Novel COVID-19 vaccines advertised as "safe and effective" left multitudes of Americans injured or worse during the pandemic. Some of those individuals still physically capable went online to express their concerns, share their life-changing experiences, and engage with others medically compromised by government mandates and experimental science. However, in many cases, they found themselves unable to do so. Their posts were suppressed. Their accounts were deleted or quarantined. Their speech was altogether stifled. Several vaccine-injured Americans are seeking to hold the Biden-Harris administration and its apparent coconspirators to account for this insult to injury. The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amended complaint Friday in the case Dressen, et al. v. Flaherty, et al. on behalf of five individuals who suffered vaccine-related injuries, along with a sixth plaintiff who lost his son to a vaccine-related death. The suit names as defendants various elements of the Democratic administration, including President Joe Biden, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and Health Secretary Xavier Becerra, along with alumni of the effectively defunct Stanford Internet Observatory's Virality Project. According to the NCLA, the Biden White House, the Surgeon General's Office, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other elements of the Biden-Harris administration worked to "coerce, induce, and collude with social media platforms to censor, suppress, and label as 'misinformation' speech expressed by those who have suffered vaccine-related injuries." The amended complaint further details how this apparent censorship scheme has continued since the lawsuit was first filed in May of last year. 'The federal government has launched a war against purported mis-, dis-, and malinformation, which it claims must be suppressed despite the First Amendment.' "It is not the government's role to curate, filter, or suppress disfavored speech before it reaches the eyes and ears of American citizens. Yet that is precisely what is going on here," says the complaint. "This case challenges the government's mass-censorship program and the shocking role that it has played (and continues to play) in ensuring that disfavored viewpoints deemed a threat to its agenda are suppressed." On its face, the case appears to share much in common with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Kennedy v. Biden, which was green-lit last month by U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana, as well as the related case Murthy v. Biden. Like the other two, this case points out the pressure the Biden-Harris administration exerted on social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter to censor speech that did not violate any of the platforms' existing policies. Like Kennedy, it also cites on multiple occasions the discovery produced in Murthy. In a 6-3 June ruling, the Supreme Court said that the plaintiffs in Murthy lacked standing. Kennedy and the plaintiffs in this case appear far better positioned to succeed. Among the many instances of censorship raised in the suit was the elimination of a private Facebook support group called "A Wee Sprinkle of Hope," which comprised thousands of vaccine-injured members. In that instance, plaintiff Brianne Dressen — who is also suing AstraZeneca for allegedly leaving her with a debilitating injury — posted an infographic listing various post-COVID vaccine side effects, which are now widely known. She also linked to a press conference explaining the extent and nature of her injuries. Dressen soon learned that her support page had been disabled for violating the platform's "Community Standards on misinformation that could cause physical harm," according to the complaint. When she and other former members of "A Wee Sprinkle of Hope" started a new support group on Facebook, the platform again began policing, flagging, and "fact-checking" their posts despite using code and keyword substitutes. Ernest Ramirez, another defendant, apparently set up a GoFundMe page to fundraise for a trip to Washington, D.C., where he intended to discuss his son's vaccine-related death. The complaint indicates Ramirez had his account terminated for supposedly violating the terms of service for "Prohibited Conduct." Although denying a grieving father the means to provide further meaning to his boy's death was bad enough, perhaps even more unsettling was what Facebook allegedly did on the birthday of Ramirez's son. Ramirez posted an image of himself beside his son's casket with the caption, "My goodbyes to my Baby Boy." According to the complaint, Facebook flagged the post with the label "partly false information." On the other hand, Twitter reportedly deleted the photo and told Ramirez to "make sure you're sharing reliable information." The complaint is replete with similarly damning tales of censorship and explains precisely how the federal government put its thumbs on the scales. Perhaps the most provocative assertion in the amended complaint is the following: The federal government has launched a war against purported mis-, dis-, and malinformation, which it claims must be suppressed despite the First Amendment in order to protect American citizens from supposedly harmful or dangerous ideas. Indeed, Defendants admit to suppressing truthful speech, including stories of vaccine side effects that it has expressly acknowledged to be true, but which the government nevertheless targets for censorship because such speech 'could fuel vaccine hesitancy.' The plaintiffs seek an injunction against further state-orchestrated censorship, claiming that their First Amendment rights were violated and that the government defendants, with the exception of Biden, exceeded the authority delegated to them by Congress. Casey Norman, litigation counsel with the NCLA, said, "If there is any case that exemplifies why the First Amendment exists — as well as the abominable and Orwellian consequences that take place when the government evades its restraint — it is this one." "The plaintiffs in this case posed a threat to the Biden Administration, because their personal experiences conflicted with the government’s heavy-handed approach to Covid-19 vaccination, which was predicated on the false claim that vaccine injuries were virtually nonexistent," said Jenin Younes, also litigation counsel with the NCLA. This appears to be one among several signals that a possible reckoning is imminent where COVID authoritarians and reckless drug manufacturers are concerned. In June, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (R) announced that the Sunflower State was suing Pfizer for "misleading claims it made related to the COVID vaccine." The British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, responsible for the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 viral-vector vaccine, is presently fighting a class-action lawsuit brought by apparent victims and deceased victims' families. After years of denying its vaccine could cause blot clots, AstraZeneca admitted in a February court document that "it is admitted that the AZ vaccine can, in very rare cases, cause [thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome]. The causal mechanism is not known." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Viral gymnast and NCAA champion Olivia Dunne explained the importance of female athletes expanding their brands and marketing opportunities while they are still in college.Dunne, who charges a reported $125,000 per social media post to promote a product, has a name, image, and likeness valuation of about $4 million. Her branding power places her as the second-highest NIL-earning athlete in the country, according to website On3.Dunne's recent sponsorships include monetization platform Passes and a sportswear deal with Nautica. With over 13 million social media followers, she has masterfully monetized her likeness despite being in gymnastics, a sport not typically synonymous with a high income.Opting to attend Louisiana State University for a fifth year, Dunne revealed in a recent interview why staying enrolled as a collegiate athlete is so important to her brand."It's very important to capitalize on your NIL while you're in college if you're a female, because there's not a lot of professional leagues after college for most women's sports," Dunne confessed. "I think that's important, creating a substantial brand that will last post-college," she told the New York Post.Dunne posed for Sports Illustrated in 2023 and has since expressed that her relationship with the brand was one she hoped to monetize after college. This acknowledges that the true marketing value of female NCAA athletes is achieved by reaching beyond their sports and breaking through culturally on social media.Female athletes are seeing the benefit of stretching their NCAA careers as long as possible in order to garner popularity and gather sponsorships, as opposed to turning pro.This is made apparent by NCAA athletes like the Cavinder twins, who have returned to the University of Miami for a fifth year of basketball. The twin sisters are not trailblazers in their sport nor national champions like Dunne, but they have tapped into the influencer space so successfully that they've secured deals with brands like Under Armour.The three-year deal, along with their social media presence, will allow the Cavinders to carry their branding power with them after they leave college athletics.'I feel like social media really can be glamorized, and it can make your life look really glamorous.'The reality is that college female athletes are exposed to greater fanfare in the NCAA through national TV deals, tournaments, and the sheer energy of college campuses.For sports like gymnastics and basketball, the typical endgame would be to become an Olympian or go to the WNBA. However, these offer incredibly limited levels of exposure save for exceptional cases like Olympian Simone Biles or WNBA star Caitlin Clark."Girls don’t know where to start," Dunne said of college women finding NIL deals. She started a fund, the Livvy Fund, at LSU to help female athletes with exactly that.Getting started is sometimes "half the battle," the gymnast continued. "So I definitely want to do something [in NIL] overall, after I'm done at LSU. And hopefully expand beyond LSU and help educate people and just help girls out. ... I've always loved sports. So definitely something in the sports realm."In a recent documentary, Dunne spoke about how social media can shape an athlete's image with her audience."I feel like social media really can be glamorized, and it can make your life look really glamorous when it’s not like that at all times. ... [Viewers] want that inside look on how we balance athletics, school, and now NIL."What this truly means is that female athletes need to fully expand their online presence while choosing a school that offers the most exposure and gives them a chance to grow their audience.Former NCAA swimmer Kaitlynn Wheeler told Blaze News how apparent this new change has been for college athletes. "[NIL deals] have changed how students look at prospective programs," Wheeler said. "The way students are picking their schools and how programs are recruiting. ... It's about going to the school that is going to give athletes the best deal."'There definitely were times where my love for the sport lowered.'Dunne went on to explain that it has become incredibly difficult for her to balance athletics with her rising fame. However, she seemingly realized that gymnastics is the backbone of her brand, resulting in her return to the NCAA for another year."There definitely were times where my love for the sport lowered," she said. "I mean, my sophomore and junior year was quite hard to balance. And with school and athletics, it was just a hard balance and there was nobody I could follow in their footsteps because nobody’s ever done it before. So I kind of just had to carve my own path and find out what works for me."Dunne said she found the love for her sport again, and that was truly the main reason she decided to return to LSU.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida claimed that someone tried to trick her into divulging information damaging to her campaign and then assailed her with sexist and anti-Semitic messages. A Fox News Digital report said the effort could be linked to a liberal group that targeted Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, also of Florida, and may have targeted other Republicans. 'Violence in politics is never acceptable and should never be condoned.' Luna referenced the apparent operation after posting on X that she was being harassed after her political opponent allegedly encouraged people to send packages to her personal address. She then revealed to Fox that someone had texted her in July and falsely claimed to be the chief of staff for Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. The person appeared to fish for opposition research from Luna before descending into insults. "You are really clever APL. But you're going to lose. At least you still got your fake t**s," read one apparent text. "Fake smile. Fake life. Fake Jewish person," another apparent text read. "If you were a real Jew, you wouldn't be texting on the Sabbath."Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado said her staff also received similar messages from someone claiming to be Abbott's chief of staff in July, and they tried to arrange a meeting with the representative. "The people involved with this shady organization have a regular pattern of behaving in a mentally deranged manner and have the potential to cause harm, if given the opportunity," said Boebert to Fox. "These sad, obsessed stalkers should be placed on a law enforcement watchlist."Luna believes the operation is organized by a liberal PAC group because it released texts obtained by an interaction with Gaetz. “I am, unfortunately, one of the top targeted members of Congress for violence. I have had threats made, things sent to my office, etc. Violence in politics is never acceptable and should never be condoned. Female members also happen to be the most targeted for violence and harassment," she wrote on X. Fox News Digital said the PAC did not respond to a request for a comment, and no one responded to messages left at the number in the operation against Luna. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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