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[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.

[Daniel Morgan @dtmorgan18]

🍕COSTA MESA, WE NEED YOUR HELP🍕

Running a small business on the boulevard is already tough, but imagine being a single mom whose restaurant gets completely shut down for 6 to 8 weeks because a drunk driver crashed right into your building. 💔

That’s exactly what happened to Mindy, the incredible owner of Nuovo Amico Pizza & Pasta. Mindy has been a staple in our Costa Mesa community for over 20 years. In fact, ever since she opened this location last year, she has donated all the pizzas for the ‘Let’s Be Kind’ days to support our local kids. She’s always been there for us—and now it’s our turn to be there for her.

With 6 to 8 weeks of bills stacking up and zero income coming in, we need to show Mindy what community is all about. If we want our boulevards to thrive, we have to show them support!

🗓️ THE PLAN:
WHEN: September 23rd
WHERE: Nuovo Amico Pizza & Pasta
WHAT: We are showing up, spending money, buying pizza, eating pasta, having drinks, and rallying behind Mindy!

Let’s come together, have a great time, and lift up a business owner who does so much for Costa Mesa. Tag your friends, share this video, and mark your calendars. Let’s do this! 💪🍕
— Daniel Morgan | Costa Mesa City Council Candidate for District 3

[Sb4809 @sb4809]

@DrHanes @BioavailableNd @dannyroddy You are stunning! I might have to try this whole lemon drink.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Birthright citizenship means China won't need to hack elections. They can set up ballot harvesting boxes and legally vote. Thanks to ACB. We have lost our sovereignty because she refused to resign and instead folded to left wing terrorist threats.

[Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult]

One would think that if you’re going to vote to change the amount of morning light for hundreds of millions of people you would at least ask someone who knows, what the health consequences of that would be.

[Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult]

I am not a political person. The scientific community and the data and evidence overwhelmingly shows that morning sunlight is imperative for good health.

There are Republicans and Democrats both on the right side of this as seen by legislation just introduced - bipartisan calling for permanent standard time. But there are also Republicans and Democrats on the wrong side of this issue that because of either intellectual laziness or willful ignorance have voted for a bill that will remove morning sunlight for hundreds of millions of people that they are financially medically responsible for, and it will increase the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease as well as certain types of cancers that we have evidence for.

I am a boarded Sleep specialist, which means that I am an expert in this field.

This is not my opinion, but the position of thousands of professionals who understand the circadian rhythm and the tremendous impact that this will have hundreds of millions of people in the United States.

It is completely untenable that the supreme governing body of our country would make a decision about this without weighing the evidence.

Making standard time permanent is literally the lowest hanging fruit that we could decide to improve the health of our country. Instead, we have politicians going on this platform to boast that they gave more sunlight to their constituents. As if the stroke of their mighty pen could add one second to the amount of sunlight that comes from the sun.

Complete ignorance.

[Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult]

🚨🚨🚨🚨Today the U.S. House passed the Sunshine Protection Act, advancing legislation that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent nationwide.

This is the biggest legislative step this issue has taken in years but it is not law.

The bill now moves to the U.S. Senate, where there is still an opportunity for it to be debated, amended, or rejected. If you care about health and circadian biology, this is the time to speak up.

The scientific case against permanent DST has become increasingly strong:

• Morning light is the most powerful signal for synchronizing the human circadian clock.
• Permanent DST delays sunrise for much of the year, especially in winter, reducing exposure to morning light when our brains need it most.
• Later sunrises are associated with chronic circadian misalignment, sleep loss, poorer mood, reduced alertness, and increased cardiometabolic risk.
• Studies comparing western versus eastern portions of time zones consistently show worse health outcomes where people experience later sunrises despite sharing the same clock time.
• The American Academy of Sleep Medicine and numerous sleep and circadian experts recommend permanent Standard Time, not permanent DST, as the option that best aligns with human biology.

The argument for permanent DST is largely one of convenience and preference for lighter evenings. The argument for permanent Standard Time is one of physiology and public health.

If you believe our laws should reflect the best available scientific evidence, now is the time to respectfully contact your U.S. Senators. Tell them that while ending the twice-yearly clock changes is a worthy goal, permanent Daylight Saving Time is not the healthiest solution. Ask them instead to support permanent Standard Time, which preserves the morning light our circadian system depends on.

Please REPOST this. The Senate has not yet voted, and informed voices can still make a difference.

@LeaderJohnThune is the Senate majority leader that will determine when this legislation comes to the Senate for debate. He should know how you feel.

[BruInq @BruInq]

@Breaking911 They can’t do ANYTHING right. They take “action” on something and get it completely backwards.

Permanent DST is worse than flipping back and forth. In winter we won’t have sunrises until AFTER 8:00am in some areas. That’s INSANE and unhealthy!

