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[Kassandra, The Prosperous Heart @ProsperousHeart]

Don't complain about the results you didn't get for the work you haven't put in.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[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.

[PyTexas @pytexas]

#Python, GenAI, oh my!

There's a lot to learn when building something for real people, not just for yourself.

Find out the lessons learned when these 2 pythonistas used #AI to build a social platform this upcoming Tuesday - May 5 at 8p CST on the #PyTexas Discord stage!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.

The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

"Veteran's Against Fascism," including disabled veterans, were arrested inside of the Capitol building today as they staged a protest against Trump's war in Iran.

This is Trump's America.

[PyTexas @pytexas]

That's a wrap for Day 1 of #PyTexasConference2026! 🎉
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Shoutout to our wonderful sponsors for helping make this #python event. 💛

@anacondainc
@blackpythondevs
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@GitButler
@Microsoft
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[PyTexas @pytexas]

1st tutorial of #PyTexasConference2026 is about to start!

Will you be joining us? 💛

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[PyTexas @pytexas]

#PyTexasConference2026 is TOMORROW and we are so excited to have the continued support of @BlackPythonDevs as our community sponsors. 💛

Be sure to get your ticket before they're gone ... Virtual is still available! https://t.co/Wjb4g9DU6q

[PyTexas @pytexas]

#PyTexasConference2026 is only 1 day away and we're so grateful to have @TechAtBloomberg as our lanyard sponsors bringing pythonistas at the conference together to network & connect with others from across TX & beyond. 💛

Learn more about this event at https://t.co/Wjb4g9DU6q

[PyTexas @pytexas]

2 day countdown until #PyTexasConference2026 🎉

Even if you can't be in Austin, virtual tickets are available!

Incredible people doing amazing work in the realm of #python.

Will you be joining us?
💛🤍💙
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[PyTexas @pytexas]

Only 1 more week until we #GetSocial at #PyTexasConference2026 in Austin!

And thanks to GitButler, we were able to pull out all the stops for our 20th anniversary 💛

Will you be joining us for the fun?

Grab your ticket at https://t.co/Wjb4g9DU6q

[PyTexas @pytexas]

With only 5 days away, we're excited to see everyone at #PyTexasConference2026 in Austin! 🎉

Thank you @DevITJobs for being a media & tech sponsor! Without you #PyTexas would be missing out on a lot - including the ability to host virtual attendees. 😬

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[PyTexas @pytexas]

2 keynote speakers.
4 hands on #python tutorial sessions.
(2 from @Microsoft!)
15 diverse pythonista talks.
1 incredible #PyTexasConference2026 event!
Only 9 days away ...

Check out the schedule & get your in person (or virtual) ticket here: https://t.co/nGyUeUJtHM

[PyTexas @pytexas]

8 days until #PyTexasConference2026 & so excited to see y'all!

Special thanks to @Elastic, a gold sponsor.

Your support is appreciated & ensures we're able to put on this #python conference! 💛

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[PyTexas @pytexas]

1 tutorial masters #Python foundations.
1 prepares you for the #AI future.

2 expert-led hands-on tutorials designed to help you ship better code today (and beyond 🚀) at the 20th anniversary #PyTexasConference2026 🐍

Ticket sales close on April 16🚨
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[PyTexas @pytexas]

11 days until #PyTexasConference2026 & so excited to see y'all!

Special thanks to @Microsoft, a platinum sponsor.

Your support is appreciated, & your 2 tutorials on agentic #AI & building a #python full stack API will be powerful for ticket holders! 💛

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[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HOLY SHIT. A college student just humiliated Karoline Leavitt on stage:

“Voter fraud is incredibly rare…there have only been a few hundred cases of voter fraud out of hundreds of millions of votes.”

I want to buy this student a beer!

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The White House has removed this video from their social media channels.

But not before we could post it.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Federal Judge Richard Leon has blocked the construction of Donald Trump's White House ballroom, saying "The President is the steward of the White House for future generations...he is not the owner!"

RETWEET to thank Judge Leon for standing up for our democracy!