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January 25, 2023

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• Damar Hamlin’s near-death experience on national television has sparked speculation that Covid vaccines are the cause of sudden deaths among young, seemingly healthy people.
• The hashtag #DiedSuddenly has been used to track these unexpected deaths, and an anti-vaccine documentary has been seen by millions.
• Side effects of the vaccine include short-term effects such as arm pain, chills, fever, and headache, as well as more serious events such as myocarditis, a clotting condition, and blood clots in the lungs.
• Myocarditis is more common in young males and occurs more often after the second dose of vaccine, particularly with Moderna.
• Two recent studies have raised concerns about the connection between the mRNA vaccines and myocarditis, and the potential risk of strokes in people over 65 with the Pfizer bivalent booster.
• It is difficult to determine the cause of cardiac arrest in a seemingly healthy person, and an autopsy may be needed to reveal acute inflammation of the heart.
• Recent op-ed in *The Wall Street Journal* asserted that there were many “excess deaths” in 2020 and 2021 that were not attributable to Covid.
• These non-Covid deaths were disproportionately among young adults and likely already exceed 250,000.
• Americans have good reasons for their skepticism of public health leaders due to their denial of evidence and lack of transparency.
• Vaccines do not prevent people from getting or spreading Covid-19, and natural immunity from contracting Covid-19 is not considered when making vaccination recommendations.
• FDA is expected to call for an annual dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, but without studies looking into whether these vaccines provide sufficient protection to make any risks worthwhile.

Published January 25, 2023
Visit The Free Press to read Vinay Prasad’s original post The Epidemic of #DiedSuddenly

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Climate Activism Has a Cult Problem [Zion Lights, The Free Press]

By Spencer Chen

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January 23, 2023

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• Extinction Rebellion is a movement that fights climate change by demanding governments stop using and producing fossil fuels immediately.
• Their methods seem unorthodox, and the author used to be a part of the movement.
• The author was part of Camp for Climate Action, where they protested a different corporation every year, and was part of the collective that took over Waterloo Bridge in London for two weeks.
• The author was asked to join the XR Media and Messaging Team, and her days were spent writing for the national press, feeding journalists quotes and information, and editing their newspaper, The Hourglass.
• The author was instructed to cry on television and bring her children to climate marches to manipulate emotions, and the XR office had a sign to keep shoes on due to people walking around without them.
• Roger Hallam, a 56-year-old organic farmer-turned-radical, is the most dominant leader of the climate change movement Extinction Rebellion (XR).
• He preys on the guilt and anxiety of his followers, mostly young men and women, and has been compared to a cult leader.
• Greta Thunberg, another prominent figure in the climate change movement, has been heavily influenced by XR.
• In October 2019, XR shut down the London Tube, which caused a lot of public backlash and splintered the movement.
• Roger’s extreme rhetoric and actions, such as his proposal to fly drones over Heathrow Airport, have caused many members to leave XR.
• Roger has since rebranded the most extreme faction of XR, Just Stop Oil, which is supported by the Climate Emergency Fund.
• His apocalyptic rhetoric has become more lurid, and he has been accused of brainwashing innocent children to do his bidding.

Published January 22, 2023
Visit The Free Press to read Zion Lights’s original post Climate Activism Has a Cult Problem

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Bret Easton Ellis’s Great Defense of Gen X [Peter Savodnik, The Free Press]

By Spencer Chen

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January 22, 2023

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• Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards, is set in the Century Towers, which can be seen from his 11th-story condo in West Hollywood.
• Ellis wrote the novel over the course of 16 months, and it is about a serial killer named The Trawler and the kids whose lives are turned upside down by him.
• The novel is a reflection of Ellis’s own experiences as a teenager in the fall of 1981, and is about the search for freedom and independence.
• Ellis reflects on the transformation of the younger generations since the early nineties, and how the uncool earnestness of the signallers and brand builders has replaced the cool of the Gen X-ers.
• Ellis believes that no one can save us, and that the novel is a nostalgia for the past and a lamentation of what we have become.

Published January 22, 2023
Visit The Free Press to read Peter Savodnik’s original post Bret Easton Ellis’s Great Defense of Gen X

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America’s Police Exodus [Leighton Woodhouse, The Free Press]

