Bob Haarde

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis de Tocqueville

[Bob Haarde @BobHaarde]

Wow. This hurts. As a kid that summer I ran down to the 7-11 every morning to quickly scan the Boca News sports page to see if Pete Rose got a hit during his 44 game hitting streak. I remember the feeling that day I got there and saw the headlines. "Rose Stopped."

[Jose Canseco @JoseCanseco]

RIP Pete Rose

Another player than should be in the HOF

[Jum @JesterJum]

How do I know the media is brainwashing people?

Obama's ICE Chief received the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service for removing over 900,000 illegal aliens.

Trump's ICE Chief is called a Nazi.

It is the same person.....Tom Homan....

The only difference? The narrative.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

ICE Deportations…

Clinton: 2 million with no riots.
GW Bush: 2 million with no riots.
Obama: 5 million with no riots.
Trump: 2 million with no riots.
Biden: 4 million with no riots.

Trump: 900K with riots, protests and Dem outrage.

Its all manufactured to stop Trump.

Facts.

[Jim Murray @bigjimmurray]

You think it can’t get better after the cocky throw of the northern cardinal but man, what a fuckin showman!

10 of 10 best thing I’ve seen on the internet in years

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

On this day, #MemorialDay I would like to take a minute to remember Pat Tillman and everyone who lost their lives serving their country.

Thank you for your service.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

It's the 20th Anniversary of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

NONE of his scary predictions have come true.

Mt. Kilimanjaro still has snow and Glacier National Park still has glaciers.

Here's why we are not doomed:

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

another week, another village in Nigeria massacred and slaughtered by Islamists.

And as always, the world is silent.

No word from the Pope.
No word from the UN.
Nothing from France. UK. Italy. Spain. Anyone.

Just silence. So weird.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Spencer Pratt reveals he knows homeless NGO executives are making over $1 million dollars per year

“Homeless "nonprofit" execs are raking in over $1 million a year on the homeless problem — guarantees the problem is never solved”

“There's no excuse for anyone to get over $1 million to increase homelessness — Drive around LA. There is more homelessness than ever”

6 people are dying a day on the streets of Los Angeles

I looked up some more of the highest paid homeless executives

- Dr. Blayne Cutler, Heluna Health (Public Health Foundation Enterprises makes $680,000

- Darrell Evora, Pacific Clinics makes $635,035

- Stephanie Klasky-Gamer, LA Family Housing Corporation makes $331,195

The homeless problem will NEVER be solved as long as all these people are getting filthy rich

No one getting paid $26,153.85 every 2 weeks to solve the homeless problem is going to solve the homeless problem

[Bob Haarde @BobHaarde]

@FreedomAmerica @mmccaffrey17 Corruption knows no bounds

[Denison Baseball @DU_Baseball]

NCAA Regional Championship!

🆚 Kalamazoo College
⌚️ 12 PM
📍 Granville, Ohio
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#NotJustYet

[Mass Daily News @MassDailyNews]

Wu firm on $4.9B budget that cuts veterans 14%, won't restore firefighter cancer screening cash — but keeps millions flowing to nonprofits

https://t.co/dI8AnqVtnU

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 JUST IN: Absolute FIRE at the Unite The Kingdom rally, brave women stormed the stage and publicly ripped off their burqas in a powerful stand against Islamist oppression!

Leftists are absolutely MELTING DOWN because this rally went full anti Islamist and pro women’s rights.

[U.S TROOPS🇺🇲 @Ustroopss]

Mayor of Charlotte, NC asks that we not post about this lady murdered on a Charlotte train by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests

I say in Iryna’s memory please share and make this go viral! A repeat offender with 14 prior arrests should not be roaming the streets of ANY city! They should be locked up!! Epic failure in the justice system..

We will never forgot her ever

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

No matter what they say while they’re infiltrating, this is what they are ALL working to achieve. It’s all about Sharia law.

[Mass Daily News @MassDailyNews]

AG Andrea Campbell's brother goes on trial for raping nine women he picked up posing as an Uber driver

https://t.co/hBuhn2a7u8

[Mass Daily News @MassDailyNews]

In Massachusetts, you can shoot at a cop while on probation for a stabbing, get half the sentence, get out in five years, and be back on the street firing 60 rounds at random drivers

[Bob Haarde @BobHaarde]

Arrest the judges

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

BREAKING: The man caught on video OPENING FIRE in the middle of a major Boston-area road today has been identified as VlOLENT career criminal Tyler Brown

Brown was SUPPOSED to be in prison for attempting to MURDER A COP, but a WOKE JUDGE let him out early

THESE JUDGES MUST GO!

WAY too many innocent Americans lose their lives because of these judges REFUSING to protect the public from vioIent criminals

In 2020, Brown pleaded guilty to EIGHT charges, including armed assault with intent to murder, after he fired THIRTEEN ROUNDS.

He was supposed to serve at LEAST a decade in prison, but the judge let him out after just three years.

And now he's back trying to murder people.

START HOLDING THESE JUDGES ACCOUNTABLE!

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

27 Democrats in the Colorado House voted AGAINST making indecent exposure to minors a felony.

They said the bill could impact drag shows and transgender performers.

Democrats are creating legal loopholes for grown adults to flash children.

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

Shermichael Singleton DESTROYED Socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani by breaking down basic economics - and it's BAD. REALLY BAD:

“1.6% of the wealthiest people in this city pay nearly half of the taxes. If those folks leave, to Ana's point, you're going to have a financial crisis of magnitude of which Mamdani does not understand.” 


“You think about everyday things that people utilize, public transit, safety, education, all of the taxes that go to provide for all of those things for poor people in this city, what in the h*ll are they going to do if 44% of those dollars all of a sudden disappear overnight?” 


“And this is a shortsighted nature of this very progressive or socialist mayor that doesn’t make any sense.”

REPOST and amplify his voice!

#thinblueline #Lawenforcement

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

🚨 Democrats voted UNANIMOUSLY to not require the removal of dead people from Minnesota’s voter rolls last night.

This is insane.

Why would anyone oppose this?