Open Thread | How Walking Helps

Read this and thought it was fascinating.

Ihtesham Ali
@ihtesham2005
A Stanford psychologist spent 4 years proving that the simple act of walking generates 60% more creative ideas than sitting, and the experiment she designed to kill every alternative explanation is one of the most decisive findings in modern psychology.

Her name is Marily Oppezzo.

She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.

She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.

The result was almost too clean to publish.

81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves.

On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.

The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.

Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision.

She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.

Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.

The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.

This is the part of the study that hit hardest when I read it the first time.

She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it.

Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.

Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.

When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.

When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.

The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes.

The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.

You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.

The history of this is the part that should haunt anyone who still does meetings in chairs.

Charles Darwin built a gravel loop behind his house in Kent called the Sandwalk and walked it 3 times a day for the rest of his life. The theory of evolution was developed one lap at a time on that path.

Nietzsche walked up to 10 hours a day during the years he wrote his most important books and openly said the work was conceived on his feet.

Beethoven composed for the morning and walked for 5 hours every afternoon with a pencil in his pocket for when something landed.

Kahneman said the best thinking of his Nobel Prize-winning career happened on leisurely walks with Amos Tversky. Steve Jobs refused to take important conversations sitting down. He held them on foot.

Every one of them was using the system Oppezzo would not measure until 2014. They just did not know what to call it.

The question worth sitting with is the one almost nobody asks.

Every meeting you have ever attended sitting around a table was a meeting held at a fraction of the brain power that was actually available to the people in the room. Every brainstorm that got stuck inside a conference room. Every problem you tried to solve at a desk and gave up on. Every idea you could not quite get to.

The intervention is the easiest one in modern science. No supplement. No app. No subscription. No training program. Just a pair of legs and 15 minutes.

The Stanford lab proved it. The philosophers knew it. The neuroscience explains it.

And almost everyone reading this is still trying to think their way out of problems sitting completely still.
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43 Responses to Open Thread | How Walking Helps

  1. rikyrah says:

    NOW ADD COFFEE TO THE LIST…
    WATCH OUT…

    https://youtube.com/shorts/YJXikjbfYJw?si=9jkLEDT9UzkTUzUQ

  2. rikyrah says:

    Haley Stevens
    @HaleyforMI

    I am absolutely thrilled to have Gov @gretchenwhitmer’s endorsement for U.S. Senate. She is a champion for our state, she understands the stakes of this race and why it’s so important we elect the strongest Dem in this primary, and she gets stuff done for Michigan. Let’s go win!
    7:05 PM · Jul 24, 2026
    https://x.com/HaleyforMI/status/2080731052973191401

  3. rikyrah says:

    Not surprised
    Just disgusted and horrified

    Molly Jong-Fast
    @MollyJongFast

    “A first-of-its-kind analysis by ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021. The analysis also identified at least 120 in-hospital deaths of pregnant or postpartum women in 2022 and 2023 — an increase of dozens of deaths from a comparable period before the COVID-19 pandemic.”
    10:50 AM · Jul 24, 2026
    https://x.com/MollyJongFast/status/2080606474108092646

  4. rikyrah says:

    Democracy Docket
    @DemocracyDocket

    NEW: Republicans are using New Jersey’s non-citizen voter registration errors to fuel their voter suppression rhetoric. What they’re not saying: Texas admitted to the same clerical error months ago.

    Marc Elias explains why neither case is proof of the election conspiracy the GOP is selling👇
    youtube.com/watch?v=PDSmrn…
    https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2080679397997117746

  5. rikyrah says:

    HOW IS THIS LEGAL????

    g.
    @GeauxGabrielle

    22 states are seeing sober drivers arrested for DUIs EN MASSE. Tennessee is leading the charge with their officers bypassing people blowing zeros on field sobriety tests and them basically saying “well I smell alcohol” and locking people up anyway
    https://x.com/GeauxGabrielle/status/2080629707314172140

  6. rikyrah says:

    The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
    @Needle_of_Arya

    the irony that a tiny minority of socialists from out of national voting cohort that regularly gives 60-68% of its votes to Republicans nationally (and up in 90-95% in the South) has the fucking nerve to get on here and call Black folks “Republicans”

    bro, argue with your father
    12:34 PM · Jul 24, 2026
    https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2080632755352916004

