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Scientists have discovered a psychedelic-like drug that can produce rapid, long-lasting antidepressant effects in mice without the effect of hallucinations. The molecule, called AAZ-A-154, acts on the same serotonin receptors in the brain as antipsychotic drugs (like clozapine) and psychedelics (like LSD), promoting neuronal growth and producing beneficial behaviors in rodents for weeks after a single dose. Researchers say the treatment is comparable to the fast-acting nature of ketamine, which has recently emerged as a promising drug for conditions like depression, substance abuse, and post-traumatic stress disorder. However, some psychedelic drugs that are being investigated for their medical effects, such...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham sound quite swampy on Wednesday night. During an interview on Fox News, McCarthy and Graham joined host Sean Hannity to discuss Joe Biden's joint address to Congress. McCarthy touted South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott as a possible presidential contender following his delivery of the GOP's response to Biden's speech. Graham urged Fox News viewers to go to Scott’s website and donate to his campaign.

New York City will be “fully open” on July 1 — nearly a year-and-a-half after the COVID-19 shutdown, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday morning. “We are ready for stores to open, for businesses to open, offices, theaters, full-strength,” Hizzoner said in an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

"I can't believe this keeps happening." I've heard white people say this with routine shock as we learned about the horrific killings of 20-year-old Daunte Wright and 15-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant.

WASHINGTON - Powered by consumers, the U.S. economy grew at a brisk 6.4% annual rate last quarter — a show of strength fueled by government aid and declining viral cases that could drive further gains as the nation rebounds with unusual speed from the pandemic recession. Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department estimated that the nation’s gross domestic product — its total output of goods and services — accelerated in the January-March quarter from a 4.3% annual gain in the final quarter of 2020. Growth in the current April-June period is expected to be faster still, potentially reaching a 10%...

While lawmakers in the United States are engaged in a public relations battle of who can crack down harder on big tech, the European Commission is poised to pass the Digital Marketing Act that would fundamentally alter how American big tech operates on the continent.Advocates of the Digital Markets Act contend the bill will provide businesses "who depend on gatekeepers to offer their services…a fairer business environment" and prevent large tech companies from using "unfair practices" to "gain an undue advantage." Unfortunately, the Digital Markets Act is not written to advance competition, but instead it targets U.S. tech companies and...

A summary of Joey’s, you know, the thing, to Congress last night…or whatever:Wynken, Blynken, and NodWynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe,—Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew."Where are you going, and what do you wish?" The old moon asked the three."We have come to fish for the herring-fish That live in this beautiful sea; Nets of silver and gold have we," Said Wynken, Blynken, And Nod.It’s a nursery rhyme, intended to lull you to sleep. Do not fall for it.The old moon laughed and sang a song, As they...

California officials colluded with Big Tech to censor social media posts in the United States during the 2020 presidential election, government watchdog group Judicial Watch announced Tuesday. The findings come after Judicial Watch received 540 pages and a further four pages of documents from the office of the Secretary of State of California in response to an open records request, the group said. It had filed the request after a December 2020 report surfaced revealing that California’s Office of Election Cybersecurity had surveilled and asked the social media giants to remove or flag as “misleading” at least two dozen messages....

The mainstream press is slobbering all over itself lauding the first 100 days – through April 29th – of the Biden administration. Nevermind that even aided by a completely fawning press, surveys rate him as turning in the third worst performance ever. Only Ford and Trump, savaged by the press 24/7, are ranked lower. At least going back to President Harry Truman, Joe Biden (and that includes his handlers) has had the worst first 100 days of any administration. We've seen the complete mess that the Biden administration has created along the southern border. Biden, during his lucid moments, seems...

. ... THE MAGI VISIT BABY JESUS . MATTHEW 2 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . Resources to CLICK: To read MATTHEW 2 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or JohnHarmony of the Gospels 5 B. C. Bible Timeline. MATTHEW Chapter 2 9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child...

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid on Wednesday night criticized Sen. Tim Scott’s (D-SC) rebuttal of President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress. Defending Georgia’s voting law, Scott said, “The state of Georgia passed a law that expands early voting; preserves no-excuse mail-in voting; and, despite what the president claimed, did not reduce Election Day hours. If you actually read this law, it’s mainstream. It will be easier to vote early in Georgia than in Democrat-run New York. But the Left doesn’t want you to know that. They want people to virtue-signal by yelling about a law they haven’t...

