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#1 Glyphosate Forests – Engineered to Burn - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, Sarah the Homeopath, BlackBetty, Massimo, Zen Honeycutt, FactPost, and GM Watch on X
Presently, as smoke from more than 900 wildfires drifts across the continent and Americans gasp as they breathe it in sitting on their front porches, it is important to understand that our own government has helped make these fires worse by using glyphosate-based herbicides on our nation’s forests year after year, often from the air. These toxic applications, at the expense of the communities and wildlife that depend on the land for clean water and healthy food, make the fires more uniform and more flammable...
#2 A Senate Panel Has Voted to Hold Fauci in Contempt of Congress. What Happens Next? - Connor Greene for Time, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, Rand Paul, NH Miami, The Associated Press, and The New York Post/SK Walker on X
The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Thursday voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress following a contentious hearing in which the infectious disease expert declined to answer lawmakers’ questions over 100 times. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a hearing last week, where Republican senators probed him over the U.S. government’s response to the COVID pandemic and the disputed origins of the virus. Fauci has long been a target of GOP attacks and investigations over his role in leading the pandemic response...
#3 Doc Dump Reveals Top Secret Bill Gates Clearance During COVID Years - Andrew Chapados for Blaze Media, Rand Paul/God & Country, Jim Ferguson, God & Country, ThePatrioticBlonde™, and Ms. Jazz on X
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says that Bill Gates had a "private editor" who worked at the National Institutes of Health. At the same time, Paul released documents that point to Gates having the highest level of access at the Department of Energy as well as getting insider briefings from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Known as "Q" clearance, the DOE classification is the department's rough equivalent to Top-Secret National Security Information clearance for access to Restricted Data, the DOE's special category of classified information. In a huge document dump as part of his ongoing investigation into the origins of COVID-19, Paul showed that Gates held the clearance for seven years, "including during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic."
#4 Safety Fears as Scientists Make First Viruses Designed by AI - Ian Sample for The Guardian, Disclose.tv, Justine Bateman/The New York Times, Financial Times, Andrew Curren, and Mark Kretschmann on X
Scientists have made the first viruses designed by artificial intelligence in a milestone that raises hopes for new medicines but also concerns over how to ensure the technology remains safe. The viruses are a specific type known as bacteriophages, which infect only bacteria and are used around the world to treat patients with persistent infections. In lab tests, a cocktail of AI-designed viruses killed E. coli that were resistant to natural bacteriophages. Dr. Brian Hie, a chemical engineer at Stanford University in California, used genome language models, the genetic equivalent of the large language models behind AI chatbots, to design functioning genomes for bacteriophages. The viruses were then made in the laboratory and pitted against E coli in a dish...
#5 As of Last Night, the u.s Government Will Never Get to Tell Doctors What They Can Say Anymore - Pierre Kory, MD, MPA Medical Musings, Dr. Lynn Fynn-derella (ret), Catherine, Justin Hart, Covid Analysis: 200+ COVID-19 treatments, and RealSteveB 714/Amy Reichert on X
Last night, I received a call from my amazing lawyer, Rick Jaffe, who also represented Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski back in the day during the FDA’s decades-long persecution of him, which I wrote about previously. Anyway, he called me with some big news: a federal judge had just signed an order that, four years ago, I thought I would never get. In the case Kory v. Bastard, err, I mean Bonta, senior United States District Judge William B. Shubb granted our renewed motion for a preliminary injunction and ordered not only California’s Attorney General but also the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board, as well as ANYONE acting on their behalf, to stop investigating us, stop prosecuting us, stop harassing us...
#6 Trump Administration Considers Order on Autism and Vaccines, Source Says - Yasmeen Abutaleb for Reuters, Matthew Herper, Rachel Cohrs Zhang, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, STORM NEWS, and BlazeTV on X
The Trump administration is considering an executive order on vaccines and autism that could be released as soon as next week, a person familiar with the discussions said on Thursday. The effort is driven by President Donald Trump's interest in further action on autism, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal private discussions. The source did not provide details of the scope of the executive order, which was reported earlier by Bloomberg News...#7 President Trump Signs Executive Orders on Chip Materials and Birthright Citizenship - Sundance for The Conservative Tree House, Bev&Jake In Pittsburgh, CitizensGiST,
Cecily Winter: getting my act together., JPHM1968, and The Hill on X
President Trump signed several executive orders today on the topic of computer chip manufacturing, birthright citizenship and birth tourism...
#8 Lisa Murkowski Says She’ll Vote Against Todd Blanche’s Nomination for Attorney General, Imperiling His Chances - CBS News, Worldwide News Network, RL, Monica/Benny Johnson, Desiree/Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and NBC4 Washington on X
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Friday she will oppose Todd Blanche's nomination as attorney general, narrowing the confirmation path for President Trump's pick to lead the Justice Department. The Alaska senator said in a statement on social media that she is concerned the Trump administration could proceed with its proposed fund to compensate Jan. 6 rioters even though Blanche has issued a formal order terminating it. Murkowski said the Senate has leverage over the fund only because Blanche's nomination is pending. That leverage would be gone if he is confirmed, she said. Blanche won over the Senate Judiciary Committee in a 12-10 vote this week only because he promised Republican holdouts that he would not pursue the payout fund...
#9 Crenshaw Weighs in on ‘Dumb’ $20 Burrito Sparking Debate Over Affordability - Finya Swai for The Hill, #TuckFrump, Kevin Roberts, Common Sense with Chad Law, AsNeeded, The Futurist Devil and MikeAngus on X
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) doubled down on his comments Thursday after drawing criticism for telling Americans concerned about high food prices to “stop whining” and “get a job,” as a viral debate over the cost of a $20 burrito exposed divisions among the GOP over affordability “Just hearing about this dumb $20 burrito debate so just thought I’d make the losers on social media angry before going to bed,” Crenshaw posted on social platform X late Wednesday...
#10 Rep. Steube to Newsmax: El-Sayed Win Exposes Dems' Socialist Shift - Theodore Bunker for NEWSMAX, Michael Nelson, vanhoa, American me., American MAGA Patriot/Vince Langman, and Woke_Resistance on X
Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., told Newsmax Thursday that Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan's Democrat Senate primary shows the party has shifted sharply toward socialism and could benefit Republicans in November. El-Sayed, a former Wayne County health director who previously led Detroit's health department, narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., and will face Republican Mike Rogers for the seat being vacated by Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., in a battleground state President Donald Trump carried in 2024...
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