@CoreyWriting Asians, ugly browns, DEI admits, low income types…it’s not harvard anymore
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Professor Plum
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Professor Plum
@dynamiteddan
America First Conservative 🇺🇸 Lawyer ⚖️
United States Katılım Kasım 2016
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Dumb culture war brain rot. Removing elite human capital from critical institutions like the military only makes America weaker.
Fox News Politics@foxnewspolitics
WARRIORS FIRST: Hegseth cuts 93 military fellowships at Harvard, Princeton, replacing them with Hillsdale and Liberty University. New schools were selected for "intellectual freedom" and limited ties to foreign adversaries. Hegseth holds degrees from both Princeton and Harvard's Kennedy School. foxnews.com/politics/hegse…
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We don't have a race war, but a class war. It's the peasants Vs the wealthy.
Pubity@pubity
After laying off an estimated 30,000 employees, Oracle has hired a new CFO and offered her a pay package worth $29.7 million.
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I pushed back on this as it relates to the bar exam, because I've seen many people denied accommodations, even those who were able to obtain a diagnosis from a licensed professional. Those who think it's easy will just have to trust me that it's not as easy as they think. I mean, don't have to trust me, but that's been my experience.
But I'll agree that it's a bit out of control when it comes to the SAT/ACT. I had a unique experience teaching those tests (for over a decade) because I worked for a company that few families could afford. So my data may be skewed, but I can say that people who have money for very expensive test prep are often also hiring private college counselors (in place of school guidance counselors), and also hiring psychologists to assess for disabilities. It's a team effort to get these kids into competitive colleges, and I, as the SAT/ACT tutor, was merely a member of that team.
As for the LSAT, it was once somewhat difficult to get accommodated. Then, LSAC was sued. Now, not as difficult.
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad
Happy SAT day to all who celebrate. Reminder that a disproportionate number of kids in rich school districts get 1.5x the time that everyone else does. And everyone in the system is conspiring to keep the numbers non-transparent.
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i dont get why we dont do this. why is it bad to help the "uncontacted tribes"? genuinely what bad could come of saving these people? because we can save them. we can fix their lives
✝️🇺🇸 The Intern 🌐🔆@EiratheIntern
The way we treat uncontacted tribes is a crime against humanity. We should be contacting *every* uncontacted tribe and give them modern medicine. Any argument against is just a noble savage fantasy from rich academics.
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@MorosKostas Congress should require the court to take five times the number of cases. No summer break for those slobs. They can stop with the lengthy opinions and concurrences too
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While it's true that people's perception of SCOTUS as a constant series of 6-3 or 5-4 rulings on strict party lines is wrong, this sort of data saying they agree most of the time is also misleading.
Yes, they agree a lot because they take a bunch of boring cases that do not have a clear ideological component. That's part of the problem with this Court actually; they take a record-low number of cases, and then of those few cases, a giant share are technical bullshit that should have been either ignored, or decided per curiam.
But on the sorts of high-profile cases that affect the lives of millions of people or present important constitutional questions, splits along partisan lines are quite common.
Charlie Camosy@CCamosy
even the justices who are most disagreeable (Kagan and Alito) find themselves agreeing a whopping 61 percent of the time
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This is disgusting. If a person is going to claim they are too mentally ill to face trial for a crime, there is only one acceptable follow-up: They should be forcibly and irrevocably institutionalized for life, immediately.
Instead, competency tests and insanity pleas primarily exist as just another tool in the progressive kit to pursue their ultimate goal: Making sure criminals get away with crimes.
White American@White_Amercan
DeCarlos Brown Jr. has been found “incapable to proceed” on the state murder charge brought against him in the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska amp.newsobserver.com/news/local/cri…
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@fakedansavage @pyykko They are inferior.
And you’re obviously hoping his relationship fails so you can gloat.
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@pyykko I'm not moralizing — I'm just saying that all people, every single one of us, should have some humility. Also, the OP is the one who moralizes: he puts "open" in scare quotes and strongly suggests gay relationships that aren't just like his are somehow inferior.
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Not wishing ill on this person… but it’s a bad idea, generally speaking, to whistle past what might be the world’s most densely populated graveyard.
Max DeFacto@maxdefacto
As a gay man, I am fortunate to have found another man who wants a truly monogamous relationship. We regularly use each other’s phones, and we have no secrets. Most gay relationships are “open” or they just cheat. I’m so lucky to have found this love.
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@RLK303303 Should have tackled her and ripped off her disguise
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Woman on the Tube this morning wearing a hijab. Fiddles around on her phone for a few stops. She then puts on a niqab (face covering), leaves her rucksack on the seat and stands by the Tube door whilst it’s still moving. Tube comes to a stop and she starts leaving without her rucksack. So I’d been sitting there for what seemed like an age, looking at her about to leave, at the rucksack and wondering what the point would be of blowing up a nearly empty Tube carriage. In the most low-key British way I shout after her - ‘excuse me, I think you’ve forgotten something’ and she runs back into the carriage to retrieve her rucksack. Phew!
