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“I took Zoloft in 2022… ” Nobody told Lauren Freidman that 4 years later, she would have permanently lost all emotional and sexual function. “The day I woke up with this injury, I quite literally felt my soul leave my body.” Stop scrolling for 5 minutes to hear her story: “Had I known that this medication had the capacity to cause permanent loss of sexual and emotional function, I would have sought alternatives.” “Had I known SSRIs were prescribed off-label to chemically castrate sex offenders, I would have never taken this medication.” “Had I known that the leading sexual medicine doctors in the world are finding SSRIs cause fibrosis of the genitals… I would have never taken this medication.” “I’m living with a condition called Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction.” “50-70% of all patients taking these will have sexual side effects.” “What patients are not warned about is that these side effects can be permanent.” “I’m 23 years old.” “I don’t think it’s sensational to say that this is a form of chemical castration.” “PSSD is not just a loss of sexual function, but a loss for some people of emotional function as well.” “I can’t feel love for my own mother.” “Which is the hardest thing on Earth.” “I can’t feel connection or love for my friends, or even pleasure in music.” “I was a songwriter since I was a child. It was my outlet.” “And it’s been completely neurologically severed from these medications.” “There’s a reason that every song on the radio, every movie on your television, every piece of art since the beginning of humanity centers on sex and love, and not just romantic love, but platonic, familial love.” “These are the most central, intoxicating, worthwhile, and fulfilling parts of the human experience.” “To remove someone’s ability to emotionally connect with another human being is a crime against humanity.” “And I say crime against humanity because there is evidence that Eli Lilly, who created the first SSRI, Prozac, knew their drugs could cause permanent sexual dysfunction and emotional numbness.” “They withheld this from the public because they knew it would be a threat to their bottom line.” “There’s nothing more criminal or dystopian to withhold from patients and parents of patients that your medication can permanently chemically castrate and emotionally numb its user.” “The FDA actually received a citizen’s petition from sufferers in 2018 begging the risk be added to the label.” “And it was completely ignored.” “If this correction was made, I would have had full informed consent.” “I could have chosen an alternative.” “I would have been spared from the most inorganic, inhumane suffering I could have ever imagined.” “But that decision was made for me because of pharmaceutical greed and regulatory failure that has kept the general public in the dark about the truth of these drugs.” “22-year-old women and men like myself have ended their lives because, I think we can agree, life is not worth living when you can’t feel it or participate in it.” “People deserve to know the truth.” “People should not pay with their lives for trusting the medical system.” Nobody told millions of others just like Lauren that her decision to take an SSRI would spiral into permanent, lifelong injuries. We want to hear your “Nobody Told Me” story. Because you are not alone. Millions of young people are suffering through the exact same things. Please share your story below, or post a video sharing your story and tag us @_innercompass. @MAHA_Institute @lololizzle

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I am the Director of Summit Outcomes for the Presidential Advance Team. My job is to land in a foreign capital and leave with a word the President can say on the tarmac. We landed in Beijing 6 days after rolling back the tariffs we spent 4 years imposing. 145% to 30%. The average rate before the trade war was approximately 3%. In Geneva, we called this "creating the conditions for productive dialogue." The conditions were that we had already conceded. I want to be clear: Beijing was a success. We went in with 7 objectives. We left with 3 photo categories, a tentative agreement China has not confirmed, and a bag of burner phones we threw off Air Force One on the tarmac. Diplomacy. My team prepared the deliverables matrix in March. 241 line items organized by urgency, feasibility, and what we call "headline potential." The President reviewed it for 4 minutes. He circled "big deal" and "historic" and wrote "MORE" next to the Boeing section. That became the strategy. Boeing was the centerpiece. 500 aircraft was the White House number we briefed to reporters before departure. 