Mary Bowden has been put through the ringer, but always maintained her integrity and balance. She is an unsung hero, and unlike some has not sought fame, fortune, or fallen to grifting to make money. A fantastic person who has been through hell and now is coming back.
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Make America Healthy Again is now a corporation. A super PAC, three nonprofits, a trademark, a holding company. RFK Jr.'s own son sits on the commercial board. And the movement's founder may no longer run the machine that bears his name. 🧵
Two men built it. Tony Lyons, the publisher who prints RFK Jr.'s books. And Mark Gorton, the Wall Street quant who created LimeWire, the file-sharing app a federal court shut down for mass copyright infringement. Their money now underwrites the health movement.
Kennedy registered the MAHA trademark, earned $100,000 in licensing fees off it, then handed the mark to a Wyoming LLC run by Del Bigtree for no compensation. The slogan is a brand with a paid history. That is the tell.
Cyclospora is just the tip of the iceberg.
A parasite spread through human fecal contamination has sickened thousands of Americans. One major cluster was traced to shredded iceberg lettuce grown in central Mexico and served at Taco Bell, and distributed by Sysco to hundreds or thousands of food-service locations.
But this is about much more than Taco Bell. 🧵
The lettuce was supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico and moved through a distribution system capable of reaching hundreds of restaurants across multiple states.
One contaminated field or processing line can now expose thousands of people before anyone realizes there is a problem.
In the 1970s, Americans traveling in Mexico were routinely warned:
Do not drink the water.
Peel your fruit.
Do not eat raw salads.
Today, Americans eat Mexican-grown vegetables without leaving home or even thinking about it.
🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. is issuing $81 BILLION in tariff refunds after the Supreme Court ruled President Trump's tariffs were imposed under the wrong legal authority.
But there is much more to this story, than mainstream media is willing to tell you.
The Supreme Court did NOT rule that tariffs are unconstitutional.
It ruled that the President could not use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs this broadly.
That's a ruling about authority, not tariffs themselves.
Here's the obvious question.
If these tariffs were so important...
Why didn't Congress simply pass a law authorizing them?
Congress has the constitutional power to regulate foreign commerce.
The Republican Congress could have supported the President, it chose not to.
"Processed meat causes cancer."
You've heard it a hundred times. But almost nobody stops to ask what "processed meat" actually means.
The answer is far more complicated, and far more interesting, than the headlines suggest. 🧵
For thousands of years, nearly every culture on Earth processed meat.
Salting. Smoking. Drying. Fermenting. Aging.
Without these methods, families couldn't survive winters, armies couldn't march, and civilization itself would have looked very different.
Processing meat is one of humanity's oldest survival skills.
Strictly speaking, all of these are "processed meat":
Prosciutto di Parma
Jamón Ibérico
Traditional salami
Virginia country ham aged 18 months
A supermarket deli ham injected with curing solution
A hot dog
A can of Spam
For months I have heard senior appointees across this administration describe their work with one crude phrase. They say they have been "cock blocked." Serious people, real titles, real mandates. The term is worth taking seriously, because it reveals more than they intend. 🧵
The term is old. A linguist named Edith Folb recorded it in 1972 among Black teenagers in Los Angeles. It meant interfering with a man's pursuit of a woman, even by someone with no interest in her himself. Spite, not stake. Hold onto that. It matters later.
Over the past fifty years, the phrase has gone tame. The sexual meaning drained out. By the 2010s, it just meant being pettily obstructed by someone with no business getting involved. A dead metaphor, like "screwed" or "sucks." Technically vulgar. In practice, furniture.
You belong to yourself. Your body, your mind, and the code inside your cells are yours. For all of history that was safe, because no one could reach them. That is no longer true. So we wrote down the line. And today we open it for you to sign.
We now have machines that read and change the brain, edit the genes you pass to your kids, patent what is found in a drop of your blood, and tie your whole life to a digital ID someone else can switch off. Not science fiction. It exists now.
Used with your permission, these tools can heal. A person who cannot walk might walk again. We are for that. The danger is one word: forced. The day someone decides what is done to your body or mind, and does it whether you agree or not.