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@CynicalPublius Your article might also benefit from your consideration of when those same institutions began to misinform the consciences of their students. Amongst other tactics, the “polling culture” is systematically used to conflate that which “is” with that which “ought be”.

I'm working on an article and could use some help. When did the Ivy League and other "prestigious" universities stop teaching students HOW to think and start teaching students WHAT to think? I'm primarily thinking about liberal arts programs but would love to hear examples in STEM too. Thanks in advance.

@FlossinMcC369 @jk_rowling In America, the only rights “won” were those recognised by our Constitution as “endowed by the Creator”; our inherent human rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It’s corrupt men who invariably seek to forcefully negate those inherent rights.

The Supreme Court has ruled that under UK law, trans people never had the rights people like you insisted they had. You misrepresented the law and cheered on the removal of women’s rights. Trans people have lost nothing except the mistaken belief you fostered.

@LeonardBriscoe3 Numbers aren’t your bag, huh?

There are over 7 billion people in the world, if he gave everyone a billion dollars he would still have 343 billion left and world poverty would end. Let that sink in. x.com/wyomelo/status…

@MattWalshBlog “Trans” kids?

What is the audience for “Supergirl” exactly? My sons like superheroes but they want to see Superman, not a girl. My daughters dont really care about superheroes generally. So who’s watching this slop? Seems specially designed to appeal to no one.

@WallStreetApes She’s a provocateur; an instigator; a shameless racist and ingrate. She wants all things - good and bad - torn down and replaced with her race-centric idea of utopia.

Multiple people try to get this woman to please take a seat like everyone else at the Eastland Career Center Graduation She starts comparing taking a seat to the 1920s when slavery was going on When the camera zooms out you can see she’s blocking multiple bleachers worth of people trying to watch the graduation, all of which are following the rules and sitting patiently in their seats Many people say they’re tired of this type of behavior in America I’m 100% against a social credit system, but let’s just say if we did have one….. a lot of people would fail horribly in America

“…it was a mere foreshadowing of what they had planned for anyone else who opposed them under Kamala.” No truer words.

@mattvanswol No…..”we” are not.

Last night, an ARMED security guard at a Charlotte NC gas station just STOOD THERE AND WATCHED as a Black man beat a Hispanic man in front of him He didn't even attempt to help or stop him. We are so far gone as a society. I don't know where we go from here...

@data_republican @JonathanTurley How ‘bout this simple solution: promptly charge, prosecute and convict those who violate their oaths of office. Defrauding and deceiving the citizenry, and criminality, certainly rise to the level of oath-breaking.

I think you're in the minority on this one. I usually agree with you. A few òf them who are currently in office spoiled it for the rest of them. It isn't their bad politics that I object to. It's that so many of them want to change our country and have an obvious disdain for our culture. I'm done with them.

I strongly disagree with the push for a constitutional amendment to bar foreign-born legislators. foxnews.com/politics/mace-… While I have suggested the possible tinyurl.com/f86u4tce, I cannot think of anything more antithetical to our founding than barring foreign-born citizens from Congress. As a nation of immigrants, it is a reaffirmation of our heritage to have these citizens serve in government...

@LeaderJohnThune PTFSA.

500 days ago, Republicans had a long to-do list. We’ve checked a lot of things off, but we still have more to do. And we’re not about to take our foot off the gas.

@WallStreetApes Spare me.

American teachers share how much money each of them has in their bank account 2 days before payday - 1st teacher was hoping to at least have $40, she only has $7.46 - 2nd teacher has $17 - 3rd teacher has $31 - 4th teacher has $63 - 5th teacher has $1.13 - The last teacher thought she has $500 but only has $126 These are American teachers working every day to educate our kids and most barely have $20 bucks in their bank account Meanwhile everyone from Somalia or Africa can move here and stealing tens of millions of dollars and drive hundred thousand dollar sports cars The system is so broken

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

@ImMeme0 The dad is like “Watch this kids; and never forget”.

Family with children hid behind a pillar after a fight broke out between black teens inside a Chipotle in Washington, D.C.

@bennyjohnson Her political party “literally” was the Confederacy (and the KKK). Not even one (R) ever owned a slave.

AOC declares MAGA “the last dying breath of the Confederacy”

@libsoftiktok The fraud is on Quintero. The law states that there is NO PENALTY for casting an invalid ballot if at the time the voter “thought” they were allowed to vote. By providing the applications to non-citizens, Quintero fraudulently represented their voter eligibility.

🚨MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD UNCOVERED IN ILLINOIS 🚨 Newly re-appointed nonbinary head of the Illinois Department of Human Services Dulce Quintero, who was born in Mexico, reportedly knowingly sent out pre-filled voter application forms to ILLEGAL ALIENS Wtf is going on in JB Pritzker’s Illinois?! Please look into this @TheJusticeDept @DHSgov

Cato guy: "One in five Fairfax residents is someone who could be deported or lives with them." Totally normal that 20% of the largest county in Virginia could be deported.

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere." Farmer: "Where did they get it?" Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere." Activist: "From... eating?" Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it." Activist: "The soil?" Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from." Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere." Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it." Activist: "Then just don't have the cow." Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle." Activist: "It's not that simple." Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

@CynicalPublius @ABC One might reasonably anticipate that some, if not most, will be replaced by….”nonblack”…? candidates.

@ABC So we're ending electoral apartheid in the USA? Excellent news--it's the only way to a just, post-racial society.

Almost a third of the membership of the Congressional Black Caucus are at risk of losing their seats through the 2028 election cycle as Republicans in southern states where they control the legislature move swiftly to redraw congressional maps. abcnews.link/KhpDUZx

@libsoftiktok The fatigue is real.

OMG Democrat Minnesota Rep. Aisha Gomez apparently told a Republican colleague to “go fucking kiII himself”

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had. Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation. Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it. Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans. They conquered until they collapsed. America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined. And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.” Almost unprecedented? It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history. The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid. It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed. America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership. Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation. Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth. Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin. A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it. That’s not policy. That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything. You’re being told a story right now. That America is the villain of history. You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms. Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.” Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one. The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it. And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities. Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.” Probably right. China has historically built walls, not fleets. But the real question isn’t about borders anymore. We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet. AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint. If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be? The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to? Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy. Billions lifted out of poverty. All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before. And carries no guarantee of being repeated. The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb. It was what it didn’t do after.

There's something sick going on in Democrat-controlled Loudon County Public Schools @LCPSOfficial in Virginia. A timeline: In 2021, a male student who wore female clothing sexually assaulted a girl in the bathroom at Stone Bridge High School. The school board then passed a policy allowing students to use whichever bathrooms they want to. In March 2025, a female student who claimed to be a boy recorded male peers in the boys' locker room at Stone Bridge High as revenge for them expressing discomfort with her being there. School officials went after the boys for voicing their "transphobic" views. In April 2026, a trans substitute teacher for the district was charged with alleged plans to kill people at John Champe High School. In May 2026, a trans student was caught recording and photographing at least 40 students under the bathroom stalls at Freedom High School. cc: @AAGDhillon ngocomment.com