Make STANDARD TIME permanent!

[BruInq @BruInq]

@JezziiB Since it’s so great, this means that there is no more need for immigration to the US. And we can expect mass migration from the US into Mexico. Right?

[Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult]

With respect, popularity is a remarkably poor standard for determining public-health policy. Cigarettes were once overwhelmingly popular. Sugary drinks, ultraprocessed food, excessive screen time, and chronic sleep deprivation remain popular. Popularity tells us what people enjoy—not what is biologically healthy. The human circadian system does not take opinion polls.

Permanent daylight saving time does not create one additional minute of daylight. It merely relabels the existing daylight—taking an hour from the morning and moving it to the evening clock. That may feel pleasant after work, but morning light is the strongest environmental signal for advancing and stabilizing our circadian clock, while evening light pushes that clock later. Permanent DST would therefore mean darker winter mornings, more children traveling to school before sunrise, and more adults awakening and commuting before receiving the most important circadian light signal of the day.

The American data are quite revealing. A 2019 study in the Journal of Health Economics compared communities on opposite sides of U.S. time-zone borders. People living on the side with later sunsets averaged approximately 19 minutes less sleep per night, were more likely to report insufficient sleep, and had higher rates of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and breast cancer. Because neighboring communities were compared across time-zone boundaries, this was substantially stronger evidence than simply comparing distant parts of the country.

A separate U.S. analysis examined approximately four million cancer diagnoses in 607 counties across 11 states. After adjusting for latitude, poverty, smoking, and state, overall and several specific cancer rates generally increased from the eastern toward the western portions of time zones—the direction associated with later morning light and later sunsets. This was ecological evidence and cannot prove that clock time caused the cancers, but it is hardly reassuring.

A 2023 national study also found significantly higher suicide rates in western portions of U.S. time zones than in corresponding eastern portions. Again, this does not prove individual causation, but it adds to the remarkably consistent pattern linking later clock-timed daylight with circadian disruption and adverse health outcomes.

Most recently, Stanford researchers modeled light exposure and circadian burden county by county using American health data. Compared with continuing to change the clocks, permanent standard time was projected to result in approximately 2.6 million fewer Americans with obesity and 300,000 fewer people having experienced a stroke. Permanent DST was also better than changing the clocks twice yearly—but produced only about two-thirds of the modeled benefit of permanent standard time. In other words, even when the clock-changing problem is removed, standard time still performs better than daylight time for population health. The authors appropriately describe these as modeled estimates, not guaranteed outcomes, but the direction of the evidence is clear.

Yes, we should stop changing the clocks twice a year. But eliminating the acute disruption by adopting permanent DST would simply institutionalize a chronic one-hour displacement from solar time. That is why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the American Medical Association, the Sleep Research Society, the National Sleep Foundation, and numerous circadian scientists support permanent standard time rather than permanent DST.

I completely understand why people enjoy brighter summer evenings. I do too. But personal preference at 7:00 p.m. should not outweigh population health at 7:00 a.m. Schools, businesses, and communities are perfectly capable of adjusting their schedules seasonally when later activities are desirable.

We should adjust our schedules to the sun—not permanently falsify the clock and expect human biology to follow along.

[VineyardQuiet @liseyissler]

The House is voting to make Daylight Saving Time permanent.
America tried this in 1974 — permanent DST led to dark winter mornings, more car accidents with kids, public backlash, and it was repealed after 21 months.
Permanent standard time is the healthier choice (backed by sleep scientists and circadian research). End the switches the right way.
Oppose the Sunshine Protection Act.

[Sb4809 @sb4809]

@HilarityjaneArt They didn’t even think about the nightmare it would be when the resilient kids married and had their own children.😞 Nevermind the nightmare already lived.

[Ryan Cole MD @DoctorCole]

Permanent standard time is better for a nation’s health.

[Sb4809 @sb4809]

@owroot We have lived in our home for a chunk. We bought a fancy dishwasher our 1st year. At least 2 loads a day it did, then about 5 years in it died. We didn’t repair it and we don’t miss it. No microwave either. We wash dishes together & reheat food in the toaster oven. It works.

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@quachelsey I’m sorry. Some folks on here are really rude and mean.

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@EllieBurnett11 😩

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@ravenousreader Oh, man this stinks. I’m so sorry.

[BruInq @BruInq]

@TomCruise The only true movie star left.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Imagine being forced to give someone 6.2% of your paycheck, every single check, every month, for 30 to 50 years of your life.

And that person said, "Don't worry, I'm holding this for you and will pay it back to you on a monthly basis, when you retire at 65."

And then they said, "Nah, just kidding. I meant when you retire at 67. And at that time, I'll only give you 70% of what you paid me."

And then they said, "Oops, I spent all your money. You're out of luck."

That's the U.S. government.