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"Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love." - MLK

“Hi Senator Schumer, I’m a Jewish constituent of yours — I was wondering if your unwillingness to stand up against a genocide is because of the💰you’ve taken from AIPAC and their allies? AIPAC does not make Jews safer.” @SenSchumer (From @sunrisemvmt)

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

We just spent fifty billion in two months on the war in Iran and I haven’t heard a single question of where it came from. But the moment you say Americans deserve to see housing costs come down, or energy costs, or healthcare, suddenly there's no money to be had.

Poland spends nearly 5% of its GDP on defense and has done what we ask of our NATO allies. Blindsiding them while canceling a U.S. armored brigade deployment sends a weak message to Putin and a terrible message to our allies.

Trump wants to fleece taxpayers out of $1.8 BILLION with a sham settlement redirecting your money to his businesses and MAGA allies. The court must reject this assault on the American people. I'm introducing legislation to require explicit Congressional before a penny is spent!

El ejército terrorista de "Israel" ha vuelto a asaltar hoy una flotilla humanitaria que llevaba alimentos y medicinas a la población demacrada de la Franja de Gaza. Una y otra vez, como piratas, los sionistas asaltan ilegalmente los barcos en aguas internacional para mantener el asedio genocida sobre Gaza... y lejos de ser castigados, solo hay 9 paises que lo condenan de palabra y no pasa absolutamente nada. La impunidad de "Israel" y EEUU deja claro que este mundo no se rige por ninguna ley más que la ley del más fuerte, la ley de la selva, los oprimidos son pisoteados y los opresores quedan impunes mientras sus cómplices observan y callan.

It’s 1 a.m. in Lebanon right now. People are asleep. And Israel just ordered the evacuation of entire residential buildings packed with civilians in Tyre. Families waking up in the dark, grabbing children, fleeing before Israel drops bombs on their homes and flatten them.

🚨INSANE: Trump was asked if people who assaulted Capitol Police officers on January 6th should get compensation from the DOJ’s new fund. His answer: “I do believe there has to be compensation.” This is fucking sick.

Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) voted to slash over $1 trillion from Medicaid and the ACA. We asked Rep. Evans if he is concerned about the people in his district who will lose healthcare, and may die, because of his vote. He laughed. Then he ran away.

The West Has Already Lost the Drone War. It Just Hasn’t Noticed Yet. Here is something that should ruin your Monday. A Ukrainian AI drone engineer has gone on record to explain, calmly and with considerable evidence, that Western military planning is not behind the times. It is not lagging. It is not in need of reform. It is dead. Obsolete. A relic propped up by expensive acronyms and men in uniforms who still think the tank is the apex predator of land warfare. Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder of AI drone company The Fourth Law, has done the maths. FPV drones now account for somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of frontline casualties in Ukraine. Not artillery. Not missiles. Not the armoured columns that NATO has spent forty years and several fortunes preparing to counter. Small, cheap, autonomous flying machines that cost about as much as a decent restaurant dinner and kill with the precision of a surgeon. But here is where it gets genuinely terrifying. China can produce four billion FPV drones per year. Ukraine, a country that has been at war for three years and is building faster than anyone in the West, manages four million. That is the kind of number that makes you want to lie down on the floor and stare at the ceiling for a while. The West is not losing the AI arms race because it lacks the technology. It is losing because it is still arguing about procurement frameworks while the future arrives, uninvited, at four hundred kilometres per hour with a shaped charge attached. Latest 👇 gandalv.substack.com/p/ukraine-the-…

Absolute bombshell. An activist exposes the UK legal system's terrifying descent into authoritarianism to protect Israeli arms factories. The judge literally banned defendants from mentioning genocide and secretly reserved the right to sentence them as terrorists.

BREAKING: 93 House Democrats have filed a motion to block Trump’s self-dealing settlement in his sham $10 billion IRS lawsuit, which would create a $1.7 billion slush fund for Jan. 6 rioters and political allies.

Hay una pandemia que nadie quiere frenar: la del egoísmo. Y esa, también se contagia. El mayor riesgo para la salud global ya no es la falta de ciencia, sino la falta de conciencia. Por eso, cuando otros recortan, España duplica su ayuda. Porque ninguna sociedad merece llamarse civilizada si abandona a los suyos. Cuidar de quien no puede cuidarse no es caridad. Es lo que nos hace humanos.

Trump is terrified of getting audited for the same reason Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Frank Costello, Vito Genovese, Vincent Mangano, Carlo Gambino, Tommy Gagliano, Tommy Lucchese, Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo, Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno, Joe Profaci, and Joseph Colombo were.

We need more voices speaking up to fight against the demolition of democracy in our country, Marc Elias says. “This is rolling back the foundation of what made America possibly a democracy, beginning in the 1960s. And yet, in most corners, there’s silence.”

