RFK Jr.’s big announcement on autism rates — and why the scientific community doesn't want the truth



Autism rates have skyrocketed in the past couple of decades — and to the dismay of those who profit from it, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made it clear that he’s intent on figuring out why.

In an announcement this week, RFK Jr. brought a study to light that found that the cost of treating autism in the United States by 2035 will be $1 trillion.

“This is added to already astronomical health care costs. And then there is individual injury,” RFK said. “This is a preventable disease. We know it’s an environmental exposure. It has to be. Genes do not cause epidemics. They can provide a vulnerability.”


RFK also noted that “the amount of money and resources put into studying genetic causes, which is a dead end, has been historically 10 to 20 times the amount spent by the NIH and other agencies to study environmental factors.”

“That’s where we’re going to find the answer,” he concluded.

Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” is thrilled to hear it.

“Even the scientific community is so captured by autism being a profitable business that they are in a sense willing to waste money on studying your genetic predisposition to this and ignoring the environmental factors, because they don’t want to know the answer,” she says.

“They don’t want to know if it’s the food. They don’t want to know if it’s the shots. They don’t want to know if it’s the chemicals that we put on our food. They don’t want to know if it’s fertilizers and weed killers and GMO and whatever else, stuff in our water, fluoride in our water. They don’t want to know any of that,” she continues.

“The money to study the root cause was never an honest, authentic, investigation, because they don’t want to know the answer,” she adds.

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You won’t believe what happened to Joe Exotic’s tigers ...



For those who need a quick refresher: Joseph Maldonado, a.k.a. Joe Exotic, became a national sensation in 2020 when the documentary “Tiger King” soared to the top of Netflix’s charts. As an eccentric-dressing, gay polygamist and exotic cat owner with lofty political aspirations, it’s no wonder everyone couldn’t stop talking about him.

However, Joe Exotic’s name fell out of public consciousness when he went to jail for a murder-for-hire plot aimed at his big cat arch nemesis Carol Baskin. Today, he remains in jail serving a 21-year prison sentence after he was convicted on 21 counts, including two counts of murder-for-hire, eight counts of violating the Lacey Act for falsifying wildlife records, and nine counts of violating the Endangered Species Act.

Since his arrest, Exotic’s name has surfaced here and there, especially when he’s pleaded with Donald Trump to pardon him. However, his name has come up again, but this time for a story involving another big cat enthusiast who allegedly purchased six of Exotic’s tigers following his arrest.

On April 2, Karl Mitchell, a 71-year-old exotic animal handler with a history of legal issues, had his seven tigers seized from his Nevada home due to lacking the permits required to keep exotic animals. Mitchell argued that the tigers were “emotional support animals” for his PTSD.

Rick Burgess of the “Rick Burgess Show” discusses this strange story.

“They relieve his stress — seven tigers!” says Burgess in disbelief. “This thing with animals — these therapy animals — is getting out of control.”

Greg Burgess agrees, adding, “I’ll give you dogs, cats, maybe a rabbit, but once you get into peacocks and all that ...”

The panel wonders what would happen had any of these tigers gotten loose and roamed into the surrounding communities. The idea isn’t far-fetched when you consider that the sheriff’s office closest to Mitchell’s property received several reports that he had been seen “walking the tigers loose around the property” as well as “off the property.” On top of that, Mitchell had posted social media videos showing his tigers interacting with random people.

While he may claim that his tigers “rescue him” from PTSD, Greg says these animals are probably the ones "begging to be rescued.”

To hear more of the conversation and see footage of Mitchell explaining his dependence on his emotional support tigers, watch the clip above.

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Drugged for being boys: The TRUTH behind the ADHD scam



Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that people are born with.

Well, at least that’s long been the narrative in the medical field.

But the fact that ADHD diagnoses and Adderall prescriptions have skyrocketed in recent decades, especially in young male populations, has many — even the left’s “experts” — questioning if ADHD is actually congenital. It seems they can’t help but ask: If ADHD is something you’re born with, why the enormous surge in diagnoses?

In a recent New York Times article titled "Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?" writer Paul Tough challenged the idea that ADHD is solely a fixed, biologically driven condition and suggested that it might also be driven by various environmental factors, including increased academic pressure, pervasive screen time, sleep deprivation, and post-pandemic stress.