  7. rikyrah says:

    Norm Eisen
    @NormEisen

    Don Jr.’s firm jumping from $200M to $3B in assets since Trump retook office isn’t a sudden burst of business acumen

    The American people deserve answers

    I explain on @MSNOWNews w/ @NicolleDWallace 👇
    https://x.com/NormEisen/status/2080445517339709569

  8. rikyrah says:

    Meghan posted pictures of the family to her instagram and the haters are pissed..
    LOL

    SK 💃🏾🕺
    @Rimmesfk

    They aren’t angry because Meghan finally posted the photos. Quite the opposite, they’ve been begging for them, refreshing instagram every hour of the day for weeks.

    They’re angry because the photos have blown a hole through weeks of false claims that Meghan & the children never came to the UK.

    The photo that’s pissed them off the most is one of Harry, Archie and Lilibet at Princess Diana’s childhood home, Althorp. Meghan behind the camera.😂

    The real sting is that Meghan denied the vultures the exclusive shots they were hoping for & counting on for their next quarter , then casually posted her own.

    A gentle reminder that if the public is going to see her children, it’ll be on her terms, through photos she takes and she chooses to share. Imagine spending weeks insisting something never happened, only for Meghan to upload the receipts herself😂😂😂😂

    They’re not angry because she posted.
    They’re angry because she controlled the narrative.

    The End😜
    https://x.com/Rimmesfk/status/2080539929667403832

  9. rikyrah says:

    Politics & Poll Tracker 📡
    @PollTracker2024

    CDC website updates its “Autism and Vaccines” page to say “the claim vaccines to do not autism is not an evidence-based claim.”

    Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
    @adamscochran

    Utterly fucking insane thing to say.

    More than 50 years of science show vaccines do not cause autism.

    In fact, we actually have a very strong understanding of the leading drivers of autism.

    None of which are post-natal.

    0 studies ever have linked vaccines to autism.
    https://x.com/adamscochran/status/2080436373710893110

  10. rikyrah says:

    Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep
    @RossKneeDeep

    Okay, a little something for your Ponderation. Elon Musk and DOGE cut 271,000 federal jobs. Then the federal spending increased by $248 billion dollars. Of that $248 billion, how much did Elon Musk’s companies receive in government contracts? $845 million.

    So, DOGE did absolutely nothing to lower federal spending. It only helped Musk put more money in his pockets and expose our personal information.

    After all, Musk did spend $270 million to get Trump elected.
    12:51 PM · Jul 24, 2026
    https://x.com/RossKneeDeep/status/2080636915997343995

  11. rikyrah says:

    AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY
    @AfricanArchives

    LETTER FROM FREDERICK DOUGLASS TO HARRIET TUBMAN

    Rochester, August 29, 1868

    Dear Harriet,

    I am glad to know that the story of your eventful life has been written by a kind lady, and that the same is soon to be published. You ask for what you do not need when you call upon me for a word of commendation. I need such words from you far more than you can need them from me, especially where your superior labors and devotion to the cause of the lately enslaved of our land are known as I know them.

    The difference between us is very marked. Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public, and I have received much encouragement at every step of the way. You, on the other hand, have labored in a private way. I have wrought in the day – you in the night. I have had the applause of the crowd and the satisfaction that comes of being approved by the multitude, while the most that you have done has been witnessed by a few trembling, scarred, and foot-sore bondmen and women, whom you have led out of the house of bondage, and whose heartfelt, “God bless you,” has been your only reward.

    The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism. Excepting John Brown – of sacred memory – I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have. Much that you have done would seem improbable to those who do not know you as I know you. It is to me a great pleasure and a great privilege to bear testimony for your character and your works, and to say to those to whom you may come, that I regard you in every way truthful and trustworthy.

    Your friend,
    Frederick Douglass.

    https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2080639161237750030

  12. rikyrah says:

    what kind of bullshyt is this?

