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[Ben McCombe @BenMcCombe]

For those claiming the Blue Angels incident yesterday was perfectly fine, here is their lead pilot, Captain Adam Bryan, saying it was unsafe and that they will work to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Listen to this guy, not Hegseth or
his PR guy.

I'm glad the people who matter are taking it seriously.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Stevie Wonder took the stage at the Obama Presidential Center dedication.

The guest list already included presidents, prime ministers, and world leaders.

Then Stevie showed up.

Some events become cultural moments, not just political ones.

[Kim @KimsyWhimsy79]

I’m gonna go ahead and say THIS is Americas 250th celebration. ❤️ 🇺🇸

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

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.

[isa @solmerv]

Albums can be mass-bought.
Charts can be manipulated.
Streams can be fraudulent.
But concert attendees are real.

[isa @solmerv]

This will go down in history, omg.

[Rish⁷ @cuntfortannies]

THEY HEARD USS WE GOT FYA TO FIREEE TRANSITION I AM SHAKING CRYING THROWING UPPP

[Pop Core @TheePopCore]

BTS delivers a standout “MIC Drop” performance, keeping the massive crowd fully hyped at their SOLD-OUT concert tonight.

[isa @solmerv]

OH MY GOD, ARMYS SINGING ARIRANG, JUST GOOSEBUMPS!

[Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @MattMaasdam]

We should take Trump's statement that "a whole civilization will die" in Iran seriously. Those are the words of a madman threatening a war crime.

I've carried the nuclear codes for the President of the United States. I've spent a lot of time thinking about what a scenario like this means for humanity - everyone loses.

It’s time for Congress to stand up and stop his reckless use of force.

[Ford Fischer @FordFischer]

Speaking at the West Hollywood “No Kings” rally, Mike Farrell (M*A*S*H) calls ICE the “Gestapo” and Border Patrol the “brutes with guns.”

He decries labelling protesters as domestic terrorists: “if you’re here in opposition to the Trump agenda and that defines you as a domestic terrorist, then you need look no further, I’m standing right here!”

[🐻‍❄ polar bear in arlington texas @polarbearspin]

sharing this very sweet video of max with the littles because i wish i could find a life purpose that brings the same joy and spark he finds in coaching 🥹

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

🚨BREAKING: The Super Bowl champs Seattle Seahawks have announced that they will turn down Donald Trump's invitation to the White House. No one from the team will go.

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

A functioning Congress would have hearings and this gentleman and the officer he’s talking about would both be testifying under oath along with the ICE officers involved with the incident. If you care about ICE’s credibility, you’d want an investigation. Because the allegation is chilling

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Nancy Lacore, a three-star admiral and the Chief of Navy Reserve fired by Pete Hegseth last year for being “disloyal” to Donald Trump, is running for Nancy Mace’s Congressional seat in South Carolina.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

POLICE CHIEF: “If it’s happening to our officers, it pains me to think how many of our community members are falling victim to this every day.”

ICE is even racially profiling off-duty Black & Brown cops— including pulling guns on one and knocking her phone out of her hand.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Leaders like Trump and Pete Hegseth should listen to and learn from those they have the honor of commanding, instead of giving them meandering nonsensical lectures.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Holy shit! This is what I'm talkin' about. David Clayton is running for congress in North Carolina's District 5 against MAGA Republican Virginia Foxx — and this is how he introduced himself. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

[Dutchy Patrick @DutchyPatrick]

Finally someone said it….

[Cait Conley @CaitforNewYork]

We’ve served our country in uniform. Now we are stepping up to serve again.

We are The Hell Cats — four female veterans that are going to flip the House in 2026.