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FDA’s “Profound Revelation”: COVID Shots Killed At Least 10 Children, Stronger Vax Rules Coming
FDA’s “Profound Revelation”: COVID Shots Killed At Least 10 Children, Stronger Vax Rules Coming
The Food and Drug Administration’s top overseer of vaccine policy on Friday told employees that at least 10 American children died “after and because of receiving” a Covid-19 vaccine. In a 3,000-word memorandum first reported by PBS, Dr. Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s vaccine division, also committed to implementing changes to the FDA’s evaluation of vaccine efficacy and safety, and encouraged dissenting employees to find a new job.
“This is a profound revelation,” Prasad wrote. “For the first time, the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children.” Prasad said the conclusion about children dying from Covid-19 vaccines was reached after he and other FDA staffers undertook a multi-month, “detailed analysis of deaths voluntarily reported to the [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] system (VAERS).”
That effort focused on 96 deaths that occurred between 2021 and 2024, and said “no fewer” than 10 of them were caused by the vaccines. “If anything, this represents conservative coding, where vaccines are exculpated rather than indicted in cases of ambiguity. The real number is higher.” He added,
“It is horrifying to consider that the US vaccine regulation, including our actions, may have harmed more children than we saved. This requires humility and introspection.”
Prasad slammed the coercive nature of policies that insisted on Covid shots for children:
“Healthy young children who faced tremendously low risk of death were coerced, at the behest of the Biden administration, via school and work mandates, to receive a vaccine that could result in death. In many cases, such mandates were harmful. It is difficult to read cases where kids aged 7 to 16 may be dead as a result of covid vaccines …
FDA has never requested the manufacturers demonstrate in randomized fashion that vaccinating children improves…outcomes. The available randomized data in children is deeply limited, and broadly negative for symptomatic infection, as discussed in prior ad-coms. Furthermore, COVID-19 was never highly lethal for children, and now MIS-c [Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children] has decreased drastically, and the harms, to kids, are comparable to many respiratory viruses for which we do not provide annual immunization.”
Prasad — a hematologist-oncologist — was among several outspoken critics of the Covid-19 regime that moved into key public health posts after Trump took office in January. Others include Robert F. Kennedy, Jr as Health and Human Services secretary, Dr. Marty Makary as FDA commissioner and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as Director of the National Institutes of Health.
“Vaccine deaths are a very small minority”
That’s what News Nation’s Elizabeth Vargas just told FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary…
His response left the studio silent.
Direct quotes from the interview:
– “Hundreds of thousands of Americans describe vaccine injury”
– “25%… pic.twitter.com/lPyQc7gqeS
— Camus (@newstart_2024) November 28, 2025
Friday’s memorandum emphasizes that VAERS likely understates vaccine-triggered mortality:
“When it comes to vaccine deaths, VAERS is passively reported. It requires a motivated person, often a doctor, to submit the information. The submission process is tedious and most people who start the form give up along the way. Many more deaths may be unreported.”
To minimize future vaccine-driven deaths, Prasad said the FDA “will take swift action regarding this new safety concern” and “will demand pre-market randomized trials assessing clinical endpoints for most new products.” Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Prasad repeatedly sounded alarms about public health interventions that were imposed without rigorous efforts to seek evidence of their risks and rewards. This has been a central theme in his body of work; he also authored a book, “Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer.”
Prasad said the FDA will also “revise the annual flu vaccine framework,” which he called “an evidence-based catastrophe of low quality evidence.” He also acknowledged that “[FDA has] not been focused on understanding the benefits and harms of giving multiple vaccines at the same time.” He ended the memo by urging staffers who aren’t comfortable with the new approach to resign:
“I remain open to vigorous discussions and debate on these topics, as I have always been. I am open minded to modifications or alterations…Some staff may not agree with these core principles and operating principles. Please submit your resignation letters to your supervisor and CC my deputy Katherine Szarama…for those who choose to remain…I look forward to working with you.”
Prasad’s pointed statement about vaccine-caused deaths comes ahead of this week’s meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine committee. The draft agenda for the meetings on Dec 4 and 5 includes FDA policy on giving hepatitis B vaccines to newborn babies, and the entire children’s immunization schedule. The meetings are open to the public via live webcasts.
