Rita Barnett-Rose – California Globe

Jurisdictional Science and the Collapse of Medical Legitimacy

January 17, 2026 9:17 amJanuary 17, 2026 9:17 am

Recently, significant policy changes at the federal level have begun moving the country back toward informed consent and individualized medical care. For the first time in decades, federal health agencies are retreating from long-entrenched models of coercion and centralized control,...

The CDC Just Overhauled the Childhood Vaccine Schedule — What It Means for California Families

January 7, 2026 11:57 amJanuary 7, 2026 11:57 am

On January 5, 2026, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the most significant revision to the childhood vaccine schedule in decades. Under the new guidance, the federal...

Federal Agency Revises Health Care ‘Quality’ Metrics to Dismantle Vaccine Coercion

January 6, 2026 4:14 amJanuary 6, 2026 4:15 am

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a major change in federal health policy: states will no longer be required to report childhood vaccination levels as a “quality measure” for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance...

Are Parental Rights Making a Comeback — Not if California Leadership Can Stop It

December 26, 2025 3:00 pmDecember 26, 2025 3:00 pm

Judge Benitez’s order restoring parental rights, free speech, and religious conscience is a long-overdue return to sanity — and California’s Democratic leadership is already trying to stop it. On December 22, 2025, a federal judge in California did something that...

The Black-Box Warning That Wasn’t

December 19, 2025 3:30 amDecember 19, 2025 3:31 am

For much of the past week, it appeared that something rare—and overdue—might finally happen at the Food and Drug Administration. Reports circulated that the agency was preparing to place a black-box warning on COVID-19 vaccines, the strongest safety warning the...

California’s Latest Ploy to Install a Public-Private System of Vaccine Coercion and Medical Surveillance

December 17, 2025 2:55 amDecember 17, 2025 7:07 am

Governor Gavin Newsom has announced yet another grand-sounding public-health initiative: PHNIX, the Public Health Network Innovation Exchange. It is being sold as “innovation,” modernization, and scientific leadership—California’s answer to what state officials claim is a federal retreat from “science.” But...

California’s New Vaccine Law Shields Providers — While Leaving Injured Families With No Remedy

December 16, 2025 3:30 amDecember 16, 2025 6:28 am

In 2025, California lawmakers, with the signature of Governor Gavin Newsom, enacted AB 144 — a sweeping statute that dramatically expands the authority of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). Public debate has focused on how the law freezes...