James J. Ehrmann

Never bet against the person who keeps showing up. Retweets are not endorsements but are thought-provoking.

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

PUT OLIVE GARDEN IN CHARGE OF OUR ELECTIONS!!!

[James J. Ehrmann @jjehrmann]

@redheadranting Eventually, yes.

[Ryan James Girdusky @RyanGirdusky]

People over 70, who want positions that last until their mid-80s need to explain to me how AI works before they should be any policy making decisions

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Laotian national Tou Lue Vang was convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota. 

He was set to be deported until @GovTimWalz issued him a pardon.

Then, I revoked his legal status. @ICEgov has removed him from the U.S. and he will never endanger another American.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Everyone dunking on NPR because they published fake news on accident but I think it’s a welcome break from their usual practice of publishing it on purpose.

[Nic @Nic111392]

Most embarrassing?

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

Percentage of Americans who are married and own a home at age 30:

1960: 52%
1970: 48%
1980: 45%
1990: 43%
2000: 35%
2010: 25%
2025: 12%

This shit is crazy.

[Holly Grayle @HollyGrayle]

It's incredibly sad, but we can't help them anymore. We have a very real possibility of the West being Third Worlded out of existence, and there's a reason why airlines tell you to put your own oxygen mask on before you help someone else (even a child) - it's because you CAN'T help anyone else if you're dead.

It's time for the African Union to step in and provide the humanitarian assistance Africans need, or allow nature to take its course.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The scariest finding in this paper: the subjects couldn't tell it was happening.

UPenn ran this study on 48 healthy adults. One group slept 8 hours. Another slept 6. Another slept 4. For 14 straight days. They tested cognitive performance every 2 hours from 7:30am to 11:30pm.

The 6-hour group's reaction times, working memory, and sustained attention deteriorated on a near-linear curve. By day 14 they were performing at the same level as someone who hadn't slept at all in 48 hours. The 4-hour group hit that threshold by day 6.

Here's the part that should unsettle everyone who thinks they "do fine" on 6 hours: the subjects' self-reported sleepiness flatlined after the first few days. Their brains kept getting worse. Their perception of how impaired they were stopped updating. The cognitive decline was invisible to the person experiencing it.

The researchers found a hard threshold. Any wakefulness beyond 15.84 hours in a day produces cumulative neurobiological cost. That cost compounds every single day you exceed it and does not reset with a weekend of sleeping in.

About 35% of American adults sleep less than 7 hours a night. 40% of those get 6 hours or less. In 1942 that number was 11%. We built an entire professional culture around a sleep schedule that this paper says is functionally equivalent to pulling consecutive all-nighters.

"I'm fine on 6 hours" is the most common response to sleep research. The first thing chronic sleep debt destroys is your ability to notice chronic sleep debt.

[James J. Ehrmann @jjehrmann]

“It’s a freeee Palestine!”

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

All I wanted was for Super Mario to look directly at the camera and say: “Trans women are women, period. Billionaires shouldn’t exist. No one is illegal. Abolish ICE, down with Trump and free Palestine.”

But he just kept eating mushrooms and jumping on turtles. SMH.

[Harry Bergeron (thule-shop.com) @Tysenberg]

I do enjoy that the Anglo cultural norm of greeting people with “how are you” and both inevitably responding “good” even if they’re doing poorly is essentially just a quick ritual to establish the person has their shit together enough to not let their personal problems bother you

[James J. Ehrmann @jjehrmann]

@ChadLeistikow Thanks for your coverage. Fun season and plenty to look forward to. Seemed more obvious today to me that no one beyond AH and HS was interested in taking shots. Definitely need a shooter or two in the portal.

[James J. Ehrmann @jjehrmann]

@highpoint377627 @CrimeWatchMpls No. That’s next week.

[James J. Ehrmann @jjehrmann]

Bingo.

[Borgiel Bill @bill_borgiel]

For the past two decades, academia poisoned millions of young males into believing they are racist, misogynistic, oppressors who suffer from toxic masculinity…
…and we haven’t even discussed the fallout of college-educated females who were brainwashed into thinking “breaking the glass ceiling” is the highest calling in life. 50% of these young women are today, childless, anxious, and lonely.
What our colleges/universities have done to Gen’s Y/Z may be irreversible.

[Riley @Ri_S_OB]

LeBron never did that

[ALX 🇺🇸 @alx]

Gavin Newsom says “I’m like you” to a crowd of black people because he scored low on his SATs and can’t read.

[Whale Psychiatrist ™️ @k_ovfefe2]

North America having quite the day today