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According to the latest update from his daughter, author and psychologist Jordan Peterson is dealing with some very serious health issues.

In an emotional YouTube post, Mikhaila Fuller revealed that her father spent much of the summer hospitalized with pneumonia and a host of neurological ailments, and he remains bedridden.

Mikhaila told her followers that there’s still a lot that doctors don’t know about Jordan’s condition, but she added that “decades of mold exposure” seems to be a chief cause of his illness.

Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson addresses the 5th Demographic Summit in the Fine Arts Museum in Budapest on September 14, 2023.
Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson addresses the 5th Demographic Summit in the Fine Arts Museum in Budapest on September 14, 2023. (Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images)

She explained to her followers that the situation is extremely serious, and her father has been “near death” more than once in recent months.

Jordan Peterson’s daughter shares troubling health update

“This summer has been exceedingly difficult,” Mikhaila Fuller said through tears in her latest video.

She went on to reveal that her father is suffering from a “host of neurological issues this summer that we believe stem from…chronic inflammatory response syndrome, due to decades of mold exposure.”

She added that Jordan’s “neurological symptoms” worsened after he cleaned out his late father’s basement earlier this year.

“We don’t have a better explanation for his neurological symptoms at the moment other than spiritual attacks,” she said.

Jordan Peterson arrives at Am I Racist? Movie Premiere at Regal Green Hills on September 09, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jordan Peterson arrives at Am I Racist? Movie Premiere at Regal Green Hills on September 09, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Davis/Getty Images for DailyWire+)

“He’s been suffering for the last number of years with unexplainable neuropathy and weakness, amongst other symptoms,” she said.

Mikhaila went on to explain that her father has seen some improvement in recent weeks, but there are still no estimates with regard to when he might be able to leave the hospital.

“After almost a month in the ICU, he’s been moved out to a less urgent floor. Praise God for that. We’re still in the midst of this but now we’re seeing improvements daily,” she said.

“The timeline for his full recovery is hard to tell at the moment.”

She further explained that Peterson’s treatment is complicated because “he can’t take most medications without suffering from severe paradoxical reactions, which limits treatment options.”

Mikhaila added that her family’s situation became even more harrowing when her infant daughter was hospitalized.

“In August, the day Dad was brought to a hospital by ambulance, my newborn Audrey was also brought to a hospital by ambulance within hours of each other,” she said.

“Every single day this summer and now fall has been like watching a movie,” she said, pausing through tears.

Thankfully, Audrey’s situation has since stabilized.

Commenters point to Peterson family’s bizarre diet as possible cause of health issues

Jordan Peterson arrives at Am I Racist? Movie Premiere at Regal Green Hills on September 09, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jordan Peterson arrives at Am I Racist? Movie Premiere at Regal Green Hills on September 09, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Davis/Getty Images for DailyWire+)

On social media, commenters were quick to call out Mikhaila’s bizarre “spiritual attacks” explanation, with many pointing out that several years ago, she placed her father on a medically unsafe diet of nothing but beef and water.

“This is exactly why Jordan Peterson is sick — listening to his wacko daughter who thinks it’s demons making her family sick and not the meat diet she swore would cure her of all her genetic illnesses,” one user wrote on X.

“You’d be surprised how many people bought into her foolishness.”

In her own X post, Mikhaila noted that her father “won’t be back for another few months, at least.”

We’ll have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.

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Amy Duggar Describes Moment She Learned Grandfather Was a ‘Predator’ Like Josh

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Amy Duggar King grew up knowing and loving her maternal grandfather.

Jimmy Lee Duggar was the father of both Jim Bob and Deanna.

Growing up, Amy had a connection to Josh before ever learning that he was a monster.

Now, she’s opening up about the other sexual predator in her family — and the moment that she learned why she was never allowed to be alone with her grandfather.

Amy Duggar on the confessional segment of Marriage Boot Camp.
Reality TV personality Amy Duggar appeared on Marriage Boot Camp with her husband, Dillon King. (Image Credit: WEtv)

Amy Duggar was close with her grandfather — but never ‘too’ close

As she promotes her upcoming memoir, Holy Disruptor, the infamous Duggar cousin is also talking up a storm.

Speaking to People, Amy Duggar King is delving into the topic of her grandfather and the dark family secret surrounding him.

Growing up, she loved Jimmy Lee — but no one allowed her to spend any alone time with him. Not ever.

