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Not going to eulogize Afrika Bambaataa after what he did to all those boys, including my old buddy TC Izlam, who was gunned down after leaving his position in Zulu Nation to speak out.

A shovel promoting Tom Cruise and Alejandro G. Iñárritu's new film ‘DIGGER’ has been spotted at Coachella. (via: @ema_sasic)

HOW IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS!?!?!?!? THEY PRINTED 5 BILLION OF THEIR OWN TOKENS THEN WITHDREW IT AS USDC!?!?!?!??!

Trump's followers on Truth Social are extremely upset about his attacks on Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones, and Tucker Carlson.

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to president Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused. The only president who has agreed to this, obviously, is President Trump

@Acyn Jesus :

Watters: You’re stuck with Trump whether you like it or not.

DHS did the same earlier today. It was for exactly as vile a reason as you can imagine; basically Breitbart’s old “black crime” vertical as official government policy. There hasn’t been an administration this openly racist since Wilson invited the KKK to the White House.

The women don’t get a One Shining Moment, so we took matters into our own hands. Sights and sounds from the Women’s NCAA Tournament:

A community college professor taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years, and the video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings on the internet. His name is Marty Lobdell. He spent his career as a psychology professor watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because nobody had ever taught them how their brain actually works under the pressure of learning something hard. The lecture is called "Study Less Study Smart." Over 10 million views. Passed around in Reddit threads, Discord servers, and university study groups for over a decade. And the core insight buried inside it has been sitting in cognitive psychology research for years, waiting for someone to explain it in plain language. Here is the framework that completely changed how I think about effort. Your brain does not sustain focus the way you think it does. Studies tracking real students found that the average learner hits a wall somewhere between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency doesn't just decline. It collapses. You're still sitting at your desk, still looking at the page, but almost nothing is going in. Lobdell illustrated this with a student he knew personally. She set a goal of studying 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week, to pull herself out of academic probation. Thirty hours of studying per week. She failed every single class that quarter. She wasn't failing because she lacked effort. She was failing because she had confused time spent near books with time spent actually learning. The 25-minute crash hit her at 6:30pm every night. She spent the next five and a half hours sitting in the wreckage of her own focus and calling it studying. The fix sounds almost too simple. The moment you feel the slide, stop. Take five minutes. Do something that actually gives you a small reward. Then go back. That five-minute reset returns you to near full efficiency. Across a six-hour window, the difference is not marginal. It is the difference between thirty minutes of real learning and five and a half hours of it. The second thing he taught destroyed something I had believed about how memory actually works. Highlighting feels productive. Going back over your notes and recognizing everything feels like knowing. But recognition and recollection are two completely different cognitive processes, and your brain is very good at making you confuse them. You can see something you've read before and feel completely certain you understand it, even when you couldn't reconstruct a single sentence from memory if the page were blank. He proved this live in the room. He read 13 random letters to his audience. Almost nobody could recall them. Then he rearranged the same 13 letters into two words: Happy Thursday. The whole room got all 13 without effort. Same letters. Same count. The only thing that changed was meaning. The brain stores meaning. Not repetition. The moment new information connects to something you already understand, the retention changes entirely. This is what the cognitive psychology literature calls elaborative encoding, and it is the mechanism underneath every effective study technique. The third principle was the one that hit me hardest, and the one almost nobody applies. Lobdell cited research showing that 80 percent of your study time should be spent in active recitation, not passive reading. Close the material. Say it back in your own words. Teach it to someone else, or to an empty chair if no one is around. The struggle of retrieval is where the actual learning happens. Reading your notes again is watching someone else do the work. His parting line has stayed with me longer than almost anything else I have read about learning. He told the room that if what he shared didn't change their behavior, they hadn't actually learned it. It would just live in their heads as something they had heard once and felt good about. He was right. And most people leave every lecture exactly like that. The students who remember everything aren't putting in more hours. They stopped confusing the feeling of studying with the fact of it.

🚨 MAJOR NEWS: CBS News: Diplomatic sources confirm Trump personally agreed Lebanon was part of the ceasefire. Israel also agreed to the terms. Then Israel bombed Lebanon, notwithstanding the agreed-upon cease-fire.

MAGA mama tells cops to "Call ICE" on neighbor—for parking on public street. "They need to go back to Mexico," she yells. "Trump is our president—you understand that right?... Trump says to deport them." Cop responds, "How do I know you are a citizen? Should I send you back to wherever your ancestors are from?" The woman, identified only as Tracy, was given a citation for disorderly conduct. The incident occurred in the Oak Ridge North suburb of Houston, Texas. #DemsUnited

Run this as an ad in Pennsylvania.

Midterms are this November! Guess we better get Dems in control of the purse!

One of the best Group Albums ever.

Your repost can go a long way.

Police claim her car “matched the description” of an armed robbery suspect, yet the vehicle type, race, and gender didn’t match at all—under the Fourth Amendment, you cannot be detained without reasonable suspicion specific to you, and under Terry v. Ohio officers must be able to clearly articulate that suspicion, not hide behind vague, inaccurate descriptions. When stops like this escalate, they often end in deadly force; even when no one is killed, an unlawful seizure and the threat of guns around children can inflict lifelong psychological trauma that still requires accountability, policy change, and legal action. 🎥: @thekathleenbooker (IG)

Amazon found a way to charge 200 million people for something they already owned. Twice. Step 1: Insert ads into a product people were already paying $139/year for. Step 2: Charge $2.99/mo to remove the ads you just added. Step 3: Take away 4K, which was free for years. Step 4: Charge $4.99/mo to get it back. Total time: 26 months. Total new revenue at even 15% conversion: $1.8 billion per year. The genius is the sequencing. No single step is outrageous enough to cancel over. You don't cancel Prime over $3. You don't cancel over $5. You definitely don't cancel over 4K because most people don't even notice the resolution downgrade until they watch on a big screen. Amazon needed $3.6 billion per year in new revenue to cover NFL and NBA rights. They got halfway there by selling people back their own product one feature at a time.

genuinely i can't stop saying this shit

Nigga when tf I say this