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CHD Scientists Call for Retraction of Danish Study Claiming Aluminum in Vaccines Is ‘Safe’

The controversial 2025 Danish study on aluminum in vaccines should be immediately retracted because the study’s own data contradict the authors’ conclusion, according to a new peer-reviewed article by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker and Senior Research Scientist Karl Jablonowski.

Hooker and Jablonowski’s article was published this week in Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal.

Jablonowski told The Defender that the Danish study, published July 15, 2025, in the Annals of Internal Medicine, is “a good lesson in how bad science can propagate.”

The study claimed to find no link between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 negative health outcomes, including autism, asthma and autoimmune disorders.

Since then, the Danish study has been cited 36 times in published research as evidence that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines are safe, Jablonowski said.

The study received so much media and academic attention that it ranked in the top 5% of all research outputs, according to Altmetric, a data influence company.

But that attention doesn’t mean the Danish authors’ conclusions were correct, Jablonowski said. In their critique, he and Hooker presented a detailed analysis showing a mismatch between the Danish study’s data and the authors’ conclusions.

“The study that convinced the world that aluminum in vaccines does not cause autism was a facade,” Jablonowski said. That facade crumbled under scrutiny, he said.

“We were left with a heap of unanswered questions and evidence that aluminum in vaccines is positively associated with neurodevelopmental disorders.”

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Lawyers warn ‘hundreds or thousands’ may have been wrongfully convicted over Alberta court interpreter failures

Hundreds or even thousands of people could have been wrongfully convicted or subjected to miscarriages of justice because of inadequate interpretation in Alberta courts, lawyers are warning after internal documents revealed authorities knew about longstanding problems with the system.

The issue, as reported by the Edmonton Journal’s Jonny Wakefield, has surfaced in the case of Ramjit Sandhu, who was convicted of sexual assault earlier this year following a second trial.

Sandhu’s original guilty verdict was thrown out after the Alberta Court of Appeal found the Punjabi interpretation provided during his first trial was “seriously inadequate.”

His lawyer, Kristofer Advent, subsequently obtained internal documents showing concerns about Alberta’s court interpretation system had been raised for years.

A 2021 report from a now-defunct Court Interpreters Review Committee acknowledged “the hiring of unqualified interpreters is an issue” and was not limited to isolated incidents.

The report warned the problems could lead to unnecessary adjournments, appeals and new trials.

Advent said the implications could be considerably more serious.

“Basically what they acknowledge in there is ‘inaccurate resolution of cases,’ which is nice language for wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice,” he said.

A separate 2024 review commissioned by Alberta’s Ministry of Justice found the province had no formal process for verifying interpreter credentials, no standardized training requirements, no centralized database of qualified interpreters and no formal complaints system.

The government receives approximately 5,000 requests for court interpretation services every year.

The 2024 review also reported that consultations found many interpreters were either not proficient in the languages they claimed to speak or lacked the skills necessary to provide court interpretation.

Judges interviewed for the review reported cases had resulted in mistrials or successful appeals because of poor interpretation.

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Michelle Obama Accused of Being a ‘Raging Narcissist’ After ‘Psychotic’ Rant About Her Own Children

Everyone is taught from a young age that there are two things we should be mindful of before we speak: What we say, and how we say it.

I think, after hearing former first lady Michelle Obama talk about the burdens of motherhood, we can decisively add a third leg to this stool: It matters when you say it, too.

For those of you who haven’t been paying attention, Michelle Obama — like every person with a modicum of fame, a microphone, and some free time — is now a podcaster. This seems more like a vanity project, since I’ve never found her “IMO” podcast with her brother Craig Robinson particularly necessary listening except when something goes very wrong. But she’s kept at it, for better or for worse.

And being a former first lady, not to mention someone who repeatedly gets mentioned in potential presidential candidate speculation, she gets big-name guests. In this case, it was Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show,” who talked, lovingly, about missing the routines of fatherhood once his children moved out of the house.

“You obviously miss, you know, the energy and excitement of the kids being around is so incredible,” he said.

Michelle’s response to that?

“I don’t. I love them. I’m going to see them tonight for dinner. I love them,” she said. “But, you know, Barack cried when they went to college. I was like, ‘Bye, goodbye.’

“Now I know Friday nights aren’t wrecked with terror and fear about, ‘Where are you? Where are you?’” she continued. “I love their emancipation and growth.”

Stewart seemed to realize that maybe this didn’t come across so well and tried to save his host: “The thing I miss, though, is the job. Like, don’t you miss—your kids are still in high school, so it’s still a job. Like, it gave a meaning and a pattern to my life.”

Nope: “I’m good,” Michelle said.

She said fathers “can be that way” because mothers — presumably including herself — have more dealings with their children at a young age.

“I mean, I’ve had so much quality time with my children,” she said.

Thus, she said, she now had relief from the drudgery having to have them to worry about.

