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[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Michelle Obama!

[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%.

[𝐑𝐒 @rsddnk]

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[AuxGod @AuxGod_]

staying home from school and watching a random ep of Gullah Gullah Island at 11:30am >

[Zito @_Zeets]

Wild that you can push someone and motivate them without being an asshole. So much so that he calls you after he wins a title.

[mark normand @marknorm]

This looks like a Disney movie where a 12 year old becomes president

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Today, my wife & I joined Donald Trump’s hit list. He has directed his Department of Justice to investigate us. They have not found a crime - they are simply trying to find one.

He isn't coming after me because of mean tweets, but because I am considering running for President.

He hates that I consistently call him out. He is simply the most corrupt President in American history.

We have nothing to hide. 

Mr. President, come after me. I am not going anywhere. 

The country is watching.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Five days until Juneteenth 🙌🏾

[𝗁𝗈𝗈𝖽 𝗅𝗈𝗋𝖽 𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗊𝗎𝖺𝖺𝖽💂🏾‍♂️ @hoodfarquaad]

that’s the store rochelle used to shop at

[Shafeeq @Y2SHAF]

how did i go from this to paying bills 😭

[🦂THEE Auntie with no kids♏️ @prmade313raised]

Tired of watching Black people be disrespected, mocked, and dehumanized for simply existing. Michelle Obama has spent years carrying herself with grace, intelligence, and dignity, yet people still attack her with racist and hateful insults.

This is why it’s fuck everybody who aligns themselves with people like Trump who is a racist, rapist, and pedophile!

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Kevin James dropped a powerful reminder about prayer and God.

He said if you look back at all the things you once prayed desperately about, they all got taken care of, maybe not exactly how you wanted, but in a better way. The things that once kept you up at night aren’t even worries anymore.

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God… will guard your hearts and your minds.” - Philippians 4:6-7

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby — a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist — to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display in the Hope and Change lobby at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell criticizes Trump's White House UFC fight:

Our government is desecrating its role in society by hosting sporting events. Our tax dollars and resources are funding this operation. The government is supposed to protect us, not entertain us.

[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

MAGA has 3 debate tactics:

- You’re a liberal.
- It’s fake news.
- You have TDS.

The intellectual elite can occasionally deploy two at once.

[Clem @TheClemReport]

This is why you wear sunglasses in every interview after you win a championship

[Sunk Cost Pharisee @Liamjsm]

He’s being coached privately by an NBA player who would become an NBA coach

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Dave Portnoy calls on Trump to denounce the UFC fighter who called Michelle Obama a man at the White House fight:

"That has to be an immediate denounce. ... These guys are lunatics."

[Praise @tufpraise]

It's always the people you most expect

[The 4 Man Rush @4ourmanrush]

So a 76ers fan, hated the Knicks so much, that he put on a Rodman Spurs jersey just to engage in physical combat with Knicks fans.

This is legendary