100% this👇🎯

Founders were oriented on Being and flatly reject Becoming.

"all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"

ends the argument for any other interpretation. https://t.co/D0DScw8nqC

— Linuxhippie (@linuxhippie) May 9, 2026

DANIELLE GANSKY: Withdrawal is a misnomer. This is a neurological injury that can persist for years and may be permanent for some.

I promise you, going out in the sunlight is the best antidepressant.  Do it with your shoes and socks off, wiggle the toes, put your feet on the ground, feel the moisture, the pebbles, the curvatures of the earth, roots of the trees, and overall terrain.  Expose more of your body to the sun.  Go shirtless or wear a tanktop.  Wear shorts. No sunglasses.  Let that sun touch you.  Lay out for 30 minutes on one side, then turn over, let the sun hit your back.  That one-hour walk and rest is the gold standard antidepressant.  Follow this up with a good cheeseburger, maybe some mackerel for potent DHA.

I am still trapped on the same SSRI I was prescribed at 7 years old because every attempt to come off has resulted in severe, debilitating withdrawal....

At 23 years old, I decided I wanted to come off antidepressants. Despite having been on them virtually my entire life —… pic.twitter.com/FGrIMFabD0

— danielle gansky (@DanielleGansky) May 9, 2026

I'm still trapped on the same SSRI I was prescribed as a child.  I cannot come off it because of the severe debilitating withdrawals. Withdrawal is a misnomer. This is a neurological injury that can persist for years and may be permanent for some.  Suffering is so immense many people end up taking their lives in withdrawal.  I first tried to come off antidepressants at 23 years old.  I am now 30. I've been in protracted withdrawal for the last 7 years, all caused by the standard doctor-directed taper that damaged my nervous system.  What happened to me is not rare. My story is just one window into a much larger hidden Public Health crisis that is quietly devastating countless lives.  It's my life's mission to create changes to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else.  The label doesn't warn you that these drugs can fundamentally alter your brain so severely that coming off may be impossible or that even one dose can cause irreversible loss of emotions and the ability to feel love leaving you chemically castrated and mentally lobotomized. When it does happen you're left blindsided, gaslit, and without any medical support.  People have a fundamental right to full and honest information about the harms of SSRIs before they ever take them. When those risks are withheld it's not just unethical, it's a violation of basic human rights.  We cannot give back the years that have been stolen from us.  We cannot undo the lives that have already been devastated but we can prevent this unnecessary suffering from happening to anyone else.  We urgently need black box warnings that clearly warn patients about the true life-altering and sometimes permanent risks, and we need federally endorsed, evidence-based tapering guidelines so people can come off their antidepressants safely without risking a brain injury.  We need research and funding so we can better understand these injuries and provide real support for those who are already suffering.  

Thank you to this Administration and Secretary Kennedy for your leadership and courage and taking on this hidden Public Health crisis as it will truly save countless lives. 

DEAL TEAM 6

This is a huge step toward draining the swamp. The defense budget is full of waste, fraud, and abuse, much of which is legal. https://t.co/gkT77s4t3M

— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) May 9, 2026

MARTIN ARMSTRONG: [Mexico] maintains a younger labor force than Europe, Japan, South Korea, or even China, while remaining deeply connected to the largest consumer economy on earth.

"Mexicans Are Feeling the Economy Grow in Real Time," Martin Armstrong, Armstrong Economics, May 9, 2026.

Mexico recently attracted more than $36 billion in foreign direct investment while exports surpassed $600 billion annually, making the country one of the largest manufacturing exporters in the world.

Mexico is increasingly benefiting from one of the largest supply chain realignments in modern economic history. Factories are expanding, industrial wages are rising, foreign investment is pouring in, and millions of Mexicans are experiencing growing economic opportunity in real time as capital shifts closer to the United States.

