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Good Morning, D.C.🇺🇸🦅#Army250
https://x.com/DanScavino/status/1933497908306788429
.@POTUS & @FLOTUS host a beautiful Congressional Picnic on the South Lawn of the @WhiteHouse last night, 24hrs after Republicans defeat Democrats 13-2 in the Congressional Baseball Game at National Park here in Washington, DC—where a record $2.75 million was raised for charity…
https://x.com/Scavino47/status/1933538612622340614
NC lawmakers launch ‘fact-finding mission’ into UNC coronavirus researcher Ralph Baric
By Korie Dean and Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan - June 12, 2025 9:29 PM
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article307770080.html
A secretive North Carolina legislative commission wants UNC-Chapel Hill to release a slew of records linked to elite coronavirus researcher Ralph Baric.
Baric’s life’s work laid the foundation for the development of vaccines against COVID-19. But in recent years it has become a target of people insisting that the pandemic was caused by genetic engineering gone wrong, and that it was not a virus from nature.
House Speaker Destin Hall directed UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Lee Roberts to deliver the records to House majority staff of the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, in a June 11 letter obtained exclusively by The News & Observer from Hall’s office.
Some of the records that Hall is seeking are among those the university has fought to not release to U.S. Right to Know, a private advocacy group that has sued UNC for records as part of its campaign to collect more information on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Hall staff member described the request as a fact-finding mission that he initiated because he “has a personal curiosity about the truth of what happened, about what Baric was researching and its relevance to COVID.”
The N&O was unable to reach Baric. In a statement to The N&O, UNC spokesperson Kevin Best cited state law on the legislative commission to note that requests to the commission are confidential.
Best added: “The University deeply values and appreciates its partnership with the General Assembly and is committed to legal compliance and transparency.”
Hall’s inquiry occurs at a time when the debate over the true origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is highly politically charged. Hall is the House chair of the commission, known as Gov Ops. The Senate chair is Senate leader Phil Berger. Berger was not part of Hall’s letter.
President Donald Trump rejects many scientists’ claims that the strongest evidence says the virus occurred naturally in a part of the world where people have close contact with animals infected with coronaviruses.
A White House website contends the coronavirus strain that caused shutdowns all over the globe during Trump’s first term was mostly likely born of “gain-of-function” genetic engineering and was likely released due to a laboratory accident. It mentions Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, once the work home of a scientist who Baric collaborated with on coronavirus studies years ago.
Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article307770080.html
Story in @newsobserver by @dawnbvaughan & @koriedean cites a paper in Emerging Microbes & Infections dismissing a possible lab accident.
Um, documents showRalph Baric helped ghostwrite that paper.
https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/why-do-people-not-trust-the-science
@ncspeakerhall @SenatorBerger
https://x.com/thackerpd/status/1933505961970356614
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I'm guessing that Ralph Baric passed this study off to N&O reporters without telling them he helped ghostwrite it, no?
@thadogburn, is this what Ralph Baric did?
https://x.com/thackerpd/status/1933510375363780994
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Here ya' go guys https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Saif-OSU-Batch-1.pdf
https://x.com/thackerpd/status/1933511114400121259