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This should be in every news outlet

Retired mail carrier here. There are many carriers with bad attitudes and mental illness! I can hear the guy in my mind 'These f*kin people, I'm sick of delivering all these mother f*king packages!'. He's also breaking all of our driving rules. His door is open while he is driving and he is driving backwards. Both are huge no-nos!

A Ring camera caught a USPS mail carrier tossing mail and packages from the truck onto the concrete walkway leading to the front door instead of walking them up. Everyone understands delivery drivers are busy and under pressure, but customers shouldn’t have to worry about their mail and packages being thrown around just to save a few extra steps.

@MorEdge_Insight The sobbing girl is hard to listen to. It's gut-wrenching enough watching here. I can't imagine irl. Nature is beautiful but can be brutal

This is one of the most insane wildlife moments I’ve seen. You simply have to watch this. A wildebeest gets clamped by a medium-sized crocodile during the chaos at the waterhole and somehow fights its way almost to safety. Just as it’s about to climb out… BAM!!! An absolute MONSTER of a crocodile explodes in, rips it away from the smaller one, and drags it under😱 The raw desperation in the wildebeest’s calls and the girl in the background sobbing uncontrollably… damn. Nature doesn’t do mercy. Credit: @LatestSightings

@libsoftiktok This crap shouldn't not happen, especially in Texas!!

Female Texas Cop THREATENS to ticket a retired officer and Christian street preacher for "offensive speech" Cop: "If someone is offended by your talking, then we have a problem..." Man: "You're going to ticket us for 'offensive' speech?" Cop: "Yes, I am" This cop is blatantly violating the 1st Amendment

@ImtiazMadmood WOW!! The must have been terrifying

CCTV Footage of a house with a pool in La Guaira, Venezuela really shows the intensity of the earthquake. That might be the most violent motion from an earthquake I’ve ever seen. The thought of being in a pool during something like this is so so scary! Mother nature is terrifyingl. You'd get slapped against the concrete. Ouch. That is one well built house. The owner should be thanking the builders big time.

Why do we continue to play the Iranian games? They don't want peace. They don't care about making their society better. They only care about killing the Jews and conquering Western Civilization. They will not stop until all people bow before Allah. Are you prepared for the coming Caliphate takeover?

A third round of U.S.–Iran talks may take place in Islamabad on July 14–15, the Pakistan Observer reports. A senior Iranian delegation led by Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni is expected in Pakistan in the coming days, after Khamenei's funeral ceremonies conclude.

@PeteButtigieg Nobody deserves to get swatted.

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. substack.com/home/post/p-20…

@SenJohnKennedy I bet your the best grandpa!!

Dogs are God’s way of apologizing for the relatives God gave us. I want you to meet Charlie.

I was 12 when I saw your Dad at Spokes Arena(?) in Va Beach or Norfolk. He helped things fall in place. I wasn't raised in a believing family, however, my first grade teacher taught children's church after school, and I attended weekly. When I was 11 we moved across the country to VA It didn't matter where we lived, I would still jump on the first Sunday school church bus that came by. I don't remember who took me to Scopes to see him, but I hope it was my mom. She never encouraged or discouraged my journey, but when I was 10 she gave me a bible! 50+ years later and I still cherish it...

“And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.” (1 John 5:11-12)

@TheIronWarden I didn't know you hated the Jews. Thanks for clarifying

⛨ Deus Vult ⛨

@shaunvlog_ @RonDeSantis Dude!! Our Gov just gave you a high-five!!

@RonDeSantis Looking forward to discovering more of this beautiful State 🙌

You are just scratching the surface!

This is probably one of those most important short videos you can watch about Charlie. And it’s not what you think.

Wish I was brave enough to share with my daughter. But, there is a grandchild I want to continue to see.

84% of men's idle thoughts are spent preparing for exactly this scenario.

@marklevinshow Omg, please tell me this isn't true. Sounds like Bidens stupid comment about Russia invading Ukraine just a little would be ok.

I can't tell you how many people, several of whom you'd know, who are contacting me out of grave concern.

