” This is false. USAID never intended to support opium poppy cultivation or the Taliban, and in fact the United States sought to stem it. The White House cites a right-wing news site’s account of a 2018 report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) — whom President Donald Trump recently fired — that found that USAID efforts to fund alternative development projects during the George W. Bush administration (2005 to 2008) had failed. The Taliban before 2001 had successfully banned poppy cultivation, but the U.S. invasion led to a power vacuum that was exploited by poppy growers. USAID was the lead U.S. agency for implementing alternative development projects, modeled after a more successful effort in Colombia, but the report documented how conflicts among agencies and with allies hampered the effort. It’s a stretch to now, years later, accuse USAID of helping the Taliban. ENDIT

What emerges is not just a list of expenditures, but a blueprint for global reality architecture: From Kazakhstan to Ireland, from Serbia to Peru, from Vietnam to Egypt – there isn’t a corner of the world untouched by this system. This isn’t merely a distribution of resources, but a strategic infrastructure of global influence. Each allocation – whether to media outlets, health initiatives, or cultural programs – represents a carefully placed node in a network designed to shape perception across multiple domains. First, control the flow of information through media funding. Then, establish legitimacy through health and development programs. Finally, reshape social structures through cultural programming. The end goal isn’t just to influence what people think, but to determine the boundaries of what can be thought – and to do so on a planetary scale.

For those who’ve been studying the architecture of censorship, like Mike Benz has been documenting for years, none of this comes as a surprise. It’s perfect symmetry: we knew about the censorship. Now we’re seeing the receipts. One hand feeds them talking points, the other hand feeds them our taxpayer dollars. This isn’t speculation; it’s documented fact. Even Wikipedia’s own funding database contains over 45,000 reports tied to USAID – many detailing corruption, media influence, and financial manipulation. The evidence has always been there, but it was ignored, dismissed, or buried under the very fact-checking apparatus USAID funds. These weren’t crackpot theories; they were warnings. And now, we finally have the receipts.

And it doesn’t stop at controlling information. USAID isn’t just shaping media portrayals – it’s funding the systems that enforce them. Last week, Benz broke a bombshell: USAID gives twice as much money ($27 million) to the fiscal sponsor of the group controlling Soros-funded prosecutors than Soros himself gives ($14 million). This isn’t about one billionaire’s influence – it’s about state-backed enforcement of scripted accounts. The same network that dictates what you can think is dictating who prosecutes crime, what laws are enforced, and who faces consequences.

Source: Wikileaks

USAID’s influence isn’t just about funding media control—it extends to direct political interference. It didn’t just send aid to Brazil – it funded censorship, backed left-wing activists, and helped rig the 2022 election against Bolsonaro.

Former State Department official Benz revealed that the agency waged a “holy war on censorship,” systematically suppressing Bolsonaro supporters online while bolstering opposition voices. Millions flowed to NGOs pushing leftist framing, including the Felipe Neto Institute, which received US funding while Bolsonaro’s allies were deplatformed. USAID also bankrolled Amazon-based activist groups, financed media campaigns designed to manipulate public opinion, and funneled money into Brazilian organizations that pushed for stricter internet regulations.

This wasn’t aid – it was election interference disguised as democracy promotion. USAID used American tax dollars to decide Brazil’s future, and it likely deployed similar tactics in many other countries – all under the guise of humanitarian assistance.

And it’s not just abroad. While USAID’s defenders claim it’s a tool for charity and development in poor nations, the evidence suggests something much more insidious. It’s a $40 billion driver of regime change overseas – and now, evidence points to its involvement in regime change efforts at home. Alongside the CIA, USAID appears to have played a role in the 2019 impeachment of Trump – an illegal effort to overturn a US election using the same tools of perception sculpting and political engineering it deploys abroad.

Left vs right, vaxxed vs unvaxxed, Russia vs Ukraine, believer vs skeptic (on any topic) – these false dichotomiesserve to fragment our understanding while reality itself is far more nuanced and multidimensional. Each manufactured crisis spawns not just reactions, but reactions to those reactions, creating endless layers of derivative meaning built on artificial foundations.

The real power isn’t in manufacturing individual facts, but in creating systems where false facts become self-reinforcing. When a fact-checker cites another fact-checker who cites a “trusted source” that’s funded by the same entities funding the fact-checkers, the pattern becomes clear. The truth isn’t in any individual claim – it’s in recognizing how the claims work together to create a closed system of artificial reality.

Take the vaccine debate for example: The pattern manifests before the explanation – people passionately debate efficacy without realizing the entire framework was constructed. First, they fund the research. Then they fund the media to shape the narrative. Even skeptics often fall into their trap, arguing about effectiveness rates while accepting their basic premise. The moment you debate ‘vaccine efficacy,’ you’ve already lost – you’re using their framework to discuss what is, in reality, an experimental gene therapy. By accepting their terminology, their metrics, their framing of the discussion itself, you’re playing into their constructed reality. Each layer of control is designed not just to influence opinions, but to preemptively structure how those opinions can be formed.

Like learning to spot a staged photo or hearing a false note in music, developing a reliable bullshit detector requires pattern recognition. Once you start seeing how narratives are constructed – how language is weaponized, how frameworks are built –it changes the lens with which you view the whole world. The same intelligence agencies embedding themselves in every domain that shapes our understanding aren’t just controlling information flow – they’re programming how we process that information itself.

The recursive theater plays out in real time. When USAID announced funding cuts, BBC News rushed to amplify humanitarian concerns with dramatic headlines about HIV patients and endangered lives. What they didn’t mention in their reporting? USAID is their top funder, bankrolling BBC Media Action with millions in direct payments. Watch how the system protects itself: the largest recipient of USAID media funding creates emotional propaganda about USAID’s importance while obfuscating their financial relationship in their reporting.

Source: Lindsay Penny (left), BBC website (right)

This institutional self-defense illustrates a crucial pattern: organizations funded for reality construction protect themselves through layers of misdirection. When presented with evidence, the fact-checking apparatus funded by these same systems springs into action. They’ll tell you that these payments were for standard “subscriptions,” that programs promoting gender ideology are really just about “equality and rights.” But when USAID awards $2 million to Asociación Lambda in Guatemala for “gender-affirming health care” – which can include surgeries, hormone therapy, and counseling – those same defenders conveniently omit the details, blurring the line between advocacy and direct intervention. The very organizations funded for social architecture are the ones telling you there is no social architecture. It’s akin to asking the arsonist to investigate the fire.

Like characters in a grand production, I watch old friends still trusting in institutions like the New York Times. Even this exposition becomes a potential node in the system – the very act of revealing the mechanics of control might itself be anticipated, another layer of the recursive theater. In my earlier work on technocracy, I explored how our digital world has evolved far beyond Truman Burbank’s physical dome. His world had visible walls, cameras, and scripted encounters – a constructed reality he could theoretically escape by reaching its edges. Our prison is more sophisticated: no walls, no visible limits, just algorithmic containment that shapes thought itself. Truman only had to sail far enough to find the truth. But how do you sail beyond the boundaries of perception when the ocean itself is programmed?

Sure, USAID has done some good work – but so did Al Capone with his soup kitchens. Just as the infamous gangster’s charity work made him untouchable in his community, USAID’s aid programs create a veneer of benevolence that makes questioning their larger agenda politically impossible. Philanthropic window-dressing has long been a tool for power players to shield themselves from scrutiny. Consider Jimmy Savile: a celebrated philanthropist whose charity work granted him access to hospitals and vulnerable children while he committed unspeakable crimes in plain sight. His carefully cultivated image made him beyond reproach for decades, just as institutional benevolence now serves as a protective layer for global influence operations. The true function of organizations like USAID isn’t just aid – it’s social architecture, mind shaping, and the laundering of taxpayer dollars through an intricate web of NGOs and foundations.

This layered deception is self-reinforcing – each level of manufactured reality is protected by another level of institutional authority. These institutions don’t just dictate stories; they shape the infrastructure through which narratives are disseminated. For what it’s worth, I believe most tools themselves are neutral. The same digital systems that enable mass surveillance could empower individual sovereignty. The same networks that centralize control could facilitate decentralized cooperation. The question isn’t the technology itself, but whether it’s deployed to concentrate or distribute power.

This understanding didn’t come from nowhere. Those who first sensed this artificiality were dismissed as conspiracy theorists. We noticed the coordination across outlets, the strange synchronicity of messaging, the way certain stories were amplified while others disappeared. Now we have the sales receipts showing exactly how that manipulation was funded and orchestrated.

