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[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

GAME OF THRONES STAR LIAM CUNNINGHAM DROPS TRUTH BOMB:

“Doing business with Israel is a PERMISSION SLIP for GENOCIDE!”

“There is NO middle ground. You either stand with Palestine… or you stand with Genocide... SANCTION ISRAEL NOW!” @liamcunningham1

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Amazon is worth $2 trillion. But it didn't deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines as its’ trucks illegally polluted our air and forced New Yorkers to breathe in their exhaust. 

We collected every dollar they owe the people of this city — and will continue to hold them accountable. In New York, corporations are held to the same standard as everyone else. 

No company — no matter how large or powerful — is above the law.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

I'm worried that Trump will launch a war on Cuba, to distract attention from his war on Iran, which distracted attention from his war on Venezuela, which distracted attention from the Epstein files

[George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace]

To my peeps, and my Brown and LGBTQ friends. Never forget that your light was so damn bright they handed the world to the first asshole who promised to dim it.

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

Flotilla participants are arriving at Istanbul airport. This is what Israel military and prison personnel did to them.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

Over 3,000 killed. This mass murder must end. The U.S. is not a bystander in the Israeli military's brutal invasion of Lebanon—it is an active participant.

I will force a vote in Congress to immediately end all U.S. participation in this illegal and immoral war on Lebanon.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

The aim of totalitarianism is not simply to keep you uneducated but to instill in you a contempt for the educated, and thus a hatred of education, so that you never, through the empowerment of education, develop the language even to articulate your discontent to yourself.

[adri ♡ @socialistadri]

Cori Bush is a fucking star. She is unbought and unbossed. She has been through so much but she never backs down and she keeps fighting.

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

Zohran Mamdani just forced Jeff Bezos to pay New York City $9 million in fines his company owed.

This is exactly why we elect politicians who aren’t bought by corporations: they actually hold powerful people accountable instead of protecting them.

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

We're now seeking Supreme Court review of my case after the Third Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rehear it in a 6-5 split.

This fight is about whether the government can detain and deport people for their speech. It can't end here.

https://t.co/z0hNBFsFaz

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I am horrified by the deadly attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego, an apparent act of anti-Muslim violence.

Islamophobia endangers Muslim communities across this country. We must confront it directly and stand together against the politics of fear and division. My thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones, and the entire community grieving this devastating attack.

The NYPD is increasing deployments to mosques across the city out of an abundance of caution. There are currently no known threats to NYC houses of worship.

[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.

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens and killed eleven people—five of them children.

I wrote about it for @TeenVogue back in 2020: https://t.co/l6llQsZDLo

[kenzi @kenzianidiot]

“radically pro-transgender” and it’s just me wanting my friends to not die in a country that’s obsessed with hating them for no reason

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Pupils”

[Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel]

An absolutely astonishing account of Israel's AI-assisted targeting in the @latimes

They called 62-year-old Ahmad Turmus and asked: “Ahmad, you want to die with those around you or alone?” His response, below, is chilling.

Story by @nabihbulos
https://t.co/sBVBNxOMnA

[usaama @yoUsaama]

i cannot get my head around how in a "liberal democracy" in 2026 you can be sentenced for a crime you did not commit, were not convicted of, were not even charged for, AFTER you were put through TWO TRIALS

!?!?!?!?!

it's not just a "sentence"- it's a POST VERDICT CONVICTION 😐

[Mahomes Fan @MahomesEnjoyer]

X translating antizionist to antisemite is kinda crazy

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

“…but when silence came, you could hear children crying and even babies crying,″ she said. ’’There’s babies in this jail.” https://t.co/jLQPMGS5Gx