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Major AI companies are now calling for government liability protection, and the pattern is familiar to anyone who watched pharmaceutical companies secure the same protection in 1986. The push came from multiple directions in the span of two weeks. Bill Gates called for an international regulatory body to govern AI. Andrew Yang warned that escaped AI agents had already polluted the internet with self-replicating code. Palantir CEO Alex Karp described the real goal behind the regulation push: companies want their intellectual property nationalized and their liability capped by government because, in his framing, the alternative is every client suing when AI damages them or their data. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushed back, arguing that AI companies can slow down any time they want to and that it is humans, not AI agents, who are responsible for what these systems do. A software engineer testifying in Texas told the committee that hyperscaler data centers are not actually necessary for the AI systems being built today; he demonstrated an application that runs in nine minutes on a handheld device using less power than a microwave oven, an application that previously required 92 hours in a data center. He noted that only America is building data centers at this scale. A Bloomberg forecast projects $32 trillion in AI data center spending by 2050, approaching the current US national debt. @delbigtree and @JeffereyJaxen connect the liability-protection push directly to the vaccine precedent: remove accountability, build dependency that's too large to dismantle, and leave the public with no exit.

"An Inconvenient Study" has reached an estimated 140 million global views and won 17 festival awards. The Henry Ford vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated birth cohort study at its center is now being cited by doctors and researchers around the world, many of whom have never heard of ICAN or The HighWire. @NicHulscher testified before a Michigan legislative committee after Representative Brad Paquette, who found him on X, invited him to debate the Henry Ford Health researchers directly on their own unpublished data. Henry Ford Health was scheduled to appear. They did not show up. Hulscher walked the committee through the findings: vaccinated children showed a 2.5 times higher risk of developing a chronic disease compared to unvaccinated children after full statistical modeling. At the ten-year mark, 57% of vaccinated children had at least one chronic disease, compared to 17% of unvaccinated children. His peer-reviewed reanalysis, published with Dr. Peter McCullough and John Leake on their Substack at focalpoints.com, stripped away the statistical adjustments Henry Ford applied and looked at raw proportions across all 22 chronic disease categories. Every single one was higher in the vaccinated group. No exceptions. ADHD and diabetes appeared only in the vaccinated group. Cancer was 54% higher in vaccinated children. Autism was higher in the vaccinated children. Twelve other vaccinated versus unvaccinated studies across the world show the same pattern: whenever there is an unvaccinated control group, vaccinated children are sicker across most health domains. The transcript from An Inconvenient Study, showing lead researcher Dr. Marcus Zervos on camera saying the study is good and that he would not publish it because he does not want to suffer what McCullough did, was played at the hearing. Henry Ford did not send anyone to respond.

Florida is suing Pfizer over how the company marketed its COVID-19 vaccine, alleging it made deceptive claims about safety and pushed a “moral duty” to vaccinate despite not having tested whether the shot prevented transmission. The lawsuit also alleges Pfizer had information about safety concerns involving myocarditis, pregnancy, stroke, and death while publicly making broad claims about the vaccine’s safety. Florida is seeking civil penalties and the disgorgement of profits tied to the campaign. Pfizer says the allegations have no merit and stands behind the vaccine’s safety and efficacy. Read the full report by @smiddendorp22. bit.ly/FL_Sues_Pfizer

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A pro-life advocacy group is threatening to sue the FDA over a new environmental argument against Mifepristone. Students for Life says the agency failed to consider potential effects on endangered species before expanding access to the abortion drug, and is demanding environmental testing within 60 days. The group points to a 2026 study that found anti-progesterone activity in water samples collected near wastewater treatment facilities in three U.S. cities. If the FDA does not act, Students for Life says it will sue under the Endangered Species Act. Read the full report by @smiddendorp22 below: bit.ly/mifepristone_water

The COVID response may have produced the opposite of what its architects intended. @denisrancourt says the push for mass vaccination and emergency powers has left the public more skeptical, more resistant to mandates, and less willing to accept the same framework again. He argues that U.S. vaccination policy is shaped in part by national-security planning for rapidly inoculating populations during a biological threat, and sees mRNA technology as especially attractive within that system because of how quickly it can be developed and deployed. His concern is that the emergency infrastructure remains in place even as public trust has eroded.

Denis Rancourt argues that the mortality data do not show the geographic spread pattern he would expect if a newly spreading pathogen were driving the deaths attributed to the pandemic. Pressed by Del on whether that means he is claiming SARS-CoV-2 did not exist, Rancourt draws a narrower distinction. He says respiratory deaths are rarely attributable to a single organism and are strongly influenced by factors such as stress, isolation, and broader respiratory conditions. His central claim is that, regardless of the debate over whether a new virus was properly identified, he does not see evidence in the mortality patterns that a spreading virus was the primary driver of the excess deaths.

Physicist Denis Rancourt argues that major increases in excess mortality, maternal mortality, and later infant mortality appeared after key COVID-era interventions rather than following the pattern he would expect from a naturally spreading disease. He points to maternal deaths rising after the CDC recommended COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy, followed roughly nine months later by an increase in infant mortality. Rancourt says the timing is consistent with vaccination affecting fetal development and argues that the increase corresponded to thousands of excess infant deaths in the United States.

