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Scientists Reveal mRNA Shots May Trigger Cancer For the first time in modern history, a U.S. Senate committee convened a scientific inquiry into whether COVID mRNA injections are causing cancer. @SenRonJohnson called it to order. The HighWire streamed it live. The hearing, titled "Plausible Mechanisms of Covid-19 Injections Causing Cancer and Attacks on Scientific Publications and Research," brought researchers and physicians to the table with direct clinical and epidemiological evidence. Testimony described a surgeon who noticed six melanoma patients, all stable for years, relapsing within six weeks of each other in early 2022, with a recent booster shot as the common factor. Late-stage colorectal cancer presenting in patients in their 20s, 30s, and 40s was also documented, with at least a dozen mechanisms identified by which mRNA can insert into DNA and activate oncogenes, including suppression of the tumor-suppressor networks the body uses to keep developing cancers in check. A literature review presented at the hearing identified nearly 70 papers describing more than 300 reported cancer cases from 27 countries following one or more COVID mRNA injections, including sarcomas and lymphomas at or near injection sites and cases in which spike protein was found within tumor tissue. A BMJ Public Health study examining all-cause mortality across 47 Western countries between 2020 and 2022 found more than 3 million excess deaths, identifying three contributing factors that did not exist before the pandemic: COVID infection, containment measures, and COVID vaccines. Multiple witnesses described professional suppression of their work and called for the restoration of academic freedom for scientists who question prevailing assumptions without fear of career destruction. @JeffereyJaxen discusses what the hearing established: the immune system has a surveillance function that identifies and suppresses developing cancers before they can proliferate, and the evidence presented suggests that mRNA vaccination can interfere with that function in a subset of recipients. Every major media outlet in the country had access to this hearing. The room was not full of journalists. To receive alerts for future hearings and HighWire livestreams, text your email to 72022.

New HighWire gear is here, and a limited collection is dropping for the 250th anniversary of America. The community has been repping the HighWire from all over the world, and the stories coming in are exactly why this matters. A doula and childbirth educator wearing the "Get Factsinated" shirt had a tourist walk up and tell her they loved it. People who are hesitant to bring up vaccines in conversation are approaching her because of what she is wearing, and she knows exactly where to send them. That is what this gear does. It finds your people before you have to say a word. The new American ICAN collection includes beach towels, hats, and more. Head to thehighwire.shop to check it out and stock up for the whole family.

FDA Votes on COVID Boosters Without the Data Eight of nine FDA advisory panel members just voted to update COVID vaccines for the 2026-2027 season. One of them admitted on the record that they do not have the data to make that recommendation. @JeffereyJaxen walks through the VRBPAC vote, which recommended updating COVID vaccines to target the current dominant variant in a process that looks nearly identical to the rubber-stamp approvals of the COVID era. Johns Hopkins professor Anna Durbin, one of the panel members, was quoted in Reuters saying: "We can't make a recommendation if we don't have the data." The vote proceeded 8-0 with one abstention. @AaronSiriSG used his three minutes of public comment to put a precise record in front of that committee: over 70% of the 10 million V-safe participants reported needing medical care after COVID vaccination, with over 70% of those medical encounters resulting in hospitalization, emergency room, or urgent care visits, data the CDC fought in court for two years to keep hidden. When the FDA conducted its own internal empirical Bayesian safety analysis, it produced safety signals that were hidden from the public. In Pfizer's original clinical trial, there were 21 deaths in the vaccinated group and 17 in the placebo group during the same period, with a slightly larger placebo group. Five years after promising the world these products are safe, the PREP Act immunity has never been lifted. Siri closes with a request that everyone can agree with: if the products are safe, lift the immunity. The fact that they will not is the most honest statement the agency has made about these vaccines. The segment then turns to a DOJ brief that Aaron Siri describes as a betrayal of religious liberty. New York's 2021 public health law required healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID with no religious exemption, only a narrow medical exemption. Healthcare workers fired under that law appealed to the Supreme Court after the Second Circuit upheld New York's position. The Trump administration, when asked by the Supreme Court whether it wished to weigh in, chose to file an 18-page brief effectively telling the court not to take the case, which would leave the Second Circuit ruling as good law nationally, meaning employers can deny religious exemptions while offering medical ones without violating Title VII. Siri notes the DOJ's own Civil Rights Division has simultaneously issued press releases saying employees should not be forced to choose between their religion and their jobs, and that private firms (including his own) have won multi-million dollar settlements for exactly these cases. The DOJ should be going full throttle after bad actors in court. Instead it filed a brief that signals to employers nationwide that firing people for refusing vaccines on religious grounds is legally permissible. Siri's full analysis is available on his Substack. His book, Vaccines: Amen, is available through ICAN's website, with all proceeds going directly to ICAN.

