Pretty.Tired.

Just trying my best.

[Pretty.Tired. @Welle_APpsych]

@TylerGillly I am so sorry. I hope that eventually happy memories of him bring you peace and not pain.

[Psychology News @PsychNews]

Smartphone Use Before Age 13 Tied to Worse Mental Health in Adulthood https://t.co/MaTxpvwlF9

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Literacy. If the oligarchs have their way, the children of the very rich will have human teachers, physical textbooks, handwritten assignments, phoneless schools. Everyone else will have chromebooks, malfunctioning AI tutors and screen addiction.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but these guys don't belong in airports doing "security."

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

We’re told there’s no money for universal healthcare or to end hunger in this country. But somehow $200 billion more for war will likely move through Congress without question. 

Not another penny for another endless war.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

Maybe DHS should listen to the people who actually know the border in Big Bend: local residents, sheriffs, businesses, and guides like Tyler Priest. Virtually nobody crosses here, yet DHS is pushing ahead to spend billions of American tax dollars and destroy Big Bend for good.

[Travis Bubenik @travisbubenik]

I think lots of people haven’t realized this but CBP is taking public comments on 1 of its Big Bend area border wall plans. It’s just not posted online where these things usually are.

Comment info here: https://t.co/PJvs1o67TB

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

Republican border sheriffs are repeatedly telling anyone who will listen: Big Bend already has a God-made wall. If someone can cross over hundreds of miles of this terrain, they won’t be stymied by a small piece of steel.

Washington bureaucrats at DHS aren’t listening.

[am in umbria @AmUmbria]

If we continue on this path not many wildlife will remain.

[Michigan AFL-CIO ✊ @MIAFLCIO]

It’s not a coincidence.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

He will never stop believing, and saying, that asylum-seekers come from literal mental asylums - no matter how many times he is mocked for saying so, or corrected behind the scenes.
We live in Idiocracy.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: DHS agents are now illegally arresting U.S. citizens at airports… and trafficking them across state lines.

A 28-year-old U.S. citizen, Sunny Naqvi, was detained by DHS, for 43 hours, after landing at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.

She wasn’t charged with a crime, and she wasn’t accused of doing anything illegal…

Agents reportedly detained her over what they called a “curious travel history.”

Even though Sunny was born in Illinois…they still disappeared her.

After being held for about 30 hours inside the airport, agents secretly moved Sunny to an ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois.

While this was happening, federal agents repeatedly told her family she was NOT in custody, even though her phone location showed she was inside the facility.

Then it gets worse.

According to witnesses, agents asked for Sunny’s phone number so they could “look for her phone.”

Minutes later, the phone was opened, her messages were read, and the device was shut off, cutting off the family’s ability to track her.

After that, agents transported the U.S. citizen across state lines, to another detention facility in Dodge County, Wisconsin.

And then she was eventually released early Saturday morning… in a random state, alone.

Her phone was dead, and she had no transportation.

So, a U.S. citizen detained by the federal government had to hitchhike to a hotel, just to be able to reunite with her family.

And this is what people need to understand…

When federal agents can detain U.S. citizens without charges… lie to families about their custody, search personal phones, and secretly transport people across state lines…

That puts every single American in danger.

Because they can do it to anyone.

[Pretty.Tired. @Welle_APpsych]

@LorenzoTheCat @X @Number10cat Justice for Larry!

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

“AI is the future of education!”

- Guy who is busy at work creating AI products for education

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath just delivered the brutal truth parents and educators need to face:

“Even in schools, it doesn’t matter what the size of the screen is… and it doesn’t matter who bought it… All of these things are going to hurt learning, which in turn are going to hurt our kids’ cognitive development.”

His core warning:

Gen Z is the first modern generation to be less cognitively capable than their parents — despite more years in school.

Attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function, even general IQ — all declining.

The culprit isn’t school itself.
It’s the widespread introduction of screens and digital tools for learning.

Across 80 countries, once tech floods classrooms, performance drops sharply.

Kids using computers ~5 hours/day for schoolwork score over 2/3 of a standard deviation lower than those who rarely touch tech.

US NAEP data mirrors it: states adopt 1:1 devices → scores plateau, then fall.

The biological reality:

Humans evolved to learn deeply from other humans, not screens.

Screens circumvent the natural mechanisms of attention, memory consolidation, and deep processing.

When the tool fails to deliver, we don’t remove it — we redefine success to fit the tool (e.g., SAT reading comprehension reduced to skimming short sentences instead of deep passages).

That’s not progress.

That’s surrender.

The cost is a generation losing cognitive sharpness at the exact moment the world needs them sharpest.

Parents, teachers, policymakers:

How much longer do we let screens dictate what “learning” looks like?

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

An illegal war, funded in part by illegal taxes, waged by a corrupt criminal and the buffoon he put in charge of our military.

No matter what you think about the Iranian regime, you have to be out of your fucking mind to support this.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

Barack Obama reached a deal that prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

Trump ripped up that deal.

Now we are at war with Iran to prevent it from getting a nuclear weapon.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

shit i'm starting to worry the racists in the white house who love doing racism might be racist

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Humanity was hitting a wall before AI arrived