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@JenTexas16 @lbk_enjoyer @AndreaRox70 @rawsalerts All four preschoolers. Two sets of cousins with the only girl as the oldest to rule the roost. It’s great to see them all playing together and excited to see each other.

@1BusyDad @lbk_enjoyer @AndreaRox70 @rawsalerts That’s a nice distraction to have ♥️

🚨#BREAKING: Newsweek are reporting that Republicans could lose control of Texas for the first time in nearly 30 years, raising major concerns among Republican leaders and voters across the state.

@JenTexas16 @lbk_enjoyer @AndreaRox70 @rawsalerts My bad. Trying to keep the grandkids from too much mayhem. I did indeed vote in the Rep. primary.

@1BusyDad @lbk_enjoyer @AndreaRox70 @rawsalerts Wait. So you didn’t vote in the primaries last month to help get Abbott out and now you’re going to abstain because Abbott is on the ballot vs a democrat who wants open borders and other far left ideologies?

@lbk_enjoyer @AndreaRox70 @rawsalerts Maybe next time they’ll figure it out. I’m abstaining if Abbot’s on the ballot.

@1BusyDad @AndreaRox70 @rawsalerts Too late…

@AndreaRox70 @rawsalerts The silent conservatives are tired of Abbots empty promises. Republicans better choose wisely when it comes to Primary season.

@rawsalerts I can't see it happening. The silent MAGA will rise up

@rawsalerts Conservatives are tired of hearing the same old story with nothing to show for it. Hany many times has Greg Abbot talked about property tax relief and failed to deliver or even make it a priority? Words without action are empty and I’m tired of being lied to.

@JoJoFromJerz The military selective service has been mandatory for males since May 18, 1917. The only new component is that it’s being done automatically.

This isn’t getting nearly enough attention. As the mom of a nearly 17 year old young man, this is something I think about daily.

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.

The same thing could happen in Texas for the same reason. It’s technically illegal to collect the rainwater that falls on your own property.

@liz_churchill10 What percent of toll roads in the U.S. have open booths that accept cash? I haven’t seen one in decades.

MEXICO JUST KILLED CASH Mexican Cartel President Sheinbaum just announced, “NO MORE CASH” at gas stations or toll booths. Digital payments are MANDATORY by end of 2026. This is a digital prison test run. The World Economic Forum’s Great Reset is here. x.com/MmisterNobody/…

@Rep_Magaziner @RepMaxineWaters What about having State schools with a set tuition which is affordable like it was in the 80’s?

No student with the grades, work ethic, and desire to go to college should be denied just because their families don’t have enough money. Along with @RepMaxineWaters I am leading 141 House members calling to double the size of the Pell Grant.

@TxGalLettie @saveaustintx Lots of good folks there. We always hit the marina so my wife can do Karaoke while we’re there.

@1BusyDad @saveaustintx I know it well. Sea Isle was home for many years.

PSA: Stay out of the dunes and brush on the Texas Coast. This is the 2nd Western Diamondback we encountered this week in Galveston Island. The first encounter was walking through the dune path with my dog and the rattlesnake was curled up rattling ready to strike my dog. WATCHOUT

@TxGalLettie @saveaustintx We have a house in Terramar. Heading that way next week for a crawfish boil. Hopefully no critter or varmit encounters!

@saveaustintx @1BusyDad Lived there for many years….coyotes, bats & huge rattlesnakes!

Harvard tracked 724 men for 80 years to figure out what makes you live longer. They measured everything from income to IQ, and even genetics. The #1 predictor of an early death? Had nothing to do with any of it... Here's what they found (thread):

@d33r3driv3r @AnnieForTruth I was mocking the original post. Congress set the tax code up and now they want to complain about it after creating loopholes for their big donors. They won’t close the loopholes because they’re more interested in their own re-election campaigns.

@1BusyDad @AnnieForTruth That “loop hole” would take away the tax deductions of all business vehicles and equipment you moron no matter what size of business or net worth.

It’s true…..

@BernieSanders Easy. Just eliminate all those tax loopholes that Congress made for thier big donors. YOU are in control of the tax code. Lead by example, and eschew all corporate and billionaire donations. You won’t do it because you’re an empty suit.

Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, recently paid an effective tax rate of less than 3.3%. That is less than the average truck driver, nurse and teacher. YES, we must demand the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🚨Warren Buffett: “I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says anytime there’s a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for reelection.” IMAGINE THAT!!

@PramilaJayapal That choice was made when Congress created loopholes for their favorite big donors. All Congress has to to is eliminate those loopholes but they won’t do it because their reelections are more important to them than we are.

In the richest country in the history of the world, why the hell do we allow billionaires to pay a lower tax rate than public school teachers? That's not an accident. That's a policy choice. Tax the rich.

@politvidchannel What about judges and other elected officials? Why not completely do away with qualified immunity?

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: If Democrats win the 2026 midterms, they plan to pass a bill called the Alex Pretti Act that will end qualified immunity for ICE agents, allowing them to be sued or jailed for wrongdoing