“I wondered all the time,” Amy recalled of this special rule. “I asked.”

She described: “I asked my mom, I asked my grandma, and they obviously were going to protect the answer.”

Amy Duggar King on Season 2 of Shiny Happy People on Amazon Prime Video.
For ‘Shiny Happy People’ Season 2, Amy Duggar King acknowledges that she received blowback for her participation in the first season. (Image Credit: Prime Video)

“They didn’t want me to know that information growing up,” Amy explained.

When her grandfather died in 2009, she says, her mother told her that her grandfather was — in Amy’s words — a “predator.”

That finally explained everything. Though she had “obviously assumed” that something along those lines would explain this unusual family rule.

“I always had assumptions as to why, but it was never spoken about,” Amy described.

“It was a little difficult,” she admitted. “But I’m one of those people that when I was little, I asked questions, sure. But if something was told to me, I just believed it.”

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In 2017, Amy Duggar appeared on Marriage Boot Camp alongside her husband. (Image Credit: WEtv)

She learned so many things that she and her grandfather could not do together

“I was very naive, and I’m a kid, so I was like, ‘Okay,’” Amy Duggar recalled of not questioning this household rule.

“I knew grandpa couldn’t go to the trampoline with me,” she acknowledged. She added: ‘I knew grandpa couldn’t sit and watch a movie with me.”

Amy continued listing: “I knew grandpa couldn’t be in a car with me. I knew grandpa couldn’t take me to school.”

She summarized: “There were so many things, and I just knew that that’s how it was.” 

Amy’s late grandmother, Mary Duggar, would make certain that her door was locked. Deanna would also check on her. That second one is usually normal, but was clearly an added layer of precaution.

Amy Duggar appears in the recent Amazon documentary series Shiny Happy People.
Amy Duggar appears in the recent Amazon documentary series Shiny Happy People. (Photo Credit: Amazon)

“It was like this protective tent over me, if you will, that was not going to let a bug in,” Amy characterized.

When it came time for Deanna to tell her what sort of man her grandfather really was, it was a difficult moment. But she and her mom bonded over it.

“My mom and I sat there and cried, and I just held her, and she held me,” Amy described.

She characterized: “It was like this insane bonding moment that we’ve been needing for our entire life.”

Amy continued: “that we finally were allowed to just be really vulnerable with each other and share. And thank God.” 

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Amy Duggar sits down here on the couch of Marriage Boot Camp. She went on the program to work on her marriage. (Image Credit: WEtv)

‘It was so close to me’

Amy Duggar has many positive memories of her late grandfather. She loved him and his sense of humor.

But, obviously, had her mother and grandmother been less vigilant, she “could have been a victim, too.” 

Amy remarked: “It’s crazy to think it was so close to me in so many ways.”

Many may find it shocking that her family allowed Amy to know this man at all. But, generations ago, it was not that uncommon for one relative to attend every family gathering — but with parents setting rules for their children around them.

This is very much the world that much of the Duggar family — not just the cult to which Jim Bob adheres — belongs. It is not a safe world for children. We are glad that Amy was lucky enough to avoid that particular horror.

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Keith Urban Was Furious Over Nicole Kidman’s Racy Role In ‘Babygirl’: …

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Did Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman have a falling out over a movie?

Fans were shocked last week by news of the Kidman-Urban split, and many are still seeking answers.

After all, these two appeared to be one of the most stable couples in Hollywood, and their decision to call it quits after 19 years and two kids together seemed to come entirely out of left field.

Kidman filed for divorce shortly after news of her separation went public, a move that led many to conclude that this was not an amicable parting of ways.

Nicole Kidman (L) and Keith Urban attend the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 6, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California.
Nicole Kidman (L) and Keith Urban attend the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 6, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

And according to one insider, the trouble began with Nicole’s acclaimed performance in the 2024 film Babygirl.

Keith was reportedly not a fan of Nicole’s work in ‘Babygirl’

The sexually charged film sees Nicole as a high-powered corporate executive whose dissatisfaction with her husband leads her to embark on an affair with a much-younger co-worker.

“Keith didn’t like the film and he didn’t even like Nicole promoting the movie,” a source close to the situation tells Page Six.

Now, Nicole had already been an actress for a couple of decades when she and Keith started dating.

And she’d already appeared in quite a few racy films, like 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut (in which she starred alongside then-husband Tom Cruise).

