Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
Picloram use is heaviest in the Northern Great Plains and Mountain West, on two land uses: spring and winter wheat (plus oats and barley) and rangeland and pasture managed for noxious weed control.
The highest-intensity counties are in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, and eastern Washington and Oregon, with a another cluster in Texas and Oklahoma for mesquite and brush control on cattle range.
In Montana picloram is registered for direct application on the wheat crop itself.
Picloram is among the most persistent and mobile pesticides currently registered, has been detected in groundwater in at least ten states, and resists degradation once it reaches aquifers.
The exposed population includes downstream and downgradient communities drawing from contaminated water tables for years after application.
The time to stop applying picloram was 40 years ago.
Colorectal cancer rates in adults under 50 have doubled since the late 1980s.
One in five colorectal cancer diagnoses now occurs in someone under 55, up from one in ten in 1995.
A new study highlights the most concrete factor responsible for this trend.
Using DNA methylation profiles as molecular records of lifetime exposure, the authors compared cancer patients under 50 with patients over 70 and identified the herbicide picloram as a significant new risk factor.
There are converging lines of evidence.
The picloram exposure signature was significantly elevated in early-onset tumor tissue and replicated across nine independent patient cohorts. Across 21 years of US county-level data spanning seven states, higher picloram use tracked higher early-onset CRC incidence, and the signal held after adjusting for income, education, and the use of other pesticides.
Picloram associated tumors also showed a distinct molecular profile, with APC mutations at 74% versus 90% in low-exposure tumors, suggesting these cancers follow a different biological pathway than classical CRC.
Picloram entered commercial use in 1964. Patients now diagnosed in their 70s were already adults before meaningful exposure was possible. Patients now diagnosed in their 30s and 40s were exposed across childhood and adolescence, the developmental windows when epigenetic programming is most plastic.
This study delivers the first triangulation of molecular, ecological, and temporal evidence pointing at a specific environmental driver of one of the steepest cancer trends in modern epidemiology.
NOW THAT I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM OFFICIALLY PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (THANK YOU DONALD!), I HAVE MANY BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS TO MAKE! FIRST, EVERY TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER IS NULL AND VOID, STEPHEN MILLER AND EVERY TRUMP GOON IS FIRED, AND THE TRUMP CORRUPTION PROBE IS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED! HEALTH CARE IS NOW FREE FOR ALL AMERICANS (NO MEASLES!) AND ALL MOMS GET FREE CHILDCARE SO WE CAN HAVE MORE BABIES!!! ALSO CANNABIS IS NOW LEGAL AND ABORTION IS BACK FOR WOMEN WHO WANT IT. I WILL SOON BE BANNING ALL TICKETMASTER FEES AND THERE WILL BE NO MORE COMMERCIALS ALLOWED DURING NBA AND NFL GAMES, AS WELL AS ALL BRAVO “REAL HOUSEWIVES” SHOWS (LONGER EPISODES!). EVERY AMERICAN FAMILY NOW GETS A “TARIFF AND GAS SPIKE REFUND” TO BUY A CHEAP ELECTRIC CAR! THE COUNTRY IS NOW RUN BY SOMEONE WHO CAN ACTUALLY COMPLETE A SENTENCE. AMERICA IS NOW “HOT” BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DYSLEXIC PRESIDENT INSTEAD OF A BRAIN-DEAD ONE. BIG UPGRADE!!! — GOVERNOR GCN
Nahhhhhhhh fammmmmmmmmm, I mean it is COMPLETELY FUCKED UP that Erika Kirk spoke with staff JUST DAYS after Charlie Kirk’s a**a**ination GLEEFULLY discussing hitting their attendance and merchandise metrics at his MEMORIAL SERVICE. AIN’T NO FUCKING WAY, SIR.
“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
🚨🚨 VOTING FRAUD ALERT🚨🚨
A new explosive report revealed that @elonmusk’s PAC sent out pre-filled election ballots.
This is highly illegal and affected TENS OF THOUSANDS of voters in a key swing state that Biden won in 2020!
We've now learned that Katie Johnson not only sued Donald Trump for raping her at 14 and gave sworn testimony under the penalty of perjury, but that she was interviewed by the FBI not once but FOUR TIMES and her story was found to be credible.
Donald Trump raped children.