Solon

[The HighWire @HighWireTalk]

Paxton Targets Bayer Over Glyphosate in Kids' Food

Texas Attorney General @KenPaxtonTX has opened legal action against Bayer and other corporate giants for glyphosate contamination in food, targeting a loophole that major food companies have been using to spray glyphosate on oats sourced from countries where the practice is permitted even as the EPA prohibits it domestically.

Oats treated this way end up in the cereals, breakfast bars, and cookies that children eat every day.

@JeffereyJaxen walks through why children are the central concern. A 2025 study found that children are particularly vulnerable to glyphosate exposure because of immature liver and kidney function that reduces their ability to metabolize and excrete the chemical, and because they consume more food relative to body weight than adults, accelerating bioaccumulation.

Paxton's investigation is also examining whether major food companies have misled consumers about the health claims of products marketed to families.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo has separately launched a public initiative testing glyphosate levels in bread to give parents the information they need to make purchasing decisions.

Iowa has become a focal point: the state has the nation's second-highest cancer rate and applied 53 million pounds of pesticides last year, and, for the first time, candidates from both parties running for governor and Secretary of Agriculture have made rising cancer rates and nitrate-contaminated water central campaign priorities.

The political class is following the people, not the other way around.

Attorney Brant Wisner, who brought Monsanto to its knees in the 2018 Dwayne Johnson trial and triggered the avalanche of 170,000 glyphosate cancer lawsuits now threatening Bayer's survival, is now investigating atrazine. The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified atrazine as a probable human carcinogen at the end of 2025. The EPA responded by echoing Syngenta's own criticisms of the finding. Wisner Baum has opened an investigation into whether farmworkers, pesticide applicators, and rural families were exposed for decades without adequate safety warnings.

Atrazine has been detected in drinking water sources across agricultural communities nationwide for years and is banned in most developed countries outside the United States. Syngenta should be watching what happened to Bayer very carefully.

Also reported: ICAN has filed a petition pressing the FDA to require that direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising disclose all risks alongside benefits equally, not just major risks, using model regulatory language drafted by ICAN attorneys.

The United States and New Zealand are the only developed countries that permit DTC drug advertising at all. The American Medical Association has called for an outright ban. @ICANdecide is asking for the next best thing: full informed consent on every ad.

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

THE BIDEN REGIME KNEW WHERE COVID CAME FROM AND KNEW HOW DANGEROUS THE SHOTS WERE AND REFUSED TO TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 👇🇺🇸

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

The Police have become the new Brown Shirts because that’s the only way they can force Digital ID’s, 2-tier Policing, forced Medical Experiments and Open Borders from Third World Criminals…

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

Notice how socialists never talk about seizing the wealth of George Soros or any of the other multi-billionaires who bankroll their operations. They would be praising Elon to the sky, and vigorously protecting his wealth, if he were politically on their side.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

With Tulsi Gabbard's new revelations about US bio labs in many countries around the world including Ukraine, it's fascinating recall the bizarre series of events that gave rise to this controversy in the first place:

In May of 2022, some of us began asking whether the US had bio labs in Ukraine, what they were for, and why the US had them there. For asking those questions, we were instantly branded as "pro-Russian conspiracy theorists" in official Ukrainian intel reports, on our Wikipedia pages, by countless media outlets, etc. This was and remains one of the most bizarre episodes I've ever seen.

Before May 2022, when we asked those questions, barely anyone had ever thought about let alone asked about "bio weapons in Ukraine"! I certainly hadn't. Like most people, I had never mentioned a word about it because it had never occurred to me we had them there.

But then, Marco Rubio summoned Victoria Nuland to the Senate and asked her in a televised hearing under oath about these "rumors," clearly expecting her to immediately debunk them as obvious Kremlin lies and to proclaim the US had no such bio labs in Ukraine.

Instead, Nuland did the opposite! She *confirmed* key aspects of these "rumors," and she explicitly warned that the US has several "bio research labs" in Ukraine that are so dangerous that they must not be allowed to fall into Russia's hands.

When some of us heard Nuland's rather shocking admission -- the first-ever disclosure about these labs -- we of course asked: wait! what? Why does the US have bio labs in Ukraine, and what are the US and Ukraine doing in those labs that make them (in Nuland's eyes) so dangerous?? (Note: nobody ever suggested that the presence of these bio labs in Ukraine justified the Russian invasion; we just wanted answers about these US bio labs that Nuland had casually divulged).

