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Thursday, May 21, 2026

You may have seen people on TikTok or Instagram talk about a sleep hack called "sun gating." It's a simple concept:

Go outside soon after you wake up and let the morning sunlight hit your eyes, without looking directly at the sun.

While the name may be new, the science behind it isn't. Health experts have studied how morning sunlight exposure affects your body for years.

It turns out that getting bright, natural light early in the day can help reset your internal clock (called your circadian rhythm) which plays an important role in how well you sleep and how you feel during the day.


Research reveals that white people appear to support social safety net programs unless they perceive those programs as also helping nonwhites ... "This effect only appears when people compare their political standing directly to that of racial minorities ...

... in many developed nations, high levels of income inequality usually lead to increased public demand for these programs ...

the U.S. is different in this regard ... University of Delaware scientists Sumeyye Mine Iltekin Gocer and Joanne M. Miller learned ... that hostility to safety net programs appears to be ...

primarily with White people " even those in poverty " because they fear the programs give nonwhites a boost.


Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Far-right podcaster Tucker Carlson came under fire after appearing on prime-time Israeli television and accusing both Israel and the US of betraying democracy, calling Israel "probably the most violent country in the world" and saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had dragged President Donald Trump into the war with Iran.

In an interview with Channel 13 anchor and senior political analyst Udi Segal aired on Tuesday night, Carlson also repeated his claim that Israel's actions in Gaza amounted to "genocide," while saying the wording mattered less than what he described as the killing of civilians.

The country had "definitely lost its morality," he said.


President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed a new effort to reach a deal with Iran in a difficult call on Tuesday, three sources said, with one source saying Netanyahu's "hair was on fire" after the call.

Why it matters:

A revised peace memo was drafted by Qatar and Pakistan with input from the other regional mediators to try to bridge the gaps between the U.S. and Iran, the sources said.

It comes with Trump vacillating over ordering a massive strike on Iran and holding out for a deal.


DHS made social media posts out of a protester's arrest at gunpoint. Christian Cerna speaks out about the lengthy prosecution that derailed his life read more


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Using Light for Health

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"Andrew David Huberman is a Stanford University neuroscientist and tenured professor who studies the brain and its functions. His work focuses on brain development, plasticity, and neural regeneration and repair."

"Or to use the less technical version, we can not have nice things (h/t Digby).

1/3rd of our fellow Americans would rather be poor and homeless because they would be force to share with Persons of Color.

As Chris Hayes argued on his program All In, T*ump's base, approximately 37% of the voting population, is effectively "holding the rest of the country hostage".

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LBJ's Warning on White Resentment Still Haunts America

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"We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs.

Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs.

"I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he said.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Billy Moyers quoting LBJ

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So, bottom line, Corporatists have for decades built upon this racial prejudice to finally obtain a Voter Base that they could control with fears of minorities, immigrants, an anyone else they can give said Base an opportunity to look down on, such as women or Democrats or trans or gay or women who have abortions.

Divide and Conquer is alive and well in Project25 Trump's 'Murica.

"Carlson said he believed both the US and Israel were failing their own citizens.

"I would like a democracy in the United States like I'd like one in Israel.

Israel is not a democracy; the United States apparently is not a democracy either. Our government keeps doing things that people don't want, so that's not democracy; it's the opposite of democracy."

"Of course, Israel is not a democracy in any sense. There are millions of people who live under Israeli control who cannot vote," he told Segal.

"These places which Israel has controlled since 1967 have people living in them who have no control over the government that controls their lives, which is true, it's not a democracy."

Israel "is probably the most violent country in the world," he said.

When Segal said Israel was acting in self-defense, Carlson responded that "no country has boasted more about killing its political opponents than Israel."

"Israel makes a public relations campaign out of boasting about killing its opponents."

Carlson also accused Trump of yielding to Netanyahu over Iran.

"Why did Trump let a nation of 9 million people drag a nation of 350 million people into a war that would change its future, and that is bad for the United States?"

"It's wrong that I'm paying for Israel's actions," he said. "There's no reason the United States should be sending any money at all to Israel and particularly not to its military."

The Israeli prime minister pushed the US president, he said, "who turned out to be far weaker than I understood, into a war that hurts the United States."

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Mother Tucker, Ex-Cult Member!

I'm SO happy for him!

Perhaps there's hope for our Resident Cultists, too... ok, who am I kidding?

"Netanyahu is highly skeptical about the negotiations and wants to resume the war to further degrade Iran's military capabilities and weaken the regime by destroying its critical infrastructure.

Trump also said Netanyahu "will do whatever I want him to do" on Iran, though he also said they had a good relationship. The two leaders have had temporary disagreements on Iran before but have remained closely coordinated throughout the war."

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"Trump told Netanyahu that the mediators were working on a "letter of intent" that both the U.S. and Iran would sign to formally end the war and launch a 30-day period of negotiations on issues like Iran's nuclear program and opening of the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. source briefed on the call said.

Two Israeli sources said the two leaders were in disagreement about the way forward, while the U.S. source briefed on the call said "Bibi's hair was on fire after the call."

The source said Israel's ambassador to Washington had informed U.S. lawmakers that Netanyahu was concerned about the call. An embassy spokesperson denied that characterization and said "the ambassador does not comment on private conversations."

Two sources noted that Netanyahu has been highly worried at previous stages of the negotiations, even as deals failed to materialize.

"Bibi is always concerned," one source said."

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We're going to end up with Trump's Excellent Adventure costing lives and taxpayer money for nothing other than a worse situation than before he tore up the last Agreement.

Iran remarked early on that getting Ownership of the Straits was more important to them than nukes. And they are now headed towards getting both.

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