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@itamarbengvir The real face of Zionist regime

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%.

ɴᴀᴅɪᴀ. @luvblessingz

2 weeks ago

We didn’t realize it then, but kids’ shows used to be this calm on purpose.

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@Kristinartz Archduke Snuffles von Floof the Mighty.

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One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

Flotilla participants are arriving at Istanbul airport. This is what Israel military and prison personnel did to them.

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They're just cute Israeli army puppies

Sia Kordestani @SiaKordestani

a month ago

Watch: ISRAELI ARMY PUPPIES 🐶 This Israeli soldier, a young woman, is is a dog trainer in the military. She's responsible for training puppies in the IDF (!!). I wish our four legged friends could sue the New York Times for the disgusting libel put out by @NickKristof.

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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from sanctioning Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled the Trump administration likely violated Albanese’s free speech rights when it barred her from traveling to the U.S., froze her assets and prohibited banks and other companies from doing business with her. The sanctions came after she recommended the International Criminal Court pursue war crimes prosecutions against Israeli and U.S. officials.

@MiddleEastEye

This is DISGUSTING! Ken Paxton got his lawyer buddy Adam Hoffman of Waco, TX off with only a 60 day sentence and not having to register as a sex offender after he raped a 9 year old boy. 😡 The Republicans are the party of pedophiles, pedophile protectors and rapists.

BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me! As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest". Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far. Together we are One.

Asked if he thinks Israel committed genocide in Gaza, Obama accuses the questioner of not following the rules, then says “there are disasters and catastrophes everywhere” Obama is a historically inconsequential former president who believes in nothing but his own celebrity

Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha

2 months ago

@KStimmeGenozid Is Gaza a genocide?

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@PodSaveAmerica lol… they will lose again!

@ryangrim Yes... but they got the transgender folks out of the military. So they have that to show for.

@FurkanGozukara Agree, they also explained the epstein video very nicely.

@MetabolicFactor So wait... only leafy greens makes her happy? Everything else is meeehhhh?

@SeeRacists Oh look... it is possible to not shoot someone and de-escalate! Who knew...

This video is both heartbreaking and life-inspiring. A film crew tries to film the destruction caused by US/Israeli bombing at an apartment complex in Iran. One of the tenants, an old man whose apartment has been almost completely shattered, insists on inviting the film crew in and offering them something to eat. "We have only come to film, we don't want anything," the crew says. But the old man insists on at least offering them oranges and apples. Ultimately, those who come out victorious from conflicts are those who retain their dignity. Who never let war make them lose their humanity and self-respect. Who, even in the worst of situations, insist on upholding sacred traditions and beliefs, including that of hospitality. That's what makes a civilization indestructible. Please remember this video and do your best to forget the videos of the lost souls dancing and cheering on the streets when their countrymen, women, and children were being killed by "democracy and freedom" bombs.

This guy remodeled his whole house for his cats

@mehdirhasan So in order to open the straight which was open before and now Iran has closed we are going to close the straight... I reckonI don't understand this 12 dimensional chess playing thing...