However first . . .
For the reason that deal to reopen the federal government lasts solely till the tip of January, don’t we get to do that once more in just a few weeks if the Republicans proceed to refuse to fulfill their constituents’ healthcare wants?
Within the meantime, we’ve reopened the federal government, staving off large hardship and financial loss . . .
. . . and proven that we’re those who wish to feed poor children and seniors and veterans on meals stamps . . . we’re those who need folks to have inexpensive well being care . . . they’re those who battle this stuff, preferring tax cuts for billionaires and $40 billion for Argentina.
(Not that I’ve something in opposition to Argentina.)
In the event that they don’t come to their sense and relent, we simply resume the battle in January, once they’ll once more want our votes to maintain the federal government open, having proven that we actually did give them each alternative to do the precise factor.
No?
Apologies prematurely if I’m being dense. I used to be in laptop hell a lot of the day.
WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME
Should you commit crimes for Trump or can bribe him adequately, you get a pardon. Should you oppose him, you get indicted.
Choose Mark L. Wolf lays it out so fantastically:
Why I Am Leaving the Federal Bench
It’s to cry.
Felon Freed by Trump Is Sentenced Once more, This Time to 27 Months
And (as you’ll see when you have time to learn it) he’s hardly the one one.
The lack of knowledgeable, apolitical Justice Division strikes me as 10,000 occasions extra vital than (say) who makes use of what lavatory (does the federal authorities really want to become involved?) or Hunter Biden’s laptop computer (if there have been one thing of actual significance on it, wouldn’t the Trump regime have launched it by now?).
HURRICANE SEASON
Out of your wonderful fellow reader Bryan Norcross: no extra this yr; A.I. is now the very best predictor.
And now . . .
HUGE NEWS FOR YOUR BRAIN
Out of your wonderful fellow reader Jeff Zimman, Co-founder of BrainHQ father or mother Posit Science:
In case you missed it, I wished to share massive information from an NIH-funded examine that has gotten an outpouring of press throughout the globe due to its big implications for growing older and dementia.
A neuroimaging staff at McGill discovered 10 weeks of each day BrainHQ coaching drove important and substantial rejuvenation within the mind’s cholinergic system.
It’s the system that produces acetylcholine (the “concentrate” chemical) on the exact second it’s wanted.
We’ve identified for many years that this technique turns into more and more sluggish (downregulates) with regular growing older and plummets with pre-dementia and Alzheimer’s.
In truth, essentially the most prescribed class of medicine for Alzheimer’s – cholinesterase inhibitors similar to Aricept® – artificially flood the mind with acetylcholine to offer some transient aid, however don’t repair the underlying sluggishness in its manufacturing.
BrainHQ simply grew to become the first intervention of any type proven to upregulate acetylcholine manufacturing.
The upregulation from 10 weeks of BrainHQ coaching at half-hour per day was about equal to the quantity a median older grownup downregulates over a decade. And the acquire continued 3 months after the coaching ended.
The management group did attentionally demanding on-line video games (like solitaire and sweet crush) for an equal period of time and confirmed no enchancment.
As famous by the researchers, WHAT you do issues — simply staying mentally energetic just isn’t sufficient.
The examine supplies a bio-chemical clarification of how BrainHQ rewires the mind and why BrainHQ, uniquely, has gotten the outcomes seen throughout a whole lot of research. The implications for growing older, pre-dementia and Alzheimer’s are compelling, and a brand new NIH grant has been awarded to do an analogous examine in MCI (pre-dementia). Many different circumstances are related to deficiencies in mind chemical substances which BrainHQ can be designed to upregulate, suggesting a novel pathway for remedy.
I imagine historians will view this examine as pivotal within the growth of interventions to handle quite a few well being circumstances and likewise to assist us all with improved peak efficiency [e.g., Tom Brady].
This text was initially printed on November eleventh, 2025 on andrewtobias.com, syndicated with permission.