Dr. Marty Makary just walked into enemy territory—CBS—and took on Margaret Brennan over the CDC’s vaccine guidance.
She pushed the usual Big Pharma spin. But Makary came armed with facts—and fire.
Then he dropped a term for the CDC’s vaccine panel that no one will forget.
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On Tuesday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a historic course correction from the Biden-era vaccine policy.
Standing alongside NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, Kennedy announced that COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women were officially removed from the CDC’s immunization schedule.
“Hi, everybody. I’m Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., your HHS secretary. And I’m here today with NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary. I couldn’t be more pleased to announce that, as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule.”
It was an unmistakable shift away from coercive one-size-fits-all medicine, and a clear signal that data, not politics, is now leading the conversation.
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Today, Dr. Marty Makary took the fight straight into the lion’s den—appearing on CBS to dismantle the network’s go-to vaccine talking points.
When host Margaret Brennan tried to paint the updated guidance as confusing, Makary didn’t flinch.
“Can you clearly state what the policy is? Because this is confusing,” she asked.
Makary responded without hesitation: “Yeah, we believe the recommendation should be with a patient and their doctor.”
That’s when the real shift came into focus.
“So we’re going to get away from these blanket recommendations in healthy young Americans.”
“On the COVID vaccine schedule, we don’t want to see kids kicked out of school because a 12-year-old girl is not getting her fifth COVID booster shot.”
“We don’t see the data there to support a young, healthy child getting a repeat infinite annual COVID vaccine.”
He then laid out the sheer absurdity of where the old policy was heading.
“There’s a theory that we should sort of blindly approve the new COVID boosters in young, healthy kids every year in perpetuity, and a young girl born today should get 80 COVID mRNA shots or other COVID shots in her average lifespan.”
“We’re saying that’s a theory, and we’d like to check in and get some randomized controlled data. It’s been about four years since the original randomized trials. So we’d like an evidence based approach.”
And then came the knockout line—delivered with facts no one could deny.
“That is a decision between a parent and their doctor—I don’t know if you know these statistics, but 88% of American kids, their parents have said no to the COVID shot last season. So America, the vast majority of Americans are saying no.”
Brennan tried to shift gears—falling back on CDC data to argue that even healthy kids remained at risk.
“So the CDC data said 41% of children aged 6 months to 17 years hospitalized with COVID between 2022 and 2024 did not have a known underlying condition. In other words, they looked healthy,” she said.
“And COVID was serious for them.”
But Makary was ready.
Calm and precise, he dismantled the claim with surgical clarity.
“So first of all, we know the CDC data is contaminated with a lot of false positives from incidental positive COVID tests with routine testing of every kid that walks in the hospital.”
“We know that data historically under the Biden administration did not distinguish being sick from COVID or an incidental positive COVID test.”
He shared what he’s heard from the people who actually run the ICUs in America.
“When you go to an ICU in America and you ask how many people are in the ICU that are healthy, that are sick with COVID? The answer I get again, again is we haven’t seen that in a year or years.”
That’s why, he warned, making universal recommendations based on flawed data isn’t just wrong—it’s dangerous.
“And so the worst thing you can do in public health is to put out an absolute universal recommendation in young, healthy kids.”
“And the vast majority of Americans are saying, no, we want to see some data. And you say, forget about the data, just get it anyway.”
But it was the final exchange that landed like a sledgehammer.
When Brennan questioned why the HHS bypassed the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the new policy shift, Makary landed a haymaker.
“That panel has been a kangaroo court where they just rubberstamp EVERY single vaccine put in front of them.”
He said the committee hadn’t been focused on science, but on messaging and marketing.
“You look at the minutes of the last couple of years, they say, we want a simple message for everybody just so they can understand it. It was not a data based conversation. It was a conversation based on marketing and ease.”
And without real evidence, he warned, these recommendations become little more than guesswork.
“If there's zero clinical data, you're opining. I mean—it’s a theory.”
“And so we don’t want to put out an absolute recommendation for kids, with no clinical data to support it.”
The implication was unmistakable: public health decisions should be based on evidence and transparency—not rubber stamps and slogans.
For the first time in years, someone on national television was calling out the system.
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It’s not every day an FBI Director sits down with Joe Rogan.
Kash Patel just did—and what he revealed about the Bureau’s inner workings left Rogan speechless.
Rogan pressed him on the Epstein files.
Then came the real shock: Patel dropped a bombshell about Fauci—and what the FBI just uncovered might finally bring him down for good.
