NOT GOOD. LESLIE MANOOKIAN: all that matters is that a state official could have believed a shot would help individual members of the public—will stand.” “And it’s now precedent in the largest circuit in the United States.”

BREAKING:

The Supreme Court just delivered a massive blow to health freedom.

“This should frighten us all.”

“The system is not going to protect us.”

Here’s what happened:

A federal court quietly delivered one of the most terrifying rulings ever last year.

The Ninth Circuit… https://t.co/keUzocbmmT pic.twitter.com/gIdZmfNLfh

— Health Freedom Defense Fund (@theHFDF) May 18, 2026

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just delivered a massive blow to health freedom. “This should frighten us all.” “The system is not going to protect us.” Here’s what happened: A federal court quietly delivered one of the most terrifying rulings ever last year. The Ninth Circuit Court said the government can force any medical intervention on you. With no evidence or judicial review. This is the backstory: In 2021, we filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District over their Covid-19 vaccine mandates alongside California Educators for Medical Freedom and several individual plaintiffs. In July 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court ruled against us. They said that as long as authorities say a mandate is for “public health,” then the courts shouldn’t question them. And that it didn’t matter whether or not the COVID shots actually worked. All that matters is that authorities said they did. So we petitioned the Supreme Court to review this egregious and unprecedented ruling. But today, the Supreme Court officially denied our petition. HFDF President Leslie Manookian: “This means that the Ninth Circuit’s egregious ruling—that it doesn’t matter whether a shot stops transmission or infection, all that matters is that a state official could have believed a shot would help individual members of the public—will stand.” “And it’s now precedent in the largest circuit in the United States.” “But this is the most important thing for us to all take away: the system is not going to protect us.” “It’s up to us, the people … to refuse to ever obey a mandate from authority again.” “They’re already stirring the pot of fear about the supposed African disease … and this new one from the cruise ships.” “This is what’s coming, folks.” “What is going to protect us … is us as individuals standing up, linking arms with our friends and our neighbors, and saying no, we refuse to comply.” “We will never again obey your civil liberty-violating mandates.” “And we have to fight state by state to pass laws that protect our rights and freedoms.” “Because the federal government’s not going to do it.” This is a saddening setback for health freedom—but we are not giving up. This year, we launched a coalition to outlaw medical mandates across the state legislatures. And we’re seeing incredible progress. In 2025, Idaho’s Medical Freedom Act outlawed almost all medical mandates. This year, multiple state legislatures have already passed similar laws to outlaw medical mandates. And similar laws are advancing through state committees in more states. “While I’m incredibly saddened by this, I’m also galvanized.” @LeslieManookian 

MANOOKIAN: So [Pamela Petroff] was treated as a pariah because she committed the sins of being a Trump-loving Christian person who didn't wanna take the vaccine for medical . . . and religious reasons

The same legal team that won the huge case in the Ninth Circuit against LAUSD's C19 injection mandate also won a big settlement against Disney's injection mandate

Now this just on its own is huge news because Disney does not settle with employees. It just...has a kind of... company policy, under which it does not settle with employees. It fights, because it can do no wrong and because it says it's visionary and, you know... it's a do-good company and all these kinds of things that expresses its vision in all sorts of ways. Right? And the truth is that internally, they are, trampling the rights of their employees, treating them like they're disposable, and as though they are, you know, irrelevant. --Leslie Manookian

The same legal team that won the huge case in the Ninth Circuit against LAUSD's C19-injection mandate also won a big settlement against Disney's injection mandate🔥🔥🔥🔥

Writer, filmmaker, former Wall St. business executive, and President of the Health Freedom Defense Fund… pic.twitter.com/uV3IRT8rd2

— Sense Receptor (@SenseReceptor) July 5, 2024

The same legal team that won the huge case in the Ninth Circuit against LAUSD's C19 injection mandate also won a big settlement against Disney's injection mandate Writer, filmmaker, former Wall St. business executive, and President of the Health Freedom Defense Fund (@theHFDF) Leslie Manookian (@LeslieManookian) describes for Catherine Austin Fitts and Carolyn Betts during a recent episode of the @ChildrensHD series Financial Rebellion how her team not only won in the Ninth Circuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District's COVID-injection mandate, but also managed to get a settlement for a Disney employee who was treated "like a pariah" when she requested an exemption from the company's COVID-injection mandate.

Some key parts of the clip transcribed:

Manookian: "Now this just on its own is huge news because Disney does not settle with employees. It just...has a kind of... company policy, under which it does not settle with employees. It fights, because it can do no wrong and because it says it's visionary and, you know... it's a do-good company and all these kinds of things that express its vision in all sorts of ways. Right? And the truth is that internally, they are, trampling the rights of their employees, treating them like they're disposable, and as though they are, you know, irrelevant. And that's what happened to Pamela Petroff, who is this young woman, a receptionist on 20th-century television animation." Manookian: "When [Disney's COVID-injection] mandate came out... I think it was March, February, or March of 2022... This is after after the summer of 2021 when the CDC said the shots don't stop transmission or infection. Why in the world would they be doing this? It's insane, right? It's just irrational. And so they issue this mandate, and then they tell [Petroff] they're gonna fire her. And she says, you know, I have an immune condition, and...I also have... a medical exemption request and a religious exemption request. And from that moment forward, she was treated like a pariah. She was harassed by her supervisors. I mean, one of them even went on to social media and started talking about how you should cut out anyone who supports Trump, anyone who's a Christian, or anyone who's a Republican from your life. Literally, she just destroyed them. So she was treated as a pariah because she committed the sins of being a Trump-loving Christian person who didn't wanna take the vaccine for medical reasons and religious reasons. And, she filed these accommodations, and they internally discussed how they knew that they could accommodate her and that they had to accommodate her, but they lied to her and told her that they could not. And from what I understand, this wasn't an isolated case."

4:15, CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS, So if it goes to trial, all this information goes public, right?

4:21, MANOOKIAN. All of it. I wish the case could have gone to trial. I truly wish that but there are other considerations such as "How broad sweeping was their policy, were they singling her out, and in some ways they were to some extent because there were exemptions that they did honor in other shows and also you know how much can she endure because it's not easy folks it's really hard to go through this I think she's she's in her late twenties this was a huge wake up for her about what Corporate America is really like or whether or not . . . . I mean she dreamed her whole life of being a Disney Employee she was really into dancing and acting and all these things and singing.  This was her dream come true to get this job and then she was going to work her way up and then so it was very hard for her to get to the point where is she just said I can't take this anymore but that's a good segue to one of our other cases which is Nike.