I Love Boosters is not underrated.
It's under seen.
Audience and critic scores for it are great.
When ppl see it, they mostly really like it or love it.
We didnt get the screens and showings we needed and by the time word spread, screen count & showings was even more reduced
Trump and Secretary McMahon are pushing millions of student borrowers off a default cliff.
They’ve gutted Federal Student Aid and buried repayment applications.
This is an economic catastrophe.
I’m pushing for answers.
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%.
Knicks fans are calling for Spike Lee to get a championship ring after being a die-hard New York Knicks fan for 41 years.
Spike Lee says he spends around $300K per year on courtside season tickets and has spent over $10 million overall.
The House voted 427-1 to release the unredacted Epstein files. The law bans withholding documents to protect powerful people from embarrassment. DOJ identified 6 million pages, released about half, and called it compliance.
The bill's own authors say that breaks the law they wrote — and they're right. But most of Washington is letting it slide. Why?
God told Moses, “Remove your sandals… this is holy ground.” Marriage carries that same weight. If you are not willing to treat God’s covenant as sacred, removing your selfishness, pride, lack of discipline, and bad habits, don’t waste anyone’s time. Marriage is holy ground.
Tessa Thompson: As a Black American, there is a kind of bone-tired exhaustion in fighting the battles that we have fought so many times before, and insisting time and time again, generation after generation, that people have the right to exist even if they speak out against the state.
This is why they want you to forget about the Epstein files. There are dozens of girls just like her who were taken and sold into human trafficking. They’re probably not even alive anymore. What happened to these girls is beyond comprehension, and the people responsible are getting away with it.