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🚨LIVE: EP 474 | A Fauci adviser is indicted, Sen. Ron Johnson joins Del, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s pesticide amendment passes, Del reports on The People vs. Poison rally and Dr. Ann Shippy on the fertility crisis. TheHighWire.com/watch x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

"...systematically concealing from the public the true risks involved with this vaccine in a way that not only misled patients, that not only misled parents, that not only endangered the lives of children, but had the net effects of lining the pockets of the biggest pharma companies in the world. That is a disgrace." - @HawleyMO COVID was not bad for everyone. It was extraordinarily good for a handful of pharmaceutical companies that secured sweetheart government deals, offloaded their legal liability onto the public, collected billions, and are now sitting comfortably while injured patients are told the system has no remedy for them.

"They want to give us cancer and get away with it." @thefoodbabe Vani Hari takes the stage outside the U.S. Supreme Court with a blunt warning: inside that building, Bayer/Monsanto is arguing for the right to poison us and not be held accountable. “You cannot claim to care about health while protecting poison,” Hari said. “You cannot tell Americans to eat real food while protecting the cancer-causing chemicals sprayed on it.” Farmers, scientists, lawmakers, and families from across the country have gathered in Washington, D.C., saying they are done pretending this is normal. As the Supreme Court weighs whether federal pesticide approvals can shield corporations from failure-to-warn lawsuits, the crowd is demanding transparency, accountability, and an honest look at the science behind the chemicals sprayed on our food.

The foundational paper behind the dominant Alzheimer's theory, the amyloid beta model that has directed over $1.6 billion in NIH funding, appears to have been based on fabricated research images. The model may be built on fraud. Amyloid beta still dominates research and drug development anyway. Scientists who have pursued other explanations, including immune dysfunction and inflammation, say they have been systematically shut out of funding by what researchers themselves are calling the "amyloid mafia." This has been a protected theory surrounded by the people who profit from it, not science. Meanwhile, a 2022 precision medicine study went almost entirely unnoticed. Alzheimer's patients were treated for nine months with personalized protocols targeting each individual's contributing factors. At three months, they improved. At six months, they kept improving. At nine months, they kept improving. Cognitive scores went up. That was supposed to be impossible. The medical consensus has been that Alzheimer's is a one-way road and the best anyone can do is slow the decline. The summary of all of this is exactly right: being healthy makes you healthier. That should not be breaking news. The fact that it is tells you everything about how this disease has been managed.

🧫 Could a cancer breakthrough be hiding in the gut microbiome? A recent study titled “Discovery and Characterization of Anti-Tumor Gut Microbiota from Amphibians and Reptiles” is raising eyebrows after researchers identified a bacterium called Ewingella americana with striking anti-tumor effects in mice. According to the study, the bacteria worked through a dual mechanism: directly killing tumor cells while also activating the body’s immune defenses, including T cells, neutrophils, and B cells. The results were remarkable. Mice treated with the bacteria eliminated their tumors. When researchers reintroduced the cancer, the previously treated mice rejected it completely, showing durable anti-tumor immunity and 100% survival in the treated group. It’s early research and still limited to animal models, but findings like this are fueling growing interest in how the microbiome may shape the future of cancer treatment.

They pulled The HighWire from YouTube in the middle of a live production day. They didn't give a warning, or an explanation. It was just... Gone. It has happened before and it will probably happen again. Asking questions about mRNA animal trials in 2020 was enough to get labeled dangerous. Being right was not enough to get an apology. But the political climate shifts, the pressure builds, and yesterday The HighWire was reinstated on YouTube. Subscribe now while it lasts, and share everything you can while the window is open. This work, the journalism, the legal battles, the cases now heading toward the Supreme Court including the challenge to the 1905 forced vaccination precedent that has been used to justify mandates for over a century, all of it runs on donor support. @ICANdecide is asking for $26 for 2026 as a recurring monthly contribution. Hit donate to ICAN at the top of thehighwire.com and become part of what makes this possible. They can pull the channel. They cannot stop the work.