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DOJ Admits Anti-Christian Bias

The Justice Department’s own announcement describes a report — variously cited at 200, 210, and 565 pages across different DOJ statements, with roughly 1,200 footnotes — compiling findings from seventeen federal agencies on how “prosecutions, policies, and practices demonstrated anti-Christian bias throughout the federal government” during the Biden years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche framed the conclusion in blunter terms, describing a “systematic culture” of bias that ran through law enforcement, tax policy, education, and healthcare. Senior DOJ counsel Camille Verone laid out fourteen specific findings in interviews accompanying the release, including Catholic schools losing federal school-lunch funding for declining to endorse gender-identity policy, HHS pressuring Christian medical providers on gender-affirming care under threat of losing federal funds, and the EEOC declining to protect religious objections to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

The report also alleges the DOJ enforced the FACE Act — the federal law protecting access to reproductive health clinics — unevenly, with pro-life protesters drawing harsher sentences than people who vandalized pregnancy centers, and it claims the IRS scrutinized churches for hosting political candidates while overlooking comparable conduct by Democratic officials. These are specific, agency-by-agency allegations, not a single anecdote, and they form the bulk of the task force’s case that bias was structural rather than incidental.

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More Than Half of Immigrant-Led Households Receive Some Type of Welfare Benefit

According to a chart published by Personal Finance Wizards, 45.6% of Afghan immigrant households in the United States receive SNAP benefits. The chart, which shows the percentage of U.S. households receiving SNAP benefits by ethnicity, uses data from U.S. Census Table S0201.

Other groups with high participation rates include Somali households at 42.4%, Iraqi households at 34.8%, Dominican households at 34.4%, and Caribbean households at 28.2%.

Democrats are fond of claiming that illegal immigrants are not eligible for welfare and that illegal immigration, and immigration in general, represents a net gain for U.S. taxpayers. The term “welfare” is used specifically to narrow the scope.

The reality, however, is that legal and illegal immigrants receive hundreds of billions of dollars in federal and state assistance each year through a variety of programs, including Medicaid, food assistance programs, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), housing assistance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), SNAP, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), school meal programs, the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Additional Child Tax Credit, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Medicare, and Affordable Care Act premium tax credits.

Furthermore, when it comes specifically to welfare, Democrats ignore the fact that families headed by illegal immigrant parents can receive benefits if they have U.S.-citizen children. Because the parents often work off the books, they can claim to have no income, making their children eligible for welfare benefits.

A separate analysis of 2024 Survey of Income and Program Participation data, published in February 2026 by the Center for Immigration Studies, found that 52.7% of immigrant-headed households used one or more major welfare programs, compared with 37.3% of U.S.-born-headed households. The largest gaps were in Medicaid use, at 39% versus 27%, and food assistance, at 35% versus 22%.

Among households headed specifically by illegal immigrants, the report found an overall welfare participation rate of 60.7%. One data point often cited to support the false claim that immigrants use benefits at a lower rate than native-born citizens is that SSI and housing assistance use among this group is lower than among U.S.-born households. However, the lower rate of SSI use is only because illegal aliens are largely barred from receiving SSI, although some still receive it through various means. As for housing benefits, U.S.-citizen children of immigrants, including illegal immigrants, qualify for housing assistance, so their parents do not need to apply for it themselves.

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‘Industrial, Human and Hospital Waste’: What’s Really in ‘Organic Compost’ Sold in Garden Stores?

Sewage sludge is being sold in garden stores as “organic compost,” with consumers taking it home and using it in their gardens without knowing what it truly is, filmmaker Galassia Grassetto said in an interview this month.

“It’s a mixture of industrial, human and hospital waste, all concentrated together,” Grassetto said. “You can buy it as organic compost in bags. And people don’t realize, and they take it home and they put it in their gardens.”

That discovery is at the center of a new documentary, “The Sludge War.” In the film, Grassetto investigates what happens to the waste left behind after sewage is treated — a practice she said “has been deliberately hidden from the American public.”

After reviewing the film, John Stauber, who writes for the Organic Consumers Association, said the film documents the “poisoning” of a nation.

“For the very first time a major documentary exposes the massive, ongoing poisoning of every state in America, as each year billions of pounds of toxic sewage sludge is spread on crops, pastures, gardens, parks and lawns, disguised as ‘harmless organic fertilizer and compost,’” Stauber wrote.

In-person screenings of the new film are scheduled in New York, with additional showings planned in other states.

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Prosecutor Blows the Whistle on NY AG Letitia James’ Office, Says He Was Ordered to “Find Crimes” Committed by Trump Despite Zero Evidence

A federal prosecutor blew the whistle on New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office and said he was ordered to “find crimes” committed by President Trump and people affiliated with Trump – despite zero evidence.

According to the Times Union, Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld sent an agency-wide email to thousands of employees in the New York Attorney General’s office claiming his supervisor, Shamiso Maswoswe instructed him to target “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger) … without having a credible reason for targeting this organizations and individuals.”

The Times Union obtained the email that was sent out on Friday. The email was immediately deleted and wiped from the office’s servers.

Daniel Wiesenfeld wrote a follow-up email after his original message was deleted.

“If you believe Trump is using (Department of Justice) attorneys to prosecute his enemies and further his political interests, you should find it equally troubling that Tish (James) is doing exactly the same thing,” Wiesenfeld wrote, according to the Times Union.

