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Your tattoo ink doesn't stay in your skin. It breaks apart and travels through your body to your lymph nodes, where it settles for life. And in the US, nobody has ever tested what's actually in it.
Lund University in Sweden studied 5,695 people for this one. They controlled for sun exposure, tanning beds, skin type, smoking, income. After stripping out all those variables, people with tattoos still had a 29% higher risk of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Mixed black and colored ink pushed that number to 38%. People who'd had their tattoos for 10 to 15 years had 67% higher risk.
Only 30% of the melanomas showed up where the tattoo actually was. The other 70% appeared on completely different parts of the body. The ink is traveling through the body, doing damage far from where it was injected.
Your immune system is the reason. It treats tattoo ink like an invader. White blood cells swallow the particles and try to drag them to your lymph nodes (small filters spread throughout your body that help fight infections). But the particles never leave. They just sit there. A research team in France used X-ray imaging on donated human bodies and confirmed tattoo pigments stay lodged in the lymph nodes permanently. A separate 2025 study then found this causes inflammation in the lymph nodes for months, and it actually weakened the body's response to COVID vaccines.
Black tattoo ink is loaded with the same compounds found in coal tar and cigarette smoke. The World Health Organization classifies these as cancer-causing. Colored inks use pigments that break down into different cancer-causing compounds when they get hit by sunlight or during laser tattoo removal. Arsenic, cadmium, lead, and chromium show up across almost every ink color.
The EU saw the data and in January 2022 restricted over 4,000 chemicals in tattoo ink across all 27 member states. The FDA has the authority to do the same thing. They have never used it. No tattoo ink sold in America has ever been FDA-approved for injection into human skin. The only guidance the agency has issued was in 2024, and it covered bacteria in ink bottles, not the cancer-causing chemicals in the ink itself.
82 million Americans have at least one tattoo, roughly 1 in 3 adults. Every one of them has permanent, untested chemical deposits sitting in their lymph nodes right now. The EU already decided those chemicals were too dangerous to leave on the market.
Faith retweeted
A 13-year-old Canadian kid uploaded R&B covers to YouTube in 2008 from his bedroom. A talent manager named Scooter Braun stumbled on the videos and signed him.
For the next 15 years, Braun controlled everything. Tours, branding, business deals, public image. The kid became the biggest pop star on the planet, sold 150 million records, racked up 32 billion Spotify streams, and had three Diamond-certified singles before turning 25.
Then in 2022, he got hit with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Partial facial paralysis. Cancelled the world tour. Disappeared from public life entirely.
Here's where it gets interesting.
In January 2023, he sold his entire 290-song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. Every song he'd ever released. "Baby." "Sorry." "Love Yourself." All of it. Gone. At 28 years old, he cashed out his past.
Then he dropped Scooter Braun. After 15 years. No manager. No agent. For the first time in his career, nobody was making decisions for him.
Fast forward to this weekend. Coachella calls. He picks up the phone himself. Rolling Stone confirmed he negotiated his own headlining deal directly with Goldenvoice. No agent commission. No manager cut. $10 million for two weekends, and he kept all of it.
Then he walked onto the biggest stage in music, sat down behind a MacBook, and pulled up YouTube.
He played "Baby" from 2010. He played his bedroom covers from 2008. He harmonized with his 13-year-old self in front of 100,000 people. Katy Perry joked about whether he had YouTube Premium.
Half the internet called it lazy. The other half called it genius.
They're both wrong. It was a receipt.
He sold his catalog for $200 million. He fired the man who discovered him. He negotiated his own deal. And then he went back to the exact platform where it all started and said: I built this from a laptop. I'm headlining Coachella from a laptop. And for the first time in my life, every dollar is mine.
The kid from YouTube just closed the loop.
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Faith retweeted
How do you communicate with people who see zero value in human life
.@megynkelly: "Trump could drop a nuke and I'd still vote Republican over Democrat. What [Democrats] want to do is nuke our own country."
Faith retweeted
In the best case scenario, Trump struck a deal to reopen a Strait that was open before the pointless war he started, with the IRGC demonstrating its control over the Strait and potentially extracting fees plus sanctions relief. Thousands of innocents - including hundreds of children - dead in Lebanon and Iran for no reason. U.S. troops killed and wounded. U.S. embassies and bases in the Middle East badly damaged. U.S. standing in the world obliterated. U.S. munitions badly depleted. Hundreds of billions spent. Prices up everywhere. More global economic fallout to come. Putin strengthened and enriched. Just a catastrophic situation even in the best of circumstances. A profoundly shameful episode in American history no matter what happens next.
Faith retweeted
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but banks wouldn’t be paying out $437 million in settlements if what was in the Epstein files was a hoax.
Faith retweeted
The Pentagon has a $1T budget and failed 8 audits in a row.
Health insurance companies defraud taxpayers out of $80B a year.