    Aaron Rupar
    @atrupar
    Jul 23
    Linda McMahon on good uses of AI in schools for students: “They spend the first couple of hours with AI and then the rest of the day they are implementing things they have learned. It’s remarkable.”

    you are not lying

    thought daughter
    @hydratedheaux

    The private schools that the Elite will send their children to will not have this technology. They will learn from books, do worksheets, and write essays by hand. The one pathway that working class people had to lift themselves up is being destroyed.
    https://x.com/hydratedheaux/status/2080456567720145340

  13. rikyrah says:

    Al Gore
    @algore

    The fossil fuel industry is pushing legislation that would ban local governments from working to eliminate greenhouse gas pollution.

    Today at the ALEC annual meeting, a committee co-chaired by the American Gas Association will push state legislators to prohibit policies that pursue “science-based” and “100% clean energy” targets, among others.

    Florida has already passed similar legislation and now the fossil fuel industry is trying to replicate these laws across the country.

    As we feel the impacts of fires, floods, and heatwaves made worse by the climate crisis, we can’t let special interests hack our democracy. Be on the lookout for this legislation in your state and speak out against it where these policies are introduced.
    7:13 PM · Jul 23, 2026
    https://x.com/algore/status/2080370762691527119

  14. rikyrah says:

    looking for the lie

    Sophia A. Nelson
    @IAmSophiaNelson

    All of this hype about @AOC is just that. She is barely old enough to meet the constitutional age to be President (age 35). She’s dynamic. She’s smart. She’s “speaks millennial”! And she is one. All true. But if the country wouldn’t elect @HillaryClinton or @KamalaHarris who had the resumes, years of proper experience, right age, and global gravitas. Do not deceive yourself into thinking that this country in its current form elects a young Latina from NYC, who is unwed, and has no children yet; as President.
    1:25 PM · Jul 24, 2026
    https://x.com/IAmSophiaNelson/status/2080645424201773083

  15. rikyrah says:

    Ossoff’s Office
    Senate Democrats
    @SenOssoff

    NEW: After RFK Jr. failed to respond to his first inquiry, Sen. Ossoff is again pressing Sec. Kennedy on cuts to cyclosporiasis monitoring.

    “Your silence amidst an ongoing outbreak of diarrheal disease is indicative of the reckless arrogance with which you demolished America’s public health defense,” Sen. Ossoff wrote.
    https://x.com/SenOssoff/status/2080663014143856662

  16. rikyrah says:

    Christopher Webb
    @cwebbonline

    INTIMIDATION FAILED

    The FBI showed up at reporters’ homes. During dinner. Demanding they reveal confidential sources.

    Not because the story was false. Because it embarrassed Trump.

    Now the DOJ is backing down and withdrawing the subpoenas after getting hammered in court.
    https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2080439549361348867

  17. rikyrah says:

    VoteHub
    @VoteHub

    NEWS — The DNC Rules and Bylaws committee chooses South Carolina as the South’s state to go early in the 2028 primary calendar, over GA, NC, TN, and VA.
    3:48 PM · Jul 24, 2026
    https://x.com/VoteHub/status/2080681567614349359

    VoteHub
    @VoteHub
    1h

    Michigan has been selected over Iowa for the Midwest’s spot. The committee will now select the East’s state (NH or DE) and the West’s state (NV and NM). Up to two more may be chosen from any region. NM and VA are favored, per POLITICO; NV is expected to be the West’s state.

    VoteHub
    @VoteHub
    1h

    NH and NV have been selected as the East and West’s states, respectively.

  18. rikyrah says:

    Tabitha breaks down all that we can’t have.
    Who’d a thunk it….all those inspectors…those jobs and what they did…ACTUALLY MEAN SOMETHING TO OUR COLLECTIVE HEALTH.
    

    https://youtu.be/jYXCDZdupR0?si=z9IZad-uCHh3mBaa

  19. rikyrah says:

    Sen. Welch proposes bill to wipe out student loan interest
    By WCAX News Team
    Published: Jul. 23, 2026 at 12:01 PM EDT|Updated: 19 hours ago
    WASHINGTON (WCAX) – Vermont Sen. Peter Welch and Connecticut Rep. Joe Courtney are sponsoring a bill that will wipe out interest on federal student loans.