I know this journey of discovery intimately. When I started understanding the dangers of mRNA technology, I went all in. I connected with the incredibly talented filmmaker Jennifer Sharp and helped with Anecdotals, her film about vaccine injuries. I was ready to tether my whole identity to this cause. But then I started zooming out. I began seeing how Covid might have been a financial crime designed to usher in central bank digital currency. The deeper I looked, the more I realized these weren’t isolated deceptions – it was part of a larger system of control. The very fabric of what I thought was real began to dissolve.

What disturbed me most was seeing how deeply programming relies on mimicry. Humans are imitative creatures by nature – it’s how we learn, how we build culture. But this natural tendency has been weaponized. I’d present friends with peer-reviewed studies, documented evidence, historical connections – only to watch them respond with verbatim talking points from corporate media. It wasn’t that they disagreed – it was that they weren’t even processing the information. They were pattern-matching against pre-approved chronicles, outsourcing their thinking to “trusted experts” who were themselves caught in the same web of manufactured perception. I realized then: none of us knows anything for certain – we’re all just mimicking what we’ve been programmed to believe is authoritative knowledge.

The challenge isn’t just seeing through any single deception – it’s understanding how these systems work together in complex, non-linear ways. When we fixate on individual threads, we miss the larger pattern. Like pulling a thread on a sweater and watching it unravel, eventually you realize there was no sweater in the first place – just an intricately woven illusion. Just as a hologram contains the whole image in each fragment, every piece of this system reflects the larger blueprint for reality construction.

Consider the $34 million to Politico – this isn’t just a funding stream, but a holographic reveal of the entire system. It’s not merely that Politico received money; it’s that this single transaction contains the entire blueprint of perception management. The payment itself is a microcosm: struggling media outlet, government funding, narrative control – each element reflects the whole. This recursive system protects itself through layers of self-validation. When critics point out media bias, fact-checkers funded by the same system declare it ‘debunked.’ When researchers question official accounts, journals funded by the same interests reject their work. Even the language of resistance – ‘speaking truth to power,’ ‘fighting disinformation,’ ‘protecting democracy’ – has been co-opted and weaponized by the very system it was meant to challenge.

The Covid story epitomizes this systemic manipulation. What began as a public health crisis transformed into a global experiment in narrative control – demonstrating how rapidly populations could be reshaped through coordinated messaging, institutional authority, and weaponized fear. The pandemic wasn’t just about a virus; it was a proof of concept for how comprehensively human cognition could be engineered – a single node revealing the true scope and ambition of discourse manipulation.

Think about the cycle: American taxpayers unknowingly funded the crisis itself – then paid again to be deceived about it. They paid for the development of gain-of-function research, then paid again for the messaging that would convince them to accept masks, lockdowns, and experimental interventions. The system is so confident in its psychological control that it doesn’t even bother hiding the evidence anymore.

As I’ve documented in my Engineering Reality series, this framework for consciousness management runs far deeper than most can imagine. USAID’s revelations aren’t isolated incidents – they’re glimpses into a vast system of social design that has been in operation for decades. When the same agency funding your fact-checkers is openly paying for ‘social deception,’ when your trusted news sources are receiving direct payments for ‘social architecture,’ the very framework of what we consider ‘real’ begins to crumble.

We’re not just watching events unfold – we’re watching reactions to artificial events, then reactions to those reactions, creating an infinite regression of derivative meaning. People form passionate positions about issues that were constructed, then others define themselves in opposition to those positions. Each layer of reaction fuels the next phase of steered consensus. What we’re witnessing isn’t just the spread of manufactured realities, but the architecture of cultural and geopolitical trends themselves. Artificial trends spawn authentic reactions, which generate counter-reactions, until we’ve built entire societies responding to carefully orchestrated theater. The social engineers aren’t just steering individual beliefs – they’re reshaping the very foundations of how humans make sense of the world.

These revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. Anyone paying attention to the depth and depravity of the corruption knows that this is only the beginning. As more information emerges, the illusion of neutrality, of benevolence, of institutions acting in the public interest, will crumble. No one who truly engages with this information is walking away with renewed faith in the system. The shift is only happening in one direction – some faster than others, but none in reverse. The real question is: what happens when a critical mass reaches the point where their foundational understanding of the world collapses? When they realize that the records shaping their perception were never organic, but manufactured? Some will refuse to look, choosing comfort over confrontation. But for those willing to face it, this is not just about corruption – it’s about the very nature of the reality they thought they inhabited.

The implications are staggering not just for individual awareness, but for our very ability to function as a republic. How can citizens make informed decisions when reality itself has been splintered into competing manufactured tales? When people discover that their most deeply held beliefs were shaped, that their passionate causes were scripted, that even their cultural interests and tastes were curated, that their opposition to certain systems was anticipated and designed – what remains of authentic human experience?

What’s coming will force a choice: either retreat into comfortable denial, dismissing mounting evidence as “right-wing conspiracy theories,” or face the shattering realization that the world we thought we inhabited never actually existed. My research over the past few years points to far more nefarious activities yet to be revealed – operations so heinous that many will simply refuse to process them.

As I wrote about in “The Second Matrix,” there’s always the risk of falling into another layer of controlled awakening. But the greater risk lies in thinking too small, in anchoring ourselves to any single thread of understanding. The USAID revelations aren’t just about exposing one agency’s role in shaping reality – they’re about recognizing how our very thought patterns have been colonized by recursive layers of artificial reality.

This is the true crisis of our time: not just the manipulation of reality, but the fragmentation of human consciousness itself. When people grasp that their beliefs, causes, and even their resistance were shaped within this system, they are forced to confront the deeper question: What does it mean to reclaim one’s own mind?

But here’s what they don’t want you to realize: seeing through these systems is profoundly liberating. When you understand how reality is constructed, you’re no longer bound by its artificial constraints. This isn’t just about exposing deception – it’s about freeing consciousness itself from manufactured limitations.

The jig may be up on USAID’s reality architecture operation. But the deeper challenge lies in reconstructing meaning in a world where the very fabric of reality has been woven from artificial threads. The choice we face isn’t just between comfortable illusion and uncomfortable truth. The old system demanded validation before belief. The new reality requires something else entirely: the ability to recognize patterns before they’re officially confirmed, to feel coherence across multiple domains, to step outside the crafted game completely. This isn’t about choosing sides in their manufactured binaries – it’s about seeing the pattern architecture itself.

What does this liberation look like in practice? It’s catching the pattern of a manufactured crisis before it’s fully deployed. It’s recognizing how seemingly unrelated events – a banking collapse, a health emergency, a social movement – are actually nodes in the same network of control. It’s understanding that true sovereignty isn’t about having all the answers, but about developing the capacity to sense the web of deception before it solidifies into apparent reality. Because the ultimate power isn’t in knowing every answer – it’s in realizing when the question itself has been designed to trap you inside the manufactured paradigm.

As we develop this pattern recognition capacity – this ability to see through algorithmic manipulation – what it means to be human is itself evolving. As these systems of ideological infrastructure crumble, our task isn’t just to preserve individual awakening but to protect and nurture the most conscious elements of humanity. The ultimate liberation isn’t just seeing through the deception – it’s maintaining our essential humanity in a world of tightly controlled perception.

As these systems of reality sculpting crumble, we have an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover what’s real – not through their manufactured frameworks, but through our own direct experience of truth. What’s authentic isn’t always what’s organic – in a mediated world, authenticity means conscious choice rather than unconscious reaction. It means understanding how our minds are shaped while maintaining our capacity for genuine connection, creative expression, and direct experience. The most human elements – love, creativity, intuition, genuine discovery – become more precious precisely because they defy algorithmic control. These are the last frontiers of human freedom—the unpredictable, unquantifiable forces that cannot be reduced to data points or behavioral models.

The ultimate battle isn’t just for truth – it’s for the human spirit itself. A system that can engineer perception can engineer submission. But there’s a beautiful irony here: the very act of recognizing these systems of reality construction is itself an expression of authentic consciousness – a choice that proves they haven’t conquered human perception completely. Free will cannot be engineered precisely because the capacity to see through engineered reality remains ours. In the end, their greatest fear isn’t that we’ll reject their manufactured world – it’s that we’ll remember how to see beyond it.

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USAID: The tip of the iceberg of corruption

What is the totality of what USAID has funded?

Feb 08, 2025

The mainstream media outlets will tell you that the world just simply cannot get by without USAID. They are in a tizzy about President Trump shutting the funding down.

"It's not an apple with a worm in it, its just a ball of worms." - Elon Musk

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the agency would be reduced from 14,000 to under 300 employees, and the Democrats in Congress are losing their minds, shrieking that Trump does not have the authority to eliminate Congressionally-appropriated federal agencies by Executive Order. The usual windbags like Ilhan Omar and Chuck Schumer are yelling at the top of their lungs. Someone should ask Chuck if USAID helped him amass his $81 million fortune.

