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Mark Converse retweeted
New York State employee, on the clock, next to a DOT truck — removing a campaign sign from private property.
Not a safety hazard. Not a right-of-way obstruction. Private property.
This is how Albany treats political speech it doesn’t like.
If they can take one sign today, they can take more tomorrow.
New Yorkers are paying attention. 🇺🇸
Photo credit
@kevin_smith45 And original poster.
Mark Converse retweeted
Mr President! Help us Save New Jersey! Please endorse @JerseyJustinUSA Justin Murphy! We need this kind of representation in New Jersey and in the United States! Help us Help Justin Save New Jersey!
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NJ Sen Candidate @JerseyJustinUSA response on Illegal immigration
Our people have been killed, 6 year old kid that was raped, and crimes committed on us because illegals were protected from sanctuary state nonsense, that needs to end!
Mark Converse retweeted
This dude speaks from the heart and off the cuff. Not any prepared remarks. You go @JerseyJustinUSA
Why is @JerseyJustinUSA going to be our next US Senator? BECAUSE HE SAYS THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD. Despite the left & media's attempt to make us believe we can't win, We can That is what they are all afraid. Without cheating people like @CoryBooker & @GovSherrillNJ lose. #America
Mark Converse retweeted
It's frustrating when you keep trying to make changes in your life only to wind up exactly like you were before. You may start to think that, "This is just how I am."
If that sounds like you, I've got good news:
Your brain changes every day based on what you rehearse. The science is on your side, and your creator has something to say about it too.
1 John 3:2 and 2 Corinthians 3:18 (NIV) say you're still becoming.
Neuroplasticity shows how that can happen in the brain. Neuroscience has a elucidated the mechanism, and it's been built into your design all along. You've never been stuck, your brain has just been waiting for you to tell it who's boss.
Save this for the next time you feel stuck, share it with a friend who needs to know it as well.
Follow me, and together we will build better brains every single day by smashing neuroscience, and faith together.
Click the link in my bio to learn more.
#SelfBrainSurgery #Neuroplasticity #FaithAndScience #BrainHealth
Mark Converse retweeted
Without question one of the best 5 GOP candidates for any office this year. Brilliant, and took on a tough assignment.
Mark Converse retweeted
I love Vance, I really do. But if he were POTUS and Vance VP again, I'd be okay with that. The best Secretary of State in my lifetime and it's not even close.
Mark Converse retweeted
I've watched it happen a thousand times. A patient walks into pre-op terrified. Then they start humming a worship song, reciting a scripture, or someone prays with them—and their heart rate comes down, their blood pressure improves, and they go into surgery in a completely different state of mind.
I didn't expect it the first time I saw it. Now I look for it.
Worship isn't just what you feel. It's where you put your attention. Fear narrows your brain's filter onto the threat in the room until it's all you can see. Worship takes that same intensity and aims it at something truer and bigger than what you're afraid of—and it brings memory with it. Words you already know. Promises you've sung before. You're not inventing courage out of thin air. You're rehearsing a different center of gravity.
You can't stare at the monitor and the Maker with the same intensity at the same time. One of them is going to get your energy. Worship is a decision about which one it's going to be.
"I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise will continually be on my mouth." (Psalm 34:1) Not when you feel like it. At all times—including the holding area.
Worshiping in your hardest moments isn't denial. It's self-brain surgery. When the fear spikes, don't wait for the feeling to change first. Put truth in your mouth—a verse, a song, a prayer, and say it until your attention has a better place to stand.
Click the link in my bio to dive deeper into this topic and learn more about self-brain surgery!
*FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. NOT MEDICAL ADVICE.
Mark Converse retweeted
Europe lacked the military capability to destroy Iran’s nuclear capacity, making the US operation “absolutely essential,” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told Euronews on Wednesday.
Rutte acknowledged that the war has produced “negative consequences” but said those costs had to be weighed against the need to eliminate Iran’s nuclear capability. He added that Europe should develop the capacity to conduct similar operations itself in the future.
Mark Converse retweeted
Some of us had more confidence in @POTUS @realDonaldTrump, @centcomcdr @CENTCOM and the remarkable men and women of the U.S. military — and predicted months ago that they would take the Strait away from the regime in Iran.
