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suzanne hansen retweeted
Trump Day 643: Trump threatens Ukraine with 200% tariff; says: ‘I don’t give a damn about high gas prices, we’re making a freaking fortune’, late postal votes from 1% to 8% in some counties, 60th ICE death, 18 polling stations Alaska remain closed: reportersonline.eu/trump-day…
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99% of the internet doesn’t live in the cloud. It lives at the bottom of the ocean. 🌊📉
One dropped anchor or natural disaster can literally take a country offline. I wanted to visualize this, so I built a simulator.
Click a cable. See the impact. It’s that simple.Try it here:
cable.wael.bot/
suzanne hansen retweeted
Check dit: Deze tweep heeft ALLE onderzeese internetkabels wereldwijd in kaart gebracht. Klik op een kabel en je ziet hoeveel mensen hun internetverbinding kunnen verliezen als die kabel wordt beschadigd of vernietigd. Erg interessant (en enigszins beangstigend).
99% of the internet doesn’t live in the cloud. It lives at the bottom of the ocean. 🌊📉
One dropped anchor or natural disaster can literally take a country offline. I wanted to visualize this, so I built a simulator.
Click a cable. See the impact. It’s that simple.Try it here:
cable.wael.bot/
suzanne hansen retweeted
In Matmata, Tunisia, people have lived in underground homes for hundreds of years, with rooms carved into deep pits and connected by tunnels.
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The first woman in the history of the National Guard to receive Ukraine’s highest honor.
“Surrender!”
The russians were shouting her callsign outside a destroyed dugout near Spirne.
Inside, Oleksandra Davydenko was concussed and suffering from chemical gas exposure. Two wounded comrades lay beside her. She refused to surrender.
For two days, they remained beneath the rubble with little water and no communication.
During the night of March 13–14, she and a comrade dug out the entrance. Two russian soldiers opened fire as she emerged. She killed both, contacted headquarters, and led her wounded comrades to a Ukrainian position.
Both survived.
Before joining the National Guard, Oleksandra was a radio journalist in Zaporizhzhia. In March 2026, she became the first woman in the Guard to receive the title Hero of Ukraine.
When explaining her actions, she said: “I was the one who led them into that position, and I had to be the one to bring them out.”
Read the full story on my Substack and subscribe: romansheremeta.substack.com/…
suzanne hansen retweeted
Scientists have identified a reversal of the long-standing Flynn effect—the roughly 200-year trend of rising average intelligence (measured via IQ and cognitive tests) across generations.
For the first time in modern recorded history, Generation Z (born roughly 1997–2012) shows lower performance than previous generations in key cognitive domains, including attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function, problem-solving, and general IQ—despite spending more years in formal education than ever before.
Neuroscientist and educator Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, PhD, MEd, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on January 15, 2026, highlighting this shift. In his written testimony, he stated that cognitive development in children across much of the developed world has stalled or reversed over the past two decades, with declines evident in international assessments (e.g., PISA, TIMSS) and other large-scale data starting around the mid-2000s and accelerating post-2010.
Horvath attributes the primary driver not to reduced schooling, but to the widespread integration of digital screens and educational technology (EdTech) in classrooms. He argues that human brains evolved for deep, focused learning through face-to-face interaction and sustained attention, not fragmented skimming or constant task-switching encouraged by devices.
Key points from his testimony include:
- Teens now spend over half their waking hours on screens, with significant portions in school involving computers or tablets—often leading to off-task behavior and shallower processing.
- Evidence from meta-analyses and national/international studies shows a consistent pattern: higher classroom screen exposure correlates with weaker outcomes in reading, math, science, and higher-order reasoning.
- Digital tools may aid narrow, repetitive skill practice in controlled settings, but in core academic contexts, they tend to reduce depth of understanding, retention, and critical thinking.
Horvath describes this as a "structural mismatch" between human cognition and how digital platforms are designed (to capture and fragment attention), warning that unchecked EdTech adoption risks long-term harm to workforce skills, innovation, and societal reasoning.
