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@DavidJHarrisJr Wow, that's really scary -- to the lazy and jealous.

🚨Joy Reid warns America about the MAGA agenda: "They want to take us back to no income tax, no regulations, earn what you want, family inherits everything"

@lizcollin @UMNews A mentally unstable leftist killed after being urged by manipulative Democrats to interfere in law enforcement.

🚨NEW: @UMNews faces criticism for establishing the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship, saying his life was "defined by a spirit of service, care, and compassion." “No doubt, Alex Pretti likely exemplified compassion during the time he worked as a nurse. It was how he lived his life outside of work that I feel does not need to be memorialized. It’s pretty disheartening to see a college that relies on so much funding from the state support these causes,” a graduate of the nursing school told @AlphaNews.

@texasrunnerDFW Women have been indoctrinated to hate their country and themselves. It's the inevitable outcome of being brainwashed in leftist college.

Twice as many young women than young men want to leave the US This is interesting, because more young women than young men: 1. Have college degrees 2. Own homes

@texasrunnerDFW Government down is good. Financial activies is zero value add and being automated. Overall looks good to me.

You can see why financial X gives off recession vibes daily Unless you work in a hospital or hotel, it’s not a great employment report

@AlphaNews The sooner people realize the formally moderate Democrat party is gone and now run by radical socialists, the better. Today's party hates the US and its citizens.

EXCLUSIVE: Socialists have 'ruined' the party, says lifelong Minnesota Democrat who 'wants to sue' the DFL Marjorie Simon, a lifelong Democrat, has had enough with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and creeping communism in the Democratic Party. "They've ruined the party," she said. "When Aisha Chughtai became the council member, I noticed a disaster." Simon also talked about how the "defund the police" movement led to a downward spiral in Minneapolis. "I happen to think that it was much safer here when we had more police in Uptown and they were monitoring things. When all of a sudden we didn’t have all those police, the crime rates soared around here," she said.

@PB_News The demand for free food is up? Under what conditions would it not be up?

Minnesota food shelves feel pressure of SNAP cuts, Operation Metro Surge, now war in Iran postbulletin.com/news/minnesota…

@PB_News Lowering standards did wonders to raise graduation rates. A MN high school diploma means nothing today.

Minnesota graduation rates see another record year postbulletin.com/news/minnesota…

@OwenGregorian Decades of affirmative action, lowered standards, and welfare are reparations enough. Time to end them all.

