Today’s Breaking Story of Matt Gaetz and Joel Greenberg

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C_jVa6SFmUI

 

Scientists map the interactions of key proteins linked with profound autism : NPR

After more than a decade, UCSF scientists have mapped around 100 varied genes associated with profound autism to a smaller set of biological pathways, offering a promising path for developing drugs...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/08/27/nx-s1-5944507/scientists-map-the-interactions-of-key-proteins-linked-with-profound-autism

Four suspects charged after one-ton cocaine bust reveals US-Mexico tunnel

Members of Jalisco New Generation cartel used fake retail store in San Diego as a front for trafficking drugs…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/san-diego-drug-tunnel

 

The FDA is a complete mess’: Trump makes fate of agency chief unclear as public trust plummets

Makary’s tenure at the FDA has been marked by several controversial decisions on drugs and vaccines amid plummeting staff morale over layoffs and the appointments of divisive officials. Recent political clashes include abortion, drugs and vaping, but decisions to pull back publications on the safety of shingles and Covid vaccines, among other immunization decisions, have also rocked public health. There have also been concerns about the transition from two clinical trials to one, the commissioner’s new priority review vouchers and “data-free” regulatory decisions...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/09/marty-makary-fda-food-drug-administration

 

DOJ in Puerto Rico Halted Drugs-for-Votes Investigation — ProPublica

Leaders of the prison gang known as Los Tiburones, or the Sharks, were selling drugs to inmates not only for money, but for their votes. Specifically, votes for now-Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican and supporter of President Donald Trump, investigators found...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-puerto-rico-election-fraud-prison-drugs-votes

 

Effect of ‘gamechanger’ Alzheimer’s drugs ‘trivial’, review concludes

“The sad truth is that even the best-performing drugs don’t do anything that’s clinically meaningful.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/16/effect-gamechanger-alzheimers-drugs-trivial-review-concludes

 

Trump has a list of demands for Venezuela’s new leader - POLITICO

"She also needs to move herself away from what happened," Berg said. "While at the same time, she needs to be open to pushing pro-U.S. policies that are going to be very difficult for her regime to swallow, given that they have a 27-year history of seeing the United States as the greatest enemy."… 

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/trump-demands-venezuela-leader-00711728 

 

Trump strikes deal with US drugmakers to cut Medicaid medicine costs

Donald Trump and nine major pharmaceutical companies on Friday announced deals that will slash the prices of their medicines for the government's Medicaid program and for cash payers, in his latest bid to align US costs with those in other wealthy nations...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/19/trump-drugs-costs-medicaid

 

US strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific kills four, as Trump accuses Venezuela of taking ‘our oil’

On Wednesday, House Republicans rejected a pair of Democratic-backed resolutions which would have forced the Trump administration to seek authorisation from Congress before continuing attacks against cartels that it deems to be terrorist organisations or launching an attack on Venezuela itself...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/17/military-strike-pacific-hegseth

 

Explaining how boats work for MAGA cult members.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee4pWWMnKgo

 

Trump’s False Drug Claims & Illegal Orders #paulapoundstone #trump

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9HJOrXxfZB4

US justice department memo about boat strikes diverges from Trump narrative

Exclusive: Officials frame strikes as self-defense against violence, without naming aggressor, while Trump claims they're to stop US overdose deaths…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/25/trump-caribbean-boat-strikes-memo

 

Trump looks to increase military action against Venezuela - The Washington Post

The administration has surged warships, planes and troops to the Caribbean for drug interdiction. Some see the ultimate goal as toppling Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/22/venezuela-trump-maduro-war-narcotics/

Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats - The Washington Post

But records and interviews with 20 people familiar with the route or the strikes, including current and former U.S. and international officials, contradict the administration's claims. The passage, they said, is not ordinarily used to traffic synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, present in 69 percent of drug overdose deaths last year. Nor are the drugs typically headed for the United States. 

Trinidad and Tobago, a Caribbean nation more than 1,000 miles south and 1,200 miles east of Miami, is both a destination market for marijuana and a transshipment point for South American cocaine bound for West Africa and Europe, according to U.S. officials, Trinidadian police and independent analysts. The fentanyl seized in the United States, in contrast, is typically manufactured in Mexico using precursors from China and smuggled in through the land border, most often by U.S. citizens…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/20/trump-attacks-venezuela-drug-boats/

US struck another boat illegally carrying drugs off Venezuela coast, Trump says

"International law does not allow governments to simply murder alleged drug traffickers," the UN said last month. "Criminal activities should be disrupted, investigated and prosecuted in accordance with the rule of law, including through international cooperation."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/05/trump-drug-boat-strike-venezuela 

 

Hegseth says four killed in US strike on alleged drug boat off Venezuelan coast

Pentagon chief says strike – fourth by US military in recent weeks – targeted boat with 'substantial amounts' of drugs…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/hegseth-venezuela-deadly-boat-strike

 

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting. - Washington Post

A pipeline thrown into chaos… A surge in malaria deaths…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/usaid-trump-malaria-hiv-drugs-death/

It’s Never the Guns (Conspirituality podcast #275)

Less than two weeks after a shooter unloaded 500 rounds at the CDC in Atlanta, RFK Jr gutted that agency's violence prevention research by firing 100 employees. Less than a month later, Charlie Kirk was shot in front of a crowd of 3K at a Utah university. Millions saw the graphic clip online, which ignited a propaganda and disinformation culture war. Meanwhile, yet another child shot his classmates at a Denver high school that same day.

It's not the guns though, say the GOP pundits and politicians, it's the violent rhetoric from the left, and those hateful transgender antifascists. Just ask RFK Jr. He'll confirm that it's not the guns, but all those kids overmedicated on dangerous antidepressants.

What are SSRIs anyway, do hurt people hurt people, and do gun laws have any effect?
Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/275-its-never-the-guns

Venezuela says 11 killed in US boat strike were not gang members amid reports vessel was returning to shore

Interior minister says 'murder has been committed' while US Congress demands justification for attack…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/venezuela-boat-strike-tren-de-aragua-trump 

SSRIs and mass shootings what the science says - The Washington Post

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that psychiatric drugs may have played a role in the Minnesota Catholic school shooting — a statement widely criticized as unsupported by science...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/29/ssris-mass-shootings-science-rfk/