Luigi Mangione Copycat Plot, El-Sayed’s Tweet War & the Science of Consciousness | TMI Ep 449

A Luigi Mangione-inspired assassination plot reaches sentencing, Abdul El-Sayed starts a political firestorm, estrogen may physically alter the brain’s memory center, and MIT scientists offer a trippy new theory about consciousness.On today's TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan...A Massachusetts transwoman arrived at the U.S. Capitol carrying a knife and homemade Molotov cocktails after allegedly drawing inspiration from Luigi Mangione. Her intended targets included some of Washington’s most powerful Republicans, but the bizarre plot did not unfold as planned. Now, her sentence is renewing questions about copycat violence and how courts punish an assassination attempt that never came close to succeeding.Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed spent his weekend fighting JD Vance and Donald Trump online. Then he brought Usha Vance and White House aide Natalie Harp into the exchange. The resulting backlash raises an awkward campaign question: When does an aggressive counterattack become a political gift to your opponent?Could perimenopausal brain fog have a physical signature? Researchers detected dramatic estrogen-linked changes inside the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for memory and learning. The findings involve viscosity, astrocytes and dendritic spines, but the possible real-world implications will sound familiar to millions of women.Finally, MIT neuroscientists say consciousness may emerge through electrical waves traveling across the cortex. Alpha, beta and gamma oscillations could be coordinating thought through analog computation, wave interference and ephaptic coupling. Yes, it is every bit as far out as it sounds.Join The TMI Show LIVE Mon-Fri at 10am ET.