I listened to an X Space hosted by Elon the other night. He said, "This reminds me of my PayPal days. When someone had an issue with their account, they would call and say, “Hey, something’s up with my account.” We would check into it and resolve the problem. The people who were engaged in fraud would call, scream, threaten to sue, etc. The ones screaming the loudest were always the ones who had the most to hide."

Bill Gates chimed when he was on The View to let “EVERYONE KNOW” that USAID is a key federal program that has “helped save millions of lives.” (Except, of course, if you’re an American. None of those trillions of dollars were spent on those who are sick and in need at home.) Gates warned that 10 million people could die around the world if funds for treating AIDS were abruptly cut off via USAID’s funding mechanism.

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What is USAID and What Are They Funding?

USAID is short for U.S. Agency for International Development, described as “the world's largest provider of humanitarian aid” giving assistance to more than 100 countries.

Fiscal year 2023 is the most recent year that data is available. During that year, USAID distributed $72 billion. The largest distribution of aid, $16 billion, went to….Ukraine. The second largest amount, $1.7 billion, went to Ethiopia as the Houthiscontinued to shell civilians.

Information is literally pouring out about what USAID funds. For example, WikiLeaks shows that USAID has been funding 6,200 journalists across over 700 media outlets (and 279 media NGOs). Did you know that USAID is funding 9 out of 10 media outlets in Ukraine? And it has given millions to news outletslike Politico, the BBC, the New York Times and The Associated Press. My colleague, Sayer Ji, calls it “the global censorship machine behind the veil of journalism.” He wrote a great substack about it here.

What Are They REALLY Funding?

Contrary to what we are told, USAID is not funding health clinics and soup kitchens. Who and what ARE they funding?

These are bad, but it gets much worse. USAID funds were used for gain-of-function research that unleashed weaponized COVID-19 on the world.

In April 2024 at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) grilled USAID Administrator Samantha Power over gain-of-function research. You can read the full transcript here. Power had stated a year earlier (April 2023) that USAID did not fund this type of research. Sen. Paul gave her a chance to correct the record, but she doubled down, and continued to deny it.

The Sen. Paul, who is also a physician, cited a 2015 journal article produced by the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Dr. Ralph Baric from University of North Carolina that thanked USAID for funding EcoHealth Alliance thorough Project Predict. The paper describe how the SARS virus was used as the “backbone” of the manufactured bioweapon. It was combined with an S protein from an unknown virus found in the wild. Senator Paul even quoted the comments from the authors of the 2015 paper:

“On the basis of these findings, scientific review panels may deem similar studies building chimeric viruses based on circulating strains too risky to pursue.” Even the authors admitted it was gain-of-function technology.

The research was funded by USAID, where funds were passed to EcoHealth Alliance through USAID’s Project Predict. Started in 2009, the program was adopted in 30 countries supposedly to “stop pandemics caused by zoonotic diseases,” and “to prevent the spread of disease from animals to humans.” In order to do this, scientists had to first create pathogenic particles in the lab that would infect humans.

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More details can by found by reading Pasheen Stonebrooke’s detailed post here. Core partners in Project Predict were certainly USAID and EcoHealth Alliance, but also Metabiota (the company Hunter Biden was involved in.) Another project, called Project DEFUSE,proposed by DARPA, requested $14,209,245 (how do they come up with these numbers?)over three years to study and sequence spike proteins found in Southeast Asian bats.

The plan was to reverse engineer the bat’s spike proteins and inject them into humanized mice to assess the capacity of bat SARS-CoV to cause disease. They would then create a prototype to assess the “likelihood of bats harboring dangerous viral pahoenes across Asia.” Project DEFUSE was briefed to 15 agencies, and one of them was USAID.

The work was to be subcontracted to Ralph Baric’s group in North Carolina and several other organizations including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the USGS National Wildlife Health Center, and the Palo Alto Research Center, tasked with “the development of novel delivery automated aerosolization mechanisms.”

Major Joseph Murphy, a U.S. Marine Corps officer, who worked at DARPA became a whistleblower regarding Project DEFUSE.

In July 2021, Major Murphy discovered that the unclassified grant proposal for the project had been uploaded to a classified portal. The proposal had been submitted by EcoHealth Alliance in May 2018 and outlined specific plans to engineer a coronavirus with characteristics similar to SARS-CoV-2. Because it was listed in the classified portal, the proposal was hidden and excluded from the Office of Director of National Intelligence's (ODNI) final August 2021 report on the virus's origins.

Even before Rand Paul’s 2024 hearings, US Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas) had demanded in 2022 that USAID cease funding EcoHealth Alliance because it had violated grant requirements and had failed to disclose COVID-19 research at the Wuhan lab. Marshall noted USAID’s incredible unwillingness to cooperate with congressional requests for information. Since that time, Peter Daszak, the lawyer who represented the organization, has been formally debarred for his role in this debacle.

Marshall and other senators also warned about the “dangerous lack of U.S. government oversight” over illegal foreign gain-of-function research. We wrote about that recently and you can read it here.

Did USAID protect the public interest by immediately suspending financial grants and awards to EcoHealth? No, they did not even though they were told to do so. Sen. Marshall covers it all in great detail on his Senate website, Press Room.

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The Tip of the Iceberg

President Donald Trump confirmed on Feb. 6 that USAID has stolen billions and billions and BILLIONS of dollars from American taxpayers, calling it “the biggest scandal of them all, perhaps the biggest in history.” USAID’s “gift-giving bonanza” (dare we say money laundering operation?) is enormous but it is merely the tip of the iceberg. Next on the audit list are NGO funding, the CDC and the mother of all black holes, the Department of Defense. Then the fireworks will REALLY begin.

Democrats are running scared. They can run, but they can’t hide from this one. As Trump says, it is “too big, too dirty.” And it has been going on for a long, long time. This screenshot only contains the first 15 countries, but holy cow. $17B to Ukraine? $3B to Israel? $733M to Yemen? And this was for only one year: 2023. To see the full list of 176 countries we gave money to in that year and the amounts go here.

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Revealing this financial bleeding and following the rabbit trails to specific organizations, and perhaps to the pockets of specific people, is going to permanently damage many members of the Uniparty and all the bureaucrats who have been involved. This is why members of Congress are screaming about the exposure and pulling out all assaults on Trump and DOGE to get it to stop. The louder they scream, the more guilty they look. Afterall, who wouldn’t want to stop this insane waste of taxpayer money that contributes to our $37,000,000,000,000 ($37T) debt burden?

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Government Waste - This is only a sample:

This list is long, but worth your time to peruse. It is disgusting.

The massive promotion of homosexuality and the Green Agenda worldwide is actually more than disgusting. No wonder the world looks at our country as an amoral perpetrator and predator. Knowledge is power. I hope it inspires you to get involved with politics, demanding answers and changes from your Senators and Representatives to CHANGE THIS financial bloodletting coming from YOUR pocketbook. Just think what your community could do with a teeny, tiny fraction of this money. Think about the great things YOU could do with 0.00001% of this money for your local organizations.

Believe it or not, this is an ABBREVIATED list of items Funded by USAID & the State Department (only 5 of the 10 pages they have put together so far). According to the White House, the following are "a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE":

Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation:

Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria

Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan benefiting the Taliban.

The Foreign Affairs Committee released the following further egregious examples:

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Other Jaw-dropping Examples:

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USAID must go

For the 14,000 employees dismissed from USAID by Sec. of State, Marco Rubio, did they know what they were doing, who and what they were funding? If they did, and they were not willing to be a whistle-blower, then they are ALL complicit in the crime. Saying, “I was just following order and doing my job” isn’t good enough.

That’s why the shutdown of USAID is way more than just a bureaucratic realignment. This is a direct hit to the globalist stronghold by cutting off the perpetual funding. The Deep State is on the ropes, a very good but very dangerous thing. Caged animals always fight back. But, as President Trump has often said, “Are you tired of winning yet?”

Let’s go. Let’s right the sinking ship and reclaim a new and restored Constitutional Republic.

We explore more of the “iceberg” in Part 2.

UPSELL EXCLUSINVE

Last week, I brought you a report of what DOGE uncovered at USAID: billions in questionable payments for various activities around the world, including payments to EcoHealth Alliance through Project Predict for gain-of-function research and payments to Bill Gates’ international vaccine organization, GAVI.

That was a lot, but there’s more. And it seems more is coming every day….

