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This is what Lampedusa, Italy looks like today. The deportations MUST begin and they must be swift. Italians should not be made to coexist with this element.

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it. The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state. What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it. Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure. In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

One uncomfortable consequence of political longevity is seeing the facts prove some of one's most confident forecasts wrong. As the trade secretary overseeing Britain's entry into the single market in 1992, I claimed it would wonderfully boost our exports. As I outline in my new paper for Policy Exchange, I was proved wrong. Over our 28-year membership, British goods exports to the EU grew less than 1 per cent a year, while our exports to the 111 countries with which we had no trade deal grew four times as much – by 87 per cent. Yet the present Business and Trade Secretary, Peter Kyle, is apparently ignorant of this disappointing experience. He has justified the government's proposed 'reset' of relations with the EU by claiming that ‘the single market is where the magic happens’. ✍️ Peter Lilley Article | spectator.com/article/a-brex…

🚨BREAKING: Two illegal migrants have been charged after another gang rape attack in Glasgow A woman was dragged from the cycle lane near the river Clyde on Sunday at 1am 2 men aged 19 and 20 are due in court, 2 others were released without charge Locals are all saying they are illegal migrants Media have turned off comments sections everywhere the story is being reported We cannot go on living like this

@NJ_Timothy No point complaining, if you let them live here they get the same freedoms as anyone. Solution? Send them ALL home, asap. Then we can all have nice things again.

Today a group of Muslims prayed next to the Ministry of Defence, facing the Iraq and Afghanistan memorial. As I have said before, choosing to pray in this way in public is a political act. It is a social statement and, yes, it is an act of domination. Anybody who understands Islamism understands that the domination of public spaces is part of the modus operandi. It is done so Islamists can show who is in charge - and to show other Muslims and the wider public that the authorities will bend to their will. There is quite obviously no need to pray here. The decision to do so is symbolic and pointed. It is not welcome. We have freedom of religion in this country, which is why there are mosques. But we are not a Muslim country and this is not welcome. It should be stopped.

Doomers must have mental whiplash at this point. 1. China kicked out of Panama 2. Venezuela secured and friendly without a war. 3. EU and Canada whimpering like babies 4. No Russian tanks rolling across Germany or the rest of Europe. 5. No ww3 6. China in a major deflationary event 7. Taiwan still free from China 8. Gaza ceasefire 9. Israel still standing 10. BRICS on the back foot. 11. Right leaning goverments being elected across central and south America. 11. Iran military defeated 12. The men who ordered the deaths of thousands of America Soldiers in Afghanistan and iraq sleeping with 72 goat virgins. 12. Strait opening back up. 13. No forever war in Iran 14. No boots on the ground in Iran 15. No US recession 16. Gas prices falling 17. Oil prices falling 18. Jobs expanding 19. Flyover country is booming 20. Lower taxes 21. Secure southern border. 22. Deportations continuing 23. No empty shelves or empty oil tanks. 24. SPR isnt running dry. 25. Barnacles didn't end the world. 26. Trade continues with tariffs 27. Fraudsters being arrested 28. Millions no longer on food stamps 29. Redistricting happened 30. Gop tightened up the mid term races 31. Trump still in office. 32. ICE and border patrol fully funded for the rest of Trumps term. 33. Stock markets at record highs. 34. Do I need to go on? There are about 100 more domestic policy issues I could list... And it hasn't even been 2 years. At this rate, the doomers are going to need even more intensive mental health care.

@PolitlcsUK "Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards" — So eliminating the right to anonymity/privacy online is the true objective, got it 👍🏻

Under the pretext of banning under-16s from social media to “protect the children,” Keir Starmer has snuck in some small print that should make Americans really glad that all the tea was dumped into the Boston harbour back in 1773. Adults will still be “allowed” to use the platforms… once they’ve handed over facial recognition, digital ID, passport, or credit card details to prove they’re not a child. So it was never really about the kids. It was about making sure every single person who wants to speak online has to first tell the government exactly who they are. Step 1: Link your real identity to your speech Step 2: police have a lovely searchable database of every spicy take, meme, or complaint you’ve ever posted Step 3: bring in the consequences - arrests, travel ban, debunking, for out-of-bounds speech The UK is in a free fall.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland fans discovered you can't drink in public in Boston and immediately hired a boat to start getting on the pints at 10am. No one is having more fun at the World Cup than the Tartan Army 😂

A female 'Muslim' lawyer from Jordan supports "Honor Killing" on live television. 😱 She asserts that, if a father discovers something negative about her daughter and slaughters her, it is natural and their right. 🤬 She would not object to this practice. 🫣 This is Islam. ☪️

Import the third world, become the third world. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 🇺🇸

Btw even China and Iran don’t do this. Only North Korea does this.

@JohnCleese I'm upset and scared by Islam and migrant violence. Where are my special definitions?

Did they listen to anything loud and clear from the traditional British community ? I doubt it. They're not going to get those votes and they know it

Carl Jung, an underrated take on the fall of Rome

🚨🇬🇧Labour CAUGHT keeping RECORD of British people who ‘criticise Muslims’

For months there have been conspiracy theories circulating on here about the arson attacks on Keir Starmer. Now the case is concluded, the truth can be revealed. They were sponsored by Russia to directly intimidate the British Prime Minister and his family.

£770,000 per working day on taxis... (Minnesota-style scam?)

UK is a police state

@PolitlcsUK The Russians and the

🚨 BREAKING: The BBC has revealed the Russian Government was behind the arson attacks on Keir Starmer's home and car

80 years old and at 3am going wheels up to France to attend the G7. Dude is a machine!