Loren Connell

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[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Aerial footage filmed from a helicopter early Thursday morning shows the scale of damage caused to the Northern Venezuelan coastal cities of Maiquetía and La Guaira, following yesterday’s pair of major earthquakes, which each measured a 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude and struck just to the west of Caracas. Most if not all multistory buildings appear to have suffered severe structural damage, with many having collapsed, likely leaving tens if not hundreds of thousands without shelter, food, and water across Northern Venezuela.

[Obstinado @05t1n40]

Científicamente, otro buen video, de lo ocurrido: puede apreciarse (en las vibraciones) el movimiento inicial causado por las ondas P.

Luego ya entrado el sismo, se empieza a ver el movimiento horizontal generado por las ondas S, que son las destructivas.

Increíble cómo la fuerza de la naturaleza nos sorprendió.

[Obstinado @05t1n40]

El movimiento horizontal (la S) fue realmente brutal y despiadado.

La madre naturaleza nos pegó con todo lo que tenía.

Probablemente, más de cien años acumulando energía.

[Yisus 💾 @SoyJesusTarre]

Este video se va poniendo peor mientras avanza. #TerremotoenVenezuela

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

Touching water at the Deflecting Pool = officers spring over. Powerful people tied to real harm = delays, excuses, second chances. The system isn't broken-its working exactly as designed. Aggressive when it's easy. Silent when it matters. That's not justice!

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Imagine you’re on your morning commute in NYC and you meet the Viking Row head on

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A case reported in BMJ Case Reports describes a 61-year-old woman who was initially believed to have dementia after a five-year decline in her mental health and behaviour.

She developed severe confusion, hallucinations, seizures, and marked personality changes, which included distressing behaviour such as speaking to unseen figures and acting inappropriately in public. Early brain scans and neurological tests did not show the usual signs of degenerative dementia, so she was treated symptomatically, but her condition continued to worsen.

When she was later assessed by psychiatry specialists in Lisbon, blood tests revealed a severe vitamin B12 deficiency. This had led to pernicious anaemia, a condition where the body cannot absorb enough B12. Vitamin B12 is essential for healthy nerve function and the maintenance of the myelin sheath, the protective coating around nerves.

Because of this deficiency, her nervous system had been significantly affected, producing symptoms that closely mimicked dementia and epilepsy. Once she began B12 injections and appropriate medical treatment, her condition improved dramatically. Over time, her hallucinations resolved, her thinking cleared, and she regained independence in daily life.

Vitamin B12 deficiency is known to cause neurological and psychiatric symptoms in some cases, and while severe presentations like this are uncommon, doctors stress the importance of checking for reversible causes when patients show signs of cognitive decline because, in some situations, treatment can lead to major or even full recovery.

[The Detroit News @detroitnews]

Connor Hellebuyck took unlikely path to NHL, Olympic stardom https://t.co/6Fv3BoTU6H

[Loren Connell @LorenConnell]

@FixingEducation 1,4,7

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

CBS has been forced to pay a fine after Stephen Colbert played an unlicensed Peanuts song on air during his last episode.

The owner of the rights to Peanuts has donated the fee to José Andrés' charity, World Central Kitchen.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Trump may as well have called the rest of us peasants.

According to him, it wasn’t workers who built America. It was rich guys like him and his cabinet:

“These people built the country, not the complainers. The complainers didn’t build the country…. Whether it’s fishermen or farmers or anything else. Me. Guys like me, they built the country. And you know, I watch all these ingrates, they’re always complaining, complaining. They didn’t build anything, they couldn’t build anything.”

[Ana Braga🇺🇸🇧🇷 @TheAnaBraga]

Isn’t this the best way to read Trump’s posts? 🤣

[King Mando @Big_King_Mando]

@factpostnews Just gonna drop these here in case anyone needed some rought examples of just how much this dude is looting.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This is fucking insane.

The Trump DOJ just stood in federal court and said with a straight face that the authoritarian regime could bulldoze the Statue of Liberty tomorrow — and there's nothing anyone could do about it.

When a judge asked point-blank: "If the government decides to destroy the Statue of Liberty before anyone can sue… nothing can be done?" The DOJ lawyer answered: "I think that's right, yes."

Let that sink in.

They're openly admitting they believe Trump has the power to erase one of America's most sacred symbols — the literal beacon of freedom for millions of immigrants — and the courts can't stop them in time.

This is authoritarian, dangerous, un-American bullshit.

The Statue of Liberty isn't their property to demolish on a whim. It belongs to the American people.

Wake the hell up, y'all!

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Gotta believe the North Koreans are like "even we think you're laying it on a bit too thick"

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Says it all.

[Rebecca Aguilar (on Blue Sky & LinkedIn) @RebeccaAguilar]

Everyone COPY this video, share it far and wide. Paramount Skydance billionaire baby David Ellison can’t handle that Stephen Colbert is getting millions of views . @Youtube we will cancel our subscription as we did when we dumped @paramountplus.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

New video shows a message in chalk outside of Stephen Colbert's final show as CBS washes it away:

"Thank you Stephen, and fuck you CBS and Donald Trump."

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

On September 11, 1974, a ten-year-old boy named Stephen Colbert lost his father and two of his closest brothers, Paul and Peter, when Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashed into a cornfield hillside just three miles from the Charlotte, North Carolina airport. Only 13 of the 82 people on board survived. In a single afternoon, the youngest of eleven children in a warm, intellectually curious Catholic household went from a boy surrounded by laughter and big family energy to a kid sitting in a suddenly very quiet, very dark home with only his grieving mother for company. The two leaned on each other in a way that most people never experience. Lorna Colbert held herself together not out of bitterness, but out of a fierce, quiet love, and Stephen watched that and absorbed it into his bones. He later said his mother was never bitter, just broken, and that her example became the blueprint he carried for the rest of his life. For years, though, the real weight of the loss stayed buried. He floated through prep school detached, unbothered by the things other kids cared about, because nothing felt quite real anymore. It wasn't until he went off to Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia that the grief finally cracked through, and it hit him hard. He dropped from 185 pounds down to 135 during his freshman year, barely eating, barely functioning, consumed by a sadness he had held at bay for nearly a decade. But something remarkable happened on the other side of that collapse. He found theater. He found improvisation. He found that making people laugh was actually a way to connect with human suffering rather than run from it. He transferred to Northwestern University, stumbled into the world of Second City, and slowly built himself into one of the most empathetic, genuinely funny voices in American media. He later reflected that losing his father and brothers gave him an awareness of other people's pain that allowed him to love more deeply and connect more honestly with what it means to be human. That is not a small thing. That is everything. Via Chronicles Through Lenses

[HJN🌹 @HJNRose1]

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