A "Blizzard" Gives Mayor Zohran Mamdani Pretext for a "Climate Lockdown" https://brownstone.org/articles/a-blizzard-gives-mayor-zohran-mamdani-pretext-for-a-climate-lockdown/ via @brownstoneinst
I may be one of the luckiest people on earth.
I made it to the age of 48 without death impacting me.
48 years without losing a sibling, a close friend, child, niece or nephew, college roommate or parent.
I lay my dad to rest this week and am overwhelmed with gratitude that not only did I get 6 yrs to say goodby and that he got 2 years more life than the average American, but he was the first in my close circle to go.
I don’t know anyone else that has been so blessed.
Drug regulators speed approval of promising new drugs but, as expected, they have more post-approval safety concerns than standard approval drugs https://bit.ly/46q3vIf. Regulators don’t care that our drugs are the leading cause of death https://bit.ly/4qW6qji. They should.
Ich habe die Petition gegen die Schließung des Berliner Winckelmann-Instituts unterzeichnet, auch wenn die Initiatoren die Plattform WeAct des fragwürdigen Vereins Campact dafür nutzen.
Politisch "sehr korrekt", erschwert WeAct das Teilen auf X.
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/schliessung-des-instituts-fur-archaologie-an-der-hu-berlin
🚨 TYRANNY NEVER AGAIN 🚨
Please read, sign, and share
“This resolution does not assign blame. It does not trade in fear. It reasserts constitutional limits. It stands as notice to the future: emergency powers must never again override liberty, evidence, or human dignity.”
Als jemand, der täglich in Berlin unterwegs ist, muss ich sagen: Es wird von Jahr zu Jahr schlimmer. Mehr Dreck, der vor sich hingammelt. Mehr Schmutz, der keinen kümmert. Abfall liegt tagelang unter, vor und neben den Abfallkörben. Wild entsorgter Sperrmüll liegt wochenlang auf dem Trottoir. U-Bahn-Stationen bleiben jahrelang Baustellen. Immer mehr beschmierte Wände und Häuser, kaputte Menschen, Dinge, die einfach nicht funktionieren. Jeder einzelner Politiker von CDUSPDGRÜNENLINKEN, der hierfür Verantwortung trägt, hätte es verdient, vor die Stadttore getrieben zu werden. Damit er sein Glück, das das Unglück der Berliner ist, woanders suche. Es ist eine einzige kranke Zumutung, die sich in der deutschen Hauptstadt Normalität nennt. Jeder möge einen Bogen um sie machen. Man schämt sich nur noch.
The Iranian people are so courageous and demanding freedom!
Get Khamenei!
Let Josh know how you feel-
Calling AAP “quality” science. 🤦🏼♀️
An der Stelle des staatlichen Gulag-Museums entsteht ein Museum, das an den «Genozid am sowjetischen Volk» durch die Nazis erinnern soll. Der Vorgang ist beispielhaft für die neue Geschichtspolitik, aber stösst auch von unerwarteter Seite auf Kritik. https://www.nzz.ch/international/russland-gulag-museum-muss-erinnerung-an-nazi-verbrechen-weichen-ld.1926122?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=20260225699bfcf444c4e21fcfd7cf8a
Mayor Mamdani and AOC team up to announce "free" (taxpayer-paid) childcare for all, regardless of "immigration status." This will strengthen the magnet effect when a Democratic president re-starts the flow of illegal crossers at the US-Mexico border.
Der verliebte @kaiwegner regiert sowohl die Stadt als auch die CDU in Grund und Boden.
I've signed! You should too!
Mit dem Zweiten lügt man besser.
🧊 The Little Ice Age: The Climate Change Event They Forgot
Many believe climate change is a uniquely modern crisis. But history tells a far more complex story.
In this Freedom Research original documentary, we explore the dramatic climate shifts of the past 1,000 years, from the Medieval Warm Period, when Vikings farmed Greenland, to the devastating Little Ice Age, when the River Thames froze over, and famine swept across Europe.
Featuring insights from world-renowned physicist Prof. William Happer and distinguished atmospheric scientist Prof. Richard Lindzen.
Watch and share!
@CO2Coalition @ccdeditor @TomANelson @curryja @ClimateRealists @DaveAtherton20 @FriendsOScience @Martin_Durkin >@Mangan150
Dass Kinder von klein auf mit den kunterbunten Welten der digitalen Medien aufwachsen, stellt die Schule vor Probleme. Mit der Zumutung des Lesens vermögen Schüler immer weniger umzugehen – dabei wären Bücher das seelisch reichhaltigste und... https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/digitale-medien-werden-immer-verfuehrerischer-und-raffinierter-doch-sie-liefern-meist-nur-vorgefertigte-welten-ld.1920844?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=20260225699bfcf444c4e21fcfd7cf89
Don’t let social media convince you everyone’s awful and against you.
