A Stanford Medicine research team has confirmed that mRNA-based COVID vaccines can cause inflammation of the heart muscle, known as myocarditis, which can be fatal. The study, recently published in the journal “Science Translational Medicine,” concludes that these mRNA vaccines can trigger certain immune cells to produce inflammatory proteins, specifically CXCL10 and IFN-gamma, which can cause heart issues. “It’s not a heart attack in the traditional sense,” Dr. Joseph Wu, a senior author of the study and the director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, explained. “There’s no blockage of blood vessels as found in most common heart attacks. When symptoms are mild and the inflammation hasn’t caused structural damage to the heart, we just observe these patients to make sure they recover.” Some patients, though, can suffer severe complications, including death, Wu said. The researcher confirmed that COVID itself “can cause myocarditis,” and “to a lesser extent, so can the mRNA vaccines.” For reasons still unknown, the vaccines are tied to a heightened risk in males under the age of 30, particularly those who receive multiple doses, the study found. “Vaccine-associated myocarditis occurs in about one in every 140,000 vaccines after a first dose and rises to one in 32,000 after a second dose,” Stanford Medicine News Center said. “For reasons that aren’t clear, incidence peaks among male vaccines age 30 or below, at one in 16,750 vaccines.” Recently, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad proposed in an internal memo an overhaul to how vaccines are evaluated and approved, basically initiating tougher standards. Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships This would reportedly include full randomized clinical trials even for updated or routine vaccines, like the flu shot. The changes would allow for an evaluation of real-world protection, not just antibody levels, as well as rates of side effects, and more information on risk-benefit analysis. Notably, the memo cited at least 10 children who died “after and because of” receiving COVID vaccines as the apparent driving force behind the tougher vaccine standards. The medical establishment quickly revolted over the proposed standards. For example, twelve former FDA officials denounced the memo in an editorial, claiming it casts doubt on vaccine safety. They also said the new standards “reject long-standing science” and will slow innovation. In response to the backlash from the establishment, Health and Human Services (HHS) press secretary Emily Hilliard told The Daily Wire that the American people “deserve evidence-based science,” and said Dr. Prasad’s email “lays out a philosophical framework that points us toward that higher standard.” Hilliard also said HHS will “soon release documents laying out that framework” as well as data confirming how the COVID-19 vaccine resulted in children’s deaths that “previous leadership failed to properly investigate.” The FDA is also currently investigating adult deaths connected to the COVID vaccines. Related: MAHA Supporter Destroys Famed Doctor Attacking RFK Jr. In Under 2 Minutes

Perhaps the only thing Democrats and Republicans seem to agree on these days is that the pharmaceutical industry is bad. In particular, there has been bipartisan movement in recent years to ban direct-to-consumer drug ads, which are only permitted in the United States and New Zealand. Some supporters, like The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, have called these ads dangerous. But even those who don’t feel that strongly about the issue aren’t jumping up to defend these ads, which generally feature a bunch of shiny, happy stock-photo models dancing around while a narrator speed-reads through a list of side effects ranging from nausea to death. In this provocative piece, Stephen Moore does just that. A noted economist and political commentator, Moore served as a senior economic adviser to President Donald Trump and was instrumental in crafting the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Moore not only argues that pharmaceutical ads help patients, but that banning them could have negative downstream consequences. We hope you enjoy. — Tim Rice *** Chevrolet’s newest holiday ad is tugging at America’s heartstrings. The spot follows a family’s classic Chevy Suburban through decades of memories — kids tumbling around the backseat, tearful college drop-offs, and that quiet, bittersweet moment when the house becomes an empty nest. The ad ends as the couple parks their old Suburban beside a shiny new one, welcoming their grown children and grandchildren home for the holidays. It’s the kind of commercial American companies have long excelled at: emotionally evocative in all the right ways, tapping into nostalgia, family, and the warmth of the season — and, yes, selling a product. Holiday ads have become part of our cultural fabric. Think of Coca-Cola’s polar bears, or the Budweiser Clydesdales. These ads don’t just market products; they help set the tone for the season. Ads like these may not survive if Washington continues down a troubling road of restricting TV commercials for politically unpopular — but legal — products. At the top of this list is pharmaceutical ads, which Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants removed from the airwaves. In that fight he has an unlikely ally: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This may seem like a rare instance of bipartisan cooperation. And in today’s political climate, dinging pharmaceutical companies is almost certain to prove popular. But we already have strict advertising laws against including false or misleading claims in ads, and severe penalties for violations — and appropriately so. Banning pharmaceutical ads would be regulatory overkill, and could have negative consequences its advocates aren’t considering. Contrary to what critics say, prescription drugs preserve life and improve health. Because