300 was the floor. The Chinese offered 200. Their commerce ministry released the number before we could brief the press. Boeing stock dropped 4.73% that afternoon. Boeing referred questions about the order to the White House. The company receiving the aircraft could not confirm it was receiving aircraft. We called it "fantastic." In Washington, "fantastic" means the other side named the number and the market already priced in your failure. I should note: in 2017, the President announced $250 billion in deals during his first China trip. 300 aircraft. An $84 billion shale gas investment in West Virginia from China Energy Investment Corporation. I can tell you the exact amount of that investment that materialized. Zero. The shale facility was never built. The 2017 Boeing order was renegotiated twice and partially canceled during the trade war the President started 8 months later. There is a binder in my office labeled "2017 OUTCOMES: DO NOT REFERENCE." It is 3 inches thick. It has not been opened in 4 years. We do not reference it because the outcomes are the reference. The agricultural package was what we call a "scaffolding commitment." Billions in purchases over 3 years, structured so the announcement is front-loaded and the verification is someone else's administration. U.S. Trade Representative Greer said "double-digit billions." Beijing's Commerce Ministry issued a statement about "deepening cooperation in agricultural trade." Those are not the same sentence. By design. My deputy maintains a glossary of every term we have invented for agreements that are not agreements. It is 41 pages. He updates it after each summit. Last quarter he added "scaffolding commitment," "streamlined licensing framework," and "mutual recognition of shared concerns." He is in line for a promotion. NVIDIA was the quiet win. H200 chips approved for approximately 10 Chinese companies. We don't say "approved." We say "under a streamlined licensing framework." The chips ship. The export controls remain "in effect." The framework is the loophole wearing a lanyard. The controls exist because these chips in Chinese hands threaten American national security. The chips are shipping to Chinese hands. The controls remain in effect. Both of these are true. Fentanyl was discussed for 9 minutes. Both sides agreed it was a problem. Both sides agreed to continue discussing it. We added it to the deliverables matrix under "ongoing mutual engagement." The previous version of the matrix also listed it under "ongoing mutual engagement." That was in 2023. I copied the line item from the 2023 matrix into the 2026 version. Changed the date. The language was identical. But Taiwan. Taiwan was the deliverable we didn't put on the matrix. I watched the Taiwan exchange from the overflow room on a 12-second delay. I had the contingency statement drafted in 3 versions: "productive exchange," "frank discussion," and "both sides reaffirmed their respective positions." I used none of them. There was no contingency for silence. Chairman Xi released his remarks before the meeting was over. While the President was still seated across the table, Chinese state media published the transcript. "Clashes and even conflicts." His bluntest language on Taiwan in the history of the relationship, released to 1.4 billion people while we were still pouring tea. We called this "sequencing." The President was asked whether he would defend Taiwan if China attacked. He chose not to answer. We wrote that down as "a strong listen." The $14 billion arms sale. Already approved by Congress. The largest in the history of the Taiwan Relations Act. Taiwan's parliament spent months appropriating the $25 billion to proceed with this package and the $11 billion tranche approved last year. They finally secured the funding this month. The President told Fox News it was "a very good negotiating chip." He used the word "chip." Referring to the defense of 24 million people. Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense sent our office a letter requesting clarity on the delivery timeline. 3 pages. It referenced specific weapons systems by name: F-16V Block 70 fighters, HIMARS launchers, Harpoon coastal defense missiles. The letter was addressed to me. I filed it under "pending." On Air Force One, a reporter asked about the 1982 Six Assurances, the framework in which the United States committed not to consult with Beijing before selling arms to Taiwan. The President said: "What am I going to do, say I don't want to talk to you about it because I have an agreement wrote in 1982? No, we discussed arms sales." 