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@dbrady1221 @drantbradley Even without USAID there are just too many of them. America has something like 6000+ institutes of higher learning. We do not have the student population to sustain them all.

@drantbradley USAID isn’t being back channeled to these liberal institutions anymore. So they are all going broke.

Clemson is $1.5B in debt. Syracuse is closing or pausing 93 programs, UNC-Chapel Hill plans to cut spending by $89M over 3 years. Duke recently let 600 employees go in a $350M budget cut. Indiana public colleges announced a plan to eliminate or merge 580 programs statewide.

@SteveRetAFEA @RT93609537 @drantbradley Tbf you need spares in case of uncertainty eg folks falling ill, kid has an emergency etc. Not too many spares though, that's just bloat.

@RT93609537 @drantbradley Reminds me of when the local AF base has a severe weather closure and only 'essential' personnel need to report. I always tell my wife that anyone on the 'non-essential' list needs to be let go since they aren't required to do the mission. Think of the money saved.

@GuruLakers Exactly this! Even LeBron got locked up by Jason Terry till he moved to a team of winners with alpha mentality and got to the next level. It's a right of passage, gotta get baptized before the Spirit comes in. He's 22, he will learn and get better.

Real talk there’s something to be said about this full circle moment. Ppl are going to write Duren off for his career bc that’s what twitter does. But I’m old enough to remember when Allen had his deer in headlights moment as a young player and tonight…Allen was dominant. Nobody skips this part.

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@KyleNeubeck Crowd be chanting "Defense", whole time they're down 25 and can't block even the bench guys😂

NBA home blowouts are especially soul crushing because the DJ just keeps firing up instrumentals from 2005 rap songs while your team misses its 11th consecutive three

My name is William Michael Holte. I’m AMERICAN, not AFRICAN-American. So I don’t wear braids, two-strand twists, cornrows, or locs. I don’t wear Kente cloth. I don’t smoke weed or smell like it. I don’t use the N-word. I don’t celebrate Kwanzaa — I celebrate Christmas. I don’t celebrate Juneteenth — I celebrate Independence Day. I don’t listen to rap — I enjoy classical music. I don’t wear my pants down under my butt. I don't wear du-rags. I don't pretend “We wuz kings,” or push fake ancient African empires. I don’t blast music with the windows down. I don’t eat soul food. I don’t speak in AAVE or Ebonics. I don’t demand reparations. I don’t walk around with a permanent victim complex. And, like the vast majority of fake 'African-Americans' in this country, I don't have any desire to go back to or live in Africa. I'm Team AMERICA, ride or die. Who’s with me on that?

@JustMikeNoIke @KoreaPistonsFan

@KoreaPistonsFan It was destined that the spurs play the thunder and the pistons play the knicks. But also lets go beat Cleveland first

Pistons vs Knicks eastern conference finals is going to feed families

@TitanNetwork @PistonsNext @KoreaPistonsFan Can you see them from Cancun?

@PistonsNext @KoreaPistonsFan Yes we should

@MJMBulldog @TheWheelAJM @woodwardsports @DetroitPistons @NBA Without LaVert, who's your consistent scorer from the bench?

@TheWheelAJM @woodwardsports @DetroitPistons @NBA No reason to continue with JB. Cavs knew it a long time ago. Nice season but getting to elite requires hard decisions. Don’t bring JB back (but he signed an extension:( ). Same with Duren sign and trade. Stew, Lavert should be gone.

Who are you blaming for this Pistons Game 7 Performance?

@Ricotheplvg2 @JWeinbachNBA Give him some grace, played 14 games in 3wks, all of them high pressure. At the end he was running on fumes, had nothing left in the tank. For a young player, this is where you need vets to step up and shoulder some load.

@JWeinbachNBA Dat niggas is pure garbage, no REAL NBA superstar is gonna end the game with 13 points and let his team get dog walked in a must win game 7. Dude was literally just walking up nd down the court , GAMBLING AT ITS FINEST.

The Pistons won 60 games, earned the top seed in the East, and established a winning culture this season. Despite the disappointing second-round exit, Detroit should be a force in the East for years to come with a promising foundation led by All-NBA guard Cade Cunningham.