@BGatesIsaPyscho every day

Does anyone feel like - everything that is happening right now, is in some way how or ever connected to The Bible….?

@hicasamadim 72

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I love the Goliaths while diving in Jupiter! Wilbur is doing good! He's got a couple of pieces of jewelry in his mout... youtube.com/shorts/0M20Kti… via @YouTube

@MarioNawfal Is this for real? It appears the engine is on fire while the man is still standing on the ground.

🚨🇺🇸 Footage has emerged of the moment a Frontier Airlines jet fatally struck a trespasser on the runway at Denver International Airport.

Thanks Owen I really appreciate your deep dives into whatever subject you work on. I have very vivid dreams, sometimes realistic and sometimes really bizarre. I quit smoking 40 years ago. I recently had one where I was smoking. I remember popping up in bed, not sure if it was real or not!

Why Your Brain "Dreams" Even When You’re Awake | Neuroscience News Summary: We usually think of wakefulness and sleep as two separate worlds, but new research proves the boundary is an illusion. Using an experimental setup inspired by Thomas Edison, researchers analyzed 92 participants drifting into sleep and found that “dreaming” isn’t exclusive to the night. By identifying four distinct mental states, including a “bizarre” dream state, the team discovered that these experiences occur across all levels of alertness. Whether you’re fully awake or in light sleep, your brain can flip into a “dream narrative” at any moment, suggesting that the content of our thoughts is independent of our state of vigilance. Key Facts - The Edison Technique: Following the legend of Thomas Edison, participants held a bottle that would drop as they drifted off, waking them at the precise threshold of sleep to report their immediate “hypnagogic” thoughts. - The Four Mental States: An unbiased AI algorithm identified four distinct clusters of thought: - C1: Fleeting, isolated recollections. - C2: High connection to the external environment (street sounds, room temperature). - C3: The “Dream State”, bizarre, vivid, and spontaneous (e.g., “aliens” or “ants on crossword puzzles”). - C4: Goal-oriented, voluntary control (planning tomorrow’s schedule). - The Major Finding: All four states, including the bizarre C3 dream state, occurred while participants were fully awake, in sleep onset, and in light sleep. You can “dream” while awake and “plan” while asleep. - Neural Fingerprint of Bizarreness: The dream-like C3 state has a specific brain signature: reduced long-range connectivity between the frontal (reasoning) and occipital (visual) regions. This essentially allows the visual brain to “run wild” without the logical brain’s oversight. - Paradoxical Insomnia: The study offers a breakthrough for insomnia patients who feel they “didn’t sleep a wink” despite clinical data saying they did. Their brains may simply be spending too much time in the “environment-connected” C2 state, making sleep feel like wakefulness. --- By convention, wakefulness and sleep are regarded as physiologically distinct states. It is therefore tempting to assume that the images, sensations, and ideas that cross our minds while we are awake are fundamentally different in nature from those we experience while we sleep, and especially while we dream. “Yet this is far from obvious. Being awake is not synonymous with being attentive, fully aware of one’s surroundings, or able to act and think rationally,” explains Delphine Oudiette, co-leader of the DreamTeam. “We now know that there is a continuum between wakefulness and sleep, with intermediate states such as mind-wandering or mind-blanking, during which certain regions of the brain may be asleep. What remained to be determined was whether the content of our thoughts also varies independently of our state of vigilance.” To answer this question, the researchers chose to study sleep onset, the transitional stage between wakefulness and sleep. “Sleep onset allows us to capture, within a very short time span, fluctuations in our state of vigilance, from wakefulness to sleep, and to observe the mental experiences associated with them,” says Nicolas Decat, a PhD student at the Paris Brain Institute and first author of the study. “As we drift toward sleep, sensations, visions, and snippets of speech unfold—what are commonly called hypnagogic experiences. Tracing the evolution from ordinary thought to dream-like narrative can help us understand how a dream emerges.” Nap experts to the rescue To explore the transition between wakefulness and sleep, the team conducted a study with 92 participants who were accustomed to napping and trained to report the content of their thoughts upon interruption. The researchers used an experimental setup inspired by Thomas Edison. According to legend, the inventor had a habit of falling asleep