Mexico’s economy is being transformed by nearshoring. For decades corporations concentrated production heavily inside China to maximize cheap labor and globalization efficiencies. Now companies want manufacturing closer to the American market because of geopolitical tensions, shipping disruptions, rising Chinese labor costs, and growing concerns over supply chain security. Mexico sits directly at the center of that transition because it already possesses deep trade integration with the United States through the USMCA framework.

Mexico recently attracted more than $36 billion in foreign direct investment while exports surpassed $600 billion annually, making the country one of the largest manufacturing exporters in the world. Industrial hubs throughout northern Mexico are expanding rapidly as companies tied to automotive production, electronics, aerospace, semiconductors, logistics, and industrial manufacturing continue relocating operations closer to the United States.

Entire regions are being reshaped economically. Industrial construction across northern Mexico surged dramatically as warehouse space, factories, rail infrastructure, and logistics centers expand around Monterrey, Ciudad Juárez, Tijuana, Saltillo, and other manufacturing corridors. Demand became so strong in some industrial zones that vacancy rates reportedly fell below 1–2% while industrial rents climbed sharply due to limited available space.

This is real economic activity, not simply financial engineering. Automobile manufacturing remains one of the clearest examples. Mexico now produces more than 4 million vehicles annually and has become one of the world’s largest auto exporters. Companies including Tesla suppliers, BMW, Kia, Toyota, General Motors, and numerous parts manufacturers continue investing billions into Mexican production capacity as North American supply chains deepen further.

Industrial wages are rising alongside the expansion. Manufacturing pay in many regions increased materially over recent years while unemployment remains relatively low in major industrial corridors. Middle-class growth has accelerated in parts of northern and central Mexico as higher-paying industrial jobs expand outward into logistics, engineering, construction, technology, transportation, and consumer spending sectors.

The younger generation increasingly sees opportunity connected directly to this industrial expansion cycle. That psychological shift matters enormously because confidence drives consumption, entrepreneurship, and long-term investment behavior. In many Western countries, younger generations increasingly feel locked out of housing, overwhelmed by debt, or trapped under declining purchasing power. In parts of Mexico, rising industrial activity is creating upward mobility tied directly to production growth and capital inflows.

The peso itself became one of the strongest-performing currencies globally recently, strengthening materially against the dollar while many developed-world currencies weakened. That stability helped contain imported inflation pressures relative to many Western economies struggling with currency deterioration and energy shocks.  

Mexico also benefits from demographics at a time when much of the developed world faces aging population crises. The country maintains a younger labor force than Europe, Japan, South Korea, or even China, while remaining deeply connected to the largest consumer economy on earth.

Mexico is not rising because governments suddenly became brilliant. Mexico is rising because global capital is repositioning itself geographically. The United States remains the primary destination for international capital during periods of global instability, and Mexico increasingly benefits secondarily because corporations want production integrated directly with American markets.

None of this means Mexico lacks problems. Cartel violence remains a serious issue in portions of the country. Infrastructure bottlenecks still exist. Water shortages threaten some industrial regions. Wealth inequality remains significant and parts of southern Mexico continue lagging economically behind the industrial north.

While Europe increasingly deindustrializes itself through energy policy and overregulation, Mexico is industrializing further through manufacturing expansion and trade integration. That distinction is becoming increasingly important globally.

The world economy is fragmenting into regions attracting capital and regions repelling it. Mexico is increasingly landing on the receiving side of those flows because geography, labor costs, demographics, and industrial integration with the United States create advantages that corporations cannot ignore. That is why millions of Mexicans are increasingly feeling economic momentum build around them in real-time.

"Ain't No Parade," by E.M. Burlingame

Ain't No Parade - by: E.M. Burlingame
Video production needs some work. Smart country still a thing? Or we gotta stay down there in the mud and muck that rush to the bottom in country took us these past years? -- This one's for the Brothers, and all those who've taken the Heroes… pic.twitter.com/945FWKhMCS

— EM Burlingame - 蒲 奕 言 (@EMBurlingame) May 9, 2026