Matthew Sivieri

I remember in elementary school, the teacher promised the class extra recess outside, if we were good during 'quiet time'. One of the students couldn't keep quiet, for whatever reason, and so the entire class was punished with no extra recess time. I remember thinking to myself, even then, why does the 1 person get to ruin things for the 24 other people?

@WEschenbach It’s true in many many cities - Oakland CA, Boston MA, New Orleans LA, it’s usually even worse than that - about 0.5-0.8% of the pop. There was an Operation, Operation [I Forget The Name] c. 2010 that looked into this and improved the situation

I read that "1% of the population commits 50% of the crime", so I researched it. I found out that “1% commit 50% of crimes” is an oversimplification, but the basic idea—crime is extremely concentrated—is supported. A Swedish national cohort found that 1% of the population accounted for 63% of all violent‑crime convictions. Radical idea: Stop with the mollycoddling and the pathetic excuses and PUT REPEAT CRIMINALS IN JAIL FOR A LONG TIME. w. The 1% of the population accountable for 63% of all violent crime convictions pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC39…

I almost hesitate to promote this, because it wasn't really intended to be a piece. I just sort of sat down and it came out. Maybe someone else out there has the same type of day today, and it'll speak to them. realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/…

@sfmcguire79 2020-2026 the years the music died - actual low trust society now :(

Like Princeton, Stanford gives up on honor.

I would agree with this IF and ONLY IF the existence of those people weren’t being erased and undermined today! We could definitely cast people who looked different from an Ancient Greek or Medieval English queen/king — as long as we didn’t have people who were saying “actually many Londoners/Irish/Germans have been black throughout history” once again you avoid the underlying problem: there is an attempted rewriting and changing of ethnic Europeans’ identity which is evil and should be reversed see: debates about Shakespeare, Beethoven, Londoners, and other ethnically European (White) people having their ethnic history deliberately undermined, confuddled or erased

@RapidResponse47 @BrendanCarrFCC I hope this scares the pants off of every company and university that even dreamed about doing a little bit of affirmative action (aka racial discrimination) or DEI (also aka racial discrimination)

.@BrendanCarrFCC on DEI investigations: "We went through a period of time around 2020 where a lot of corporate America went all-in on this invidious form of discrimination. We’ll see if Disney was one of them... Disney will have every opportunity to make its case... you can't provide workplace opportunities based on race and gender, and there has been evidence coming to light indicating that Disney may have done that."

@BobbyBorkIII Also incredibly short-sighted, it basically guarantees you destroy the institution due to tit-for-tat

I view endorsing court packing as one of the most intellectually humiliating things a supposedly intelligent person can do. Nothing more quickly makes me lose all respect for a person than seeing them do this. Like, oh, you are just a midwit institutional arsonist. Good to know.

@GarettJones @ITIFdc I agree with this as long as there still remains *some* degree of vetting for spies, ideological enemies, etc., Otherwise you're just creating a backdoor for giga-smart security threats from China et al.

The @ITIFdc wisely argues that O-1 visas should become "intelligence visas to attract the best and brightest immigrants," and that the US should just use the SAT as an IQ filter:

@SaladBarFan we criticize lefties for having bad theory of mind (and we have the receipts to show it: see Haidt’s MFT, MoreInCommon’s “Perception Gap” data) but I unironically can’t understand them on things like crime and economic growth

The leftoid mind is so alien to me; the NYT reporter’s take on the success of GLP-1’s is to be sad that it undercuts the rationale for heavily regulating the food industry.

"All the Caliphs of the Banu Marwan (God have mercy on their souls!), and especially the sons of al-Nasir, were without variation or exception disposed by nature to prefer blondes. I have myself seen them, and known others who had seen their forebears, from the days of al-Nasir's reign down to the present day; every one of them has been fair-haired, taking after, their mothers, so that this has become a hereditary trait with them; all but Sulaiman al-Zafir (God have mercy on him!), whom I remember to have had black ringlets and a black beard. As for al-Nasir and al-Hakam al-Mustansir (may God be pleased with them!), I have been informed by my late father, the vizier, as well as by others, that both of them were blond and blue-eyed. The same is true of Hisham al-Mu'aiyad, Muhammad al-Mahdi, and `Abd al-Rahman al-Murtada (may God be merciful to them all!); I saw them myself many times, and had the honour of being received by them, and I remarked that they all had fair hair and blue eyes. Their sons, their brothers, and all their near kinsmen possessed the self same characteristics. I know not whether this was due to a predilection innate in them all, or whether it was in consequence of a family tradition handed down from their ancestors, and which they followed in their turn. This comes out clearly in the poetry of `Abd al-Malik Ibn Marwan Ibn `Abd al-Rahman Ibn Marwan, the descendant of the Caliph al-Nasir, better known as al-Taliq; he was the greatest poet of Andalusia in those times, and in most of his love lyrics he serenades blondes. I have seen him personally, and sat in his company"

