Mischief Managed: Official Copyright Documentation Received! + Halloween Candy

October 25, 2026
Sunday
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Hello friends!
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Thank you for being here and welcome to so many new Lead Safe Mama Patreon Community Members today!
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Halloween!
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First I wanted to share a reminder to all of you… YES we have conducted independent, community-funded, third-party laboratory testing (testing done by certified / accredited labs) for nearly every major popular Halloween candy! You can find those articles by clicking the first link below.
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As with all of our product-specific articles, the full original lab report for the product tested can be found at the very bottom of the article. Note: while we have done a bit of candy testing this year (2026), quite a few of these lab reports were conducted in earlier years (last year or the year before), however based on the year-over-year testing we have done on several different mass-manufactured candy and snack products we don’t expect the lab results for these types of products to vary appreciably year-over-year (absent significant ingredient changes).
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Once our work returns to the status of being “fully funded” (hopefully as soon as the first legal action resolves in our favor), we hope to be able to re-test more of these more popular products annually to help demonstrate this point.
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https://tamararubin.com/category/halloween/
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Copyright Update!
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Yesterday we received our official copyright documentation in the mail (for the certificates we were emailed about last week – for which we were told they were pending or confirmed). See image at the top of this page! Woot!
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This entire copyright process has been fascinating and very informative. Lead Safe Mama, LLC now holds three important copyrights – two of which cover the language used in nearly all of our published lab reports.
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I again want to thank everyone who contributed to help make this possible. Having this official documentation will help us move forward with the next steps in protecting the integrity of the independent, community-driven / community-funded science shared by Lead Safe Mama, LLC.
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Upcoming Podcast Interview
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In other news… I am being interviewed for a heath & wellness podcast this coming Tuesday & will share the link with all of you as soon as it is live. If you have a podcast and you would like to do either a formal interview or have just a casual conversation with me for your audience about the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC (on any topic we cover – from Lead-safe work practices in renovation to heavy metals contaminants found in consumable products), I am always open to that (no matter the size of your audience – large or small!), please just send me an email with “PODCAST INVITE” in the subject line (Tamara@LeadSafeMama.com).
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To listen to previous podcasts interviews, we have posted a handful on our website (although I must admit we have not kept up with posting every podcast, so most of our more recent podcast interviews are not linked here). The science we share is generally “evergreen”, so “older” does not equal “irrelevant”! https://tamararubin.com/category/tamara-interviews/
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You may be able to find more of these interviews linked on our Press page however:
https://tamararubin.com/press/
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More European Product Testing In The Works!
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Tuesday is a big day! In addition to the above noted interview, I am also having a second meeting with the new UK lab we expect we will be working with (to help us make comparative assessments of UK & European products – specifically comparing the lab test results for these products to the same – or similar – products manufactured and sold in the United States).
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I am truly excited about expanding the scope of our work in this way — as our work in this area to date has truly demonstrated that it is absolutely possible for companies to make safer products when there is a demand (from consumers or from government regulations) to do so.
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Here’s a category link on our website which includes most of the lab reports UK / European / & Irish products that we have published to date (about 25 products in this category so far): https://tamararubin.com/category/uk-scotland-england-ireland-lab-testing/
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Smear Campaign / Legal Update:
Jeffrey Epstein Link
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It would appear that the owners of a children’s vitamin company is behind the comprehensive attack on our work. These people received $205,000,000 for a 78.8% buyout of their company and apparently saw our lab reports (reports that showed their children’s vitamins tested positive for Lead, Cadmium, and Arsenic) as a threat to the close of this partial buyout.
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These people have a LOT of money and apparently hired a FIXER PR FIRM that has been documented as being hired by many wealthy men with the apparent / alleged goal of destroying the reputation and work of women (including me).
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There is evidence (which has been presented in several related court cases), that the clients of this “FIXER PR FIRM” (all detailed in the links below) include Elon Musk, plus others – including abusers and convicted rapists and pedophiles. There is even solid evidence (in the Epstein Files that have been released to date) that representatives of this “FIXER PR FIRM” were likely interviewed by Jeffrey Epstein for a campaign to smear the reputation of Epstein’s victims in advance of his court case. This includes evidence that they apparently invoiced Jeffrey Epstein $25,000 for their services.
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Really – you cannot make this stuff up! Who wants to help me make a movie about this?!
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For those who are new here I wanted to re-share the two recent posts that I wrote for Reddit. There are two links below, and they give some background on our work (as well as a bit of a personal update / updates on the current legal actions).
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I also want to highlight that In the past five weeks — with the help and support of all of you — we have paid legal costs (in the pursuit of Truth + Justice, and corporate transparency for the benefit and health of all children everywhere) to the tune of $27,543.51 (including filing fees).