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A Dark History

Donald Trump and the DOGE team have started unraveling the massive waste of taxpayer dollars within USAID. President John F. Kennedy created USAID by executive order in 1961 to streamline and coordinate the U.S. government's overseas development efforts to provide assistance to Third World countries. He declared it to be a tool of American foreign policy, designed to “combat Soviet communist subversion worldwide.” The agency was also created to support economic development, fight poverty, and address global challenges such as hunger and disease.

However, beginning in the early 1980s, the global political landscape began to change, and diplomatic efforts such as arms reduction agreements eased tensions between the superpowers. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, USAID needed to find a reason to continue to exist. Over time, USAID’s foreign policy agendas began to reflect broader economic goals, such as a growing emphasis on LGBT rights and gender equality as part of foreign policy. After 9/11, foreign aid was increasingly used as a tool to promote counterterrorism and subtly undermine areas of strategic importance. Fast forward to today. USAID has become a massively corrupt entity. And thanks to DOGE, there will be no more secrets. All that was hidden is coming to light.

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Dems Are Screaming

As more light is shed on USAID, the congressional Dems and RINOs are screaming louder and louder, crying that what President Trump is doing is illegal. They are calling for Elon Musk’s removal from his appointed office. Reporter Michael Shellenberger points out that the Dems used to be the party that demanded reform, but now opposes it. Good point.

Dems say Trump is creating a constitutional crisis by eliminating USAID. In actuality, Trump is ending the gravy train of waste, fraud, and abuse. The opposition is mad because their perpetual ATM at USAID has been discovered and is being stopped. Among other things we’re finding out, we now know that money from USAID was behind the Russia collusion hoax, again excellently reported by Michael Shellenberger.

Here are MORE. of the absurd uses of our tax dollars:

On February 12th, Trump announced that he was going ”to read some of the names that hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars have been given to." He said he was going to name names. He had personally reviewed 200 line-item expenses and found three (3) that were legitimate. That naming conference is still forthcoming.

Sadly, the waste and fraud of USAID are the tip of the iceberg, as I stated in my previous article. Here are three PRIMARY instances that came up this week:

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Department of Education

As of 2024, the U.S. Department of Education employed approximately 4,400 full-time staff members, making it the smallest Cabinet-level department. The workforce is distributed between its headquarters in Washington, D.C., which houses about 3,100 employees, and 10 regional offices across the country, employing around 1,300 staff members. Why are there so many employees? That’s the same question President Trump is asking. If USAID was found by Sec. of State, Marco Rubio, to have 14,000 unnecessary workers, how many are going to be found in the Dept. of Education?

Trump’s pic for Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, completed her Senate hearings on February 13; as of this writing, full Senate confirmation has not yet been scheduled. During the questioning, she sketched out a plan for how key functions of the Education Department could be carved up to achieve President Donald Trump’s goal of dismantling the agency and returning the education of America’s children to state jurisdictions. McMahon said she would work towards abolishing the department while at the same time preserving core initiatives, including Title I money for low-income schools, Pell grants for low-income college students, and Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

Trump has boldly stated that he wants to shut down the Department of Education, calling it a “big con job.” DOGE has already terminated 89 contracts worth $881 million (nearly $1 billion!!) within the Department of Education. One contractor was paid $1.5M to “observe mailing and clerical operations” at a mail center.” On Feb. 14, 2025, the Department of Education further terminated 29 DEI training grants totaling $101M, that’s approximately $3.48M per contract allocated to indoctrinate your children.

The protests have already begun by no other than Senator Bernie Sanders, whosaid:

“Public education is the backbone of American democracy. It’s where all of our people come together to learn and grow. And our job is not to destroy public education, but to significantly improve it.”

Bernie is saying every student deserves the support of a public education. They do, but they are obviously not getting it through this branch of the federal government. Trump likely knows it is a big slush fund and that the funds are used to fund everything EXCEPT the education of our children.

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a captured agency also under the scrutiny of DOGE. As of the end of 2024, the EPA employed approximately 18,400 individuals, comprised of about 17,000 permanent staff and 1,400 temporary employees. On February 14, 2025, 388 temporary workers were terminated, and the Administration is considering dismissing another 1,100 EPA employees hired during the Biden era who were engaged in climate change and renewable energy projects.

On January 29, 2025, Lee Zeldin was confirmed by a Senate vote of 56 to 42 to become the 17th Administrator of the EPA. He was sworn in on the same day. Zeldin has already found $20 billion of our tax dollars parked by Biden's EPA at an outside financial institution. Zeldin reported on a video circulating months ago, where a Biden appointee boasts about "tossing gold bars off of the Titanic." This means they pushed billions of our tax dollars out the door before the inauguration—knowingly wasting them so that Trump couldn’t get his hands on the money.

But Zeldin has located the “gold bars.” He says the scheme has never before been seen in the history of the EPA. The money was deposited in a bank account and then further doled out to NGOs. For example, $7 billion went to the Climate United fund, a national coalition of non-profits focusing on solar energy, electric vehicles, and similar projects. Zeldin is in the process of working with the banks to terminate these financial agreements and recouping the money for EPA and, ultimately, the taxpayers. Journalist Matt Taibbi wrote about it in detail here; he calls it a “true, crazy, obscene story.”

Mr. Zedlin describes this atrocity in full in the video below. Worth 3 minutes of your time to listen.

One other atrocity the Biden Administration did during the last few days in office was to sign an executive order prohibiting the use of 625 million offshore acres for exploration or other financial reasons. Doug Burgum, the recently confirmed Secretary of the Interior, a position responsible for managing and conserving most federal lands and natural resources. This includes overseeing agencies such as the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Geological Survey. President Trump reversed Biden’s executive order, putting the land back on America’s balance sheet as an asset. Of note, 625 million acres is a size equivalent to 1/3 of the land mass of the lower 48 states. video here@ 11:45 minutes).

Medicare

On February 12, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt informed the American public that nearly $2.7 trillion of missing funds had been paid out to Medicare and Medicaid patients who didn’t exist, had inaccurate reporting data, or had been sent to unknown recipients overseas. This has been going on since at least 2003. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is leading the DOGE subcommittee and has found many instances of fraud. For example, a $1 million contract is awarded but only $500,000 can be accounted for. According to NewsNation, the federal government has made $2.7 trillion in payment errors since 2003. Is it any wonder they are predicting that Medicare is going to go “broke” in a few years?

Dems are already screaming about RFK Jr. being confirmed to lead HHS. On the day of his confirmation, Bobby praised President Trump’s actions against USAID, which he called a ‘sinister propagator of totalitarianism.’ Bobby is chomping at the bit to get started:

“For twenty years I’m up every morning on my knees and praying that God would put me in a position [to] end the childhood chronic disease epidemic in this country. On August 23rd of last year, God sent me President Trump.”

Bobby will certainly now set his DOGE-like sites on CMS, FDA, NIH, CDC, and even the massive budget and employment roles at HHS. The panic is visceral. Reminds me of this post:

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Trump Is On Fire - And He’s Correct

The bottom line is that Dems can try all their tricks to stop Trump. They can get corrupt judges to block his actions, and they can get mouthpieces like Jamie Raskin to pontificate about filing a class action suit against Trump “on behalf of the American people.” The problem is that it will all be to no avail. Trump is working on behalf of the American people – all of them, and particularly the 77 million who voted for him.

And then, there’s this, the bottom line:

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In a separate post, my good friend, Attorney Tom Renz, says that Trump has clear Constitutional authority to audit the finances overseen by the Treasury and every other agency. Furthermore, Trump can assign the audit to whoever he chooses, and he has chosen Elon Musk. Trump has paused USAID; he needs Congress to shut it down completely. The Dems can spew all they want about Trump’s “illegal” moves, but Trump and his team are brilliant, as Renz points out. DOGE is exposing all the fraud. He is putting tremendous pressure on the RINOs and the leftists in Congress, as only Trump can do.

Earlier this week, Trump announced that DOGE will audit the Pentagon, and late Thursday, Trump announced that DOGE will audit the IRS. Imagine what we will learn.

The pressure is on. Those who are “dirty” in government, including those in Congress who have been on the take, what are you going to do?

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Right-wing figures are spreading “plandemic” conspiracy theories about the hantavirus

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As concerns about the spread of hantavirus emerge, right-wing and far-right figures are spreading conspiracy theories on podcasts and social media that the virus came from a lab and may be a new “plandemic” (planned pandemic) created to push vaccines, disrupt upcoming elections, or achieve other nefarious goals.

The conspiracy theories are similar to those spread among the right during the COVID-19 pandemic that harmed efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus and contributed to declining vaccination rates.