What the first federal challenge to a local reparations program means for other cities | Joshua Nelson, Fox News An attorney suing the City of Evanston, Illinois, over its reparations program told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that if this case goes in their favor, other cities planning to implement reparations may have to reconsider. "Those cities would take a hard look at what they were planning on doing and realize that if they're going to try and get reparations programs to be lawful, they are going to have to do something differently," said Michael Bekesha, a senior attorney at Judicial Watch. The conservative watchdog group scored its first victory on Friday after a federal court denied a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against Evanston’s reparations program. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit against the reparations program over its use of race as an eligibility requirement, claiming that it violates the Constitution. The program provides $25,000 direct cash payments to Black residents and descendants of Black residents who lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969. Evanston was the first U.S. city to pass a reparations plan, pledging $10 million over a decade to eligible Black residents. There is no final ruling on the constitutionality of the program yet. Now, Judicial Watch is waiting for the next hearing to discuss "timing," Bekesha told Fox News Digital. Bekesha said that the best outcome would be for the court to declare the policy unconstitutional, preventing Evanston from providing any more reparations payments based on race. "The practical point is, even now, before we get to the merits, before the court rules that the reparations program in Evanston is unconstitutional, cities are going to take a real hard look and take a second before they decide to implement any reparations plan," Bekesha said. U.S. District Judge John F. Kness allowed Judicial Watch’s class action civil rights lawsuit to proceed in a ruling last week. "The judge moved forward because he found that the complaint — that the initial document creating the lawsuit was sufficient at this point to move forward," Bekesha said. The City of Evanston argued that the plaintiffs never applied to the program and the application period had already closed in 2021. The city added that applicants could not have been eligible for non-racial reasons such as ties to property. "The court agreed with us and said that they didn't have to apply for the program because it would have been futile for them to do so because they were not Black," Bekesha added. The city reacted to the judge's ruling in a statement to Fox News Digital. "The city is aware of the court’s recent ruling. The city will continue to vehemently defend this case," a spokesperson for the city said. Evanston led the effort to issue reparations payments to Black Americans before several states and local municipalities sought to implement reparations to some degree. Evanston was the first to pay Black residents in reparations to cover housing expenses. So far, 137 people have received reparations payments totaling $3.47 million, and more are expected by year’s end, reaching 171 recipients with about $4 million allocated to direct descendants. Meanwhile, not far from Evanston, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to hold a public engagement forum called "Repair Chicago" to "gather lived experiences of harm of Black Chicagoans" as part of an effort to implement reparations. On the state level, Illinois’ reparations commission released a report laying out what it called the state's history of harms against Black residents. Other local municipalities have proposed compensation to rectify historical harms to Black Americans. Judicial Watch’s lawsuit against Evanston is the first federal challenge to a local reparations program. Judicial Watch represents five plaintiffs who allege the program violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. "Five people that, but for the color of their skin, would be eligible for $25,000," Bekesha said. Similar to Evanston, a San Francisco resident wants to take down the city’s reparations fund, spearheading a lawsuit that claims it is dividing the city. foxnews.com/media/what-fir…

@AlphaNews If they did this at a mosque, Jacob, Keith and Tim would be all over it. Total hypocrites. Democrats hate US citizens.

Cities Church parishioners continue to be ‘hounded’ and ‘harassed’ by anti-ICE protesters, churchgoer says "They block the sidewalk and are cussing us out as we walk into church," a churchgoer told Crime Watch Minneapolis. "I just want the freedom to worship without [fear] and not be hounded or harassed."

@OwenGregorian They said the same thing about books.