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban attend the 55th annual Country Music Association awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 10, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban attend the 55th annual Country Music Association awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 10, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

So the idea that he would be horrified by the thought of his wife shooting a sex scene might sound ridiculous.

But this is not the first time that we’ve heard rumors about Keith’s discomfort with Nicole’s onscreen sensuality.

Keith’s history of jealousy revealed?

Back in July, for example, Urban seemed to abruptly end a call-in interview with an Australian radio show when the host asked how he felt about Nicole sharing the screen with “beautiful younger men.”

“What does Keith Urban think when he sees his beautiful wife with beautiful younger men like Zac Efron having these beautiful love scenes on TV and radio?” host Max Burford asked.

”I think his team hung up on us because they didn’t want us to ask that question,” the producer added. “He’s gone, see you Keith.”

Australian-US musician Keith Urban and his wife US-Australian actress Nicole Kidman attend the 95th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 12, 2023.
Australian-US musician Keith Urban and his wife US-Australian actress Nicole Kidman attend the 95th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 12, 2023. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Of course, most reports concur that Nicole and Keith separated in June, so that might’ve been a sensitive subject for multiple reasons.

These days, rumor has it that Keith is dating Maggie Baugh, his 25-year-old guitarist.

Yes, after allegedly breaking up with Nicole for her fictional romance with a much-younger co-worker, Keith embarked on an actual romance with a much-younger co-worker.

If these reports are true, you almost have to applaud the pettiness. Almost.

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Wesley Hunt launches Senate bid, scrambling GOP primary in Texas

Rising GOP star Rep. Wesley Hunt is launching a long-shot Texas Senate bid, scrambling a heated primary between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton.

The race for the Republican nomination in the Lone Star State will likely be one the most expensive and bruising primary contests of the 2026 midterm cycle — and some Democrats see an opportunity in the red-leaning state if Republicans surrender their incumbent advantage. Already, Paxton has an edge in most polling of the primary race against Cornyn, though the incumbent senator has closed the gap in more recent surveys. President Donald Trump has yet to endorse in the contest.

Hunt’s announcement on Monday comes after months of work and millions of dollars spent by groups aligned with the two-term congressman to boost his profile outside of his Houston-area political base.

“The time is NOW,” Hunt said in a post on his X account that included a campaign video of testimonials from his wife, brother and longtime colleagues playing up his military record and his commitment to public service. It also included images of him standing next to Trump and made no mention of either of his primary opponents.

Now a three-way battle for the GOP nomination, some Republican strategists anticipate none of the candidates will garner enough votes to win the March 3 primary outright, likely forcing a runoff in May. Privately, some establishment Republicans worry that Hunt’s entry in the race could boost Paxton. Over the summer, the establishment-aligned Senate Leadership Fund urged leaders to boost Cornyn’s embattled reelection campaign, arguing in memo obtained by POLITICO in August that Paxton is a “weak candidate who puts the Senate seat at risk in the general election.”

Responding to news that Hunt had launched his bid, SLC communications director Chris Gustafson said, “It’s unfortunate that Wesley Hunt has decided to abandon President Trump’s efforts to protect the House majority and instead his person ambition… With every credible poll showing him in a distant third place, the only person celebrating today is a giddy Chuck Schumer.”

Hunt published a video on X on Monday in which he said that he takes “offense” to the “establishment” criticizing his bid. “I assure you, this is not a vanity project.”

Cornyn is in the political fight of his career as he looks to court a base that’s increasingly viewed him as disloyal to Trump, particularly after the senator said that Trump could not win the 2024 presidential election before eventually endorsing him the following year. According to internal polling from Cornyn’s campaign conducted last month, Hunt received 17 percent of the vote in a hypothetical three-way matchup. It also found Cornyn garnered 32 percent to Paxton’s 31 percent support.

“John Cornyn is a battle-tested conservative who continues to be a leader in delivering President Trump’s agenda in the U.S. Senate and he’s the best candidate to keep Texas in the Republican Senate Majority,” National Republican Senatorial Committee communications director Joanna Rodriguez said in a statement. “Now that Wesley has chosen personal ambition over holding President Trump’s House Majority, there will be a full vetting of his record. Senator Cornyn’s conservative record of accomplishment stands tall against Wesley’s.”