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Nevertheless, the World Health Organization has said that “the risk of hantavirus spreading to the general population is ‘absolutely low,’” with the organization’s head of epidemic and pandemic preparedness saying, “This is not the start of an epidemic, this is not the start of a pandemic.”

A hantavirus vaccine is currently in development, though it could be years before it is released.

For instance, David Niño Rodriguez, a podcaster whom The Daily Beast described as “a vocal QAnon supporter,” posted on Truth Social about hantavirus, claiming that “they’re moving into desperate territory” and that the death of late actor Gene Hackman’s wife from the virus “was just the beginning. … Here we go again.”

Some were more specific about who they thought was responsible for the spread of the virus — like the World Health Organization — and their alleged nefarious reasons, which include forcing vaccines on people and “rig[ging] elections.”

Sherri Tenpenny, a podcaster with a history of spreading vaccine misinformation, suggested that the WHO may have had a role in the outbreak to help secure a treaty, claiming that “they can’t agree” on “how countries … ensure equitable access to vaccines and treatments,” and questioning if the ship outbreak was a “coincidence.”

On conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ network, host Harrison Smith said, “If I was the bad guy, you know what I would do? I’d really release the hantavirus. I would really have an actually super deadly virus spreading from person to person, and then I would release a real vaccine.”

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From the May 7, 2026, edition of The Alex Jones Network's War Room

“Pepe Deluxe,” whom Vice described as an “influential QAnon promoter,” shared a social media post — which said “LMAO - incoming plandemic” in response to news of WHO’s media briefing on hantavirus — with Pepe Deluxe also writing, “I’m sure they already have a vaccine ready 🙄.”

On another podcast, The Shannon Joy Show, gynecologist James Thorp, who has spread vaccine misinformation, claimed that “this hantavirus event and future events will be used to scare the population into taking the vaccines,” and told viewers, “Don’t ever take a vaccine for the hantavirus.”

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From a May 8, 2026, video from Ninoscorner.tv, uploaded to Rumble

JUDY MIKOVITS: So, here we are on a — here we are on a — on a cruise ship. Oh, okay. So, you've got — you've — and you're testing now not with an antibody. Take those five people and say, show me an antibody to hantavirus, meaning you've been exposed. Because if you're injected with the virus, that's the only way you can get it.

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DAVID NIÑO RODRIGUEZ (HOST): No. Wait. Hold on. Hold on. If you get — if you're injected with it, it would tell me that the vaccinated are going to be the ones —

MIKOVITS: Correct, and it's the vaccinated from the coronaviruses. The only way you will test positive for an antibody and it is to be injected with the virus. And it would have come from every booster. It would have come from the monkey mouse, cow, pig, from 1993. The last time they tried to play the hanta game was right after my PhD thesis.

A user on the far-right forum previously known as TheDonald wrote that “the best condition for a virus to spread, is an election year.”

And an article on the The Gateway Pundit for a “Contagion Emergency Kit” mused about whether hantavirus was “another plandemic” and a “transparent effort to terrorize Americans and swing the mid-terms against President Trump.”

Some social media users also pointed to a 2022 post with the text “2023: Corona ended 2026: Hantavirus” and claimed the post was proof of a “White Hat exposure operation.” A user on the conspiracy subreddit called the post “predictive programming” and said it “feels like yet another planned out, manufactured ritual.” (Pool mentioned it on his podcast as well.)

Some figures also suggested the hantavirus outbreak was caused by a lab leak in Australia. Podcaster Seth Holehouse said, “Three hundred and twenty-three vials containing deadly viruses go missing from a lab in Australia. … Two vials contain the hantavirus. Imagine that. … So, is this kind of like the precursor? Is this like the Wuhan lab leak?”

Conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 helped drive down COVID vaccination rates and primed people to reject other vaccines as well. This has had other long-term consequences, possibly contributing to declining vaccine rates and outbreaks of measles, which may lead to the U.S. losing its measles elimination status. Recycling the same claims could help further entrench that vaccine hesitancy and erode public trust in health institutions at a time when the Trump administration has already been cutting federal resources for pandemic preparedness.

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  1. ### A coronavirus conspiracy theory film attacking vaccines has racked up millions of views and engagements on YouTube and Facebook

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  1. ### New reporting links skepticism of the vitamin K shot to newborn deaths. Influencers and media figures have been fearmongering about the shot for years.

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  1. ### In 2021, the bond between QAnon and anti-vaxxers grew even stronger

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After calling for Don Lemon’s arrest, right-wing media are now celebrating it

Written by Reed McMaster & Ben Van Bloem

Published 02/02/26

Right-wing media figures called for Don Lemon's arrest, claiming he needed to be “next to fall” and made an “example out of” after he and fellow independent journalist Georgia Fort covered a January 18 protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Minnesota church. After they were arrested on January 30, right-wing media figures celebrated, calling it “a wonderful thing to happen” and stating that it was time for Lemon to “feel some trauma.”

Don Lemon was arrested by federal agents after reporting on a protest at a Minnesota church

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January 30, 2026, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show

GREGG JARRETT (GUEST): The racist overtones are conspicuous for all to see and hear on those videotapes. And then, you know, Don Lemon later appeared on a podcast, and he doubled down on it. He called the members of the church entitled white supremacists as if that somehow justifies an attack on them. You know, it's not just a despicable remark, but it tells me that they were taunted because of their race, which qualifies as a hate crime. I would have charged him with that.

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Right-wing media and MAHA figures are celebrating Trump’s Tylenol announcement and pushing unproven claims that vaccines cause autism

Some right-wing media figures celebrated the announcement while others pivoted to claim that “Tylenol is not what’s driving this epidemic” and vaccines are “the primary driver”

Written by Jack Winstanley & Payton Armstrong

Research contributions from Helena Hind & Gideon Taaffe

Published 09/26/25

President Donald Trump’s promotion of an unproven connection between the use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism has drawn widespread rebuke from world health officials and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, even as right-wing influencers cheered the news, declaring that “what was once dismissed as ‘conspiracy’ is now official policy discussion” in the Trump White House.

Right-wing media personalities and “Make America Healthy Again” acolytes have bolstered the HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.-created movement to exploit post-pandemic mistrust of public health infrastructure and pharmaceutical companies. Now, they are celebrating the president’s announcement as “incredibly bold” and the “most decisive action that could be taken.” Others highlighted Trump’s comments about vaccines, with some declaring that “Tylenol is not what’s driving this epidemic” and claiming that vaccines are “the primary driver.”

Trump announced the FDA will notify doctors that the use of Tylenol during pregnancy is linked to autism, leading OB-GYNs to denounce the policy as “not backed by the full body of scientific evidence”}:

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  1. ### How right-wing media sow distrust and confusion around vaccines and science

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  1. ### Right-wing media downplayed the likelihood of a measles outbreak. U.S. cases just reached a new high since the disease was eliminated.

07/09/25 12:07 PM EDT

  1. ### Fox News completely ignored Senate hearing with ousted CDC director Susan Monarez

09/17/25

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Disinformation abounds in the wellness community. How one anti-vax influencer broke free | PBS News

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Leah Nagy

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Some influencers in wellness communities are using their platform to promote conspiracy theories. We examine the social media phenomenon that's having a real-world impact. Stephanie Sy takes a closer look at how one mother was pulled into this world of disinformation and how she got out.

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Tonight, we examine a social media phenomenon that's having a real-world impact. Some influencers in wellness communities are using their platform to promote conspiracy theories.

Stephanie Sy takes a closer look at how one mother was pulled into this world of disinformation and how she got out.

In her home yoga studio in Topanga Canyon, west of Los Angeles, Seane Corn can breathe deeply and tune out the noise.

But when she logs on to her Instagram, it's impossible to avoid it. A yoga instructor for nearly 30 years, Corn has more than 100,000 Instagram followers. but,a few years ago, she began noticing a dark change in tone on her social media.

I started to receive a lot of information from my friends just via text, online, sending me all this propaganda, Pizzagate and their talk of drinking the blood of children.

The look of the posts blended in with the other content on her feed.

They'd be beautifully curated, the font, the colors, the layout, the photography.

Corn saw that those carefully curated facades were being used to peddle conspiracy theories about the COVID vaccine and QAnon, the belief that child sex traffickers and pedophiles have infiltrated the government and that President Trump was sent to stop them.

What's more, QAnon's online recruiters were specifically co-opting yoga language.

You bring up this yogic idea of, I can't be free unless my community is free.

Yes.

QAnon's motto is, where we go one, we go all.

Mm-hmm. And when I first heard that statement, it caught me in my throat. They also talk about the Great Awakening and the Great Reset. Language like this is also very much in alignment with spiritual principles. We are here to wake up.

And this was other yoga teachers and wellness influencers?

