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Stripe and Substack Demand Authors’ Financial Details

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2025/06/12

Stripe and Substack Demand Authors’ Financial Details by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute Financial privacy is a right under the Constitution, as is free speech. Under the guise of “credit review,” Stripe is now rolling out a requirement that appears to target conservative or "anti-vax" Substack authors. Stripe is requiring that these authors provide all of their current and historic financial records associated with the bank account into which Stripe deposits Substack subscriber

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The Broken City

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2025/06/12

The Broken City by Naomi Wolf at Brownstone Institute I am in New York again, and I am sending you this postcard from a city I love and have loved; from a broken city. Broken; yet struggling to reimagine itself, as it has so many times before. Are we better? Are we lost? Are we changed, changed utterly? Here are some images, some moments, for you. We are post-Tower of Babel now. The culture of New York is now completely fragmented, and this happened through

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Supreme Court Oral Arguments: Analysis

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2025/06/11

Supreme Court Oral Arguments: Analysis by Aaron Kheriaty at Brownstone Institute The government’s opening argument attempted to characterize their behavior as friendly persuasion toward the social media companies, not overt coercion. Justice Thomas—famous before Covid for not asking questions but now more vocal on the court—opened by asking whether a distinction between government coercion vs. government persuasion was the only way to think about this case? Were there any First Amendment

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Censorship in Our Materialist World

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2025/06/11

Censorship in Our Materialist World by Mattias Desmet at Brownstone Institute My dear friends, A long time ago but I am still here. Two weeks ago I learned on one and the same day that the LinkedIn account of Jakobien Huysman and the Facebook page of Alain Grootaers (both producers of the corona criticalHeadwind series) were permanently removed, that Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen was visited by six policemen for making a satirical movie about a pro-Palestian rally in Amsterdam, that Martin

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The Prisoner’s Dilemma of AI

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2025/06/10

The Prisoner’s Dilemma of AI by Sofia Karstens at Brownstone Institute Democracy and capitalism as we know it have long coexisted in a tense but workable marriage. But now there’s a third party in the relationship: AI. Unlike previous disruptions, this one isn’t going anywhere. AI is not just a disruptive mistress – it’s a permanent, exponential presence. The question is no longer whether democracy and capitalism in their current forms can survive together, but which one will collapse

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The Media Beast Targets the Reform

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2025/06/10

The Media Beast Targets the Reform by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute The National Institutes of Health emerged from the Covid era as among the most disreputable of all the agencies, a partner with the CDC. It was the home of Anthony Fauci, plus his wife, who was in charge of ethics. Pausing for derisive laughter… Moving on, the agency has a $47 billion budget and shared patents with Pharma companies that themselves are on the rocks due to grim results of countless drugs,

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The Bread, the Circus, and the Sugar Water

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2025/06/10

The Bread, the Circus, and the Sugar Water by Josh Stylman at Brownstone Institute I was watching the Knicks game last night, still processingmy conversation with Naomi Wolfabout consciousness and mind control earlier yesterday, when I realized I was witnessing the final performance of a civilization that has forgotten what reality is. The game itself—human bodies moving through space, demonstrating skill, strength, and coordination—represents one of the last connections to authentic physical

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Australia Elects Weak Tea Bag to Lead the Country

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2025/06/09

Australia Elects Weak Tea Bag to Lead the Country by Rebekah Barnett at Brownstone Institute Labor’s Anthony Albanese wins a second term as Australian Prime Minister. Pictured with Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong (L), fiancé Jodie Haydon (R), and son Nathan Albanese (R). Image:Sky News. Given the choice between two weak tea bags, Australia elected a weak tea bag at the federal election over the weekend. The result was not so much an affirmation of Anthony Albanese and his centre-left

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End the EUA

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2025/06/09

End the EUA by Clayton J. Baker, MD at Brownstone Institute It’s long past time to deal with the core problem that persists from the Covid era: the remaining EUA and the PREP Act. These must be revoked if we are to finally put an end to our long nightmare. The mRNA injections that were produced ostensibly to end the Covid crisis were released under Emergency Use Authorization under the PREP Act (Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005), invoked by President Trump on March 17,

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Innovative Health Financing Mechanisms for Advancing...

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2025/06/08

Innovative Health Financing Mechanisms for Advancing Pandemic Preparedness: ‘Huge Untapped Potential’ or False Advertising?by REPPARE at Brownstone Institute While the public health world is focused on the pandemic agenda and centralization of management, few understand the financialization of health and the transition to commercial-based approaches that have underpinned this. Health must pay, if the corporate world is to contribute. Hiding this within terms such as ‘innovative financing’ has

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Nearly Everything That We’ve Been Told about Genes...