The Department of Justice walked into the Supreme Court this week to defend a corporation that has been poisoning Americans for decades. @delbigtree had something to say about that on the steps of that same building on Monday. In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer brought experts from around the world together for two weeks and concluded that glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to human beings, the second highest cancer classification that exists. Since then, over 100,000 lawsuits have been won against glyphosate, with more than $11 billion in damages awarded. Hundreds of thousands of cases are still in the pipeline. And instead of going back to the drawing board to make a safer product, Bayer and Monsanto went to Washington and asked the government to make the lawsuits stop. America is raising the sickest generation of children it has ever seen. Glyphosate is sprayed on over 90% of crops in this country. These two facts should be discussed together in every conversation about children's health. Liability protection is anti-free market. It is anti-American. It is not what any political party is supposed to stand for, and it is not what the people who showed up on those steps Monday believe this country is.

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Black Specks, Unsuitable Chemicals & Repeat Violations at America’s Key Heparin Factory Heparin is administered to roughly 12 million Americans every year during surgery, dialysis, and intensive care. It is one of the most widely used drugs in hospitals. The factory producing a significant portion of America's supply just received a damning FDA inspection report, and The HighWire obtained it through FOIA. The December 2025 inspection of Smithfield Bioscience's Cincinnati facility found inspectors documented black specks appearing in products during manufacturing that the company could not identify, trace, or explain. Rather than halting production to investigate, the affected batches were reprocessed and released anyway. The same facility was cited for the identical failure to investigate out-of-specification results back in 2019. Nothing changed. The inspection also found the company was using ethanol from a supplier that explicitly stated it does not follow Good Manufacturing Practices and does not produce pharmaceutical-grade material. Smithfield used it anyway, without a risk assessment, additional testing, or a certificate of analysis. Smithfield Bioscience is owned by a Chinese firm that acquired Smithfield Foods in 2013. US lawmakers raised concerns at the time about what Chinese ownership of America's heparin supply could mean for national security in the event of a shortage. Those concerns were never resolved, and the FDA may be reluctant to take aggressive action against the facility precisely because the domestic supply depends on it. In 2008, contaminated heparin from a Chinese supply chain resulted in 150 deaths in the United States. READ and SHARE the full article by @smiddendorp22 linked below 👇 bit.ly/heparin-contam…

Five hundred years ago, before tractors, fertilizers, and chemical herbicides, this continent produced more food than it does today. That is the argument @JoelSalatin brought to the People vs. Poison rally, and it reframes the entire debate. The question being asked in courtrooms and Congress is whether glyphosate and chemical agriculture are necessary. Salatin says that is the wrong question entirely. What we should be asking is what it would take to return this landscape to its pre-European productivity, and the answer has been sitting in the historical record the whole time. Hundreds of millions of bison roamed and grazed in patterns that naturally managed the land. Four hundred million beavers kept water spread across 8 to 10% of the landscape. Naturally lit fires cleared weak trees and created cathedral forests that grew massive, healthy, and spaced apart. The land held water, fed everything, and regenerated itself because the animals and the ecology were working together the way they were designed to. Modern industrial agriculture has reversed every single one of those principles. Animals and plants are segregated into monocultures. Water is drained and aquifers depleted. The best trees are taken, and the worst are left. The land is telling us what it thinks of this arrangement through soil dysfunction, superbugs, food allergies, and chronic disease. Glyphosate is one symptom of a much deeper assault on basic ecology, and removing it is only the beginning of what needs to happen.

.@ICANdecide filed a FOIA request to the Department of Veterans Affairs asking a simple question: how many service members filed disability claims after the COVID-19 vaccine mandate? The data that came back is chilling. Disability claims for myocarditis, pericarditis, encephalitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, transverse myelitis, and other serious conditions spiked sharply in 2021 across active duty, reserve, and National Guard members, right as the mandate took effect. Between December 2020 and December 2025, there were 5,980 VAERS reports filed on behalf of military members for COVID-19 vaccine adverse events. Fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are typically reported to VAERS. If that holds, the actual number of service members who suffered an adverse event could be as high as 598,000, roughly 29% of the entire military population. In November 2021, then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the public that the mandate would result in only "nominal attrition." The data tells a very different story, and the people who paid the price are the same ones who put on the uniform and followed orders. This is what @ICANdecide works to uncover. Full legal update linked below 👇 bit.ly/military-disab…