It’s noteworthy that major media outlets that obtained a copy of Prasad’s memorandum have only provided short quotations from it, seemingly seeking to undercut Prasad’s assault on the Covid regime those same outlets unquestioningly supported. You can read the entire 3,000-word memo at The Brownstone Institute, a site originally launched to scrutinize Covid policies.
Dr. Robert Malone, a Covid vaccine critic with credentials in mRNA technology, hailed Prasad’s memorandum as a historic milestone. “I am stunned, gobsmacked by his letter,” he wrote at Malone News. “The significance and importance of this letter in the context of US and global vaccine policy cannot be overestimated. This is a revolution, the likes of which I never expected to see in my lifetime. The Washington Post called me a liar for stating what is now official FDA policy and truth.”
Of course, vaccines were just one of many public health policies of the Covid era that may have done far more harm than good. With a Pandora’s box of policy side-effects that include impaired child development, learning loss, a surge in mental breakdowns, soaring juvenile suicide attempts, increased drug and alcohol abuse, increased domestic violence and higher drug overdoses, it’s increasingly clear that, in its coercive, ham-handed approach to Covid-19, public health didn’t err on the side of caution, but rather erred on the side of catastrophe.
Tyler Durden
Sun, 11/30/2025 – 18:05
Legisladores apoyan revisiones del Congreso sobre ataques de EEUU a barcos en el Caribe
Por KEVIN FREKING
WASHINGTON (AP) — Legisladores de ambos partidos se expresaron el domingo a favor de las revisiones en el Congreso a los ataques militares de Estados Unidos contra embarcaciones que presuntamente traficaban con drogas en el mar Caribe y el Pacífico oriental, refiriéndose a un informe que indica que el secretario de Defensa, Pete Hegseth, ordenó verbalmente que todos los tripulantes fueran abatidos como parte de un bombardeo el 2 de septiembre.
Los legisladores dijeron que no sabían si el informe que publicó el Washington Post la semana pasada era cierto, incluso algunos republicanos se mostraron escépticos, pero expresaron que ir detrás de los sobrevivientes de un ataque inicial con misiles plantea serias preocupaciones legales.
“De ser cierto, esto alcanza el nivel de un crimen de guerra”, afirmó el senador demócrata Tim Kaine.
Al preguntarle sobre un ataque de seguimiento contra personas que no podían defenderse, el representante republicano Mike Turner dijo que el Congreso no tiene información de que eso haya ocurrido. Aseguró que los líderes de la Comisión de Servicios Armados tanto en la Cámara como en el Senado han abierto investigaciones.
“Obviamente, si eso ocurrió, sería muy grave y estoy de acuerdo en que sería un acto ilegal”, comentó Turner.
En tanto, mientras volaba de regreso a Washington el domingo por la noche después de pasar el Día de Acción de Gracias en Florida, el presidente Donald Trump confirmó que había hablado recientemente con el mandatario venezolano Nicolás Maduro.
La Casa Blanca afirma que los ataques en el Caribe están dirigidos a los cárteles, algunos de los cuales asegura que son controlados por Maduro. Trump también sopesa la posibilidad de llevar a cabo ataques en territorio continental de Venezuela.
Trump se negó a comentar sobre los detalles de la llamada, la cual fue reportada en primera instancia por The New York Times.
“No diría que salió bien o mal”, dijo Trump a los periodistas a bordo del Air Force One, al referirse a la llamada.
El ministerio de comunicaciones de Venezuela no respondió de momento a una solicitud de comentarios sobre la llamada con Trump.
Turner dijo que existen preocupaciones en el Congreso sobre los ataques, pero las acusaciones sobre la ofensiva del 2 de septiembre “están completamente fuera de cualquier cosa que se haya discutido con el Congreso y existe una investigación en curso”.
Los comentarios de los legisladores se producen mientras el gobierno intensifica una campaña para combatir el tráfico de drogas hacia Estados Unidos. Trump dijo el sábado que el espacio aéreo “sobre y alrededor” de Venezuela debería considerarse “cerrado en su totalidad”, una afirmación que planteó más preguntas sobre la presión de Estados Unidos sobre Maduro. Caracas acusó a Trump de hacer una “amenaza colonial” y de buscar socavar la soberanía del país sudamericano.
