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Within one 24 hour period, Trump: - got out of a $100 million IRS fine - secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends - created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters - was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything. But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

Celebrate World Bee Day with a front-row seat to the hive 🐝 Watch honey bees work, communicate, and keep our ecosystems thriving on our live bee cams.

Cancer survival in the U.S. just crossed 70%. It was 63% in the 1990s. That gap = 4.8M people alive today. This one chart captures survival gains across 29 cancer types. The wins are real. So is the unfinished work. ▪️CML: 31% → 72% ▪️Multiple myeloma: 32% → 62% ▫️Kidney: 59% → 82% ▫️Metastatic melanoma: 16% → 35% ▫️Childhood ALL: 80% → 92% But some cancers barely moved. Cervical cancer outcomes actually worsened. None of this is abstract progress, though. These are birthdays, grandkids, and years of life returned. This is what funded science does. Next time someone asks if cancer research works, show them this (full) chart. - - - - - Source: ACS Cancer Statistics 2026 · SEER · 𝘷𝘪𝘢 @Jori_health - - - - -

@RealMattLucas Good morning, Matt☀️ This man scares me.

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The US and Israel wanted to install Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as post-war leader of Iran???

@TheStourbridge Good morning, sweet George🧡

Good morning & welcome to Whiskers Wednesday Allow yourself to take things one small step at a time. You don’t have to battle every worry all at once. It really is okay to take a break when things feel heavy. Even the smallest acts of courage still count as bravery.

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.

@ihtesham2005 I tutored 3rd and 4th grade children who were excited about handwriting, especially learning cursive, but the school didn’t teach cursive and discouraged handwriting in favor of computer typing. This study confirms that was short-sighted.

@CeeEyes Goodnight, Bobcat fren❤️

REED: How many taxpayers' returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach? BLANCHE: Excuse me? REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct? BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family. REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy

Somehow, a kitten ended up alone on the Bayside Bridge Sunday morning. A good Samaritan called us, Marine Unit responded, and the kitten made it to safety. Reminder: abandoning an animal is a first-degree misdemeanor in Florida. There are surrender options. Please use them.

@alfonslopeztena How does this action benefit anyone? We’re saving $32 million and spending way more on other nonsense.

As bee population collapses, US government closes a key research facility, home to the nation's oldest bee lab that has been at the vanguard of research into bee ills for over a century today.rtl.lu/news/world/as-…

@AP I heard a MAGA on NPR this morning say Massie always votes with democrats. It’s hard to overcome that level of ignorance.

BREAKING: Ed Gallrein defeats Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie in the GOP primary for US. House after a concerted effort by President Donald Trump to oust Massie from Congress. bit.ly/4dSAaKm

@TheStourbridge Night night, sweet George🧡

Night night sweet dreamies 🧡 You can do your best, be kind, and still not please everybody all of the time and that’s okay. Some people are determined to grumble no matter what. So keep being genuine. Keep being you. The right people will understand

@FBCASTX OMG Frank!

FBCAS is proud to announce that Frank - the last dog left on our list of longest in shelter residents who needed out by today - has left the shelter as a foster to adopt!!! 💕

@WLDdefense What a nightmare.

This, sadly, was a fore-drained conclusion. Sell Off Steve will now get to work intensively attacking public lands. RE: theSenate Stewardship Caucus "instead of speaking with one voice on their issue, the caucus’s membership fractured along party lines" publicdomain.media/p/steve-pearce…

our recently laid off colleague Frank Hulley-Jones was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer about four weeks ago. his wife has taken unpaid leave to take care of him and their sweet baby, and so they've started a gofundme to help with some costs associated with this process please donate if you can: gofundme.com/f/support-for-…

@CeeEyes Goodnight, Bobcat fren❤️ You are so cute🥰

78 WEEKS. the estimate that I continue to loosely give is that for every day of the Strait being closed, it may take a week to fully recover- we're now at 78 days- so ~78 weeks would put us roughly at November, 2027 to see global oil inventories fully recover.

This douchelord, a Canadian Citizen not U.S., just got approval to build a data center bigger than Washington D.C. in rural Utah. It will use 2.5 times the amount of energy the whole state uses and be powered by the same natural gas generators that Elon is using to f*ck up the environment in Memphis. The amount of investment dollars in A.I. is giving these guys an unlimited amount of power in a resource grab like we have never seen. Data Centers don't create jobs, they use tons of water and ruin the environment with gas generators, they tax the existing power grid and we're subsidizing them with our unaffordable electricity bills. And we're making douchelords like Kevin O'Leary extremely rich. Politicians need to step up, learn to say no and stop this madness.