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[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate?

Dahl: Yes Murray:

And the rate for someone making $1,000,000?

Dahl: 2.2%

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy sh*t, EVERY LAST WORD that Michael Steele said here! 🔥 🔥

He blasted trump and Republicans for trying to sell Americans a bunch of bullshit on Communism.

"Who's buddy-buddy with all the big name Communists in the world? Donald trump."

[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 🇺🇸

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I had one rule this week: no one plays on Home Court until some old friends and I get some shots up.

Who’s got next? 🏀

[Acyn @Acyn]

Warnock: Right now, somebody is trying to buy groceries in Georgia and they can’t afford them.

Rollins: That’s because of the Biden administration.

Warnock: Two years later and that’s your answer? Because of the Biden administration?

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

I want to be calm and clear:

This will impact every American who is not a multimillionaire.

One accident.
One bad day.
One diagnosis.

That’s all that separates most people from needing the social safety net they spent their entire lives paying into.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Hunter Biden Just now on X:

"You might not like my Dad’s politics, but he is the best Dad in the world and I love him more than anything. And if you’re worried about who is selling out this country you might want to check out who is paying Jared Kushner."

@HunterBiden

[Rohit @ai_rohitt]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.

This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.

Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

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.

[jezz @JezziiB]

“The government doesn't owe you anything!”
Buddy, I pay taxes.
The government damn well owes me a LOT.

[flex @lowkflex]

Imma always repost these cause I know someone that was in some shit n she got away cause of a video like this she saw on Twitter

[Kayakestable @kayakestable]

Los libros de historia pasaron por alto discretamente el hecho de que Barack Obama, durante las noches más saturadas de presión de su presidencia, se retiraba solo a la Sala de Tratados en el segundo piso de la residencia de la Casa Blanca —no para trazar estrategias, no para tomar llamadas, sino para escribir a mano cartas personales a diez ciudadanos estadounidenses comunes cada única noche, una práctica que mantuvo con una devoción casi monástica durante los ocho años completos, seleccionando él mismo las cartas de las 40.000 que llegaban diariamente a la Casa Blanca, y su directora de correspondencia de toda la vida, Fiona Reese, confirmó que Obama a menudo lloraba en privado mientras leía ciertas cartas, doblándolas con cuidado antes de escribir respuestas tan personalmente detalladas y emocionalmente presentes que los destinatarios describían frecuentemente la experiencia de recibirlas como el momento más significativo de sus vidas, con un obrero siderúrgico de Ohio escribiendo de vuelta para decir que la carta de Obama lo había detenido físicamente de tomar una decisión que habría alterado permanentemente el futuro de su familia. Lo que hace que esta práctica sea casi insoportablemente conmovedora es el detalle que surgió después —Obama nunca usó una computadora para estas cartas, siempre un bolígrafo de punta de fieltro negro, siempre papel legal amarillo primero como borrador, siempre reescrito a mano una segunda vez en el papel membretado de la Casa Blanca, porque él creía, como le dijo a la historiadora Doris Kearns Goodwin en una rara conversación privada después relatada en su obra de 2018, que el acto físico de presionar la pluma contra el papel obligaba a una calidad de atención que simplemente teclear no podía replicar, una filosofía arraigada en sus años como profesor de derecho constitucional en la Universidad de Chicago de 1992 a 2004, donde desarrolló la convicción de que la democracia solo funciona cuando sus líderes permanecen genuinamente, incómodamente cerca de la gravedad específica del sufrimiento humano individual en lugar de procesarlo desde la distancia aislante de las instituciones y las pantallas.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Andrew Santino just blew my mind with one simple comparison.

A million seconds = 11 days.
A billion seconds = 31 years.

Let that sink in.

We throw around “billionaire” like it’s just “millionaire but with more zeros,” but the actual gap is insane. A million seconds is less than two weeks. A billion seconds is longer than most people’s entire adult lives.

It’s a perfect reminder of how detached our brains are from what these numbers actually mean.

Next time someone casually says “he’s a billionaire,” just remember: that’s not “a lot of millions.” That’s an entirely different universe of scale.

Mind officially blown.

[👑 J³ABz👑 @Jabz_CFC]

Michelle Obama once asked her mother why she was holding Barack's hand on election night. Her mother replied, "His father left when he was two. He lost his mother to cancer. He was moments away from becoming the leader of the free world with no parents, so I took his hand.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 I have the FBI document. Case 31E-NY-3027571. August 7, 2019.

A woman describes being introduced to Trump by Epstein at age 13-15.

Trump cleared the room. Said “let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.”

She fought back. He struck her.

She told the FBI she heard Trump and Epstein discuss the blackmail operation together.

She asked agents to keep her safe: “Throughout my life his people have found me. Have kept tabs on me.”

This document was illegally withheld from Congress.

A war started the week these files dropped.

Read it yourself. DOJ. FBI Case 31E-NY-3027571.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Two brothers spent 8 years recreating Toy Story 3 (2010) shot-for-shot in stop-motion, and Pixar was so impressed they approved the full version to be uploaded to YouTube with the original audio.

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

I always love seeing Jason Weaver cause every time I do I remember that his mama (who was his manager) turned down Disney’s $2M upfront offer for him to be Simba and instead negotiated $100,000 upfront and a percentage of ALL ROYALTIES

Meaning ANY TIME the soundtrack is streamed or sold, DVD rights, Blu-Ray or stream happens, he is paid. He is also paid on ALL merch.

[Liam @LiamEvergreen]

The video speaks for itself.
She speaks for herself.

Listen closely. Protect the innocent.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Bring back firing squads for anyone involved.

Don’t care who.