In response, the Daily Wire published an article titled "The ‘Experts’ Are Finally Admitting That ADHD Is A Scam,” in which the writer acknowledged that mainstream sources are finally beginning to question what many of us have known all along: ADHD is a misdiagnosis of normal behavior.

The writer alleges that the feminization of education, pharmaceutical greed, and the mislabeling of normal male behavior are what’s really driving ADHD diagnoses and prescriptions.

On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn dove into these new conversations revolving around ADHD.

“The truth is we've been told not that a feminized education system has increasingly punished normal male behavior it doesn't understand; it's not that schools have lost their capacity to educate male students; it's not that smartphone use and electronics in general have become distractions teachers have been unable to control. Instead, we're led to believe that boys have suddenly become afflicted with a severe psychological disorder,” Glenn reads from the Daily Wire piece.

He agrees that what’s being done to boys in education is a travesty.

“Everything is just push the girls, push the girls, push the girls — ‘you can be anything.’ ‘Shut up, sit down, have some Ritalin’ to the boys,” he condemns.

The boys who are being written off as distractible and out of control are really just being typical boys. The Daily Wire article mocked one experiment conducted at the University of Central Florida, in which children were placed in front of a computer and shown two videos: a math lecture involving basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication, and a pod-racing scene from “Star Wars.”

Surprise, surprise — the kids were more likely to fidget and spin around in their chairs during the math lecture than they were when watching the “Star Wars” scene.

Using these “groundbreaking” findings, the UCF published a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology titled “ADHD Kids Can Be Still — If They’re Not Straining Their Brains.”

The Daily Wire ridiculed this, arguing that the study merely “discovered the concept of boredom.”

Glenn agrees and humorously compares the UCF study to discovering that your children “like sugary cereal over bran flakes” and then trying to “get them on LSD” to correct the problem.

While it’s true that some children struggle to focus in school more than others, it doesn’t mean they have a psychological disorder, Glenn says. It means that “all kids are wired differently; boys and girls are wired differently.”

Our differences are not the problem. The problem is that "public schools are made for everybody to be the same."

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Land of the free? Parents ARRESTED after refusing to vaccinate 9-month-old baby



America may be sold as the land of the free, but after the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families ripped five children from their parents' arms for allegedly refusing to vaccinate their 9-month-old baby — the word “free” seems to mean very little.

The parents, Israel Rivera and Ruth Encarnacion, were then arrested for “familial kidnapping” last month when they took their children and fled to Texas to escape the DCF.

This all began when the family’s pediatrician filed a 51A “neglect” report when the parents declined vaccination for their baby boy on religious grounds — despite the fact that Massachusetts does allow religious exemptions for childhood vaccination, and the pediatrician reported the baby boy as healthy.

“In Massachusetts, you are legally, as a parent, allowed to decline vaccines. There’s no mandate that can force you to vaccinate your child. You have a right to a religious exemption,” Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” comments.


The Department of Children and Families then left a notice on the family’s front door of their apartment demanding to be let into the home in order to inspect the living situation. The parents refused, and frightened, hid.

The police came back the next day, and the family was so scared that they left and fled to Texas.

“They believed they would have more freedom to exercise their religious beliefs because though Massachusetts told them they had a right to a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate for children, that wasn’t what was happening,” Wheeler explains.

When a family member reported the family missing, the DCF filed a care and protection petition, which is an emergency order to take custody of the children away from the parents and give that custody to the state.

The judge granted the order without any due process of law.

Police then hunted down the parents in Texas, arrested them, and charged them with kidnapping their own children. The penalty, if found guilty, would be a $1,000 fine and a year in prison.

“Now, if this sounds egregious to you, it’s because this is beyond egregious,” Wheeler says.

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From Hitler’s buddies to pro-Hamas protests: Why Trump is RIGHT to starve Harvard’s billions



Back in January, the Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in federal grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University, citing rampant anti-Semitism and leftist ideological bias on campus. The administration pointed to Harvard’s poor handling of pro-Palestinian protests and argued that university administrators fostered an unsafe environment for Jewish students. The university’s DEI hiring and admissions practices were also condemned as divisive and discriminatory.

