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This Thursday on The HighWire!

President Trump has signed a historic executive order creating the White House Women’s Health Task Force, co-chaired by RFK Jr.

And speaking of RFK Jr., a surprising statement he made this week about measles and Dr. Fauci has many people puzzled. Del weighs in.

Is England preparing for World War III? A startling new video has people wondering if duck and cover drills are in their future.

Plus, Del sits down in studio with Drew and Maria Brophy, the couple behind “COVID: A Love Story,” for their powerful account of nearly deadly hospital protocols, a life-changing near death experience, and the love that kept them both fighting.

Tune in at 11AM Pacific at https://t.co/Z12xa0sGYz.

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🚨Guinea-Bissau Police Raid Researchers Studying Hep B Birth Dose Safety

A study designed to answer a basic vaccine safety question has now been raided by police.

Researchers in Guinea-Bissau were preparing to follow roughly 14,000 newborns to compare the health effects of giving the hepatitis B vaccine at birth versus six weeks, the country’s current schedule.

The WHO has called the trial unethical, the study is suspended, and police have now seized a batch of hepatitis B vaccines as part of an investigation.

The question at the center of all of this is remarkably simple: should the overall health effects of the Hep B birth dose be tested in a randomized trial?

Read the full story by @smiddendorp22

https://t.co/c4Q9tfpNTW

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While critics ask why Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not moving faster, a federal court fight has already disrupted ACIP meetings and challenged his ability to reshape the vaccine advisory panel.

The Justice Department is now appealing that ruling, with an appellate judge questioning the legal basis for blocking Kennedy’s appointees.

Two ACIP meetings have already been cancelled during the litigation. Another is scheduled for next week.

This is the fight happening behind the scenes over who gets to shape vaccine policy at HHS

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How much could sugar exposure in the first few years of life matter decades later?

A new study used the end of postwar sugar rationing in Britain as a natural experiment, comparing people who spent more or less of their first 1,000 days under restriction.

Those with longer early-life sugar restriction had lower rates of several cancers, including breast, prostate, lung, rectal, and liver cancers, and also showed signs of slower biological aging.

The study has limitations, but the pattern is hard to ignore: what children eat very early in life may leave a health imprint that lasts for decades.

Read the full story by @smiddendorp22

https://t.co/xPDyiKRi3h

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HHS is opening a new vaccine injury clinic focused on studying who may be vulnerable to vaccine injuries and how to prevent them.

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says families who have spent years feeling ignored will now be heard, investigated, and taken seriously.

“For many years, moms and children with vaccine injuries have been marginalized, vilified, demonized, and gaslighted.”

For parents who have been asking the government for recognition for decades, this is a major moment.

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Independent filmmakers Anthony and Josh Rubin followed the migration route from Africa into Europe, documenting what they say is happening on the ground and putting themselves in dangerous situations to do it.

Jefferey Jaxen looks at their new documentary and why the questions it raises about migration, criminal networks, security, and Europe’s future are becoming harder to ignore.

Watch The Download with @JeffereyJaxen Monday at 8 PM ET on https://t.co/Z12xa0teO7 and streaming on X.

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COVID lockdowns pushed kids out of classrooms, away from friends, and deeper into screens.

Then, just as the restrictions ended and people could reconnect, AI arrived everywhere at once.

Jefferey Jaxen looks at what that timing may mean for a generation already struggling with isolation, mental health, and lost social development.

Watch The Download with @JeffereyJaxen every Monday at 8 PM ET on https://t.co/Z12xa0sGYz and streaming on X.

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How much could sugar exposure in the first few years of life matter decades later?

A new study used the end of postwar sugar rationing in Britain as a natural experiment, comparing people who spent more or less of their first 1,000 days under restriction.

Those with longer early-life sugar restriction had lower rates of several cancers, including breast, prostate, lung, rectal, and liver cancers, and also showed signs of slower biological aging.

The study has limitations, but the pattern is hard to ignore: what children eat very early in life may leave a health imprint that lasts for decades.

Read the full story by @smiddendorp22

https://t.co/xPDyiKRi3h

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“CBDCs, which is weaponizable money, can’t be implemented until this online digital ID is in place.

Once they do the online digital ID, then it works with AI, which is already on our devices... and then it will work with the CBDC.

Those three things together will be able to control us, control our actions, control our speech.

AI can manage everything, every person, all at once, but it has to have an anchor, which is that digital ID.”

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It isn't just ONE technology - it's a combination of them and also the motivations of those implementing and using them.

“...We look at Flock cameras, AI data centers, controls they’re putting on cars, digital ID, online child-safety laws. These are all pieces of the puzzle.

What does the puzzle create when it all comes together?

That’s the social credit system. That’s the control grid.”

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Protecting kids online sounds like an easy call. But what happens when age checks require everyone to prove who they are online?

Privacy expert Glenn Meder joins Del to explain why he worries online safety laws could put everyone’s privacy at risk.

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🚨 LIVE NOW | THE DOWNLOAD WITH @JeffereyJaxen: An AI humanity crisis, the global migration surge, and a new HHS call for answers on EMF safety. Watch now 👇 https://t.co/885JVM14FX

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COVID lockdowns pushed a generation of kids deeper into screens, isolation, anxiety, and disconnection.

Then, just as society should have been rebuilding human contact, conversational AI arrived and began positioning itself as companion, confidant, teacher, and emotional support.

Now AI-related stocks make up nearly half of the S&P 500’s market value, while polling shows growing concern about where this is headed.

There is a lot to dissect here.

