🚨 LIVE NOW | EP 495: @NicHulscher on the Henry Ford vaxxed versus unvaxxed data, AI companies seeking liability shields, the NIH’s vaccine injury study, and @DenisRancourt’s new mortality data. Watch now 👇 nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1kJzDPNvD…

What if fear is more than just an emotion? David Icke tells @DelBigtree why he believes the endless cycle of fear, division, anxiety, and chaos is not accidental, and why breaking free begins with recognizing what has power over you. This conversation goes places most interviews never dare to go. Follow @highwireplus and sign up free at highwire.plus for access to this and more content previously exclusive to monthly donors.

Six major U.S. hospital systems have agreed to stop giving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to anyone under 18, as part of Justice Department settlements over how the procedures were billed to Medicaid. Texas Children's Hospital agreed to pay more than $10 million and build the country's first dedicated detransition clinic. NYU Langone agreed to pay $8.5 million. Four other systems, including Cleveland Clinic and Mount Sinai, settled for smaller amounts and committed millions more toward care for former patients now detransitioning. The settlements trace back to an HHS-commissioned report called Wolves in White Coats, which found tens of millions of dollars in insurance claims coded in ways that didn't match the actual diagnoses. @Smiddendorp22 has what each of the six hospitals agreed to and how the numbers add up. Full story linked below 👇 bit.ly/DOJ-Halts-Minors

"There's something seriously wrong with these vaccines. If you inflict them on healthy children, that's murder." Former UK Parliament member Andrew Bridgen said that to colleagues in November 2022. One agreed with him, then told Bridgen he'd already had two heart attacks after his second Pfizer shot and still wouldn't back him publicly. Bridgen says the government offered him anything he wanted to stay quiet months earlier, in writing, because they'd never had anyone turn it down before. He tells the full story tonight at 8 PM ET on "Off the Record" with Del Bigtree. Sign up free at HighWire.Plus 👇

After 30 years comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated patients in his own practice, Dr. Bob Sears says it isn't close. "Unvaccinated kids are just healthier. They live healthier, longer, happier lives with fewer health conditions," he says. An Inconvenient Study, the documentary now watched by more than 130 million people worldwide, backs up exactly what he's already seen play out in his office. If you're near San Antonio or Austin, they're hosting a screening and live Q&A this Monday, September 28. Get tickets at AnInconvenientStudy.com

Our own HighWire executive producer, Jen Sherry, got so tired of the Halloween candy fight that she started fixing it herself. Last year her daughter Alexa walked up after trick-or-treating and said, "Here, Mom, here's the bag," handing over the toxic stuff without a fight. Jen swapped it for a Tricked by the Treat bag instead. Alexa's take: "It was the best Halloween ever." No GMO corn syrup, no hydrogenated oils, no artificial dyes. Just real ingredients kids actually love, chocolate, gummies, lollipops, bubblegum, all of it. This year's packs come with 15% more candy and a Switch Adventures storybook to build the excitement before the big night. Half of every sale supports nonprofits protecting children's health. Order by October 2 for 10% off sitewide. trickedbythetreat.com 👇

This is terrible. Brigitte Stegemann was 83, deaf, and spoke English as a second language when a Canadian care facility scheduled her for euthanasia one week after her granddaughter left on a 10-day trip. According to her granddaughter, staff never used the words "death" or "dying" with her. During her competency assessment, Stegemann said she had no living siblings. She had 13, two still alive. She was declared competent minutes later, and the procedure went ahead days after that. Belleville Police say the case is now under criminal investigation. The same week, a Dutch review committee ruled that a physician "acted with due care" in ending the life of a child not yet two years old, the first case under a 2024 protocol expansion covering children ages 1 to 12. The child's treatment team agreed to end the child's life. Independent doctors brought in for a second opinion disagreed, saying there were still pain-control options that hadn't been tried. The committee sided with the treatment team anyway. @Smiddendorp22 has the full details on both cases as similar programs continue expanding into more U.S. states. Full story linked below 👇 bit.ly/Euthanasia_cases

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We love this... Last Halloween, Alexa Sherry walked up to her mom and said the thing no parent expects to hear on trick-or-treat night: "Here, Mom, here's the bag." Her mom, HighWire executive producer Jen Sherry, swapped it for a stash from Tricked by the Treat, a group of parents and natural food and candy companies making Halloween candy without hydrogenated oils, artificial dyes, or GMOs. Alexa's verdict: "It was the best candy ever." The idea started after Alexa got sick from regular Halloween candy one year, waking up at 1 a.m. throwing up. Last year, Tricked by the Treat sold out in homes across the country, including Alaska and Hawaii, and the Sherrys are doing it all again this Halloween. It's 10% off through October 2nd, and half of the proceeds support @ICANdecide. Get on this one!!! bit.ly/tricked_by_the_treat

A stay-at-home mom who learned to bake from her grandmother can finally sell that same pie for real money to the people who live down the road from her... That is happening in 34 states and D.C. now, thanks to cottage food and food freedom laws passed or expanded since 2015. Every state in the country allows some form of home-based food sales today, all the way up through New Jersey, the last state to come around, in 2021. And here is the sweet part. In the three states that actually track this, Wyoming, North Dakota, and Utah, there have been zero foodborne-illness outbreaks tied to a food freedom sale. @ChelleWards and @tracybeanz look at what it means for a community when your neighbor can sell you a pie again. Full editorial linked below 👇 bit.ly/neighbors_pie

"It's like a supercharged immune system." Dr. Ron Elfenbein, who treated COVID patients with monoclonal antibody infusions, breaks down what the drug actually is and how it differs from a vaccine. A vaccine trains your body to build its own antibodies over time. A monoclonal antibody treatment skips that step entirely, giving you an already-made antibody through an IV infusion. Elfenbein says patients would often start recovering right away.

