ICYMI My story this week:
NIH committee greenlighted Wuhan coronavirus experiments despite concerns, emails show
The recentlyreleased records, obtained via our ongoing #FOIA lawsuit, reveal ad hoc review committee’s lax oversight during federal ban on risky research
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Claim: Trump admin promises "maximum transparency" on COVID origins records
Reality: After for weeks ignoring a federal court order to process 500 pages per month in our #FOIA suit, Trump's DIA just released 92 pages—58 of which we already had.
The rest? It looks like this...
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NYT: Virginia Giuffre’s Family Responds to Trump’s Claim That Epstein ‘Stole’ Her www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
WSJ: Justice Department told Trump in May that his name appears in the Epstein files
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This month, we've filed two FOIA lawsuits -- and are preparing a third -- against federal intelligence agencies for violating #FOIA provisions regarding our requests for public records
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In fact, our latest batch of records from the FBI, in response to a FOIA we sued over two years ago, is almost entirely redacted
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Despite the Trump admin's pledge to make more COVID origins intelligence transparent & a federal law passed 2 years ago instructing U.S. intel agencies to declassify & share with the public as much info as possible, we're still getting records from the FBI that look like this:
What’s the conspiracy theory?
"It will be remembered as one of the most shameful capitulations by the press to a president in history."
@freedom.press's statement on CBS/Paramount's settlement with Trump
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Of course not, though the emails indicate the decision of whether to take or not take credit for its discovery was made out of the political convenience
A few months earlier, they were taking credit for it
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Notable docs: Aug 2020 emails between UCD virologist Jonna Mazet & Peter Daszak, head of EcoHealth Alliance, in which they distance PREDICT from 2013 discovery of RaTG13 - then the closest known relative to SARS-CoV-2 (2/2)
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NEW Posted at usrtk.org: 6.5K+ pages of docs obtained from the University of California-Davis related to PREDICT -- the USAID-funded virus hunting project (which drew scrutiny during the COVID pandemic) that collected 10k samples from bats & discovered ~120 new coronaviruses from 2009-2020 (1/2)
While Elon Musk became one of Donald Trump’s closest allies last year, he was consuming so much Ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms, Adderall and ketamine that it was adversely affecting his bladder, per @NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
White House Health Report Included Fake Citations www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
Yesterday, we filed an appellate brief with the North Carolina Court of Appeals in our NC Public Records Act case against the University of North Carolina for roughly 50,000 pages of documents, mostly of Ralph Baric, possibly containing clues about the origins of COVID-19.
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Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner, via @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
ICE agents last week began showing up in immigration courts across the US to detain certain migrants who are appearing for scheduled hearings, targeting them shortly after their cases were dismissed by judges www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/n...
Justice Department reaches deal to allow Boeing to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes apnews.com/article/boei...
U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar; Trump Administration asks Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the president, per NYT
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For two years, New Orleans police secretly used facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, per @washingtonpost.com
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U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
For sale: Portland’s NBA franchise
Trump Is Poised to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One. The plan raises substantial ethical issues, given the immense value of the lavishly appointed plane and that Trump intends to take ownership of it after he leaves office, via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade
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The Nat’l Archives and Records Administration just released another big batch of records on the assassination of RFK
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Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing new ventures involving billions of dollars that directly benefit their father, the president, via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...
Congress’s Fight Over Trump’s Agenda Runs Through Alaska, via @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...
