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The Awkward Kamala Harris Interview

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Kamala Harris's first interview as the Democratic nominee just dropped, and she brought in VP pick Tim Walz to comfort her.

Remarkably, it took her less than a minute to bring up Donald Trump, claiming Americans are ready for "a new way forward" and that it’s time to "turn the page" on Trump.

What she failed to mention is that she's literally been in power for 3.5 years.
Then something remarkable happened. CNN unexpectedly asked a good question, pressing Harris on economic issues.

Bash brought up Harris's campaign slogan, "We're not going back," and asked, “I wonder what you say to voters who do want to go back when it comes to the economy, specifically because their groceries were less expensive, housing was more affordable when Donald Trump was president.”

Harris’s response fell flat.
But the questioning didn't stop there. Bash put Harris on the spot over her shifting stance on fracking.

Harris had previously stated in 2019, "There is no question I'm in favor of banning fracking," but now she claims, “I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020 that I would not ban fracking as vice president.”

Ummm… what?

Bash pushed back on Kamala a second time, reminding her that she previously said she was in favor of banning fracking.
Then came the question about the border crisis—a glaring issue for the Biden-Harris administration.

When Bash asked why it took three and a half years to implement asylum restrictions amidst record illegal border crossings, Harris didn't hesitate to shift the blame to Trump.

Yes, this really happened.

Her administration has had nearly four years to address the border, and yet she circles back to Trump as the scapegoat.
Bash questioned Kamala on Trump’s allegations of “turning black” for “political purposes.”

After a long and awkward pause, Kamala replied that Trump’s using the “same old tired playbook” before saying, “Next question please.”

This is actually a new play that Trump developed for Kamala Harris specifically.
Tim Walz finally got his first question when his claims of serving in war crumbled on air.

In a 2018 video clip, Walz said: "We can make sure that those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at."

The truth is that Walz has never served in a war.

And when confronted on it, Walz dodged the question before blaming his misleading statement on poor English.
Then, the most important question of the night dropped. CNN’s Dana Bash asked Harris if she had any regrets about hiding Biden’s cognitive decline from the public.

Kamala said with a straight face, “No.”

Remarkably, she continued to gaslight the public even more by saying Biden is "smart" and has the "intelligence" and "judgement" to serve as president.
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Next, came the most painful moment to watch of the night.

Kamala Harris broke down in tears when she recalled the day that Joe Biden told her that he was dropping out of the race.

She continued to tell an elaborate story of how she was eating breakfast when it happened. Skip this video unless you think you can handle it.
In the final moments, Kamala attempted to quell the concerns of every doubter who’s called her a “DEI hire.”

“Listen, I am running because I believe that I am the best person to do this job at this moment for all Americans, regardless of race and gender."
Thanks for reading! If you made it all the way to the end, you’re a champ.

For something a little less painful to get through, check out my thread on RFK Jr. His latest interview with Dr. Phil will literally blow your mind.

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May 5
This 75-year-old man, who’s been blind since birth, suddenly regained his eyesight after using DMSO to treat sinusitis.

It cleared his sinuses “instantly,” Murray says, but what it did to his sight was “unbelievable.”

For the first time in his life, he was finally able to see color in his left eye.

And when he kept using DMSO, his vision kept improving: He could make out details and even count fingers, something he “could never do before.”

It might sound like a coincidence, but DMSO has been repeatedly shown to heal eye issues medicine still can’t solve, like blindness, macular degeneration, floaters and cataracts.

It’s Big Pharma’s worst nightmare. And it’s hiding in plain sight for just $20 a bottle. 🧵
This information comes from the work of medical researcher @MidwesternDoc.

For all the sources and details, read the full report below:

midwesterndoctor.com/p/dmso-heals-t…
When @MidwesternDoc first wrote about DMSO, expectations were minimal.

But the comments and messages exploded—quickly!

Over 4,700 comments. Nearly 3,000 unique testimonials. People were commenting in droves, claiming it healed their pain and injuries.