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Kash Patel didn’t waste time.
Sitting down with Joe Rogan, he opened with a jaw-dropping stat—one few Americans have ever heard.
During Trump’s first term, Patel ran counterterrorism operations for the White House and National Security Council.
In that role, he oversaw one of the most overlooked achievements of the administration.
“Hostages, we can talk about that forever too,” he began.
“Counterterrorism was a big portfolio, I ran it for the White House and National Security Council in the first Trump administration.”
Then came the number:
“We brought home—people don’t know this—President Trump in his first term, brought home and rescued over 50 hostages and detainees from around the world.”
He added, “That’s more than every president before him combined.”
Rogan, clearly taken aback, responded with a simple “Wow.”
Patel pointed out that few people even know these missions happened. Most weren’t headline news.
The stories of families reunited after high-risk rescues in Africa and the Middle East barely registered in the press.
“Did you hear about the successes of reuniting families with lost loved ones from Africa or the Middle East?” he asked.
He then described how Trump personally greenlit fearless operations, sending in elite forces to carry out rescues in hostile territories.
“These operations, that the president was courageous enough to green light to go into places like Afghanistan and do these hostage rescue ops, and use Seal Team Six and Delta,” he said.
From there, the conversation turned to an entirely different kind of crisis—one claiming tens of thousands of lives on American soil, fentanyl.
Patel didn’t hesitate to name the culprit: the Chinese Communist Party.
“So where’s the root of the problem? The CCP.”
This part is dark.
He explained how China plays a critical role in the fentanyl trade—not by making the drug itself, but by supplying the key chemical ingredients used to produce it.
“The fentanyl precursors, the stuff you need to make fentanyl comes from mainland China. That’s it.”
According to Patel, China has hundreds of companies manufacturing and exporting these chemicals around the world.
Most of them end up in Mexico, where cartels process the final product and smuggle it into the U.S.
“They’re like ‘we don’t make fentanyl.’ They’re right, they don’t. They just give you all the ingredients for it and ship it to Mexico.”
He added that the CCP even tried to clean up its image by announcing a ban on one specific precursor. But it was a bait-and-switch.
“To trick the world, they came out and said: ‘Hey, we’re going to not sell precursor X.’ The problem is, there’s 14 other precursors you can use to make fentanyl and they’re still shipping all of those.”
So while overdose deaths skyrocket, China keeps its hands clean—on paper.
Joe Rogan just watched the Trump–Musk feud explode, and his face said it all.
Kash Patel looked like he wanted out of the room.
But Epstein’s former attorney broke his silence on the matter.
And revealed what Epstein told him about Trump, just days before he died.
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In case you missed it, the feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk exploded yesterday—and it all traces back to Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
Trump took to Truth Social and wrote yesterday:
“Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!”
He followed with another post:
“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”
The Left has fully embraced racism—and it’s starting to backfire.
Victor Davis Hanson just laid out three real-world examples that expose how “reverse racism” isn’t just a theory—it’s their strategy.
But his warning to Democrats hit like a thunderclap.
He says the consequences will be brutal—and minority voters will be the ones leading the revolt.
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Victor Davis Hanson didn’t dance around it.
He opened by acknowledging that the topic he was about to raise was sensitive—but necessary.
“I'd like to talk about a more sensitive topic today,” he said.
“And that's this new appearance—or this growing, I would call it—reverse racism, or a racism that exists among some left-wing, elite Black leaders, politicians, celebrities.”
He made it clear this wasn’t a general accusation.
It was about a troubling pattern he’s seen at the highest levels of politics, media, and culture.
And he came prepared with receipts.
The first involved Susan Rice, former National Security Advisor under Obama, who was later appointed to the Defense Policy Board by President Biden.
When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed her, Hanson said it was nothing out of the ordinary.
“That’s a group of grandees that advised the Defense Department,” he explained.
“They’re political appointments. And traditionally, when a new president comes in, they get rid of most of the prior Defense Policy Board because they feel they're partisans.”
In Rice’s case, she was one of the final additions under Biden.
Her dismissal, Hanson argued, followed the same pattern as every other administration. But Rice didn’t frame it that way.
“She fired back at him and said he was dumb as a rock, an ultra-MAGA figure,” he noted.
“But what was interesting was, she said, ‘White male, cisgender.’”
Instead of debating policy or qualifications, the response became personal—and racial.