On Monday, April 14, after roughly three months of evaluating the Trump administration’s demands, which included banning face masks at protests, auditing viewpoints, and eliminating DEI programs, Harvard publicly announced that the university refuses to comply.

Harvard’s president Alan Garber stated that the university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights and argued that the Trump administration’s demands goes beyond the power of the federal government.

Trump responded by threatening to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status. In a post on Truth Social, he said, “Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?’ Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!”

Glenn Beck says Trump is 100% right to freeze Harvard’s federal funding — “Absolutely no reason for us to be giving Harvard one dime. ... Not a single dime!” he exclaims.

The university’s anti-Semitism is nothing new, Glenn reminds.

What Harvard has done amid the war between Hamas and Israel is “exactly what they did in the 1930s” when “they were overlooking any kind of anti-Semitism, and it was all driven by elitism.”

In 1934, Harvard invited Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, a Harvard alumnus and a high-ranking Nazi official and close friend of Hitler, to campus. When protests broke out, the university suppressed them, even going as far as arresting some of the demonstrators.

In 1945, after the end of World War II, the U.S. government launched Operation Paperclip, a secret program aimed at recruiting German scientists, engineers, and technicians, many of whom had worked for the Nazi regime, to work for the United States and share their expertise in fields like rocketry, aviation, and medicine. Ivy League schools, as elite research hubs, capitalized on Operation Paperclip’s tainted science, advancing fields like space medicine built on Nazi experiments.

Glenn points to Hubertus Strughold — “the father of space medicine” — as an example.

“He was the guy here in America that advanced all of our space medicine” using the knowledge he acquired from doing barbaric experiments on Jews, says Glenn. But despite his horrific experiments that resulted in the gruesome deaths of Jewish prisoners, “He has an award named after him.”

Then, you have the Surgeon General of the Third Reich Major General Dr. Walter Schreiber, who was also part of Operation Paperclip.

“He's the guy who supervised all of the medical experiments, including typhus and plague weaponization. He approved all the tests exposing the prisoners to lethal pathogens in camps,” says Glenn. “He just came over and was just doing stuff with our medicine.”

Kurt Blome, a high-ranking Nazi scientist, was also heavily involved in the program.

“He helped us make aerosol bioweapons,” says Glenn. “Isn’t that great?”

All these years later, and Ivy League universities “haven't changed,” he continues. “They're exactly the same people, and they keep reintroducing the same pathogen — anti-Semitism — over and over and over again.”

To hear more of Glenn’s analysis, watch the clip above.

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‘Not a coincidence’: ANOTHER Trump assassination plot thwarted



A Wisconsin teenager — who apparently had his sights set on assassinating President Donald Trump — has allegedly killed his mother and stepfather as a part of his plot.

The teen, Nikita Casap, 17, faces nine felony charges, including two counts of murder and two counts of hiding a corpse. Federal investigators are pursuing an additional three charges: presidential assassination, conspiracy, and use of weapons of mass destruction.

An affidavit from federal authorities claims that Casap was in touch with “other parties” regarding his plan to kill the president and overthrow the government — which he appeared to have planned to accomplish via the drone and explosives he bought.


“Understand that this is another assassination plot against the president,” Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” comments, disturbed. “Thank God it was thwarted. Thank God this evil individual or this individual who had embraced evil was unable to successfully kill the president.”

“But also, understand the reality of what we’re facing. What happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 last year, and then what happened again on Donald Trump’s golf course, were not isolated attempts on Trump’s life. This is an ongoing effort to murder the president of the United States,” she continues.

A sweep of his background reveals that the teen had been indoctrinated with far-left-wing ideology.

“Surprise, surprise,” Wheeler says. “He was an anarchist. He wanted to overthrow the government of the United States.”

Casap was also reportedly in touch with people from Russia and neo-Nazi groups.

“This young man who murdered his parents in order to steal their money to fund his attempt to assassinate President Trump, this is not just some crazy kid. This is what happens when you spend decades telling these young men, ‘You’re evil because you’re white. You’re evil because you’re a man. President Trump is a Nazi,’” Wheeler says.

“This is not a coincidence,” she adds.

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Ben Shapiro tells Glenn Beck the EXACT moment the legacy media died



It goes without saying that the era of mainstream media is over. The outlets that once were trusted news sources are now dismissed as relics of a dead system.