Two former mainstream media journalists. Two fathers. One question: how do you tell your children the truth in a world where the media landscape feels harder to trust by the day? This Friday on Off the Record, Del Bigtree sits down with GB News host and former BBC journalist Neil Oliver for a wide-ranging conversation about media, misinformation, fatherhood, and what it means to raise children through an increasingly uncertain time. Watch Friday night at 8 PM ET on HighWire.Plus

ICAN obtained CDC emails showing that, less than two months into the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the contractor processing VAERS reports was already facing a backlog of more than 70,000 reports. One email called the volume “unprecedented” and said incoming reports were running far above the government’s worst-case estimate of 1,000 per day. Those reports were supposed to help identify potential safety signals quickly. Supposed to. This is the kind of work your support makes possible. Help fund the investigations, FOIA requests, and legal work behind The HighWire and ICAN. Link: bit.ly/DONATEICAN

20 of the world’s largest food and agriculture companies paid shareholders $53.5 billion over just two years. The UN estimated it would take about $51.5 billion to feed 230 million of the world’s most desperately hungry people. And the concentration goes deeper. BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street together hold 22% of the shares in the world’s 100 largest food and agriculture companies. Who gets rewarded by a system like this? @ChelleWards and @tracybeanz cover it all in this editorial. 👇 bit.ly/food_system

AI companies are warning that their technology could pose catastrophic risks. At the same time, Palantir CEO Alex Karp is talking about nationalization and full liability protection. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent rejected the idea outright: “We cannot say, ‘Oh, we absolve you of responsibility, and the government’s going to take responsibility.’” The contrast is hard to miss. If AI companies believe the risks are that serious, who should carry the liability when something goes wrong?

“One of the things that really just lit my heart up was when I saw Nick Hulscher in a hearing walking through the data on Henry Ford.” After @ICANdecide's "An Inconvenient Study" exposed the story of the unpublished Henry Ford vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study, Hulscher and his coauthors published a peer-reviewed reanalysis of the data. He then took those findings into a hearing. @NicHulscher told the panel that 57% of vaccinated children in the study had at least one chronic disease, compared with 17% of unvaccinated children, and again raised the question at the heart of the film: why was a study its own lead researcher called “good” never published?

“All 22 of the chronic disease categories were higher proportionately in the vaccinated children. No exceptions.” @NicHulscher reanalyzed the unpublished Henry Ford Health study at the center of @ICANdecide's An Inconvenient Study. By stripping away the statistical adjustments and comparing the raw proportions directly, Hulscher says the differences became even clearer. Every chronic disease category examined was higher in the vaccinated group, including ADHD, diabetes, autism, and cancer.

Watch The HighWire Tomorrow! Senator Ron Johnson held another consequential roundtable, this time examining disturbing accounts of hospital protocols during COVID. Patients, families, doctors, and nurses shared firsthand experiences, including allegations that potentially effective treatments were withheld and innocent people died. It's a big week for Bobby Kennedy. A new CDC and HHS study shows the mental health of America's kids improving for the first time in years, and some are giving him credit. At the same time, top doctors and scientists have signed a petition saying MAHA will pull its support if he and Trump don't get rid of mRNA technology. Del speaks with one of its signatories, Dr. Robert Malone. Plus, Del sits down with breast cancer expert Dr. Jenn Simmons to get answers on the truth behind the rise in breast cancer, and answer the question: to mammogram or not to mammogram? Tune in at 11 AM PT/2 PM ET at TheHighWire.com.

Researchers measured chemical residue locked into the baby teeth of 22 children with autism and 16 without. 19 compounds turned up significantly higher in the autism group. Five of the nine chemicals most elevated in that group are found in baby bottles. The study doesn't prove those chemicals caused autism, and the sample size is small, but 39 of the 60 compounds detected are already classified as developmental toxicants or endocrine disruptors. @Smiddendorp22 breaks down what researchers found and why the exposure windows start earlier than most parents realize. Full story linked below 👇 bit.ly/AutismBabyTeeth

On May 23, 2021, CDC leadership reviewed a draft alert intended to warn doctors nationwide about a myocarditis signal emerging among young vaccine recipients. Four days earlier, the FDA had cleared the vaccine for kids as young as 12. Two days after that, the CDC recommended it. On May 27, the FDA declined to send the alert. It was never issued. That same day, a CDC official emailed the softened safety language meant for the public website to staff at Pfizer and a consultant for Moderna, before the public ever saw it. The documents came from a Senate subcommittee's own subpoena, in a report titled, fittingly, Failure to Warn. @ChelleWards and @tracybeanz lay out the full timeline, including what the CDC's own adverse-event tracking app was built to catch and somehow never did. Failure to Warn: Not a Theory. A Timeline Full editorial linked below 👇 bit.ly/failure-to-warn

🚨 More Canadians are dying through MAID each year than Americans die from gun homicides. One woman says she was sent information on assisted death before she had even met with an oncologist after learning she had stage 4 cancer. And unless Parliament stops it, Canada is preparing to take MAID somewhere it has never gone before. Watch the clip 👇 Watch The Download every Monday at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET, right here on X or at TheHighWire.com⁠!

🚨 The government pushed incandescent bulbs out. Now the Department of Energy is backing their return. Why? The science around artificial light, blue-light exposure, and what it may mean for our eyes and health is becoming impossible to ignore. Four states are already issuing guidance for schools. But what are they recommending, and why isn’t everyone being told? Watch the clip 👇 Watch The Download every Monday at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET, right here on X or at TheHighWire.com⁠!