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The saga continues … here we are now standing at the edge of the abyss….

[Neal K. Shah @nealkshah]

The Medicare Advantage Bloodbath Has Begun (Check Your Mail). The largest disruption to Medicare Advantage in over 20 years is happening now, and millions of older adults are opening their mailboxes to a terrifying letter - your health plan will CEASE to exist on December 31. Humana, Centene, and Aetna are pulling out of entire counties, canceling thousands of plan options, and gutting drug coverage, which means some people could wake up on New Year’s Day with no private coverage at all.

There's a hidden trigger almost no one is explaining. The government quietly changed the math behind its Star Ratings (a method called Tukey outlier deletion), and overnight it wiped out billions in insurer bonus payments, an estimated $3.5 billion hit to Humana alone. The insurers are retaliating by abandoning unprofitable, mostly rural and suburban counties and stripping down the plans that stay.

BUT, there is a silver lining almost no one is talking about. Because the insurer is breaking the contract, a canceled plan hands you a rare “guaranteed issue” right: you can buy top-tier Medigap coverage with NO medical questions asked, even with cancer, heart disease, or diabetes.

In this deep dive I show you who is leaving, the December 7 trap, and how to turn this corporate retreat into the best coverage upgrade of your retirement.

Please share or repost to help older adults and caregivers navigate this season and make the best decisions for them. 🙏

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[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

This document might be singular in history. We’ve never held such an extensive and granular autobiographical accounting of human suffering and personal betrayal in this form, literally the most horrifying piece of nonfiction ever assembled. I’ve read Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago and it is a masterpiece but it is one account. This is thousands of accounts of private torture and pain, experienced in extreme isolation, not in a prison camp but in a living room or bedroom. It happened all over the country and in your own town.

https://t.co/diqgEbNStq

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

This is finally trending. You think you don't care but reading even just a few pages will change that. This document could completely disrupt the information landscape. https://t.co/npIpyEBzwp

[Chris Martenson @chrismartenson]

Let get this straight. Last night the Houthis torched the Jinza refinery and took out the Saudi east-west pipeline and oil got sold hard all night? Did i miss anything?

[Maryanne Demasi, PhD @MaryanneDemasi]

🚨The antidepressant question we’re still afraid to ask🚨
More than 20 years after @ABCaustralia deemed my documentary too controversial to air, the Lindsay Clancy mistrial has revived a question that remains taboo -- can antidepressants contribute to aggression and violence?

@SecKennedy @LauraDelano @MaryBowdenMD
@newstart_2024 @conservmillen @DrJosefWD

[Ali Zeck @AliBeckZeck]

I have never seen anything quite like what is happening around the Lindsay Clancy trial. As someone who spent decades inside the psychiatric system—at times taking multiple psychotropic drugs simultaneously and surviving multiple suicide attempts, I shudder at the lack of nuance, compassion and the outright cruelty surrounding this case from people who have never spent five minutes inside these experiences themselves.

I have spent years inside profoundly altered states and years outside of them—I know the difference. There is an astounding arrogance in applying ordinary assumptions about agency, choice and “personal responsibility” to altered states you have never experienced, particularly when we are talking about medications that carry FDA warnings for suicidality and, in the case of benzodiazepine withdrawal, severe reactions that can include psychosis, suicidal ideation and homicidal thoughts.

And before someone inevitably decides that I must really be “mentally ill,” because that makes my story easier to dismiss, I’m not going to rewrite my recovery into some neat little package. I came off psychiatric drugs in 2016 after being on and off them for 25 years and I was not suddenly fine and remained profoundly unstable for a period of time while dealing with prolonged withdrawal and an extremely destabilizing situation in my personal life, and I did have one final suicide attempt in 2017, but I’m fine now with a solid “mental health” check from multiple practitioners.

Which is precisely why I can finally look backward and ask what the hell happened to me and why, when I look at Lindsay, I see a woman who was losing herself while desperately trying to save herself. I see someone who knew something was terribly wrong and kept reaching out to the very system we tell people to reach out to when they’re falling apart. She didn’t refuse help—she went looking for it again and again—just like I did.

So what happened between the woman asking for help and the woman who killed her three children? What changed? What broke down and did the system she entered for help actually understand what was happening to her? I know enough from surviving that system myself to believe those questions deserve a hell of a lot more attention than they’re getting.

