Barbara Wertz

@MaryBowdenMD @Meade_Middle @PostHillPress @AccPharmacist Barnes & Noble did not carry ‘License to Lie’ by S. Powell. You are in good company, Dr.Bowden

I can confirm that Barnes and Noble will not be selling “Dangerous Misinformation” in their stores. If you own an independent bookstore and have the courage to sell it, please let me know - I’d love to give you free advertising.

@OwenGregorian As saying goes: Laughter is best medicine

Laughter Rewires Brain Architecture and Lowers Cognitive Load | Neuroscience News Summary: A comprehensive neurodevelopmental analysis established that laughter is a complex biological engine that directly shapes early brain growth, emotional resilience, and parent-child neural synchrony. The research utilizes insights across biology, psychology, and sociology to demonstrate that joy and humor act as an immediate antidote to systemic stress. By triggering neuroplasticity, lowering cortisol, and down-regulating cognitive load, structural play and laughter fundamentally update traditional early education and parenting paradigms. Key Facts - The Complex Neural Grid: Laughter is a highly sophisticated biological phenomenon that precedes the development of speech. It activates a distributed network across the brain, engaging both primary motor regions and the prefrontal cortex. - The Neurochemical Shift: Laughter physically drops circulating stress hormones like cortisol and epinephrine. Simultaneously, it floods the nervous system with “happiness chemicals,” including dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin. - A Cognitive Neuroplastic Workout: Processing humor is cognitively demanding. Neuroimaging shows that resolving the tension between conflicting ideas activates both the working memory and the frontal lobes, stimulating neuroplasticity and creative thought. - Neural Synchrony and Burnout Shielding: Shared laughter between a parent and child, anchored by eye contact, smiles, and joint attention, boosts oxytocin and drives physical neural synchrony. This shared bond accelerates a child’s social skills while reducing parental burnout. - Embedding the Architecture of Resilience: Early emotional states become physically embedded into the architecture of the developing brain. Co-regulation through gentle adult joy provides a functional model that the child’s limbic system draws upon for self-regulation as they mature. - Slashing Cognitive Load in Education: The research explicitly challenges modern early childhood education protocols. Integrating humor into classrooms lowers a student’s cognitive load, making complex concepts significantly more digestible, memorable, and easier to retain. --- Making children laugh can build deep emotional connections and soothe their nervous systems, making them more resilient and open to new ideas, a leading child development expert tells us. Dr Jacqueline Harding, director of Tomorrow’s Child and an early childhood expert at Middlesex University, has carried out extensive research into how laughter and play contribute to healthy brain growth, emotional wellbeing and social bonding. Through her own empirical research and analysis of existing studies in biology, psychology and sociology, Dr Harding argues in her new book The Brain That Loves to Laugh that laughter can help children navigate life’s challenges and better handle stress. “Hope and humour, it seems, are not just the seasoning of life, but foundational to a recipe for healthy development,” she says. “When we see children laugh, we witness the brilliance of the brain in action: learning, connecting, and growing.” Laughter in the brain Laughter is not frivolous, Dr Harding argues, it is a complex biological phenomenon. It precedes the neural development of speech, yet it engages a distributed network of brain regions, including motor areas and the prefrontal cortex. It influences heart rate, respiration and production of antibodies. It decreases stress hormones cortisol and epinephrine, and increases ‘happiness chemicals’ dopamine, serotonin and endorphins. It can strengthen the immune system and improve memory. Neuroimaging studies suggest that laughter plays a significant role in brain activity, as humour is cognitively demanding and engages neuroplasticity. It challenges the brain to predict and resolve tension between conflicting ideas, providing a mental workout that enhances creative thought and activates both the working memory and frontal lobes. On the other hand, prolonged stress negatively affects both physical and mental development. It can impair learning, increase adult stress risk, suppress immune function, and contribute to illness. “I believe that as we continue to wrestle with humour – this most intriguing human function – we must strive to shake off any dismissal of its frivolous nature and allow its serious contribution to human learning and life in general to shine,” Dr Harding explains. Hope and humour in parenting In parents and their children, laughter can boost the levels of happy chemical oxytocin and enhance neural synchrony during parent-child interactions – in other words, build emotional bonds. These bonds are beneficial to the child and even contribute to a reduction in parental burnout and stress. Research shows that laughter helps develop social skills and emotional intelligence. This does not mean parents need to rattle off jokes, she suggests, but simple shared play and laughter between parents and children, with eye contact, smiles, close proximity and joint attention on a task can all foster connection. “Creative, happy play does its most brilliant work at a molecular level, especially at a time when the human brain is at its most receptive,” Dr Harding says. “Spontaneous joyful play is an antidote to stress, as it increases levels of endorphins released by the brain.” Laughter and emotional resilience As well as nurturing bonds, ‘humour and hope’ can improve a child’s resilience to stressful events, Dr Harding suggests. “The link between co-regulation and self-regulation is now well established. Co-regulation means the way in which the baby is guided by a caring and supportive adult early in life, so that they have a working model to draw upon for their own self-regulation as they mature. The immune system needs a store of positive experiences from which to draw,” Dr Harding explains. In a child’s brain, the limbic system, which regulates functions such as emotion, behaviour, and long-term memory, develops alongside the brain’s executive functions that help us plan, evaluate, and make decisions. “So, early emotional experiences become embedded in the architecture of the brain. Stated simply, the emotional state of young children directly influences how they navigate their way through the world,” she adds. Of course, some children have already experienced extensive trauma. But even then, she says, carefully finding gentle ways to introduce joy and hope, and ease the burden on their nervous system, can help to find a path back to feeling safe and open to new experiences. Laughter and learning Dr Harding challenges the current protocols for early years education, asking if there can, and should, be more room for humour. She advocates for integrating humour into educational settings to enhance learning and improve retention of key concepts. “Humour can reduce the cognitive load, making complex information more digestible and memorable. Could it be that hope, humour, and human connection are the missing links we need to refresh the current educational paradigm?” she asks. Dr Harding argues that humour encourages human connection and uplifts the nervous system, creating a much better environment for learning to take place. “Safe relationships and non-stressful play environments promote learning. The curriculum must never be prioritised over those two fundamental factors. “Maybe, just maybe, one day the value of hope, humour, and human connection will be taken as seriously as it deserves.” Read more: neurosciencenews.com/laughter-cogni…