in his armchair while holding a heavy object, the fall of which would wake him at the threshold of sleep; he would then make use of the whirlwind of creative ideas that flooded his mind during this critical moment. After each interruption of their nap—either by dropping a bottle held in the hand or by an alarm—participants were asked to describe their mental experience of the previous ten seconds, then rate it on four dimensions: bizarreness, fluidity, spontaneity, and perceived level of wakefulness. In parallel, their brain activity was continuously recorded with an EEG cap. The researchers then let the data speak for themselves, applying a clustering algorithm that imposed no preconceived categories. “This data-driven approach was essential for us, because in research, there is no consensus on what hypnagogic experiences actually are. It was important not to bias this exploration with our own definitions or beliefs,” says Nicolas Decat. A brain signature of dream-like states The analysis revealed not the two mental states one might expect—dreaming and waking thought—but four. The first (C1) was characterized by fleeting recollections (“An image of my dad crossed my mind”); the second (C2), by a high level of connection to the surrounding environment (“I was listening to the street sounds”); the third (C3), by its bizarreness (“I saw images of small aliens”); and the last (C4), by a high level of voluntary control (“I was thinking about what I would do tomorrow”). Each of these four mental states appeared across all three vigilance stages measured: wakefulness, sleep onset, and light sleep. “This is the major finding of our study. The mental states traditionally associated with dreaming can arise just as well when we are asleep as when we are awake. In other words, the content of our thoughts does not follow the boundaries between waking and sleep! “One of our participants, while awake, reported seeing ants crawling on her body against a backdrop of crossword puzzles. Conversely, another participant mentally went through his schedule for the next day while he was fully asleep,” adds the researcher. The team then went further, searching for neurophysiological markers specific to each mental state. By analyzing the complexity of the EEG signal, its spectral power, and the functional connectivity between brain regions, the researchers identified distinctive signatures. They show that there is a specific brain signature for the “bizarre” C3 mental content—that is, the dream-like state. It is characterized by reduced long-range connectivity between the frontal and occipital regions of the brain. “This signature may well be the correlate of what we feel in such a state: lucid reasoning is overtaken by a whirlwind of vivid sensations characteristic of dreams,” suggests Nicolas Decat. Mental activity and introspection If dreaming is not specific to sleep, why do we have the impression that extravagant mental content occurs only in the depths of the night, when we are oblivious to the world around us? “This preconception probably stems from a memory bias. We mainly remember dreams that come with strong emotions or those to which we attach particular meaning. Yet it is just as common to dream that we are working!” notes Nicolas Decat. “Conversely, some people report that fanciful daytime thoughts—elusive, like fragments of a dream—sometimes surface during their everyday activities. Because these thoughts are seen as incongruous, they may well be more frequent than we imagine, but we tend to dismiss them.” Potential applications for sleep disorders We are generally not very good at judging our own level of vigilance or describing the content of our thoughts. As a result, some people suffering from insomnia regularly complain of spending entire nights without sleeping, even though polysomnographic measurements taken in sleep clinics indicate otherwise. This is what we call paradoxical insomnia: a mismatch between the patient’s experience and clinical observations based on conventional sleep-stage criteria. “These criteria are probably inadequate. Our study proposes a new one—mental content— which may be better aligned with what these patients actually experience. Through this lens, some of them may spend an unusually long time in an alert state (C2), hyperconnected to the outside world, or, conversely, very little time in a dream-like state (C3), blurring the line between their waking and sleeping lives,” explains Delphine Oudiette. “Beyond giving patients’ reports the weight they deserve, this approach paves the way to identifying objective markers of insomnia.” Read more: neurosciencenews.com/dream-continuu…

@gatlin_didier You and grandma are a never ending source of humor and common sense. Thank you for doing your part to expose some of the insanity that runs amok in our country!

Just doing our patriotic duty 🇺🇸😉