By Spencer Chen

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January 19, 2023

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• Brian Lande, an officer in the Richmond, Calif., police department, had to draw his gun to stop two drunk men from clobbering each other to death with metal rods, and another time to stop a fight between two more drunk men, one of whom was armed with a hatchet.
• The Richmond police department has seen resignations jump by 18 percent and retirements by 45 percent over the previous year, with hiring decreasing by five percent.
• The shift in police officers’ perception of how they’re viewed by the public happened gradually, starting with the first Black Lives Matter protests of 2013, and culminating with the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
• In response to the racial reckoning, some cities set up police review boards with the power to subpoena police records and oversee day-to-day policing, while other states tightened use-of-force standards.
• It became popular for politicians in progressive circles to flaunt their anti-police credentials, and the Richmond City Council cut the police budget, forcing hiring freezes and threatening to slash officers’ salaries by 20 percent.
• Many officers left Richmond for smaller, suburban departments, where they wouldn’t have to fear getting laid off or having their salaries and benefits reduced.
• Brian Lande left Richmond for Kensington, a 15-minute drive away, where he is now Sergeant Lande and his job involves far fewer risks.
• In August 2022, President Biden announced his Safer America Plan in response to rising crime, which includes plans to hire 100,000 more police officers, but this has been met with criticism from the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
• Peter Moskos, the former Baltimore police officer now teaching at John Jay College, has called for legalizing drugs in response to the drug war’s ineffectiveness and its disproportionate impact on young black men, and is mystified by progressives who insist that the single greatest threat faced by black Americans is systemic racism.

Published January 19, 2023
Visit The Free Press to read Leighton Woodhouse’s original post America’s Police Exodus

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It’s Time to Get Serious [Katherine Boyle, The Free Press]

By Spencer Chen

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January 17, 2023

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• Sam Bankman-Fried, a 30-year-old billionaire, was referred to as a “trading wunderkind” and “crypto wunderkind” in the press before his arrest in the Bahamas.
• Millennials and Gen Z have been treated as hapless children their entire lives, and this is reflected in their low marriage and home-ownership rates.
• Life expectancy is growing, but the average adult American man has a life expectancy of only 76 years, and SBF is 8 years away from that.
• The Boomer ascendancy has left us with a global gerontocracy and a languishing generation waiting in the wings.
• Delayed adulthood has had disastrous consequences for procreation in industrialized nations, and is at the root of declining fertility and population collapse.
• The prevailing wisdom in Western nations is that the ages of 18-29 are a time for extreme exploration, with no expectation for leadership.
• CEOs of companies listed on the S&P 500 are getting older and staying in their jobs longer, and 25% of Congress is over the age of 70.
• Anthony Fauci (82) isn’t retiring, and the sins of SBF will lead to even more extreme skepticism of ambitious young founders and leaders.

Published January 17, 2023.

Visit The Free Press to read Katherine Boyle’s original post It’s Time to Get Serious

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Prince Harry Proves One Thing: The Tabloids Were Right [Martin Clarke, The Free Press]

By Spencer Chen

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January 15, 2023

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• Martin Clarke, former Editor-in-Chief of Mail Online, weighs in on Prince Harry and Meghan’s recent media deals and the Sussexes of Montecito.
• Prince Harry has a deep hatred of the media, blaming them for everything.
• Clarke argues that much of the reporting Harry has objected to over the years turns out to be substantially true.
• Harry conflates social media and The Media, and resurrects his mother’s memory to blame the press for her death.
• Diana was smart and manipulated the press to her advantage.
• Harry fails to mention the yards of hysterical, gushing coverage that surrounded his wedding.
• Harry believes he hasn’t increased the terrorist threat to his family by revealing his 25 “kills” in Afghanistan.
• Harry has little understanding of how his own country works and is pushing at a dangerously open door with his intolerance of the free press.

Published January 15, 2023

Visit The Free Press to read Martin Clarke’s original post Prince Harry Proves One Thing: The Tabloids Were Right

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Got (Raw) Milk? How the Cow Became a Culture Warrior [Suzy Weiss, The Free Press]

By Spencer Chen

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January 11, 2023

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• Kale Hyder, a 23-year-old Morgan Stanley analyst, has shifted away from plant-based milk and meat replicas to whole foods, including sirloin, raw butter, grass-fed raw milk cottage cheese, and raw milk.
• Raw milk has become increasingly popular in the past few years, as people seek to regain control over their food and break with convention.
• Raw milk is illegal to sell for human consumption in most states, but there are loopholes and legal gray areas that allow people to access it.
• The appeal of raw milk is twofold: it represents a time before everything got screwed up, and it’s a challenge and a way of raging against the machine.
• The raw milk movement has been bolstered by the likes of Joshua Rainer, who moved from California to Colorado to become a farmhand, and Connor, who created the website GetRawMilk.
• The latest flashpoint in the raw milk wars is Amos Miller Organic Farm, which is being sued for $305,000 by the federal government.

Published January 11, 2023. Visit The Free Press to read Suzy Weiss’s original post.

