Shocking study: Marijuana use in men DOUBLES the risk of miscarriage



Marijuana has long been portrayed through film and television as a relatively harmless substance associated with relaxation, laughter, and the “munchies.”

But BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler says the scientific evidence tells a much darker story, and Alex Berenson’s book “Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence” is what ultimately changed her mind.

“Alex Berenson changed my mind on marijuana almost single-handedly,” Wheeler says, before pointing to a study on the drug.

“A recent study shows that if a man uses marijuana, then — even once a week, if he smokes marijuana — then his wife is twice as likely to miscarry. So, even if the woman, the mother, never uses pot and the man smokes once a week, his wife is twice as likely to miscarry,” Wheeler says.


As devastating as that is, it’s not all marijuana is linked to. The drug is also known to cause psychosis, schizophrenia, and violence.

But most people have no idea.

“The reason that most people think of pot and they think chill and munchies is because of that propaganda that I mentioned that was paid for by this humongous marijuana lobby who obviously stood to profit enormous amounts of money if they were able to farm marijuana,” she explains.

“They first, you know, tried to normalize it by making it a medicinal thing, medical marijuana, and then once it was kind of normalized as medicinal, which obviously had a positive connotation in people’s minds, their goal was actually just recreational legalization,” she says.

And in Colorado, where marijuana was legalized recreationally, Wheeler explains that crimes, car crashes, and ER visits are up.

“I would argue that it’s a net negative to society. It’s certainly a net negative to this channel. It causes me to lose subscribers any time I mention this,” she adds.

And anecdotally, Berenson’s wife worked in medical care and would “come home and tell him about these psychotic patients that she had and how there was always a connection to marijuana.”

“He scoffed at her. He said that is ridiculous. Like, marijuana is not tied to psychosis. It’s not tied to mental health. It’s not tied to violence. It’s like, you just smoke it, and then you get hungry. And so he tried to prove her wrong,” Wheeler explains.

But when he started researching it, he was shocked by what he found.

“And when he started researching it, that’s when he began to put the book together because he found that the actual research contradicts the narratives that we’re all pretty familiar with around marijuana,” she says.

“What Berenson actually found in the scientific literature was that it does ... lead to psychosis and schizophrenia and ultimately violence, particularly violence committed by men against women,” she continues.

“I don’t think my position is extreme, that if it’s a dangerous drug that leads to these things, if it’s a net negative to society, then yes, we should ban it,” she adds.

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'Left-wing gender goblins': Critics torch New York Times for running 'trans dad' essay on Father's Day



For American leftists, Father's Day — like Columbus Day — constitutes an annual opportunity to publicly unload their baggage, air petty resentments, and express their depravities in creative ways. This Sunday was no different over at the New York Times.

Days after a liberal rag north of the border ran an article calling for the abolition of Father's Day, America's supposed newspaper of record endeavored to make Father's Day about a reality-averse woman.

'The cultural elite['s] contempt for dads runs so deep.'

In an essay published on Sunday titled "To My Daughter, My Gender Was Never Complicated," trans-identifying woman Zach Ellams discussed both her imagined fatherhood and her daughter's absorption of the corresponding lunacy.

Ellams notes at the outset that while she has been "living as a trans man" since she was 18, she had to "learn how to be a trans dad" after she and her lesbian "wife" had a child.

This learning process apparently consisted of Ellams simultaneously developing confidence in the lie while indoctrinating her daughter — a little girl whom Ellams calls Elliot and who has apparently wondered about her mother's new facial hair; stated she too wanted to grow a beard and tried to convince other children it was possible; told teachers about her mother's breast-removal surgery; and asked her mother about her phantom breasts — "How long did you have breasts for, Dad?"

Whether Ellams or her lesbian partner gave birth to the girl is unclear.

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The essay concludes with Ellams noting, "I thought I was teaching Elliot how to be happy and secure. Yet all along she had being doing that for me."

Critics blasted the Times over its decision to mark Father's Day with an essay about a dysphoric mother.

Investigative reporter Matt Taibbi called the essay an "all-timer," noting he didn't "know where to put it on the funny-vs-horrifying axis."