But Paxton has some vulernabilities of his own. He survived an impeachment inquiry in 2023 where he was acquitted of 16 articles stemming from misuse of power, corruption and bribery. He is also in the midst of a bitter divorce from state Sen. Anglea Paxton, who said she was seeking an end to their 38-year-marriage on “biblical grounds,” publicly accusing him of adultery.

Hunt has made his closeness to Trump a key part of his pitch. He served as a surrogate for the president on the campaign trail last year, working alongside fellow Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) to boost Trump’s standing among Black voters.

During his initial runs for Congress, Hunt received the Trump endorsement, including in 2020 when he narrowly lost a bid to unseat then-Democratic incumbent Rep. Lizzie Fletcher for a Houston-area seat. Following the 2020 census, Texas added two new congressional districts and the state’s GOP-led Legislature drew the 38th Congressional District, which is the seat Hunt currently holds. Hunt notched a 26 percentage point win last year.

Trump’s endorsement is seen as pivotal in GOP primary. To receive it, Hunt will likely have to prove he can raise money at the same rate as Cornyn and Paxton. In the most recent campaign finance reports, Hunt raised just over $400,000 for the quarter ending in July — impressive for a member that faces little opposition but far short of what he’d need to mount a serious statewide bid. Meanwhile, Paxton hauled in $2.9 million for the same period while Cornyn’s political operation pulled in $3.9 million, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission.

Democrats also have a contested primary. Former Rep. Colin Allred, a Dallas Democrat who fell short in his push to unseat GOP Sen. Ted Cruz last year, is facing off against state Rep. James Talarico, a rising star.

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Michigan’s Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Mallory McMorrow, the Michigan Democrat running in a three-way primary to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters, has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza and now believes it is a genocide.

Her latest evolution came during a chat with voters at a brewery in the West Michigan town of Allegan Sunday, just days ahead of the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that led to the conflict. McMorrow’s team provided video of the exchange to POLITICO.

During the back-and-forth, an attendee asked McMorrow whether she would accept support from AIPAC — the politically influential pro-Israel lobby that’s backing rival Democratic candidate Haley Stevens, a member of congress.

“I’m not accepting AIPAC support,” McMorrow told the questioner. “I’m not seeking their endorsement. I’ve never accepted their support. And what we are seeing in the Middle East is a moral abomination.”

She went on to say she would’ve supported Sen. Bernie Sanders’ resolution to block offensive arm sales to Israel and called for a two-state solution.

“My view on this is we have completely lost the humanity of this issue,” McMorrow continued. “It is talked about as like a third rail litmus test without acknowledging these are human beings. They’re people. And our position should be that there is no individual life that is worth more than another individual life.”

A different voter interrupted her to asked whether the conflict was a genocide. McMorrow paused for several seconds, exhaled, and responded, “based on the definition, yes.”

“I don’t care what you call it,” she added, saying for some Jews the term “means something very different to them: that if you lost family members in the Holocaust it means the specific medical testing, gas chambers, being put on a train — I don’t want us to get lost in, ‘do you agree with this definition or not.’ I want to get to the solution.”

The issue is personal for McMorrow, whose husband is Jewish: She received a death threat on her daughter’s life after Oct. 7.

Her remarks demonstrate the fast-moving politics of the issue in a battleground state ahead of next year’s midterms. And they come as the Michigan Democratic candidates are looking for ways to contrast ahead of the election.

They also isolate Stevens as the only remaining Democratic candidate not to call the conflict a genocide. Stevens recently declined two interviews with POLITICO on the matter. Abdul El-Sayed, a former Michigan health official, has long said the war meets that criteria.

Asked 13 days ago by POLITICO about whether the conflict in Gaza is a genocide, McMorrow said “dehumanizing Palestinians, declaring collective guilt, blocking food and medicine and bombing Gaza to the point of uninhabitability is a moral catastrophe.” She declined to use the word “genocide.”

A spokesperson for McMorrow said she based her new stance on a United Nations Commission of Inquiry report from Sept.16 declaring that a genocide took place, as well as conversations with community leaders.

Asked for comment on McMorrow’s position change and its involvement in the race, an AIPAC spokesperson said in a statement: “Israel is fighting a just and moral war and is demonstrating a clear willingness to end the conflict. Rather than making false and malicious allegations against the Jewish state, the pressure should be applied on Hamas to release the hostages and give up power.”

