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High above the circus of mainstream media spin, death-defying talk without the corporate safety net… this is The HighWire.

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🚨 TODAY IS THE DAY! An Inconvenient Study premieres TODAY, SUNDAY, 10/12, at the Malibu Film Festival! 📽️YOU can attend! There’s still a bit of time to click the link for tickets. Use code ICAN for 10% off! 📷 WATCH the film when it releases WORLDWIDE 10/12 at 5 pm PT (8 pm ET) on our website, FREE of CHARGE, and share it everywhere! 🚀We need your help to make it go viral. Attend. Host a watch party. Share it everywhere. This could change EVERYTHING.

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Farm Bill Showdown: The pesticide liability shield is no longer in the farm bill. But what happened on the floor has to be seen to be believed. Jefferey Jaxen walks through a night of congressional maneuvering that ended with a 280 to 142 vote adopting Representative Anna Paulina Luna's amendment, stripping three of the most controversial sections from the Farm, Food and National Security Act of 2026. The sections removed would have granted legal immunity to chemical manufacturers including foreign companies from China and Germany for products like glyphosate and other herbicides, modeled on the same liability shield vaccine makers have enjoyed for decades. Additional language that would have stripped states of their right to regulate pesticide use independently, handing that authority entirely to the EPA, was also removed by the amendment. The vote was a decisive win. What happened before that vote is a different story. When the Luna amendment first came to the floor for a verbal roll call, the room filled with ayes. No audible nays registered. The chair looked at that result and announced that the nays had it. Luna immediately requested a recorded vote. The chair postponed it. We play the audio twice, asking viewers to find a single nay in the recording. There are none. The chair's ruling stood until the recorded vote was forced through, at which point 280 members voted yes and 142 voted no, a margin that made the original ruling look exactly like what it was. Also incorporated into the farm bill as it passed the House is Representative Thomas Massie's PRIME Act, a longtime standalone bill that would allow farmers and ranchers to sell locally processed meat directly to restaurants, households, and community members without federal USDA oversight, with inspection handled by local health departments in the same way restaurant kitchens are inspected. Right now, a farmer selling steaks at a farmers' market typically has to route the animal through a large federally inspected processing plant, often owned by multinational corporations, before it can be sold. The PRIME Act changes that. The farm bill now moves to the Senate, where additional provisions that extend the EPA's timeline for completing its glyphosate safety assessment remain in the text and are drawing scrutiny. Long story short? Keep your eyes here.

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It worked with vaccines. They're trying it again with our food supply. While everyone's eyes are on bombs dropping overseas, something just happened in Washington that will affect every American sitting down to dinner for generations. The Trump administration's EPA filed a brief at the Supreme Court backing Bayer, arguing that because the EPA never required a cancer warning label on glyphosate, Bayer can't be held liable for not putting one there either. Never mind that the only major safety study the EPA leaned on to clear the product was just retracted weeks ago for its ties to industry. Never mind that three of the nine DOJ attorneys who signed the brief previously worked for law firms that represented Bayer and Monsanto. Glyphosate is sprayed on 80 to 90% of our crops. Over $10 billion has been paid out in cancer lawsuits. 97.8% of respondents to ICAN's poll oppose liability immunity for glyphosate manufacturers. 89% oppose the federal stockpile. And 80% say the retraction of that foundational safety study has shaken their trust in current safety claims. Del has been covering this since 2015 - before the lawsuits, before the WHO declared glyphosate a probable carcinogen, before any of this was mainstream. He saw exactly where it was heading. This is the same playbook as 1986. Get the government to grant immunity. Remove market forces. Remove the ability to sue. And then nobody has any reason to make a better product ever again. It worked with vaccines. They're trying it again with our food supply. April 27th. Washington DC. Supreme Court steps. The People vs. Poison. Mark it. Be there.

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Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell, built the for-profit peer-reviewed scientific journal system that has controlled what counts as "settled science" for decades. Scientists had to publish through it. Universities were forced to buy it at inflated prices. He sat at the top and collected the profits. That's the family tree. Now the Epstein files are filling in the rest of the picture. Bill Gates invested $10 million in ResearchGate - a 25-million-member science publishing platform. Gates' chief science and technology advisor, Dr. Boris Nikolic, was feeding Jeffrey Epstein real-time insider updates on the investment. Email after email. Progress reports. Funding round timelines. Hyping the platform's growing influence over what research gets amplified and what quietly disappears. Why would a sex trafficker care about a science publishing platform? Whoever controls the feeds and recommendations controls what research gets spotlighted, what projects get grants, and what the public is told is solid science. Epstein and the people around him weren't just collecting compromising information on powerful people. They were building an operational infrastructure to monopolize science, medicine, and narrative control. Gates first denied the Russian affairs in the files. Then admitted them. The limited hangout isn't working. And as this segment was going to air, the president of the World Economic Forum resigned over his ties to Epstein. The dominoes keep falling. And we keep watching. Jefferey Jaxen Full episode at

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