bamagrad2004

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[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Since the @WhiteHouse and @POTUS is mad about this, please don’t retweet or share

[Save Standard Time @SaveStandard]

Incredible.

[bamagrad2004 @bamagrad2004]

Well this is a first. Traffic is stopping and turning around on 59SB due to a wreck. Folks are coming from all directions. @spann

[Phil Grace @grace_phil]

I believe we need to abandon DST and lock the clocks to Standard Time. I doubt such a change would be miraculously passed by the completely disfunctional legislative branch of our government. However, it if did happen, this one key thing must happen…

The last fall back needs to be scheduled in the middle of summer, not November. Why? Because too many people negatively associate ST with short winter days. There would be an instant and prolonged knee jerk reaction. Do it in summer and people get to experience ST in part of summer to inform opinion before winter arrives. Ease into winter days becomes gradual.

[bamagrad2004 @bamagrad2004]

@NoteNeeded @mr_jay_pea Driving to work at 6:30am CST and it feels like I’m driving home after work in December. Remind me who thinks DST is a good thing.

[Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult]

🚨🚨🚨
For those of you that just turned the clock an hour ahead think of it as moving to the western side of your time zone. You still have the same number of hours approximately that you had yesterday but now everything is happening later in the day.

And for those wondering whether time policy actually affects health, there’s a fascinating natural experiment hiding in plain sight: where you live inside a time zone.

People who live on the western edge of a time zone experience a different light environment than people on the eastern edge, even though the clock says the same time.

Why?

Because the sun rises and sets later as you move west.

That means two people with the same 7:00 AM work start time can experience very different biological conditions.

Someone in Boston (eastern edge of Eastern Time) might have sunrise close to when the alarm goes off.

Someone in western Indiana or western Michigan (western edge of Eastern Time) may still be in near darkness.

But they’re expected to function on the same clock schedule.

Researchers realized this creates a powerful way to study circadian misalignment in large populations.

And the results are striking.

Multiple epidemiological studies show that living further west within a time zone — where sunset occurs later by the clock — is associated with shorter sleep duration and worse health outcomes.

The proposed mechanism is “social jetlag.”

People go to bed later because the sun sets later, but work and school schedules remain fixed. The result is chronic sleep restriction during the work week.

One of the most cited studies looked at U.S. populations across time zone boundaries and found that later sunset times were associated with:

• shorter sleep
• higher rates of obesity
• increased diabetes prevalence
• more cardiovascular disease
• poorer self-reported health

(Giuntella & Mazzonna, Journal of Health Economics, 2019)

Another analysis examining cancer incidence found that moving west within a time zone — where circadian misalignment is greater — was associated with higher rates of several cancers, including breast and prostate cancer.

(Gu et al., Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, 2017)

Additional work has found associations with hepatocellular carcinoma incidence and other circadian-related outcomes.

(VoPham et al., Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, 2018)

The key concept here is circadian phase delay.

When sunset occurs later by the clock:

• people stay awake later
• melatonin release is delayed
• sleep onset shifts later

But school and work start times don’t shift.

So people living further west in a time zone often accumulate chronic sleep debt.

Now here’s where it gets interesting.

This phenomenon is almost identical to what happens during Daylight Saving Time.

Daylight Saving Time effectively shifts the clock one hour later relative to the sun.

In other words, DST makes the entire population behave as if they moved west within their time zone.

Sunrise occurs later by the clock.

Morning light exposure is reduced.

Circadian rhythms drift later.

Sleep duration tends to decrease.

This is why many sleep and circadian researchers argue that permanent standard time is the biologically healthier option.

Standard time aligns the clock closer to solar time, allowing earlier morning light — which is the most powerful signal for synchronizing the human circadian system.

Morning light advances circadian phase, improves sleep timing, and supports metabolic regulation.

Even modest shifts in light timing across large populations can have measurable epidemiological effects.

Which is exactly what we see in the west-vs-east time zone studies.

They essentially act as a real-world laboratory demonstrating how clock time and sunlight interact to influence health.

It’s a reminder that something as mundane as what time the clock says can quietly shape sleep, metabolism, and long-term disease risk across millions of people!

[Courtney Helland @CourtneyHella]

In Phoenix AZ, the sun rose at 6:46am this morning. It set 6:31pm this evening. They are on Permanent Standard Time. They love it. We should all be like Arizona.

[bamagrad2004 @bamagrad2004]

@meepbobeep SAME

[bamagrad2004 @bamagrad2004]

@UA_Athletics

[bamagrad2004 @bamagrad2004]

⁦@BamaGymnastics⁩ the Motorola razr QR code is not working

[bamagrad2004 @bamagrad2004]

⁦@BamaGymnastics⁩ the Motorola razr QR code is not working

[bamagrad2004 @bamagrad2004]

@uagameday what is going on at gymnastic parking situation. Traffic has not moved in 20 mins.

This HAS to be fixed.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara just directly contradicted Donald Trump.

O’Hara confirmed Renee Nicole Good was the ONLY person injured in today’s incident.

That flatly contradicts Trump’s claim that an ICE officer was injured and recovering in the hospital.

One of them is lying and it's not the police chief.

[DonkConnects ♻️™ @donkoclock]

Here is the ICE agent who pulled the trigger in Minnesota.

MAKE HIS FACE GO VIRAL.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

It is vital that this event is fully documented. The refusal of the offer from a physician to render medical aid must surely be an offense in itself?

🎥 TikTok. - https://t.co/pmwJ0XUVY2

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

ICE agents wouldn’t even allow a doctor to go check the pulse of the Renee Nicole Good whom they had shot in Minneapolis.

DOCTOR: Can I go check her pulse?”

ICE: NO!

DOCTOR: I’m A physician!

ICE: I Don’t Care!

These are the monsters of Trump‘s America.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

This is Donald Trump and Kristi Noem's America.

[Max Nesterak @maxnesterak]

A witness shared this video with me showing an ICE officer shooting a driver in an SUV in south Minneapolis. DHS says the woman is dead.