    The two Democrats on Thursday unveiled the Student Loan Interest Elimination Act, which would refinance the interest rate on all federal student loans for current and future borrowers down to zero percent.
    https://www.wcax.com/2026/07/23/sen-welch-proposes-bill-wipe-out-student-loan-interest/?outputType=amp

  20. rikyrah says:

    King Roy
    @RoyIsThaTruth

    Nolan’s mom filed to obtain his estate. she’s gonna sue on his behalf for “wrongful death” this will open “discovery” on all parties involved. she’s playing chess. she’s fighting in their language and she will get justice for her son.
    10:38 PM · Jul 23, 2026
    https://x.com/RoyIsThaTruth/status/2080422435585663134

  21. rikyrah says:

    They never want to give Biden credit for all he did.

    Magdi Jacobs
    @magi_jay

    Joe Biden cut child poverty in half and then passed the most expansive climate change legislation in history. I have no idea what you people are talking about.
    https://x.com/magi_jay/status/2080470863992754444

  22. rikyrah says:

    Magdi Jacobs
    @magi_jay

    “It’s Israel’s actions that caused antisemitism.” Wrong on many levels. But, to me, I was an American who was living in Paris when we waged illegal war on Iraq & blew up our relationship with the French. Was I ever attacked? No. There was awkwardness, at times, nothing more.

    To say the rise of hate against Jews is the fault of Israel is gaslighting. I know it because I was a gentile whose country waged illegal (not defensive) war. Nothing like this ever happened to Americans during Iraq or Afghanistan. When people say, “Jews get murdered because of Israel,” this is gaslighting.
    7:43 PM · Jul 23, 2026
    https://x.com/magi_jay/status/2080378277529575703

  23. rikyrah says:

    Mj✡︎
    @motivatedjoy
    20h
    Black Americans need to brace themselves because these leftists are coming for them. My god, the way they talk about Black people is so twisted.

  24. rikyrah says:

    Brennan Center
    @BrennanCenter

    Baseless mass challenges to hundreds or thousands of voters at a time are a growing problem — they threaten voters, swamp overburdened election officials with unnecessary work, and fuel mistrust in elections.
    https://x.com/BrennanCenter/status/2079974820221952172

  25. rikyrah says:

    The Shallow State
    @OurShallowState

    The fact that Todd Blanche has refused to comply with the court order to release the Epstein files following Katie Phang’s lawsuit, should have ended his bid to become AG, and be a more significant story.
    The fact that the Epstein Estate ACTUALLY PAID a settlement to one of the women who alleged that Donald Trump raped her as a minor, and it was paid AFTER Epstein died, as told under oath by Epstein’s longtime accountant, should be a more significant story.
    The fact that Trump said he wasn’t ever on Epstein’s plane and then we found out he was, should be a more significant story.
    The fact that senior officials gathered in the Situation Room to concoct and coordinate an Epstein coverup should be the most significant story of all.
    And when you combine ALL these stories and add to it his hiring of Alex Acosta, the birthday card, the innuendo Trump wrote on the card, the movement of Maxwell to a more lenient facility, and then – especially – his persistently panicked behavior on all things Epstein, it really should be the end of his presidency.
    10:16 PM · Jul 23, 2026
    https://x.com/OurShallowState/status/2080416893106872764

  26. rikyrah says:

    Warren Gunnels
    @GunnelsWarren

    Since 2020, Dollar General spent $7.76 billion on stock buybacks – enough money to give their workers a $40,000 bonus.

    Instead, it pays wages so low that 5,000 of their workers in 11 states need food stamps paid for by taxpayers.

    You are subsidizing Dollar General’s low wages.
    6:45 PM · Jul 23, 2026
    https://x.com/GunnelsWarren/status/2080363786649612651

  27. rikyrah says:

    TRUTH

    Biden/Obama/HRC/Harris Democrat
    @KTforBiden

    These Leftists/socialist BITCHES have been sabotaging @TheDemocrats for over a DECADE!
    They think we’re too stupid to call them out on their shit!
    Their SOCIALIST CULT REFUSED TO ENDORSE THE Dem nominee in the last 3 elections!
    But they think they can demand what we do!