Most people are more like these guys.
Mit der größten Wirtschaftsdelegation seit Jahren reist @_FriedrichMerz nach Peking – und vollzieht dabei eine bemerkenswerte Korrektur seiner eigenen #China-Rhetorik. Zwischen De-Risking und Realpolitik deutet vieles auf einen pragmatischeren Kurs hin. https://www.cicero.de/aussenpolitik/merz-besuch-in-china-peking
The risk of recurrent ischemic stroke can be reduced by managing modifiable risk factors and instituting a regimen of mechanism-specific secondary stroke prevention. Strategies for secondary prevention should be instituted as early as possible. Learn more: https://nej.md/3OFpJ2C
The response to Jesse Singal’s NYT oped about the unreliability of US medical organizations regarding pediatric gender medicine is best characterized as a 24-hour tantrum, one with violent overtones.
💬 Editorial: The SHARP study finds that ERCP with minor papillotomy does not reduce recurrence of acute #pancreatitis in patients with pancreas divisum and idiopathic recurrent pancreatitis compared with sham ERCP.
https://ja.ma/3ZUKJVO
Let me tell you what happened before I got to the OR this week.
My patient needed surgery. I recommended it. My training, my board certification, and my years of clinical experience all pointed to one answer. The insurance company had a different one: not yet.
That’s prior authorization and it is breaking American medicine.
Here’s the number that should stop you cold: in a prospective multicenter study of orthopedic subspecialty practices across 6 states, 98.5% of prior authorization requests were ultimately approved when recommended by a fellowship-trained, board-certified orthopedic surgeon.
98.5%.
The system isn’t catching bad medicine. It is a delay machine that consumes enormous resources, causes real patient harm, and exists primarily to make the economics of denial work in the insurer’s favor.
The 2024 AMA survey of 1,000 physicians put numbers to what every physician already knows:
- 39 prior authorizations per physician per week averaging 13 hours of physician and staff time
- 93% of physicians say PA delays patient care
- 82% say patients commonly abandon their recommended treatment because of PA
- 29% report PA caused a serious adverse event — hospitalization, permanent damage, or death
- 61% are concerned insurers are now using AI to systematically increase denial rates, with some tools producing denials up to 16 times higher
This is not utilization management. This is obstruction at scale. Surgery is precision and focused on minimizing collateral damage. Prior authorization is brute force with disregard for the collateral damage.
In my world, delay has a clinical cost. A patient waiting on PA for fracture repair, joint replacement, or spinal stabilization is losing function and sometimes losing the window for the best possible outcome. That cost never shows up on an insurer’s earnings call. Given that the average patient is on an insurer’s books go 3 years, delays can sometimes mean making someone else pay the bill for the necessary treatments.
The consensus statement insurers signed in 2018, promising PA reform? Seven years later, only 16% of physicians working with UnitedHealthcare say anything has actually changed. They made another promise to Secretary Kennedy and Administrator Oz recently but is there any real change coming?
Voluntary reform has failed. Legislative and regulatory action is the only path forward and physicians need to be loud enough for long enough that lawmakers act.
Here is what @usask medical school students are learning in MEDC 409.8, Preparation for Residency
Die SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG berichtet über die Plagiatsvorwürfe gegen Alena Buyx:
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/plagiatsvorwuerfe-alena-buyx-muenchen-li.3394133?reduced=true
Announcing the Covid Justice Resolution!
From Children's Health Defense this morning:
Dear Friends,
Last night during the State of the Union, President Donald Trump focused heavily on how he is working hard to repair America's economy. But what wasn't mentioned was the original sin that truly destroyed our economy; the government response to the COVID crisis.
For years, Americans have waited for an honest reckoning with the COVID-19 response. We have called for truth, accountability, and constitutional principle rather than the institutional amnesia we have seen.
Today, we are proud to officially launch a new national initiative in partnership with a coalition of leading medical freedom, civil liberties, and public policy organizations: The COVID Justice Resolution.
This landmark resolution, if adopted by the U.S. Senate, will represent a unified stand to examine what occurred during the COVID-19 era, repudiate the most harmful emergency policies, and establish binding principles to ensure these violations of liberty are never repeated.
Add your name today to urge the Senate to officially adopt this resolution.
Sign the Resolution here: https://covidjustice.org/
From prolonged school closures and business shutdowns to medical mandates, censorship, and emergency powers that bypassed constitutional limits — the last several years saw an unprecedented suspension of civil liberties in the United States.