[Horvath, J. C. (2026). Written testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. U.S. Senate]
suzanne hansen retweeted
The Nazi guards never heard the baby crying inside her toolbox. If they had, 2,500 children would have died.
In 1942, a 32-year-old Polish social worker named Irena Sendler walked into the Warsaw Ghetto carrying a simple toolbox. She had a permit to check for typhus outbreaks. The guards waved her through. Hidden beneath the wrenches and rags was a six-month-old baby. She walked past armed soldiers and handed the child to a Polish family waiting outside the walls. The next morning she walked back in and did it again.
For three years Irena smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. She hid infants in toolboxes, sedated children and smuggled them in coffins, concealed them in ambulances under stretchers, and used sewer pipes. Every child received a new Polish name. Irena recorded everything—real names, new names, locations—on tissue paper sealed in glass jars and buried in a friend’s garden.
By October 1943 the Gestapo caught her. They tortured her, broke both her legs and both her feet, and beat her unconscious. She gave them nothing. After months they sentenced her to death. The night before her execution, the underground bribed a guard. He led her out and recorded her as “executed.”
She went immediately back to work and continued until the war ended. When the war ended she dug up the jars and spent months trying to reunite children with families. Most parents had died in the camps.
For decades almost no one knew about her. Then in 1999 four teenage girls in Kansas found a brief mention of a woman who had saved 2,500 children. They researched and wrote a play. At age 89 Irena Sendler became famous. She was honored by Pope John Paul II and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She died in 2008 at age 98.
One estimate suggests those 2,500 rescued children produced approximately 6,000 descendants. She was a social worker with a permit and a toolbox. She walked into hell every day for three years and walked out carrying children. The Nazis broke her legs. They couldn’t break her will.
suzanne hansen retweeted
Dan is het nu ook duidelijk dat Musk de snelheid van Starlink op commando van Trump verlaagd heeft.
suzanne hansen retweeted
Trump dag 641: Musk herstelt Starlink snelheid na telefoontje Trump, Justitieminister ziet scenario’s waarbij ministerie ingrijpt in verkiezingsuitslag, ICE wil licht voor gedetineerden toch 24/7 aan, Trump moet onder ede verklaren in BBC-zaak: reportersonline.nl/trump-dag…
Yes, more news of this kind ~>@FLOTUS fixing a creasefire whitehouse.gov/briefings-sta…
News of the week! @FLOTUS Melanie as a peace ambassador aiming to end the war in Ukraine ?! nos.nl/l/2636351
suzanne hansen retweeted
- Musk dreigt Democraten persoonlijk aan te pakken als zij na de midterms onderzoek doen naar zijn bedrijven en politieke invloed. Hij zegt de mensen achter de onderzoeken op te sporen en ook hen aan te pakken.
Trump dag 640: Witkoff noemt Poetin ‘humanitair’, Trump prijst man die demonstrant slaat, gewapende agenten vragen of mensen gestemd hebben, immigratiedienst mag wapen met hittestraal inzetten bij grens, stemmachines wijzigen keuze naar Republikein: reportersonline.nl/trump-dag…
suzanne hansen retweeted
And you don’t want to interview the political prisoners — the people Zelensky and his raider friends robbed?
You don’t want to ask how things are going for Zelensky’s friends and business partners who are now suspected of corruption worth billions of dollars?
You don’t want to ask why none of Zelensky’s relatives or friends have been mobilized to the front, and why he is sending ordinary Ukrainians to their deaths against their will?
You don’t want to ask him why he imposed sanctions on all his opponents who pose a threat to him in elections?
You don’t want to ask why, during the war, he and his friends built enormous palaces near Kyiv? And there are already investigations by law enforcement into this.
You don’t want to ask why he refused to stop the war in 2022?
