Thomas Massie and I are not done working together. Section 224 of our defense bill means to integrate our military with Israel's military.
As a senior member of the Armed Services committee, I am introducing an amendment to stop financing and enabling war crimes.
@NancyMace Groveling at the feet of a terrible human being whose presidency is tanking as he is exposed daily for either lying or failing- does it get worse??
I don't think you need to be libertarian to understand how ridiculous it is that a mushroom (or anything) that grows out of the earth is made illegal by a government. God was OK with it...
Psilocybin neurologically weakens the brain circuits that keep you stuck in the same thoughts, and we can now see exactly how.
In December 2025, the Kwan lab at Cornell published a study in Cell that mapped, for the first time, how the brain rewires post-psilocybin.
You might recognize the Kwan lab.
In 2021, they were the first to show that psilocybin grows new dendritic spines in the frontal cortex within 24 hours of a single dose. That study proved psilocybin physically changes brain structure.
This new one answers the question it left open: where do those new connections actually go?
The method was as creative as the findings.
They gave mice psilocybin, then injected an engineered rabies virus into the frontal cortex a day later.
Rabies evolved to jump from neuron to neuron across synapses, which is why it’s so deadly.
The researchers turned that into a feature, modifying the virus to tag every connected neuron with fluorescent proteins instead of killing them. Then they imaged the entire brain.
For too long in this field, psychedelic-induced neuroplasticity has been a picture painted in broad strokes.
Now, we finally have evidence for the fact that psilocybin selectively weakens the feedback loops where the cortex talks to itself in circles. These are the circuits associated with rumination, the repetitive negative thought patterns that define depression and anxiety.
At the same time, psilocybin strengthens the pathways connecting sensory perception to subcortical action regions, likely leading to stronger connection and responsiveness to the world around you.
But the finding that matters most for practitioners is this: this rewiring process is activity-dependent.
The neural activity happening during the psilocybin experience determines which specific circuits get rebuilt. The researchers proved this by chemically silencing one brain region during the session; then, the expected rewiring pattern in that region changed completely.
What's happening in your brain while you're on psilocybin is literally directing the construction.
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Trump in 2008: Anyone who invades the Middle East under false pretenses should be impeached.
If you backed @RepThomasMassie because he challenged war, defended liberty, respected constitutional limits, and refused to bow to political strongmen, you are not politically homeless.
You are just closer to libertarianism than the Republican Party ever wanted you to realize.