44 years of bipartisan Taiwan policy, dismissed in 2 sentences at 38,000 feet. We are calling this "a modernized approach to alliance management." Our readout mentioned trade, agriculture, energy, and regional stability. It did not mention Taiwan. I wrote it. Their readout opened with Taiwan. I have staffed 7 summits across 2 administrations. This is the first where I could not draft a single deliverable as a success without a qualifier. In my office there is a laminated card that lists every synonym for "undecided" that polls above 40% approval. "Active review" is 3rd. "Determination" is 7th. Both tested well with independents in the Midwest. He also said: "Taiwan would be very smart to cool it a little bit. China would be very smart to cool it a little bit." He was eating a cheeseburger. He said this while eating a cheeseburger. Secretary Rubio told NBC that Taiwan arms sales "did not feature prominently." This is accurate in the same way that the iceberg did not feature prominently in the Titanic's itinerary. Representative McCaul, Republican of Texas, former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the United States must "arm Taiwan so they can defend themselves." He said Xi was "very aggressive" regarding Taiwan during the summit and that "most of what Xi talked about was Taiwan." Representative Meeks, Democrat of New York, ranking member of the same committee, said Xi has "leverage over the president" but not "over the United States Congress and the American people." He noted that Congress already approved the package. "The president is the one that's holding it up." Representative Fitzpatrick, Republican of Pennsylvania, compared Taiwan to Ukraine. He called both "fortresses of democracy on the front lines." Speaker Johnson said Taiwan needs to "stay independent and secure." The bipartisan consensus was that something had gone wrong. The bipartisan action was press quotes. No vote. No resolution. No hearing scheduled. 4 members of Congress from both parties said the right words to reporters and then went to lunch. That's how the system processes alarm. I monitor 14 accounts we classify as "aligned messaging amplifiers." Within 4 hours of the Taiwan exchange, 9 went silent. 2 pivoted to fentanyl. 1 posted 3 words: "Not like this." It received 280,000 impressions in 90 minutes. He deleted it and posted about the border instead. The President patted Chairman Xi on the back 7 times during the Zhongnanhai garden walk. We counted. He called him "my friend" in 4 languages, 2 of which he does not speak. He asked if other world leaders had been invited to the compound. They had. Putin was there last year. The President asked if his tour was longer. 15 CEOs flew with us to Beijing. Their combined net worth approaches $1 trillion. Cook. Musk. Jensen Huang. Larry Fink from BlackRock. Jane Fraser from Citigroup. David Solomon from Goldman Sachs. Stephen Schwarzman from Blackstone. Kelly Ortberg from Boeing. The CEO of Visa. The CEO of Mastercard. The CEO of Qualcomm. Illumina. Micron. Cargill. GE Aerospace. Musk and Huang rode on Air Force One. The others flew commercial. Tesla's Shanghai factory produces approximately half of the company's vehicles worldwide. Musk's presence on Air Force One was noted by my counterintelligence liaison. No further action was taken. We organized the state banquet seating chart by net worth. I am told this was the President's suggestion. They came for market access. Xi told them China would "open further to American business." That was the deliverable. Those 5 words. No specifics. No timeline. No sectors named. 15 chief executives flew to Beijing and received a sentence. Chairman Xi has delivered this sentence at every summit I have staffed. It has not once been followed by a named sector, a timeline, or a specific commitment. It is received as news each time. 43 lobby badges in a Ziploc bag. That's what my team collected from the CEOs after the garden tour. Standard protocol. The badges were embossed with the Great Hall of the People seal. Several executives asked if they could keep them. We said no. One asked twice. 15 executives with combined access to American financial, defense, and technology infrastructure had spent 3 hours inside the Great Hall of the People. We secured the lobby badges. The S&P 500 futures dropped 1% on the morning after the summit. The KOSPI fell 6.12%. China's CSI 300 fell 1.12%. UBS told clients that "much increasingly scarce jet fuel has been burned to produce nothing of real substance." Fortune's headline was "Wall Street sees nothing of real substance." The markets liked the anticipation. The markets did not like the deliverables matrix. Iran was the item we listed as "mutual recognition of shared concerns." The President told reporters they "feel very similar." Xi sat in silence. China's Foreign Ministry did not comment on any commitment regarding the Strait of Hormuz. The President then told reporters the United States "doesn't need the Strait of Hormuz open at all." Oil hit $109 per barrel. Deutsche Bank flagged it as a market-killing statement within the hour. The President described Iran as "a little bit crazy." This was during a toast. Over Peking duck. Rare earths. I prepared a 40-page brief on critical mineral dependency. Supply chain maps for 14 minerals. $1.2 trillion in dependent U.S. industries. Roughly 4% of GDP. The President circled the GDP figure and wrote "big." In the meeting, he asked Chairman Xi if rare earths were "the things in magnets." They are. They are also in every F-35, every Patriot missile battery, and every MRI machine in the country. The discussion lasted 11 minutes. 