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Prayers up for @milagropress. I know it feels like the world is against you but just know you have support. We love you so much and pray that God keeps you covered 💓

When you visit your mom because you miss her and she suddenly starts the same bs that made you move out

It's So Hard - Big Pun feat. Donell Jones (2000) 🔥🔥 Produced by Jay Waxx & Younglord Classic💯

When your alarm goes off for work and you realize you’re too tired to work, too poor to quit and too young to retire

Lil Wayne speaks on how quickly fans will switch up on an artist

Just casually singing Whitney like it’s nothing… Elmiene is a generational voice 🥹.

Lil Wayne reacts to AI in music: “My friends were kind of worried, saying you could ask AI to make a verse like Lil Wayne. So I tried it myself… I even tested it on a few different devices… and they all sucked. We gon be okay.” 😂

Aye @treasuremembers - yall inspired this joint.. thanks for showing love "Caviar" Acapella...

The U.S. is starving 11 million people in Cuba. Right now. Power is out. Food is rotting. Water pumps are shut down. Sewage is overflowing into the streets. Russia tried to send humanitarian aid. The US Navy blocked them. American news isn't covering this.

Every additional minute your toddler spends on a screen, they hear about 7 fewer words from you. By age 3, they also make 5 fewer attempts to talk back and lose one back-and-forth exchange with a parent. That’s from a 2024 JAMA Pediatrics study that put speech-recognition recorders inside actual homes across Australia. The 49% stat in this tweet is real. It comes from a 2017 study at SickKids Hospital in Toronto that tracked 894 children aged 6 to 24 months. For every 30 minutes of handheld screen time per day, the risk of a child being slow to form words and sentences increased by 49%. But only the speech output was affected. Gestures, body language, and social interaction were all fine. The mechanism is displacement. A toddler’s brain learns language through something researchers call “serve and return”: baby babbles, parent responds, baby tries again. That loop is how the brain’s language wiring gets built. When a screen is on, that exchange drops off. And we can now see it on brain scans. A 2020 JAMA Pediatrics study at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital scanned the brains of 47 kids aged 3 to 5. Kids with more screen time had weaker white matter, the insulation around nerve fibers that helps different parts of the brain talk to each other. The weak spots were in the exact areas that control language and early reading. A 2023 study at Tohoku University in Japan followed 7,097 children from birth. More screen time at age 1 was associated with higher rates of communication delays at ages 2 and 4. Each additional hour widened the gap. The AAP recommends zero screen time for children under 18 months, except for video calls. The average child under 2 already gets over an hour a day. But a 2023 systematic review found that when kids with speech delays stopped using devices for six months, 36.7% showed measurable improvement. The word in the tweet is “destroys.” The data says it’s closer to “delays,” and in many cases, delays that respond when the screens come off.

Three banks. Three settlements. Zero prosecutions. JPMorgan: $290 million. Deutsche Bank: $75 million. Bank of America: settled today. Every bank that banked Epstein has now paid survivors. Not a single executive has been charged.

Declassified CIA files reveal that, under President Lyndon B. Johnson, the military sprayed chemicals from planes, also known as SAIs (stratospheric aerosol injections) to modify the weather, per Daily Mail.

Me: “I should have about $200 left” Bank balance: $2.13 Me:

BREAKING: Bank of America settles lawsuit alleging they aided Jeffrey Epstein in trafficking crimes.

BREAKING: Cuba's electric grid has suffered a total collapse, leaving about 10 million people without power.

hot yesterday, tornado last night, cold today, pollen everywhere, & gas $3000

HAPPENING NOW (AGAIN IN MOCO) 🚨 Standing water shuts down ALL LANES of the Outerloop of I-495 at the American Legion Bridge in Bethesda. (heading into northern Virginia) Expect major delays in the area.

nigga moving like a lava lamp

He who finds a good woman finds a good thing. The love and admiration Ryan Coogler shows for his wife and Black Women In Hollywood honoree, Zinzi Coogler, is so beautiful to see in real time. And we don’t blame you, Ryan, we would have bagged her too! Congratulations, Zinzi! Watch this beautiful moment and more at ESSENCE Mag’s YouTube channel now!

Ryan Coogler becomes the second Black filmmaker to ever win Best Original Screenplay at the #Oscars He joins Jordan Peele, who was the first.

everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager > drive your friends to the airport > go to their party even when you're tired > stop cancelling last minute > host at your place > support the wins & losses it's worth every ounce of effort