Melvin Wells

3rd grade teacher, Former O.C. @ Kentwood and Tahoma, current O.C. Federal Way Eagles #FlyEaglesFly 🦅
#OdeaWallofFame ☘️

[Melvin Wells @CowboyThree]

#TBT Back when I was a burner ... 🏃🏾💨 #GoPokes

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: OUTSMARTING TRUMP — Hawaii just taxed millionaires to replace the food stamps and Medicaid that Trump ripped away from poor families.

While the national Democratic Party debates whether to move left or right, Hawaii just answered the question by doing both at once — and it wasn't even close.

Governor Josh Green signed Senate Bill 3125 last week, creating a 13% income tax bracket for joint filers earning over $1 million, while preserving tax cuts for more than 90% of Hawaii households earning under $350,000. Then he signed a separate $31 million emergency funding package to replace the Medicaid and food assistance that Trump's administration slashed.

The Trump regime cut food assistance. Hawaii taxed the rich to put it back.

Here's what makes this story even more remarkable: it passed with Republican votes. Every Republican senator voted yes. Six of ten House Republicans voted yes or yes with reservations, including House Minority Leader Lauren Matsumoto, who called the tax relief "a step in the right direction."

The only full-throated ideological objection came from one Republican who argued that taxing rich people means they have less money to give their employees — the standard trickle-down argument that polls have thoroughly discredited. One person made it. The rest voted yes.

This isn't just good policy. It's a roadmap.

Hawaii lost nearly $3 billion in federal support from Trump's reckless cuts to Medicaid and food assistance. Governor Green looked at that gap, looked at his state's wealthiest residents, and made a straightforward decision: they pay.

The national Democratic Party has spent months agonizing over whether progressive economics can win broad coalitions. Hawaii just demonstrated it can — in a bipartisan vote, during a moment when Americans are watching Republican economic promises collapse in real time. Tariffs have cost the average family more than $1,700. Medicaid cuts are landing on people already struggling. The One Big Beautiful Bill is taking food from children.

In that environment, defending tax breaks for millionaires while cutting school lunches is a losing argument. Even some Republicans in Hawaii figured that out.

Progressive economic policy paired with tangible relief for working families isn't just base politics. It's majority politics.

Hawaii proved it. The rest of the Democratic Party should be paying attention.

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[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Retired Lt. General @MarkHertling: “I’m sorry for getting emotional, but that comment from @PeteHegseth that diversity is not our strength is bullshit.”

Hertling shows pictures of fallen soldiers to refute Hegseth’s nonsense. Powerful.

(From @BulwarkOnline)

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Melvin Wells @CowboyThree]

@CoachLusk74 @coachIzFw Can’t wait to get to work brotha! ✊🏾

[Melvin Wells @CowboyThree]

Every 4th of July of my childhood 🤣

[justasistertryingtotweet @Igottafigh64510]

“CRINE” 😂💀😂💀😂💀😂💀😂💀

[Melvin Wells @CowboyThree]

This seems like a bad idea 😂

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: The Enhanced Games are set to debut this weekend in Las Vegas, with athletes allowed to use steroids, testosterone, HGH, & other banned substances.

[Melvin Wells @CowboyThree]

This is one of most ridiculous things I’ve ever read 🤦🏾‍♂️

[Jordan Moore @iJordanMoore]

College athletics is so crazy now.

Cal baseball, a team located on the Pacific coast but somehow in the ACC, flew to Charlotte, North Carolina for a single-elimination conference tournament game against Stanford… a school 90 minutes from their campus.

They traveled 2,715 miles across the country to play a regional rival, lost one game, then had to hop on a 5.5-hour flight back to California 😂

[MrBujok @BujokMr]

This is so won’t be able to sue the data centers for poisoning the water supply

[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.

[gal debored @ckayerawlings]

i'm sorry 1-877-Kars4kids isn't a California nonprofit helping local kids???

They raise money to send 18 years olds to ISRAEL and build buildings there!??!?!?!?!

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Shark Tank Billionaire Kevin O'leary says 2 people fighting data centers in Utah are Chinese agents. Turns out its just 2 local girls in Utah, they make a hilarious video calling him the fuck out

[ꪝe @_wej01]

Who is choosing to get an infant car seat?

I’m thinking of skipping it. My husband & I are both safe drivers. I don’t actually know anybody who has gotten into a crash with their baby in the car. Most accidents seem like minor fender benders anyway. We want to avoid container baby syndrome so the whole thing seems unnecessary.

This is how every anti-vax post sounds to me..

[Melvin Wells @CowboyThree]

@DarrenDMullen One thing I do teach them is to Google Darren. Yes, their profits were around 2B but they have been known for many years to employ shady tax practices to avoid paying taxes…

[Melvin Wells @CowboyThree]

Starbucks profited 38B in 2025 and paid 600M in taxes so cry me a fucking river Howie and fuck all the way off 😒

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

Seattle turns hostile to the great businesses it made. Starbucks is moving jobs from Washington state to Tennessee, and it isn’t alone in looking elsewhere, writes @HowardSchultz
https://t.co/WjOSoXErYq

[Tony Statovci @tonystatovci]

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there, there will never be enough thank yous for what yall do 🖤

[Merissa Hansen @merissahansen17]

This is what it sounds like living next to a data center. The video below was recorded at midnight, and the data center is situated next to 100s of residential homes.

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

Great news! Congress is proposing a bill for public school teachers that will mandate starting base salaries of $60,000, plus a $50,000 signing bonus, overtime pay of 25% of their base salary, and student loan forgiveness of up to $60,000!

Just kidding. That’s the federally mandated compensation package for an ICE agent.

- BP Sweany

[Melvin Wells @CowboyThree]

One of the coolest nights I’ve had in a minute ✊🏾 @neiltyson

[Melvin Wells @CowboyThree]

It’s about to go down…

@neiltyson 🔭🪐☄️👽

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American bought a brand new printer. She bought the ink for the printer, she bought the paper for the printer, now she’s at home and is ready to print

She can’t print

“They remotely shut off my printer until I paid $7.50 cents to print in my own home, to print on my printer, that I own in my home”

This is the new $7.50 subscription plan by HP Printers

Here’s how the plans work

HP’s Instant Ink and newer All-in Plan programs are subscription services options:

- You pay a monthly fee based on pages printed (not ink used).
- Plans start low, from $1.79–$7.99 per month for 10–100 pages
- $7–$8 per month plans are for around 100 pages

If your payment fails. HP will remotely shutoff your printer