Lara Whitten

#thejoker My X account is just so blah now. I used to find it fun. For now, I leave you with a #favorite #photo in my collection of old #Vegas #Clown

@temotizox @drodvik52 Naturalization and our Constitution is easy to read. We shouldn't have those other laws that were confused him

El hombre que ven en la imagen se llama Josè "Joe" Ceballos. Nació en México, llegó a Kansas a los 4 años y es un convencido votante trumpista. Vive en Coldwater, un pueblito de setecientos habitantes, entre graneros, pacas de heno, camionetas y banderitas americanas en las verjas. Republicano hasta la médula, el pueblo y él también. Y él nunca se ha movido de Coldwater. Ha hecho la primaria allí, la secundaria allí, el bachillerato allí. Ha trabajado para la compañía eléctrica del pueblo durante toda su vida. Se casó allí, crió a sus hijos allí, cría ganado allí. Lo conocen todos: es "Joe". Al que hablas cuando se rompe el sistema de alcantarillado. Aquel que en diciembre monta las luces de Navidad en la plaza. Aquel que el día de los Veteranos y del Memorial Day levanta las banderas. Y también por eso lo eligieron alcalde dos veces. La última vez, en noviembre de 2025. Porque en Coldwater Joe es uno de ellos. De hecho: Joe es uno de ellos. Joe en las elecciones de 2024 votó por Trump. Convencido al 100. Y lo mismo había hecho en 2016 y en 2020. Pero hay un pequeño detalle: Joe no podía votar. Porque después de 51 años en Kansas, después de haber sido alcalde de una ciudad estadounidense, técnicamente seguía siendo mexicano. De hecho, tenía la tarjeta verde, no la ciudadanía. Se había registrado a los 18 años durante una excursión escolar al tribunal del condado. El empleado había preguntado "¿alguien quiere inscribirse?" y Joe había levantado la mano junto con sus compañeros. Joe declaró en el tribunal que no sabía que para votar en América era necesario ser ciudadanos estadounidenses: "Pensaba que 'residente permanente' significaba que estaba en regla". Durante casi cuarenta años, en las urnas de Coldwater, Joe fue a votar con la más absoluta convicción de ser como todos los demás. Y en cambio no. El día después de su reelección, el fiscal general de Kansas, Kris Kobach, republicano, trumpista, halcón de la inmigración, lo acusa de fraude electoral. Joe acepta un acuerdo: libertad vigilada, dos mil dólares de multa. Y cuando sale del tribunal declara a los periódicos: "Quizás ahora también pueda pedir la ciudadanía". Era el 13 de abril. Miércoles 13 de mayo, exactamente un mes después, el ICE, la policía migratoria que tanto le gustaba a Joe, le envía una bonita cartita: "Señor Ceballos, preséntese en Wichita". Joe va. En coche, dos horas de pradera, a través de los campos de trigo del profundo Kansas. Se presenta, entrega el móvil y acaba en la celda. Ahora corre el riesgo de ser deportado a México, donde la última vez que estuvo llevaba todavía el chupete. La portavoz del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, Lauren Bis, comentó: "Nuestras elecciones pertenecen a los ciudadanos estadounidenses, no a los extranjeros". Y mientras Joe era trasladado a la cárcel del ICE, frente a las oficinas federales se reunieron decenas de sus conciudadanos. Todos allí pidiendo la liberación de Joe. Todos allí, en su gran mayoría, votantes de Trump. Aquellos que habían votado a favor de "expulsar a los inmigrantes ilegales". Y ahora descubren lo que nosotros repetimos desde hace una vida: que la máquina del odio no mira cuánto tiempo llevas allí, no mira a quién has votado, no mira si eres el alcalde o el jardinero. Muele. Y cuando se acaba la carne de los demás, empieza con la tuya. Joe ha votado a Trump tres veces. Joe corre el riesgo de ser deportado por Trump. Y mientras lo cargan en la furgoneta, en algún lugar de Kansas, hay un seguidor suyo con la gorra MAGA en la cabeza que se rasca la nuca y se pregunta, quizás por primera vez en la vida, si acaso no lo habían tomado un poco demasiado en serio, esos. Bienvenidos a la realidad...