And in some cases, DMSO was credited for restoring vision. Wow!

A staggering 80–90% of people who commented about their experience had their ailments improve. That’s unprecedented.

Everyone deserves to know about DMSO.Image
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May 2
A registered nurse with 30 years of experience treating chronic pain says she saw “TEN TIMES” the positive effects after mixing DMSO with castor oil to treat her peripheral neuropathy.

Castor oil on its own has anti-inflammatory effects, but adding the DMSO is where she says it “got interesting.”

That’s because DMSO “isn’t just a treatment, it’s a carrier,” Danielle Minetti explained.

“It can pull medications and nutrients right through the skin barrier deep into the body.”

That’s why when Danielle mixed DMSO with castor oil, she saw “ten times” the positive results.

Because DMSO acts as the delivery system, carrying the castor oil deeper into the areas where she needs relief most.

DMSO is a naturally occurring compound that is primarily derived as a byproduct of the wood pulp and paper industry, which makes it widely and affordably available.

But that also creates a problem...

Because if a treatment can’t be patented, Big Pharma can’t profit.

And that simple reality is where the DMSO story takes a dark turn.

So what happened to DMSO, and why is a substance that is so medically promising still relatively unknown to this day?

Let’s take a closer look. 🧵
The real story isn’t whether or not DMSO worked.

The real story is how a low-cost, widely available substance became an early case study in medical distrust.

Regulators suddenly restricted it. Doctors dismissed it.

But patients kept using it.

And once that happened, official medicine no longer controlled the story.Image
DMSO was discovered in 1866 by a Russian chemist, then largely forgotten.

In the 1950s, the paper industry needed new solvents. Dimethyl sulfide from wood pulping could be oxidized into DMSO.

That industrial turn set up one of the most unusual medical controversies of the 20th century!Image
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May 1
The FDA knew the COVID shots would kill and maim countless Americans.

They kept injecting anyway.

One government employee tried to sound the alarm about “49 examples” of deadly side effects that conventional safety analyses weren’t detecting.

She was shut down.

Her name was Dr. Ana Szarfman.

On March 1, 2021, less than three months after the rollout of the COVID-19 injections, Dr. Ana Szarfman, an employee at CDER and safety data mining developer, warned that the FDA’s existing system could hide vaccine safety signals due to a flaw called “masking.”

She proposed a newer method developed by statistician Dr. William DuMouchel that corrected for this issue and, when applied, detected “49 examples of extreme masking” that the standard system did not.

These “49 examples of extreme masking” include not “minor” but serious adverse events:

• Bell’s palsy

• Cardiac failure

• Acute left ventricular failure

• Agonal rhythm (severe end-of-life arrhythmia)

• Pulmonary infarction

• Cerebral artery occlusion

• Aortic stenosis

• Sudden cardiac death

• Hypertensive emergency

• Basal ganglia stroke

When Dr. Szarfman proposed a new method, she was told to “hold off on creating and sending data mining reports and analyses.”

Later, they “made it clear” that she “needs to focus on her assigned work” and “should not be discussing or providing internal analyses externally.”

As Dr. Szarfman puts it, her work became a “pest” for raising concerns about safety signal masking.

In September 2021, Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA's top vaccine official, decided that Dr. Szarfman’s COVID vaccine data-mining days were over.

He informed Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni, the then director of CDER, that Dr. Szarfman “has been asked to cease and desist conducting her data analysis.”

Dr. Marks complained that Dr. Szarfman’s work had become “a major distraction” and that her efforts could “create erroneous conflicts that feed into anti-vaccination rhetoric.”

Dr. Szarfman went on to retire from the FDA in 2025 after more than 35 years of service.

She raised concerns about safety signal masking. The FDA essentially told her to shut up.

Because in their eyes, “49 examples of extreme masking” could create “erroneous conflicts” and fuel “vaccine hesitancy.”

Unfortunately, this is not a one-off instance. It’s part of a much deeper problem: the gap between what’s known internally and what’s allowed to reach the public. 🧵
For years, Americans were told the COVID vaccines were “safe and effective.”

