Cecrops-II

Tell me again about cancel culture being real.

A tick that makes you allergic to meat is spreading. A single bite can reprogram your immune system.

People keep saying "just cut sugar" without understanding what 350g per day is actually doing to the tissue of your face. When you eat that much sugar, your pancreas is releasing massive amounts of insulin all day long. That insulin signals your kidneys to reabsorb sodium. And sodium holds water. So your face is carrying this layer of subcutaneous fluid that blurs your jawline, puffs your cheeks, swells the tissue around your eyes. You stop the sugar, the insulin drops, the sodium flushes, and within 3 to 5 days the water comes off your face. That alone changes how you look dramatically. But there's a second thing happening that takes longer. Sugar molecules are literally bonding to the collagen and elastin in your skin through a process called glycation. These bonded structures, called AGEs, crosslink your collagen fibers so they become stiff and can't repair. Your skin loses its ability to snap back. Four months of controlled blood sugar reduces glycated collagen by 25%. And then the Mediterranean piece. People hear "Mediterranean" and think olive oil and wine. What actually matters is the systemic inflammation drop. You go from a high-glycemic processed diet to whole foods, omega-3s from fish, walking 8,000 steps because that's just how you get around, sleeping better because your blood sugar isn't crashing at 2am. Every one of those independently lowers your inflammatory markers. TNF-alpha, IL-6, C-reactive protein. All of them come down. And your face is one of the most vascularized, inflammation-sensitive surfaces on your body. So you're looking at this photo thinking one thing changed. Three completely separate biological systems all reversed at the same time, on the same square inches of skin.

The full playlist for Christina Hendrick's four-hour "Shoe Pop Dream Gaze" DJ set: "Broken Heart" – Spiritualized "Yes (Love Theme From Lost River)" – Chromatics "Drink I'm Sippin On" – Yaeji "Hug Of Thunder" – Broken Social Scene "How Can I Make It Ok?" – Wolf Alice "New Song" – Warpaint "Pa Pa Power" – Dead Man's Bones "Machinist" – Japanese Breakfast "Michael Mann" – Youth Team "Heartbeats" – The Knife "Thunder" – Catnapp "Ivo" – Cocteau Twins "Joseph Porter" – The Deadly Syndrome "The Birds" – Rick Cuevas "I Do You" – Anna of the North "Cruel Summer" – Bananarama "The Day We Met Never Ended for Me" – Talvi "Crazy For You" – Causeway "Los Ageless" – St. Vincent "The Judge" – Desire "Waxwing" – Sorry "Dance While You Shoot" – Noga Erez "Ghost" – Halsey "Boys of Summer" – Esper Star "West Coast" – Lana Del Rey "Hell Is Round The Corner" – Tricky; Martina Topley-Bird "Gooey" – Glass Animals "(The Forgotten People)" – Thievery Corporation "God" – Tori Amos "The Ghost Inside" – Broken Bells; Danger Mouse "She Bangs the Drums" – The Stone Roses "I Did It!" – Kitten "Can I Call You in the Morning?" – The Beaches "Heavy Metal Heart" – Sky Ferreira "Horse Pills" – The Dandy Warhols "Lover I Don't Have to Love" – Bright Eyes "Velvet Morning" – The Verve "Love Is a Big Light" – The Stevenson Ranch Davidians "In The Morning I'll Be Better" – Tennis "Girl Of The Year" – Beach House "Rescue" – The Asteroid No.4 "Vapour Trail" – Ride "First Love/Late Spring" – Mitski "Crazy for You" – Slowdive "Half Silences" – Loma "Waiting Game" – BANKS 📸: Phillip Gutgesell / The MAT Magazine

The man suffered an undeniable mental health collapse. It's something of a miracle he's back on stage like this at all. No one is cheering for HH. He isn’t performing it. We’re praying he completes his heroic arc. Cynicism is lame.

Ye performing ALL OF THE LIGHTS like this at 48 years old is MINDBLOWING.