Después del informe del Post, Hegseth dijo el viernes en la red social X que “las noticias falsas están produciendo más informes fabricados, incendiarios y despectivos para desacreditar a nuestros increíbles guerreros que luchan para proteger la patria”.
“Nuestras operaciones actuales en el Caribe son legales tanto bajo la ley de Estados Unidos como las leyes internacionales, con todas las acciones en cumplimiento con la ley de conflicto armado, y aprobadas por los mejores abogados militares y civiles, a lo largo de toda la cadena de mando”, escribió Hegseth.
Trump dijo el domingo que su gobierno “investigará” el asunto, pero agregó: “No es lo que hubiera querido, no un segundo ataque”. El presidente también defendió a Hegseth.
“Pete dijo que no ordenó la muerte de esos dos hombres”, subrayó Trump. “Y le creo”.
El senador republicano Roger Wicker, presidente de la Comisión de Servicios Armados del Senado, y el demócrata de mayor rango del panel, el senador Jack Reed, dijeron el viernes en un comunicado conjunto que su comisión “llevará a cabo una supervisión rigurosa para determinar los hechos relacionados con estas circunstancias”.
Un día después, el presidente de la Comisión de Servicios Armados de la Cámara de Representantes, el republicano Mike Rogers, y su demócrata de mayor rango, el representante Adam Smith, emitieron una declaración conjunta en la que señalaron que el panel estaba comprometido a “proporcionar una supervisión rigurosa de las operaciones militares del Departamento de Defensa en el Caribe”.
“Tomamos en serio los informes de ataques de seguimiento a barcos que presuntamente transportaban narcóticos en la región de SOUTHCOM y estamos tomando medidas bipartidistas para reunir un informe completo de la operación en cuestión”, dijeron Rogers y Smith, refiriéndose al Comando Sur de Estados Unidos.
Al preguntarle sobre el ataque del 2 de septiembre, el representante republicano Don Bacon dijo que Hegseth merece la oportunidad de presentar su versión.
“Debemos llegar a la verdad. No creo que él sea tan imprudente como para tomar esta decisión de decir, maten a todos, maten a los sobrevivientes porque eso es una clara violación de las leyes de guerra”, expresó Bacon. “Así que, soy muy escéptico de que él haya hecho algo así porque iría en contra del sentido común”.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
South Park Roasts Americans Taking Saudi Money In Thanksgiving Special
South Park Roasts Americans Taking Saudi Money In Thanksgiving Special
The makers of the popular satirical cartoon show South Park turned their sights on Saudi Arabia in their latest episode, attacking American media personalities, politicians and sporting events for taking money from the state. Titled Turkey Trot, the episode starts with Mayor McDaniels convening a meeting with local businesses trying to secure sponsorship for its annual Thanksgiving Turkey Trot race.
Struggling to find funds due to the economic crisis in the US, one character suggests there is someone “who’d be willing to give South Park a bunch of money”, adding “they’re giving money to everyone else”. The scene then cuts to a mock advert for the Turkey Trot, which features mock Arabic singing, shots of Saudi men dancing and a warning that “disparaging remarks towards the Saudi Royal family are strictly prohibited”.
That appears to be a reference to the recent Riyadh Comedy Festival, which Saudi Arabia hosted in September and October, and featured comedians including Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle amid much criticism.
According to contracts for the event leaked by comedian Atsuko Okatsuka, performers had to abide by a list of conditions, which included agreeing not to disparage Saudi Arabia’s political leadership, religious values and legal system.
As the South Park episode develops, the show’s anti-hero Eric Cartman becomes an advocate for Saudi Arabia, eager to cash in on the Turkey Trot’s $5,000 prize. When his teammate Tolkien Black bows out of the race because “it doesn’t feel right”, Cartman takes on the challenge of changing his mind.
“They’re trying to be progressive, okay,” he argues. “You want them to go back to what they were doing?”
“You want Saudi Arabia to go back to cutting people up and paying Kevin Hart,” says Cartman. “Is that what you want?