Not mostly safe.

Not partially effective.

Not still being studied.

Safe. Effective. Full stop.

The message was absolute, repeated by government officials, doctors, media outlets, hospitals, employers, schools, and nearly every major institution in the country.

But internal records now suggest something very different was being discussed behind the scenes.

The story is no longer just about whether the COVID vaccines caused harm.

That debate has been raging for years.

The bigger question is what federal health agencies knew, when they knew it, and why the public was told a much different story than the one officials were discussing behind closed doors.

Senator Ron Johnson’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations obtained thousands of pages of subpoenaed HHS records.

The investigation and subpoenaed records suggest that the CDC and FDA were aware of serious safety signals involving myocarditis and strokes, yet continued pushing the vaccines while downplaying the risks.

That’s the part we can’t ignore.Image
Vaccine trust was built on a very simple promise.

The government said the products had been carefully tested, monitored, and transparently evaluated.

If a serious safety issue appeared, the public would be told.

But according to the records Johnson released, that isn’t how the COVID vaccine rollout worked. Not even close.Image
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Apr 30
Republicans are once again teaming up with Democrats to ram Digital ID through at the federal level.

The bill they’ve just introduced is, if you can believe it, worse than all the others before it.

HR 8250, deceptively named the Parents Decide Act, doesn’t just force everyone to link their identity to use apps on their phones, it mandates that they must do it to use ANY operating system. That means Apple, iOS, Windows, Google, Android, even Samsung—basically everything.

And once that’s in place, there’s nowhere to step outside of it.

But one brave group is refusing to go along.

GrapheneOS has made a statement saying: GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification, or an account.

@glennmeder from PrivacyAcademy.com/Pulse has been working to educate people on how to escape the digital control grid, including how to put GrapheneOS on your phone—for free. And they have a solution to Digital ID right now.

He joins us to discuss. 🧵
You’ve seen this pattern before.

When the same thing starts appearing everywhere at once, it’s usually not random.

A new push for Digital ID laws isn’t happening in just one place. With bills like the Parents Decide Act (HR 8250), it’s now moving directly into the systems we use every day. It’s happening in a very coordinated way across countries, across platforms, and now, at the operating system level.

This isn’t about regulating a few apps anymore. The focus has moved underneath them—to the operating system itself—the software that runs your phone and computer. @GlennMeder described it plainly, they’re trying to “lock it down on an operating system level,” because that’s the one layer you can’t avoid.

Apps can be swapped. Accounts can be deleted.

But if access to the operating system requires Digital ID, there’s nowhere left to step outside of it.

That’s the inflection point.

Glenn called it “the hill to die on,” not because of how it looks today, but because of what it enables once it’s in place. In his words, this isn’t just verification, it’s the foundation for removing privacy and building a system that monitors “everything we say.”

He warned it would “change instantly,” the kind of shift you only recognize after it’s already locked in.

Access to your phone. Your apps. Your accounts. All tied to one digital identity.

And once that becomes the standard, stepping outside of it stops being an option.
Your phone is a surveillance Trojan Horse.

Big Tech and Big Brother have colluded together to create a spyware monopoly.

Your phone tracks your location at all times, who you text, what you read, whether you’re skeptical person or not, how you spend your money and where your finances are stored... This list could go on forever.

Privacy Academy is hosting a FREE webinar on Thursday, May 7th at 7pm CT (8pm ET / 6pm MT / 5pm PT) where you can learn how to escape the cell phone surveillance state.

PrivacyAcademy.com/Pulse 👈

You’ll discover:

• How brands like Apple use privacy as a selling point (even though it’s not true).

• Why phone surveillance is much more insidious then you’d imagine.

• How phone surveillance has gotten MUCH worse since Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA is spying on us.

• How you can easily create a “De-Googled” privacy phone yourself!

• A live Q/A.

And much more!

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Apr 29
For four years, Ron Johnson has wondered how US health officials could ignore “overwhelming evidence of harm” from the COVID vaccine.