There has been no real reckoning.
This resolution is a first step.
Developed by several, powerful partner organizations, including @AutismActionNet, @ChildrensHD, Health Freedom Defense Fund, @standforhealth1, and @brownstoneinst, this resolution:
- Repudiates the most harmful COVID-era policies
- Affirms constitutional rights during public-health emergencies
- Establishes guardrails on future emergency powers
- Protects bodily autonomy, free speech, and religious liberty
We are drawing a clear line for the future.
Click the link below to Add Your Name Today!
Thank you for standing with us in truth for justice.
The Children’s Health Defense Team
Coalition for COVID Justice
Remember what happened.
Ensure it never happens again.
Kentucky Medical Freedom Coalition 💞
I wish I knew how many signatures this needs before national press starts writing about it. 500K? 1M? https://covidjustice.org
Rachida Dati wuchs in einfachen Verhältnissen auf. Sie wurde Richterin, Ministerin, Europaabgeordnete. Nun will sie Bürgermeisterin von Paris werden. Und könnte an ihrem Anspruch scheitern. https://www.nzz.ch/international/kampf-um-das-pariser-rathaus-rachida-dati-will-einmal-mehr-beweisen-dass-man-in-frankreich-alles-schaffen-kann-ld.1924819?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=20260225699bfcf444c4e21fcfd7cf88
What if we just accepted femme men, butch women, and androgyny? And let people keep their nerve endings, nonconformity, and sex?
Why isn't that the goal?
"Schauspielende" 🙄🙄🙄
#GenderSprech
Green beret @DocPeteChambers was fired for giving informed consent to his troops. He has less money because unlike Abbott, he can’t be bought.
BREAKING: Global broad money supply surged +$13.6 trillion YoY, or +10.4%, in December 2025, to a record $144 trillion.
This marks the 3rd consecutive monthly acceleration in growth.
Since 2000, global money supply has risen +$118 trillion, a +7.0% compounded annual growth rate over 25 years.
Since the 2020 pandemic alone, money supply has surged +$44 trillion, or +44%.
The fastest increase over this period was recorded in February 2021, at +18.7%.
Global money creation has never moved this fast outside of a crisis.
R to @LancetChildAdol: 2⃣ SPIRIT-Children and Adolescents (SPIRIT-C) 2026 extension statement: http://tinyurl.com/3bdu5sm3
NIUS Exklusiv! Vor den 1.100 versammelten Mitarbeitern gesteht ZDF-Chefredakteurin Bettina Schausten: Das KI-Video wurde wissentlich verwendet. #zdf
R to @LancetChildAdol: 1⃣ CONSORT-Children and Adolescents (CONSORT-C) 2026 extension statement: http://tinyurl.com/3rpcpj2j
R to @Quo_vadis_BRD: 5/ „Die Ergebnisse liefern eine Erklärung für die aktuellen Rekord-Krankenstände.“
https://www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/ueberblick/nako-studie-pandemie-hinterlaesst-mentale-langzeitfolgen/68603744
Uncertainty remains in the evidence base for child and adolescent health. Trial quality is inconsistent, numbers lag behind adults, and young people’s needs are often inadequately considered.
🆕 in >@LancetChildAdol, CONSORT-C and SPIRIT-C guideline extensions mark a new era for child and adolescent health research.
Adopt today: http://spkl.io/6017Av4tP
R to @Quo_vadis_BRD: 4/ Brisant: „Besonders belastet waren in der Analyse der NAKO-Studie jüngere Erwachsene unter 40 Jahren sowie Frauen. Mittleres und höheres Alter wirkten dagegen eher schützend.“
Diejenigen, die also aufgrund ihres Alters durch das Virus SARS-CoV-2 so gut wie nicht ernsthaft gefährdet waren, litten demnach - vermutlich durch das drakonische polit. Corona-Management - verstärkt an psychischen Problemen. Was für ein Public-Health-Versagen!
https://www.aerzteblatt.de/news/depressions-und-angstsymptome-haben-wahrend-der-coronapandemie-zugenommen-5bb4390e-4383-4906-a6de-ec08beca4c14
https://archive.is/r2fLK
President Trump,
When you announce his elimination, make sure you say "he died like a rat", instead of your iconic "he died like a dog".
Thank you.
@JesslovesMJK @Kevin_McKernan @Jikkyleaks
The question you should be asking is why in December the US government made Eliquis free for US citizens.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bristol-myers-squibb-announces-agreement-200500200.html
Gute Arbeit in Thüringen danke.