Annette Schmeling ☮️

Finding God in all things. Loving God in all people. Serving God in all ways.

[Annette Schmeling ☮️ @atsrscj]

@TheWayneShaw1 @mattvanswol The State of Washingto or State of Arizona? The murder appears to have happened in Arizona.

[Annette Schmeling ☮️ @atsrscj]

@jzipple Praying for you and the care team. ❤️

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

In 1982, Robin Williams did a routine as the American Flag for the Norman Lear produced tv special "I Love Liberty" created to bridge political divides - and it's one of the greatest pieces you'll see 🇺🇸

[OBVIOUS SHIRTS® @obvious_shirts]

As America turns 250, I wanted to share my favorite moment in the past 250 years. #Cubs

[Annette Schmeling ☮️ @atsrscj]

FIFA Unites!

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Ronald Reagan: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman…But Anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American…This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness.”🇺🇸

[Katherine Bennett - Catholic Unscripted Podcast @AuditeInsulae]

This is a outstanding — lucid and clear. Fr Christopher Smith, a priest of the Diocese of Charlestown, South Carolina addresses the forthcoming SSPX consecrations

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Mexican football team members pray before an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe upon arriving for their FIFA World Cup match against the Czech Republic.

Video: Fer de Luna

[Little Susie @CatholicSusie]

The man in the cockpit may have been Pope Leo XIV, but the one enjoying every second of it was Robert Prevost.

[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.

[Cristóbal Alex @CristobalJAlex]

My statement regarding @XavierBecerra based on actual first-hand knowledge of working closely with him in the Cabinet. He’s going to be a great governor for California.

"Xavier Becerra walked into HHS and went to work for the American people from day one. He took on Big Pharma and won, delivering the first-ever Medicare drug price negotiations and cutting costs for millions of Americans who had been left behind for decades. He expanded health coverage to more than 24 million people and stood up for reproductive rights when they were under siege. That's not a bureaucrat — that's a leader. California needs that same fighter in the Governor's mansion, and I'm proud to stand behind Xavier Becerra."

@SecGranholm @TomPerez
@JulieSuLabor

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[Annette Schmeling ☮️ @atsrscj]

“Here’s the thing: the Beast never knows it is the Beast. Empire always speaks as if its violence is necessary—and even good, even holy.”
#TheologyMattersInPolitics

[Annette Schmeling ☮️ @atsrscj]

@MichaelSteele Temptation of Empire: A biblical scholar on apocalyptic language, empire, and The President's texts.
https://t.co/jPZ3pba4nW

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

She literally compressed 5 years of neuro-psychology in 2 mins ‼️‼️

[Growth Labs @growthhub_]

This man literally tells Neuroscience trick to stop negative thought loops.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

They tried so hard to suppress this video today.

But because of YOU, it is now TRENDING.

Please RETWEET and QUOTE TWEET this important video reminding us all WHO WE WERE BEFORE TRUMP

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

This is Joanna Johnson, an educator and teacher on TikTok who posted this about the US’ involvement in Venezuela on 12-18-25

Eerily on point. Take a listen below 👇
#DemsUnited

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move.

1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

[Annette Schmeling ☮️ @atsrscj]

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[Annette Schmeling ☮️ @atsrscj]

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