“Them wanting to help pay for American things is good. Because, guess what, if Saudi Arabia is out paying for sporting events, they’re not out hacking up reporters and inviting Pete Davidson to come do comedy.” Cartman continues: “They allow women to drive! It’s like practically a lesbian utopia over there.”
Tolkien remains unconvinced despite Cartman’s arguments, which at one point include blaming him if Saudi Arabia resumes “stuffing journalists into suitcases”.
That reference is to the murder of Middle East Eye columnist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in October 2017. Since Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman became the kingdom’s de facto ruler in 2017, Riyadh has diversified its investment interests to include sporting events and popular entertainment.
In entertainment, besides the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the country also hosts the Red Sea Film Festival, which opens next week and which regularly attracts Hollywood’s A list. In sports, the LIV Golf tour attracts some of the best golfers in the world and the Saudi Pro League features football stars including Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, Karim Benzema and Sadio Mane.
Performers and athletes are attracted to such events by industry-leading payments despite criticism that they are helping to sanitise Saudi Arabia’s reputation.
Not all big names are taking the criticism lightly and have defended their right to perform in Saudi Arabia. The most significant of these was the comedian Dave Chapelle, who argued that US critics lacked the moral standing to criticize his appearance in Saudi Arabia given the state of free expression in their home country.
“Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get cancelled,” Chappelle said during a performance in Saudi Arabia. “It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.”
Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef argued that the criticisms of comedians appearing in Saudi Arabia made no sense given that the US was also accused of human rights violations and no one had objected to their appearances there.
In a follow-up video, Youssef reiterated his point. “My point was that America is in no position to lecture other countries about morality or human rights violations,” he said.
And in a reference to the Israeli war on Gaza, during which at least 69,000 Palestinians have been killed, he added: “It’s not just because of the funding and enabling of a live streamed genocide for two years. Although that’s a solid start.”
Tyler Durden
Sun, 11/30/2025 – 17:30
Texans frenan a los Colts y ajustan la carrera de la AFC Sur con victoria 20-16 en Indianápolis
Por MICHAEL MAROT
INDIANÁPOLIS (AP) — Nico Collins anotó el touchdown que rompió el empate con una carrera de siete yardas cuando quedaban 12:38 por jugar, Nick Chubb también corrió para anotar, y la defensiva de los Texans de Houston, clasificada como la mejor, logró una parada tardía el domingo para sellar una victoria de 20-16 sobre los decaídos Colts de Indianápolis.
Houston (7-5) ganó su cuarto partido consecutivo, acercándose a un juego de su rival del Sur de la AFC, Indianápolis (8-4), que ha perdido tres de cuatro, cae en un empate por el primer lugar con Jacksonville. C.J. Stroud mejoró a 3-0 en el Lucas Oil Stadium al completar 22 de 35 pases para 276 yardas con una intercepción en su primer juego en cuatro semanas. Pasó el protocolo de conmoción cerebral el viernes.
Collins atrapó cinco pases para 98 yardas.
Houston aseguró la victoria forzando un cambio de posesión con 1:45 por jugar después de que Daniel Jones llevara a los Colts a la yarda 31 de los Texans. Indianápolis ha perdido dos seguidos por primera vez esta temporada, y esta fue la primera vez que fue contenido por debajo de 20 puntos.
Jugando a pesar de una lesión en la parte inferior de la pierna, Jones terminó 14 de 27 para 201 yardas y dos touchdowns. Jonathan Taylor, el líder corredor de la NFL, fue limitado a 85 yardas en 21 acarreos y no anotó por solo la quinta vez esta temporada.
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Deportes en español AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
Michigan State plans to hire Pat Fitzgerald, the former Northwestern coach, according to reports
Pat Fitzgerald may be on the verge of returning to coaching college football.
The Detroit Free Press and Lansing State Journal reported Sunday that Michigan State plans to hire Fitzgerald as its new coach after firing Jonathan Smith.
Fitzgerald, who went 110-101 with 10 bowl appearances in 17 seasons as Northwestern’s coach, hadn’t signed a contract as of midday Sunday, the outlets reported. He won two Big Ten West titles with Northwestern, where he also was an All-America linebacker in the 1990s.
It would be Fitzgerald’s first college coaching job since Northwestern fired him in July 2023 amid a team hazing scandal. The university said at the time that 11 current or former football players had acknowledged hazing that included “forced participation, nudity and sexualized acts of a degrading nature.”