Alex Berenson, a former reporter for the Times, congratulated his former paper for "perfectly catching how the cultural elite view men and fatherhood this Father’s Day — yes, to the Times, being a dad is something you do to feel better about having your tits cut off. Cannot make it up."

"The cultural elite['s] contempt for dads runs so deep we don't even get to speak for ourselves," Berenson also said.

"The New York Times celebrated Father’s Day by saluting the real heroes: left-wing gender goblins who think mentally ill women mutilating themselves, mainlining hormone injections, and playing daddy dress-up are the true embodiment of fatherhood," wrote Sean Davis, CEO of the Federalist.

"'Liberal women let men have even one single thing challenge': impossible," quipped conservative commentator Michael Knowles.

The X account for Prager University simply asked, "What are we doing here?"

Ellams' essay was published just days after the surgically mutilated lesbian actress formerly known as Ellen Page attempted to define "healthy masculinity," suggesting what's ultimately needed is more weeping and banana consumption.

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Trump has the chance to end the welfare free-for-all Minnesota exposed



It’s the $1.2 trillion question.

The United States spends roughly $1.2 trillion every year on means-tested welfare programs — cash aid, food assistance, housing subsidies, and medical care. The list runs through a thicket of acronyms: SNAP, TANF, SSI, EITC, ACTC, WIC, CHIP, ACA subsidies, and CCDBG, plus school meals, Medicaid, and Section 8 housing.

States that eliminate fraud can afford to provide better aid to real residents in need — creating a race to the top in administration rather than a race to exploit Washington.

This guaranteed-income architecture now fuels a destructive cycle. Federal spending drives debt. Debt fuels inflation. Inflation expands dependence. And Washington responds by printing more money and sending it back to the states — without demanding serious accountability.

The result is a bottomless pit of spending, fraud, and inflation, with states handed endless federal funds and almost no incentive to police abuse.

Minnesota’s massive Somali-linked fraud scandal exposes this system in its most grotesque form. The question is whether President Trump will use it to force states to reclaim ownership — and responsibility — over welfare.

The day-care, nutrition, and medical fraud uncovered in Minneapolis is not an aberration. It is the predictable outcome of an open-ended entitlement state. Fraud networks thrive wherever federal money flows without limits or consequences. While the Minneapolis cases involved tight-knit ethnic networks, the underlying problem is national and structural. As long as states do not have to pay their own way, fraud will remain rational behavior.

California offers a parallel example. A report last summer found that roughly one-third of all community college applications in the state were fake — submitted solely to extract federal financial aid. That scam could not survive if California had to pick up the tab.

It isn’t just a blue-state problem, either. As Alex Berenson has reported, Indiana’s Medicaid spending on “autism behavioral therapy” exploded thirtyfold in just six years, reaching $75,000 per child for a few hours a week of unproven playtime therapy. When federal dollars cover the bill, discipline evaporates.

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Many Americans ask how Minnesota allowed the Feeding Our Future scandal to persist for years. The answer is simple: Washington supplied unlimited money, and the state faced no budgetary consequence for ignoring warning signs.

Over 200 day-care and medical providers allegedly siphoned billions across Medicaid, child care, and nutrition programs. That scale of fraud does not occur without political indifference — or worse.

States have every incentive under this system to look away. Federal money enables a closed loop of special interests, dependency, and electoral protection. Oversight threatens the flow.

Devolving welfare programs to the states — using fixed block grants rather than open-ended federal matches — would cut this dynamic off at the knees. States must balance their budgets. They do not have a printing press. When fraud costs real money, enforcement follows.

This is the moment for Trump to make that case. Either states raise taxes to fund welfare programs themselves, or they reform and prioritize them. That choice restores democratic accountability.

Consider the contrast. The United States spends roughly $1 trillion on national defense — protecting everyone. Yet we now spend even more on means-tested welfare that serves narrower populations while distorting the economy for all. Open-ended welfare spending drives inflation, which then forces more people onto welfare. End the money-printing, and fewer people will need subsidies in the first place.

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In response to the Minnesota scandal, Trump’s Office of Management and Budget froze $10 billion in funding for TANF and the Child Care Development Fund across several states. That is a start. But temporary freezes will not survive the next Democrat administration.

