And Peggy (Schuyler)

@ramez A tool is a tool, and it must remain under the control of the elected leadership of the people.

@Magnum_CK Minorities like women often don't want equality, they want superiority.

Democrats (both men & women) want a world where women are treated equally but are mad when it happens. Then they get upset when their fellow Democrat men don’t rush to protect their ‘equal’ women. Then they want an independent press that locks arms in solidarity. Sheesh 🙄

@liturgyabbie Just do it. Be the change!

i wish it were more socially acceptable to name a child basil

@garrytan Keep playing for the Ds. They will moderate themselves!

Hit piece coming out on me direct from the propaganda office of SEIU-UHW shortly They want to destroy prosperity in California and eat the golden goose so of course they go after me 🙄

@ThymeToBeBorn Stanford Pre-Collegiate programs are fab. spcs.stanford.edu

My son, 11, just scored in the 97th percentile in math for 12th graders and maxed out the language arts portion. What do I do about this? I have a lot of little kids, can't focus on anything with him, live in the middle of nowhere, and can't leave the house.

@bethanyshondark Ha! Love this. As a mother of some quirky kiddos, you better believe I judged the children of teachers and administrators at my children's school.

Now is as good a time as any to confess this unpopular opinion: I judge people based on their kids. If your kid is an asshole, I think you’re probably not someone worth my time. Have I made business decisions judging by this metric? Yes, indeed.

@policywishes @spencerpratt Bass kissing Castro is perfection.

These ads just keep getting better and better. It's wonderful to watch. @spencerpratt

@SacksDisa @OckhamsRazor4 @DrBruggeman Exactly, medical school spots are scarce, law school ones are not.

@OckhamsRazor4 @DrBruggeman we need more clinicians we have way too many lawyers already

Time for some soul searching as a country. 11% of people who went through medical school and residency never practiced medicine. Think of the cost in terms of time and money to get there only to leave. We need to ask why and we need to fix our system beckersasc.com/leadership/why…

@KeenanPeachy I feel like Bass was making an ad for Pratt with that bit.

Who's excited to buy meth heads new $80,000 dentures Karen Bass is right: a nice smile is all that stands between them and a six-figure salary

@TURBOPOSSUM A good man creates a good family which is a far reaching blessing.

@TURBOPOSSUM Ahem, those items belong in a trousseau!

@NAZALKARADAN @paulg I apologize for being bullish on Europe. I think the fundamental ingredient missing there is an openness to failure combined with trust, plus Europe's managed decline is not favorable to startups. There is a reason SV is home to many French and German international schools.

@Hamultonne @paulg Europe is pretty big & diverse. So my point is it only needs one city where new talents can flow to, which is a scale where things can work, as opposed to focusing on the continent.

We should create a SV here in Europe, like how Stanford mimicked East Coast Ivy Leagues. Right, @paulg?

@NAZALKARADAN @paulg Love the video clip! Thank you.

@Hamultonne @paulg Probably mimic was the wrong term. From what I know, Leland Stanford wanted an equal competitor to elite unis in the East coast. Was also the 1st US uni to borrow from the German system, with more engineering research focus (east was English + Scottish).. x.com/i/status/19479…

@milagracesmom There is nothing wrong with feeling better in your body when it looks and feels better. Brava!

Kinda hate to admit it, but my self-esteem has improved GREATLY after losing those 10lbs. Clothes fit way better. Instead of dressing to try to conceal my body, I actually *like* how clothes look on me again. This is the most “me” I’ve felt in five years.

@gaitanalyst This is DEI for underperforming men. It's absurd. Why would a successful man wish to see his daughter marry an unsuccessful man? Of course the father has more purchasing power at his age than a male suitor, but trajectories can be very obvious early on.

Behind all this there's an appeal for fathers to have solidarity with unrelated young men rather than their own daughters and it's doomed. It won't work.

@FeserEdward That is incorrect framing. The bomb was dropped to end the war. Hamas should have surrendered and then it might have seen a different outcome, but this is the outcome Hamas wanted, a victory in the eyes of the antisemites, regardless of the toll on Arabs.

Just as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were grotesquely out of proportion to the evil of the Pearl Harbor attack, what was done to Gaza is grotesquely out of proportion to the evil of the October 7 attack. What begins as a just cause is often corrupted by war’s self-righteous bloodlust.

@mimikmorgan I think we need a poster of this picture, Farrah Fawcet style. We all need inspiration.

Aging has given me the truest thing I know. That the life most worth living is the one I almost didn't survive long enough to understand.

@iWomansplainer Congrats! Thats a bear of a test.

Husband has spent many hours over the last 3 months studying for his PE exam (3 nights a week after the baby goes to bed + extra time on weekends). He took the grueling 8hr exam last Tuesday and we just got news this morning that he passed! I’m so proud of him!

@Matt_Th0mas @ubiquitousnewt I think in a few decades, I know, kinda late, we will have so many horrifying stories about what the reality of forfeiting family means many people will change their minds about priorities. For now it's an abstraction and designer handbags trump diaper bags.

If the past 80 years has shown us anything it is that women don't really have any knowledge about themselves at all. They have no idea what they want, who they want or what makes them happy. We know this for certain because women themselves have told us via their self reported happiness levels. Decade after decade of racking up wins for feminism, getting exactly what they said they wanted and yet they're miserable.

Women's choosiness is a deeply evolved adaptation. Not a product of being spoilt. Lowering a daughters material lifestyle won't reliably override these innate preferences. Modern low fertility "choosiness" is mostly a mismatch problem, not fixable by an artificially cheap lifestyle. High paternal investment, including resources, adaptively raises daughters standards in a fitness enhancing way. If Dad is smart and stable, he provides a better lifestyle and genetic inheritance for his daughter. It suggests slower life history strategies, delayed sexual debut, more selectivity for committed/long term providers, and generally lower risk taking in mating. Parents have evolved interests in high quality mates for daughters, not just any mate to maximise quality and quantity of grandchildren. High investing "rich" dads raising high value daughters who hold out for high value mates is the optimal evolutionary strategy. You sound insecure that your perceived own mate value doesn't meet these evolved standards. That's not Dads problem. Why would any responsible, protective and wise Father want his daughter to reproduce with a man who feels or is perhaps objectively, not good enough.

@psych_biscuits @policywishes @PennMedicine The distance we travel to achieve a goal is irrelevant to merit. This perversion of merit to mean everyone is born the same elevates envy while denying reality. (Fin, I promise!)

@psych_biscuits @policywishes @PennMedicine That some people have more advantages than others doesn't discredit meritocracy. That is an odious argument. A basketball player born to tall, athletic parents who were pro athletes merits his spot on a team if he performs at the right level.

To see the scum cockroaches come out of the woodwork who are trying to destroy the career of a resident makes me support him even more. We need courageous voices willing to speak out in medicine. Those liberal doctors I wouldn't want anywhere near me. @PennMedicine