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Children’s Health Defense “This Week” — Trump Wants More Glyphosate, Rand Paul Bill to End Liability & CHD Seeks to Join AAP Battle. With Polly Tommey and Brian Hooker, PhD. (02/22/26, video 56:22, includes transcript). Update 03/01/26 🆕
Brian Hooker, Ph.D. and Polly Tommey pull no punches as they cover:
Recent health policy developments, including Trump's glyphosate directive
Personnel changes at HHS and CDC
Legal challenges to vaccine policies
Bills on vaccine liability
State alignments with WHO
Funding controversies
COVID-19 vaccine studies
Plus: Concerns about geoengineering's impact on aviation safety, weather manipulation, and its military applications, including a 2012 Guardian letter on weather warfare.
Transcript summary (with a little help from our friend Grok) plus resources. Plus, cannot-miss bonus from The Highwire about rising backlash over Trump Administration’s complete and total endorsement of glyphosate and more.
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Summary (ai assisted, edited)
News
Grok summary: tinyurl.com/mr39hrm6
President Donald Trump's Glyphosate Directive Trump invoked Defense Production Act to expand glyphosate production, amid over 60,000 cancer lawsuits against Bayer. MAHA activists and health advocates criticized this decision for prioritizing corporate interests over public health.
Personnel Changes at HHS and CDC Top aides to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., including Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill and General Counsel Mike Stewart, are leaving HHS as part of a management shakeup. They were offered other administration roles. Jay Bhattacharya was named interim CDC director, transitioning from NIH director, amid resistance to MAHA at CDC.
CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Meeting Postponed Originally scheduled for February 25-27, 2026, and expected to be rescheduled soon. Some linked the delay to American Academy of Pediatrics' (AAP) lawsuit against HHS, but meetings are often rescheduled.
American Families for Vaccines (AFV) Targets RFK Jr. AFV, founded in 2020 as Safe Communities Coalition, now has 14 state chapters. They’re targeting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and claiming grassroots status despite receiving heavy pharmaceutical industry funding.
AAP Lawsuit Against HHS Vaccine Changes Federal judge considering emergency motion by AAP to block HHS changes to childhood vaccine schedule under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Senator Rand Paul Bill on Vaccine Liability Shields Bill would end liability shields for vaccine manufacturers, allowing lawsuits in state or federal courts for vaccine-related injuries or deaths. This is a Senate companion to a House bill called the Vaccine Carve Out Act.
This is much needed legislation. Let’s Go Rand(on)!
Gov. Kathy Hochul Announces NY Joining WHO Network New York State's Health Department will join World Health Organization's global Outbreak Response Network, following similar moves by other states.
Epstein and Gates Funded Research Gate Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates, and Gates Foundation-linked individuals financed Research Gate, an online scientific research portal developed as a for-profit business to control scientific discourse.
Disinformation Dozen Architect Resigns Morgan McSweeney, an architect of the 2021 Disinformation Dozen list targeting critics including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Sayer Ji, resigned following release of Epstein files.
AMA and Vaccine Integrity Project Reviews American Medical Association (AMA) and Vaccine Integrity Project plan to conduct independent reviews of vaccine safety and efficacy, stating CDC's system has collapsed. (These organizations are funded by pharma and other pro-vaccine groups.) HHS spokesperson says this does not replace federal processes.
CHD Intervenes in Vaccine Lawsuit CHD, parents, and doctors, filed emergency motion to intervene in AAP's Massachusetts federal court lawsuit challenging CDC childhood vaccine schedule changes, emphasizing representation is needed for injured children.
COVID Origins U.S. Right to Know obtained records suggesting Department of Energy did not shift its position on COVID-19 origins to a lab leak theory, despite headlines. Lawmakers demand more transparency.
FDA Understated Moderna Vaccine RisksVaccines journal study: Among males aged 18-25, Moderna COVID-19 vaccine was linked to 8% to 52% more hospitalizations for myocarditis and pericarditis than COVID-19 hospitalizations prevented, contradicting FDA's risk-benefit analysis.
COVID Vaccines and Pregnancy Risks CDC study: Higher rates of life-threatening pregnancy-related hypertensive disorders reported among women who received COVID-19 vaccines during or before pregnancy, regardless of vaccine type or timing.
COVID Vaccine Blood Clotting Study AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines cause vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia, linked to genetic differences in platelet activation.
Workers Testify on COVID Mandates Hermione Susanna testified about losing her job and home due to New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, to which she objected on religious grounds. Advocates encourage others to testify before March 16, 2026 hearing.