@ihtesham2005 I wonder how guitar and piano players measure

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.

@AZ_Brittney A little later maybe. The USA could be nicer.

Republicans have just added $1 billion for Trump's ballroom in their latest bill. Do you support $1 billion in taxpayer money paying for Trump’s ballroom? YES or NO? ✋

@Monica55dzrh Yeller

Name a famous dog but it can't be Scooby Doo!

@_native_america Hawk

What is your sacred animal in Native American culture? Comment below which animal you belong to, and I’ll tell you who you really are!

@SarahWorkx Cary Grant

The best actors of all time but ONE is missing. Who would you add to this group

@native_am_pride Beautiful varieties. I love those GMO raspberries with few seeds. I admit it.

Fantastic . Wish we,'d do this immediately in the US.. Mexico honoring their true Heritage Roots and taking Steps that Honor Mother Earth and Food people eat. Hurrah!!!!🌽🌽🌽💗

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@ThinkNGuess Peppermint. Spearmint leaf has jagged edges

No one across the country seems to know what this is

@KingTunde_SZN 36

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@JamesTate121 Truth. But, didn't Biden mess everything up leaving Afghanistan? ??

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us. Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again. And you're calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. "NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess. So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

I tripped last night after I made the below post. I looked up excite.com to see how it was bought up and Wikipedia says that Ghislaine Maxwells sisters built the search engine for it. After I saw it I realized, I think, Bill Gates has confessions to make as well.

@xevekiah Keep it invested because the tax burden is too much and leave it at that.

I’m about to get married, and my fiancé knows I have an inheritance that was left to me by my grandparents. It’s in my name only, and I’ve been saving it for years. Now he’s saying that before we get married, I should put the entire inheritance into a joint account so we can “start fresh together,” or he doesn’t think we should go through with the wedding. I’m 33 already and this is something my family worked hard to leave me. I’m torn between wanting to build a life together and feeling like I’m being pressured to give up something important to me. What do you think I should do?

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This is just a laptop bag I recently threw out called Hollywood Stock Exchange. It was given to me at the L.A. Convention Center shortly after I arrived in town. It sat in the closet, mostly, until we went to court w/ the #metoo & #dental malpractice. We're still in it, but, torn

@ronsterd89 Corner folding leaf table is unusual. You sanded part of the top and it is veneer??

My Girlfriend thinks it’s worthless, my father says it’s a valuable antique, and I have no clue. Can anyone help me identify it?

@OccupyDemocrats @Inchall2 I think Iran's biggest problem is nobody will take the reins. The immigrants from there in L.A. certainly won't or can't do it. That would ruin their immigrant game though. Israeli and Persian/Iranian people live in the same neighborhood in Beverly Hills. Let them do it. Now!

BREAKING: IS HE SMOKING CRACK? Trump declares that Iran offered to make *HIM* Supreme Leader in jaw-dropping show of complete demented delusion! Yes, you read that right. During last night’s GOP congressional fundraiser, Trump declared that the Islamic Republic of Iran had offered to make him their Supreme Leader. “Nobody’s ever seen anything like we're doing in the Middle East with Iran.” slurred the President. “And they are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly, but they're afraid to say it because they figure they'll be killed by their own people. They're also afraid they'll be killed by us.” “There's never been a head of a country that wanted that job less than being the head of Iran. I listen to some of the things they say. hear them very clearly. They say, I don't want it. We'd like to make you the next Supreme Leader. No, thank you. I don't want it.” This man is off his rocker. This is an INSANE thing to say that is obviously, laughably untrue, and yet every Republican in the room just sits there and uncomfortably laughs like the spineless cowards they are. We are reaching unheard of lows of desperate copium-huffing delusion by the world’s most pathetically insecure man, and it is the clearest evidence yet that this man cannot be allowed to make the decision to sacrifice our brave military servicemembers in a desperate, foolhardy invasion of Iran whose real objective is protecting Trump’s ego from having to face the humiliation of being an absolute imbecile who made a colossaly stupid decision. 25th Amendment now.

@RedLineReportt Yes.

Legendary Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling claims that transgender women are not women, but simply men pretending to be women. Do you agree with J.K. Rowling? YES or NO?