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Fauci Advised Stephen Miller to Leave His Pregnant Wife Alone With COVID, Get a Hotel
Dr. Anthony Fauci recommended White House adviser Stephen Miller move into a hotel for two weeks after his wife, Katie Miller, tested positive for COVID-19 while 10 weeks pregnant, according to newly released diary entries. The entries were released Saturday by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who obtained them during his investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and gain-of-function research ahead of Fauci’s planned testimony on Capitol Hill in the coming week.
“COVID-19 hits the White House!!” Fauci wrote on May 8, 2020. “Yesterday, it was revealed that the personal valet of the POTUS tested positive for Sars-CoV-2. However, today it was noted that Katie Miller tested positive. She was negative yesterday and positive X2 today!!!”
“She had sxs (sic) in the Sit room yesterday and sat next to Steve Hahn and behind Azar,” Fauci continued, listing a number of officials who had all attended the same briefing. “I was on the other side of the room from her, but she was coughing in the room. She sat next to Olivia Troye when she was coughing and, in the afternoon, yesterday, Olivia sat right next to me in the Ward Room of the West Wing for 45 minutes. In the room were Deb Birx, Steve Hahn, Bob Redfield, Tyler Ann, Seema Verma.”
Michigan State Rep. Jamie Thompson Touts Endorsement From Anti-Vaccine Mandate Group
Michigan state Rep. Jamie Thompson (R-Brownstown Township), a nurse, is highlighting a recent endorsement from Stand for Health Freedom, a political advocacy organization that actively lobbies against vaccine mandates, including standard immunization requirements for public school students.
Thompson, a Republican who represents Michigan’s 28th House District, shared the endorsement on her Instagram page. “This endorsement comes at a pivotal moment as America’s New Majority continues to rise, a clear sign that voters are ready for leaders who stand for freedom, accountability and common sense,” Thompson’s post says.
Thompson’s opposition to vaccine mandates presents a sharp contrast to her background as a nurse, as major medical organizations overwhelmingly support standard childhood immunizations.
Previous Vaccinations Shouldn’t Bar Worker’s Religious Vaccine Exemption Request, 9th Circuit Says
The 9th Circuit’s analysis turned upon the question of whether the plaintiff had sufficiently communicated to her employer how her sincerely held religious belief conflicted with its vaccine mandate. Under both Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act, religious discrimination plaintiffs must show that they have a “bona fide religious belief” that conflicts with an employment duty, the court said.
The plaintiff also must have informed the employer of the conflict and be able to show that the employer threatened the employee with, or subjected them to, discriminatory treatment because of that conflict. The district court determined that the plaintiff in Weiss expressed only general objections to the COVID-19 vaccine and that, despite the religious references the request incorporated, holding her request to be sufficient notice of religious conflict would have resulted in a “limitless excuse” for avoiding unwanted obligations.
But the 9th Circuit disagreed, holding that courts have only narrow responsibility to assess the sincerity and reasonableness of an employee’s asserted religious belief. It concluded that the plaintiff’s request identified the employee’s beliefs and described specific religious doctrines, thereby meeting the notice requirements under federal and state law.
How Total Surveillance Conquered the Last Sanctuary of Human Privacy
Your bedroom has been listening for years. Not metaphorically — quite literally. While you slept, while you loved, while you whispered secrets to partners in the dark, the devices you invited inside for “convenience” were recording, analyzing, transmitting. That smart speaker on your nightstand heard you breathe. Your WiFi router mapped your movements through walls. The phone charging beside your pillow tracked your REM cycles, your midnight tossing, your 3 AM anxieties.
All of it flowed through fiber optic veins into climate-controlled bunkers where analysts sift through domestic lives like archaeologists studying extinct species — except you’re very much alive, still walking, still paying monthly subscriptions for the privilege of being monitored.
This is the unvarnished reality of existence in 2026: privacy didn’t merely erode — it was systematically dismantled, commodified, and fed into machine learning systems that predict your behavior before you conceive the thought. Eight billion souls now exist beneath an invisible dome of perpetual observation, each breath monitored, each heartbeat catalogued, each flicker of dissent intercepted before consciousness fully forms it.
Sam Altman Says He Got ‘addicted’ to Tiktok, Including a Saturday Afternoon Where He Scrolled ‘for like 3 hours’
Even Sam Altman is guilty of getting sucked into TikTok. “I deleted TikTok because it was just too powerful,” he said during a recent episode of the “Relentless” podcast.
The OpenAI CEO said he forced himself to learn more about TikTok as the AI giant began building (and ultimately abandoned) a TikTok-esque AI-generated video social media app called Sora. Even Sam Altman is guilty of getting sucked into TikTok.
“I made myself get addicted to TikTok, because I wanted to just learn,” Altman said.
Altman said he soon found out why TikTok has become known for its recommendation algorithm, widely regarded as one of the best of its kind.
“I really thought it was great,” he said. “And then I thought I could control it. I was like, ‘Oh, it’s actually kind of fun,’ but I only use it for 10 minutes to wind down before bed, and I’m totally in control of it. And then it was an hour one night. And then some Saturday afternoon, I was on the couch for like three hours.”
Smart Glasses Are the One Privacy Nightmare Apple Can’t Solve
Even if Apple is one of the only major consumer tech companies without a pair of smart glasses officially in the pipeline, there are strong signs pointing to a future where its face-worn computer exists.
The biggest sign is reporting from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who recently detailed a behind-the-scenes debate on what exactly Apple will offer the world of smart glasses. Unsurprisingly, that internal discussion is around the biggest hot-button issue: privacy.
Specifically, Gurman’s reporting suggests that Apple is working to address the camera on smart glasses, which is arguably the most fraught feature on any pair.
Unlike Meta and its AI glasses, Apple seems to be intent on ensuring the camera on its smart glasses doesn’t wind up earning the company a reputation as a tool for spying or otherwise encroaching on user privacy. To do that, it’s reportedly considering a couple of non-Meta approaches to hardware.