FDA Initially Rejects Moderna mRNA Flu Vaccine Review FDA initially declined to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine application due to inadequate clinical trials but later relented after Moderna's objections.
AAP Ties to GLP-1 Drug Makers BMJ found undisclosed financial ties between AAP members and makers of GLP-1 weight loss drugs. AAP's 2023 guidelines recommend these drugs and bariatric surgery for obese children.
Geoengineering
Grok summary: tinyurl.com/mtn2yyzm
Aviation and Geoengineering Concern Can geoengineered clouds cause dangers for planes, especially small ones, leading to increased turbulence and crashes? “Climate change” often used to mask geoengineering problems.
Storms and Weather Manipulation Videos posted online showed recent Texas storms were preceded by heavy crisscrossing clouds. Is weather manipulated to create these storms? News reports describe deep freeze causing hazardous conditions: building roof collapse in Arkansas, semi-truck jackknifing in Tulsa, fatal plow truck crash in Colorado, stranded truck driver in Mississippi, over 85 deaths, and 220,000 power outages in the South.
2012 Guardian Letter on Geoengineering Matt Anderson, former executive advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton for aerospace and defense, wrote February 9, 2012, letter in The Guardian, titled "At War over Geoengineering." Key points:
Geoengineering is primarily a military science, unrelated to cooling the planet or lowering carbon emissions.
At least four countries (US, Russia, China, Israel) possess technology to alter weather and geologic events for military and black operations.
Objectives include demographic, energy, and agricultural resource management.
Capabilities include inducing, enhancing, or directing cyclonic events (hurricanes, storms), earthquakes, drought, flooding using polymerized aerosol viral agents and radioactive particulates.
Public debates such as global warming are subsumed into military objectives, including warming polar regions for naval navigation and resource extraction.
Broader Implications Militaries, corporations, and governments use geoengineering for geostrategic purposes, not civilian climate solutions. Weather has been weaponized, manifesting as weather warfare globally, causing deaths. Geoengineering “safe and effective” claims are compared to pharmaceutical "safe and effective" mantras.
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Resources (see Show Notes for links)
Trump Directs USDA to Make More Glyphosate, Signals Liability Protection for Pesticide Makers
Top aides to RFK Jr. will leave posts
CDC vaccine advisory panel meeting postponed
With Funding From Pharma, American Families for Vaccines Targets RFK Jr.
Federal Judge Weighs AAP Emergency Motion to Block Vaccine Policy Overhaul
Rand Paul Introduces Bill to End Liability Shield for Vaccine Manufacturers
Gov. Hochul announced NYS Health Department joins WHO’s global outbreak response network
‘Muzzled and Muted’: Epstein, Gates Financed Research Portal to Control Scientific Discourse
Key Architect of ‘Disinformation Dozen’ List Resigns After ‘Epstein Files’ Reveal Tangled Web of Censorship
‘Fox Guarding the Henhouse’: AMA, Vaccine Integrity Project to Conduct Their Own Vaccine Safety and Efficacy Reviews
Breaking: Children’s Health Defense Seeks to Intervene in High-Stakes Vaccine Lawsuit
Emails Challenge Reports That DOE Changed Course on COVID Origins
FDA Understated Risk of Heart Damage From Moderna COVID Vaccine, New Study Suggests
COVID Vaccine Linked to Higher Risk of Life-Threatening Complications During Pregnancy
Study Explains How Some COVID Vaccines Cause Rare Blood-Clotting Disorder
‘Demonized and Ostracized’: Worker Fired Over COVID Shot Testifies Before Religious Freedom Commission
Moderna ‘Shocked’ After FDA Scuttles Review of New mRNA Flu Vaccine
AAP Members With Ties to GLP-1 Drugmakers Helped Write Weight-Loss Drug Guidelines for Kids
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Climate change is making turbulence worse, although deaths are still rare, experts say
Winter storm warning in effect as another round of snow hits East Coast
At war over geoengineering
The Highwire (02/26/26)
Episode 465: Essential Elements (02/26/26, video 01:54:26). Guests: Vani Hari, Dr. Michael Nehls
Backlash over Trump Administration’s recent action on glyphosate and expedited production tied to Roundup. 🗽🆕
Vani Hari (Food Babe) on food policy and reform. 🆕
Epstein Files revelations around medical/ science publishing and influence.
Dr. Michael Nehls on lithium—a truly essential element?