BREAKING: Elon Musk's baby mama reveals that he used "space technology" in the 2024 election and implies that he STOLE it for Donald Trump. This deserves a full federal investigation by Democrats... "In October, Elon tells me that he is ready to release his, in his words 'anomaly in the matrix' And I am like, oh, like, who's that? And he says that he has 10,000 lasers in space, referring to his satellites," said Ashley St. Clair, one of the many women whom Musk has impregnated and then promptly began treating like dirt. "I say, because I am like, rather uncomfortable, and I know the gravity of what he's trying to tell me right now. I say, 'Wow, finally, a focus on the Jewish vote. He keeps going," she continued. "And he says, you know, this is not something on, this is not a piece that they'll see on the chessboard." "And I straight up tell him, I say, I would ask more, but I really don't want to be deposed, to which he says, very wise," she added. The implication here is clearly that Musk was doing something illegal and that St. Clair wanted plausible deniability. "Shortly after that, you know, he's involved with AmericaPAC and all of this other stuff, and he's sending me some internal data from AmericaPAC, real time delta vote metrics," recounted St. Clair. "And I am just like, how the f*ck do you have this sort of data? You don't get this from door knocking, because that was my first one of my first jobs in politics was in campaigns and cleaning up this bad data from door knocking, because the vendors that AmericaPAC is using at this point is a vendor that hires Craigslist crackheads for door knocking. And I wish I was exaggerating there, but I'm not." St. Clair said that she now recognizes that she "caused harm" with her "rhetoric" when she was leaning into being a far-right persona, but claimed that she only ever wanted what's "best" for America. Clearly, she feels that she can no longer in good conscience remain silent on 2024. "And one thing is I have always, always hated big tech," she said. "So then to have arguably the most powerful man in the world, who is sending me things about, you know, using his space technology in the election. I should also say that I have all of this backed up with many people with explicit instructions, should anything happen to me, okay." "But this was something that I was internally wrestling with, while publicly not really showing that I was having any of these internal ethical conflicts with myself regarding this information," she went on. "And then on election night itself, Elon, you know, left Mar-a-Lago early. I was at Mar-a-Lago and he told me, he told me over text, he's like, 'Yeah, I knew hours ago that Trump won. My team has the best real-time data anywhere,'" said St. Clair. "First of all, how the f*ck do you have real-time data on elections?" she continued. "How do you have real-time data? I could not understand that. I don't know that I ever will. I just, I saw some shit, guys. Like, I saw some shit and I'm fighting really hard to keep my voice because I saw shit that impacts everyone. And if I was self-interested, I have been offered the self-interested deal to shut up and not talk about anything. But what I can tell you is I've not been offered certain deals just because I know that he's weird." "Okay. I saw some shit," she concluded. This woman must be immediately subpoenaed to testify before Congress under oath about the "shit" she saw. If Elon Musk — who spent $291 million to help Republicans during the 2024 cycle — really used his technology to illegally interfere in our elections, he must be prosecuted and imprisoned. And if any votes were tampered with, the election must be overturned! Please ❤️ and share to demand a full investigation!

Why did they fucking create this shit in the 14th amendment if we were gonna be too pussy to actually do it. I feel like every Union soldier has been utterly betrayed.

Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” cuts Medicaid by $1 trillion. Here is what that means in plain English. It means a Maryland mom caring full-time for her disabled 28-year-old son loses $18,000 a year.  It means a single dad in Colorado caring for his daughter could see his income cut by more than $90,000 and lose his home.  It means a Nebraska mother told reporters she was preparing to sell her house so her son could keep living. These parents left careers. They bathe, feed, medicate, and monitor their loved ones around the clock. They save taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars each year by keeping them out of institutions.  And the Trump administration’s response? RFK Jr. smears them as fraudsters. House Republicans accuse them of getting paid to “hang out with their own families.” Republicans handed the wealthiest Americans another tax cut and mailed the invoice to families holding the most vulnerable people in this country together with their bare hands. This is incredibly cruel. And every Republican who supported it owes these families an answer. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t…

BREAKING: The Trump administration’s EPA has proposed repealing Biden-era drinking water limits on four PFAS “forever chemicals” 1) GenX 2) PFHxS 3) PFNA 4) PFBS These chemicals are associated with: - Kidney cancer - Testicular cancer - Liver damage - Immune system suppression - Reduced vaccine effectiveness - Elevated cholesterol - Thyroid disease/disruption - Hormone disruption - Kidney damage - Fertility problems - Preeclampsia - Lower birth weight - Developmental delays in children - Increased infection risk - Metabolic disorders - Cardiovascular disease risk - Fatty liver disease - Possible endocrine disorders - Potential increased risk of certain other cancers Is this MAHA?

The Trump administration has waived 29 environmental and conservation laws to build roads and barriers across protected habitats in Texas: — Administrative Procedure Act — Antiquities Act — Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act — Archaeological Resources Protection Act — Clean Air Act — Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act — Eagle Protection Act — Energy Independence and Security Act — Endangered Species Act — Farmland Protection Policy Act — Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act — Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act — Federal Cave Resources Protection Act — Federal Land Policy and Management Act — Migratory Bird Conservation Act — Migratory Bird Treaty Act — National Environmental Policy Act — National Fish and Wildlife Act — National Historic Preservation Act — National Park Service General Authorities Act — National Park Service Organic Act — National Trails System Act — Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act — Noise Control Act — Paleontological Resources Protection Act — Safe Drinking Water Act — Solid Waste Disposal Act — Wild and Scenic Rivers Act — Wild Horse and Burro Act