In August, Fitzgerald and Northwestern announced they had reached a settlement in his $130 million lawsuit against the university for breach of contract, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
In a statement following the settlement, Northwestern said its investigation did not find that Fitzgerald directed or condoned hazing.
“While the litigation brought to light highly inappropriate conduct in the football program and the harm it caused, the evidence uncovered during extensive discovery did not establish that any player reported hazing to Coach Fitzgerald or that Coach Fitzgerald condoned or directed any hazing,” the university said. “Moreover, when presented with the details of the conduct, he was incredibly upset and saddened by the negative impact this conduct had on players within the program.”
The university said then it wished Fitzgerald “the best in resuming his football career.”
Fitzgerald said on ESPN’s “College GameDay” podcast in early November that he was looking for a coaching job.
“I feel fully vindicated,” he said in his first public comments since his firing. “It’s been great working through this process. There’s been conversations with a lot of folks.”
Michigan State fired Smith after the Spartans went 4-8 this season, including 1-8 in the Big Ten. He was 9-15 over two seasons.
“The 2025 football season has not lived up to our shared standards for Michigan State football,” athletic director J Batt said in a statement. “While that does not fall solely on Jonathan Smith, it’s become necessary to make a coaching change in order to chart a new direction for the program.
“Michigan State football has a proud history, a history that includes national championships, Rose Bowl victories, Big Ten championships, and a College Football Playoff appearance. The standards for our program have not changed. It is our expectation that we compete for championships.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/30/michigan-state-pat-fitzgerald-northwestern/
Gol de campo de 56 yardas de Folk en la última jugada da victoria a Jets 27-24 sobre Falcons
Por DENNIS WASZAK Jr.
EAST RUTHERFORD, Nueva Jersey, EE.UU. (AP) — Nick Folk alineó el domingo un gol de campo de 56 yardas a través de una densa niebla cuando el tiempo expiraba para llevar a los Jets de Nueva York a una victoria de 27-24 sobre los Falcons de Atlanta.
En un juego entre dos equipos en apuros que fue cualquier cosa menos bonito, el tiro de Folk tampoco lo fue. Pero en condiciones difíciles, el jugador de 41 años logró lo suficiente con el balón para recuperarse de un fallo anterior y fue rodeado en el centro del campo por sus compañeros mientras los aficionados de los Jets en un MetLife Stadium empapado y medio vacío enloquecían.
Tyrod Taylor completó 19 de 33 pases para 172 yardas y un pase de touchdown y también corrió para anotar en su segunda titularidad consecutiva en lugar del suplente Justin Fields, mientras los Jets (3-9) rompieron una racha de dos derrotas. Adonai Mitchell tuvo ocho recepciones para 102 yardas y un TD, y Breece Hall corrió para 68 yardas y una anotación.
Kirk Cousins completó 21 de 33 pases para 234 yardas y un touchdown, y Bijan Robinson corrió para 142 yardas y una anotación y atrapó cinco pases para 51 yardas para los Falcons (4-8), quienes perdieron por sexta vez en siete juegos.
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Deportes en español AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
Trump dice que habló con Nicolás Maduro mientras continúan ataques de EEUU contra el narcotráfico en el Caribe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump dice que habló con Nicolás Maduro mientras continúan ataques de EEUU contra el narcotráfico en el Caribe.
Trevor Lawrence lidera a su tercera victoria consecutiva a Jaguars venciendo 25-3 a Titans
Por TERESA M. WALKER
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, EE.UU. (AP) — Trevor Lawrence lanzó para 229 yardas y dos touchdowns, y los Jaguars de Jacksonville vencieron el domingo 25-3 a los Titans de Tennessee para su tercera victoria consecutiva.
Con la victoria, los Jaguars (8-4) mejoraron sus esperanzas de playoffs en la AFC mientras persiguen su primer título de división desde 2022. Los Jaguars aún tienen dos juegos restantes contra Indianápolis, y los Colts cayeron a 8-4 con una derrota de 20-16 ante Houston.
Los Jaguars también vencieron a los Titans por sexta vez en siete juegos.
