Laurel Fitzhugh
Corpus Christi: Successful Defense Against Corporate Extraction
After a decade of community organizing, Corpus Christi City Council rejected a massive desalination plant that would have forced residents to subsidize industrial water supply while facing drought restrictions themselves. The September 4, 2025 decision came after a contentious 13-hour meeting with multiple arrests, ending a project whose cost estimates had exploded from $160 million in 2019 to $1.2 billion.
Test Sunscreen at Home: Step-by-Step Methods
People who make sunscreen at home can assess its effectiveness using simple testing methods. UV-sensitive beads and construction paper tests provide practical ways to compare homemade formulations against commercial products and verify UV protection performance using basic materials and direct sunlight exposure.
Political Rebranding Reveals Deeper Collapse: When Signature Policies Need New Names
When politicians abandon their signature policy names, they signal fundamental problems they will not or cannot solve. Trump’s team quietly stopped calling his major legislative package the “One Big Beautiful Bill” and falsely rebranded it as “Working Family Tax Cuts” because the old name is now political poison. This is political desperation masquerading as strategy.
Successful political movements don’t rebrand their victories. The New Deal remained the New Deal, and the Great Society kept its name. Trump built his political identity around being a master problem solver but, sadly, people are finding their problems increased. It contradicts his core claim to competence.
This follows a predictable pattern: when you cannot fix the underlying problem or product, you change what you call it and hope messaging can overcome reality. Standard, last ditch corporate strategy.
“Efficiency” Cuts Are Driving Record Federal Spending
DOGE’s “efficiency” agenda is expanding federal spending, not contracting it. This article dives into how cuts and restructuring under DOGE are driving record costs to Americans.
The Great Transfer: American Government as a Wealth Extraction Machine
The 2025 Administration represents a brand new level of fraud and corruption. While the American government has always faced influence and capture by private interests, the 2025 administration appears to represent the most extensive and systematic version in modern history. We are witnessing the systematic transfer of all public assets—taxpayer money, public assets, government services, and democratic institutions—into the hands of selected politicians, the top 1%, and corporate special interests. This is government capture on an unprecedented scale.
Associated Conditions: The Bigger Picture (PA)
Many PA patients have additional conditions that contribute to ongoing symptoms. Fatigue, brain fog, and weakness often have multiple causes. This guide looks beyond B12 to explain how treating the bigger picture can bring clearer recovery and better outcomes. Why This Matters Pernicious anemia doesn’t occur in isolation. The same autoimmune processes that damage your … Read more
How Helminths Help Despite Elevated IL-10 in Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
High IL-10 is not the same as healthy IL-10. Helminths restore immune regulation in multiple sclerosis by expanding functional IL-10–producing regulatory B cells and activating complementary anti-inflammatory pathways. This coordinated network restrains pathogenic Th1/Th17 responses, enhances neuroprotection, and rebalances IL-10 signaling in MS.
Why Some People Respond to Helminthic Therapy and Others Do Not
Helminthic therapy shows about a 75% response rate, but outcomes vary widely. Success depends on condition type, immune baseline, genetics, microbiome, dose, and consistency. Every immune system is unique, so not all patients respond the same way.
Multiple Autoimmune Mechanisms Beyond Classic Gastritis
Pernicious Anemia: Multiple Autoimmune Mechanisms Beyond Classic Gastritis
Breakthrough research reveals why 40–60% of pernicious anemia patients test negative for intrinsic factor antibodies yet still require lifelong B12 therapy. These discoveries identify multiple autoimmune mechanisms affecting B12 absorption and utilization—some involving autoimmune gastritis through non-antibody pathways, others targeting completely different parts of the B12 system. The findings fundamentally expand our understanding of pernicious anemia as a spectrum of autoimmune B12 disorders rather than a single gastric disease.
Recent molecular discoveries have identified anti-CD320 receptor autoantibodies as a major cause of “autoimmune B12 central deficiency,” where patients develop selective nervous system B12 deficiency despite normal serum levels. Combined with genetic studies revealing five risk loci and emerging understanding of T-cell–mediated gastric destruction, these findings reshape the clinical approach to antibody-negative cases. This research demonstrates that pernicious anemia encompasses diverse autoimmune mechanisms affecting multiple points in B12 metabolism, explaining both gastritis-related and non-gastritis forms of the condition.