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As soon as we have more progress in any one of our pending cases I will let you all know! In the meantime, as of today we are still needing to cover the following costs:
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$22,085.63 for legal team #1
$4,446.25 for legal team #2
$3,240.31 in lab fees (for testing and reporting on community nominated products)
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$719.60 in hosting and maintenance fees for our websites.
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Just these four items total $30,491.79
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Before the impact of the orchestrated smear campaigns against us took hold, we were covering ALL of the related costs of running Lead Safe Mama, LLC out of income earned from our work (including contributions made by so many of you to support the costs of testing and reporting on specific community-nominated products).
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Since the impacts of the smear campaign took hold (including the initiative to backlink our website to countless – possibly thousands – of porn-related websites to drag down our reach and impact), we have been struggling to keep doing what we do.
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If you want to see one of these porn links (to better understand what has been done), check out the link below. There is only ONE outgoing link from this porn page – and that link is to our website’s home page. Google (and other search engines) find these porn backlinks and respond by classifing our site as “risky”, which makes it so our site does not show up when people search for our articles (OR people searching for our information get a warning from within their browser that our site is risky and should not be visited). ONE EXAMPLE: There is only ONE outgoing link on this page (in the first paragraph of text – the last word) and it is to our home page: https://en.kurdcollect.com/index.php/Fuck
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Here’s a video that someone made about our situation that explains this well (how back linking our site to porn works to destroy the reach and impact of what we do – which directly impacts our income):
https://www.tiktok.com/@christheprguy/video/7631023494804819231
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Do you want to help us continue to fight these attacks?
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As always, we encourage your contributions (and loans!) in support of this work if you are financially in a position to help us get through the end of this year. We expect at least one of the legal actions will result in a settlement in our favor (in the coming three or four months) that will generate enough to repay everyone who has made loans in support of our work and legal costs, so thank you in advance for helping in that way – and thank you to those who have helped to date for your patience while we work our way through this ordeal!
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Ways to support our work financially can be found at the bottom of this post).
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More links for those who are new here:
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Article #1 Re: Smear Campaign Against Us (I am quoted near the end)
Published February 11, 2026
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/inside-hollywood-smear-campaign-scandals-1236501807/
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Article #2 Re: Smear Campaign Against Us (I am quoted near the end)
Published September 25, 2026
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/top-hollywood-publicist-alleged-celebrity-smear-sites-1236709454/
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Article #3 Re: Smear Campaign Against Us
Published October 14, 2026
This article primarily focuses on our case and our work (including more evidence identifying the corporate bad-actor who likely paid for this initiative to suppress our work in the interest of their bottom line):
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/justin-baldoni-melissa-nathan-tamara-rubin-benita-litt-1236728112/
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Reddit Post #1 – Written by Me
October 12, 2026
https://tamararubin.com/2026/10/reddit/
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Reddit Post #2 – Written by Me
October 22, 2026
https://tamararubin.com/2026/10/reddit-2/
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Thank you for reading!
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Thank you for supporting our work in all the ways!
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Tamara Elise Rubin
Owner – Lead Safe Mama, LLC
& The Lead Safe Mama Team
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Ways you can send support:
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A Loan:
A loan in any amount (especially in the range of $5,000 to $30,000) would go a long way in helping us to cover our costs through the end of the year (and would also hopefully carry us through to justice being served in at least one of these legal matters).
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If you are financially in a position to help in this way, please email: Tamara@LeadSafeMama.com and we can schedule a time chat on the phone so I can share more details of our current legal actions with you (and you can choose how you want to help). Thank you!
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Gifted Funds — All the ways you can send support today:
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Increasing your monthly Patreon gift by $1.00 or $2.00 a month makes a difference, thank you!:
https://www.patreon.com/leadsafemama/membership
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Or sending a one-time gift via any of the following methods:
Contributing to any of our product-specific GoFundMe campaigns (so we can get those products tested before the end of the year):
https://www.gofundme.com/s/fundraisers?location-description=Portland%2C+OR&location-lat=45.432539&location-lng=-122.604957&entity=fundraisers&q=lead+safe+mama+lab
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Zelle:
Testing@LeadSafeMama.com
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Venmo:
@LeadSafeMama
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General Support / Legal Fund GoFundMe:
https://gofund.me/08a7a26df
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PayPal:
Testing@LeadSafeMama.com
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Lead Safe Mama, LLC is not a 501(c)3 nonprofit so gifts in support of our work are not classified as tax-deductible gifts to charity, however they are critical in keeping us going so we can continue doing what we do – supporting you, your family and your community by giving you access to unbiased science to help you make informed choices for yourselves and your families. Thank you!