Fishinerman

They lie. They cheat. They profit. I'm fighting to ban members of Congress AND the president from trading stocks, because no one should be profiting off the backs of the people they were elected to serve.

@SenGillibrand You mean like Bernie, Pelosi, Warren, and most democrats?

@catturd2 Poor Hasan Puker

Poor little rich kid.

@CAgovernor @Cal_OES Why don’t you do your job you feckless hack

Hemos solicitado que el Presidente Trump emita una declaración de emergencia para apoyar las operaciones de respuesta en el condado de Orange. Durante más de 48 horas, @Cal_OES y agencias estatales han estado presentes en la zona apoyando a las comunidades afectadas, protegiendo la seguridad pública y asistiendo a las autoridades locales mientras continúan los esfuerzos de respuesta. Por favor, continúe siguiendo las instrucciones de los oficiales de emergencia.

We have requested that President Trump issue an emergency declaration to support response operations in Orange County. For more than 48 hours, @Cal_OES and state agencies have been on the ground supporting impacted communities, protecting public safety, and assisting local officials as response efforts continue. Please continue following guidance from emergency officials.

Republicans canceled a vote to end Trump’s Iran war. They were about to lose, so they refused to let us vote. Americans deserve to know where their leaders stand. They can’t hide forever. Accountability is coming.

Morning everyone. Do you know that your President just exempted himself, his family, and all his family's companies from our tax laws? You are subject to the law. Now he is not. No one should not pretend this is okay or normal. It's an ongoing constitutional crisis.

🚨BREAKING: Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei KILLED in Airstrike With Israeli support, the United Arab Emirates just launched a devastating airstrike on a high-level Iranian military base, killing Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on the spot.

@SenWarren Gaslighting again

Remember, Paramount said canceling Colbert was “purely a financial decision.” Give me a break. Paramount has apparently been trying to keep Trump happy for months to get its takeover of Warner Bros. past regulators. This AI video bragging may just be more evidence.

Lord of the Vaccines

A team of researchers in New Zealand followed 1,037 babies from the day they were born for the next 45 years to find out what actually determines a successful adult life, and the strongest predictor they found had almost nothing to do with intelligence or family wealth. The findings have been published in the most prestigious scientific journals in the world. Almost no parent has heard of them. His name is Avshalom Caspi. Her name is Terrie Moffitt. They are a husband and wife research team based at Duke University and King's College London, and the study they have spent their careers running is called the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study. It started in 1972 in a single hospital in Dunedin, New Zealand. Every baby born there in a 12-month window was enrolled. 1,037 of them. The study is still running today. The retention rate is the part that should astonish anyone familiar with how research usually works. After more than 45 years, over 90 percent of the original participants are still being tracked. Most longitudinal studies lose half their sample inside ten years. The Dunedin team has lost almost nobody. They measured everything. Blood. DNA. Brain scans. Income. Criminal records. Romantic relationships. Drug use. Dental health. Sleep. Mental health. Lung function. They flew participants who had moved abroad back to Dunedin every few years for a full day of assessments. Some of those people now live in seven different countries. They still show up. For the first decade of life, the team did something nobody else was doing systematically. They measured each child's self-control. Not IQ. Not family income. Not parenting style. Self-control. They watched 3-year-olds in a research lab and rated their ability to wait, regulate frustration, follow instructions, and resist impulsive reactions. They added teacher ratings. They added parent ratings. They added the children's own self-reports as they grew older. They combined all of it into a single highly reliable score. Then they did the thing nobody else had the patience to do. They waited. When the data came in at age 32, the result was so consistent it should be illegal to teach a child without it. The children who scored lowest on self-control at age 3 grew into adults with worse physical health, more substance dependence, lower incomes, more credit card debt, higher rates of single parenthood, more criminal convictions, and worse mental health than the children who scored highest. The pattern was not subtle. It was a clean gradient. Every step up in childhood self-control produced a measurable step up in adult outcomes across every domain the team could measure. The detail that should disturb every parent reading this is what happened when the researchers controlled for the obvious objections. When they controlled for IQ, the effect held. When they controlled for family income and social class, the effect held. When they compared siblings inside the same family, the sibling with lower self-control still had worse adult outcomes than the sibling with higher self-control. Same parents. Same house. Same dinner table. The trait was running independently of everything researchers expected to explain it. The paper landed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. The title was as plain as it gets. "A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety." It has been cited thousands of times since. Almost no policy maker has acted on it. The reason most people resist this finding is that it sounds like a sentence handed down before the child could speak. If the trait that determines your adult life is locked in by age 3, the rest of your life is a formality. The Dunedin researchers say that is the wrong way to read the data. They found something else in the same paper that almost nobody quotes. Some of the children whose self-control scores improved between childhood and adolescence ended up with adult outcomes far better than their early scores predicted. The trait is not destiny. It is a muscle. Children who learned to wait, regulate, and resist between ages 5 and 15 caught up with kids who started ahead. Self-control is the one childhood trait nobody seems to teach on purpose anymore. Schools focus on test scores. Parents focus on activities. Coaches focus on performance. The part of the brain that decides between five seconds from now and five years from now is left to develop on its own, and the data shows it usually does not. The most uncomfortable part of the research is the cost calculation Moffitt and Caspi ran. They estimated that if a country could move the bottom 20 percent of children up one rung on the self-control ladder, it would measurably reduce healthcare spending, welfare dependency, and incarceration costs at the national level. The intervention is cheaper than almost any other public health investment available. Almost no country has tried it at scale. The reason adults struggle with money, weight, addiction, and relationships is rarely intelligence. It is the gap between what you want right now and what you want in ten years, and which side of that gap your nervous system is built to listen to. Most people lost that fight at age 4 and never went back to learn the technique. You were not behind because life dealt you a bad hand. You were behind because the part of you that decides between right now and the rest of your life was never taught how to choose. The good news is the muscle is still there. Almost nobody trains it after age 10. You can be the one who does.

