Polymath Bull 🇺🇸🇺🇦

Freedom, self-determination, rule of law, anti-fascism & anti-imperialism.

[Polymath Bull 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @PolymathBull]

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[WW3finalboss @WW3finalboss]

🇺🇦🇷🇺 ZALUZHNYI MAKES UKRAINE’S RED LINE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR

"...Our goal is to liberate all Ukrainian land from Russian occupation. We will not stop on this path under any circumstances.

The Ukrainian military will not accept any negotiations, agreements or compromise decisions. There is only one condition for negotiations, Russia must leave all captured territories." - Valerii Zaluzhnyi 🇺🇦

That is the position Moscow keeps trying to avoid: Ukraine is not fighting for a better deal with the occupier, it is fighting to end the occupation.

No frozen surrender. No fake peace built on stolen land. Russia started this war by crossing Ukraine’s borders, and the road to real negotiations begins with Russia leaving them.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Scott Pelley responds to Trump saying he doesn’t care about the country: “I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan, and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the president has ever done any of those things for his country. You become a journalist because you love the First Amendment, you love the country. While all the other descriptions the president used about me might be applicable, not that one”

[Polymath Bull 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @PolymathBull]

@RichardAngwin Its still a true statement, regardless of the authorship.

[Polymath Bull 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @PolymathBull]

@TrentTelenko Really Trent, its called the 1st Amendment. Really, Rino's? Are you MAGA now? Pretty sad. I guess that makes you an AINO.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A message to all sane Republicans:

He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.

His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.

He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.

It’s time to start talking.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Why is Ireland allowed to directly support the murder of Ukrainians?

Why the fuck are they still allowed in the EU?

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Gordon Brown: a special tribunal, modelled on Nuremberg, will prosecute Putin's inner circle for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.

The Council of Europe and EU agreed on the mechanism this month. — The Guardian.

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[Ruben Garcia @goRubenRuben]

@GOP__Ls @Myday2 Trump is now singlehanded responsible for 27% of the national debt! #NationalDebt #USDemocracy

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Would you support a boycott of CBS?

YES or NO? ✋

[Dralone&_DR145 @draloneboy]

BOMBSHELL CONFIRMED: The Supreme Court corruption scandal that was lingering from a year ago? We can now call it CONFIRMED today.

Chief Justice John Roberts' wife pocketed $10.3 million recruiting for law firms with cases before his court. He illegally labeled it "salary" instead of commission on disclosure forms.

Justice Clarence Thomas took $500,000+ luxury yacht trips, $133,000 real estate deals, and decades of private jet vacations from billionaire Harlan Crow—all hidden from the public.

Justice Neil Gorsuch sold a $1.8 million property to the CEO of Greenberg Traurig—a law firm with 22 cases before the Court—just nine days after his confirmation. He left the buyer's name BLANK on his disclosure forms.

Republicans: "The Supreme Court is impartial!"
The Supreme Court: a billionaire-funded cash register.
Three justices. Three scandals. Tens of millions in hidden money and favors.
This isn't a court. It's a corruption convention with robes.

Tell me again why we should trust these people with our rights?

[Polymath Bull 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @PolymathBull]

@U24_gov_ua @wildernessgrass @etnodim @honcharmuseum Link broken

[Polymath Bull 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @PolymathBull]

@MPrejety85087 @nexta_tv RU terrorist protector deserves no quarter.

[Murie O'Fella @o_murie]

This is international gymnastics 1936 Olympics moment

Kateryna Diachenko
Forever 11 years old
Murdered alongside her family in a ruZzian genocidal war crime in Mariupol March 10, 2022

@USAGym please boycott any and all meets, competitions and camps that ruZzia is in

[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.

[Polymath Bull 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @PolymathBull]

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[Latvian MFA 🇱🇻 | #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 @Latvian_MFA]

8 May 1945 marked the end of the Second World War in Europe. However, for the Baltic states 🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪 it did not bring freedom — occupation and violence continued.

Soviet propaganda described the occupation as “liberation”. Russia continues these lies, distorts historical facts and seeks to downplay the consequences of the occupation for the Baltic states.

We commemorate the victims of the war and remember history as it truly was.

Words matter. History matters — especially now.

🔗More about the history: https://t.co/I3ycbhzJ50

#HistoryMatters #WW2 #WWII #WordsMatter

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

🇳🇱 MEP Reinier van Lanschot: Until every Ukrainian is free to trade a gun for a paintbrush, to swap bunkers for sports fields, participation of Russians in cultural or sporting events is an insult to the memory of the dead and a mark of shame for any institution that hosts them!

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I confronted the russian ambassador at Venice Biennale because no one else did.

In the last 24 hours russia bombed city centres & a kindergarten. Dozens murdered in the streets.

The russian pavilion here is filled with free champagne & art to whitewash their war crimes.