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6. More on how RFK Jr. is undermining confidence in the measles vaccines in today's Popular Information

5. Individual shots for measles, mumps, and rubella are not currently available or licensed in the United States. Nor is there evidence that the MMR vaccines is dangerous.

In the meantime, O'Neill is suggesting that the MMR vaccine is unsafe.

4. In August, Kennedy appointed Jim O’Neill as the acting head of the CDC. O’Neill has no medical or scientific training.

In October, O'Neill said vaccinations for measles, mumps, and rubella should be three seperate shots. (They are currently delivered in a combined MMR vaccine.)

3. In a March 3 interview on Fox Nation, Kennedy Jr. said that it is “very very difficult for measles to kill a healthy person.” Therefore, the best way to prevent measles is “to keep themselves healthy.”

Healthy people can contract and die from measles.

2. In a March 11 interview on Fox News, Kennedy Jr. claimed the MMR vaccine “does cause deaths every year,” including “all the illnesses that measles itself causes, encephalitis and blindness, et cetera.”

(According to the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Kennedy’s claims are false.)

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6. Crucially, however, although Trump has LEAKED this executive order, he has not signed it.

This gives him maximum leverage.

If Leading our Future, probably the best-funded 2026 Super PAC, gets out of line, he can put the executive order on the shelf.

5. Meanwhile, Trump has teased an executive order based on a policy paper published by Andressen Horowitz in September. It would direct the Justice Department to sue states trying to regulate AI, arguing that such state laws are unconstitutional.

(Most legal experts think this is absurd)

4. So now they appear to have pivoted and are operating as an extension of the GOP

They are funded by $50 million from the VC firm Andressen Horowitz and $50 million from a co-founder of OpenAI. The full donor list and the total raised to date have not been disclosed.

3. When Leading the Future was launched, the group said it would support Democrats and Republicans who opposed AI regulation.

Trump's political operation was incensed, calling it a "slap in the face"

2. The AI political influence campaign, known as Leading the Future, launched its first two ads yesterday. One of the ads PROMOTES a Republican running for Congress in Texas. The other one ATTACKS a Democrat running for Congress in New York.

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5. BTW, Paramount's legal analysis is incorrect. CFIUS still has jurisdiction to review the transaction regardless of whether the Saudis and others have nominally waived governance rights. There are plenty of other ways for huge investors to influence a corporation.

4. Why would a U.S. private equity firm (Affinity Partners) owned by a U.S. citizen (Jared Kushner) need to waive governance rights to avoid review by the Committee on FOREIGN INVESTMENT in the U.S.?

Because Paramount knows that Kushner's company is simply a vehicle for foreign influence.

3. Paramount says they've avoided any regulatory hurdles because Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi have voluntarily agreed to waive their governance rights. And one other party has agreed to waive governance rights: JARED KUSHNER.

2. Paramount says its hostile takeover bid is structured to avoid review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)

Even though the Saudis and other Middle Eastern governments are putting up $24 BILLION -- most of the equity financing.

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