ChatGPT acts as a "cognitive crutch" that weakens memory, new research suggests | Eric W. Dolan, PsyPost A recent experiment provides evidence that relying on artificial intelligence to help study new material tends to reduce how much information students remember weeks later. The findings suggest that while these tools can speed up initial learning, they might actually weaken the deep mental processing required to store knowledge over the long term. The study was published in the journal Social Sciences & Humanities Open. Generative artificial intelligence refers to computer programs capable of creating text, images, or other media in response to user prompts. These systems can answer complex questions, synthesize vast amounts of information, and write essays in seconds. Because of this convenience, millions of university students use these programs to assist with their coursework. André Barcaui, a professor of the Business Management course at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, conducted the study to see how this technology affects memory. He wanted to test whether the ease of getting answers from a chatbot harms long-term learning. When a student delegates mental tasks to an external tool, psychologists call it cognitive offloading. In the past, this meant using a calculator for math or a notebook to remember a grocery list. Generative AI platforms take this a step further by performing the actual thinking, analyzing, and problem-solving. “What motivated me most were my own undergraduate students,” Barcaui told PsyPost. “I feel there has been a growing loss of cognition and interest among students over the years. As I work with and teach AI, I understand the full potential of the tool and consider myself an enthusiast for the beneficial and responsible use of AI.” “However, I began to see risks for teenagers, as their interest in reading decreases with each passing year, and with that, their creativity, critical thinking, text interpretation, and even writing and articulation skills also diminish. I have spoken with fellow professors in other countries and I don’t believe this is a phenomenon unique to Brazil. That’s why I decided to research it and see if it corroborated other equivalent research pointing in the same direction.” Barcaui grounded his research in the concept of desirable difficulties. This psychological principle suggests that learning actually improves when a student faces a certain amount of productive struggle. Activities like actively trying to remember a fact or puzzling through a tough concept force the brain to build stronger memory pathways. By providing immediate and polished answers, an automated chatbot might remove these necessary hurdles. Without that mental friction, students might experience weaker memory consolidation. Memory consolidation is the biological process where fragile new memories are stabilized and stored securely in the brain over time. To investigate this dynamic, Barcaui recruited 120 undergraduate business administration students. The participants included 68 males and 52 females between the ages of 18 and 24. None of the students had formal training in computer science or machine learning. The students were randomly divided into two equal groups of 60. Both groups received the same assignment, which required them to research basic artificial intelligence concepts. Topics included ethics, societal impacts, and technical foundations. The task required the students to spend up to two weeks researching their assigned topic and prepare a ten-minute presentation. The first group was instructed to use a specific AI chatbot, known as ChatGPT, as a study aid. They interacted freely with the program to explain concepts, generate examples, and structure their presentations. The second group used traditional study methods. These students were barred from using automated chatbots. Instead, they relied on course notes, academic databases, and standard internet search engines. After the initial research period, the participants delivered their presentations to small groups of their peers. The students then went about their normal academic lives for a month and a half. This delay allowed the researcher to test natural memory decay over a realistic academic timeframe. Forty-five days after the initial study phase, the researcher surprised the participants with a retention test. Eighty-five students returned to take this twenty-question multiple-choice exam. The test was specifically designed to measure how well the students understood the concepts, rather than just their ability to memorize definitions. The students who used traditional study methods performed better. On average, the traditional learners answered 68.5 percent of the questions correctly. In contrast, the students who studied with the chatbot answered only 57.5 percent of the questions correctly. The negative impact of the chatbot was most pronounced when students were learning highly technical topics. While the software also impaired memory for less technical topics, such as ethics and society, the gap between the two groups was not as wide. This pattern suggests that productive struggle is especially important when mastering complex or structurally difficult material. Barcaui also tracked how much time the students spent preparing for their presentations. The automated chatbot allowed students to finish their work much faster. The technology-assisted group spent an average of 3.2 hours on the assignment, while the traditional group spent 5.8 hours. Even when adjusting the data to account for this difference in study time, the traditional learners still scored higher on the final test. This detail indicates that the learning deficit was not just a result of spending less time on the material. Instead, the quality of the study time appeared to be lower. Traditional learners likely spent their extra time re-reading materials, testing themselves, and manually connecting different ideas. These traditional study habits naturally force the brain to practice retrieving information. The chatbot users likely spent their time writing prompts and reading generated responses, which feels productive but fails to exercise the brain’s retrieval networks. The researcher also found that a student’s prior experience with chatbots did not change the outcome. Frequent users of the technology performed just as poorly on the retention test as those who were relatively new to it. The evidence suggests that students might experience an illusion of competence, where the software makes them feel like they understand the material better than they actually do. Barcaui highlighted three main takeaways: “Productivity does not replace Competence: There is an abysmal difference between delivering a piece of work and understanding the process of its creation. The indiscriminate use of AI can create an ‘illusion of competence,’ where the individual obtains results without developing the synapses necessary to replicate that reasoning independently.” “The Atrophy of the Critical ‘Muscle’: Just as the constant use of calculators reduced mental calculation skills, delegating writing and text interpretation to AI can atrophy the capacity for synthesis and critical thinking. Without the mental ‘friction’ of reading and writing, we lose the ability to articulate complex ideas and question information.” “AI as Co-pilot, not Autopilot: The main lesson is that AI should be used to expand human capabilities (increase reach), not to replace them (eliminate effort). Human value will increasingly shift from the ability to execute to the ability to ask the right questions and critically curate the generated data.” As with all research, the study has some limitations. Nearly thirty percent of the original 120 participants did not return for the surprise test forty-five days later. While the dropout rate was similar across both groups, this loss of data could slightly skew the final numbers. The sample was also limited to business students at one university in Brazil. Students in different academic disciplines, such as engineering or the humanities, might interact with the software differently. Future research should explore how different guidelines for technology use might change student outcomes. Scientists could test scenarios where students attempt to solve a problem on their own before consulting a chatbot for feedback. Researchers could also use digital tracking software to get a precise measurement of exactly how students divide their time when studying. psypost.org/chatgpt-acts-a…

@OwenGregorian The Democrats see this as a small price to pay for their agenda.