On Saturday, the day before McMorrow called it a genocide, she told POLITICO she faces questions about the issue at nearly every event. She acknowledged it was “a probably small percentage of voters that are voting based on the issue, but it’s a lingering concern people have.”

El-Sayed, who is endorsed by Sanders, has warned that AIPAC backing Stevens and spending a lot of money in the race could help Republicans win the seat. He’s noted the state’s “uncommitted movement,” the national pro-Palestinian group, could fray the party’s coalition. Like McMorrow, he said he faces questions about the issue at every campaign stop.

“When I talk about the fact that our tax dollars are being misappropriated to weaponize food against children and to subsidize a genocide, rather than to invest in real people in their communities and their kids and their schools and their health care, it is the single biggest applause line in every speech,” El-Sayed told POLITICO in an interview before a party confab here. “People understand that this is not about what’s happening over there. This is about what’s happening with our tax dollars over here.”

Later in the evening Saturday, McMorrow, el-Sayed and Stevens gathered inside a room for Best of the West, a traditional Michigan Democratic fundraiser at a hotel in downtown Grand Rapids. There, they heard Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist, who is running for governor, also say that the war in Gaza is a genocide.

McMorrow’s comments came on a weekend in which candidates running in the contentious and longhaul primary—it’s not scheduled to take place until August, though state lawmakers have discussed moving it up—sharpened their knives against one another.

McMorrow and El-Sayed have also contrasted with Stevens over her receiving the tacit backing of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, whose leadership has become a flashpoint among a new generation of Democratic candidates.

Not long after El-Sayed recorded himself trying to eat a heaping, 12-stack cheeseburger to talk about rising costs and billionaires, POLITICO reported that Stevens was set to take a luxury California fundraising trip in Napa Valley this weekend amid the shutdown with members of the DSCC.

“The DSCC believes that Haley has the best chance to win in the general,” reads an email obtained by POLITICO from Stevens’ fundraising firm. “With a proven record of winning in tough elections, she starts this race with a clear lead. The Republicans are uniting in opposition to Haley Stevens in the primary, viewing her defeat as clearing a path to capturing a Michigan U.S. Senate seat for the first time in three decades.”

The email promotes a weekend fundraising swing though Los Angeles in addition to her Napa stop. “If the government hasn’t reopened, she won’t attend the events,” a spokesperson for Stevens said.

Still, in such a competitive race even the trip itself was fodder.

“I’ve never been to a wine cave,” El-Sayed, who doesn’t drink, told POLITICO in an interview. “I don’t really know what happens there, but I’ll tell you this, I’ve been all over my state, and I’ve never found one.”

CLARIFICATION: Due to a transcription error, a quote from El-Sayed has been clarified.

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CBS News names Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief

Bari Weiss, co-founder and CEO of The Free Press, has been appointed CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Paramount announced on Monday. The Free Press will now operate under the company as well.

It’s a major move from the company, which merged with Skydance Corp. in August under CEO David Ellison. Under Ellison, the company has made several strategic acquisitions and is reportedly exploring acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery.

“This move is part of Paramount’s bigger vision to modernize content and the way it connects – directly and passionately – to audiences around the world,” Ellison said in a statement. “We believe the majority of the country longs for news that is balanced and fact-based, and we want CBS to be their home.”

Though she will remain CEO and editor-in-chief of The Free Press, Weiss will report directly to Ellison. The Free Press will maintain its own independent brand and operations, the company said.

Weiss and her wife, Nellie Bowles, launched The Free Press in 2021 with Weiss’ sister Suzy. She was previously an opinion writer for The New York Times.

Partnering with Paramount, Weiss said, allows The Free Press to expand its audience of 1.5 million.

“The values that we’ve hammered out here over the years—journalism based in curiosity and honesty, a culture of healthy disagreement, our shared belief in America’s promise—now have the opportunity to go very, very big,” Weiss wrote in a blog post on The Free Press.

Earlier this year, CBS and Paramount settled a $16 million lawsuit with President Donald Trump over a “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. Paramount then hired an ombudsman to analyze bias in CBS reporting.

Weiss said she believes in Ellison and “the entire leadership team who took over Paramount this summer.” She added that they plan to make CBS “the most trusted news organization of the 21st Century.”

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Kevin O’Leary: US stake in Intel is ‘waste of taxpayer dollars’

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The Unexpected Way Drinking Coffee Daily Affects Your Liver

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