The durable fix is statutory restructuring — through budget reconciliation — to force states to assume full financial responsibility for welfare programs. Without unlimited federal backstopping, abuse becomes politically and fiscally intolerable.

Critics warn that block grants spark a “race to the bottom.” The 1996 welfare reform suggests the opposite. When states gained ownership, many innovated — emphasizing work, child-care support, and fraud reduction. Accountability improved because incentives changed.

Yes, benefits should be limited to the truly needy. Open-ended entitlements allowed 250 “meal sites” to appear almost overnight in Minnesota, claiming to feed 120,000 children a day.

Force states to balance their books, and they will treat taxpayer money with respect. States that eliminate fraud can afford to provide better aid to real residents in need — creating a race to the top in administration rather than a race to exploit Washington.

The real way to “feed our future” is to end inflationary money-printing and dismantle the infinite entitlement state — so families can afford food on their own again.

Latest DISTURBING COVID vaccine data reveals just how much work RFK Jr. has to do



Recent reports from a team of immunologists at Yale University indicate that some COVID jab patients experienced “immune system exhaustion and prolonged spike protein production.”

What does that mean?

In the words of journalist Alex Berenson, who’s been reporting on these latest scientific findings, it means “bad news. Very bad.”

— (@)

Steve Deace dives into the latest findings.

According to the study, some patients who received the vaccine developed AIDS — acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

“The word 'acquired' there is key,” says Steve. “What the Yale study finds is that people who did not previously demonstrate these sorts of immune deficiencies began demonstrating them with prolonged exposure.”

Further, “they have no idea how long the spike protein stays in your system,” Steve explains, adding that the “experts” lied about this from the get-go when they told everyone “it stays in your arm.”

Back in 2021 when the mandates began, Steve warned his audience that taking the jab was Russian roulette. Four years later, the science agrees.

Actually, the science has agreed for the last several years, but instead of admitting that the vaccine had adverse side effects, some officials pitched “long COVID” — health problems that persist or develop after someone has COVID-19.

This Yale study, however, is “the first time that a high official study is attributing it uniquely now to the jab,” says Steve.

“RFK Jr. has got to take these shots off the market.”

“I don't know what all pomp and circumstance and I-dotting and T-crossing is required for such a thing to occur, but as soon as such a thing can occur, it needs to happen,” says Steve.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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Alex Berenson says leaked emails show Pfizer board member and top Biden adviser secretly conspired to get him banned from Twitter



Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson claimed that a prominent Pfizer board member and a former top Biden administration adviser secretly pressured Twitter to censor him on the social media platform over his questions about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Berenson believes that he was banned from Twitter because of the influence of a senior board member of Pfizer. Citing emails obtained through discovery in his lawsuit against Twitter, Berenson accused Scott Gottlieb of pressuring Twitter leadership to permanently suspend his account.

Gottlieb was the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 2017 to 2019; he resigned and was named to Pfizer's board of directors three months later.

Berenson wrote in his "Unreported Truths" Substack on Thursday, "Gottlieb — whom Pfizer pays almost $400,000 a year to serve on its board, including its highest-level 'executive committee' — began the final act in a secret months-long conspiracy to suppress my basic American right to free speech."

Berenson claimed that corporate, private, and federal conspirators "wanted to block my reporting about the failure of the mRNA COVID vaccines," adding, "They wanted to suppress debate about the necessity for vaccine boosters or mandates."

"They wanted Twitter, the most important global platform for journalism, to ban me, even though Twitter had repeatedly found my posts did not violate its rules," Berenson alleged. "They wanted to soil my reputation as a reporter and damage me and my family financially."

In August 2021, Berenson wrote a Substack piece titled: "Quite frankly: The arrogance of Anthony Fauci, and what it means for the rest of us." Within hours of the article being published, Gottlieb shared the piece with a Twitter employee via email, according to Berenson. The Substack article includes an alleged screenshot of the leaked email.

Gottlieb purportedly said in the email, "This is what's promoted on Twitter. This is why Tony needs a security detail."

Despite Gottlieb's insinuation that Berenson was putting Fauci in danger, the journalist insisted, "My Substack piece about 'Tony' did not threaten or harass him in any way. It merely called him 'arrogant' and a 'skilled courtier' and mocked his infamous comment that criticizing him was 'attacking science.'"