    GFY!
    https://x.com/KTforBiden/status/2080360541600600144

  28. rikyrah says:

    they were BRIBES

    David Frum
    @davidfrum

    Trump recoils from discovery like a vampire from holy water. Drives home that the Trump settlements with CBS and ABC were surrenders by favor-seeking corporate owners. Fight and win.
    https://x.com/davidfrum/status/2080384974729916738

  29. rikyrah says:

    Alex Cole
    @acnewsitics

    The problem isn’t large data centers.

    It’s companies wanting to build them on the cheap, with no oversight, no worries about the environment, and no care for neighboring citizens.

    And with as much government financial assistance as possible.
    12:00 PM · Jul 24, 2026
    https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/2080624268187238730

  30. rikyrah says:

    Eric Michael Garcia
    @EricMGarcia
    Jul 22

    Rev. Al Sharpton slams the idea of moving the first-in-the-nation Democratic primary from South Carolina.

    ““You don’t forget who showed up for you when nobody else would… Black voters have shown up for the Democratic Party again and again.”
    https://x.com/KTforBiden/status/2080379725147422791

  31. rikyrah says:

    Marco Foster
    @MarcoFoster_

    Raphael Warnock: “There is no question that the Trump-Vance administration is a white supremacist regime that is trying to foist its dark and divisive vision of our country onto the American experiment”
    https://x.com/MarcoFoster_/status/2080426414478602593

  32. rikyrah says:

    LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻
    @LongTimeHistory

    ICE detain U.S. Navy veteran—literally drag him out of bed after open heart surgery.

    Born to U.S. citizen father—but ICE refuses to recognize birthright citizenship.

    Doctor prescribed cardiac monitoring 24/7 to survive.

    Must be moved to medical facility—or it’s death sentence.

    He has also been prescribed multiple medications for his cardiac condition, PTSD, and other service-connected health issues.

    But ICE has not provided these medications to him—according to his family.

    Arturo Quinonez Solis is a Gulf War-era Navy veteran who served from 1991 to 1999.

    ICE has notified him that he is now marked for expedited removal—and could be deported at any time.

    Without even investigating his birthright U.S. citizenship claim.

    Jenalyn Lazana, an advocate with Vets Against Mass Deportation, doesn’t have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
    https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2080617430603210854

  33. rikyrah says:

    Robert Reich
    @RBReich

    On his first day back in office, Trump rescinded Biden’s ethics pledge banning executive branch appointees from lobbying their former agencies for 2 years.

    Now multiple ex-Trump officials are lobbying their former offices on behalf of Big Oil, crypto, and private equity.

    “Drain the swamp.” readsludge.com/2026/07/23/for…
    https://x.com/RBReich/status/2080382788016947661

  34. rikyrah says:

    Simeon 🇺🇸
    @FTrilliams

    Dear Leftists: You can’t spend years telling Black voters our concerns are ‘divisive’ while catering to everyone else’s. Erasing Black Americans from the political conversation isn’t coalition-building—it’s political malpractice. It won’t end well.
    2:46 AM · Jul 24, 2026
    https://x.com/FTrilliams/status/2080484843184398515

  35. rikyrah says:

    CLINGING TO THE WHITENESS

    ✭ 🅑🅤🅑🅑🅐 ✭
    @BubbatheOG

    When you suggest these people are dumb, you’re missing the point entirely. They are not unintelligent. They have consciously chosen to abandon common sense, logical reasoning, and even their own economic interests in favor of preserving a system that prioritizes whiteness and perpetuates oppression for generations to come.
    2:17 AM · Jul 24, 2026
    https://x.com/BubbatheOG/status/2080477339419549739

  36. rikyrah says:

    Rep. Bennie G. Thompson
    House Democrats
    @BennieGThompson

    Tying state funding to graduation rates may sound fair, but it ignores the reality of HBCUs. HBCUs educate more first-generation, low-income, and nontraditional students, many of whom graduate on a different timeline.

