Laurie 🐭🦝
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@MrsNicholasG
🎶 & 🪡Sewing, darning, quilting; growing in 🌱🌼 my garden. Westminster Confession 🥃 ** homeschool your children **
🚨 NEW: The Liberal Media repeatedly says that SOCIALISTS are taking over the Democrat party, not COMMUNISTS. But why won't the media report these FACTS ⁉️ @SatAmericaFNC ⬇️
🧵Is your child’s school tracking “Digital Wellness”? 1/ Parents, understand: DW isn’t just about responsible tech use. It’s building psychological profiles through digital platforms.
Negation Without Declaration: UN - We’re not attacking/negating laws, we’re just changing the way in which they’re understood and applied (Human Rights) Vatican II - We’re not attacking/negating doctrine, we’re just changing the way in which it’s understood and applied (Pastoralism)
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has been named as an advisor to the US Federal Reserve on 'Productivity and Jobs'. videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-ceo-…
NEW: A Texas hospital confirms to Fox News its behind billboards at the U.S.-Mexico border advertising childbirth services and encouraging expectant mothers to give birth in Texas. The Spanish-language billboards directed people to go to “havemybabyinTEXAS.com.” The billboards put up by Mission Regional Medical Center featured a pregnant woman and promoted “Birth Packages in South Texas,” with deliveries starting at $3,950 for a natural birth and $5,525 for a C-section. A spokesperson for the hospital said they had two billboards within five miles of the hospital near the border crossing but removed them Monday, along with the website, due to the “potential for unintended misunderstanding.” The decision to take down the campaign follows backlash on social media after pictures of the billboard started to circulate. The spokesperson also told me the campaign was initiated in 2021 but said it is unclear when the actual billboards were put up. Official statement: “Mission Regional Medical Center is committed to providing high-quality, compassionate healthcare and expanding access to care for the communities we serve. Like hospitals across the country and throughout the region, we share information about the healthcare services we provide. We do not support or facilitate any unlawful activity and work to comply with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations. The marketing materials regarding maternity services are no longer in use due to any unintended misunderstanding. We intend to work cooperatively and transparently with local and state officials. Our focus remains on delivering safe, high-quality care to every patient who seeks our services."
Homeschooling is legal in Brazil but a judge has just sentenced two parents to 50 days in prison for “intellectual neglect” because their 11- and 15-year-old daughters, accomplished pianists and polyglots, received no classes on gender theory, sex education, tolerance, diversity and Afro-Brazilian culture. The court argued that they would suffer in their personal lives and interactions with people of their own age from not knowing the Brazilian funk music style, which romantizes crime, life in favelas and is hyper-sexualized. Apart from being accomplished pianists, the two girls speak Portuguese, English and Latin. They also read 30+ classic books per year. The judge was particularly worried when he heard that one of the daughters is particularly fond of Christian music and doesn’t know what funk music is. The judge accused the parents of using their daughters as tools in an “ideological war”
I was talking with a friend in the education space today about designing a syllabus for the AP Comp and AP Literature exams that focused more on the ideas and virtues that built America. At one point, I said something I believe is true: "Even if we did create something strong, many parents would be afraid to use it because their kids could get penalized for writing from that perspective." That's part of why I'm creating these guides, like the one on Douglass below (link in reply). The current structure of our public schools doesn't support the teaching of a deep appreciation for America or the virtues needed to sustain a republic. But parents can. These guides are designed to help you read great American texts with your kids and spur honest conversations about self-mastery, courage, and prudence, virtues needed to sustain our republic. No lectures, just thoughtful discussions about the ideas and character that made this country worth defending. We start with Frederick Douglass.
Mmmm…..many of them are idiots, but many of them are willing narrative seeders/spreaders who simply spin because they’re well rewarded for doing so; the professorial chairs, the corporate funding, the book tours, the media interviews, the journal publications, the Epstein Hedge funding, the status and the income and perhaps also the vested interests having some leverage on them which keeps the narratives spinning - no matter the cost, because - a thing is what it DOES much more than what it ‘says’. ‘Ehrlich is the poster child for the intellectual idiot. Here you have a guy. Super educated. Professor at Stanford. Spends a decade thinking about sustainability. And he comes up with a model. The model makes some catastrophic predictions. He is then rewarded for this model. He is told he’s a genius, a visionary. He’s saving the planet. And humanity. And the baby seals. He gets paid for his model. He wins awards for his model. He becomes world-famous for his model. But reality eventually makes a fool of every model. Every model is eventually proven wrong. But some models are still useful. And the intellectuals who cling to their un-useful models in the face of reality are the ones who become the biggest idiots.’ (Mason) open.substack.com/pub/markmanson…
