Lance Christensen

“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” -C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Book 2, Chapter 3

True

Torrance has a lot of Japanese-Americans whose ancestors were interned or relocated by Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A lot of young libs don’t know this but besides being the party of the Confederacy and the old KKK, they are also the party of the President who ordered the internment of some citizens of Japanese, German, and Italian descent. No kings indeed.

LA County DA Nathan Hochman announces charges in “the largest money laundering operation in Los Angeles Unified school District's history” 🚨 2 individuals stole roughly $22 MILLION, with over $3 million dollars given as kick backs to a LAUSD employee though shell companies “This is the type of evidence that you just shake your head like you can't believe it.” The employees are - Hong “Grace” Peng (former LAUSD technical project manager) - Gautam Sampath (owner of the Texas-based company Innive) Between 2018 and 2022, Peng used her position to illegally help award more than $22 million in contracts to Innive In exchange, Sampath is accused of routing and laundering over $3 million back to Peng through various intermediaries and shell companies

Great “trick” to get kids to learn Two groups read the same passage. * Group A was told they'd be tested. * Group B was told they'd have to teach it to another student. Nobody actually taught anything. They were just told they’d have to teach. Group B crushed it. Better recall. Better organization. Advantage concentrated on main points. So just believing they'd have to teach changed how they studied. The researchers' line that stuck with me: students have effective study strategies they simply don't use unless prodded to. So our kids already know how to learn well. They just don't do it when they're told to study for a test. The test framing makes them passive. While teaching makes them active. At @ForgePrep, the highest level of mastery students can demonstrate is teaching another students to competence. It’s part of why we have Montessori mixed age classes as this creates more opportunities for this type of teaching

Happy No Kings Day

The same people at the No Kings rallies cheered this on by the way. Never forget.

Six years ago in California, sand was dumped in skate parks to make them unusable. Parks were closed with yellow caution tape, while others got arrested on the beach. The same people participating in NO KINGS BS, literally supported banning the outdoors.

“I have nothing against artists. I had a rock band myself. My problem is that if you need a government subsidy to make art, you’re no longer an artist—you’re a public employee.” — Javier Milei

@MattMahanSJ Mayor, whose record are you running against Newsom or Trump?

Trump isn’t just a threat in theory — his policies are affecting Californians every single day. Forcing our neighbors to live in fear. Driving up the cost of gas and groceries. We have to fight back. San Joseans, Californians, Americans deserve better.

"A sobering new report on young men in America makes it plain: Men without work, purpose or a family to provide for tend to flounder. And when men flounder, they don’t suffer alone. The women in their lives suffer. Their communities suffer. The wreckage is shared." @Deseret

Hahaha what a Bish move… upset much? #notinvited @BishForCongress have you even picked up 1 single endorsement yet? Just drop out. @TheMadelineEliz @ElDoradoCAGOP @saccountygop @GOPNevadaCounty @CAGOP

Gavin Newsom says Trump is to blame for California’s $5.86/gallon gasoline, but that’s nearly $2 higher than the national average. And it was mostly Newsom’s destruction of the state’s oil production and refining capacity that explains the difference.

Says the guy with a house on the California shore.

President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele releases video showing the transformation of his country. Since Bukele took office: - Homicides plunged from 2,398 in 2019 to just 114 homicides in 2024. - Murder rate is now 1.9 per 100,000 people, a historic low. - In 2022, Bukele declared a state of exception and made over 85,000 arrests. “Everything in life has a cost and the cost of being called authoritarian is too small to bother me much,” he once said.

@karenvaites Fads are so much more exciting, though.

“Ed Schools shut their ears because the whole idea was unromantic & had a vaguely right-wing aroma.” Not just Ed schools.

@TPCarney Yep. I've never understood the idea of subcontracting the raising if our children to strangers.

There are a LOT of policymakers, commentators, and newspaper reporters who believe that 2 fulltime jobs + formal daycare is the only good model. They bristle if you suggest that it would be good to help more mothers stay at home with their children.

A new study finds California has the second worst roads in America, ahead of only Alaska. When you pay the highest gas taxes yet drive over the deepest potholes, your government is broken.

@DB21PD @Patterdude @FlemingWords Drew, just screenshot it all here for the world to see or stop whining.

@lancelands @Patterdude @FlemingWords Give me your email - Joe, deal or no deal? You can keep gaslighting or put your $ where your mouth (or twitter thumbs) is

A single anonymous outraged liberal parent mad that I received the same benefit as every other sponsor… sparked an investigation by the SacBee (generally fair article), with the sole independent expert saying I’m right. If I was looking for name ID, I wouldn’t sponsor in Rocklin where I’ve been elected for a decade. I was asked to support a nonprofit, and like many many times before, I said yes, reformatted my branding to not be political… and posted the sign like every other sponsor. When the league didn’t care, they got big mad about the law, when the law wasn’t on their side, they complained to the city, when the city didn’t find a violation they went to the SacBee… That did a largely fair article and the independent expert said we are good. Anyway, I voluntarily took down my signs and I’m going to raise them more $$$ for the trauma.

@Elex_Michaelson @CNNTheStoryIs Men, Elex, men.

NEWS: Bob Costas supports the IOC's decision to ban trans athletes from women's sports at the Olympics. "Common sense is not transphobic...this policy is common sense." The host of 12 Olympic games told @CNNTheStoryIs that trans people should be treated with "dignity and respect," but there's a "reason why there are men's and women's sports." "There is a reason why no trans man who was once a woman and has become a man has ever competed successfully with men in the Olympics." Full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=v6kUgo…

California has some of the dumbest laws in the nation. My 12-yo son is a child. He’s growing up, but he is a child. Period It’s insane that - if dealing with a complex medical condition - parents have to ask their kids for permission to access. No one can convince me otherwise