Recently, they took a look at their data from 2021 to chart the most popular baby names (according to their visitors' searches) in 25 different countries. Some of what they found makes a lot of sense. For example, Ghana's list has Abena, Akosua, and Kofi, which are Akan day names, traditionally given to babies born on a particular day of the week. But the popularity of other names, like Danger, which was searched a lot by Indian and Pakistani readers, is a little more mystifying! With no further ado, here are the names Nameberry's international readers are searching for the...

Using a newly developed mouse model of acute lung injury, researchers found that exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein alone was enough to induce COVID-19-like symptoms including severe inflammation of the lungs. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is covered in tiny spike proteins. These proteins bind with receptors on our cells, starting a process that allows the virus to release its genetic material into a healthy cell. "Our findings show that the SARS-CoV2 spike protein causes lung injury even without the presence of intact virus," said Pavel Solopov, Ph.D., DVM, research assistant professor at the Frank Reidy Research Center...

As the author of Red November, Spies of the Deep, and other submarine/military books, and as a former U.S. Navy Diver and submariner, I have access to “inside information” about the lost Indonesian submarine KRI Nanggala 402. The 1977-vintage German-built Cakra-class diesel submarine disappeared on Wednesday, April 21. It’s a smaller boat, only 195 feet long by 20 feet wide, with four diesel engines that recharge a bank of batteries to provide a few days of power while submerged. The sub then needs to come shallow to “snorkel” by running its engines to recharge batteries and ventilate the air. The...

The Massachusetts Fifth Regiment, which arrived yeaterday, report that the advance guard were three or four times fired upon by a small party of horsemen, who were stationed in a ravine beyond Bladensburgh. None of the shots took effect, and the assault was presumed to be the unauthorized act of rowdies. The officers of the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment are at Willard's for the present, and the Regiment are at the Treasury Department and at the Capitol. The Seventy-first New-York Regiment, which arrived this morning, report no trouble on the line. They are stationed at the ball-room. The Seventh (New-York) Regiment...

As a sport executive in 2015, I saw the future and became a prophet in the wind, the proverbial canary in the coal mine. That is when I began sounding the alarm over the politicization of sports by the left and spoke of the implications for America. Over the course of the next several years, I wrote thousands of words on the subject under a pen name, the pseudonym came from knowing I would be bounced from the industry in a New York minute if my identity were known. My concern predated Colin Kaepernick taking a knee, and if you...

Barnard College of Columbia University in New York has come under fire after one of its professors spoke about “blowing up” and “gassing” white people in what he called a possible “race war.” In his recent book, English & Film Studies Assistant Professor Ben Philippe wrote that he would gather “white people” for a meeting of “healing unity” and then stage an explosion as well as a chemical attack against them. The author claimed, free speech allowed him to make such remarks. “Actually fun fact, that section used to be so much longer, so, thank you to my editor for...

Wall Street’s divided loyalty is one more complication as Team Biden resets the U.S.-China Relationship. If we are ever to get serious about containing China as a geo-economic and strategic challenge, we might begin with our own fifth column—U.S. companies, especially on Wall Street, that profit immensely from the status quo. Indeed, the history of the U.S. letting China into the WTO with no meaningful conditions dates back to a deal brokered by Robert Rubin in 1999, in which the U.S. would cut China slack for its other predatory trade practices as long as Wall Street companies, such as those...

Did anyone see Mike Lindell on Jimmy Kimmel Live? I thought he was supposed to be on last night. I don't stay up that late. Just curious how they interacted. Thanks!

It’s just the flu, bro. The governmental response to the Coronavirus is the most egregious affront to American liberty and freedom that I have seen in my lifetime. Of course abortion is much worse than this, but I am excluding it because abortio was largely the action of courts as opposed to the action of elected officials. The analogy of the boiling frog doesn’t even apply here. It is said that if you put a frog in boiling water it will jump out but if you slowly change the temperature until it boils it will never notice the temperature change...