While Fauci was receiving classified intelligence briefings on COVID-19's origins, he was simultaneously circulating the Proximal Origins paper to White House officials as evidence of a natural origin. Newly released emails confirm he helped shape that paper behind the scenes while keeping his name off it. When asked in 2024 Congressional testimony whether he had briefed any intelligence agency on viral research, his answer was: "Not to my knowledge." @SenRandPaul dropped the documents yesterday. The full timeline is in this article by @smiddendorp22 bit.ly/fauci-congress-intel

🚨Ontario Doctor Cautioned After Botched Euthanasia: A 45-year-old man named Thomas Dillon was assessed for Medical Aid in Dying in the parking lot of a Tim Hortons coffee shop in Ontario. His family opposed the decision and was not consulted. His doctor, Dr. James MacLean, exchanged a large number of text messages with Dillon, drove him personally to a cadaver preparation room for the procedure, and administered the drugs without notifying the family. An independent assessor later concluded that MacLean failed to meet the standard of practice and exposed patients to harm or injury in five out of twenty patient charts reviewed. In a second case, MacLean administered a MAID procedure without the third drug in the standard three-drug protocol, a neuromuscular-blocking agent required to stop breathing. After pronouncing the patient dead and leaving the home, he received a call from the family that their brother was still breathing. MacLean returned 45 minutes later. The funeral home was already at the residence. The patient's sister alleges MacLean tapped her brother on the head and said, "You're a stubborn one." Any accountability? The consequences for this were a caution, six months of supervision, and a chart review. Dr. MacLean continues practicing. Dillon was not terminally ill. He had incurable Crohn's disease, depression, mental health conditions, financial hardship, and difficulty maintaining relationships. Canada has a second MAID track for patients whose natural death is not imminent but who have an incurable condition. The Canadian government is now preparing recommendations on whether to expand MAID eligibility in 2027 to include mental illness as a standalone qualifying condition, including depression and personality disorders. Multiple US states are currently launching their own MAID programs. The oversight framework governing these decisions, and the consequences when that framework fails, are questions that need to be answered. @smiddendorp22 has the full story below: bit.ly/botched-maid

If you bought a new construction home in Florida, Texas, Colorado, Tennessee, or more than a dozen other states, there may be a line on your property tax bill that has nothing to do with schools, police, fire protection, or county services. It is your annual share of the bond debt a developer used to build the roads, sewers, water lines, and amenities before you ever moved in. The developer collected the profit and moved on. The debt stayed with the house. @ChelleWards and @tracybeanz have the full breakdown of how this model works, which states are expanding it, and why the families paying these assessments are usually the last ones in the room when the decisions are made. 👇 bit.ly/hidden-home-fees

🚨Tulsi Gabbard released declassified intelligence today revealing US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including labs in Ukraine that the Intelligence Community had previously warned housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to Russian attack, seizure, or damage. @TulsiGabbard: "Politicians and so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, as well as entities within the Biden administration's national security team, lied repeatedly to the American people about the existence of US-funded and supported biolabs. Not only did they lie, they threatened those who attempted to expose the truth. The information surrounding the existence, history, locations, and funding of these US-funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by very powerful people who falsely claimed that these biolabs didn't exist. They accused anyone who says otherwise of being foreign assets and traitors to America." Many of these facilities conducted research on hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, including gain-of-function research, with little visibility or oversight. Gabbard says increased intelligence collection on these labs is already surfacing new details about ongoing clinical trials, raising significant ethical, financial, and security concerns. The declassified slides are public. The ODNI press release is public. Read them yourself. bit.ly/BioLabDNI

Wired obtained more than a thousand pages of unpublished reports from the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and fusion centers originally created after 9/11 to track terrorism. Those resources are now being directed at Americans attending town hall meetings to oppose data centers in their communities. DHS has classified this activity as an "emerging threat." Town hall meetings and budget committee hearings are the precise forums the Constitution exists to protect. Showing up to one and opposing a data center in your neighborhood is not extremism. It is the system working as designed. @DowdEdward thinks this is less about which administration is in power and more about a bureaucratic institution that has expanded its own definition of threat to include anyone exercising constitutional rights in ways that inconvenience powerful interests. His position applies regardless of political affiliation: if you are targeting people for using their constitutional rights, he is against it, and the targeting of data center opponents is no different from vaccine mandates in that regard.

