🇺🇸 RFK Jr. is going after antidepressants.
1 in 6 American adults is currently on one.
Kennedy just issued a formal letter directing providers to push non-drug treatments and tighten informed consent rules.
His central claim: SSRI withdrawal can be harder to get through than heroin withdrawal.
The real issue is whether 17 million Americans were ever clearly told what getting off them actually involves.
Source: MoNews YT
SSRIs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, were sold as miracle drugs, tiny pills that would “correct a chemical imbalance” and bring people back to happiness.
There’s just one problem: the “chemical imbalance” theory was never conclusively proven in the first place.
Yet millions were prescribed drugs that alter serotonin signaling for years, sometimes decades, often with little warning about what happens when you try to stop.
And stopping can be brutal.
Patients describe brain zaps, panic attacks, emotional collapse, dizziness, insomnia, dissociation, and waves of depression far worse than the symptoms that got them prescribed the drugs in the first place.
For years, much of psychiatry brushed this off as “relapse.”
Now even mainstream research admits antidepressant withdrawal can be severe, prolonged, and psychologically destabilizing.
What’s becoming harder to ignore is that SSRIs don’t necessarily make people happier.
Many users report the opposite: emotional blunting, not sadness., not joy, just flatness.
A growing body of research shows 40–60% of SSRI users experience some degree of emotional numbing, where pleasure, excitement, love, motivation, and even grief become muted.
The drugs may reduce emotional lows, but often by sanding down the highs too.
That’s not emotional health. That’s chemical dampening.
And the longer someone stays on SSRIs, the more the brain adapts to the drug’s constant presence.
Researchers increasingly point to neuroadaptation, changes in receptor sensitivity and serotonin signaling, as one reason withdrawal can become so difficult and prolonged.
The brain adjusts itself around the medication, then when the medication disappears, the nervous system struggles to recalibrate.
That’s why many people don’t feel “addicted” to SSRIs in the classic sense, but still find themselves unable to stop without spiraling into withdrawal symptoms mistaken for mental illness returning.
None of this means antidepressants never help anyone.
For some people in acute crisis, they absolutely can.
But the public was sold a simplistic fairy tale: low serotonin equals sadness, pill equals happiness; reality is messier.
Silver Pines | Gameplay Trailer
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▪️2D "survival horror metroidvania" inspired by The X-Files and Twin Peaks
▪️Coming to PS5, Xbox, Switch and PC in 2026
▪️Play as private investigator Red Walker tracking Eddie Velvet, a missing musician in small town America
▪️The case "soon slips into a strange and nightmarish descent beyond his control"
▪️"Love letter to classic survival horror", fight or avoid "nightmarish terrors", scavenge for resources and solve puzzles blocking your way
▪️Locked doors, hidden paths with things to discover, find better tools and weapons to unlock more of the town
▪️Large variety of "challenging monsters and hulking bosses"
▪️Graphic novel style cutscenes, "rotoscope animation"
🚨 🇺🇸 TRUMP DELIVERS ON TARIFF PROMISE: $2,000 CHECKS COMING MID-2026
Trump just announced a concrete timeline for his tariff dividend program, promising $2,000 checks to middle-income Americans by mid-2026.
The payouts will come from record tariff revenues as American manufacturing roars back to life.
Trump:
"We're going to be issuing dividends... probably the middle of next year, a little bit later than that.
Thousands of dollars for individuals of moderate income, middle income"
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirms legislation is needed, but with tariffs generating historic revenue, the math works.
Trump's turning foreign countries' payments into direct benefits for working Americans.
The Supreme Court case on tariffs becomes even more critical.
Trump's fighting to keep this American-first economic engine running full throttle.
Source: Axios
🇺🇸 ZOHRAN MAMDANI'S MOM: “HE IS NOT AN AMERICAN AT ALL”
In a resurfaced 2013 interview, filmmaker Mira Nair said her son, NYC socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, was “not an American at all.”
She described him instead as a “total desi” and “not a firang,” a term critics say is used to mock outsiders.
At the time, Mamdani was a college student pushing anti-Israel campaigns and co-founding a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter.
Nair bragged, “We only speak Hindustani at home.”
GOP consultant Mehek Cooke slammed the comments:
“Ungrateful and disrespectful.
Rejecting the label of ‘American’ while enjoying every freedom and opportunity this country offers is a rejection of American values.”
Now, with Mamdani running for NYC mayor, his mother’s old words are back in the spotlight, raising serious questions about loyalty, gratitude, and identity.
Source: Fox News
If you hate America, then leave.
Go back to the country you came from and make that country great.
But stop trying to turn America into the place you escaped from.
The current cost to renounce your citizenship is $2,350.
I’d like to propose that the White House waive that fee until 2028 and encourage those who hate America to leave.
But with one caveat: you permanently give up the right to ever apply for U.S. citizenship again.
Go to a country you love, and contribute to that society.
Our future would be safer, happier, and filled with greater pride in what 🇺🇸 stands for.