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Maturation of the adolescent brain Adolescence is the developmental epoch during which children become adults – intellectually, physically, hormonally, and socially. Adolescence is a tumultuous time, full of changes and transformations. The pubertal transition to adulthood involves ...

For those doubting the science, here is an NIH study of adolescent brain maturation that describes how brain development generally isn’t complete until 24.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

ICYMI - POPE LEO: “When people are living good lives for 10, 20 years… (Trump) is treating them in a way that’s extremely disrespectful, violent — We have to look for ways to treat people humanely and with dignity.” (H/T @CBSNews)

But Silicon Valley executives get hearings, PR statements, and another quarter of profits. Kids were the product. Safety was the afterthought. Accountability is long overdue.

They saw it. They measured it. They reported it internally. And then they kept cashing the checks. If this happened anywhere else in a school, a company, a damn bowling alley people would be in handcuffs.

Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.

Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

@anandwrites.bsky.social has nailed in this piece what has been grinding away at my gut since my own review of the Epstein files— that there truly is an “Epstein class” of elites, inured to the pain of the rest of us, committed to their own ends no matter the cost.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Vladimir Putin is popping champagne corks. His hand puppet in Washington has left the United States alone, weakened and hated on the world stage.
Canada and the rest of the world have moved on.

financialpost.com/pmn/business...

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

Difference between online comments and reality 😎💙😎

The bill last numbered H.R. 9495 would empower the Treasury Secretary to designate any nonprofit the Secretary wishes to kill a “terrorist supporting organization” and revoke the tax-exempt status on which it depends for survival. Unconstitutional but lethal in the harm it would do while in force.

PSA: siding with corporate greed and helping airlines take advantage of people is not “Common sense” no matter how many times Doofy says it

(No wonder the airlines gave millions to Trump’s campaign)

WELKER: “Do you think Trump’s a fascist?

MAYOR MAMDANI: “I’ve said it in the past. I say it today.”

WELKER: “How do you square working with someone who you still think is a threat to the democracy?”

MAYOR MAMDANI: “Working for the people of NYC demands you work with everyone.”

You absolutely have the constitutional right to record ICE, Border Patrol, or any law enforcement officer in public, and with everything happening in Charlotte right now, people need to understand that clearly.

Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff.

There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) says someone showed up to her D.C. office today and made white supremacist threats. Capitol Police had to intervene.

This was hours after Trump said Democrats in Congress should be executed.

"When leaders promote hate, hate shows up."

It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/

ICYMI — NBC: “The senior military lawyer for the combatant command overseeing lethal strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela disagreed with Trump that the operations are lawful — and his views were sidelined…” www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

WATCH— @abbydphillip to ben ferguson: “Hold on a second… we just played for people at home EXACTLY what the video says. You can’t then sit here and lie about that same video. It said you cannot follow ILLEGAL orders.”

“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Decades of rigorous and scientifically sound research have proven that vaccines do not cause autism. CDC’s decision to change language on its website reversing that finding is reckless & harmful.

Our statement w/ @hivma.bsky.social, APIC, @sheaepi.bsky.social & @sidpharm.bsky.social: bit.ly/3XEc0KH

To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?

Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.

This isn’t controversial.

A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."

BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard just announced they won’t classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols anymore they’re calling them ‘potentially divisive.’ Potentially divisive? Listen, a noose isn’t a conversation starter. A swastika isn’t a debate topic. They are dangerous hate symbols. Full stop

The House is scrambling to avoid a censure death spiral In their first full week back after the shutdown, lawmakers voted five times on measures to rebuke colleagues, eating up hours of floor time.

As he reconvened the House this month after a seven-week recess, Mike Johnson promised to recommit lawmakers to making laws. His members instead spent much of their first full week back sniping at each other, voting five times on measures to rebuke other members, eating up hours of floor time.

ICE break down bedroom door—point guns at mother & 4 U.S. citizen children.

Agents drag mother by her hair & aim rifle at 13-year-old daughter—yell "Put your hands up, stupid!"

Didn't show any ID or warrant before breaking in—were looking for a cousin who hadn't lived there in 2 years

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.