Our first contribution to the rebeautification of the USA, here in Washington DC.
As Frenchmen, we are honored to serve the friendship between our two great nations.
There are MINI MAMDANIs popping up all around the country.
It is a dangerous thing — this is NOT a joke.
We are in a fight RIGHT NOW to save the Republic and EVERY AMERICAN needs to take this seriously.
The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.
The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.
The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.
The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.
The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.
The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.
The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.
Now it is today.
Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.
He is confident.
He has always been confident.
The confidence has never been the problem.
The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.
Memo to the fake news - the only time I’ll ever actually be concerned about the hit piece lies you write about me will be when you stop. Keep talking, it means I’m doing exactly what I should be doing. And no amount of BS you write will ever deter this FBI from making America safe again and taking down the criminals you love.
Joy Reid says white people “can’t invent anything.”
Same tired playbook, race-bait, divide, monetize.
Americans are DONE with it.
I’ve actually lived the reality they pretend to talk about. I spent a semester at Robert E. Lee Barracks, a place named after a Confederate general, in a country that once denied people like me basic rights.
And you know what I felt?
Gratitude.
Gratitude that in the United States of America, a Black man could live, learn, and lead at the greatest military academy in the world, alongside my brother, while my sister taught there, all of us thriving.
That’s not oppression.
That’s progress.
We don’t erase history, we learn from it. Because the moment you start rewriting the past, you risk repeating it.
I’ve been Black my entire life, and never once did I feel lesser walking those grounds. What I felt was pride in how far this country has come.
The City of London banks for them. Educates their children. Insures every tanker moving through the strait they control. And the same western establishment that built that arrangement spent twenty years telling you the future was wind turbines and romantic "multipolarity." They were never confused. They were covered.
Trump just negotiated with people who only speak force, in a world that still runs entirely on oil and gas and a single chokepoint managed by London's insurers. He showed the damnably credulous West what underpins its existence. The deal is fragile. It was always going to be.
Now the same people who built the contradiction are demanding more war. Of course they are. That's not principle — that's damage control. Leadership in a world in transition means making the deal the establishment said was impossible, with people the establishment created, through a strait the establishment still profits from. The hypocrisy isn't incidental. It's the whole business model.
An interim report from the state’s audit of the Memphis-Shelby County school system was unveiled by state leaders in Nashville on Wednesday.
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