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Was it the majority of them?

If I was just to look at my tight-knit group of colleagues, 50/50.

Fifty percent of your inner circle of wellness teachers and influencers believe that Donald Trump was sent here for cosmic good?

Yes, I would have to say.

Derek Beres, Co-Host, "Conspirituality": OK, let me hit record.

Derek Beres is a co-host of the podcast "Conspirituality," which examines why the wellness industry is such fertile ground for counternarratives.

The intersection between the New Age and the right-wing conspiratorial thinking, I believe, is rooted in individualism. America is an individualist culture. Everything we produce and promote is all about the sovereignty of the self, and sovereignty is one of those words that crosses over between those two communities.

And it intensified during the pandemic.

So you start looking on Instagram, and then there's your favorite yoga instructor talking about child sex trafficking, and 5G causing cancer, and the vaccine that's coming is going to give you cancer or is going to kill you.

And some people looked in horror, but some people were like, wait a second, I'm going to go this route and explore this and do my research.

That phrase, "Do your own research," is rampant on anti-vaccine forums, as well as QAnon spaces. The research often leads people to what the Center for Countering Digital Hate calls the Disinformation Dozen, responsible for some 65 percent of all vaccine disinformation spread online.

They have reached tens of millions of users.

Hi. This is Dr. Mercola, helping you take control of your health.

They include Dr. Joseph Mercola, who peddles dietary supplements to his 3.6 million followers, and has claimed that hydrogen peroxide can cure COVID-19, Sherri Tenpenny, an osteopath physician who claims that wearing a mask has negative health effects, and Sayer Ji, who runs a popular alternative health Web site and shares false claims, like that the Pfizer vaccine has killed more elderly people than COVID-19.

Heather Simpson spent years under the influence of the Disinformation Dozen. She recalls how she was drawn in.

It all started when I kind of looked into the wellness community when I was trying to get pregnant, and it was like ads started popping up for anti-vaccine issues. It was like one and the same. Like, look up wellness stuff, anti-vax stuff pops up.

Simpson soon found herself watching videos about the dangers of vaccines and approached her doctor.

He was like: "You're not one of those crazy anti-vaxxers, are you?" and like conversation dead.

All of the, I feel, gaslighting by the medical community and then them just brushing me away, like, was completely opposite from what I would find on the Internet with the holistic world. They welcomed me.

Conspiracy theories gain traction when people lose trust in institutions. Alternative theories take root, espoused by authentic and relatable influencers masquerading as truth-tellers, says researcher Stephanie Baker.

Dr. Stephanie Alice Baker, University of London: Really, what's at play here, rather than social media being the cause of this kind of anti-vaccine sentiment, is that, actually, social media creates the conditions for these trust relationships and for intimacy to be fostered to a different degree.

We have got to move away from seeing misinformation as an information problem to really seeing it as a relationship problem.

Baker has examined how social media influencers may manipulate mothers like Simpson.

What we have found is that a lot of that content was dedicated towards actually specifically targeting mothers, and trying to encourage them to refuse vaccination, and really playing on this idea that a mother's intuition is superior to the abstract professional knowledge.

Mother Heather Simpson soon became an influencer herself.

Looking back, I feel like I got reported enough for misinformation that Facebook could have and perhaps should have taken that stuff down. But it was racking up so many comments and just user engagement that, why would they?

She had discovered the magic formula that makes so many wellness influencers rich. Social media algorithms are known to push more provocative content, because it increases engagement, great for the social media companies, and for people selling false promises.

Almost everyone in the wellness community that I knew was involved in a multilevel marketing company. A lot of them are stay-at-home moms or single moms. Some of them are making $20,000 a month at this point. Some are making $100,000. And so, naturally, I fell into that.

And so I sold a product that claimed basically to detox your body.

At the time, Simpson saw the scheme as a way to gain financial freedom from her husband, whom she's now separated from.

I was just doing anything I could just to get out, just be independent and be strong for my daughter and do everything I could to make an income and get out there and get out — out of there.

Simpson eventually grew disillusioned with the wellness community, a feeling that only increased during the pandemic, and led her to publicly denounce the persona she'd cultivated.

I realized, if you're not 100 percent brainwashed, you're not — yes, you are the enemy.

COVID hit the next month, and they changed their tune to: Don't mask me. I have freedom.

And I was like: Why not? Just wear a mask. Like, it could save an entire life.

She's now not only fully vaccinated. She runs a group encouraging others to get the COVID vaccine.

Seane Corn is also fighting against the tide of conspiracy theories that have gripped her yoga community, but it hasn't been easy to take a stand. When she posted a statement against QAnon, the backlash came quick.

The vitriol was intense. The messages that I received privately were definitely violent.

Her tactic for helping fellow yogis find their way back from the conspiracy brink goes back to a basic yogic principle, engaging the student in their own healing.

I want to ask questions. Like, tell me more. Why do you believe that? And then see if we can get to the root, because the root is always going to come down to fear.

It's a process, she says, and, like the practice of yoga, a slow one.

For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Stephanie Sy.

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Members of former President Donald Trump’s “inner circle,” including Lara and Eric Trump, are scheduled to appear at a North Carolina event featuring right-wing commentators who have pushed the conspiracy theory that Hurricane Helene was a controlled or manipulated weather event. The tour’s organizers, who have close ties to the Trump team, have claimed that “weather manipulation is real” and said the recent storm proves “the globalists are pulling out all the stops.”

The government did not control or manipulate the deadly hurricane. Such claims have caused significant harm to officials and first responders who are working on recovery efforts in North Carolina.

Clay Clark and Mike Flynn — who served as Trump’s national security adviser — are co-founders of the “ReAwaken America” tour. Their next stop is on October 18 and 19 in Selma, North Carolina. A promotional flyer for the event lists numerous Trump allies and surrogates as scheduled speakers, including Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, Eric Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Kash Patel, Peter Navarro, Alina Habba, Christina Bobb, Devin Nunes, and Roger Stone. (Clark said on October 11 that Lara Trump would be in attendance.)

ReAwaken America has a toxic history: Media Matters previously documented that the tour has featured at least five Hitler-promoting antisemites.

Clark, who organizes the tour, has billed the North Carolina event as featuring “basically President Trump’s inner circle.” He made similar remarks before, including saying that “Trump's inner circle is now going, they're all reaching out to our tour, to the ReAwaken America tour.”

Team Trump is sharing a stage with numerous speakers who have pushed the conspiracy theory that Hurricane Helene was the result of weather manipulation or control.

The following speakers are scheduled to speak in North Carolina, according to the ReAwaken America tour’s most recent promotional poster, and have promoted weather manipulation conspiracy theories.

Clay Clark is “a dear friend” of Eric Trump who said during an October 3 interview: “Weather manipulation is real, and the town or the area that was most devastated by the flood happens to be in a town that sits on America's largest lithium deposits.” He also encouraged people to look into HAARP.

Notably, Clark is also organizing another event in North Carolina this week: the 11th Hour Faith Leaders Meeting, which is hosted by former President Trump.

Mike Flynn is Donald Trump's disgraced former national security adviser. Trump told Flynn last year that he would bring him back if he is reelected to the White House. On social media, Flynn shared a video on October 7 which claimed that “Hurricane Helene was an ATTACK caused by Weather Manipulation!” He also suggested that “the mountains of N.C.” show that “the globalists are pulling out all the stops. Don’t worry, the real storm is coming.”

Julie Green is a “prophet” who issues bizarre and pro-Trump commentaries. Eric Trump has told Green that she’s “so incredible,” called her a “warrior,” and thanked her for their “friendship.” She claimed on October 9 that the Lord told her that the recent hurricanes were “all man-made” and that the weather events were deliberately created or manipulated as a form of “election interference.”

Seth Holehouse is a podcaster who gained fame when Donald Trump boosted an election denying video featuring him. Holehouse spent his October 3 podcast pushing conspiracy theories about the hurricane, stating: “To me, it looks like the people controlling our government and controlling these officials, whoever it is — we’re not going to get into it on this show — that what they did is they created a massive storm or they took an existing storm and they amplified it. They steered it just over top of the region they needed to absolutely destroy. Then they seized control of all the aid to make sure that nothing could be salvaged there.”

Lara Logan is a widely discredited right-wing commentator. She shared a conspiracy theory-laden video on October 6 essentially claiming that Helene was the result of weather manipulation and control and wrote: “What happened in North Carolina with Hurricane Helene? Make up your own mind. But listen to everything.”