On May 28th, @AaronSiriSG stood before the FDA's VRBPAC committee and put the following points on the record before they voted to recommend an updated COVID vaccine strain for the 2026-27 season. 🚨Over 40,000 vaccine-injured members of React19 whose cases the committee has never meaningfully addressed 🚨V-safe data obtained by ICAN showing that more than 7% of 10 million users reported needing medical care after a COVID-19 vaccine, on average two to three times each, with over 70% of those medical encounters resulting in hospitalization, emergency room, or urgent care visits 🚨An improved safety signal analysis method the FDA had available during the pandemic but, according to Senator Johnson's interim report, refused to use. 🚨A federal compensation program that has denied 98.6% of all COVID-19 vaccine injury claims filed to date The committee barely discussed safety. They voted to recommend the updated strain anyway. @ICANdecide will continue submitting written and oral comments at every meeting where these products are on the agenda. The injured are not going away, and neither is their legal team.

💥Vermont Becomes First State To Ban Toxic Weedkiller Paraquat After Decades Of Neurological Concerns 70 countries have banned paraquat. Is the United States one of them? No. However, Vermont just became the first US state to do it. The herbicide has been linked to Parkinson's disease for over 30 years. An NIH-funded study found farmworkers exposed to it were 2.5 times more likely to develop the disease. Internal documents show Syngenta, the primary manufacturer, had evidence the chemical could accumulate in brain tissue and allegedly kept it from regulators for decades. Chevron had internal records reflecting the same neurological concerns going back to 1975 and stopped distributing it in 1986, citing competition as the reason. ‼️ 17 million pounds of paraquat were applied to US farmland in 2018 alone, more than double the amount used in 2008. Syngenta announced it is ending global production this month. The smaller manufacturers stepping in to fill the gap are not going anywhere, and more than 6,000 federal lawsuits are pending from people who developed Parkinson's after exposure. The same preemption argument Bayer is making at the Supreme Court over glyphosate, if it prevails, would shield paraquat manufacturers from those same claims. Vermont got there first. Full article by @smiddendorp22 linked below 👇 bit.ly/vermont-weedkiller-ba…

The companies building America's AI infrastructure and collecting billions in government support are the same companies that spent years censoring vaccine injury reports, COVID information, and the voices of the people who turned out to be right. That is not ancient history. It was a few years ago, and the consequences were real. @DowdEdward thinks that censorship kills, and he has said so publicly. The former CEO of YouTube stated she was proud that her platform removed over a million COVID videos. Most of what was removed was accurate. The people who were silenced, the researchers, the journalists, the injured, have largely been vindicated by the record that has since emerged. Should those companies now be handed the keys to the most consequential infrastructure buildout in American history, backed by government subsidies and operating with minimal accountability? Dowd's answer is no, and he does not trust them to get it right. 👇

🎉This Thursday on The HighWire! Del is back in the studio after touring Europe with "An Inconvenient Study." After interviewing doctors, scientists, and journalists across multiple countries, one thing became clear: every country followed the same protocol while handling COVID. Now Del is asking the question that could change everything: who was REALLY calling the shots? Then Jefferey Jaxen digs into why The New York Times and The Atlantic are in full panic over RFK Jr. and ACIP returning their focus to vaccines, after the media spent MONTHS insisting the vaccine conversation was shelved until after the midterms. Plus, biohacking founder Dave Asprey (@bulletproofexec) joins Del to discuss where human longevity science really stands and whether extending your life is no longer just a question for the ultra-wealthy. The HighWire, this Thursday at 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern. 👇 The HighWire with Del Bigtree 📅 June 11, 2026 ⏰ Thursday, 11AM PT | 2PM ET 📺 Watch at: TheHighWire.com/WATCH

China is giving AI away for free, and that's a problem for every data center being built in America. China built hundreds of AI data centers during the boom and many are now sitting empty, according to MIT Technology Review. The US is currently building far more, but Edward Dowd argues that the comparison may miss the point. China made a different strategic decision: open-source AI, decentralized architecture, and models like DeepSeek designed to be given away rather than monetized through centralized infrastructure. That strategy poses a direct threat to the US data center buildout, and in more ways than geopolitics. Open-source models are currently three to four months behind the frontier models, but they are capable of handling roughly 90% of tasks at a fraction of the cost. If switching costs between AI models are effectively zero, and a good-enough open-source alternative exists for most use cases, the financial case for the massive centralized infrastructure being built right now isn't sustainable. China's model is the same one it has used in manufacturing: build at scale, drive down costs, undercut everyone else's price, and let adoption follow. In AI, that means giving the technology away and hoping the world builds on Chinese models before the US can establish dominance. Whether that works depends heavily on the restrictions the US imposes, but the question of who actually wins the AI race may not be decided by who builds the most data centers.

