Emer O' Shea #Ukraine #Woman, Life Freedom

Completely opposite of the incompetent serial lying buffoon in the White House, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is delivering on his campaign promises.

Jordan Peterson warned how a brain that stops reading eventually loses the ability to think deeply on a topic: 1. Reading for pleasure has always been a minority occupation. Most people don't read. Of those who do, few buy books. Of those who buy books, even fewer read difficult ones. That's not changing and that's exactly why it's your advantage. 2. Books are not like photographs. A photograph is a click. A book is a portrait layered, worked over, and built with depth. No other medium lets you think, rethink, and go deeper the way a book does. 3. YouTube and podcasts are not the enemy of reading. They are extensions of it. A great podcast can carry the same value as a great book. Peterson treats them as complements, not competition. 4. The real revolution of podcasts is found time. You can't read while driving or doing the dishes. But you can listen. All that dead time, commuting, cooking, exercising is now a university education available to anyone with a phone. 5. Long-form attention is not dead. Joe Rogan does three-hour podcasts. Peterson's lectures run two hours. Millions watch them to the end. People don't have fragmented attention spans. They have low-quality inputs. 6. When Peterson's YouTube views crossed one million, he didn't celebrate immediately. He sat with it. He thought: a million is a lot. If you sold a million books, you'd do the touchdown dance. He realized something massive was happening. 7. YouTube isn't cute cat videos. Peterson saw it for what it actually is, the invention of the printing press, version two. For the first time in human history, the spoken word has the same reach and the same duration as a book. 8. The people who learn the fastest are the ones willing to look like fools at the start. Peterson felt like a fool when he first lectured, first practiced therapy, first uploaded to YouTube. He did it anyway. 9. Most smart people dismiss new media. When journalists called Peterson's colleagues, they'd say things like "they always get it wrong." Peterson picked up the phone, had the conversation, and let the chips fall. That single habit changed everything. 10. The fool is the precursor to the savior. Carl Jung said it. Peterson lived it. You cannot advance without first being willing to look incompetent. Safety keeps you comfortable. It doesn't keep you growing. 11. Reading makes your thinking slower in the best possible way. It forces you to sit with one idea long enough to actually understand it. Social media gives you 100 ideas in 15 minutes. Books give you one idea that actually stays. 12. The brain is not built for passive consumption. Short-form reels don't educate deeply. They stimulate rapidly and leave nothing behind. Your brain needs time to process, observe, and emerge in an experience. 13. If you can truly read, you can read faster than you can listen. That makes reading the highest-leverage input activity available. Not everyone has the patience for it which is exactly why those who do get ahead. 14. The people watching two-hour lectures are not bored. They are hungry. There is a massive market for demanding, high-quality, difficult content. Most creators refuse to make it because they're afraid of losing easy engagement. 15. Peterson's point is not that podcasts are bad or that books are dying. It's that the tools for becoming genuinely educated have never been more accessible and most people still choose not to use them.

Prof. Nathalie Tocci (@NathalieTocci) | European Foreign Policy Expert | Johns Hopkins SAIS, Europe: A system that elects Trump twice is not a fluke. It tells us something deep & structural going on the country. The first time felt like a fluke. The second time reveals the iceberg beneath - a mix of nationalist & far-right populism, a tech oligarchy, and money being funneled into far-right groups worldwide. Trump is the frontman. The operation behind him is not going away. The genie being out of the bottle means this: Europeans now understand that even if Trump is defeated, the problem can come back. So you cannot simply return to the past - because what is happening now may happen again, even if both sides of the Atlantic one day want to rebuild a bridge.

A comedian asked an audience member to come up on stage and tell a joke, and he nailed it... This is hilarious 😂👏

Andy Serkis reading Trump's tweets in Gollum's voice is the best thing you'll see on social media today.

This is a most dreadful example, just down the road from me the Dun Laoghaire baths without the baths! FFS.

People mock the EU as “bureaucracy”. But that bureaucracy turned a continent of borders, currencies and wars into a space where 450 million people can travel, pay, call, study and work almost as if it were domestic. That is not boring. That is civilization becoming usable.

This is what it sounds like living next to a data center. The video below was recorded at midnight, and the data center is situated next to 100s of residential homes.

Our contacts with the American side regarding guarantees for the implementation of the arrangements reached recently and announced by the President of the United States are ongoing. The prisoner exchange – 1,000 for 1,000 – is being prepared and must take place. The Americans assumed responsibility for these guarantees. Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters has handed over the lists for one thousand POWs to the Russian side. There was American mediation in reaching this arrangement on the exchange, and accordingly, we expect the American side to play an active role in ensuring it’s fulfilled.

@TimmyHammersley I know all the arguments as I follow it closely but hurling &football are our national games and right now they seem to be going in a direction where the amateur status is receding and a more professional game is emerging thus broadcast rights are up for grabs 💶💶💶

@TimmyHammersley I find I'm so disconnected from the current hurling championship due to sporadic airing of hurling games..... I have better connection following rugby, and it not even a national game ....😡

Can offaly kilkenny be watched on anything?

Absolute bombshell. Prominent host Ben Meiselas confirms the pilot rescue in Iran was a complete CIA coverup. He reveals Trump administration launched a disastrous, secret invasion of the Isfahan nuclear facility that completely failed. Washington is hiding a massive defeat.

Why do they keep pushing mammograms when safer options exist? Mammograms are a multi-billion-dollar industry that does more harm than good. They crush the breast under massive pressure and deliver ionizing radiation 1,000× stronger than a chest X-ray — which can stimulate tumor growth, spread cancer cells, and cause new cancers, heart disease, and lung cancer. False-positive rate is 50-70%. For every 1 life possibly saved out of 2,000 women screened, 50 get unnecessary surgery/chemo/radiation, hundreds more endure extra radiation and biopsies, and 70-80% of “tumors” found aren’t even cancer. Ultrasound and QT thermography use zero radiation, have far fewer false positives, 40× higher resolution than MRI, and detect abnormalities 8–10 years earlier. They’re already standard in countries that ditched harmful 3D mammograms. Yet insurance refuses to cover the better options. Mammograms need to be a thing of the past.

@ryle_nugent I've watched this each time it has appeared in my feed.... love it!!!

So good.. #adidas #worldcup

Love this! Going to miss moments like this with @colbertlateshow

Axelrod: There are a lot of people who would like you to run for president in 2028. And there are others who would like you to run for the senate. AOC: In this op-ed that Bezos paid for in The Washington Post, there was a veiled threat—it was the elite saying if you want this job, you just stepped out of line. What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

1950 vs 2026 1/7

Absolutely superb . You have to watch this … #brilliant #friday

Kremlin constantly tries to whitewash its crimes past and present. Russia has always pursued colonialist ambitions and used armed force to achieve its dirty goals. No bogus excuse can change facts - Soviet Union was an occupier. #WordsMatter

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