Jane Ruby is a health misinformer and podcaster who posted a video on October 5 supposedly proving that the government steers hurricanes and wrote: “HURRICANE HELENE IS A DIRECT ATTACK ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT”. She also wrote on September 26, “IS #Helene A GOVERNMENT OPERATION? SEE ENERGY BEAMS FROM THE GROUND SHOOTING AT STORM,” and later asked: “Were Direct Energy Weapons To Supplement Hurricane Helene?”

Sherri Tenpenny is a health misinformer who has shared numerous antisemitic claims, including Holocaust denial. On October 3, she wrote: “What do Maui and North Carolina have in common? Pesky residents who won't get out of the way of the lucrative deals our government wants. In Maui, it was land. In North Carolina, it is lithium.” She also shared a post claiming, “Cloud seeding or manipulating the weather is real. Think Hurricanes Helene and, now, Milton on its way. Kills Americans, catastrophic events JUST BEFORE AN ELECTION. Voting becomes impossible for many. October surprise??” She then commented: “Weather Warfare is next level Covid.”

Ann Vandersteel is a far-right podcaster. She promoted the conspiracy theory that the hurricane was an attempt to steal lithium deposits in North Carolina and wrote: “Just hide your weather manipulation in plain sight.”

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RFK Jr. ally and campaign speaker forwarded antisemitic COVID conspiracy theory and Holocaust denial

WRITTEN BY ERIC HANANOKI

PUBLISHED 07/19/23 10:26 AM EDT

RFK Jr. and Sherri Tenpenny

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has endorsed quack doctor Sherri Tenpenny as someone who’s “leading this movement” against vaccines and recently featured her at a “health policy roundtable.” Tenpenny last year promoted the conspiracy theory that the COVID-19 vaccine is a “bioweapon” that doesn’t affect Jewish people and has shared numerous antisemitic claims on social media, including Holocaust denial and praise for The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Tenpenny’s promotion of the conspiracy theory about Jewish people and the COVID-19 vaccine is newly relevant as Kennedy recently made a similar claim, stating that there’s “an argument” that COVID-19 is “ethnically targeted,” adding: “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” 

Kennedy is scheduled to speak at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the weaponization of the federal government on Thursday.

Tenpenny is an anti-vaccine commentator who became well-known after she falsely claimed during a 2021 hearing in Ohio that the COVID-19 vaccine makes you “magnetized.” She predicted last year that “by the end of 2022,every fully vaccinated person over the age of 30 may have the equivalent of full-blown vaccine-induced immune suppressed AIDS.” She has become one of the leading online promoters (along with Kennedy) of false claims about vaccines.

Tenpenny has been a significant ally of Kennedy over the years. She participated in a Kennedy campaign “health policy roundtable” last month, where she was described by Kennedy as a “renowned” critic “of prevailing health policy.” She has numerous other connections to the presidential candidate:

Kennedy has endorsed her work, telling people in response to their concerns about vaccines: “There’s a couple of things that people should be doing … They need to join the organized resistance, which means joining Children’s Health Defense, supporting what you do, Polly, with vacs too, supporting Dell, supporting Rashid Buttar and Sherri Tenpenny, the people who are stalwarts, who are leading this movement.”

Tenpenny has said of Kennedy: “I've known Bobby personally for a long time. You know, we've had dinner together multiple times. We've shared the stage at various conferences. He's wicked smart.”

She was featured as an “expert” in a 2021 event with Kennedy “regarding the safety and effectiveness of the COVID vaccine.”

She was a guest in 2020 on Kennedy’s show Truth, where she was described as a “renowned physician.”

Children’s Health Defense, which was founded by Kennedy, has featured Tenpenny in videos as an expert and has published her writing.

She appeared on the now-defunct Russian-funded network RT America with Kennedy about vaccines.

Kennedy has numerous connections to other extremists, including a fringe commentator who claimed that “Hitler was a Rothschild” and that he was “utterly set up.” His presidential campaign has been cheered on by right-wing media figures and — after floating his Jewish COVID conspiracy theory — anti-semites and neo-Nazis. Children’s Health Defense has also conducted outreach to neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and QAnon users on the far-right platform Gab.

Tenpenny has a history of promoting antisemitic material on social media. The following are numerous examples.

Tenpenny promoted Jewish “bioweapon” conspiracy theory. In January 2022, Tenpenny shared a video of conspiracy theorist Lee Merritt that has the title, “Ashkenazi Jews not affected by mass sterilization through covid vaccines.” Tenpenny wrote: “Ever hear of race-specific bioweapons? A race-specific bioweapon is a bioweapon designed to affect only certain races, or genetic profiles to which certain genes are common. #Sterilization #BioWeapon #Ashkenazi.”

Sherri Tenpenny bioweapon claim

Tenpenny shared a video featuring someone falsely claiming that “the historical evidence is hugely against 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler.” Tenpenny forwarded a post featuring Holocaust denier Bishop Richard Williamson stating: “I believe that the historical evidence is hugely against 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler. I believe there were no gas chambers.” Tenpenny’s post was uncovered by the Center for Countering Digital Hate and provided to Insider.

Sherri Tenpenny Holocaust forward

Tenpenny has repeatedly criticized the removal of Holocaust denier material on social media. Tenpenny responded to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s statement that he would ban Holocaust denier content by writing: “Thank you for your honesty on your censorship decisions which remove the right to Freedom of Speech.” She has also attacked UNESCO after it criticized Holocaust denier material, writing: “UNWSCO is Calling for massive censorship on Telegram & other platforms to be in effect by 2023. #NoCensorship #FreeSpeech #SocialMedia.”

Tenpenny forwarded a post which claimed: “Since all the CEOs of the major vaccine manufacturers are Jewsmy questions is do these Jews get the real vaccine or saline in the publicity staged vaccine shows?” Tenpenny’s post was uncovered by the Center for Countering Digital Hate and provided to The Jewish Chronicle.

Tenpenny praised a film promoting The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. She wrote in 2020: “*THE PLAN EXPOSED*: Janet Ossebaard's *The Protocols of Zion*.  An exact blueprint and illustration of how they took control!” The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum wrote of that publication: “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is the most notorious and widely distributed antisemitic publication of modern times. Its lies about Jews, which have been repeatedly discredited, continue to circulate today, especially on the internet. The individuals and groups who have used the Protocols are all linked by a common purpose: to spread hatred of Jews.”

The Tenpenny-endorsed video begins by stating: “The Protocols of Zion, dismissed as a hoax. But we can assure you, after months of in-depth research, that they are not. They were slightly ordered, yes, but they are not a hoax.”

Tenpenny forwarded a post that attacked “(((Ukraine)))” and “the (((WHO)))” and concluded: “Same tribe every time [Star of David emoji].” The triple parentheses is also known as an echo and is used by antisemites to identify Jewish people. Tenpenny’s post was previously reported by Mother Jones.

Sherri Tenpenny forwards "same tribe" antisemitism

Tenpenny promoted the conspiracy theory that the “Rothschilds patented the COVID-19” tests in 2015 and 2017. The claim about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family that is the subject of numerous antisemitic conspiracy theories, is false.

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A 2021 Center for Countering Digital Hate analysis concluded that Tenpenny is among the top twelve people spreading COVID-19 misinformation and pseudoscientific anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms. She has falsely asserted that the vaccines magnetize people and connect them with cellphone towers.[2][3][4]}:}:

Education and career

Tenpenny graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toledo in 1980 and received a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Missouri in 1984.[5] From 1986 to 1998, Tenpenny was the director of the emergency department at Blanchard Valley Hospital in Findlay, Ohio. She opened an osteopathic practice in 1994 and went on to establish two more practices in 1996 and 2011.[6]

Anti-vaccination activism

Tenpenny had scheduled a speaking tour in Australia to occur starting in February 2015, but in January, after objections were raised to her anti-vaccination views, all the venues at which she was scheduled to speak cancelled the talks, and the tour was called off.[7][8] Tenpenny has been criticized by the Stop The Australian Anti-Vaccination Network for "endangering people's health" and "targeting vulnerable parents".[6]

Since 2017, Tenpenny and her business partner, Matthew Hunt, have taught asix-week, $623 course titled "Mastering Vaccine Info Boot Camp" designed to "sow seeds of doubt" regarding public health information. During the course, Tenpenny explains her views on the immune system and vaccines, and Hunt instructs participants on how best to use persuasion tactics in conversation to communicate the information.[9]

Tenpenny promotes anti-vaccination videos sold by Ty and Charlene Bollinger and receives a commission whenever her referrals result in a sale,[10] a practice known as affiliate marketing.[11]