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I just learned Idaho Republicans banned the Pride flag, so Boise officials painted their flagpoles in Pride colors as an act of protest.
That's a fantastic act of protest.
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@minivan55 @BarneyFlames No foreigner should be admitted to our top schools
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@BarneyFlames Except Vanderbilt is not more selective than Yale, not for the class of 2030. Yale has a much larger international population, narrowing any white/Asian gaps.
Vanderbilt’s SAT scores are boosted by test-optional reporting and ~300 merit scholarships. Yale offers none.
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> significantly more white AND more Asian
> 25th percentile SAT score is same as Harvard
> 75rh percentile SAT is actually higher
Okay so their big secret is that their admission criteria is mostly test score based.
csz@cszabla
vanderbilt is now more selective than yale my theory of the increasing popularity of this institution is that it combines elements of ivy plus prestige with the increasing trend toward students opting for southern football schools. also a lot of people love nashville these days
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@elliehodges62 It’s also shocking to see churches charging admission!
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I genuinely can’t believe I’m reading this correctly!!!
Why should being on benefits entitle someone to a near free trip to some of London’s biggest tourist attractions? These are places that thousands of working people pay full price for every single day.
People who work hard are already struggling with the cost of living and often can’t even afford to take their own children to these places. Yet somehow, those on Universal Credit are being given access at a fraction of the cost.
And then people wonder why more and more are claiming benefits. When the system starts rewarding those who aren’t working over those who are, something has clearly gone very wrong.
Michael Simmons@Simmons__
Is this fair?
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@chriswithans Rated nonwhite, which to ABA is all that mattered
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Sonia Sotomayor and Harvard’s finest Ketanji Brown Jackson were both unanimously rated Well-Qualified by the ABA in advance of their Supreme Court confirmations.
Nate Raymond@nateraymond
New: The American Bar Association for the first time during President Trump's second term in office has rated one of his judicial nominees as "not qualified," bestowing that label on Katie Lane, his pick to become a federal judge in Montana. reuters.com/legal/governme…
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@kfgpnz @ANNVYSHINSKY “Yeah, it’s fine to call James Diego regardless of what style he actually was named”
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@dynamiteddan @ANNVYSHINSKY They are simply the Latin and English names (abbreviations) for the same thing. Either is correct regardless of which style the institution prefers to use.
He's probably used to saying "PhD" because, in addition to being perfectly correct, it's more widely known and understood.
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There is no difference between a DPhil and a PhD and I’m sick of everyone posting that Inglourious Basterds scene whenever the former is referred to as the latter. Pedantry doesn’t make you clever.
Ronan Farrow@RonanFarrow
I have a PhD in political science from Oxford, focused on US foreign policy; worked as a State Dept. official in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East; and wrote a celebrated foreign policy book taught at universities like Princeton. That's why I get geopolitical questions.
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@Fortichstblac @VonAllenSports @Rainmaker1973 You know they killed people, right? And we protect them rather than call an exterminator
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@dynamiteddan @VonAllenSports @Rainmaker1973 Such childish tantrum over an image of primordial savages.
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@BigP4P4Smurf @armondboudreaux What? I figured I was missing something
Hard to believe no one understood that basic reference
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@dynamiteddan @armondboudreaux That St. Peter guards the gates of Heaven. Which is the basis of thousands of jokes, New Yorker cartoons, etc.
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Today, I taught Othello, and when we got to the scene when Othello accuses Desdemona of being a “whore,” I discussed the lines where Othello calls Emilia into the room: “You, mistress, / That have the office opposite to St. Peter / And keeps the gate of hell.” Ten years ago, I could count on my students knowing what Othello means by this—whether they’ve heard the idea from their parents or picked it up from cartoons. Today, most of them seem to have no idea—not a single clue—what he’s talking about.
I have thought for a long time that what makes Shakespeare hard for a lot of people is less his vocabulary or syntax and more his references to classical literature, myth, and history that are mostly unknown to modern audiences. But more and more, I get the impression that young people know nothing at all about their own culture, let alone the cultures of the deep past.
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Ask an American about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A substantial portion will tell you it was necessary.
Tragic, but necessary.
It ended the war.
It saved lives.
Hard choices in impossible circumstances.
Now ask them how they would feel if another country had done it to an American city.
Watch the framework collapse in real time.
Suddenly "necessary" is not a category that applies.
Suddenly there are no hard choices and impossible circumstances.
Suddenly it is simply: a crime. An act of war. An atrocity.
This is not hypocrisy in the ordinary sense.
This is a two-tiered moral universe so deeply internalized that most people living inside it cannot see the structure at all.
Violence done to Americans is atrocity by definition.
Violence done by Americans requires context. Requires understanding. Requires a discussion of the strategic situation.
This is the psychological furniture.
This is what empire builds inside the people who benefit from it.
And it is almost invisible from the inside.
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