You don’t want to ask him why he won’t resign voluntarily if he isn’t clinging to power thanks to the endless war that he himself doesn’t want to stop? Of course, at the same time he keeps telling fairy tales that only Putin doesn’t want peace.
But if the war ends, Zelensky will lose his immunity from law enforcement investigations. If he ends the war, he will lose power, whereas Putin will not lose power merely because the war ends.
You don’t want to interview not an actor — a professional actor who is playing his role here in front of you — whom you are helping?
You are helping a dictator, helping a criminal who will ultimately end up in prison once he loses power.
Tell me, aren’t you ashamed to do this?
Aren’t you ashamed to pretend that Zelensky is not a dictator, when on his orders people have already been sitting in prison for years for their political views and criticism?
suzanne hansen retweeted
Watch the full conversation here:
link.thediaryofaceo.com/DZNW…
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What do you say to your family when you don’t know if you’ll ever see them again?
In February 2022, he told his wife and children the war had begun. Then he left as Russian forces advanced towards Kyiv, unsure what the coming hours would bring.
This is President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Before politics, he built a successful career in Ukrainian television as a writer, producer and performer, even portraying a president on screen. In 2019, he was elected President of Ukraine. Three years later, Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
Sitting down with him was surreal and an enormous responsibility. It was a rare chance to hear his account of the first hours of the war and the decisions that followed.
We discussed things like:
How he found out Russia had invaded.
Why he refused an offer to evacuate Kyiv.
The 64km Russian military convoy advancing towards the capital.
How Russian forces tried to capture a key airport.
His account of discovering hundreds of bodies after Russian occupation.
What he believes it will take to end the war.
But I also wanted to understand how he’d been coping.
One of my first questions was simply, “How are you doing?” His answer was: “It’s hard.”
He spoke about meeting parents whose children had been killed. Some, he explained, simply ask him for a hug.
And as he spoke, there were tears in his eyes.
Whatever your views on the war or the decisions made by those involved, this is a rare opportunity to hear his account of events that have changed millions of lives.
Because behind every map, every headline and every political decision, there are real people.
Out now on all platforms ❤️👊🏾
(President Zelenskyy was recorded in Ukrainian and dubbed in English.)
suzanne hansen retweeted
On December 3, 1921, thirteen-year-old Maria Santos, eight months pregnant, stood in the Western Union Telegraph office in Boston, dictating an urgent message to sixty-year-old telegraph operator Mrs. Helen Walsh — “Urgent: 13-year-old girl eight months pregnant sold by father to 42-year-old man stop needs immediate help stop Boston Western Union stop” — and Mrs. Walsh realized what she was hearing, so in a split second she made the decision to send the wire not to just one person but to every major newspaper, police station, court, and women’s organization in Massachusetts — forty-seven wires in total, all sent within twenty minutes — and within two hours, three newspaper reporters, two police detectives, a court clerk, and five women’s rights activists arrived at the telegraph office where Maria was still sitting, and Mrs. Walsh told them all, “This child came here in desperation. I sent her story everywhere because one person might ignore her but forty-seven cannot” — and by evening, Maria’s story was on the front page of six newspapers, and the police arrested her “husband” Carlos Santos at his workplace, and her father was in custody — and the telegraph operator’s decision to broadcast one desperate message to forty-seven recipients created such immediate public pressure that Carlos was denied bail, the case was fast-tracked to trial, and he was convicted in nine days — and Mrs. Walsh received commendations from multiple organizations for her “creative use of emergency communications to protect a child.”
Maria lived until 2004, dying at the age of ninety-one. Before her death, she reflected: “I walked into a telegraph office at thirteen, eight months pregnant, and dictated one desperate message. The operator sent it to forty-seven places — newspapers, police, courts, women’s groups. Within two hours, people were arriving to help me. By evening, my story was in six newspapers and my husband had been arrested. One telegraph operator decided that one message to forty-seven people was better than one message to one person. That decision saved me. The telegraph wires carried my cry for help across an entire state in twenty minutes.”
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