of this, advertising can be a social good. An ad that makes people aware of a new drug’s benefits can literally save lives and alleviate suffering. Some politicians and regulators say these ads only serve to artificially drive up demand. And they do drive up demand — for treatments that work. That’s a good thing. Think about what would happen if we had a new wonder drug to help cure or stop the spread of breast cancer. Now imagine that the government prevented the pharmaceutical company from promoting this treatment to patients. It could take months before patients get access to this miracle cure. Plus, if lawmakers succeed in chipping away protections for advertisers, it will only empower future government censors. Imagine a future Democrat administration that wants to ban ads for gas-powered cars or disposable diapers in the name of “protecting the environment.” Pharmaceutical ads may not be the most popular thing in the world. But that doesn’t change the fact that they have a real benefit — or the fact that banning them would do more harm than good. Stephen Moore is a co-founder of Unleash Prosperity and a former senior economic advisor to President Donald Trump. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Michelle Kwan dazzled on the ice during her time as a figure skater. She won medals in both the 1998 and 2002 Olympic Games. After retirement from competition, Michelle went on to a career in public service and politics, but yearning to be a mother. In 2022, she welcomed her daughter, Kalista Belle, making a lifelong dream come true. On December 11, the 45-year-old announced the birth of her second daughter, Della Rose, a surprise to many fans. “Christmas came early. I’m overjoyed to share that our baby girl — Della Rose Kwan — has arrived! My heart doubled in an instant the moment I held her in my arms, and watching my daughter walk into the hospital to meet her baby sister brought tears to my eyes. I’ve always dreamt of having children, and when Kalista came into the world, I was already beyond grateful for a miracle that once felt impossible after years of trying” Michelle wrote on Instagram. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Michelle Kwan (@michellewkwan) Michelle Kwan Sent a Message of Hope to Other Families. Michelle Kwan shared that even though she pushed her body to the limits as an Olympian, motherhood is her most significant challenge to date. “To all the moms, moms-to-be, and the women and families dealing with infertility or praying to build a family—I know what you’re going through and I’m hoping you feel loved and supported in every way as you navigate this journey,” she wrote. “Beautiful, beautiful Michelle. A joyous gift. We are just so happy for you and your expanded family!!!” A fan shared. “Congratulations, Michelle. Your family is – and always has been – beautiful,” another person wrote. Fellow figure skater Tara Lipinski also shared well-wishes for Michelle Kwan. “Congratulations! I’m so happy for you and your family!” She wrote. What a tremendous blessing right before Christmas. Congratulations to Michelle Kwan and her whole family. This story’s featured image is by Jean Baptiste Lacroix/Getty Images.

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Speculation swirls over New York City’s incoming socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani and whether he will be “rational” or a radical once he’s in office. While that matter is yet to be settled, a review of Mamdani’s transition team indicates that, at the moment, it may be best to bet on radical or maybe just wildly irresponsible and incompetent. On Tuesday, Fox New Digital reported that Mamdani had “appointed a convicted armed robber” to advise him on the criminal justice system. Mysonne Linen had been in prison for seven years after he committed a string of violent robberies in the 1990s. Mamdani defended the appointment. “We put together a team of more than 400 New Yorkers who are on 17 different committees, and these are New Yorkers who bring with them both a fluency of the policies and politics of the city, the places that they’ve succeeded, the places that they’ve failed, and we will take all of their experiences and their analysis into account as we build a city for each and every person,” he said to Fox News. It should be no surprise then that that team of 400 is filled with mostly a combination of staffers from the disastrous administration of former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, another far-left figure, and a whole lot of extreme folks. It’s worth pointing out the backgrounds of just a few of the people on Mamdani’s list. Alex Vitale Despite the fact that Mamdani called for defunding the NYPD in 2020, saying on X that they are “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety,” he changed his tune on the campaign trail. Mamdani insisted that he no longer wanted to defund the police, quite convenient given the idea’s now radioactive poll numbers, but instead wanted to fund more social workers who would respond to 911 calls. Keeping the competent NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch at her post is a good thing as long as that lasts, but Mamdani was likely showing his true colors with the appointment of Alex Vitale to his Committee on Public Safety. Vitale literally wrote the book on police abolition. He wrote “The End of Policing” in 2017. Here’s a snippet of what it’s about, from Fox News: “The book, which opens by explaining that police don’t exist to help citizens, argues for an end to traditional policing for certain criminal activity, including narcotics use, prostitution, patrolling borders and ‘misbehaving adolescents.’ The book also argues that police shouldn’t combat street gangs.” In addition, Vitale argued that policing the border is racist. In fact, he wrote that basically all policing is racist in America. “Racism in policing is structural, not simply a product of bad attitudes,” the book notes. “Training officers to recognize implicit bias without changing what they are tasked with enforcing is like teaching a soldier to be sensitive while sending him to occupy a foreign country.” Tamika Mallory Remember the “Women’s March” of pink hat-wearing women that was sort of like the “No Kings” protests of President Donald Trump’s first term? I’ll forgive you if you’ve forgotten. The movement collapsed and was seemingly memory holed by the legacy media after it was revealed that several founding members of the protest group had been accused of antisemitism. Well, one of the accused is back and on Mamdani’s transition team: Tamika Mallory. Mamdani also appointed Mallory to the Committee on Public Safety, despite or perhaps because she had called for defunding and perhaps, on that beautiful day when human nature wholly changes, outright abolishing the police. Mallory has been a longtime admirer of the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan, and once called him the “GOAT,” or “greatest of all time.’” She did somewhat qualify her admiration for Farrakhan, however, saying in a 2019 interview with “The View,” “I didn’t call him the greatest of all time because of his rhetoric. I called him the greatest of all time because of what he’s done in black communities.” Kassandra Frederique It’s hard to stop pointing out members of the now oxymoronic “Committee on Public Safety,” but it really is stuffed with some fringy folks. Kassandra Frederique is the head of the Drug Policy Alliance and is now a member of this esteemed body. Like that old, and not quite accurate joke about the Opium War, her organization isn’t for curtailing drug use, it’s fighting on the side of the drugs. Frederique and her organization are against “prohibition” of basically any drug, no matter how destructive. When asked in an interview how she felt when she heard of celebrities dying of drug overdoses she said, “As someone who is an abolitionist and also works to be a drug policy reformer, every day I have to fight the prohibitionists inside of me.” She continued: “When I heard that Whitney Houston passed, when I heard that Prince passed, you know, yesterday when I heard Michael K. Williams passed, it was a blow. And I go through my own existential crisis about like what am I doing? Is this, am I on the right side? I always come back to the point that the work that I do, the things that I believe in are right.” ? Mamdani "Community Safety" Pick Says Some Revolutionaries “Need To Be High” To “Take Over The State”Meet Kassandra Frederique, head of the Drug Policy Alliance and now a member of Zohran Mamdani’s Committee on Community Safety.In this interview about overdose deaths like… pic.twitter.com/UubI49FZkL— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) November 26, 2025 I hate to keep citing memes here, but she seems to be saying, “Am I out of touch? No, it is the children who are wrong.” Her organization was reportedly “integral” to the decriminalization of hard drugs in Oregon in 2020, a policy so immediately catastrophic that even Democrats in the state backed repealing the law. Those who don’t learn from history may be doomed to repeat it, but it appears that some who made those mistakes in history are also liable to learn nothing and repeat them. Good luck, New York. Demetre Daskalakis Dr. Demetre Daskalakis already drove one brief news cycle as of late when he resigned from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in late August due to conflicts over vaccinations with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He was President Joe Biden’s monkeypox czar. Here’s how The Washington Free Beacon’s Jon Levine recently described Daskalakis: “New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s public health brain trust includes an accused Satanist who advised former president Joe Biden on the 2022-2023 monkeypox outbreak, the architect of the Empire State’s race-based COVID-19 policies, and a former city official who denied the NYPD’s request for masks during the pandemic.” Daskalakis essentially refused to recommend a cessation of the behavior that would allow the transition of monkeypox that in most cases happened between gay men. He said in 2023 that the administration would make, “sure [they] got the word out in a way that supports people’s joy, as opposed to calling them ‘risky.’” Biden monkeypox advisor Demetre Daskalakis says the Biden administration aims to "support peoples' joy as opposed to calling them 'risky'":"One person's idea of risk is another person's idea of a great festival or Friday night." pic.twitter.com/nKsRQNmOwY— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 18, 2023 I’d post more about Daskalakis here, but this is a family-friendly website. Rabbi Abby Stein Mamdani’s transition team features a far-Left, anti-Israel transgender rabbi, who has been placed the Committee on Public Health. Abby Stein was a prominent supporter of Mamdani’s campaign. He appeared in an ad with female rabbis making the case that Mamdani would help New York. WATCH:The Free Beacon tracked down the “rabbis” from Zohran Mamdani’s new “Jews for Zohran” ad campaign. You won’t believe it, but one of them, “Rabbi” Abby Stein, is a transgender rabbi who was booted from a Biden White House shindig for disrupting the event with demands to… pic.twitter.com/TLV0h0KvMA— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) October 28, 2025 “We know Zohran will fight to make our city affordable and safe for our families,” Stein said in the ad. “As Jews, as rabbis, as New Yorkers, we believe that all people deserve to thrive. Zohran agrees.” Stein has been controversial even among Democrats. He said that he had been kicked out of the White House in 2024 after hectoring first lady Jill Biden about creating a ceasefire in Gaza. The post Meet 5 Radicals (Among Many More) in Mamdani’s Transition Team appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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