At Point A, we have a previously highly functioning woman, labor and delivery nurse and a mother of three who knows she is deteriorating, frightened and knows something is wrong and is desperately trying to get help, and she DID seek it. But I want to know what actually happened. What changed? What broke down? What happened as this previously functioning woman was losing herself while simultaneously recognizing that she was losing herself and still desperately reaching out for help?

She didn’t disappear overnight—there was a process. She sought psychiatric care, saw multiple clinicians and entered specialized perinatal treatment. She went to emergency care. She reported insomnia, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, fears about medication and feeling worse and eventually, she voluntarily admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital.

At Point B, months later, she has killed her three children, attempted to kill herself and survives with permanent paralysis.

What the hell happened between those two points, because there is an entire story between A and B, and people seem desperate to collapse it into a single explanation—she’s evil, she’s demonic, she was non-compliant, her husband did it, it’s a psyop or she planned it, and the reality is NONE of us know the answer and I would contend that even Lindsay doesn’t know what happened to her, and unless you’ve personally experienced it yourself, please sit down, and say,

“There but for the grace of God, go I.”

I’m not trying to tell you who Lindsay Clancy is—I’m asking what happened to her.

[Kevin Roy @KevinRo90321458]

Mapped out drug induced akathisia pathway.

These results are preliminary, they may change or contain errors. I condensed a lot of data into the image to make it manageable for reading. Here is a run down of what you are looking at.

The pathway to produce akathisia. All the drugs converge on this when starting or stopping them. For a bonus I'll include the SSRI to akathisia pathway and some antipsychotic information. Now you will know why they prescribe seroquel along side SSRI.

Anatomy behind akathisia

The medium spiny neurons (MSN) is in the nucleus accumbens shell. The Accumbens is ventral striatum, so it is basal ganglia. This cell GABA output is flipped and is the driver that produces akathisia. With the GABA output decreased it lifts the brake on the ventral pallidum. This failure triggers the habenula which turns the alarm on. This combination produces the urge to move and is the intolerable sensation of akathisia.

SSRI & Seroquel

Starting an SSRI raises serotonin. That can stimulate 5-HT2A/2C receptors on dopamine neurons and lower dopamine input to medium spiny neurons in the accumbens shell. Those cells then change their GABA output downstream (ventral pallidum / habenula path), which in some people feels like activation, anxiety, or akathisia.

Quetiapine blocks 5-HT2A/2C, which can restore some dopamine tone; at low dose it also blocks histamine H1, which is a big reason it helps sleep.

As you can see seroquel counters the anxiety the SSRI is producing. If that isn't strong enough a benzodiazepine can also be added.

All the akathisia producing drugs hit the medium spiny neurons using different doors whether starting the drug or in withdrawal.

Antipsychotics

Antipsychotic are the worse offenders next to BIND as they hit Door A,B and C at the same time.

- Door A they hit D2 on the MSN
- Door B they force a NE surge
- Door C the pallidal brake drops with them

[D. Alec Zeck @Alec_Zeck]

I know one thing for certain about this Lindsay Clancy trial, and I say this based on my own direct experience watching my mother suffer for years under a fistful of psychotropic medications:

Nowhere near enough attention is being paid to the fact that Lindsay Clancy was cycled on and off 13 different psychotropic medications in an absurdly short window of time.

For years, I watched my own mother suffer tremendously. I would never wish what my siblings and I, nor what my mother, experienced on anyone. It was hell.

She didn’t sleep for days on end, didn’t eat, screamed that it felt like her skin was burning off, screamed that it felt like her brain was being zapped, sat in front of her bathroom mirror staring wide eyed without saying anything, hallucinated that she was 13 years old and I was her father, saw demons and shadowy figures in the room, was in and out of psychiatric hospitals, and attempted to end her life more than once.

These drugs don’t just fail to fix people. They mask symptoms, manufacture new ones, and in some cases push people toward harming themselves or someone else—and the industry that profits from them has spent decades making sure the general public doesn’t fully grasp how often that happens. They rip people apart psychologically and physically. They rip families apart, too.

I’m not on “team Lindsay” or “team Patrick,” and I don’t know what happened in that house. But the medication piece keeps getting drowned out by true crime theorizing.