16-Year-Old Girl Gunned Down in Chicago | Cristina Laila, The Gateway Pundit A beautiful 16-year-old girl was gunned down in Glenview, Illinois, on Saturday morning. According to reports, Lilly Bova, a high school sophomore, was fatally shot at an apartment complex where she lived with her older sister. Law enforcement officials are refusing to release any information about the person of interest they are searching for amid reports the suspect is a “Hispanic male.” A police scanner revealed the suspect was described as “armed and dangerous” and “male Hispanic.” Police however are remaining mum on any details about the person of interest. “While we cannot share further details at this time, this was an isolated incident and does not appear to pose a risk to the general public,” the Cook County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. ABC 7 Chicago reported: Students at Glenbrook South High School are mourning a classmate as they return to class after spring break Monday. The high school is making counselors and social workers available to students during this difficult time. Lilly Bova is remembered as being quiet and kind. Glenbrook South High School is grieving one of their own. Lilly Bova, a 16-year-old sophomore, was shot and killed Saturday. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office said they were called to an apartment complex on Salem Walk in unincorporated Glenview. Officers said they found the teen with a gunshot wound. First responders did CPR on Bova and took her to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, where she later died. thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/16-yea…

@peterbakernyt @stavernise Pay more and US citizens will do the work.

In Wisconsin, undocumented immigrants perform roughly 70% of the labor on the state's dairy farms. At the O'Harrow farm, the Republican family owners worry that the immigration crackdown will hurt their workers and their business. @stavernise nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/…

@KSTP Democrats think this is fine. They hate hard working tax payers.

Feeding Our Future defendant Abdul Abubakar Ali will serve one year and one day in prison for his role in the $250 million fraud scheme. kstp.com/kstp-news/top-…

@IsabellaMWeber People finding ways to praise dictatorships.

Emergency preparedness is central to Chinese economic policy. In the West, emergency economics is an afterthought at best.

@CatoInstitute @hiperfalcon You mean socialism doesn't work?!

Spain froze rents and capped increases at 2%, but rent control is already cutting supply by up to 50% and not improving conditions for renters. Spain should follow Argentina, which ended rent control in 2023 and has seen housing supply rise 180%, reports Cato’s @hiperfalcon. ow.ly/k7Mx50YztmZ

@amyklobuchar So glad we still don't have a king. You guys don't realize how stupid you sound to everyone with half a brain.

That’s called a rally! Minnesota showed up.

@AlphaNews If only this moron cared about honest US citizens half as much. Sigh.

Tim Walz at the 'No Kings' protest: "We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here’s our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans: Your great-grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history."

@NewsLambert @ResidentialClub Technology has made them obsolete, so they have to change laws to keep the status quo.

Gray = How much the largest lobbyist spent in a given year Blue = How much the National Association of Realtors spent on lobbying in a given year NAR was America’s largest spender on federal lobbying in 2020, 2022, and 2024 Analysis via @ResidentialClub

@NewsLambert The green movement is all about looking good and caring little about doing good.

AI Data Centers. Wood you look at that. Data centers are typically constructed primarily of steel and concrete—but as the AI data center wave accelerates, Meta and Microsoft are pivoting to build them with mass timber to help reach their emissions goals Single-family homebuilders don't use much mass timber. However, the softwood lumber they use extensively for framing is the same underlying material used to produce mass-timber products vimeo.com/1105931544?fl=…

@PB_News Nothing stops domestic abuse more than regulation.

House bill would crack down on domestic violence cases with new regulations postbulletin.com/news/minnesota…