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40's-ish OIF veteran. looking for people who like to talk about things and don't mind punching up. Aspie and always serious.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

A story in four acts starring @neeratanden

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@JamieMetzl You worked for terrible people, of course you don't want good people to be elected.

[Superman @thesupermannx]

Scientists found a way to flush Alzheimer’s plaque out of the brain in minutes.

Without any surgery and drugs.

Your brain has a waste-clearance network called the glymphatic system. It flushes out toxic proteins and dead cells.

But it only really activates during deep, slow-wave sleep.

If you don't sleep, the trash piles up. Over time, that buildup leads to cognitive decline and Alzheimer's.

Until today.

Researchers just published a paper proving they can manually trigger this cleaning cycle.

Without you ever going to sleep.

They used 40.68 MHz ultrashort waves (USW) beamed non-invasively into the brain.

Within 10 minutes, the brain's fluid flow rapidly accelerated.

The waves artificially synchronized the neurons into a Delta state, the exact frequency of deep sleep. This forced the brain's water channels to open and start flushing out the system.

They tested it on mice with traumatic brain injuries and Alzheimer's pathology.

The brain swelling dropped. The toxic proteins were cleared out. Cognitive deficits actually improved.

No surgery. No massive chemical interventions. Just a frequency.

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@CrissContino @FmrRepMTG @RepThomasMassie Come back to reality, man.

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@LM_Entry @unusual_whales They did, you idiot.

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@VoodooPlatform The worst PVP game, and not remotely like the ads.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Now that Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders are once again united in a noble cause (the last time was stopping the COVID relief bill unless it contained direct payments to Americans), it's worth remembering:

Edward Snowden sacrificed his liberty to make Americans aware of the ubiquitous warrantless Surveillance State which the US Govt and Big Tech were jointly constructing:👇

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@LeafLee6 That's just terrible information.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

I never understood the veneration of Fauci, who is not really a scientist but a politician. He was late to catch the significance of Covid. I'm a rando who reads about China, and I saw it before he did.

In March, when the risk was unknown and caution was warranted he made careless comments about how young people could go on cruise ships. Then after the conventional wisdom changed, he became aggressive about containment. He made transparently dishonest statements, saying masks didn't help, but also we need them for doctors.

Throughout the next year, he gave carefully circumscribed comments conveying hopelessness and gloom, despite increasing evidence that Covid wasn't as bad as initially feared. His commentary had little to do with science, as he himself noted, it was about what he felt the public could bear to hear.

Now after reading his diary I have a better sense of this dour humorless man. There is literally no self-reflection at all, it's just a chronological set of observations about how much press and fame he was getting, and how all these celebrities wanted to hang out with him. There are no jokes, it is all ego and no moral questions despite the immense power he was wielding. Fauci comes off as a cringe and eager social climber who should never have been in a position of authority because he was seeking to preserve his status over serving the public.

I don't think the most paranoid fantasies on the right about him are correct, but his lack of candor opens the door to all sorts of basic nihilistic arguments about the government. He's certainly not trustworthy and he bears a huge amount of blame for the collapse of faith in public health.

https://t.co/v7Zf3EIdWv

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@Open_Mind_Heart @KobeissiLetter No we are not. CXMT is DRAM, not HBM.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Reporter: “To what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal? [with Iran]”

Trump: “Not even a little bit…. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation”

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@katt_zia @ContraPoints She's quite rich.

[Christopher Ingraham🦗 @_cingraham]

NEW: An @ij review of media reports has identified at least 14 recent cases of police officers allegedly using Flock and other automated license plate reader systems to stalk wives, girlfriends, exes, and even strangers who caught their eye in public.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Would you believe 57 Republicans and 211 Democrats recently voted in favor of this Orwellian automobile kill-switch? Here’s the roll call for the vote I forced to defund the mandate: https://t.co/dnPxPHFYie

[Face The Nation @FaceTheNation]

Former Biden administration senior advisor Amos Hochstein says he supported last summer’s Operation Midnight Hammer, in which the Trump administration struck Iran’s nuclear facilities, because “we had thought internally in the Biden administration we may have to take [strikes] if there was a second term.”

“We did war games. We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into it, because that may have had to happen under our watch as well," he says.

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@Tutrifour @RoKhanna @BernieSanders Barely a blip in inflation, what really drove COVID to be so expensive was the PPP loans which were given out with few restrictions and cost way more than those small checks.

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@FuckApartheid @caitoz That's a crock of shit. The Iranians are not at the bargaining table and definitely will not be after we hit Kahrg Island.

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@CharlieCourt504 @elainejgodfrey @mkhammer You can't even keep your facts straight on Iran's supreme leader, you have zero credability.

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@Gockomo @elainejgodfrey @RadioFreeTom Maybe do the slightest amount of research before you throw out accusations and incorrect information.

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@JSMcCorkel @unusual_whales They aren't suing for money, they are suing for release of the files.