“Why can’t you respect people’s political choices and opinions?” Well, it is because it’s a matter of self-defense. This picture was taken in 1970. These two leftist girls joined the revolution to bring in the Ayatollah. That’s his picture. Well, immediately after he consolidated power, he turned against his liberal supporters. He killed thousands. But the tragic part is that the same Ayatollah killed one of the girls in this picture. And the other had to flee. The question is: if these girls had known that the man they were bringing into power would eventually kill them, would they still have supported him? Or if they had known, and then saw others trying to bring him into power, would they have opposed them or simply “respected their choices”? Many people think we are merely playing politics. I will either be a direct victim or a beneficiary of the eventual political outcome. Why then shouldn’t I oppose those I believe are supporting a candidate I’m convinced is against my existential well-being? Politics is self-preservation and self-defense. If someone wants to hurt me, should I simply respect their choice to do so? Policies kill. When Buhari mindlessly rendered the old naira untenable, people literally died because there was a cash shortage and they could not pay hospital bills. Politics is about life and death. Tinubu negotiates with terrorists. I heard they took tons of pupils from a school in Ondo a couple of days ago. Would you have the effrontery to tell the parents of such children to “respect your political choice” when the man you’re campaigning for has implicitly contributed to them losing a child? Those of you who support Tinubu should know that we are not politicians like you. We are national pragmatists. We know policies will affect our lives. So, if your political choice threatens my self-preservation, it is only rational self-defence for me to oppose you on that opinion. And with all civility, humility, wisdom, and vociferous resolve, we will oppose such opinions.

Mr Peter Obi, was once invited by the Chief Tax Officer in Onitsha to present evidence that he has paid his tax for six years. He honour the invitation & showed the Chief Tax Officer, Mrs Nwakpudolu Juliet, not his six years tax clearance certificate, but his more twenty years tax clearance certificates. He said that it is important that citizens pay their taxes. This is how it should be done: When people say you don't have something, you present it, not to hire twenty SANs to defend you, or to keep quiet, or to blame someone else for your crimes.

Awesome news👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. The blood of all the Christians he slaughtered will rise in condemnation of his damned soul🙏🏾

Do you know what happened in the last 24 hours? 1. Late on Thursday night @FBI agents landed at New York Stewart International Airport with Mohammad al Saadi in handcuffs. Al Saadi, the leader of an Iran-backed Iraqi terror group is allegedly responsible for more than 20 attacks across Europe and Canada and for planning attacks in the U.S.. 2. Jose Enrique Martinez Flores, who goes by “Chuqui," the highest ranking Tren de Aragua leader to be extradited to the U.S., also just landed in the U.S. in shackles. Flores allegedly oversaw TdA’s drug trafficking, extortion rackets, prostitution rings and murder operations. Then, last night, in an operation that makes any fictional representation look amateurish, American operators, working with local Nigerian forces, killed Abu-Bilal-al-Minuki, the second in command for ISIS global operations, a man with the blood of countless innocents on his hands, including many Christians. This is just one day in the Counterterrorism operations of President @realDonaldTrump. We salute the intelligence professionals, Law Enforcement Officers, Diplomats, Military operators and support personnel who make these operations possible 24/7. @WhiteHouse @DeptofWar @TheJusticeDept @StateDept

@BrandonHathaw12 @sethjlevy Richard Lugar back in 2012

@sethjlevy Cassidy lost and is the first incumbent Senator that didn’t finish in the top 2 in a primary since 1944. What other Senator lost their primary? I forgot

If you think a primary for a congressman in Kentucky at all compares to two sitting Republican Senators losing their primaries in one cycle after another retired because he knew he couldn’t win a primary then you are a wildly biased individual with zero historical perspective.

There’s a silent disaster happening in Nigeria that nobody wants to confront honestly. We keep shouting about unemployment, bad leadership, low productivity, corruption, poor healthcare, failed institutions and why our country is not working. But many people are avoiding the root cause. Our education system has been deeply compromised. A student enters secondary school or university full of dreams, intelligence and potential. Then the system teaches them something dangerous: “You do not need competence to succeed.” WAEC malpractice. NECO malpractice. GCE runs. Sorting. Sex for grades. Extortion. Intimidation. Victimization. Handout rackets. “See me after class.” “Talk to your lecturer.” “Settle this course.” And after 4 or 5 years of surviving that environment, we expect excellence to magically appear. It won’t. A country cannot repeatedly reward dishonesty in classrooms and expect integrity in government offices, hospitals, engineering sites, courtrooms and businesses. This is where many of our unemployable graduates are coming from. Not because Nigerians are not intelligent. Not because our youths are lazy. But because too many people were trained inside a system where merit was murdered. The painful part is this: UNN, UNILAG, FUTO, ABU, UI, IMSU, ABSU and many others are using largely the same NUC-regulated curriculum. The difference is standards. The universities that still command respect are usually the ones with stronger resistance against sorting, extortion and academic fraud. The ones collapsing in reputation are often the ones where corruption became normalized. Once a student realizes they can buy an “A” with ₦20,000, or sleep their way through a course, or manipulate results through connections, the motivation to truly learn starts dying slowly. And when millions of such graduates enter the labor market, the entire country pays the price. That weak engineer may eventually supervise a bridge. That poorly trained nurse may handle a patient. That compromised accountant may manage public funds. That fake first-class graduate may become a lecturer and reproduce the same cycle again. This is no longer just an education problem. It is a national security problem. Countries become great because they protect competence fiercely. Singapore did it. China did it. Germany did it. South Korea did it. You cannot build a first-world country with a third-world attitude towards education integrity. Nigeria does not have a shortage of talent. Nigeria has a shortage of systems that protect excellence. And until we become ruthless about fighting academic corruption, exam malpractice, sorting, sex-for-grades and institutional intimidation, we will continue producing certificates instead of competence. This fight is bigger than schools. It is about the future survival of Nigeria itself.

Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme). Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident. Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité. Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison. Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme. Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable. Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion. C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part. Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes. Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre. Alors pardon. Et au travail.

“We’ve had free speech in the UK for a very very long time”. That’s what Keir Starmer said to President Trump. But now look at what just happened in the UK in the last 48 hours alone. ➡️ Starmer’s government is pushing ahead with plans to scrap jury trials that will trash our ancient traditions, despite these never appearing in the Labour manifesto. ➡️Starmer’s government is pushing ahead with plans to impose Digital ID - a naked power grab - despite this also never appearing in the Labour manifesto. ➡️Starmer’s government is pushing ahead with plans to impose EU single market rules and laws which will cost the people billions of pounds while stripping us of our sovereignty, going against the democratic Brexit vote, and leaving us unable to influence EU decisions. ➡️ And Starmer’s government just BANNED conservatives from entering Britain on the grounds they are “not conducive to the public good” while allowing Islamist sympathisers & anti-Semites to stream across our border every day. Are they “conducive to the public good?” As I explain in my newsletter below, contrary to what Keir Starmer tells you this is all happening. We face a sustained attack on our freedoms. And so the quicker not just Keir Starmer but this authoritarian Labour government is removed from power the better. They’ve never understood the British people. They’ve never understood our ancient traditions. And they’ve never understood our country.

A while ago, I watched the infamous 47-minute video documenting the atrocities of October 7th — the one not made publicly available, to protect the privacy of the victims. The worst part of this video is not what it displays, but who is displaying it: the perpetrators themselves. Gleefully. Sadistically. Unabashedly. Most of the footage was filmed by Hamas terrorists on their GoPro bodycams, some also by ordinary Gazan civilians on their cellphones. Even the Nazis tried to cover up their atrocities, but Hamas brags about theirs for the entire world to see. The killers are euphoric throughout the massacre, and their relentless, ecstatic cries of "Allahu Akbar" (punctuated by the occasional "Kill the Jew!") are simply nauseating. Some images are seared into my memory forever. I will never forget the two boys in their underwear — one with his eye socket hanging out of his face — asking his brother whether he thinks they're going to die, while the Hamas monster who had just thrown a grenade in their saferoom helps himself to a drink from their fridge, taking a casual break from the slaughter. Neither will I ever forget the terrorists playing football with a severed head. Or the Thai migrant worker whose head is viciously hacked off with a garden hoe — another "Zionist colonizer" getting what he deserved, right?quillette.substack.com/p/what-did-you… Or the throngs of Gazans crowding around pickup trucks loaded with the mutilated corpses of Jewish women, filming and spitting on the bodies. Or the woman in Kibbutz Mefalsim, crouching and begging in vain for mercy. There is some evidence of sexual violence in the video — the charred corpse of a young woman with her legs splayed and her genitals exposed — but not much. Apparently even Hamas draws a line somewhere: they are not as proud of raping Jewish women as they are of murdering them. Or, more likely, they simply didn't want to embarrass the delicate sensibilities of their legions of useful idiots in the West. But yes — there was rape. Not "rape" in scare quotes, as the apologists would have it, but sadistic, murderous sexual violence, documented in a new damning new report by The Civil Commission, an independent Israeli women's rights NGO. (video summary here: youtube.com/watch?v=K7fJuz…) Across its 180 pages, the report describes "a recurring pattern of rape and gang rape; sexual torture; mutilation; targeted shooting to the face, head and genital area; forced nudity; binding and restraint; genital burning; objects inserted into intimate areas; post-mortem sexual humiliation; and execution during or after sexual assault." And it was premeditated and organized. The terrorists crossing into Israel carried printed Arabic-to-Hebrew phrasebooks with handy expressions like "take off your pants," "lie down," "spread your legs," and "don't make trouble." I wonder why they expected to need those particular phrases? I know one thing: no civilized country on earth would tolerate the existence of an organization like Hamas on its border after October 7th. Not one. This includes every self-righteous Westerner currently lecturing Israel from thousands of kilometres away, without an inch of skin in the game. dailymail.com/news/article-1…

Democrats are reacting badly to the VA Supreme Court striking down their attempted gerrymander, which would have resulted in 10-1 representation in the House of Representatives in their favor. One idea being floated is to lower the retirement age of justices so that the entire current court would become retroactively ineligible to serve. Then Governor Spanberger could appoint an entirely new court, which would rubber stamp the gerrymander before Congressional elections this fall. It's wild - something to keep in mind whenever you hear someone attacking the GOP for its violation of our sacred "norms."