Dustin

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I can't think of a more glaring and revealing political irony than a politician who called his ideology "America First" proudly *boasting* that he's far more popular in Israel than in his own country: in fact, so popular there that he could be elected Prime Minister of Israel.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

This is a perfect answer.

Hope Massie fucks up the establishment with Ro for the next seven months. Then @RoKhanna will be the lone survivor of the USS Populist.

But there’s a cavalry gathering in the populist woods. And rebellion stirs throughout the land.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

1,000 World Cup tickets. $50 each. All for New Yorkers.

We fought hard to make the people’s game available to the people — and won.

Let the summer of soccer begin.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced.

This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on.

The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software.

The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check.

Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance.

Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls.

Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else.

A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

[Dustin @DustinLeach99]

@juliandorey @JohnKiriakou Any news with a potential Dave Smith podcast soon?

[Dustin @DustinLeach99]

@giffer44 @MizirianX @KyleKulinski Rogan offered her an open invitation on his show. Anytime, anyday. He even offered to have her on that same night after he had Trump on.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

Despise my assumption that Trump’s second term would be a disaster (even when supporting him), I’m blown away by how bad it’s been.

Trump has spent the last year humiliating his movement and squandering the greatest opportunity in modern American history for real change.

[Jeremy Slevin @jeremyslevin]

Bernie: "I'm more than aware of the Holocaust, which took people in my own family, and the horrible antisemitism in America. I'm proudly Jewish, but that doesn't mean I'll support a right-wing extremist government in Israel that's doing horrific things to the Palestinian people."

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

If you both agree @mcuban & @mtgreenee that insurance is the problem, let us build an unstoppable coalition for Medicare for All in this country, freeing employers from huge costs, and Americans of huge deductibles, premiums and co-pays.

[Forrest Galante @ForrestGalante]

Huge news! Extinct giant birds could be returning to life thanks to @colossal ! https://t.co/xPkgIEz8Kj

[Dustin @DustinLeach99]

@DemocraticWins Anyone that watches Rogans show knows he has lots of liberal views but the Democratic Party would just rather attack him then engage with him. I think he's open to talking to all of them honestly.

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

Hope is not naive when you have a vision and a movement behind it. Hope is in fact righteous.

This is the dawn of a new era in New York City. And we will win it together.

[Brilyn Hollyhand @BrilynHollyhand]

The last cigarette commercial aired on TV in 1971.

RFK Jr. plans to ban pharmaceutical ads next.

This is what I voted for.

[Georges St-Pierre @GeorgesStPierre]

I don't understand why some people don't seem to be concerned about inhumane poultry and meat factories, but are outraged by controlled and legal hunting for organic meat. 🤔

[Dustin @DustinLeach99]

@SerderM78082 @AndroidCherokee @KyleKulinski Compared to Rogan's audience of over 200M listeners between YouTube, Apple, & Spotify Kyle is irrelevant.

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

This never needed to get personal.

It never needed to be about Elon vs Trump.

It always was about the deficit, and whether the Big Beautiful Bill reduces it.

Going forward, our President should focus on giving the people one Big Beautiful Explanation, not retaliation.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Russia has killed over 13,000 civilians in Ukraine. Israel has killed over 16,000 children in Gaza. We send a lot of taxpayer money to protect those innocent civilians in Ukraine and we send a lot of taxpayer money to kill those innocent civilians in Gaza.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

The Biden Administration gave us 453-page Dietary Guidelines that were driven by the same industrial forces that put sugary cereal at the top of the Food Pyramid. We are working on new Dietary Guidelines that will be simple, easy to understand, and science-based. It will be a game-changer for American health.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Nine of a doctor's 10 children have been killed in an Israeli missile strike on their home in Gaza, which also left her surviving son badly injured and her husband in a critical condition.

Our international correspondent @AlexRossiSky reports.

Read more: https://t.co/TTFsYFuVWD