@nycpa What do you plan on doing to convince black students to knuckle down and study hard enough and long enough to earn entry.
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Charles Padie Lamb
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Our city has some of the most segregated schools in the U.S. Sticking with the status quo won't change that.
Just 3 Black students admitted to Stuyvesant. Only 140 received an offer to any specialized school.
Reforms to create greater access are overdue.
Gothamist@Gothamist
Just 3 Black students admitted to NYC's elite Stuyvesant High School, data shows gothamist.com/news/just-3-bl…
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A man was renovating his home in 1963 in Turkey. He kept losing chickens. They would disappear into a crack in his basement wall.
Curious, he opened the wall. What he found was astonishing: an entire underground city.
It was called Derinkuyu. It had 18 levels and went about 85 meters deep. There were tunnels, rooms, and even stables. The space was large enough to shelter around 20,000 people, along with their animals and food.
Historians believe it was used as a hiding place during times of war. People could live underground for months at a time.
All because some chickens went missing. A discovery that changed history.
You never know what lies beneath
Always keep digging right?
And watch for the obvious even if it’s chickens disappearing!
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@HomeSecConsult @Tomprivate57487 @COSProject @MarkMeckler @JeremyDBoreing You haven't offended me. You have offended the flag. You certainly have the right to show your contempt for the USA and the men who have died to keep the flag flying free the Constitution guarantees that right.
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@CharlesPLamb @Tomprivate57487 @COSProject @MarkMeckler @JeremyDBoreing Oh Im sorry. Did I offend you? Trigger you today?
Much better than burning it like the fucking socialist Democrats or Islamist in America do today. Ill wear whatever the fuck I want, when the fuck ever I want.
Have a nice day😃
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Yesterday @MarkMeckler discussed on the @JeremyDBoreing Show why he advocates for Convention of States. Learn more about reforming the institution and saving the Republic at conventionofstates.com
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@Aniru2300 @the_transit_guy Common speed rail helped immensely in the beginning. Railroads made a lot of dough by developing and selling real estate along their routes. Towns competed with each other for a railroad to run through then.
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@the_transit_guy Yup. High speed rail can spur growth in places we never thought was possible. It shatters distances, and cities and towns that were too far away to be daily commute suburbs can now be.
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As a country, we have accepted that our major economic hubs cannot grow beyond what our roads and highways can handle.
Graham Stephan@GrahamStephan
Left Los Angeles in 2020. So glad to be out of this gridlocked mess at 3:30pm on a Thursday.
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@BoniBuckeye @johnsalwan46394 @the_transit_guy Nope. Cars couldn't easily go much of anywhere easily until decent roads were built. Automobile manufacturers, the petroleum industry, and tire manufacturers lobbied heavily to have them built at someone else's expense so they could sell their products.
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@johnsalwan46394 @the_transit_guy Fuck yeah we did. The mass market revolutionary invention, enabling anyone to basically go anywhere at anytime, built EVERYTHING we know and love. Thank God.
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@HomeSecConsult @Tomprivate57487 @COSProject @MarkMeckler @JeremyDBoreing Do not disrespect the American flag by using it as a shirt.
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@RezaC1 The first thing to be done is determine why this happens. It can't be addressed without knowing why.
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Perhaps someone in NYC government should address the disparity already apparent at grades 3-8.
Here are the City Council Members who serve on the Education committee:
Eric Dinowitz (Chair)
Gale A. Brewer
Carmen De La Rosa
Amanda Farías
Linda Lee
Shekar Krishnan
Lynn Schulman
Phil Wong
Jennifer Gutiérrez
Rita Joseph
Susan Zhuang
Farah N. Louis
Mercedes Narcisse
Lincoln Restler@LincolnRestler
1 in 5 NYC public school students are Black, but at Stuy - our most prestigious high school - 3 of ~800 incoming Freshmen are Black. We urgently need state legislation to modify the admissions process. A single test should never be only factor deciding who gets in & who doesn’t.
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@JeffyIsFat They don’t use the original cannons
They have a few breech loaders back aft to fire small ceremonial rounds only
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Below deck with the ceremonial naval gunner crew of the USS Constitution 💥
BOOM
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@XnewsOutlet @Brick_Suit They're much less fuel efficient, harder to operate, and require much more maintenance than diesel locomotives.
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@Brick_Suit We should be using locomotives like these still. There is no reason not to.
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TRAIN BREAK! UP 4014 Big Boy moving upgrade with "stack talk"
Approaching Tunnelhill between the Altoona Curve and Cresson.