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We Have a Tripledemic. Not of Disease, But of Fear. [Vinay Prasad, The Free Press]

By Spencer Chen

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January 10, 2023

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• The media has been filled with stories about the “tripledemic” of Covid-19, influenza, and RSV, which is being blamed for high rates of illness and hospitalizations, especially among children.
• The best available evidence contradicts the narrative from the media and many public health officials, and the insistence on never-ending precautions in the face of inevitable exposure to germs is not only medically misguided, it also threatens to stigmatize the most mundane human interactions.
• There is limited evidence that the tripledemic exists, and no evidence that prolonged precautions delay the inevitable.
• There is no avoiding respiratory viruses, and it is natural, healthy, and necessary for young children to be exposed to many viruses in order to build immunity.
• The evidence to support masking was thin before Covid-19, and there is no evidence that masking young children for Covid-19, flu, and RSV viruses is effective.
• Covid-19 disrupted all aspects of life, and as the disruptions fade, other viruses have inevitably returned. Hospitals should prepare for this, and federal reimbursement should pay for pediatric beds.

Published January 10, 2023. Visit The Free Press to read the original post.

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How DEI Is Supplanting Truth as the Mission of American Universities [John Sailer, The Free Press]

By Spencer Chen

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January 9, 2023

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• UCLA accounting lecturer Gordon Klein was placed on leave and banned from campus after refusing to grade black students more leniently in the wake of the George Floyd protests.
• After a counter-petition signed by more than 76,000 people, Klein was allowed to return to the classroom.
• The principles of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) have become guiding principles in higher education, valued as equal to or even more important than the basic function of the university.
• DEI has become a priority for many of the organizations that accredit universities, and universities are pressured to adopt DEI measures.
• College students are now required to take DEI, anti-racism, or social justice courses, and DEI is becoming a de facto academic discipline.
• Faculty position listings at universities across the country illustrate how a focus on race, gender, social justice, and critical theory can be crucial to landing a job.
• DEI initiatives are becoming increasingly prevalent in higher education, with many universities now considering faculty members’ contributions to DEI as a criterion for hiring, promotion, and tenure.
• The federal government is also doing its part to infuse DEI into the sciences, with the Department of Energy’s Office of Science mandating that all new research proposals include a Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research (PIER) Plan.
• This fixation on DEI can have a stultifying effect on medical research, and eventually medical care, as it crowds out other, more consequential areas of scientific research.
• Jonathan Haidt, a professor of ethical leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business, has warned about this redefinition of racism and the rise of ideological groupthink in academia.
• Organizations such as the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and the National Association of Scholars have issued numerous statements opposing DEI requirements that violate the First Amendment.

Published January 9, 2023. Visit The Free Press to read the original post.

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TGIF: Congress Is Back. Let the Insanity Begin. [Nellie Bowles, The Free Press]

By Spencer Chen

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January 6, 2023

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• Kevin McCarthy is struggling to get enough votes to become the next House Speaker, as the right flank of the party is resistant to him.
• Amazon is laying off 18,000 employees due to the current economic stagflation.
• Cardi B is calling out the high prices of groceries due to the Biden administration’s Covid stimulus.
• The Twitter Files continue to show how the U.S. government sought to silence its critics.
• Colorado is busing migrants to New York City, and New Jersey is requiring K-12 students to undergo “media literacy” training.
• Kay LeClaire, a major leader in the Indigenous movement, is a white girl with a spray tan pretending to be Native American.
• The College of Psychologists of Ontario is trying to take Jordan Peterson’s psychology license.
• California is passing a law that could lead to doctors losing their license for “dissemination of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.”
• Vaccine skeptics are speculating that Damar Hamlin’s injury was caused by the vaccine, despite no evidence.
• Damar Hamlin is stable and making a recovery.
• Thousands of people have filed sexual abuse suits in California before the statute of limitations window closed.
• Louisiana has passed a law requiring proof of age to watch porn online.
• Fashion choices of the 118th Congress were discussed.
• ADHD prescriptions are out of control and screens are the disease.
• The Food Compass rating system is flawed and suggests unhealthy foods are healthier than healthy ones.
• A young Jihadi from Maine attacked three police officers in New York City.
• Zadie Smith’s essay discussed the differences between Gen X and Millennial sensibilities.

Published January 6, 2023. Visit The Free Press to read Nellie Bowles’s original post.

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Category[The Free Press]

The Epidemic of #DiedSuddenly [Vinay Prasad, The Free Press]

Climate Activism Has a Cult Problem [Zion Lights, The Free Press]

Bret Easton Ellis’s Great Defense of Gen X [Peter Savodnik, The Free Press]

America’s Police Exodus [Leighton Woodhouse, The Free Press]

It’s Time to Get Serious [Katherine Boyle, The Free Press]

Prince Harry Proves One Thing: The Tabloids Were Right [Martin Clarke, The Free Press]

Got (Raw) Milk? How the Cow Became a Culture Warrior [Suzy Weiss, The Free Press]

We Have a Tripledemic. Not of Disease, But of Fear. [Vinay Prasad, The Free Press]

How DEI Is Supplanting Truth as the Mission of American Universities [John Sailer, The Free Press]

TGIF: Congress Is Back. Let the Insanity Begin. [Nellie Bowles, The Free Press]

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