“In other words, she attacked his race,” Hanson said.
“She said her administration would have fired him, for this Signal—scandal.”
But for Hanson, the irony was hard to ignore.
Rice herself had been at the center of one of the most controversial moments of the Obama years.
“She was the one that came out on Sunday talk shows and lied five times about the disaster in Benghazi, among other things,” he reminded.
Donald Trump is unusually quiet today after Elon Musk accused him of being “in the Epstein files.”
Why?
Chris Cuomo just dropped a bombshell theory—and it makes complete sense.
If he’s right, this feud could explode into something much bigger.
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Elon Musk alleged today, “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That’s the real reason they haven’t been made public.”
He said this shortly after Trump posted that Musk was “wearing thin” and that he “asked him to leave,” adding Musk went “crazy” after losing the EV mandate.
But Musk didn’t stop there.
At 4:14 PM Eastern, he quote-tweeted a post linking Trump to Jeffrey Epstein. His only comment? A single raised eyebrow emoji.
The post claimed Trump flew on Epstein’s plane at least 7 times, though there’s no proof he visited the island.
It also highlighted a 2002 New York Magazine quote where Trump described Epstein as “a terrific guy” who “likes beautiful women… on the younger side.”
REPORT: Trump ally Peter Thiel previously accepted $40 million from Jeffrey Epstein—an investment now worth $170 million.
Epstein quietly invested in Thiel’s Valar Ventures around 2015. The $170 million stake is the largest asset remaining in Epstein’s estate.
But it gets worse.
Thiel chairs Palantir, the surveillance giant Trump tapped to build an AI-powered grid. Their tech has already been used for predictive “pre-crime” policing in New Orleans. Think Minority Report.
Thiel once warned about “technocratic Antichrist systems.” So why is he building one?
He also said Christianity means siding with victims. But he took millions from Epstein—the most famous predator of our time. Valar Ventures confirmed it. Thiel’s spokesman? No comment.
As for Epstein? We’re told it was suicide. No files. No footage. No answers. Now FBI Director Kash Patel is hinting at new intel—but still no proof.
What exactly is Palantir building behind the scenes?
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In other news, Karine Jean-Pierre ditched the Democrat Party—and her former colleagues are out for blood.
The former Biden press secretary announced that she’s now an Independent, and the backlash was immediate.
One ex-staffer told Axios she was “the most ineffectual and unprepared” person they ever worked with, prone to breakdowns when questions aren’t scripted. Another mocked her memoir as “a bizarre cash grab,” ridiculing her attempt to pose as an outsider after years of “extreme proximity to power.”
The same Democrats who once hailed her as a “historic” hire are now tearing her apart.
Critics say this exposes something deeper about the left: the moment you break ranks, you’re dead to them.
We close the segment with her most cringe-worthy press room disasters. And yes, they’re even worse than you remember.
Watch @zeee_media's report and ask yourself: was KJP always a fraud—or just another disposable pawn?
For the first time, Trump spoke out after Musk blasted the Big Beautiful Bill.
But here’s the twist—Musk was watching live and firing back in real time on X.
What happened next was painful to watch.
Trump said, “Look, Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore.”
Then Trump posted on Truth Social—and that’s when the gloves really came off.
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📍 And make sure to bookmark this thread—because no matter how this ends, we’re watching one of the greatest political alliances fall apart in real time.
Let’s break it all down and roll the clips.
It came out of nowhere, but it hit like a category five hurricane.
President Trump was hosting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz when a reporter asked a question that immediately changed the energy in the room:
“What’s your reaction to Elon Musk’s criticism of the Big Beautiful Bill?”
The mood shifted.
Trump didn’t hesitate.
It was the beginning of what sounded like a very public political divorce.
“I’ve always liked Elon,” Trump said.
“So I was very surprised… He hasn’t said anything about me that’s bad.”
Trump had stayed quiet for a while, but now, cornered with cameras rolling, he was ready to speak.
“I’d rather have him criticize me than the bill,” Trump continued, praising the legislation as “incredible” and “the biggest cut in the history of our country… about $1.6 trillion.”
Then came the pivot—and the reason for the rift, according to Trump.
“Elon’s upset because we took the EV mandate,” he explained.
“That was a lot of money for electric vehicles.”
The way Trump described it, Musk’s problem wasn’t ideological—it was financial.
“They want us to pay billions of dollars in subsidy. And Elon knew this from the beginning. He knew it a long time ago. That hasn’t changed.”