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[ad_1] The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee today voted 9-0 to recommend approval of Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine for the 50-64 and 65-plus age groups. Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., senior research scientist for Children’s Health Defense, said, “The unanimous vote guarantees a lot of really good questions of harm will have to be answered in the post-marketing period, when that harm manifests in the population.” A federal advisory committee today unanimously voted to endorse Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine — just months after rejecting the company’s application on the basis that Moderna had not performed an “adequate and well-controlled” clinical trial. The…

[ad_1] The Trump administration took office last year promising to reverse the speech-unfriendly policies of the Biden administration, which had pressured social media companies to censor inconvenient stories and ideas. The new White House, we were promised, would “ensure that no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen.” Efforts to keep that promise aren’t going well, as we see from yet another incident of federal agents seeking to intimidate critics of government policies. You are reading The Rattler from J.D. Tuccille and Reason. Get…

[ad_1] Big SCOTUS rulings: The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 yesterday, upholding West Virginia’s and Idaho’s laws that bar transgender athletes who identify as women from competing in girls’ sports. This decision has implications for 25 other states with similar laws. “To provide equal opportunity for female athletes, schools do not merely maintain, for example, one soccer team, one basketball team, one ice hockey team, and one lacrosse team that are equally open to female and male athletes,” wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh for the majority. “That approach would deny equal opportunity to female athletes because, as all agree, females and males…

[ad_1] I often speak of June 26, 2008, the day that District of Columbia v. Heller was decided. Yet, I still clearly remember the day before when the Court decided Kennedy v. Louisiana. Justice Kennedy declared that there was a “national consensus” against executing child rapists, and accordingly, the Eighth Amendment prohibits such punishment. Two decades later, I am still appalled by that decision. It has to be wrong as an originalist matter, as the meaning of the Eighth Amendment cannot change based on what states do. And Kennedy offered no objective basis to determine what the “national consensus” even…

[ad_1] A ceasefire memo is supposed to stop wars, not rename them. We start with the weekend’s flashpoint in the Strait of Hormuz and ask a blunt question: if the MOU bans initiating military operations and the threat or use of force, how do we end up with drone attacks, retaliation, and Washington “making rough rules as it goes along”? Larry Johnson walks us through Iran’s claimed legal authority to regulate commercial passage via its Persian Gulf Strait Authority protocols and why enforcement hinges on which ships are tied to Israel. Then we zoom out to the diplomacy theater: Trump…

[ad_1] After the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, the president called on Congress to end it through legislation, saying a “long and unwieldy” constitutional amendment was not necessary. But constitutional and immigration law experts disagree. These experts say the majority opinion from the Supreme Court — which interpreted the 14th Amendment as providing citizenship to anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions — indicated that a constitutional amendment would be needed. Shortly after the Supreme Court’s ruling on June 30, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “The Supreme Court upheld…

[ad_1] It’s been nearly a year since President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). While the legislation was advertised as a sweeping tax bill, it also allocated roughly $191 billion to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ramp up immigration enforcement. Included in this total was $75 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and $65 billion for Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Despite having the funds available through the end of FY 2029, the Trump administration released an estimated $114 billion, nearly 60 percent, of the funding allocated to DHS, ICE, and CBP within eight…

[ad_1] The rollout of Central Bank Digital Currencies is not about convenience but about total surveillance and control, allowing authorities to track every transaction, cap spending based on social credit scores and instantly cancel the financial activities of dissidents, as seen in Canada’s 2022 protest crackdown and U.S. Treasury seizures. While Bitcoin is praised as the gold standard for financial independence due to its capped, inflation-proof supply, its transparent blockchain makes surveillance inevitable, leaving users exposed to asset seizure and government tracking. Monero and Epic Cash provide true anonymity through untraceable transactions, making them the only secure option for those…