3 of them were about magnets. No agreement on export licenses. China exposed our dependency last year and has not let us forget it. The Supreme Court struck down our tariffs separately, which was helpful context for the discussions. Fentanyl received 9 minutes. Magnets received 3. We are calling the rare earth outcome "a foundation for continued engagement." There is a poster in the Advance Team office that says "A foundation is not a building." It has been there since my first summit. No one has removed it. On the flight home, my team collected every item the Chinese government had distributed. The credentials. The pins. The keepsakes. The rose seeds Chairman Xi offered for the White House Rose Garden. Standard counterintelligence protocol. All of it went into a bag and off the plane before wheels-up. We threw away the roses. We kept the talking points. The Boeing order grew on the flight home. 500 before departure. 200 in Beijing. 750 somewhere over the Pacific. Boeing had not confirmed 200. The President told reporters on Air Force One it was "a pretty historic couple days." I wrote the line that preceded it: "Tonal reset with significant forward momentum." He used "fantastic" instead. In previous administrations, a tonal reset preceded the deliverables. In this administration, the tonal reset is the deliverable. He has used "fantastic" for every summit since 2017. I have not checked whether the word still polls well. I am told it does. Beijing has not confirmed any of the agreements announced by U.S. officials. This is consistent with the 2017 visit, where $250 billion in deals were announced and an estimated $10 billion materialized. It is consistent with the October summit, where pledges were also made and also not fulfilled. We have a term for this in the Advance Team. We call it "precedent." I have already labeled the binder for 2026. We go back in September. Same matrix. New line items. The verification will be someone else's administration. The President has already asked for the word "monumental." I am told it polls well.

The Fields Medal is math’s ultimate prize; like the Nobel, but only for mathematicians under 40. Awarded every 4 years for groundbreaking work with future promise. The 2022 winners blew open huge problems in packing, primes, combinatorics & physics. Let’s break down their winning work!

saylor sold 6,556 BTC last week to fund STRC dividend payments. 11.5% annual yield on a $64B BTC treasury means $7.4B/year in cash obligations from a company with near-zero organic revenue. if BTC doesn't appreciate faster than 11.5% annually, strategy flips from structural buyer to structural seller. that's not a one-time event. STRC dividends are monthly and contractual. the "never sell" thesis held for 4 years. it's over. watch STRC issuance size on ondo as your leading indicator for how much BTC selling is coming next quarter. pendle PT-srUSDat pricing 13.44% fixed APY tells you the market still believes. polymarket at 61% for 1M BTC tells you the same. when those numbers start cracking, the reflexive unwind begins. stop watching BTC price. start watching STRC issuance.

Hey everyone - wanted to announce that a few weeks ago I joined the GTM team at @megaeth focusing on making sure MegaApps become successful and MegaDefi keeps growing Im excited to join the likes of @NamikMuduroglu, @ImperiumPaper and the rest of the team, aiming to prove over time why Mega is different. Not many know this, but my career has been quite wildly diverse: I spent most of my web2 career working on app growth for companies like Bolt, as well as working with the giants of the mobile gaming industry. Yet most will know me from the past 4 years of being an intense defi user, degen, market participant and group chat spammer. I am glad to be able to be combining these two passions, bringing in the incentive aware UA spending thinking from web2 to Mega, as well as helping build a defi system that I as a long time user would enjoy exploring. My focus on Apps will be two fold: 1) Helping shape Terminal, reinforcing its value as a curated discovery layer for apps on Mega and helping build its incentive system to promote breakout apps. Am especially looking to working with teams focusing on something new and to reward teams that are Mega and USDM aligned. If you are a dev building something new, especially if it's something that hasn't been done before or is a onchain experiment, PLEASE reach out! 2) Helping the most mega-aligned apps navigate their go-to-market plans. Apps should get help with launch strategy, distribution, positioning, and the right connections. Founders should be focused on execution, not blocked by figuring out who to talk to, how to launch, or how to tell their story. It is no longer just about building new protocols. It is about bringing real collateral onchain. And where else to build that than the chain built for super fast blocktimes and millisecond latency oracle updates. @ImperiumPaper will still be the main person for USDM growth. We already made a strong first step here with our collaboration with @aave, hitting over $1B in deposits a few days ago. There is a long backlog of high-quality collateral looking to work with us, in addition to native teams like @brix_money and @CapApp. Looking forward to seeing how we can enable them across MegaDeFi. TL DR: Joining megaeth, helping build a curated experience of apps, building an incentivization model backed by actual economics, and making Mega by the best place for onchain finance on EVM. Mega GDP go up ⬆️