The federal government told Dr. Ron Elfenbein his clinic needed to stop using monoclonal antibodies because they no longer worked against Omicron. Elfenbein says his clinic had just finished treating more than 5,000 patients with the drug during the pandemic and recorded zero treatment failures. He says officials pointed to Omicron crossing a 70% threshold as the reason, but that no clinical studies existed at the time showing the treatment had actually lost effectiveness against that variant. Elfenbein had built the infusion program at HHS's own request, part of a federal equity initiative to bring the treatment to underserved communities. A contractor running the program for HHS gave him five days to shut it down in early December, and weeks later the government closed the program nationwide.

HHS asked the public this fall how CDC should sort vaccines into its routine, risk-based, and shared clinical decision-making categories. @ICANdecide filed a formal comment in response, arguing that every vaccine decision, not just some, should require a doctor and patient to weigh the individual's medical history and risk factors before any shot is given. ICAN also told HHS that any vaccine without randomized, placebo-controlled trial data and one to four years of safety follow-up should lose its CDC recommendation, and that VAERS, V-safe, CISA, and VSD are too compromised to catch real safety signals. HHS received 35,660 public comments on the proposal. Read ICAN's full comment and help fund the next fight 👇

A Michigan House committee held a hearing last week on an unpublished Henry Ford Health study, the same one at the center of @ICANdecide's film "An Inconvenient Study." Epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher told lawmakers that in a peer-reviewed reanalysis of the study's raw data, all 22 chronic health conditions tracked showed up more often in vaccinated children than unvaccinated children. Several conditions, including ADHD, diabetes, and intellectual disabilities, appeared zero times in the unvaccinated group. Hulscher was careful to say the data shows an association, not proof that vaccines caused those conditions. The committee also played a clip from ICAN's film of the study's senior author, Dr. Marcus Zervos, saying he was reluctant to publish because he didn't want to "suffer what McCullough did." Henry Ford Health was offered time to open and close the hearing. They chose not to show up. @Smiddendorp22 has the full breakdown, including what happened when a lawmaker challenged how long the unvaccinated children were actually followed. Full story linked below 👇 bit.ly/Henry_Ford_Study

This Thursday on The HighWire! Liability protection is spreading. First vaccines, then glyphosate, and now the creators of AI want shields of their own so they can't be held responsible for what their AI does. Del and Jefferey Jaxen dig into what could go wrong. A breakthrough at the NIH, which says it will begin investigating vaccine injury. Two words the government has rarely put together. Plus, Del sits down with physicist Denis Rancourt, who crunched the numbers during COVID and showed no study proved masks could stop a virus that small. A star witness at Canada's Allison Inquiry, he’s bringing shocking new data on mortality. Tune in at 11 AM PT/2 PM ET at TheHighWire.com

Like several doctors who helped patients during COVID, he was targeted. Dr. Ron Elfenbein faced 50 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines over a $250 billing dispute. All five patients in question were real, seen, and treated. Elfenbein says the entire case came down to a disagreement over a billing code, not fraud. The toll on his family: two and a half years unable to work, three of his four kids now in therapy, and one who didn't leave his bed for an entire year. Elfenbein is now facing a second trial in January. @delbigtree says he's sending this story up the chain, including to RFK Jr. If you want to help Ron, here's how: givesendgo.com/doctorelfenbe… 👇

A federal judge threw out @RonElfenbeinmd 's Medicare fraud conviction after the jury found him guilty. The judge wrote that the evidence weighs so heavily in Elfenbein's favor that letting the conviction stand would be unjust, and that no reasonable jury could have reached the verdict it did. Right before Trump's inauguration, the outgoing Biden DOJ appealed the ruling anyway. Elfenbein now faces a second criminal trial in January. The American Medical Association filed an amicus brief in his defense, arguing there was no fraud and nothing criminal in what he did. @delbigtree says doctors and scientists who spoke up during the pandemic are losing their licenses worldwide, and Elfenbein's case is part of the same pattern.

He helped patients access COVID treatment. Then Dr. Ron Elfenbein found himself facing federal fraud charges. "A case of shoot first and ask questions later." @RonElfenbeinmd says that's how the judge described the Medicare fraud case against him. Federal prosecutors alleged his COVID testing clinic submitted more than $1.5 million in fraudulent Medicare claims, built on five charts flagged out of the more than 100,000 patients the clinic saw during that period. The government did not allege that any patient suffered a financial loss. Elfenbein says no professional coder reviewed those charts on the government's side. When his own team hired one to review hundreds of charts, he says all of them came back coded correctly. He also says the government got his name wrong throughout the charging documents.

🚨 Massachusetts wants to put a nurse in the home of every new parent. The proposal is voluntary. But it also expands mental-health and substance-use screening, while COVID-era medical literature openly debated whether vaccine hesitancy could be a form of delusion. So where is the line between help and oversight, especially when parents make medical choices the system does not like? @JeffereyJaxen breaks it down on this week’s Download. Watch The Download every Monday at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET, right here on X or at TheHighWire.com!

More than 98% of COVID-19 vaccine injury claims have been denied so far. Federal law gives HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the authority to review or reverse any of those decisions. ICAN's legal team found that authority in the statute and formally appealed to Kennedy to reexamine the denied cases. @delbigtree says the discovery wasn't Kennedy's. It came from ICAN's legal team combing through HHS documents looking for exactly this kind of opening, work made possible by the people who fund it. Sign the petition: bit.ly/PetitionToRFK and consider donating to @ICANdecide so that this kind of work continues here: bit.ly/DONATEICAN