    A funding formula shouldn’t punish schools for fulfilling their mission.
    https://x.com/BennieGThompson/status/2080323386627002592

  37. rikyrah says:

    Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep
    @RossKneeDeep

    Okay, lets answer the criticism of why Democrats (Biden) didn’t release the Epstein Files.

    The Epstein case was an open criminal investigation during the Biden administration that was being conducted by the DOJ and the FBI.

    Yet, Republicans can’t seem to wrap their brains around it being illegal to release them during this process.

    So, let’s ask, why haven’t the Republicans released them yet? It’s been 217 days.
    11:37 AM · Jul 24, 2026
    https://x.com/RossKneeDeep/status/2080618328985338055

  38. rikyrah says:

    Robert Reich
    @RBReich

    Trump’s nominee to run the CFPB, Brian Johnson, is a former Capitol One executive who previously consulted for payday lenders and credit reporting agencies

    Now he could lead the very agency meant to rein those predatory companies in.

    The fox is in the henhouse. levernews.com/trumps-consume…
    https://x.com/RBReich/status/2080393830411460665

  39. rikyrah says:

    Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep
    @RossKneeDeep

    When peope say to you, Trump isn’t a racist and tell you to prove that he’s a racist.

    Just remember that Trump said that, “Civil Rights lead to white people being very badly treated.”

    So, which white people were actually hurt or mistreated by giving people of color the crumbs that fall from their tables and allowing them to have the same freedoms and rights that they enjoy?

    The ones who felt like the were being treated very badly were the ones who hated to have blacks in their presence.
    Those who felt like they were being treated very badly were the ones who felt like blacks didn’t deserve the same things in life.

    So, when people say Trump isn’t a racist, remind them of his own words.

    Hate is a helluva drug.
    12:13 PM · Jul 24, 2026
    https://x.com/RossKneeDeep/status/2080627551345459602

  40. rikyrah says:

    Chris Cadence
    @ChrisCadence

    Throwing quotes from 1970s and 1960s on why Black Americans and Palestine go hand in hand don’t move me. White people wasn’t leading the movement back then. Guess who is now? And guess who I don’t trust? Words in the 60s and 70s don’t hold the same weight when there’s new information tied to it.
    12:04 PM · Jul 24, 2026
    https://x.com/ChrisCadence/status/2080625135627988994

    Anny Cáceres
    @treat_anny
    1h

    They also conveniently never mention MLK’s allyship with the Jewish American community
    https://x.com/treat_anny/status/2080634714709233952

  41. rikyrah says:

    Mike Young
    @micyoung75

    The White House released a report on July Fourth, the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of American independence, accusing the director of the National Museum of American History of running a radical activist operation that can’t be trusted. Today she sat in front of a House subcommittee and answered it plainly. We fact checked it. It does not fairly or accurately characterize the full body of our work.

    Anthea Hartig is the first woman to direct this museum in its history. What she actually described under oath sounds nothing like radicalism. When historians talk about reframing a traditional narrative, she said, we don’t mean erasing it. We mean adding the evidence, the voices, the objects that earlier tellings left out, so more Americans can see themselves reflected in the national story. That’s not activism. That’s the actual job description of a historian, the same job description this museum has had since it opened.

    The hearing itself came with a title that gave away the conclusion before a single witness spoke. Radical Revisionism at the National Museum of American History. Not oversight. Not questions. A verdict, printed on the invitation, for a hearing about an institution whose director just told Congress it doesn’t take sides in political debates.

    There’s a version of this fight that’s honest, about which objects get displayed, which stories get more wall space, whether an exhibit strikes the right balance. That’s a real conversation curators have internally all the time. What happened today wasn’t that conversation. It was a government trying to dictate the correct version of its own history to the institution built to preserve it, timed to land during the anniversary celebration meant to bring the country together, not split it further over who gets remembered.
    https://x.com/micyoung75/status/2080443091421687929

  42. drspittle4dbb2d2cd4 says:

    Good morning! Great article. Thank you for sharing. I do a “Walk At Home” video on You Tube 6 days a week (in addition to Tai Chi videos) so I will start paying more attention to what’s going on in my head!

  43. rikyrah says:

    Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊

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