More diagnoses, drugs and money, but are we better off?
The U.S. spends $139 BILLION on mental health, double 20 years ago.
Are the outcomes better?
No.
Psychologist and Stossel TV Fellow Adam Omary of the Cato Institute reports on the failures of the Mental Health Industrial Complex. Here’s more from John Stossel.
The music that defined a generation didn’t come out of nowhere, and neither did the drugs that arrived with it. John Potash has spent thirty years in the government documents, and the answer is on the record.
John Potash, author of Drugs as Weapons Against Us and The FBI War on Tupac Shakur, joins me to trace how the CIA and allied intelligence agencies used drug trafficking, MKUltra experiments, and mind control programs to shape the counterculture and the artists who led it.
We follow the paper trail from the CIA’s LSD experiments to the heroin and crack epidemics, and to the musicians who were targeted once they got sober and turned political: Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and Tupac Shakur. The FBI files on Hendrix, Lennon and Joplin are real, and Potash walks through what they contain.
We also examine how the same playbook runs today, from mass SSRI prescriptions to marijuana legalization and the Silicon Valley push for microdosing and ketamine. This is the hidden history of the war on drugs, told through court documents, declassified files, and FBI records. Here’s more from Seth Holehouse on a new edition of Man In America.
The Yorkshire Wildlife Park tiger attack is one of the saddest things I’ve covered. A man in his 20s climbed into the tiger enclosure in Doncaster and was attacked by a tiger – he tragically died, and the more you learn, the worse it gets.
At first it looks like another dumb fence-jumper. Then you watch the clip of him asking a total stranger to take a photo of him with the tiger, repeating “one more, one more,” and the eyewitness account of him dancing on the bridge with noise-cancelling headphones on. People online now believe he was autistic, that he was stimming rather than dancing, and that he’d wandered off from his carers. That still hasn’t been officially confirmed.
Then it hits even harder. In the footage, right before the attack, he makes a hand gesture that people have identified as Makaton, the British sign system used by a lot of autistic and non-verbal people. SugarTits and I looked up how Makaton compares to the signs we know, and the sign he appears to be making is “bad.” As in, “bad tiger.”
We also get into whether the tiger should be euthanized (I don’t think so, a tiger’s just being a tiger) and how much of this is on the wildlife park versus the people he was with, how places like Dreamworld’s Tiger Island compare.
Not a funny one, this time. Our hearts goes out to his family. Here’s more from Bearing.
Why do tens of thousands of people pay good money to play, and sometimes suffer, deep in the desert? I have some firsthand answers.
Here’s a look at Burning Man from Ken LaCorte, who says he’s been to Burning Man 10 times, and he’s looking forward to returning this summer. Here’s more from Lacorte’s channel Elephants In Rooms.
New York City shopping clerks caught undercover processing EBT cards for drug & alcohol purchases as “EBT Cash” & “EBT Food.” Here’s more from James O’Keefe on OMG, the O’Keefe Media Group.
Liz Wheeler reflects on how Alex Berenson’s research and book on the harms of marijuana changed her perspective on cannabis.
A newly unearthed audio file shows just how “compassionately” Xavier Becerra shuffled immigrant migrant children into the United States while serving as Joe Biden’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. Like Biden himself, Becerra was little more than a monster.
You cannot pretend to be looking out for Americans — or immigrants — when you’re running Immigration processes like one of Henry Ford’s assembly lines. How many kids ended up under the control of the cartels? Were they used for drug running or as sex workers? Did Becerra or Biden ever hive two shits about any of them?
Here’s more from the Liberal Hivemind.
U.S. federal investigators recently discovered a sophisticated tunnel 55 feet underground between Mexico and California—among the largest ever found—with electricity, a rail system, ventilation, reinforced walls, and a complex hydraulic lift system.
White House “drug czar” Sara Carter estimated that it was used to transport narcotics worth hundreds of millions of dollars. This is just one of the over 200 tunnels of varying sizes and sophistication that have been discovered in the last four decades, with many more likely still undetected, she said.
As Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Carter is fighting to end the narcotic epidemic killing Americans, seize cartel finances, and make a drug-free life the new norm in America.
Deaths from illicit narcotics in America have been rising for decades and reached an all-time high in 2022, with 112,000 Americans dying in a single year. Since the Trump administration took office, that number has dropped to about 68,000 for the 12-month period ending in November 2025. But Americans of all ages are still dying.
In this episode, Carter breaks down the complex pipelines that are driving this epidemic and how the Trump administration has been going on the offensive to attack both the supply and demand sides of this crisis. Carter explains in a new edition of American Thought Leaders, presented by The Epoch Times.
Are drugs released into the water in Washington D.C.? How else explain how everybody who travels to the Capital ends up drunk, drugged, corrupt or sleeping around? Here’s more from the Conservative Momma.
The [Deep State] activated a sleeper because he was no use to them anymore. John Brennan is playing it up that the MAGA movement is fracturing and more people will be quitting. This means they have more sleepers.
The polls show the opposite. MAGA is stronger than ever and the people are behind the President.
Trump has set up the allies. No matter which way they turn in regards to the Straight of Hormuz, they don’t win. Trump is using the Save America Act to shine a light on those people in Congress that are not following the will of the people. Game over. Here’s more from the X22 Report.
