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Empath.

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

A veteran who had spent three years searching for his former military dog had no idea he was walking past him in a shelter hallway until 85 pounds of determination came through the gate.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel is still killing children in Gaza and it's no longer makes headlines.

[LOE 🖤 @angelofsoil]

I've seen enough fake, to know the real thing.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I’ll NEVER understand how so many of y’all were hoodwinked into the belief that the government should NOT use the money you pay in taxes to create a social safety net that benefits you, fund public healthcare, lower housing costs, and make daily life more affordable.

[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%.

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

Sharing this poem again because I think the world needs these words now more than ever.

[Niyetsel @niyetsel]

Two years from now, at this very moment, you will be standing in the places you once dreamed of.

Send this to yourself.

[jezz @JezziiB]

I will never understand how so many of y'all were hoodwinked into believing the government should not use the money YOU PAY IN TAXES to create a social safety net that benefits YOU.

[👑 J³ABz👑 @Jabz_CFC]

Lauren London did an interview and said:

"We Never argued or fought. But I would be crazy sometimes, and in those moments he never lost his cool, never disrespected me back, or called me out my name. He loved me anyway. I would get hot headed, sometimes out of line, and aimed to him cause it was easy, but he would love me, hug me, he would stay patient and bring me back to character. That's how I know I lost my soulmate. No one else is gonna love me like him, nho else comforts my soul like he did. He was my positive when the devil threw his negative my way. He was a MAN. He was my best half." We all deserve true love at least once in a lifetime.. Even if it's for justa moment in time ..

[bug girl @buggirl]

in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas

[𝓢𝓸𝓷 𝓜𝓲𝓬𝓴𝓮𝔂𝔂 @SonMickeyy]

Dessin toujours aussi vrai aujourd'hui.

[LPC @landpalestine]

Jewish actor seth rogen says As a Jew I've been fed lies about Israel my whole life

“They never told me that Palestinians lived there. Israel is ridiculous, illogical, and based on ethnic cleansing and genocide”

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Seven hours. All children.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

SHARE EVERYWHERE!!

[MJdowntheshore @MJdowntheshore]

And that's the truth.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

Socialism is so sick I love when tax dollars go to schools instead of wars

[NADA 𓂆 @nadaa01012]

NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE!!!!

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

It's so wild that people don't see that "raising the minimum wage to a true living wage would cause businesses to close" is an indictment of capitalism.