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I retweet or like to save posts that i find interesting to read later. Its getting Jerry Springer vibes on here

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: Miguel Bosé, the biggest Spanish-language pop star of the last few decades, has just released a video taking a knee and putting his hand over his heart in honour of Henry Nowak

This has now spread like a wildfire. Europe has never been more UNITED! 🇪🇸🇬🇧

[Patrick Webb @Patrickwebb]

BREAKING: FBI records confirm that a Butler County Sheriff’s deputy exchanged two emails with Thomas Matthew Crooks prior to the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, PA, per FOIA request.

[Sean Davis ⚡The Future is Being Researched @WolverineDavis]

🚨 Lilly just released additional Phase 3 retatrutide data, and I think the biggest story isn't the 70-pound average weight loss.
Think of obesity like the cracked foundation of a house. Instead of fixing the roof, the walls, and the windows one at a time, what if you repaired the foundation itself?
✅ 70.3 lb average weight loss ✅ 65% no longer medically obese ✅ 73% improvement in knee osteoarthritis pain ✅ 60% improvement in sleep apnea ✅ Up to 2.0% A1C reduction ✅ Major improvements in blood pressure and triglycerides
The most interesting question may not be "How much weight did people lose?"
It may be, "What happens when you treat one of the root drivers of so many chronic diseases?"

[Suzee Q @SusieM414141]

When you’re trying an old family recipe that’s been handed down for generations.

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

So now that the truth is coming out, they're going from White people bad to "we wuz best enslavers cuz we wuz kangz"

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

@wil_da_beast630 No one in the US was preoccupied with Ukraine until they took our money. Same with Israel. People are obsessed because they have to be and because Ted Cruz and an army or PAC’s are. I’d be glad to never give them a second thought.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Day care is causing the ADHD epidemic.

That’s the provocative take from psychotherapist Erica Komisar on John Anderson’s podcast. She argues that putting very young babies into long hours of daycare creates chronic stress that flips the brain’s stress switch (the amygdala) on way too early.

It goes into hypervigilant mode, eventually burns out, and leaves kids in a constant low-level fight-or-flight state, which gets labeled as ADHD.

She says there’s no strong genetic cause for ADHD. It’s largely a response to the environment we’re putting kids in.

This one really made me pause. We’re wiring tiny brains for survival mode before they’ve even had a chance to develop properly.

If much of the ADHD explosion is coming from early chronic stress and separation, then rethinking daycare norms and early childcare could dramatically improve kids’ mental health long-term.

What’s your experience or observation, do you think modern daycare schedules are contributing to rising ADHD rates?

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Russian psychologist spent 10 years proving that the act of talking to yourself out loud is one of the most powerful cognitive tools the human brain has, and almost nobody outside his field has read the work.

His name was Lev Vygotsky.

He worked in Moscow in the 1920s and died of tuberculosis in 1934 at the age of 37. He had no laboratory, no funding, almost no English readers, and a body of work that the Soviet government suppressed for two decades after he died.

He produced the foundational theory of how human cognition actually develops, and the central piece of that theory was a behavior almost every adult is faintly embarrassed about.

Vygotsky noticed that young children talk to themselves constantly. They narrate their own actions, they argue with imaginary opponents, they instruct themselves through tasks out loud.

The dominant theory at the time, from the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, said this was a sign of cognitive immaturity that children would eventually grow out of as they learned to think properly.

Vygotsky said the exact opposite.

He argued that this self-directed speech was the most important cognitive event in the entire developmental window, because it was the moment a child first started to use language as a tool to control their own mind. The child was not failing to think. The child was learning how to think by externalizing the process and listening to themselves do it.

He predicted that as children matured, this out-loud self-talk would not disappear. It would go underground. It would become silent inner speech, which is the running monologue every adult has inside their own head for the rest of their life.

The voice you hear when you read this sentence is the direct descendant of a four-year-old narrating their own block tower.

For 50 years almost nobody outside Russia had access to his work, and the few researchers who did pick it up could not get funding to test it. Then in the early 2000s the experiments finally started to pile up, and what they found was that Vygotsky had been right about something even more important than he knew.

The first major study came from Gary Lupyan at the University of Wisconsin and Daniel Swingley at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. They ran a simple visual search experiment. Participants were shown 20 images at once and asked to find a specific object, like a banana or a chair. In one condition they searched silently. In the other condition they were told to say the name of the object out loud to themselves while looking for it.

The participants who spoke the target name out loud found the object significantly faster, with higher accuracy, than the participants who searched in silence. The effect was strongest when the spoken word matched a familiar object the brain already had a strong category for.