Read the full column by @JeffereyJaxen

https://t.co/ZLfs5sOHk1

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If you have old gray fillings, Dr. Marc DiNola says they are likely mercury amalgam.

He explains that mercury can be recirculated through the body, making proper removal especially important.

For people wondering where to start, the first step may be as basic as opening your mouth and looking at what is actually there.

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MAHA is not one issue, and not everyone inside the movement feels the same way about its progress.

Some are seeing major movement on food and regenerative farming. Others are furious that mRNA vaccines remain on the market. Parents who have spent decades fighting for recognition of vaccine injury are finally hearing those words spoken by the government.

Del Bigtree’s message as those tensions grow: stop turning on each other.

“Let’s recognize that we’re all in this together. We’re all needed.”

Then take that energy somewhere it can actually matter: tell your representatives what you want changed.

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Years ago, Dr. Shannon Kroner invited ZDoggMD to join a public vaccine debate.

He responded by mocking her credentials and the invitation on his show.

Now that ZDogg is publicly questioning some of his earlier views on vaccines, Kroner says she is not looking for a rematch.

“What I would like is an apology.”

The broader debate she wanted back then still has not happened.

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The Climate Lawsuit at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is now hearing Suncor Energy v. Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County, a case that would allow localities to sue oil and gas companies for climate damages. Del and Jefferey Jaxen walk through what’s at stake, what just happened with Justice Alito’s recusal, and why New York’s climate Superfund law was already struck down by a federal judge as unconstitutional.

Alito recused himself because he and his wife hold substantial investments in oil and gas companies, acknowledging that a ruling against the industry could devastate those holdings. That self-recusal removes one vote most likely to side with energy companies, shifting the court’s balance on the case.

New York Governor Hochul signed a separate climate Superfund law in 2024 requiring oil and gas companies to pay $75 billion into a fund to offset climate damages. A federal judge has since struck it down as unconstitutional. Vermont passed a similar law now also facing legal challenge. Meanwhile, in the UK, the Labour government has issued revised statutory guidance ordering councils to redesign roads with cars at the bottom, and tied municipal funding to compliance.

Del, who grew up in Boulder, reflects on his own history as an environmentalist, and the conversation lands on the core tension: the entire legal and legislative push targets the energy source that built and still runs the country, while the lawyers flying in to argue the case burn the same fuel to get to the courthouse. Jaxen notes that if the Supreme Court case goes the way climate advocates want, the financial impact on oil and gas companies would be effectively overnight, and no alternative is ready to replace that capacity.

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Could engineered red blood cells one day help warfighters endure extreme conditions or control bleeding?

DARPA’s Smart-RBC program is funding research to genetically modify red blood cell precursors. The goal is for mature cells to detect signals in the body and release substances that affect metabolism or clotting.

The three-year project is still in its research phase and includes no human testing. But editing the precursor cells raises safety questions, including the risk of unintended DNA damage.

Read the full story by @smiddendorp22 below. 👇🏻
https://t.co/VZTzr0gmzz

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Dr. Shannon Kroner’s New Book: Making America Healthy Again

Dr. Shannon Kroner has been in the medical freedom movement since the early 2000s, working with children with autism and other disabilities, and watching firsthand as vaccine injury changed the trajectory of families. Her new children’s book, Make America Healthy Again, celebrates the moment she predicted before it happened: RFK Jr. and President Trump joining forces on health reform.

Kroner joins Del to talk about the book and the road that led to it. She was 12 weeks pregnant during the 2009 swine flu epidemic, got a preservative-free flu vaccine on her doctor’s recommendation, and ended up in the hospital profusely leaking amniotic fluid. Told by multiple doctors to end the pregnancy, she refused, did her own research, put herself on bed rest, and carried to term. Her 16-year-old son is healthy today. That experience is why every one of her books urges parents to research for themselves.

Kroner talks about what she sees as genuine progress (particularly the new NIH vaccine injury division) and why she believes the deep state is real and the work of dismantling it is harder and slower than critics of the administration want to acknowledge.

The conversation also covers ZDogg, who publicly mocked Kroner in 2018 when she invited him to a multi-perspective vaccine debate. Doctors who had agreed to participate were called off one by one (Emory stepped in, the AMA applied pressure), and the debate never happened. Kroner says she doesn’t want a debate with ZDogg now. She wants an apology.

Make America Healthy Again is available for preorder wherever books are sold.

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ZDogg Said What?

For over a decade, ZDogg (Dr. Zubin Damania) built his platform calling vaccine-questioning parents third-grade-level thinkers, demanding they be shamed and silenced, and attacking Del by name. Now, in a recent interview with Vinay Prasad, he’s saying something different: there’s no such thing as anti-vaxxers and pro-vaxxers, just people trying to do right by their kids, and public health bears a large burden of responsibility for where vaccine trust is today.

Del plays the new clip, then plays the old ones. There’s no ambiguity about what ZDogg said before, calling parents who questioned vaccines “entrenched and delusional,” saying they deserved to be mocked, saying he would never let them speak. In the new interview, ZDogg acknowledges that myocarditis from COVID vaccines happens, that some of those cases lead to heart failure and pulmonary embolism, that the absolutist approach was wrong, and that when his own child was due for the full vaccine series, it didn’t feel right even to him.

Del also corrects the record on one moment ZDogg used for years as content: footage of a man banging on a studio window during a pro-vaccine broadcast. That man, Del says, was a father whose baby daughter, Zara Antoinette Shields, had died shortly after vaccination. He wasn’t an anti-vaxxer. He was a grieving father trying to get through a door.

Del extends an open invitation: ZDogg’s place or his, on camera, for the full conversation.