A Facebook page managed by Tenpenny was deactivated in December 2020 as part of the social network's efforts to reduce the amount of misinformation on the platform.[12] Nevertheless, a March 2021 analysis of Twitter and Facebook anti-vaccine content found Tenpenny to be one of 12 individual and organization accounts producing up to 65% of all anti-vaccine content across several social media platforms.[3] Some of Tenpenny's interviews with anti-vaccination activists and conspiracy theorists have attracted a large audience on Rumble, a video-sharing platform that does not have policies against disinformation.[13]

COVID-19 misinformation

Tenpenny advocated against the use of face coverings as a COVID-19 mitigation tool[14] despite scientific evidence in favor of their effectiveness.[15][16][17][18]

In a February 2021 video, Tenpenny claimed that COVID-19 vaccines cause death and autoimmune diseases, saying "Some people are going to die from the vaccine directly, but a large number of people are going to start getting horribly sick and get all kinds of autoimmune diseases, 42 days to maybe a year out." There is no evidence to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines cause autoimmune diseases or death.[19][20][21]

In an April 2021 BitChute video, Tenpenny reiterated claims that COVID-19 vaccines lack testing and led to long-term health effects. Neither statement contains scientific merit or accuracy.[22] On May 17, 2021, Reuters issued a fact-check refuting Tenpenny's claim that COVID-19 vaccines affect sperm and fertility. The news organization reiterated that there is no scientific evidence to back these false claims.[23]

Called by Republicans as an expert witness before a June 2021 hearing of the Ohio House Health Committee,Tenpenny promoted the false claim that COVID-19 vaccines cause people to become magnetized such that metal objects stick to their bodies, adding "There’s been people who have long suspected that there’s been some sort of an interface, yet-to-be-defined interface, between what’s being injected in these shots and all of the 5G towers."[24][25][26] The video of her testimony was widely circulated, and in early July 2021Twitterpermanently suspended Tenpenny's account for "violating its COVID-19 misinformation policy".[27][28] Her YouTube account was removed in September 2021 for breaking the company's policies on COVID-19 misinformation.[29]

As Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Tenpenny claimed in posts laden with anti-semitic references that this event was manufactured as a distraction to mask new pandemic restrictions.[30] In 2022 she claimed that COVID-19 vaccines will turn people into "transhumanist cyborgs"[31] and that "by the end of 2022, every fully vaccinated person over the age of 30 may have the equivalent of full-blown vaccine-induced immune suppressedAIDS."[32]

A December 2021 de Beaumont Foundation report cited Tenpenny as one of two extreme examples of a "small subset of [...] physicians" making "disproven claims" about COVID vaccines.[33][34]

Tenpenny participated in an online fundraising event to support the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The round table, held June 27, 2023, brought together several prominent anti-vaccination activists, such as Mikki Willis, Sayer Ji, Charles Eisenstein, Del Bigtree and Joe Mercola.[35]

Medical license suspension

On August 9, 2023, the State Medical Board of Ohio indefinitely suspended Tenpenny's medical license and imposed a $3,000 fine after two years of refusal to respond to questions or participate in her board hearings.[39][40][41] Her license was restored in 2024 and expired in 2025.[1][2]

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Ohio doctor who said COVID shot makes people magnetic owes $700K in taxes

Laura A. Bischoff

Columbus Dispatch

May 5, 2026, 2:18 p.m. ET

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, a nationally known "medical freedom" activist based in Cuyahoga County, owes nearly $700,000 in back taxes, interest and penalties, a federal judge ruled.

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CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio doctor who drew national attention when she claimed COVID-19 vaccines made people magnetic is being sued by the federal government over claims she hasn’t paid nearly $650,000 in federal taxes and late fees.

The lawsuit, filed last month in federal court in Cleveland, claims Sherri Tenpenny didn’t pay taxes in 2001, 2012 and 2013.

Tenpenny, an osteopathic doctor, has been licensed in Ohio since 1984. She told Cleveland.com that she’s tried to settle the dispute with the several times.

“This shows what the IRS can do to a person that they target,” Tenpenny told the newspaper. “This is a total harassment case. They’ve been doing this to me for 23 years.”

The lawsuit alleges that Tenpenny owes $646,929 overall, most of it late fees and penalties. It says she set up payment plans but didn’t finish paying her taxes for the three years cited.

Tenpenny, who lives in Middleburg Heights, drew national attention when she urged Ohio legislators to block vaccine requirements and mask mandates during the coronavirus pandemic, claiming that the shots made their recipients “interface” with cell towers and interfered with women’s menstrual cycles.

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wASHINGTON – Five prominent anti-vaccine organizations that have been known to spread misleading information about the coronavirus received more than $850,000 in loans from the federal Paycheck Protection Program, raising questions about why the government is giving money to groups actively opposing its agenda and seeking to undermine public health during a critical period.

The groups that received the loans are The National Vaccine Information Center, Mercola Com Health Resources LLC, Informed Consent Action Network, Children’s Health Defense Co., and the Tenpenny Integrative Medical Center, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a U.K.-based advocacy group that fights misinformation, which conducted the research using public documents. The group relied on data released in early December by the Small Business Administration in response to a lawsuit from The Washington Post and other news organizations.

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Trump fans panic over anti-vaccine doctor's Truth Social ban

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Prolific anti-vaccine doctor temporarily banned on Truth Social, causing panic among Trump fans. Katie Dowd, SFGATE. June 16, 2022. FILE: People arrive at ...

Sherri Tenpenny

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Sherri Tenpenny is a licensed osteopathic physician and anti-vaccine advocate based in suburban Cleveland. Tenpenny is the author of “Saying No To Vaccines: A ...

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Jun 9, 2021 — An anti-vaccine activist falsely claimed during a hearing with Ohio state legislators that the COVID-19 vaccines are mag.

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Aug 31, 2021 — For Sherri Tenpenny, God is on the side of those who spurn Covid-19 vaccines. Making money, critics say, is the Ohio osteopath's higher ...

Sherri Tenpenny

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Sherri J. Tenpenny is an American anti-vaccination activist and conspiracy theorist who promulgates the disproven hypothesis that vaccines cause autism.

Notable work: Saying No to Vaccines

Years active: 1986–present

How Republican Vaccine Opposition Got to This Point

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Sep 12, 2021 — In recent months, Republican skepticism of Covid vaccines and their rollout has grown louder: One recent poll found that 47 percent said ...

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Jun 9, 2021 — In a packed hearing room at the Ohio Statehouse, Republican lawmakers gave the microphone to a known conspiracy theorist who has spread ...

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Jun 9, 2021 — People are sticking pennies, keys, and forks to their bodies to “prove” the COVID-19 shot magnetized them. They are absolutely insane.

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Ohio Doctor Falsely Claims Covid Vaccines Are Magnetized

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Jun 9, 2021 — Ohio doctor and conspiracy theorist, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, falsely claims that the Covid-19 vaccine is “magnetizing” people.

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Jan 18, 2021 — The groups that received the loans are The National Vaccine Information Center, Mercola Com Health Resources LLC, Informed Consent Action ...

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Sherri Tenpenny is an influential religious-right anti-vaccine activist who has testified before the Ohio state House, appeared on Charlie Kirk’s podcast, and been a speaker at multiple ReAwaken America events, where she has shared the stage with the likes of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Eric Trump, Mike Lindell, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone,and Alex Jones.

Despite the fact that Tenpenny is an osteopathic doctor with no expertise on vaccines, she regularly appears on right-wing programs where she spreads wild conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines.

Recently, she has begun to claim that COVID-19 vaccines are designed to create “quantum entanglement” between those who take them and the internet in an effort to turn humanity into “transhumanist cyborgs.”

“The stated goal is to depopulate the planetand the ones that are left, either make them chronically sick or turn them into transhumanist cyborgs that can be manipulated externally by 5G, by magnets, by all sorts of things,” Tenpenny said during an appearance on “The Stew Peters Show” Thursday night. “I got dragged through the mud by the mainstream media when I said that inMay of last year in front of the House committee in Columbus, [Ohio]. Well, guess what? It’s all true.”

“The whole issue of quantum entanglement and what the shots do in terms of the frequencies and the electronic frequencies that come inside of your body andhook you up to the ‘Internet of Things,’ the quantum entanglement that happens immediately after you’re injected,” she continued.

“You get hooked up to what they’re trying to develop. It’s called the hive mind, and they want all of us there as a node and as anelectronic avatar that is an exact replica of us except it’s an electronic replica, it’s not our God given body that we were born with. And all of that will be running through the metaverse that they’re talking about. All of these things are real, Stew. All of them. And it’s happening right now. It’s not some science fiction thing happening out in the future; it’s happening right now in real time

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Anti-vaxx 'expert' claims vaccines will turn people into ‘transhumanist cyborgs' controlled by 5G"

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