It didn’t have to be this way. Mainstream outlets earned the moniker of "legacy media." They dug their own grave with unapologetic propaganda, gatekeeping, and centralized control.

The question is: What was the final nail in the mainstream media’s coffin?

Ben Shapiro, co-founder and editor emeritus of the Daily Wire, answered this question on an episode of “The Glenn Beck Podcast.”

Shapiro recalls 2004’s “Rathergate,” when CBS News’ Dan Rather aired fake memos questioning President George W. Bush’s National Guard service.

When that happened, “people on our side were like, ‘ah, the mainstream media is dead,”’ he says, but they were wrong because the corporate media “spent the next nearly 20 years proving they certainly were not dead.”

“They could define narratives, and they could lie, and they could really define how Americans thought on a wide variety of issues ranging from BLM to COVID to Russiagate,” Shapiro tells Glenn.

The actual death of the mainstream media, he contends, happened just last year.

“I think 2024 was the definitive nail in the coffin — maybe the last nail in the coffin for the legacy media,” he says.

Ironically, it was Sleepy Joe who shot the final arrow.

“Joe Biden effing that debate with Trump was the single most important political moment probably of our lifetimes, because it wasn't just that it forced him out of the race. What it did is it exposed the entire legacy media infrastructure — all of them, all at once,” Shapiro explains.

“Literally weeks before that debate, they were saying it was a cheap fake to show tape of him on stage with Obama guiding him off stage because he didn't know where the hell he was, right? So they were maintaining that narrative consistently, and then Joe Biden was stupid enough to get on that debate stage.”

Shapiro recalls how almost immediately after the debate began, the camera panned to Biden, who looked as if he were “staring at the grim visage of death off screen with the goggly eyes.”

“You were like, ‘oh my God, death is going to take him in the middle of this. He can actually see the Grim Reaper with the scythe standing off to the side,’” he jokes, comparing the spectacle to an “episode of 'The Twilight Zone.'”

“I think in that moment, the legacy media died.”

While the mainstream media attempted to feign shock at Biden’s performance, the secret was out: “They were in the know for years.”

“These people lie, and they lie with an agenda,” says Shapiro.

And that’s something the American people just won’t tolerate.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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UNCOVERED: Kamala had a 'spreadsheet' in case Biden didn't make it



On February 25, 2025, American political journalists Amie Parnes and Jonathan A.P. Allen debuted their latest book: “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House.”

This New York Times bestseller exposes the cognitive state of President Biden during his time in office like never before. Insider access and extensive interviews with key political figures allowed Parnes and Allen to uncover the unfiltered truth about Biden’s cognitive state during his presidency — the details the White House and media kept under tight control.

Now Parnes joins Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program” to share a shocking revelation: Kamala Harris’ spreadsheet detailing her plans if Biden didn’t make it.

Not only does the book reveal that Biden’s allies were actually anticipating his death, but it also outlines what was in those postmortem plans.

“[Kamala Harris’] communications director would carry around this spreadsheet of Republican judges because he felt almost like she had to be validated in that moment and only a Republican judge could really swear her in,” says Parnes.

“He thought that there was no way that ... people would support her, and so we detail how he came into that role with the spreadsheet. He traveled with it; the DNC had plans in case something happened to the president,” she explains.

“I've never seen anything like this in American history. Have you?” Glenn asks.

“It’s pretty remarkable; it’s really unprecedented,” Parnes agrees.

"Was there no one that cared about the Constitution and cared about what could have happened with this guy in charge?” Glenn asks.

“No,” Parnes answers, noting that it’s only “when they leave office” that “the floodgates open.”

“Is anybody going to be held accountable for this?” Glenn asks.

To hear Parnes’ answer and find out more shocking revelations from the book, watch the clip above.

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Trump's HILARIOUS message to tariff fearmongers



One of President Donald Trump’s best qualities is his undeniably good humor, which was front and center in a recent speech at a GOP fundraiser, where he delivered a hilarious message to the National Republican Congressional Committee.

“The biggest transaction ever made. This is bigger than any deal, you guys, some of you work for companies. Your companies are peanuts. I don’t care how big they are. This is the largest transaction in the history of our country,” Trump said in his speech on tariffs.