@KhanSaba1278 I goofed

@KhanSaba1278 98

Move 2 matchsticks to make the greatest number 🔥🔥

@SidneyPowell1 @RAIRFoundation @marklevinshow In 2012 President Obama had plan to turn Texas blue. His plan has been initiated and is thriving

It’s really not a religion. It’s a cult and barbaric socio-political oppressive group every bit as evil as Hitler’s Nazis. @RAIRFoundation @marklevinshow

@Bella_91m7u 8

Only legends will get this right without a calculator.... Are you smart enough to find x?

@Nora_7979 16?

Only legends can solve this 0.000% will be successed

@mrphiLip @TheSCIF One TOTAL not like others? Isn’t that the damned truth! Otherwise, portraits of evil

@TheSCIF One of these things is not like the others.😠🤔

19,000 ballots were officially counted from ONE ballot drop box over a 3-day weekend, but surveillance video shows only 24 people repeatedly approaching and stuffing ballots at that specific location during the Georgia 2020 election. The margin of victory in Georgia was less than 12,000 votes. Stuffing ballot boxes and harvesting are felonies. This is clear evidence of coordinated fraud. The Georgia 2020 election was stolen.

@JonathanTurley Angry Jeffries simply must have his “panties in a wad”.

The Hill is out with my column on the NAACP and Hakeem Jeffries calling for athletes to boycott SEC schools over the rejection of racial gerrymandering. Jeffries curiously used Jackie Robinson to oppose the ending of this form of racial discrimination. thehill.com/opinion/civil-…

@Gosleepriya X is code for ‘square’ and ‘square’ is multiple of self. So, VALUE of X is Three

This question separates smart people from geniuses. find the value of x.

@nickshirleyy Thankyou. Your work is sole reason ‘fraud’ was discovered and reported honestly enough

Making the world lear each day🙏 In celebration everything is 25% OFF just use code: LEARING shop.antifraudclub.com Finally the fraudsters are being held accountable, amazing to see!

🚨The Minnesota fraud empire is falling: Yesterday 15 fraudsters were charged and $90 million was busted. The MSM tried to cover for the fraudsters. @GovTimWalz called it "white supremacy" to expose it and @IlhanMN is completely SILENT. Independent journalism defeated an entire fraud network upheld by billions of dollars with support from corrupt politicians who allowed this fraud and the MSM who failed to report it. Major win for America and hardworking law-abiding taxpaying citizens. This is just the beginning. Arrest them all.