Josh Hines-Allen tuvo dos de las tres capturas de Jacksonville al novato Cam Ward, y los Jaguars recuperaron dos balones sueltos.
Los Titans (1-11) perdieron su séptimo partido consecutivo en general y el undécimo consecutivo en casa, igualando la racha más larga desde que esta franquicia se mudó a Tennessee. También perdieron 11 seguidos en el Nissan Stadium en un período entre las temporadas 2014 y 2015.
Los aficionados abuchearon a los Titans antes de dirigirse a las salidas mucho antes del final del encuentro.
Meyers lideró a los Jaguars con seis recepciones para 90 yardas.
Los Titans se perjudicaron a sí mismos con diez penalizaciones. Los Jaguars igualaron su máximo de la temporada con 13 penalizaciones.
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Deportes en español AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
Next Chapter Cafe in Portage isn’t just for people in recovery
Portage’s new Next Chapter Cafe has a twist. It’s BYOF – bring your own food.
The café run by Taylor Cook serves a variety of nonalcoholic drinks to go along with whatever you might bring to munch on.
Cook, a former bartender, calls herself a soberista, a term coined by her fiancé, Portage Recovery Association Executive Director Jake Monhaut.
“I kind of just gave her the keys,” Monhaut said, and was surprised by what she did with the place.
Monhaut originally was thinking of a concession stand in the Portage Recovery Association’s lounge. A pool table, a TV showing sports on the wall, a few chairs, a small place to sell nonalcoholic drinks to the public, much like at the nonprofit’s previous location on McCasland Avenue.
Portage Recovery Association Executive Director Jake Monhaut and his fiancée, soberista Taylor Cook, stand behind the counter at the new Next Chapter Cafe. The beverage-only establishment, open to all, encourages patrons to bring their own food. (Doug Ross/for Post-Tribune)
Instead, Cook transformed it into a large area with a long counter, bar stools, tables and chairs, and several televisions brought in from elsewhere in the building. She was finicky about the decorating scheme, even wanting a dark ceiling to define the space.
“With a big building comes big dreams and big ideas,” Monhaut said. Northwest Health donated the building to the nonprofit a year ago.
The long counter Cook works behind resembles a bar, but that’s a term Cook won’t use for it. She’s been sober for two years. “We can call it a counter. Bar is a funky term in our community,” she said.
The Next Chapter Café at 6040 Lute Road has an entrance separate from the one used for groups like Alcoholics Anonymous. “We tell people when you come on this side of the building, you’re just hanging it out,” Monhaut said.
“This brings kids, women, children, everybody,” Cook said.
Some of the drinks have names people in Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous would pick up on – Dirty Dr. Bob, Easy Does It Moran Inventory, Just for Today, The Overshare and more – but the drinks are as fun as the names.
Cook mixed an Overshare to show how it works. It involves Red Bull, Sprite and, to give it a splash of whimsy, Pop Rocks, the Rice Krispies of candy with their snap, crackle and pop.
The dirty sodas, energy fusions and other drinks are fun to make, and they’re Cook’s original creations. She wants customers to “drink a fun drink that wasn’t just a pop poured in a cup,” she said.
Cook has had plenty of experience making drinks. At 18, she ran a coffee shop in Miller, she said. She just had to sell the nonprofit’s board on her selling drinks there.
Among the nonalcoholic drinks offered at Next Chapter Cafe in Portage is the Overshare, made with Red Bull, Sprite and Pop Rocks. It’s a Taylor Cook original. (Doug Ross/for Post-Tribune)
“I was so scared to tell the board that I wanted to sell drinks from a counter-style bar,” she said. Before asking them, Cook provided them with some of the drinks she created.
It was pitched as a board-building exercise. She made the Dirty Dr. Bob, Easy Does It, Pink Cloud (one of the café’s best-sellers), PRA Signature Drink, Rooted Recovery and Just for Today. “They were saying things like, ‘I’m going to have a sugar rush,’” Cook said.
Then the engaged couple popped the question to the board. “Oh my gosh, we were prepared,” Cook said, with answers to their questions. The board quickly said, we trust you. Do it.
It took about three weeks to get the construction in place. The generosity of people still astounds Monhaut and Cook. After a social media post on the need for a new sink, a woman gave Monhaut $1,000. He told her the sink would cost only $300, but she insisted on the full amount, with the extra to be used for whatever the nonprofit needed.