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2025/06/07

Nearly Everything That We’ve Been Told about Genes and Autism Is Wrong by Toby Rogers at Brownstone Institute The University of Sydney caps doctoral theses at 80,000 words (excluding references). The theory is that external reviewers don’t want to read more than that (true!). One can apply to the Dean to increase the word limit to 100,000, which is what I did. Butmy doctoral thesis,as initially written, was closer to 140,000 words. So I had to cut three chapters that I really liked — the

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When Ideas Become Too Dangerous to Platform

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2025/06/06

When Ideas Become Too Dangerous to Platform by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute Economist Professor Gigi Foster delivered a TEDx talk titledThe Manipulators’ Playbookat the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in October 2024. It was a bold examination of how, in times of crisis, fear and conformity can be deliberately harnessed by those in power to manipulate public behaviour and silence dissent. Her message was a call to defend the freedom to question, to challenge authority,

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Can the Tyranny Be Soft-Landed?

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2025/06/06

Can the Tyranny Be Soft-Landed? by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute The excuse that this regime is better than it was, or might otherwise have been, only lasts so long. Every transition government in history has deployed that trope. Think the Girondins in France, Kerensky in Russia, Weimar in Germany, the Second Spanish Republic, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and so on. In order, they were replaced by Robespierre then Napoleon, Lenin then Stalin, Hitler, Franco, and Mao. In each of

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My Talk at the MAHA Institute Roundtable in Washington

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2025/06/05

My Talk at the MAHA Institute Roundtable in Washington by Meryl Nass at Brownstone Institute A major MAHA event took place yesterday as the new MAHA Institute was announced, and dozens of speakers presented great talks on a wide variety of MAHA subjects. Some of the “stars” included Calley Means and Sara Brenner, MD, principal deputy FDA Commissioner. Leland Lehrman did a masterful job pulling this event off, even without an agenda or program! He got us all to show up and speak, even though

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To Outrun the Complacent Class

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2025/06/05

To Outrun the Complacent Class by Bret Swanson at Brownstone Institute “The emails showed the world's leading climatologists busily working to organize a research cartel. Peer review was a legitimate source of authority when the process supported their positions. It was compromised, if not malicious, when it offered critics of the orthodoxy a platform. The wish to crush dissenting views, in their minds, had become indistinguishable from the pursuit of truth.” – Martin Gurri Over the

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Peter Daszak’s Smokescreen Attack on Dr. Bhattacharya

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2025/06/04

Peter Daszak’s Smokescreen Attack on Dr. Bhattacharya by Randall Bock at Brownstone Institute Peter Daszak’s recent X posts (June 2, 2025) labeling Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the new NIH Director, an“anti-science Luddite”who is “destroying public health” are a masterclass in projection. Daszak, former head of EcoHealth Alliance (facilitator and co-conspirator of that recent pandemic, what was it called? Oh yes, SARS CoV-2 Covid-19), accuses Bhattacharya of having a “vendetta against the NIH”

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Covid-19 Vaccine Reform Is Moving Slower Than Many...

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2025/06/04

Covid-19 Vaccine Reform Is Moving Slower Than Many Had Hoped by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute Just three weeks after Dr Vinay Prasad assumed oversight of vaccines at the FDA, Moderna’s latest Covid-19 vaccine,mNEXSPIKE®, received fullapproval. For those who had hoped the mRNA platform would be shelved, the decision landed like a gut punch. Approved on 31 May 2025, the next-generation shot is intended for adults over 65, as well as individuals aged 12 to 64 with at least one risk

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My Forthcoming Book on Healing Modern Medicine

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2025/06/03

My Forthcoming Book on Healing Modern Medicine by Aaron Kheriaty at Brownstone Institute I’m pleased to announce my next book is available for pre-orderhere. It will also be available on audiobook in September, though that’s not yet available for pre-order. From the dust jacket: There is a cure for medicine’s ills, but it’s going to hurt. Effective treatment, as every doctor knows, begins with accurate diagnosis.Making the Cutis about what’s going on in the house of medicine. Medicine

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Did the Feds Label You a Covid “Violent Extremist?”

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2025/06/03

Did the Feds Label You a Covid “Violent Extremist?” by James Bovard at Brownstone Institute Biden administration policy-makers hated you more than you knew. From the start of the Covid pandemic, I warned that the feds were vilifying anyone who failed to kowtow to the latest commands. In October 2023, I wrote: “Federal bureaucrats heaved together a bunch of letters to contrive an ominous new acronym for the latest peril to domestic tranquility. The result: AGAAVE—'anti-government,

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Anthony Fauci Gets Demolished by White House in New...

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2025/06/02

Anthony Fauci Gets Demolished by White House in New Covid Update by Ian Miller at Brownstone Institute Anthony Fauci must be furious. He spent years proudly being the public face of the country's response to the Covid-19 pandemic. He did, however, flip-flop on almost every major issue, seamlessly managing to shift his guidance based on current political whims and an enormous desire to coerce behavior. Nowhere was this more obvious than his dictates on masks. If you recall, in February 2020,

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