The AI infrastructure buildout sweeping the country has been funded through subsidies designed to attract venture capital and drive growth. As those companies now move toward IPOs and stock valuations, they are raising the price of AI to reflect its true cost, and the market is responding by concluding that human workers are often more efficient and affordable. @DowdEdward says we are at a critical juncture. The data center announcements flooding the news are not all going to be built. The pricing model that justified them is not working, and many of the projects currently planned or under construction will not survive the correction. Communities that have already been absorbing rising electricity bills and strained water resources for operational facilities are dealing with a real and worsening problem. Communities being asked to approve new ones may be approving infrastructure for a bubble that is already deflating. AI will have genuine uses. However, it won't be able to deliver on what is currently being promised, and the classic technology hype cycle playing out right now has a predictable next phase...

More than 4,000 data centers are already operating across the United States, mostly in Virginia, Texas, and California, and another 3,000 are planned or under construction. The Harvard Gazette is now covering why communities across the country are pushing back, and city hall meetings from small towns to major metros are packed with residents asking the same questions. People have valid concerns. Power bills are spiking, while water consumption is climbing. Local governments are being asked to hand out hundreds of millions in tax breaks annually to subsidize infrastructure that serves a global industry, not the communities hosting it. @JeffereyJaxen interviewed @DowdEdward for his take on what's happening.

🚨Vermont just became the first US state to ban paraquat, the herbicide linked to Parkinson's disease for over three decades. Governor Phil Scott signed the bill on May 26th, with full elimination from all crops in the state by 2030. Seventy countries have already banned it. An NIH-funded study found farmworkers exposed to it were 2.5 times more likely to develop Parkinson's. Internal documents obtained through investigative reporting show Syngenta had evidence the chemical could accumulate in brain tissue and allegedly withheld it from regulators for decades. Chevron had similar internal concerns about neurological damage in plant workers going back to 1975. Syngenta announced it is ceasing global production by the end of this month, citing competition. The manufacturers stepping in to fill that gap are not going away, and more than 6,000 federal lawsuits are still pending. Vermont got there first. The rest of the country has not. You have to read the entire piece by @smiddendorp22 bit.ly/vermont-weedkiller-ba…

Senator Ron Johnson convened what is believed to be the first Senate committee hearing in modern history to conduct a scientific inquiry into whether a publicly administered vaccine caused cancer. The hearing, held last Wednesday, was titled "Plausible Mechanisms of COVID-19 Injections Causing Cancer and Attacks on Scientific Publications and Research." Researchers presented data showing excess mortality remained elevated across 47 western countries following the rollout, totaling more than 3 million excess deaths. Oncologists reported colorectal cancers appearing in patients in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, (presenting at late stage) in patients who had received booster vaccines. Reported cancers were appearing near injection sites, including sarcomas and lymphomas, with spike protein identified within tumor tissue in some cases. One witness told the committee that this technology cannot be controlled, that its use in future vaccines should be banned, and that the existing COVID injections should be stopped now. Millions of Americans and millions more around the world, the committee heard, may be in clear and present danger of premature cardiovascular disease and cancer.

American schools spent $30 billion on education technology in 2024, ten times what they spent on textbooks the same year. In January 2025, neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath testified before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee with PISA data showing a direct correlation between classroom screen time and cognitive decline. Unfortunately, Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower than their parents on numeracy, literacy, and creativity. IQ scores in Western nations rose for over a century. They reversed right around when the devices arrived. Sweden, one of the first countries to replace textbooks with screens, is now spending to put paper books back in the hands of every student after concluding the experiment failed. France, Italy, the Netherlands, China, and South Korea have all introduced restrictions or outright bans on devices in classrooms. The OECD found that students using devices more than six hours a day scored two full letter grades lower than students who used no computers at all. American school districts are quietly reversing course too, though without much appetite for explaining how much they spent to get here. @ChelleWards and @tracybeanz have the full picture on what the research actually shows, which countries figured it out first, and why the answer was available for free long before the bill came due. bit.ly/school-screen-experim…

President Trump signed an executive order week directing the CDC and ACIP to review the latest clinical data and align the US childhood vaccine schedule with best practices from peer developed nations. The order also requires all federal departments and agencies to ensure their actions fulfill legal obligations with respect to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under law. Dr. Robert Malone, former co-chair of ACIP who recently stepped down, published a Substack analysis describing it as the executive order that may change the vaccine debate forever. His reading of the key language, "to the extent permitted by law," is that it pulls authority over vaccination policy, medicine, and research back under the executive branch and returns ACIP to its original function as an advisory body. For decades, ACIP has operated as a de facto policymaking authority. This order tells them that role is over. The next ACIP meeting will be the first real test of whether that line holds. It is also worth noting that this executive order was signed as the Department of Justice filed a brief at the Supreme Court urging it not to hear the case of New York healthcare workers fired for refusing the COVID vaccine on religious grounds. One hand of this administration is expanding parental authority and religious protections around vaccines. The other is working to establish a legal precedent that says firing someone for their religious beliefs is perfectly acceptable. Groups inside this administration are not on the same page...