“I ask that you not serve as Tish’s personal attorneys by targeting her political enemies. Instead, I hope you choose to prosecute crimes and find the individuals accountable, rather than targeting individuals and then finding crimes,” he wrote.

The Times Union reported:

A prosecutor in the New York attorney general’s office sent an agency-wide email to hundreds of colleagues Friday claiming that he had been instructed by his supervisor “to find and pursue crimes committed by specific individuals and organizations affiliated with Donald Trump,” according to a copy of the email obtained by the Times Union.

The prosecutor, who was assigned to the Investor Protection Bureau, alleged in his email that his bureau chief, Shamiso Maswoswe, had directed him to target “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger) … without having a credible reason for targeting this organizations and individuals.”

The email sent early Friday by Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld, who officials said has worked for the attorney general’s office for about two years, was quickly deleted from the office’s servers and vanished from the inboxes of more than 2,000 employees. A follow-up agency-wide email subsequently sent by Attorney General Letitia James’ general counsel, Kumiki Gibson, informed employees that it was an “internal” matter and that no one in the office was “in danger,” according to three people familiar with the communication.

Letitia James previously sued President Trump and tried to secure a $400 million+ judgment against him and seize his assets, even though no victim was identified.

Last year, Letitia James was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia.

According to the DOJ, Letitia James was charged with two crimes: Bank Fraud under 18 U.S.C. Section 1344 and False Statements to a Financial Institution under 18 U.S.C. Section 1014.

A federal judge ultimately dropped the charges against Letitia James, ruling that Interim US Attorney for the EDVA Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed.

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Colorado college drops charges against student journalists, but speech restrictions remain uncertain

The Community College of Aurora closed its conduct case against student journalists this month, finding them “not responsible” due to unclear rules, after restricting the reporters from interviewing and publishing without prior approval and charging them for continuing those activities.

The student newspaper, FoxTalk, is led by CCA student Andrew Green, who told The College Fix via email that the decision, “is a big step forward.” 

He added that he still doesn’t “know whether the restrictions on interviews, reporting and publishing have actually been lifted.”

“I want the earlier warning reconsidered, and a clear answer about whether we are free to interview students, report and publish. I would much rather spend my time building the newsroom than fighting the college,” he said.

He added that he believes the school and newspaper can have a “good relationship” moving forward, “while FoxTalk still does independent journalism.” 

Green also said he is “working with the Student Press Law Center’s New Voices team to explore legislation around protections for college student journalists in Colorado,” he said. 

“Even if FoxTalk and CCA resolve everything, I would like the next student journalist to have clearer rules than I did,” Green told The Fix. 

A free speech group called the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression continues to press the college. 

Program Manager for FIRE’s Student Press Freedom Initiative Marie McMullan said the group is “assessing next steps” and that “until the ban on publication and student disciplinary measures are rescinded, our concerns remain.”

She also said that this “kind of blanket ban on student journalism can’t remain in place, and we continue pushing CCA to change its course.” 

FIRE had sent a demand letter this month to CCA Vice President Reyna Anaya, calling on the school to “drop the charges against any student who chooses not to comply with such unconstitutional demands, and forego further censorial practices.” 

The group alleges that CCA’s directives violated the First Amendment through prior restraint, prior review, compelled speech, and restrictions on associational freedom.

Reached for comment, CCA Executive Director of Communications and Special Initiatives Courtney Butler told The College Fix that the school is still reviewing the matter and is unable to provide additional comment.

FoxTalk was registered under the college on March 13th. In April, Green asked CCA administrators “to confirm whether FoxTalk could seek comment from CCA faculty and staff in their personal capacities without going through Butler’s office,” according to FIRE’s demand letter. 

Dean of Student Success Julie LaRock then informed Green that the newspaper would need to “receive staff approval before identifying themselves as FoxTalk staff, accessing non-public spaces, beginning work on each month’s stories, and publishing any content whatsoever.”

LaRock further advised Green to hold off on additional work until structural coordination with the administration and faculty was established.

On June 3, Green questioned the order to stop FoxTalk from publishing, saying the group still planned to cover the June 30 primary election, including a debate at the University of Denver. 

After an administrator said FoxTalk only had to follow regular student-organization rules, Green assumed they could publish again and wrote to confirm. The administrator replied that the ban was still in place until FoxTalk’s structure was fixed, and also criticized the activities of three members.

On July 14, Green was charged with interviewing students, posting on the FoxTalk website, contacting employees, and ignoring earlier orders. On July 23 he was charged again for not following a college official’s directives. 

McMullan told The Fix that CCA’s rationale for restricting the students is not very common compared to what the group has seen in the past. However, several other schools have similarly tried to restrict student journalists. 

“Repeatedly … universities and colleges subjecting student journalists to investigations, hearings, and punishments for basic newsgathering and publishing, or attempting to wholesale stop students from publishing,” she said.

Morgan State University, for example, implemented a policy that restricts student journalists’ ability to gather news directly, requiring media inquiries to go through the Office of Public Relations and Strategic Communications, The College Fix previously reported. 

McMullan previously told The Fix this policy is a “blatantly” illegal “gag order.”

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