Saying the word out loud literally tuned the visual system to detect that thing better. The researchers called it the label feedback effect, and the implication was that the act of vocalizing a goal physically changes how the brain processes the world while pursuing it.

The second major study came out of the University of Michigan and Michigan State in 2017. The lead researchers were Ethan Kross and Jason Moser, and they used both EEG and fMRI to record what happens inside the brain when people talk to themselves while emotionally upset.

They asked participants to recall painful autobiographical memories and reflect on them in two different ways. Some used the first person, saying things like "why am I feeling this way." Others used the third person, referring to themselves by their own name, saying things like "why is John feeling this way."

The brain scans showed that the simple act of switching from first person to third person, even silently, decreased activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for rumination and self-referential pain. Within a single second of using their own name instead of the word I, participants showed measurably lower emotional reactivity. The shift required no extra cognitive effort. It cost the brain nothing. And it worked.

Kross described the mechanism in his interviews. Talking to yourself by name creates a small amount of psychological distance from your own experience. Your brain processes the situation more like a problem belonging to someone else, which means it can analyze it instead of drowning in it.

What Vygotsky had intuited in 1934 turned out to be even more powerful than the developmental theory he built it into. The voice you use to talk to yourself is not background noise. It is one of the most precise cognitive tools the brain has, and you can change how it works just by changing the pronoun you use.

People who talk through problems out loud are not anxious or unstable. They are running an externalized version of a process the rest of us are running silently and worse. The kindergartener narrating their block tower, the surgeon muttering through a procedure, the engineer pacing a hallway describing a bug to nobody, the athlete repeating a cue to themselves before a free throw, they are all using the same ancient mechanism that builds and steers human thought.

You can run the experiment yourself the next time you are stuck on something hard. Stop trying to solve it silently in your head. Say it out loud. Describe what you are seeing. Walk yourself through the steps as if you were explaining it to a colleague who is not in the room.

And when something genuinely upsets you, switch to your own name. Ask why this person is feeling this way, instead of why I am feeling this way.

The voice you have been told to keep quiet your entire life is one of the oldest pieces of cognitive technology you own.

Most people are still embarrassed to use it.

[Bill @BillWiIdin]

Interviewing for a mid-level job in 2026 feels like trying to join MI6. Why do I need three rounds of interviews, a take home personality test, and a presentation just to manage a spreadsheet for $65k a year? The process is broken.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Up to 90% of India’s H1B visa applications contain fraudulent information or involve unqualified applicants, a former official tells Newsweek.

[Christian Collins @CollinsforTX]

A deranged illegal alien murdered three generations of a single family.

A 2-week-old baby was among the victims.

Just eight days later, Senate Democrats voted against fully funding DHS and called for abolishing ICE.

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: Top U.S. officials have to use burner phones as the Pentagon classifies Israeli spies in the White House as a hostile foreign power.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is simply a fact

[U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith @SenHydeSmith]

82 years ago today, the sons of America crossed an ocean and stormed into the face of evil. As we celebrate 250 years of this great nation, their sacrifice is one of the most important stories that we must never forget – a generation that bravely defended the very freedoms we hold so dearly today. We will never forget their courage and their willingness to give everything. We are a grateful and forever indebted nation.

[Asian Dawn @AsianDawn4]

This page likes to create what-if scenarios. If the Axis had won WWII, I'm pretty sure Imperial Japan would not let Los Angeles or San Francisco look like a ghetto 🤷‍♂️

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

The brother of Henry Nowak killer holds a large Sikh ceremonial sword in 'road rage incident' outside a temple.

Seems like another knife obsessed nutter with a very short fuse.

He stole swords from his temple. His brother brandished his sword in public. And police did nothing?

Considering what the mother did this time, one expects the family helped conceal evidence of the theft of the temple swords.

The police did nothing because it's an exceptionally sensitive racial angle. Sikhs are allowed a small kirpan, not an 8 inch choppa, but you won't find a copper in the land who's willing to enforce the law on this. Too risky for their careers.

The whole family need to be locked up for conspiracy to murder. Revoke citizenship and deport.

The idea that some smiling god in the sky is only pleased when people are carrying knives around is so patiently ridiculous.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

6 years ago: David Dorn is kiIIed in St Louis by a BLM mob while guarding businesses from the looting

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Good morning, wish you a great weekend! 😊

[Larry Elder @larryelder]

“You can’t succeed without teeth.”
— @MayorOfLA