Julie Collura

Great summary. Al Franken podcast. Director of the Moscow Project and Harvard Prof: stitcher.com/podcast/distri…

A CNN poll showed 77% of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, said President Trump’s policies have increased the cost of living in their communities. Facing an increasingly angry electorate, Republicans are scrambling to address high costs.

@allenanalysis Imagine voting someone out because they want the truth on the Epstein tragedy. Yet this is where we are. Just a sick n sad country…

Israel has infiltrated our electoral process. Our representatives are supposed to be our collective voice and guide America not be bought off by a foreign nation. This is by definition a threat to our democracy. A running Democrat was critical of Israel, Israel silenced them. x.com/i/status/20354… The president of the World Jewish Congress say they will target and remove any US politician that they deem antisemetic. x.com/i/status/19989… Natunyahu visited our Congress July 2024, this was during his genocide. His speech lasted 52 minutes, he received an initial 8 minute standing ovation on arrival, followed by over 50 more standing ovations during his speech. Do they represent the will of America? Can you truly say they speak for you? We the people do not have a voice. We are taxed without representation. Our very own government will literally go to war with us if we try to force the end of lobbying, that is how bad it is now. No one is coming to save us, we must demand change or our country will be become the enemy of the world since we are the lapdog of Israel. "Foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government." -George Washington

@allenanalysis F'king killer line about having to find him in Tel Aviv. Our government is run by Israel until boomers like the asshat below are gone.

@allenanalysis @StevePPhill just wondering if this 👇🏽has anything to do with trump taking out so many of his enemies in the primaries.... i don’t recall him ever having a 100% success rate before

@allenanalysis Billionaires, corporations and Israel run this joint. Virtually every election in every election cycle is controlled by Big Money interests. Yet almost no politician outside of Bernie Sanders runs on this.

🚨 JUST IN — Thomas Massie concedes the race: “I would've come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede.” “And it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv.” That line is going to detonate across Washington. Massie just turned his concession speech into a missile aimed directly at the flood of outside money and foreign policy influence that consumed this race. The most expensive House primary in U.S. history ends with one final message: This wasn’t just Kentucky voting. This was the political establishment making an example out of someone who refused to fall in line.

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.@StrikeForceFive may be gone, but our playlist lives on. Here’s almost every song we mentioned or used over the 12 episodes. @jimmykimmel @jimmyfallon @sethmeyers @iamjohnoliver spotify.link/KKtfReSl5Db

🇺🇸BREAKING: Today, Trump confirmed what his own lawyers wrote in a court filing last week. Under the new White House ballroom, the military is building: A hospital. Medical research facilities. Top Secret military rooms. Bomb shelters. His verbatim: “We have a hospital and very major medical facilities that we’re building.” Then he told his Cabinet the project was “supposed to be secret.” He called the people who revealed it “unpatriotic.” The people who revealed it were his own lawyers.

California friends, if you haven’t voted, I urge you to take a few minutes and watch Jasmine Crockett’s endorsement of Xavier Becerra. It’s everything. And check back later. I was able to ask both Becerra and Crockett additional questions that I think matter. @JasminForUS @XavierBecerra

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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.

Mark Ruffalo thinks he’s “already on a list” of Paramount-Skydance’s banned stars because he’s been so vocally opposed to the studio’s acquisition of Warner Bros.: “And I know no matter what, if I don’t speak out, it’s the same outcome. I’m already on a list. I’m already not a friend of these people. And so you’re either going to fight, or you’re going to lie down." variety.com/2026/film/news…

I am aware of the disturbing incident targeting worshippers during Friday prayers outside the Baitul Mamur Mosque in Brooklyn, where a man praying was struck with an egg. 

That hateful act is unacceptable and an affront to the values that define us as New Yorkers. 

My administration is committed to rooting out anti-Muslim hate in all its forms and ensuring every New Yorker can live and worship in safety and dignity. The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating this incident.

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This is a really big deal. Every state needs to do this.

James Talarico: “It’s really easy to love your neighbor who looks like you, prays like you, votes like you. The challenge is to love people who look differently, who pray differently, who vote differently”