Berenson wrote, "Four days after Gottlieb sent that email – and just 24 hours after he had a secret conference call with Twitter employees about me – Twitter permanently banned me, claiming I had violated its rules on COVID misinformation."

A Twitter spokesperson said Berenson's account was "permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules."

Berenson argued that the tweet was "entirely accurate" and added, "I can't wait to hear what a jury will make of this."

Berenson filed a federal lawsuit against Twitter in December that alleged the big tech corporation "acted on behalf of the federal government in censoring and barring him [from] its platform."

Twitter settled the lawsuit in July, and Berenson's official account was restored.

Berenson noted, "Twitter has acknowledged that my tweets should have not led to my suspension at that time."

Berenson claimed that his lawsuit revealed internal Slack messages between Twitter employees discussing a meeting they had with members of President Joe Biden's administration in August 2021.

One Twitter employee told another, "They had one really tough question about why Alex Berenson hasn't been kicked off the platform."

"They really wanted to know about Alex Berenson," read another screen capture of a conversation between Twitter employees. "Andy Slavitt suggested they had seen data viz [visualization] that had showed he was the epicenter of disinfo that radiated outwards to the persuadable public."

A Twitter employee allegedly informed a colleague that Slavitt described Berenson's reporting on the pandemic as an obstacle to convincing the "persuadable public" to take COVID-19 vaccines.

At the time of the meeting, Andy Slavitt served as a senior White House COVID-19 adviser until he left the Biden administration in June 2021.

"Slavitt and Gottlieb know each other well," Berenson asserted. "In April 2020, they co-authored a letter to Congress demanding expanded COVID contact tracing efforts. They also appeared together on interviews, including on Slavitt’s own 'In The Bubble' podcast, which Pfizer sponsors."

Speaking about social media platforms with CNBC in July 2021, Gottlieb said, “If they’re giving someone a very big platform to distribute information, they have an obligation to look at the information that’s being distributed. I do think that they have an affirmative responsibility here, and in some cases they’re not doing it."

In July 2021, the White House admitted that senior staff members were working with Facebook to flag "problematic posts" regarding COVID.

"This is a big issue of misinformation, specifically on the pandemic," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.

"In terms of actions ... that we have taken, or we're working to take, I should say, from the federal government, we've increased disinformation research and tracking within the surgeon general's office," Psaki proclaimed. "We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation."

Also in mid-July 2021, President Biden accused social media companies of "killing people" for not taking action against COVID misinformation. He added, "The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated."

Berenson wrote, "A few hours after Biden’s comment, Twitter locked me out of my account for the first time. On July 27, it gave me a third 'strike,' and on July 30, a fourth – this time for a tweet that did nothing but accurately reflect the results of a Pfizer clinical trial."

On July 31, 2021, Slavitt allegedly wrote an email to a Twitter employee that read: "If he doesn't go permanently after this, the outcry will be justified."

Berenson was permanently banned from Twitter on Aug. 28, 2021.

On Thursday night, Berenson appeared on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" to discuss his accusations of censorship by Twitter that he blames on Gottlieb and Slavitt.

Berenson told host Tucker Carlson that Slavitt – Biden's White House senior advisdr for the COVID response – was in communication with Twitter about Berenson as early as April 2021. Berenson said Slavitt told Twitter he was a problem for the White House and asked the social network why it hadn't banned him.

Berenson then accused Gottlieb of getting him banned from Twitter.

"And then Scott Gottlieb – who is a director of Pfizer on the executive committee of Pfizer, which has made tens of billions of dollars from selling these vaccines – went to Twitter and said, 'This guy is a problem,' and then they banned me," Berenson told Carlson.

Berenson announced on Thursday that he plans to file a new lawsuit and has sent “demand letters” to Gottlieb, Pfizer, and Slavitt.

He said, "We have several grounds, likely including a conspiracy to interfere with my civil rights – in this case, my First Amendment right to free speech."

\u201cWow. Alex Berenson says former FDA Commissioner and current Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb colluded with Twitter to ban him for daring to be skeptical about the vaccine.\u201d
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