Protip: Don't be the one whistling or making unnecessary loud noises as the train approaches 😉👍
Tunnelhill, PA 🇺🇸 English
@DmadNYsportsfan @MattRooneyNJ The New Jersey Constitution prohibits use of the income tax for any purpose other than property tax relief.
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@MattRooneyNJ The state income tax has absolutely nothing to do with property taxes which pays for schools.
And universal school choice could increase for some districts if many kids decide to go to the same school and the district is under funded.
You’re thinking like a big idiot..
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Phasing out the state income tax + universal school choice (which would significantly decrease school expenses, and in so doing lower the property tax burden).
Two ideas we NEED to explore in New Jersey. Now.
I'm tired of waiting for electeds to think big No more half measures.
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@phalpern Sometimes I wonder if God isn't just staying one step ahead of science by creating new levels of complexity.
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Is the end of theoretical physics in sight?
How Richard Feynman, in response to a comment by Stephen Hawking, addressed that question in 1987.
(From Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? edited by Paul Davies)
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Carlsberg Brewery offered Niels Bohr a lifetime supply of unlimited beer. Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. In honor of his achievements, Carlsberg Brewery offered him a gift: a house located next to the brewery.
One of the benefits of this house was a direct pipeline from the brewery to the house, effectively providing Niels Bohr with free and unlimited beer for life.
This story reflects both the respect and admiration that Bohr had in his home country and the strong links that often existed between brewers and the communities they served. The story continues to be popular as it combines two things people often find fascinating: groundbreaking science and beer.
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@OlenaRohoza Considering the holodomor it would be a small payback for Russia.
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India has reportedly asked Ukraine through diplomatic channels not to target tankers carrying gasoline destined for Russia.
The stated reason is remarkable: the fuel is allegedly being shipped as "humanitarian aid" to prevent Russia from facing a fuel supply collapse.
If true, it would be a striking indication of how dramatically the dynamics of this war have changed over the past four years.
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🇺🇸 We arrived to Gettysburg by train for the 50th Grand Reunion, we are an average age of 72 years old, now what?
Enter the Boy Scouts! Nearly 400 Boy Scouts, alongside U.S. Army regulars, worked the reunion.
Before you can even look for a map, a Scout greets you, takes your heavy luggage, and escorts you directly to the central verification gate.
What do we need to get in to the Great Camp? We need to show our pension papers or honorable discharge certificate. No freeloaders here!
Once we do that, we get meal tickets, an official souvenir badge, and housing (tent) assignment.
Our Boy Scout will lead the way to our next story!
Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸@CorpBarnaby
🇺🇸 Let’s start our journey to the 1913 Gettysburg 50th Grand Reunion! This will be fun. To pull off the historic event, the commission mailed 40,000 invitations to honorably discharged veterans of both the North and South. Word spread rapidly through newspapers, veterans' clubs, and local communities. Because travel was a barrier for the aging veterans, individual states, local organizations, and the U.S. government stepped in to fund the vast majority of the train fares. Ultimately, over 53,407 veterans from 46 of the 48 states made the legendary pilgrimage to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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@Tomprivate57487 Here in New Jersey voter ID is verified at the polls by signature comparison but signature comparison is often haphazard. Not enough competent and dedicated people volunteer. I've seen them ok signatures where someone signed a different name.
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.So many successful election attack vectors
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the Deep State roars, & Congress runs & hides & will not do the minimal SAVE America Act.
Thank You again, Mr Mark. From the beginning, you have been the Elections Paul Revere to warn of Election Vulnerabilities in the hamlets.
Mark Cook@PatriotMarkCook
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@RidleyDM @the_transit_guy They're demand priced. They are priced according to what people are willing to pay.
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@the_transit_guy Try booking train tickets where we do have reasonable routes, like the northeast corridor. They're hideously expensive.
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@JerseyCityTimes Glad to see Jim Crow is finally leaving Jersey City.
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Jersey City Public Schools has agreed to end admissions preferences based on race and national origin at Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School. jcitytimes.com/jersey-city-pu…
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@NoMoreBikeLanes @Tylergroce Then just let the folks building them waste their money. They'll use no electricity if no one pays for their services.
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@Tylergroce difference is making steel is useful. these data centers produce nothing useful.
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Imagine in your 2026 eyes being scandalized that in 1912 US Steel used more power than 1,000,000 homes. Of course it did. Of course it did.
This is what industrialization looks like. We are not outside of history but firmly within it.
clara the urbanist@SlopHq
every data center story says it uses "as much power as 100,000 homes" like that's a scandal. an aluminum smelter pulls five times that and it's why airplanes are cheap. measuring industry in homes is how you train a country to believe building things is a crime
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