“I’m telling you, these countries are calling us up, kissing my a**. They are dying to make a deal. ‘Please, please sir, make a deal, I’ll do anything sir.’ And then I’ll see some rebel Republican, you know, some guy that wants to grandstand say, ‘I think that Congress should take over negotiations,’” the president continued.


“Let me tell you, you don’t negotiate like I negotiate. Congress takes over negotiating, sell America fast, because you’re going to go bust,” he said, adding sarcastically, “Oh, that’s what I need. I need some guy telling me how to negotiate.”

Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” is pleased with Trump’s good humor.

“It’s not just entertaining,” Wheeler comments. “He’s telling you how the process is working. He’s telling you that nobody in Congress, not even a Republican, nobody in the House, nobody in the Senate, none of the other Republican presidential candidates, the highest level Republican politicians in our country, nobody has ever suggested this idea.”

That idea being “to use tariffs to reset the Great Reset.”

“It’s not something that he’s doing in a reactionary way. For 40 years, Donald Trump has been suggesting this exact strategy, to actually heal the injury to our country caused by these trade deficits, other countries taking advantage of us,” Wheeler continues.

“He’s been honing this and perfecting it, because not only has he held this stance for his entire public life, he’s been talking about it publicly, he’s been explaining it,” she adds.

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CIA backs dire wolf revival: Colossal CEO details fight against China’s superhuman agenda



Ben Lamm is the co-founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, the biotech company that just resurrected the dire wolf after 10,000-13,000 years of extinction using DNA harvesting and gene editing technologies. The company is currently working on bringing back the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and the dodo bird.

Lamm recently joined Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program” to explain the why behind this mad science operation, including the terrifying reason the CIA has a stake in the company.

The primary reason for the existence of Colossal Biosciences, Lamm says, is fighting the decline of biodiversity.

“We're going to lose up to 50% of biodiversity between now and 2050, and so we need new tools in the fight, right? We think it's better to have a de-extinction tool kit and not need it than not have a de-extinction tool kit and need it,” he says.

The resurrection of the dire wolf was specifically ignited because “there's not enough going on with wolf conservation.”

But Glenn makes a good point: Bringing back the dire wolf isn’t really conservation. It’s “[introducing] a species that's been gone for 10,000 years.”

Lamm says there’s no reason for concern, though.

“They are on a secure, expansive ecological preserve in the north, and if they ever go back into the wild, it will be in collaboration with the government as well as some of the tribes, and they would go back on secure private land, so they aren't going to be wilding dire wolves,” he explains.

However, Colossal Biosciences is also “building technology to save animals.”

“We were actually able to clone four red wolves with more genetic diversity than the existing 15 that are still left in the wild,” Lamm tells Glenn.

Even if the company is able to save existing species from extinction, there’s still the concern of the CIA funding such efforts. Why would an agency charged with ensuring national security be interested in gene editing technologies?

It’s because other countries, including “our adversaries,” are already in the biotech race, Lamm explains.

That’s something Glenn understands. He’s long preached about the importance of America staying ahead of China in the race to develop artificial intelligence for the purpose of national security.

But this is even bigger than AI. China is “trying to breed smarter humans, stronger humans” in order to have superior “fighters,” says Glenn, calling it “the stuff of Nazi movies.”

Lamm agrees, adding that China has admitted “the Beijing Genomics Institute is sequencing as many humans as possible. They used COVID as this ruse to pull in as many samples as possible, sequencing them, and then they said, ‘We're looking for the genes that make the smartest people, and we are going to engineer people.’”

While Colossal Biosciences “doesn’t do anything with humans,” it is developing technologies “that have applications to humans.”

“We are understanding from a 72,000-year-old skull what made a dire wolf bigger and stronger. … It had a bigger jaw and stronger muscles and denser bones. We can now understand that with our technologies and engineer that into its closest living relative, being the grey wolf, right? And so think about that same type of data applied to humans,” Lamm explains, noting that the “secretary of the interior just endorsed [Colossal Biosciences’] work.

Like artificial intelligence, “America has to lead in synthetic biology,” he says.

“Do you believe that the genetic editing tech that you are helping to design is going to be transferred to humans?” Glenn asks candidly.

“I do think that a lot of our technologies will be beneficial long-term to helping cure inherited disease states in humans,” says Lamm.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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