In the 4 months before the killings, Clancy was pumped through 13 different psychiatric medications, with over 30 total prescriptions as doses got yanked up, down, and swapped, by multiple providers who never once compared notes with each other.

The publicly available data backs this up, and they’re not “fringe” in any sense:

The FDA’s own 2006 review of 372 antidepressant trials (nearly 100,000 people) found a 2.3x jump in suicidality risk for patients under 25. That’s why every antidepressant in America now carries a black box warning.

A 2015 Swedish national study found SSRI users aged 15-24 were convicted of violent crimes at more than 5x the rate of non users (3.3% vs 0.6%). Sertraline in particular stood out among the top-prescribed SSRIs.

Roughly 1 in 4 American women is currently on some form of psychiatric medication, per the CDC’s own newest data, nearly double the rate for men. This isn’t a fringe issue at all. It’s mainstream medicine, quietly, on a massive scale.

And the problems with rapid switching or cold stopping these drugs, exactly what happened to Clancy, isn’t a fringe theory:

Antidepressant discontinuation syndrome is very real and can, at a minimum, trigger brain zaps, insomnia, anxiety, and suicidal ideation within days of stopping.

Benzodiazepine withdrawal is one of the most dangerous withdrawal syndromes in all of medicine, capable of triggering, at a minimum, rebound psychosis, seizures, and severe agitation. I watched that happen to my own mother.

Cross tapering (stopping one drug abruptly while starting another) can stack withdrawal from the first on top of side effects from the second, leaving a person destabilized from both directions at once.

According to the medical system’s own ideas, psychiatric medications typically take 4-6 weeks just to reach full effect, and many require slow, deliberate tapering over weeks specifically to avoid destabilizing the nervous system.

Going through 13 drugs in that same window means many of them never had time to even show whether they were “working” (which is a loaded, problematic idea, in and of itself…) before being swapped again.

13 different medications in 4 months is not normal, cautious psychiatric care, or at least it shouldn’t be. But it probably is relatively normal. And that’s the problem: it’s pure pharmacological, psychological chaos, and nobody bats an eye because this is just how the system runs…

[Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche @PGtzsche1]

Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and tried to kill herself. The jurors are deliberating. Read psychiatrist David Healy’s excellent account about psych drugs causing command hallucinations. https://t.co/6X3J39Riu4. She should be acquitted. See also https://t.co/rFBCFnEvNG

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

FDA REFUSED Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine because the company hadn’t tested it against the vaccines seniors actually receive.
Moderna called for White House intervention.
Trump intervened.
14 days later, FDA reversed itself.
The missing trial was never done.
Instead, FDA approved the vaccine for seniors and moved the experiment to after licensure, when up to 800,000 people will determine whether it actually provides greater clinical protection.
Meanwhile:
• ~137 people must switch vaccines to prevent one additional case of flu.
• For every 22 who switch, one additional person has a reaction severe enough to stop normal daily activity.
• FDA found 29 unexplained/sudden/sudden-cardiac deaths vs. 12 in controls. No autopsies were performed on the mFLUSIVA deaths.
• The FDA advisory panel voted 9–0. Twice.
• For seniors, FDA approved on antibodies, not demonstrated superiority in illness, hospitalization or death over the enhanced vaccines they already receive.
And this license can help lower the evidentiary burden for Moderna’s next mRNA vaccine.
This isn't just a story about a flu shot.
It is a story about what “FDA approved” now means.
Read the investigation:
https://t.co/LNQqUJKJXs

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Intelligent people live a boring life. They go to bed at 10. Wake up at 6. Eat simple foods. Go for long walks. Read thick books. Say no to things that drain them. The world chases excitement. But they chase calm. Things that align with their soul. A calm routine. A quiet mind. A healthy body. Meaningful work. A small circle. A private life. Their life may look boring from the outside. But from the inside, they experience a kind of freedom most people spend their entire lives searching for.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The SSRI cascade, start to finish.

