Articles In This Issue

• Senators Johnson, Paul Release Email Showing Top FDA Official Expressing Concern Over COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Effects - U.S. Senator Ron Johnson

• Liberal Pundits Hunt Desperately For a Single David Crowley ‘Accomplishment’ - What They Picked is Hysterical - Jessica McBride

• Then / Now - Tom Stiglitz

Senators Johnson, Paul Release Email Showing Top FDA Official Expressing Concern Over COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events

U.S. Senator Ron Johnson - August 16, 2026

In May 2021, Dr. Janet Woodcock wrote about reports of patients experiencing unknown adverse events: “no one takes them seriously, no one knows how to treat them, and there is no effort to study this”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today [Aug. 16, 2026], U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new email obtained from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s government email which was produced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The newly released email shows that on May 27, 2021, Dr. Janet Woodcock, the then-Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), wrote to Drs. Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins regarding reports she had received directly from individuals, including “healthcare professionals,” of adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination.

Dr. Woodcock wrote, “The symptoms do not fit together into a distinctive syndrome and most are not easily quantifiable or evaluated with standard laboratory testing.” She went on to write that “These problems are not the sort that a system like VAERS would be able to detect, or even a more sophisticated population-based active followup [sic] such as CDC has, or a medical record based system such as BEST [an FDA safety surveillance system].”

Dr. Woodcock wrote that she thought health officials should conduct a study, adding, “I doubt the industry would support, for obvious reasons. But my experience is, that if you let a problem fester, then it will come back to bite you later and you are not prepared.”

The day after receiving Dr. Woodcock’s email, Dr. Fauci forwarded it to Dr. Collins, writing: “Janet [Woodcock] asks what we think of this? We cannot ignore her. We should probably bring in CDC and see what Rochelle [Walensky] thinks.”

Based on information reviewed to date, it is unclear if Walensky was ever consulted.

Liberal Pundits Hunt Desperately for a Single David Crowley ‘Accomplishment’ - and What They Picked is Hysterical

Jessica McBride, Wisconsin Right Now - August 18, 2026

It’s been humorous the last few days watching Wisconsin’s liberal intelligentsia turn themselves into Elastigirl in the Incredibles, bending and stretching and twisting, because they’re desperate to find Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley an accomplishment.

Liberal pundits (basically Dan Shafer and smarmy Sachin Chheda) are becoming expert contortionists as they try to camouflage the fact that Crowley’s accomplishments are just resume items, and not anything he’s actually done.

I suppose he could talk about how wholesome and family friendly the State Fair is, since it’s in Milwaukee County, but, yeah, maybe not. The brawl that went down at Spin City, on video, last night is basically a Tom Tiffany campaign ad: It’s exactly what everyone outside of Milwaukee doesn’t want to become. AG candidate Eric Toney eloquently brought that point up; Josh Kaul, of course, stayed silent. If he even exists anymore. I mean, I hope he exists. He’s basically a cipher. That’s an old word for zero.

But if Tiffany actually makes it a campaign ad, the same legacy media reporters who are running the video now will write hand-wringing stories about whether it’s racist, and they’ll quote Madison professors who are experts in racial tropes but who were all exasperatingly silent when Democrats and the media conjoined to push the leading black candidate, Mandela Barnes, out of the race with… a racist trope.

Shafer started practically shrieking (if one can do so online), “Eureka, I have found it” – a David Crowley accomplishment, that is, which is about as rare as a 1911 T206 Honus Wagner trading card or a blue lobster (look it up.)

Only it wasn’t really an accomplishment at all because what they chose was… Act 12.

Forget Shafer and Chheda types (Chheda is a Democratic political operative who briefly snagged a cushy job working for Jill Underly and now sits on X spinning narratives). Crowley himself made this claim when squirrelly anti-Trumper radio blowhard Steve Scaffidi asked him for his top accomplishment. Why, Act 12 he said! Even more hysterically, Crowley whipped out a press release that claimed, “Crowley Campaign: Act 12 Proves David Crowley Knows How to Govern.”

Except Tony Evers signed that; Evers and Vos got that done. Vos was calling the shots. All Crowley did was beg to be allowed to increase taxes.

As dumb as this Democrat narrative is, just watch: the narrative will jump from the social sphere and into a Molly Beck story by daybreak. Then the headlines will jump into nasty Democratic campaign ads. It’s worked that way for years. Government

The only problem is that the narrative is hysterically ridiculous. All Crowley accomplished through Act 12 was jacking up the cost of living on poor blacks and east side college kids who are already stretched thin. Great job!

Then / Now

Tom Stiglitz, Creators Syndicate - August 18, 2026