We never got real answers. We got smear campaigns. To this day, our names are formally attached to claims that we spread "conspiracy theories" for asking about these labs even though it was Victoria Nuland herself who was the one who accidentally revealed them for the first time in a Senate hearing in response to a shocked Marco Rubio. They then quickly tried shutting down any questioning by pretending that Nuland never said this, and it was just a bunch of paid Kremlin mouthpieces who were spreading lies.

You see the same tactics now being against Tulsi for releasing this new intelligence report. Watch the Nuland testimony in question:

[Jefferey Jaxen @JeffereyJaxen]

Unclassified 2021 DARPA briefing document to the Department of Defense:

"1. SARS-CoV-2 is an American-created recombinant bat vaccine, or its precursor virus. It was created by an EcoHealth Alliance program at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), as suggested by the reporting surrounding the lab leak hypothesis." ⬇️

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

The Biological Warfare Programs Apparatus:

These are the evidence slides submitted in May 2023 to U.S. Congress, Inspector Generals and State Governors by Scott Bennett, former U.S. Army officer and State Department Counter-Terrorism Analyst

The slides cover:

-U.S. coordination of biological research laboratories in Ukraine (including DTRA/DoD-funded programs)

-Pathogen research and COVID-19-related work involving companies such as Labyrinth Global Health

-Involvement of U.S. agencies (CDC, DoD), pharmaceutical firms, and political/NGO connections

-Maps of Ukrainian lab locations and claims of biomaterials destruction

-Analysis of substances found in samples from Ukrainian personnel

-Profiles of U.S. organizations and individuals supporting ‘Ukraine Aid’

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BOOM — DNI TULSI GABBARD JUST INFURIATED THE DEEP STATE: She exposed 120+ TAX-FUNDED "biolabs" across 30 countries, SPECIFICALLY calls out Anthony Fauci and "gain of function research"

GABBARD: "It has been INTENTIONALLY covered up." 🤯

"Politicians and so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci...lied repeatedly to the American people about the existence of US-funded and supported biolabs. Not only did they LIE, they threatened those who threatened to expose the truth."

Tulsi is exposing it all on her way out! @TulsiGabbard 🔥

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Declassified docs just dropped showing U.S.-funded labs in Ukraine working with anthrax, Ebola, Marburg, SARS, tularemia and more.

Tulsi is releasing the full list over 40 labs.

Big questions now about oversight and what was really happening, but so far, it doesn't look good at all.

Source: DNI BIOLAB / Writer: Lucas

[The Washington Times @WashTimes]

Outgoing intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard is raising alarms about American tax dollars funding hazardous pathogen research abroad. Recent disclosures reveal millions were spent on vulnerable laboratories located in active war zones. https://t.co/NjSArhzggB

[The Duran @TheDuranReal]

The Ukraine biolab story has completed its journey:
"Conspiracy theory" → "Russian disinformation" → "Fact-checked" → Official government disclosure.

For years, anyone asking questions was smeared and censored. Now the intelligence community itself acknowledges a vast US-funded biolab network.

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

Every American needs to understand just how deep this conspiracy goes and it isn’t over and won’t be until people are held accountable.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

The AI SPV flowchart. In a few years this will be exhibit A in congressional hearings

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@tim_cook Don’t want it.

Either stop this creepy spyware or all Apple devices will be banned from the premises of my companies.

[Solon @solon_thinker]

@GaryMarcus No. You're not Al ne. Things are already getting weird. And you can sense extreme weirdness just around the corner. And not in a good way ...

[Solon @solon_thinker]

@Sierra_rak They are just impotent and jealous. It's beyond their comprehension what he's doing and they jump up and down complaining like retarded children. All they are capable of.

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

Californians are struggling to pay for groceries and gas because of YOUR policies. Californians are getting "shafted" by YOU. The system is "rigged" by YOU.

Instead of posting divisive nonsense why don't you try and do something to cut people's costs? Oh wait, because you're incapable of doing anything useful. That will have to wait until I'm governor.

Change is Coming! ☀️

[Solon @solon_thinker]

@BernieSanders Jealous little muppet Sanders who is only a lowly millionaire himself, is it incandescent with rage that a younger infinitely smarter more hard working and industrious American is doing so much better than himself. What a pathetic moron Bernie Sanders is.

[Solon @solon_thinker]

@ClownWorld Polititians have only managed to build the turd world!

[Clown World ™ 🤡 @ClownWorld]

Liberals are melting down because Elon Musk became a trillionaire by building electric cars, rockets, and the world’s largest satellite network. The man literally built things. What did your favorite politician build?