@AR15Clips @EricLDaugh I disagree. Dozen large eggs were $2.99 yesterday. College Grandson has no tax on tips this summer

@EricLDaugh Yeah what the fuck has he done for us to help us the people (the middle and lower class citizens) financially? Everything is more expensive now than when Biden was in office!!

🚨 NOW: President Trump just STEPPED OFF Air Force One, headed back to the White House for the weekend after canceling his New Jersey trip The man of the moment is back where he could make some BIG decisions in the next 72 hours! 🇺🇸 47 is a MACHINE, and hasn't slowed down 🔥

@Black_Glock137 Usually

No words start with U ends with Y

@triggerpod @elonmusk Wow

Everyone should hear this at least once. This is the best explanation of Western civilisation you’ll ever hear:

@0hour1 I’m chuckling

New UFO files released.

@nickshirleyy Posted by already today, we nickname you “SaintNick”.

The mainstream media failed you once again, here are two examples. They tried to debunk, cover for fraudsters, and slander my name. The governor even called it “white supremacy” to expose the fraud. Now it’s all true, and they get to move along like they never lied to you. It’s time to support independent journalists and leave the mainstream (fake) media behind. 𝕏 makes this possible and allows you to support independent journalists directly on the platform. If you appreciate my work and want to support, please do so. It’s not expected but very much appreciated 🙏🏼 x.com/nickshirleyy/c…

@EricLDaugh nickname: Saint Nick😉😉

🚨 NOW: The DOJ is about to announce EVEN MORE FRAUD CHARGES after busting $90M and 15 fraudsters in Minnesota LFG! Nick Shirley started a national MOVEMENT 🇺🇸 ANDREW FERGUSON, vice chair of anti-fraud task force: "LOTS more indictments, lots more investigations, lots more arrests, lots more convictions!" "And from the task force, I think you're going to see agency after agency, announcing huge anti-fraud efforts that are keeping billions of dollars that will otherwise be destined for fraudsters in the agencies, protecting the American taxpayers, and protecting these programs."

@EricLDaugh Yes, thank you Nick!

@BasedMikeLee @RichardGrenell @AAGDhillon Common sense

There’s no good reason for any state to refuse to share its voter-registration files with @AAGDhillon to make sure noncitizens and dead people aren’t registered to vote

@CletaMitchell @EIwatchdogs Keep articulating, Cleta. You are so correct

Back to work, after a great GA victory over Brad Raffensperger, Gabe Sterling and Chris Carr, corrupt elections architects!!! @EIwatchdogs last week released the Model Election Laws Handbook ModelLawsHandbook.com. Here’s what Marc Elias pro-corrupt elections rag Democracy Docket wrote about the Handbook: “Anti-voting lawyer’s election denial network releases new blueprint to severely restrict voting The Election Integrity Network (EIN) — the anti-voting group led by Cleta Mitchell, the far-right lawyer who played a key role in Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election — released a sweeping new handbook last week that urges lawmakers and election officials to severely restrict mail-in voting, eliminate same-day voter registration, impose rigorous ID requirements, conduct mass voter challenges and empower officials to deny and delay certification.   These are long-standing goals of EIN, but the handbook marks a dangerous escalation from one of the most influential election denial operations in right-wing politics. •The handbook’s proposals are rooted in the same distrust of elections and conspiracy-laden claims about fraud, noncitizen voting and corrupt election officials that have animated the GOP’s anti-voting push since 2020.
 •One of the most alarming proposals would redefine election certification — the formal step where officials sign off on election results — as a discretionary act. Translation: Officials could claim they have the power to refuse or delay certification if they say they have unresolved concerns.
 •The handbook also calls for limiting early voting to no longer than seven days, restoring Election Day as the main voting period, and repealing no-excuse absentee voting. All are policies that could disenfranchise large numbers of voters. 
 •“What has become clear is that those who oppose election integrity really want corruption of our elections,” Mitchell wrote in a letter accompanying the handbook. “Ours is a binary choice when it comes to election policy: choose either election integrity vs. corrupt, inaccurate, and insecure elections.” And there you have it. EIN supports honest elections. And the laws that make them reality. And Marc Elias hates that. Join ElectionIntegrityNetwork.org.