Today, April 4th, is the anniversary of MLK Jr. giving his infamous anti-Vietnam War speech in 1967, calling for US withdrawal & announcing his intent to leverage his national organization towards that political end. Exactly one year later, on April 4, 1968, he was ass*ssinated by the alleged lone gunman James Earl Ray. If you think that date is a coincidence, you might think your targeted Facebook ads are a coincidence, too! Lol (note the "anniversary date" pattern) However, Ray never received a full & proper trial and always maintained his innocence. After he died in 1998 (still trying to get legal recourse), the King Family sued to discover the truth, and in 1999 a jury determined that MLK had been k*lled in a government-led conspiracy—but you're not supposed to remember that or talk about it. And the Mockingbird media will tell you that verdict doesn't mean anything. Back in 1967, MLK Jr. had been advised by his long-time jewish handler Stanley Levison that opposing the war would lose his organization—the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)—the massive financial support it then enjoyed from the jewish community. Sure enough, after he publicly opposed the war, much of the big jewish donor money dried up. Sound familiar? In addition, he was attacked by former Civil Rights allies & partners who denounced him for his anti-Vietnam war stance: ▪️The NAACP--founded, funded, led by ✡️s ▪️The New York Times, (owned by the Sulzberger Family ✡️) ▪️The Washington Post (Owned by Katherine Meyer Graham ✡️) ▪️His longtime ally, Ralph Bunche, winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for helping negotiate the settlement between israel & the Arabs--done so mostly while shooting pool with israeli IDF Commander Moshe Dayan ✡️! ▪️The American jewish Committee, the American jewish Congress, the ADL, and the extremely pro-War/zionist Johnson administration all criticized him and distanced themselves from him, too. At the time, MLK was somewhat confused by some of this turnabout, but that's because he never realized that a major component of the Vietnam War was the pro-israel/zionist agenda behind it. Vietnam was what we'd call a "Neocon" war now, before the term was invented. MLK had stepped in the middle of a massive jewish/Military Industrial Complex project feeding the American War Machine for israel's benefit and the MIC's bottom line. The same synergy at play today. So MLK was getting blowback from jewish donors & zionists just as Charlie Kirk did for his own turns against the pro-israel cause. Also like Charlie Kirk, MLK commanded a large & extremely influential organization with a national footprint. His SCLC was comprised of over 300 chapters across dozens of states, and required 100-200 full-time staff to manage. It was responsible for hundreds of thousands of voter registrations and helped swing millions of votes. In addition, King was closely considering lending his support to an independent 3rd party in 1968 before he was ass*ssinated. Recall, too, that Charlie Kirk was seriously considering a 2026 run for Governor of Arizona, for which he'd have surely been a favorite. But of course we can't have independent political movements not under the control of "The Regime." Conscientious objectors must be brought in line. Or else. FURTHER COMPARISONS & SUMMARY NOTES ▪️JFK had already initiated US troop withdrawal from Vietnam when he was ass*ssinated (NSAM-263). LBJ immediately reversed that decision the day after JFK's funeral (NSAM 273). ▪️RFK had also been campaigning on ending the Vietnam War when he was ass*ssinated just 2 months after MLK, on the 1-year anniversary of the 6-Day War. Allegedly, this was by the design of Sirhan Sirhan, the lone-gunman (patsy). ▪️Charlie Kirk was extremely vocal in opposing the Iran & Ukraine Wars, (and all Neocon Wars in general, as he described them), and was turning against the pro-israel cause. He was assassinated on the eve of the anniversary of 9/11, which was used to launch the War on Terror (for israel). I'd also point out that in late 1967, MLK Jr. changed his mind on supporting israel, and had canceled his much anticipated trip to israel set for that November. Remember how Charlie had also spurned Netanyahu's last invite to israel? The parallels are crazy. What's more likely: that history is randomly repeating itself, or that it's the same evil perpetrators performing these ass*ssinations & repeating their same playbook?