@IfindRetards Of the decade

Retard of the day 🥇

@wisconsin_now Bozo Barnes is unelectable

It would be weird if Barnes was trying to take out Hong, and vice versa, due to the past history… or no? Media won’t touch that. Most people are off limits. A few are not.

@derrickvanorden @wisconsin_now Make sure he gets primaried

@wisconsin_now Time for this guy to ride off into the sunset.

My response to Ken Sikora, Republican Party executive committee member and 8th congressional district chairman (and convicted wife batterer), telling me to “shut the f*ck up” in an email this morning? No. See how that works?

@JebraFaushay Relax. Nothing he does out of the ordinary should surprise you.

This is so incredibly unprofessional of President Donald Trump. He should not be singing in the Oval Office. I’m disgusted. Shaking. Vomiting.

@rosadelauro What will you milk out of it?

The donor milk industry is growing. That is why today I am introducing the bipartisan DONOR Milk Act, which would ensure the food we feed our babies is high quality and safe. Donor milk is a Critical Food vital to lifting up the next generation. We must treat it seriously.

@RNCVoteProtect @RNCResearch She should explore unemployment

Los Angeles burned under Karen Bass’s failed leadership. Now she wants noncitizens voting in elections — because actual residents would never re-elect her.

@wisconsin_now There are other search engines that are better than google.

One thing people aren’t very aware of is the way that Google has been crushing news sites’ traffic and their profit models by destroying search and replacing it with AI, which generally entices the audience to remain within the AI summary and not check out the original source. It’s sort of content theft. It’s crushing news sites all over the country, by destroying their traffic, which they use to monetize their sites, and Google is rolling out a dramatic expansion of this next week. Search is dying fast. It doesn’t really affect WRN. We’ve only relied on search as a part of our strategy. We get more traffic through social and also have direct traffic, app traffic and a 45K plus newsletter audience. But there are many national sites that rely on search traffic mostly. The website model of news publishing is dying. Meanwhile, sites hope for Google Discover traffic, which is when Google pulls people’s stories into curated tiles that you see when you go online. However, there isn’t really an effective way to target this traffic like you could do with search. Discover just picks favorites in a non-transparent and often nonsensical manner. They say they value quality, authority etc, but they don’t always do that consistently. There’s no appeal, and you don’t even know who is behind it. They just magically pick your stories up- or they don’t. This is the big traffic now, not search. But there’s no way to target it, and I believe there is anti-conservative bias in what they select. They ignore conservative sites. The way in which a few unaccountable big tech oligarchs control the free flow of information in our democracy has disturbed me for years. Not to mention the fact that AI often gets nuances wrong or is just completely inaccurate. And no politicians seem to really be talking about any of this. The media aren’t either because no site wants Google to kick them out of Discover. Elon is a free speech hero who gave us all a reprieve here, but public opinion is controlled increasingly by Google. And X monetization is paltry compared to it. Google is killing the free press, and no one even knows that it’s happening.

If you don't pay your taxes, you can get in trouble. But Donald Trump gets a special Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card. Nope - I have a bill to stop this corruption.