⚠️ “They tell us to eat healthy, while the fruit and vegetables that we can afford are sprayed with glyphosate that we cannot wash off. They tell us to get our kids off of screens, so we take them to parks treated with Roundup, where children roll in grass soaked in chemicals that are linked to cancer. If your product is safe, you don’t need immunity. If your product is harmless, you don’t spend billions settling cancer lawsuits, right? If your business model depends on sick kids and silenced farmers, you don’t deserve a liability shield. You deserve prison.” Those were the words of @yoalexrapz at The People vs. Poison rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court. “Millions of moms are serving their kids Pop-Tarts and Cheerios. What they’re really serving them is this.” As the Court weighs whether federal pesticide approvals can shield companies from liability, the rally’s message was clear: The people have had enough.

⚠️ “If your product is safe, you don’t need immunity.” At The People vs. Poison rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, food policy advocate Kelly Ryerson warned that the pesticide industry is pushing for a sweeping liability shield that could protect chemical companies from lawsuits tied to glyphosate exposure. “The pesticide industry is playing their very last card,” she said. “They are begging the courts and Congress to airlift them out of responsibility.” @GlyphosateGirl argued that shielding corporations from legal accountability creates two systems of justice: One for powerful companies and another for everyone else. A healthy country cannot exist with poisoned soil, poisoned food, and a population that is getting sicker. The question now before the courts and lawmakers: Should chemical companies be granted immunity from the consequences of their products?

🚨 BREAKING: U.S. MILITARY DISABILITY CLAIMS ROSE SHARPLY AFTER COVID-19 VACCINES WERE MANDATED Recently acquired data clearly shows an alarming spike in cardiovascular and neurological conditions amongst US military personnel starting in 2021, the first year COVID-19 vaccines were mandated for all branches of the US Armed Forces. Read the full legal update here: bit.ly/military-disab…

THIS is what people power looks like. 🙌🌱 The Farm Bill just passed the House, and the pesticide immunity provisions are GONE. Companies like Bayer/Monsanto were written into this bill with legal protections shielding them from liability - the same kind of immunity vaccine makers have. Language that would have stripped states of their right to regulate what gets sprayed on your food. Gone. All of it. @RepLuna brought the amendment. And when the Speaker tried to kill it with a shady voice vote, calling "the nays have it" when the room was FULL of ayes, people didn't back down. They forced a real vote. 280 to 142. The amendment passed. This is what happens when we pay attention. When we show up. When we use our voices, even against billion-dollar giants who have spent decades buying influence in Washington. They had the money. We had the numbers. And the numbers won. 💪 Don't ever let anyone tell you that your voice doesn't matter. This moment proves otherwise.

The federal government had to be sued twice before a court forced them to release the V-safe data. Yesterday at a Senate hearing, Senator Ron Johnson showed everyone exactly why they fought so hard to keep it hidden. You can search it yourself at icandecide.org/v-safe-data. The VAERS data Johnson presented is impossible to ignore. Deaths reported to VAERS spiked to 21,631 in 2021. The death rate per dose for the COVID injection was 25.5 per million doses, a 55-fold increase over the flu vaccine. Total deaths reported worldwide now stand at 39,077, with nearly 1.7 million adverse events recorded. An HHS-funded Harvard study found that fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are ever reported to VAERS, meaning every number on those charts is a dramatic undercount. In 1976, the swine flu vaccine was pulled from the market after approximately 25 to 30 deaths and 500 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Federal health officials looked at tens of thousands of deaths and nearly 2 million adverse events and kept telling the public the COVID injection was safe and effective. That is what @SenRonJohnson’s hearing was about. Full clip linked below 👇

🚨The CDC built V-safe to track COVID-19 vaccine reactions in real time. Ten million people used it. The agency never told the public what it found. @ICANdecide sued the CDC to release the data. They won. Today at a Senate hearing, that data came up, and the numbers are striking. Of the 10 million V-safe participants, 7.7% sought medical care after their injection. 25% missed work. Witness Karl Jablonski told the subcommittee those numbers are unusually, unbelievably high for any vaccine or medication. The CDC had this information. They chose not to act on it and chose not to share it. On behalf of @ICANdecide, @AaronSiriSG's team went to court, got the data released, and built a searchable database so the public can see it themselves. You can search the V-safe data right now at the link below. This is what transparency looks like when the government refuses to provide it. icandecide.org/v-safe-data 👇