“Now I know,” he says.

The truth is, health officials didn’t “ignore” safety signals. They buried them instead.

And now we have the receipts:

The US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations investigated what federal health officials knew and when they knew it—and dug out a timeline that would make any American furious.

This is not a fringe “conspiracy theory.” It was revealed by the government’s own investigation—and it’s a story they don’t want you to read.

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According to VAERS, the US’s vaccine adverse event reporting system, more adverse events and deaths have been reported following COVID vaccines than from all other vaccines combined over the system’s 30+ year history.

More dangerous than ivermectin. More dangerous than hydroxychloroquine (which turned out not to be so dangerous after all).

It was 55 times more deadly than the flu vaccine (0.46 deaths vs 25.5 deaths per million doses).

And even more dangerous than Remdesivir, which earned the nickname “Run Death Is Near” after it wreaked havoc on the kidneys and livers of tens of thousands of COVID patients in the hospital.

But still the question remains. How did US health officials miss a safety signal this big?

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The U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations investigated what federal health officials knew and when they knew it.

It turns out they knew the safety signal was there. But they didn’t see it as a warning sign. They saw it as “pest.”

So much of a “pest” that they decided it was better to ignore the devastating safety signals and let people die than to deal with the data head-on because it could stoke “vaccine hesitancy.”

Keep reading to see the timeline that proves it.

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Apr 28
Mikhaila Peterson says she went through “two years of pure hell” when she decided to stop taking SSRIs.

She didn’t need the drugs anymore. Her paleo/keto diet had put her depression into remission.

The first few days off the medication, she felt “on top of the world.”

But once week two hit, her life “turned upside down.”

For years, she blamed her “intolerable symptoms” on what she ate.

Little did she know… she was actually experiencing severe antidepressant withdrawal.

One of the symptoms Mikhaila experienced during her own SSRI withdrawal is the same condition her dad is suffering from right now: akathisia.

Akathisia is an extremely distressing neurological condition that makes you feel an unbearable inner restlessness and agitation.

This condition, she describes as “the worst thing I’ve ever seen anyone go through…”

When Mikhaila experienced it, she described it as being “overwhelmed with a sense of impending doom that was stronger than anything you can naturally feel.”

“It felt like I was falling into a volcano while being chased by a bear,” she said.

@MikhailaFuller’s gut-wrenching anti-depressant story is available to read in full here: prescribed-harm.com/stories/story-…

But as bad as her experience was, her dad is currently going through a form of akathisia that’s even worse. 🧵
Last week, Mikhaila shared an emotional update on her father, Jordan Peterson’s health.

He is dealing with a recurrence of akathisia stemming from an old psych med–induced neurological injury.

Mikhaila explained that this is a flare-up of a neurological injury caused by benzodiazepines, primarily clonazepam, that he took around 2019–2020. He has been completely off all psychiatric medications since January 2020.

The recent symptoms intensified last summer after he was diagnosed with Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) from mold exposure. About a month later, he developed pneumonia and sepsis, which further worsened the condition and triggered the akathisia.

“Dad’s been suffering from an old neurological injury that’s more recently been causing akathisia,” Mikhaila said.

“Akathisia is the worst thing I’ve ever seen anyone go through… it’s catastrophic.”

She stresses that this is a neurological injury from past psychiatric medication use, not from any current medications. Her dad has been psych med-free for six years.

But for the past 8–9 months, akathisia has taken over his life without warning or relief, making this an extremely difficult time for the entire family.

x.com/mikhailafuller…
The serotonin theory worked because it was simple.

It gave patients a clear explanation, doctors a straightforward framework, and the pharmaceutical system a powerful way to communicate value. Depression became something measurable, correctable, and treatable with a targeted intervention.

But simplicity can also obscure complexity.

Because the brain isn’t a system governed by a single chemical variable—it’s a dynamic network of interacting pathways, feedback loops, and adaptive responses that change over time.

And when you try to reduce that system to one variable, you risk misunderstanding what your intervention is actually doing.
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