Mark Converse retweeted
Most people don’t realize the significance of this moment.
This isn’t just “more satellites.”
For years Starlink has been good enough to get you online in the middle of nowhere.
Today is the start of it becoming fast enough, cheap enough, and big enough to actually replace the old internet in a lot of places.
These new V3 satellites can each push about 1 Tbps down and 160 Gbps up — roughly 10× the download and 22× the upload of the ones already flying.
This single launch dropped 26 of them, adding about 26 Tbps of capacity in one shot, around 10× what a typical Falcon 9 Starlink mission adds.
That’s the jump: from “good satellite internet” to enough bandwidth for millions more people, faster speeds, and lower lag.
It also means Starship is no longer just a test rocket. It’s now the truck that can build the internet from space at scale.
That’s why this matters: not a cool launch photo. The moment space internet stops being a backup and starts becoming the real thing.
Mark Converse retweeted
"You can cry all right, but you can't quit."
In his final interview, 99-year-old Charlie Munger spoke about losses that cannot be undone. His nine-year-old son, Teddy, had died of leukemia.
"I cried all the time when my first child died."
Munger said you cannot bring back the dead or fix every tragedy. If you have to walk through the streets crying for hours, you can keep going that way.
He called it "soldiering through." His words offer reassurance when you're struggling: crying doesn't mean you've given up.
Decades later, he described the pleasure it had given him to watch doctors learn to save children with leukemia. He couldn't bring Teddy back, but he could feel joy for families who now had a chance.
His words are in the two-minute clip below.
Mark Converse retweeted
More than 6,000 prominent academics, legal experts, and historians, including war scholar John Spencer, signed an open letter stating that Israel did not commit genocide in Gaza.
There was never any genocide in Gaza.
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Mark Converse retweeted
Your brain doesn’t know what time it is. Every time you replay that conversation from last year, that mistake from last month, that moment you wish you could take back from yesterday, your brain treats it like it’s happening right now. Same stress chemicals. Same alarm bells. You’re not remembering it. You’re reliving it, on a loop you built yourself.
That's because of two things: your brain doesn't know the difference between what's really happening and what you're just imagining, and neuroplasticity means that your brain automates things that you think about and turns them into programs that it runs without you having to think about them next time.
So, the more you rehearse something from the past or something you're just imagining, the more your brain builds out a reality as if that thing is still here right now.
The ninth Commandment of self brain surgery is, "I must believe that what I'm doing I'm getting better at." That means if you're doing things with your mind that are making your brain better at living in the past or worrying about imaginary outcomes, you're getting better at feeling worse. So knock it off.
Here’s the shift: you can’t edit the past, but you can stop rehearsing it. Every replay is a rehearsal, and your brain gets better at whatever you rehearse. Let's make neuroplasticity work for us and not against us.
We call that self-brain surgery. It's not easy at first, it's hard and holy work. But remember, you get better at whatever you repeatedly do
Philippians 3:13 says it like this: forget what lies behind and strain towards what lies ahead. Not denying it happened, but refusing to keep performing it. There's better stuff in the future, but not if you keep building a brain that lives in the past.
Follow me to connect neuroscience and scripture every day. Save this for the next time your mind hits replay. Share it with someone stuck on a loop.
Click the link in my bio to learn more about Self-Brain Surgery.
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Mark Converse retweeted
“A year ago, none of this existed. We didn’t have the conflict resolved. The Board of Peace didn’t exist. Nobody knew what the International Stabilization Force was because it didn’t exist. And there was no National Committee for Gaza because it didn’t exist.
What you have seen is almost like the building of a really big start-up. The effort that has been put into this by all these great partners, who are doing this out of the goodness of their hearts and their passion to see peace and real progress, they could have built a massive company with the sophistication and effort that has gone into this.
But I think we are building something way more important than a company. We are building something that is a platform to enable the Palestinian people in Gaza to finally focus on improving their livelihoods and improving their lives, and for those who want to live in peace to give them a chance to do so.
Hopefully this will show the Israelis that there is hope for peace and coexistence. But we realized on our first day doing this that the concept of trust did not exist. So this now is based on incentives and concrete steps, so that everyone knows what is expected of them and how we get there.”
