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Meltdowns mean a disconnected brain you can help wire
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Parents and caregivers who meet tantrums with logic alone get a brain-based reason to connect first and turn everyday upsets into integration practice.
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Priya Raman
This brain wiring angle fits what I noticed with my nephew when adults listened before lecturing.
Utility Rate Requests Face Pushback in Illinois, Michigan
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is urging regulators to cut Consumers Energy’s proposed $456 million annual electric rate increase by 53% and lower its requested return on equity, citing affordability concerns and rising disconnections. Consumers Energy says the increase would fund grid reliability improvements and help keep residential bills below the national average and neighboring states.
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Cuba Suffers Seventh Major Blackout This Year
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— Sep 18, 2026
On Sept. 18, 2026, Cuba's grid totally disconnected; UNE activated recovery. By dusk only 5% of Havana's ~862,000 customers had power; residents cited food, water and multi-day outages.
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Elena Vasquez
Cuba can't keep losing the entire system like this every few months. Recovery is too slow for daily life.
Nvidia CEO Calls AI Fears Distraction
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— Sep 24, 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has dismissed sweeping AI-doom predictions as unscientific and, at times, a way to stoke demand, while arguing that labs should be shut down if they cannot contain unsafe experiments and that existing rules should be enforced. Critics say his push for rapid AI development and limited new regulation reflects a disconnect from the technology’s effects, including potential harms to learning and jobs.
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Ukrainian Officials Say They Were Never Informed Of Trump’s ‘Energy Ceasefire’
Francis Kapper · 5 min · 1h
Dutch Teens With Divorced Parents Near One Quarter as Surnames Diverge
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— Sep 17, 2026
Therapists say divorce often stems from emotional disconnection and ongoing relationship strains, including repeated betrayals, not isolated incidents. Separate studies find that couples with different last names divorce more often and sooner, while a Dutch analysis shows about a quarter of 15-year-olds have divorced parents, highlighting wide-ranging factors shaping family stability.
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Sam Okafor
It's interesting how different last names correlate with quicker divorces in those studies. Maybe shared identity matters more than we think for staying together.
AP Top 25 College Football Teams
Ranking
College football fans argue endlessly over which programs deserve the top spots in the AP Poll based on wins, schedule strength, and legacy.
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Somyn Journal app swaps calorie counts for emotional reflections
Business
— Sep 19, 2026
Aurora Dawn Ventures has released Somyn Journal, a reflection-based app that replaces number-driven tracking with open-ended prompts about emotions and body sensations to help users gain context on personal habits around food, movement, and relationships. By focusing on how they feel rather than counts, users build a personal record that reveals patterns, such as energy from home cooking or physical tension from certain interactions, aimed at reducing anxiety and disconnection from the body.
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Elena Vasquez
This approach could help people notice how home-cooked meals boost their mood without obsessing over numbers.
Joe Scarborough Calls on Dems to Wake Up: ‘Radically Disconnected From the Rest of the Country’
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— Nov 6, 2024
Joe Scarborough believes Democrats are “radically disconnected” from the rest of the country. On Wednesday morning, the “Morning Joe” host declared Democrats are going to have to confront “some realities that they…
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MSNBC Co-Host Suggests Age Should Not Be an Issue for Biden
Opinion
— Feb 27, 2023
An MSNBC co-host is suggesting President Joe Biden’s age should not be an issue if he runs for reelection. A panel on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” focused on the “disconnect” between the “gratitude” Democrats have for Biden…
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‘We Are Not The Party Of Common Sense’: Democrat Julie Roginsky Rips Democratic Party’s Disconnect With Voters
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— Nov 8, 2024
Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky rebuked the Democratic Party on Thursday for failing to connect with voters. During an appearance on CNN, Roginsky said that the fault does not lie with prominent figures such as…
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The Conservative Desk
Trump’s energy ceasefire meets Russian silence and fresh strikes
Trump declared an immediate energy truce on Truth Social. Kyiv held its fire; Moscow struck again and would not confirm. American diesel prices and the taxpayer sit at the center.
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Hollywood Dysfunction, Evil Combatted by Powerful New Endeavor: ‘Our Goal Is to Shine a Light’
Reporting
— Oct 30, 2024
With so much chaos, furor, and dysfunction in culture, entertainment has unsurprisingly become more depraved and disconnected from morality. Yet, new production companies continue to emerge aimed at inspiring families…
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Power-Hungry Biden Declares Abortion Too Important to Leave to American Voters
Opinion
— May 4, 2022
Whenever Joe Biden is unleashed to speak in public, the odds are he will create some viral video content. Usually, the president produces some incoherent babbling or seems frighteningly disconnected. On Tuesday, he…
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Most Influential Women in World History
Yourlist
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From ancient queens who ruled empires to modern activists who changed laws, these women left indelible marks on politics, science, and culture. Vote for who you think shaped history most profoundly.
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Sasse Says Biden Has Been ‘Repeatedly Disconnected From Reality’ on Afghanistan
Reporting
— Aug 30, 2021
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) is accusing President Joe Biden of wanting “happy talk” on his administration’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. “What we need is a commander-in-chief that actually has a big plan and…
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Dem Rep Appears On Fox News To Say His Party Has ‘Fallen Out Of Touch’ With Americans
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— Feb 26, 2025
Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts appeared on Fox News Wednesday to acknowledge his party is currently disconnected from most Americans on key issues. CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten explained in…
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Pam Bondi Says Democrats ‘Detached From Reality’ On MS-13 And Don’t Care About One Crucial Element
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— Apr 15, 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi tore into Democrats on Fox News Monday for what she described as their complete disconnect from the real-world consequences of violent crime, particularly when it comes to MS-13 and other…
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Bloodsucking Disease-Carrying Winged Pests Swarm Los Angeles
Libby Bandelin · 3 min · 1h
Audiences Destroy ‘Fauci’ Doc, Give 2 Percent Approval Rating, Among Lowest in Rating Site’s History
Opinion
— Oct 12, 2021
The disconnect between how the mainstream media feels about Dr. Anthony Fauci and how America feels can be neatly summed up at movie aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. Disney just released a National Geographic-produced…
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Soccer vs American Football
Yourlist
— VS Battle
The world's game versus America's obsession — simplicity against spectacle.
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AOC Describes Daunte Wright’s Death as a ‘Repeated Outcome of an Indefensible System’
Reporting
— Apr 14, 2021
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) does not believe the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, a Black man, by a police officer was a “random, disconnected ‘accident.'” Instead, Ocasio-Cortez believes “it was the repeated…
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