- Month 1: prescribed for a sadness they pin on low serotonin, a thing never once measured in you or in anybody
- Month 2: the edge comes off, and so does the colour, the appetite, the wanting
- Month 4: nothing stirs below the waist, and you are told that is the depression, not the pill
- Month 6: heavier, slower, watching your own life through glass
- Month 9: sleep in ruins, so a second drug cleans up after the first
- Month 12: still flat, so up goes the dose, because more is the only lever they hold
- Month 18: now you are treatment resistant, a phrase whose one job is to move the blame onto you
- Month 24: sick of being a ghost in your own house, you try to come off

This is where you find the door was bolted from the outside.

The withdrawal arrives like weather. Electric shocks behind your eyes every time they move. The floor tilts, the dread pours in, you cannot hold a thought straight. You crawl back and are told, with real warmth, that this is your illness returning and proof you must stay on them for good.

It is not. A brain was rebuilt around a chemical, and that is the noise it makes when the chemical is pulled out. Roughly half of people who stop get it. They write the noise up as the disease, restore the dose, and the bolt slides shut.

For ten years the national guideline told your doctor it was mild and lasted about a week. Amended in 2019, quietly, to months and severe. Nobody wrote to the people already on them.

Same year, European regulators put a line on the label saying the sexual dysfunction can outlast the drug. Permanently, in some. Nobody mentioned that at the appointment where you started.

The imbalance they were topping up has never been found, in you or in anyone alive.

The finest customer is the one who cannot leave, cannot complain, and has been taught to thank you.

[Molly | PSSD @NumbNotDumb99]

I really wish they had a mental health professional on the stand who was well informed about medication adverse effects such as akathisia and withdrawal. But instead they resort to their bible, the DSM-5.

The majority of symptoms being discussed, such as flat affect and racing thoughts, can also occur as adverse effects of antidepressants or during withdrawal and are repeatedly reported in the iatrogenic-harm community.

I truly believe if people with lived experience of psych-med injury were able to testify, it would shed so much light on a lot of the issues involved in this case. #LindsayClancy
#LindsayClancyTrial #PSSD #Akathisia

[Chris Martenson @chrismartenson]

Annnnnd, there it is.

US diesel crack surpasses $100 a barrel for the first time on supply disruptions https://t.co/XLR3fkjf2W

[Drew Ponder @drew_ponder]

@emilyjashinsky @esaagar https://t.co/qRR7sg5dbs

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

People are coming off the fat jabs thin and unable to feel pleasure, and the mechanism behind it has a name.

The reports have gone from rare to routine. Nothing tastes of anything. Nothing is worth getting up for. The hobby stopped, the sex drive went, and the friends stopped ringing because there was nothing left to ring about.

The literature now lists anhedonia, emotional blunting and apathy together, on the same page.

Almost every account describes it the same way. The food noise went quiet, and then everything else went quiet with it.

Here is why, and it is the design of the drug rather than the dose.

Natural GLP-1 survives about two minutes in your bloodstream.

It fires after a meal, tells the brain the food has landed, and is gone before you have cleared the plate.

The injected version lasts a week.

Same receptor, same circuit, held open continuously instead of flashing once and stopping.

Now look at where those receptors sit.

The ventral tegmental area and the nucleus accumbens. The wanting circuit.

That circuit has no food setting. It is the one system running every reinforced behaviour you own.

Alcohol, nicotine, gambling, sex, novelty, ambition, the pull toward another person.

Which is exactly why these drugs quietly cut drinking in people who never set out to drink less, and reduce gambling and compulsive shopping in the trial data.

Rodent work found the drug flattens the phasic dopamine burst to a reward cue. The spike that means want that.

Hold that spike down for a week at a time, every week, and the wanting itself goes flat.

Retatrutide, the triple agonist, took 28.3 per cent of body weight off in phase 3. Around forty per cent of what comes off on these drugs is lean tissue.

Stop, and the fat returns. The muscle does not.

So the bill reads: a smaller body, less muscle, a payment every month for life, and the volume turned down on the machinery that makes anything feel worth doing.

They measured the pounds at week eighty.

Nobody asked whether anyone still looked forward to things.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

This story is so shocking. Even I am stunned in reading this.

Covid-19 vaccines and questions over miscarriage risk, by @MaryanneDemasi https://t.co/U8IMBTVEf2

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I’m sorry if you’re a Republican and don’t want to hear this but the National Debt is $3.6 Trillion higher than when Trump took office 18 months ago. Here’s the 90 second speech I gave the night they passed the Big Bankruptcy Bill.