— Dame E🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎 (@themadsloth) July 10, 2026
The Sound Of Settled Science
The scientific basis behind commonly used antidepressants is completely backwards, according to a review of the research.
For almost 50 years it has been believed by scientists and the public alike that depression is related to low levels of serotonin in the brain.
The most commonly prescribed antidepressant medications — like Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft — are thought to work by keeping serotonin levels higher.
So-called selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, block the re-absorption of serotonin into the cells that release it.
In fact, the review finds, the very best evidence available suggests people who are depressed actually have higher levels of serotonin in their brains, not lower.
This means that commonly used antidepressants are actually making the situation worse, not better.
I Want A New Country
Ever wonder where Globe and Mail readers get crazy ideas about Alberta and pipelines?
No matter how much you hate the media, remember they’ll always hate you more.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
You had to know this has always been the silicon valley end game.
Anthropic is giving left wing NGO’s free access to its tools to target conservatives and MAGA. This company is completely out of control and is now waging war against every Trump voter. pic.twitter.com/NzRnvMV5Sg
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 9, 2026
Suicidal Empathy
He was turnin’ his life around.
Jamey, an anti-ICE and pro-Palestine woke activist from New York, who moved to Killarney in 2021, was found brutally beaten to death in her home with multiple head injuries.
She was allegedly murdered by her Muslim migrant boyfriend, a man she reportedly met at an anti-war demonstration. He has since fled to Turkey, likely enabled by Europe’s open borders. Jamey leaves behind a 13-year-old daughter, now orphaned.
Friday On Turtle Island
The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – Second class continent. Woke mayor. Disgraced themselves. Communist Nazi. Read more.
China Carney’s Canada: Incompatible. Colonial injustice. Broke the law. Exposed.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Sparky homes. Paul Joseph Watson – It went sour.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including the autonomous bins of tomorrow; some mid-boom miniatures; and a brief history of the toilet.
All this and more.
July 10, 2026: Reader Tips
Here’s an interesting documentary from 1967 entitled This is Saigon.
Bonus: “Any straight while male in America who is still a Democrat is some sort of weirdo.” — Ann Coulter
Got some great tips? Please do share ’em!
Passing The Buck
It’s not hard to see in who’s favor this dispute is going to be resolved once it gets kicked upstairs to the Feds.
A lobster fishing group in Nova Scotia has failed in its bid to persuade a judge that a First Nation does not have the treaty right to commercially fish for lobster out of season and without a licence.
In a decision released Wednesday, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Ann Smith says the Unified Fisheries Conservation Alliance could not proceed with its claim against the Sipekne’katik First Nation because the court lacked jurisdiction.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Yes: Is AI making us dumber?
Early research into how generative AI affects our brains has resurfaced the same talking points: overreliance on AI will weaken mental persistence, flatten creativity, atrophy our critical thinking skills, and degrade our relationships. Experts in machine learning, creativity, social behavior I spoke to said we can glean some insight from the fallout of past innovations, but the totalizing pervasiveness of AI is unparalleled.
About that most recent pipeline announcement …
Digging deep: Smith and Ford announce Northern Shield Energy Corridor pipeline
Call it Energy East 2.0, but kinda sorta, not really. There’s no Moosomin on-ramp like Energy East. It doesn’t make it past the Quebec border, yet. But it could possibly have offshoots to Churchill and maybe James Bay. This is the Saskatchewan perspective story on this pipeline
Also:
Finding a side hustle on TikTok, young Estevan man brings old headlights back to life and saved me $493.80
What Would We Do Without Experts?
The Expert Class Created a Perfect System: They Accuse, They Censor, and They Never Have to Prove a Damn Thing
Thursday On Turtle Island
The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – Foundations of America. New Yorkistan.
Conman Carney’s Canada: No pipelines on stolen land. Your government, part one. Part two.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Discovering Norway. Fat women. Put down that toaster. Gesture over substance. Maybe he’s from Canada.
July 9, 2026: Reader Tips
From 1949, here’s classic noir film called D.O.A. It has 88%/74% ratings on RT.
Bonus: Hilarious AI video of Marco Rubio discovering he has to run as a “progressive” in Maine.
If you have any fresh news tips you’d like to share, you know what to do!
The Strange Greatness of George Washington
With 250 in the rear view mirror.
This is a super channel for history buffs.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
Link to entire interview: https://t.co/fKffp2anJO
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) July 8, 2026
Rupert Lowe vs. The Global Elites
Most everything he says applies equally to American Democrat elites, as well as everything going on in Canada.
Running For The Exit
I seriously doubt that China’s move to a gig economy has anything to do with too much saving and too little spending. It’s more of a response to the growing burden of mandated employee benefits, just like it is here.
His story is increasingly common in China, where tens of millions are shifting from formal employment into the gig economy as meagre unemployment insurance, record numbers of graduates and a shortage of jobs squeeze opportunities.
“The urgent priority is to make it easier for flexible workers to be included in the employee social security system,” said Nomura’s chief China economist Ting Lu, who estimates only tens of millions are fully enrolled.
“We need to reduce anxiety,” he said, “so that they save less and consume more.”
The “W” Word
What Would We Do Without Peer Review?
The requirement that scholars constantly publish or face academic ruin has been considered the primary engine of scientific discovery for decades. But a growing movement of universities and researchers is trying to banish the practice to the archives, saying it has perverted the pursuit of knowledge and eroded the public’s trust in science.
Reformers at top universities in Europe and the U.S., including Cambridge, Sorbonne, and UC Berkeley, say this traditional system of advancement has led to an explosion in the growth of low-quality research, with little meaningful impact on academic fields or society. It has also sparked the spread of fraudulent research, as “paper mills” churn out fake articles for sale to academics seeking to pad their CVs.
To weaken the “publish or perish” stranglehold on universities, hundreds of research institutions are reforming the incentive system that shapes academic careers. It currently rewards scholars for frequently winning grants and publishing papers, with extra points for landing in the most esteemed, high-impact journals, even when the articles are not themselves influential.
More: Rossner is part of a network of experts that sniff out researchers who intentionally or recklessly fabricate, falsify, or plagiarize evidence. Rossner, a consultant specializing in identifying manipulated and duplicated images in journal papers – a telltale sign of deceit – has been dismayed by his findings at U.S. research centers. Scientists often have deleted the data underlying the images, making misconduct harder to prove and casting doubt on the validity of the research.