In January 2023, Apple quietly filed a patent for AirPods embedded with EEG electrodes designed to read the electrical activity of your brain, continuously, wirelessly, and transmitted to a server accessible by third parties. This is a filed, funded, actively developed patent from a company whose products are already in 62% of Gen Z ears. EEG data is not background noise. It captures your mental states, your stress levels, your emotional responses, your focus, your sleep, and the same signals used in polygraph tests to determine whether someone is lying.@ChelleWards and @Tracybeanz report that 29 out of 30 consumer neurotechnology companies already claim unlimited rights to their users' neural data, most share it with third parties, and there is no federal law governing how any of it can be used or sold. There is also the hardware problem that exists before we even get to the data. A 2025 Yale study found that RF radiation at levels comparable to Bluetooth earbuds disrupted brain cell development and increased expression of genes associated with autism. A separate study found that when Bluetooth earbud magnetic fields combine with airborne pollution particles, the result is accelerated accumulation of neurotoxic nanoparticles in the brain. Now add continuous active biosensing electrodes on top of that. Our thoughts are the last thing that are truly ours. There is currently no law guaranteeing they will stay that way. Full editorial linked below 👇 bit.ly/apple-mind-rea…

Senator Ron Johnson released his interim report yesterday, and the title says everything: "Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Injury Safety Signals." The emails obtained for the report read like a tutorial in institutional cover-up. A senior FDA official, warned about a major limitation in the agency's data mining system, wrote: "We should meet internally. Many considerations not suited to email." A CDC official discussing vaccine safety data sharing wrote: "I think because of the FOIAs, we may have asked FDA to stop sending these weekly data mining outputs." And David Morens, now indicted on conspiracy and destruction of records charges, emailed colleagues that he learned from NIAID's FOIA coordinator "how to make emails disappear" and asked that sensitive correspondence be sent to his personal Gmail. These are their own words, in their own emails, obtained because Secretary Kennedy honored the subpoena and committed to radical transparency. Johnson's message: read the full report and decide for yourself whether the title is as accurate as it is incriminating. @SenRonJohnson

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🚨See for yourselves: (link at bottom) The CDC built V-safe to track COVID-19 vaccine reactions in real time. Ten million people used it. The agency never told the public what it found. @ICANdecide sued the CDC to release the data. They won. Today at a @SenRonJohnson’s hearing, that data came up, and the numbers are striking. Of the 10 million V-safe participants, 7.7% sought medical care after their injection. 25% missed work. And there was a LOT more than that. Very sadly, a lot more. Witness Karl Jablonski told the subcommittee those numbers are unusually, unbelievably high for any vaccine or medication. The CDC had this information. They chose not to act on it and chose not to share it. On behalf of @ICANdecide, @AaronSiriSG's team went to court, got the data released, and built a searchable database so the public can see it themselves. You can search the V-safe data right now at the link below. This is what transparency looks like when the government refuses to provide it. icandecide.org/v-safe-data 👇

We have a GREAT show this Thursday on “The HighWire.” Del is just back from Washington DC and the People vs. Poison rally at the Supreme Court, and he is calling it one of the most significant moments he has ever been part of. He will break down why Monday was a line in the sand and what comes next in the fight against pesticide liability protection for Bayer Monsanto. Then, Ford just filed patents that will make your jaw drop. Your own car reporting you to the police and potentially driving you to jail is no longer science fiction, and Del has the details. And Del sits down in studio with functional medicine doctor Ann Shippy, author of The Preconception Revolution. In an era where fertility is in crisis, she is optimizing conception for men and women and making the case that our genes are not our destiny. If you or someone you love is trying to have a baby in the modern world, this conversation is for you! Make sure you tune in tomorrow for all of this, and more! The HighWire with Del Bigtree 📅 April 30, 2026 ⏰ Thursday, 11AM PT | 2PM ET 📺 Watch at: TheHighWire.com/WATCH