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@Tim_Walz Sounds like what you did with the Somali day cares.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

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@MayorFrey Nevermind. I found the prices. Looks like it’s $20/lb, 4 times the price of ground beef.

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@MayorFrey Why did you edit out how much the candy cost? The DFL is campaigning on the premise that people can’t afford basic necessities. How does this candy shop fit into the standard budget?

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@FrDylanSchrader We used to have a pastor who would designate our hands as “blessing hands” to bless the item with him.

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@FrDylanSchrader We just had an FSSP priest bless our house. It was remarkably uninvolved compared to the blessings we’ve had from our diocesan NO priest.

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@MayorFrey This was largely self-inflicted, not the result of Metro Surge. It’s the natural consequence of rebellion.

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@BettyMcCollum04 Things haven’t really calmed down. These are the shots fired in Minneapolis over the last month. The red stars are shootings. There were more shootings over the last month than there were when Ice was here.

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@BettyMcCollum04 Room for everyone including MAGA?

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@TinaSmithMN Tina, you oversaw the deaths of more than 10,000 children as the VP of PPMN. Cold-blooded murders. Of children. That you’re proud of.

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@MatthewJRoth At least it’s not Comic Sans.

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@namae282 @33_34Guy I’m curious about the periods of liturgical silence. We have several NOs near us that are considered to be reverent. There is no silence and I’m wondering where that is supposed to be.

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@peggyflanagan You’re status quo, Peggy. Big, bold change would be American Solidarity Party.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American checked into his hotel, he wants a snack so heads to the vending machine

This is the vending machine…..

It’s full of Narcan, needles, syringes, Fentanyl test strips, medical items and more

I was able to find this is in Walker, Minnesota and paid for by taxpayers for the homeless drug addict population to make easier, safer and more addressable to do drugs

The area has a fentanyl problem

This is doing nothing but helping the drug addicts do more fentanyl

Democrat policies are backwards

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I went to the FSSP ordinations a few years ago. We arrived 45 minutes early and the church was already full. We turned the livestream on so that we, and our kids, could see what was happening.

[FSSP North American Province @fsspna]

Priestly ordinations for FSSP seminarians took place yesterday morning at St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha, Nebraska, and were celebrated by His Excellency Bishop Thomas Wenski of the Archdiocese of Miami.

Please keep these men in your prayers.

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If children are going hungry, it’s due to fraud. Billions of taxpayer dollars have been stolen by people pretending to care for children. Who are the children going hungry now? Who is responsible for them? Where are their parents/family members? What is preventing them from seeking help from local non-profits?

[CatBee @Catbendzick]

Prayers for everyone affected by the Canterbury Park shooting. 🙏
But let’s be honest about the selective compassion. 🙄
A coffee shop worker and Army veteran was dragged to his death stopping a backpack theft in Minneapolis last week.
Not one statement from Walz.
Not one statement from Flanagan.
Not one statement from Frey.
Not one statement from Craig.
Today there are immediate statements about Canterbury Park.
All lives matter equally.
All victims deserve the same compassion.
All communities deserve the same protection.
When politicians only speak up for the communities that vote for them — that’s not leadership.
That’s pandering. 🇺🇸
#CanterburyPark #SelectiveCompassion #AllLivesMatter #Minnesota #Accountability #MNPolitics

[Elliott Engen @elliottengenMN]

You’ll never see another word on this from democrats after today.

The narrative won’t fit.

[EWTN Vatican @EWTNVatican]

At today's General Audience, Pope Leo XIV reflected on Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Second Vatican Council’s constitution on the sacred liturgy, and urged priests to respect the texts and norms of the Mass. The Holy Father reminded priests not to alter the liturgy “on their own initiative,” warning that such changes can create confusion among the faithful.

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This is how extreme she is. We don’t want her governing MN.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Talarico is going to win this.