Wise_Diva

Retired AJC Dating Blogger/Biotech Fan - AVOIDING MAYHEM

[Tamar Hallerman @TamarHallerman]

Six decades ago, ATL’s business elites gave the civil rights movement a shot in the arm.

With Black political power once again at the national forefront, voting rights activists are hoping they can lure Georgia’s business community back into the fray

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[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

I am horrified by last night's act of terrorism against Chicago Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez, who is running for Congress as an independent socialist.

The devices were exploded outside his residence when his three children were asleep indoors.

The political establishment and the right wing are threatened by independent socialist candidates like Byron, who is calling for an end to funding for the Israeli state's genocide in Gaza, to abolish ICE, for universal public healthcare, and for taxes on billionaires to fund green jobs.

Working people and socialists must stand in solidarity against such acts of terror.

@ByronSigcho
@BSLForCongress

[Ronen▼ @RonenV]

Credit where it's due: instead of shutting down unpermitted outdoor watch parties / block parties, the mayor actively encouraged them and had police close off streets for them. Totally transformed the city

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

So if Kamala Harris had started a war with Iran, gas prices doubled, and then held a UFC fight on the White House lawn, MAGA would’ve been totally normal and reasonable about it, right?

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The Department Of Justice is in the bag for Trump’s friends and contributors but working against the interests of working Americans and consumers. #BlockTheMerger

[Korin Reid @korinreid]

Yup, and for Atlanta, the $19 million profit undersells it, because the buildings they constructed were repurposed, and the infrastructure developed led to long-term economic growth that reshaped the city

[mark normand @marknorm]

This looks like a Disney movie where a 12 year old becomes president

[Doug Jones @DougJones]

Wow “Coach!” Never expected you would actually want to debate. I’ll send you the GPS pin so you can make it up from Santa Rosa Beach.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

It's like a science experiment for people who don't believe in science

[Joel Montfort @jmontforttx]

The lack of respect these conservatives have for history and women is astounding.
In 1917, the women's suffrage movement in the United States was gaining momentum and becoming more defiant. They were being arrested and jailed for weeks at a time. During the Night of Terror, 33 women who had been arrested were tortured.

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[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is the official channel of the United States Army broadcasting a private corporations live feed. This is illegal. No one in the Republican Congress will lift a finger.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

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%.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

It means you live in an aurhoritarian political climate with a mob boss style leader.

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

The dude who invented insulin sold the patent for $1. In his words:

''Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.'' - Sir Frederick Banting

Also: Elon Musk scammed governments and raided retirement funds. That isn't the same as curing cancer.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Elon Musk is being given 715 acres of land in the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. A lawsuit has been filed by numerous Conservation groups. They say it violates laws that are protecting refuges and harms endangered species. It’s on a National Historic Landmark.

[Nora @Heal_within96]

Black people make up 50% of all exonerations in the US, despite being 13.6% of the population. Black people are 7 times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of serious crimes (murder, sexual assault/drug offenses) than White individuals.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Journalists sitting on massive scoops about important people in this country—stories the American people deserve to know—just so they can sell books later is everything wrong with journalism today.

[Sa’eed Jiddan @mish_aderr]

They’re coming for everyone’s homes because you let them do it in Palestine

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

We have this, but kids cancer research was deemed wasteful spending.

[Pat Dennis @patdennis]

Are you telling me my tax dollars are being sent to rebuild all the shit that Pete Hegseth blew up also with my tax dollars