🧵 On June 26, PA Gov. Josh Shapiro handed a vaccine manufacturer a $10.6M grant. 60 days later he stood in Lancaster…

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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro received criticism for not disclosing a $10.6M vaccine manufacturer grant when publicly blaming RFK Jr. for measles deaths weeks later, raising questions about undisclosed conflicts of interest between state pharma investments and public health messaging.

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🧵 On June 26, PA Gov. Josh Shapiro handed a vaccine manufacturer a $10.6M grant. 60 days later he stood in Lancaster County blaming RFK Jr. for two "measles-associated" deaths. Nobody at the podium mentioned the money. Receipts below. Every claim sourced. 👇 sayerji.substack.com/p/blood-on-who…
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2/ June 26, 2026 — Swiftwater, PA. Shapiro personally announces a $10,646,316 grant to Sanofi Pasteur, a plant the state says makes "approximately 42 percent of all influenza vaccine doses that protect Americans each year." State's own release: pa.gov/governor/newsr…
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3/ August 25, 2026 — Lancaster County. Same governor, national cameras: two "measles-associated" deaths, "completely preventable," blamed on Trump & RFK Jr. No mention of Sanofi. Or the vaccine plant 15 miles away. Or his own executive order. pa.gov/governor/newsr…
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4/ Shapiro's own Executive Order 2025-02 (signed Oct 1, 2025) says the quiet part in its WHEREAS clause: "the Commonwealth manufactures more than one-half of all vaccines administered in the United States." His signature is on the page: pa.gov/content/dam/co…
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5/ His backdrop county hosts GSK's vaccine plant in Marietta — "the largest Commonwealth-supported economic development project in Lancaster County history." Same state release: "one in four Americans are administered a vaccine supplied from" this plant. dced.pa.gov/newsroom/penns…
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6/ On its own websites, the Shapiro administration documents $5.5B+ in state-backed pharma & life-sciences investments and programs — roughly $300M in state support: 💰 Eli Lilly $3.5B 💰 J&J $1B+ 💰 GSK $800M 💰 Eurofins $147.5M 💰 Sanofi $10.6M
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7/ Securities law. Judicial ethics. Medical publishing. Every adjacent field requires disclosing your interest before speaking on the regulated matter. At the Lancaster podium on August 25: no disclosure. Not one word.
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8/ What DID the state release? An assertion — day one — that "both individuals were unvaccinated." What it has NOT released: verifying records, causes of death, assay type, sequence data. An assay type identifies no one. pa.gov/agencies/healt…
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9/ Then it got stranger. Lancaster County's coroner told local media one decedent was a newborn who died of a lacerated spleen shortly after birth — measles antibodies postmortem, but the forensic pathologist "did not feel it was related to measles." lancasteronline.com/news/health/la…
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10/ PA's health department then explained its own term: "measles-associated" means lab or epidemiologic evidence of measles is present — even if measles was NOT the immediate cause of death. That's the definition underneath the national headlines, and the election-year measles fear porn. ⚠️ inquirer.com/health/measles…
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11/ Within hours of the Aug 25 announcement, DC war room Protect Our Care declared "Trump and RFK Jr. have blood on their hands." Its official statement ends: "Mr. Kennedy, fucking resign already." Who is Protect Our Care? 🔍 protectourcare.org/statement-trum…
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12/ POC wasn't reacting. One week BEFORE the announcement (Aug 17–18), Public Policy Polling tested four anti-GOP vaccine messages on 525 voters — "on behalf of Protect Our Care and 314 Action." Released Aug 20: "vaccines are on the ballot." Aug 25: Lancaster. 📊 314action.org/news/press-rel…
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13/ POC had run a purpose-built anti-RFK unit since Dec 2025. Stated mission: "to counter the Trump-RFK Jr. war on public health." Its 25 named staff: Obama campaign vets, DNC/DCCC alumni, Bridge trackers. Physicians: 0. Epidemiologists: 0. protectourcare.org/protect-our-ca…
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14/ Who funds POC? It files no IRS Form 990. It's a fiscally sponsored project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund (notoriously a dark money funder of CCDH, creator of the "disinformation dozen") — 2024 revenue: $282,241,759. Donors: anonymous.| An org whose president calls others' fundraising "a grift" is itself a black box inside a dark-money fund. 💰 axios.com/2025/01/15/rfk…
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15/ The pipeline runs both ways. Dec 2025: POC hired Shapiro's own Platforms Manager for short-form video. Sept 24, 2025: THREE Shapiro cabinet-level officials appeared at a POC campaign event. One week later: the executive order. pa.gov/content/dam/co…
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16/ This machine predates 2026. December 2020: POC's "Coronavirus War Room" hosted then-Gov. Tom Wolf & NJ Gov. Murphy on a press call — promoted from the same governor's office Josh Shapiro now holds. Five years of partnership with PA's executive branch. web.archive.org/web/2021/https… Research credit: @pepesgrandma
Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻@pepesgrandma · Aug 27, 2026
Gov Shapiro was actually in the Protect Our Care War Room. 🤦🏻‍♀️ “This morning I joined GovMurphy in ProtectOurCare’s Coronavirus War Room to urge Congress to pass a COVID relief package.” archive.is/50Lhc
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17/ What honest inquiry demands: 📋 Shapiro — disclose all communications with state-funded pharma recipients about the outbreak response 📋 PA DOH — release death certificates, assay data, verification records 📋 POC — publish its budget, funders & poll contract sayerji.substack.com/p/blood-on-who…
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18/ "Blood on whose hands?" The war room asked the question. Pennsylvania's own documents answer it. Full investigation — every claim linked inline to state, corporate, or organizational sources: sayerji.substack.com/p/blood-on-who… Repost the first post and tag others who need to see this so Pennsylvania has to answer. 🔁 @RobertKennedyJr @CommissionerJP @MAHA_Action @standforhealth1 @NVICLoeDown @TheNHF @feds4freedomusa @theHFDF @HighWireTalk @jeffreytucker @pepesgrandma @AaronSiriSG @SecKennedy @NIHDirector_Jay @ChildrensHD @SharylAttkisson @jimmy_dore @SenRonJohnson @MaryBowdenMD @IreneMavrakakis @calleymeans
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One more document belongs in this record. Pennsylvania's own Governor's Code of Conduct — Executive Order 1980-18 — names the Governor himself, by title, among those required to file statements of financial interest, to be reviewed by the Secretary of Administration and General Counsel "to insure against any conflict of interest." Josh Shapiro has personally reaffirmed that Code twice, by executive orders signed in his own name in January 2023 and May 2024, each declaring that "public trust and confidence in the integrity" of those who serve the Commonwealth "is of paramount importance." The standard, in other words, is not one imposed on Pennsylvania's Governor by his critics. It is one he signed. Whether the undisclosed pattern documented above comports with it is not this author's determination to make. It is a question for the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission — the body that exists to answer it — and for any citizen entitled to place a complaint on the Commission's desk. pa.gov/content/dam/co…