The 1% steals $163B a year through tax evasion.
Companies steal $50B in wages per year from US workers.
Start there.
For far too long, illegal alien fraudsters and criminals have been allowed to scam Americans out of their hard-earned tax dollars. That stops now.
Colin McDonald will be a key asset to the DOJ and the President's War on Fraud.
nypost.com/2026/03/24/us-new…
Faith retweeted
Median family income in the US increased from $10,000 in 1971 to $106,000 today, a 10x increase.
However, the median cost of homes increased from $25,000 to $445,000, a 17x increase.
And the median cost of cars increased from $3,600 to $50,000, a 14x increase.
The median cost of college increased from $2,900 a year to $45,000, a 16x increase.
And the average cost of healthcare per person increased from $350 to $14,600, a 42x increase.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE.
Faith retweeted
The life of a “Public Servant” aka Member of Congress:
Sexual harassment slush fund
Insider trading
Cadillac healthcare
Lobbyist bribes
Armed security
200 vacation days
Gym membership
Flights & Food
Childcare
Allowance
Taxpayer funded pension
Etc
No wonder they never leave.
Faith retweeted
78 female Democrats in Congress BLOCKED the release of sexual misconduct reports.
The same ones yelling about Epstein 24/7.
The irony is wild.
Faith retweeted
An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president.
The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.
Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water.
I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.
The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise.
We were the hosts.
I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless.
The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president .
The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship’s presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind.
The US has ignored India’s sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India’s invitation.
We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack.
Our“responsibility” is at a moral and human plane.
A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.
Faith retweeted
Today, only 65 of us voted to release names of congressmen who have used the sexual harassment slush fund to pay off claims against them. 357 members voted to “refer it to committee” knowing that resolution ain’t ever making it out of committee. Roll call:
clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol…
Faith retweeted
What a weird way for 182 Democrats & 175 Republicans to admit that they would rather protect their sexual predator colleagues instead of victims — unless these 357 were protecting themselves.
Faith retweeted
The loudest voices screaming "Release the Epstein Files" just voted to BURY the sexual harassment files of Members of Congress.
Get it now?
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HOLY FUCK it wasn't even close.
I'm going to tell my kids this is Epstein Island
House votes 357-65 to block release of congressional sexual misconduct and harassment reports
nbcnews.com/politics/congres…
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🚨Israel tried to wipe out a British base in Cyprus and blame it on Iran.
UK says drone targeting British base in Cyprus did not originate from Iran.
Update on UK operations in the Middle East: 04 March 2026 ⬇️
ALT Overnight, RAF Typhoon and F-35B jets continued defensive air operations across the Middle East with support from Voyager air-to-air refuelling in defence of British interests and allies. The Ministry of Defence can confirm that a Shahed-like drone which targeted RAF Akrotiri at midnight on 2nd March was not launched from Iran. In the last 24 hours, the UK has resupplied air defence systems to British and allied bases across the region – including UK-built air defence missiles. Royal Navy Wildcat helicopters – armed with Martlet missiles capable of taking out aerial threats – will arrive in Cyprus in the coming days.
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🚨 CNN just accidentally said the quiet part loud on live television:
“We’re not showing you that because the Israeli government doesn’t allow us — or want us — to show where that may have come from.”
A major American news network just admitted on air that a foreign government is controlling what you see.
Not suggesting it. Not implying it. Confessing it.
Speaker Johnson calls Islam a misguided religion from the House floor. The CIA arms Kurdish militias for regime change.
And now CNN confirms Israel is managing the visual narrative of a war American taxpayers are funding with their lives and $220 million a day.
You are not seeing the full picture. By design.
Faith retweeted
This is really actually SCARY, so a teenage girl got raped by our President & Epstein, reported it and later got her head blown off and officers said it wasn’t a suicide???? AND THIS MAN IS OUR PRESIDENT? WTF.
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Iran has been preparing for this war for more than 20 years. The 12-day war was a practice run for them, and they clocked Israel and the US in that small window.
They knew the US/Israel would first assassinate their leadership, and they were prepared and layered their leadership.
They knew the Gulf States were the backbone of American finances, and they bombed them instead of the US.
They acknowledged the US technological advancements, but they also knew it was a big liability, and all they had to do was bombard it with their cheap drones. It has now become a question of how long the US can keep up this initial force.
They knew the US strategy of hitting their enemies with overwhelming force at the beginning, and they were prepared for that expensive fireworks. They expected this and prepared for it. Now, the US is wearing down.
Iran has given the world a brand of warfare that is for the history books.
Faith retweeted
Trump planned this war.
It’s not sudden.
He is knowingly sending US lives to die.
But is he in the situation room?
No.
This is the podium at his golf course, and he is in a cap without a tie.
Because he is GOLFING while ordering US troops to their death.