There's a clay tablet with the founding charter of a 12-partner company on it. Twelve merchants pooled 33 pounds of gold to start the firm. The contract has the partner names, the starting capital, the profit split, and the penalty for cashing out early. The tablet is nearly 4,000 years old. It was found at a site called Kanesh, in central Turkey. Archaeologists have dug up 23,500 of these clay records there, most of them business documents: receipts, loan contracts, shipping orders, lawsuits. The houses they were stored in eventually burned. The fire baked the clay solid and preserved every record. The merchants came from Assur, in modern-day Iraq. They loaded donkeys with tin and cloth and walked them 1,000 kilometers across mountain passes to Kanesh, roughly the distance from New York to Atlanta. Each donkey carried about 180 pounds and the trip took two to three months. They came home with silver and gold. The company ran for twelve years under a merchant named Amur Ishtar. A third of the profits went back to the investors. Pull your share out early and the firm gave you four kilos of silver per kilo of gold, half the normal rate. Locked-up money was meant to stay locked up. That one company was just a tiny piece. The tablets show a complete economy with partners suing each other in commercial court, husbands writing home about prices, and wives writing back complaining the husband had been gone too long. A woman named Ahatum quietly lent silver to four different men over nine years. People bought up other people's loan documents and used them as collateral for new loans, the same thing Wall Street does today with mortgage-backed securities. One merchant got caught smuggling tin in his underwear to dodge a 10% import tax. In 2019, four economists from Harvard, Sciences Po, Chicago, and Virginia ran the tablet numbers through a gravity model, the math economists use today to predict how much two countries will trade based on size and distance. The Bronze Age numbers matched modern trade numbers almost exactly. Trade fell off with distance at nearly the same rate it does between countries today. The paper ran in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. There was no economic theory yet. The idea didn't even have a name. The word "capitalism" wouldn't be coined for another 3,800 years, and Adam Smith was 3,700 years away from writing a sentence about markets. Just a guy named Pushu-ken writing a clay tablet to his business partner about a shipment of cloth, and a woman in Assur recording who owed her how much silver. Capitalism was already there, doing its full job, almost four thousand years before anyone wrote down a theory of how it worked.

At the opening ceremony of the 2026 Yangzhou "Flowery March" International Economy, Trade, and Tourism Festival on April 18, Mayor Zheng Haitao delivered a speech highlighting Yangzhou's recent achievements, which include the following: • GDP reached 805.6 billion yuan ($118.09 billion) in 2025 • High-tech industries account for 53.2% of total industrial output • 4,310 major industrial projects (each over 100 million yuan) were attracted in the past five years • Partnered with more than 1,400 foreign-funded enterprises from 65 countries and regions • Tourist arrivals exceeded 100 million for three consecutive years Focusing on technological innovation, industrial upgrading, green development, and digital transformation, Yangzhou looks forward to deepening its cooperation with international partners to create even higher-quality development.

do you understand what ARSENAL just did... 22 years. 8,035 days. That's how long it took Mikel Arteta to bring the Premier League trophy back to North London. They didn't sneak it. They weren't lucky. Arsenal ended the season on 87+ points, broke their own club record for possession and press intensity, and made Man City - the dynasty that owned the last decade - look like a mid-table side chasing them. > First title since 2003-04 Invincibles era > Martin Odegaard lifts the trophy today at Selhurst Park - AWAY ground > Arsenal confirmed champions BEFORE the final day - title sealed by Man City's draw vs Bournemouth > Arteta: from "project" to Premier League champion in 4 seasons > Bus parade scheduled May 31 - one day after the Champions League Final vs PSG The numbers say one thing. The narrative says everything else. A club that was mocked for "almost" seasons, for being a nearly-man project, for trophy drought - just paraded their captain on an opponent's pitch with 22 years of pressure finally lifted. Re-rate Arsenal. Or stay wrong.