Islamic rulers of Iberia had blue eyes, blonde hair, etc., by 900-1000AD “In his celebrated love treatise 'The Dove’s Neckring' Ibn Hazm went so far as to assert that with only one exception the Umayyad caliphs were ‘disposed by nature to prefer blondes [...] Every one of them has been fair haired, taking after their mothers, so that this has become a hereditary trait with them [...] I know not whether this was due to a predilection innate in them all, or whether it was in consequence of a family tradition handed down from their ancestors, and which they followed in their turn.’

Nick Fuentes made a point about race that I thought was interesting: Whites are the true people of color, having evolved blue and green eyes and golden and red hair, while everyone else is just different shades of brown. In a globally miscegenated future, those recessive traits would be overrun at first by the dominant brown -- but perhaps over time, they would begin to recur (since two people lacking the phenotype might carry the recessive gene) and then through sexual selection (because they are appealing aesthetically) once again propagate, detached from their specific origins in European ancestry.

@WSJ There are internships, fellowships, etc. with hard GPA cutoffs Inaccurate feel-good bromides throughout the piece

College coddling ends in the real world. on.wsj.com/4dpgSer

@UChicago That’s gotta be like 90% of families or more, what an admirable move

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@theoluminati Your staffers literally write the bills that you propose under your name. They literally write the letters to the constituents that have your name on them. You really don’t do much

@theoluminati You basically get paid $250,000 to do nothing, and you have a free ticket to Fame Can get invited to events, people wanna talk to you, cameras in your face when you want them, sometimes people even pay to hear you talk!

we joke about it a lot, but does anyone actually know WHY politicians love to stay in office and work until they’re 500 years old? why is this almost the only job we see it with? is anyone begging to keep working as a lawyer at 97

@TheFP Gary Saul Morson wrote some FANTASTIC articles on political terrorism during the Summer of Love and Peaceful Protesting (2020) in First Things mag, articles I still think about and refer to, often

There is literary and historical precedent for the normalizing of terrorism. thefp.com/p/terror-dosto…

@MatthewSoroVC @robertlasagna1 It’s true they can read faces better than us They can more accurately report the emotions in faces and such

@robertlasagna1 No, the boy version is “boys don’t realize how much more emotionally/socially intelligent girls are than them”. Except they don’t hold back on said boys like boys do to them with physical strength

the boy version of "girls dont realises how much stronger boys are than them" is taking your gf to strength training and going "surely you can do more than this, this is ridiculous" on the dumbbells

I used to listen to SCOTUS oral arguments all the time on Oyez - I haven’t regularly since c. 2022 I’ve been wondering to myself why that’s the case and I think I’ve recently stumbled on the answer: KBJ’s voice is so grating, her comments so stupefying, that she’s made me no longer interested in it. She’s effective in more ways than anyone could’ve ever thought…

i genuinely wonder how much reverse polarization jackson's sheer presence on scotus creates for the more squishy conservative justices who might otherwise actually join the libs

wow they really hate jackson, lmao

The right could just say, even if the mainstream school narrative did look like a laundry list of us losing 24/7 We could just say couldn’t we - “well, the outcome you see was a happy medium. The left actually pushed for [radical policy x] but we got them to settle for the more moderate, sensible [policy y], so that makes us the party of prudence and moderation” Etc.

Each generation tries leftism, sees it fail disastrously (crime, welfare, immigration), and partly backs off, but this experience *isn't* transmitted intergenerationally, and then a new generation whose knowledge of past conflicts comes from school grows up.

My view: the Great Awokening is over, but, by default, will be back even worse in 20 years. This cycle has already happened twice, with the 60s/70s New Left and 90s PC. Each time, some of the worst excesses are undone but nowhere near enough to reverse the previous wave.

@lymanstoneky Can't believe interpreting this paper has been an active conversation for 1-2 years Are we all illiterate? Have the authors spoken up yet - do we need them to? We're reading the tea leaves of a document whose authors are still alive

it actually does show what he says it doesn't show.