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@Johnubacon Looking very sharp thus far. I realize it’s New Mexico but we often look pretty sloppy in the season opener

Michigan drives 73-yards on 13-plays, mostly runs, capped by a 5-run by Haynes, featuring a solid block by QB Underwood himself. NM 0 UM 14 4:26 1st So far all Michigan, as in 151 yards to, uh, 3. Keep your machines at the ready.

@mattyglesias How much polling incorporates some notion of conjoint analysis to reveal true priorities when tradeoffs are involved?

Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)

@NYschoolSecrets @marcportermagee @esanzi Harvard caused schools around the country to close because they did it first?

@marcportermagee @esanzi Discussing with math/physics teacher husband now. He guesses Harvard trying to rectify Covid mess that kids are coming in without good Algebra instruction for those who want to do STEM/social science, but Harvard doesn't want to admit that because they closed 1st and caused this.

The WSJ published an article this morning about one of my post going viral and a game of telephone that ends in the Oval Office

@asymmetricinfo You had every right to get a little hot on this and it's a good question. It's as though social media turns real life into a video game. And I don't think it's just because we're elder GenXers. Who would have mocked Pearl Harbor when we were younger?

Okay, I got a little hot on this one. But after some reflection, I keep coming back to the same question: why does social media so often breed performative sociopathy? I doubt she really finds the death of another human being all that funny. So why does she think the playact makes her look cool, rather than deranged?

@Dale_Chu @bpmehlman I wonder how much that will be changing given the current political environment.

“Education generates a huge trade surplus for the U.S…In the 2022-2023 school year, more than three times as many international students were enrolled in the United States as there were American students studying abroad.”

Now would be a good moment for Congress to take back its absolute power over tariffs.

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Today I, like virtually every other full-time employee at VOA, was placed on administrative leave indefinitely. I'm not allowed to report the news to our hundreds of millions of viewers at this time. Let's hope this is temporary. A silencing of VOA will be celebrated by communists, autocrats and ayatollahs whose lies we shed light on. What a mission I've been lucky enough to embark on--a mission to grow American influence around the world, not by sharing slanted American propaganda, but by giving them the TRUTH! Why? Because America has the truth on its side. VOA, too, has the truth in its corner. Don't let me or anyone else tell you what to think about VOA. I encourage all of my friends to go to voanews.com and read as much there as you can. It's been the honor and privilege of a lifetime to serve my country and follow my passion as a journalist. As we say at VOA, a free press matters. To all of the service members and civilians who have trusted me with their stories during my 16 years at VOA and nearly 11 years as our Pentagon correspondent, I owe you a big "thank you" for putting your trust in me. Let's hope that this isn't my last report as a VOA journalist. voanews.com/.../shortage-o…

@alexanderrusso @MichaelPetrilli @laurameckler @matt_barnum @sara_randazzo @AlysonRKlein @EvieBlad @meltzere @lrj417 @rickhess99 @DanaGoldstein @MichaelCBender @natmalkus @biancavtoness @aliaemily @BrickM Did they fairly and accurately report the drop in NAEP scores? It seems pretty clear that they did and that’s fundamental for assessment and research functions.

@MichaelPetrilli @laurameckler @matt_barnum @sara_randazzo @AlysonRKlein @EvieBlad @meltzere @lrj417 @rickhess99 @DanaGoldstein @MichaelCBender @natmalkus @biancavtoness @aliaemily @BrickM I don't recall Carr (or IES) being all that independent when post-COVID scores came out during the Biden admin. Has she been known for this?

Read this if you want to understand why the Trump Administration thinks it can fire Peggy Carr, or doesn't respect IES's independence.

DOGE fired employees who were working on a clinical trial at the VA to treat cancers of the mouth, throat and voice box. The trial is now on hold as the patients run out of time.

@janecoaston Much appreciated. The 22 game in Columbus where JJ throws the first bomb to Cornelius Johnson would also work.

Cleansing the timeline youtube.com/watch?v=VSbA9M…

@notjessewalker @notjessewalker, it’s not an SOTU 🤣🤣🤣

Every SOTU is boring, but this is the first one where I keep feeling like the president is reading a paragraph he already read 10 minutes ago.

@marcportermagee Wow, I would have thought the same thing. Not sure how to square this with the emergence of populism and anti-incumbency backlash.

The decline in trust in national institutions is more of an American thing than I would have thought. I always assumed it was a global trend.

@rickhess99 @ChadAldeman @dcexaminer So you’ve given up on norms? We are in a very bad place and it’s likely to get worse.

@ChadAldeman @dcexaminer It’s a reasonable question & fair point. But respect for norms can’t be a sometime thing. I’ve just spent four yrs being (angrily) told that legal niceties weren’t relevant when it came to ED & hundreds of billions in loan forgiveness. Respect for process needs to be both/and.

Defunding the teacher trainers The U.S. Dept of Ed has pulled the plug on $150 million-a-year for “Teacher Quality Partnerships” & the companion SEED grants. Good. Me, at ⁦@dcexaminer⁩. washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer…

It is not complex. Russia wanted to restore its old borders and feared a democratic Ukraine that embraced free markets, the rule of law and the West. Putin wants to stamp out Ukraine’s existence.

@Noahpinion Golden Retrievers are pretty awesome as well…although my 7 year-old is getting pretty weary of her role as an emotional support dog.

Only a pet rabbit can comfort you through the dark time that's coming

Stunned Education Researchers Say Cuts Go Beyond DEI, Hitting Math, Literacy - my latest for @The74 the74million.org/article/stunne…

@arotherham I'll believe when I see it.

It's a weird time, sure, but some of the laws of political gravity still apply: notus.org/donald-trump/n…

PEPFAR is one of the most popular, bipartisan US foreign aid programs. The State Department says it has saved 25million lives, but there isn't much public, independent verification. Last week I invited some friends to a weekend hackatjon to see if PEPFAR's numbers held up.