Within the first hour Next Chapter Café was open, two younger girls came in, Cook said. One of the girls said she had an alcohol problem but didn’t want to go to a meeting, so this was her baby step.
“Within three weeks, we’ve already made half the investment back,” Cook said.
She encourages parents to bring their kids, letting them play games and color pages.
Cook and Monhaut are also eager to host groups for special events.
They’re partnering with the Hobart Humane Society for a cat café periodically. The first one was wildly successful. “I made 72 handcrafted drinks in three hours. My arms were going to fall off,” Cook said.
The space can be rented out for parties and other private events, too. “If someone wants to rent it and have a themed drink menu, we can make that happen,” Cook said.
On Dec. 13, the café will have a Taylor Swift dance party. Cook also wants to bring in a professional karaoke person, and slam poetry is an option, too. A coffee and canvas event, pictures with Santa and other plans spring forth from the font of creativity.
Hours are 3-7 p.m. Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays.
“We would like to expand those in the future, once we find our little niche where we fit,” Cook said. “Right now, I am the only person trained on these drinks.”
Originally, the café was opening at 4 p.m. on Thursdays, but teachers were coming in after school. It’s a good place for teachers to hang out after school, but parents could bring their kids, too, and provide them with a place to study after school, Cook said.
Doug Ross is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
“The Whole Model Is Broken”: ‘Tech Mafia Wife’ Admits ‘We Were Klaus Schwab’s Useful Idiots’
“The Whole Model Is Broken”: ‘Tech Mafia Wife’ Admits ‘We Were Klaus Schwab’s Useful Idiots’
When someone who used to be the queen of elite progressive philanthropy says the entire system failed – and may have been hijacked for something much darker – the world needs to hear it.
As ‘Camus’ writes in a post on X, Nicole Shanahan – ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former running mate of RFK Jr., and someone who personally signed nine-figure philanthropy checks – just went full whistleblower on the entire Silicon Valley “tech wife mafia” and how they were used.
“…the whole model is broken… the whole model makes everybody worse off…” exclaims Shanahan confirming what Desiree Fixler said, that:
“The WEF sold the “Great Reset” as “build back better” — climate action, ESG, inclusion, and PPP.
In practice, it shifted power away from voters to NGOs, corporate elites, and unelected technocrats.
Policy was relabeled “science” to silence debate.
Markets were warped by ESG scores, carbon taxes, and paper-pushing regulation.
Corporations were turned into enforcers of ideology.”
As Shanahan exposes in this shocking insider account, communities weren’t uplifted – wealth and power were pushed upward, and the ‘tech mafia wives’ were simple ‘useful idiots’:
“I don’t think many of the tech mafia wives realize… they were used to set the groundwork for what Klaus Schwab calls The Great Reset.
Their money especially was being conscripted through a network of NGO advisors, Hollywood, Davos, and their own companies.
A really small group of people… completely blind to how their groundwork is being used to enable these Great Reset policies.”
Then she reflects on these ‘tech mafia wives’ orienting their values around these actions but really just being ‘useful idiots’:
“These women find their meaning through philanthropic work. I really believed I was helping Black communities and indigenous communities rise up…”
For Shanahan, she admits:
“My version of success is those communities are actually uplifted. Not just more money pumped into them.”
But now the problems have gotten worse, she admits:
“Crime worse. Mental health worse. The whole model is broken.
At the end of the day they always go: ‘But climate change…’
Social justice + climate change – it gets progressive women 100% of the time.”
“We got higher energy bills, debased money, an affordability crisis, fewer jobs, and creeping control over how we live and speak.”
This is the one of the most jaw-dropping few minutes of ‘pulling back the curtain’ you will watch this year…
This is the most jaw-dropping 4 minutes and 21 seconds you will watch this year.
Nicole Shanahan — ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former running mate of RFK Jr., and someone who personally signed nine-figure philanthropy checks — just went full whistleblower on the… pic.twitter.com/fFpN1C5BlV
— Camus (@newstart_2024) November 28, 2025
Tyler Durden
Sun, 11/30/2025 – 16:55
