Marvin Smith

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Marvin Smith

Marvin Smith

@smith_marv19191

Just an old guy who retired from Higher Ed. Fine art painter and writer. Reposts do not imply agreement. I do not often respond to DMs.

Pacific Northwest Katılım Mayıs 2024
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Marvin Smith
Marvin Smith@smith_marv19191·
Cowles Company to donate the Spokesman-Review and $2M to Comma, after a community match of $2M khq.com/news/cowles-co…
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Marvin Smith
Marvin Smith@smith_marv19191·
@Oilfield_Rando @WelbornBeege I wonder if these people are also concerned about inflated profit margins in Somali run daycares and autism treatment centers.
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Hidden in Frame
Hidden in Frame@HiddenFrame_·
In "The Odyssey" (2026), Odysseus speaks with a Boston accent, despite being from Ithaca, which is in New York.
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ShadowJ
ShadowJ@shadowJ47·
Yeah, that was supposed to be the rule but blue states like NY just ignore federal regs whenever it suits them. “Proficiency” got redefined down to basically nothing so they could churn out more cheap drivers. This guy proved it — behind the wheel of a passenger bus and couldn’t even communicate with responders. The whole system’s been gamed. Time to enforce the actual law again.
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ShadowJ
ShadowJ@shadowJ47·
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 This is straight BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS. A whole Massachusetts family wiped out—Mom, Dad, their 13-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son—burned alive in their Acura after a Chinese immigrant bus driver slammed into them at full speed on I-95 in Virginia. Another 25-year-old woman dead in the Suburban he crushed. Dozens more injured, some critical. The driver? Jing S. Dong, 48, from Staten Island. Naturalized citizen who DOESN’T SPEAK ENGLISH. Got his New York CDL anyway in 2024 and was hauling a bus full of people down the highway. Couldn’t read the signs, couldn’t slow for the work zone, couldn’t even talk to first responders. This isn’t tragedy. This is reckless, predictable FAILURE from Democrat-run states handing out heavyweight licenses like candy for “diversity” and cheap labor. Federal rules require English proficiency for a reason—New York ignored them. Now American kids are in the ground. ENOUGH with the lowered standards that put foreigners first and our families last. Rip up these scam licenses, enforce REAL safety rules, and hold every politician and bureaucrat accountable who enabled this slaughter. No more dead children on our roads.
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David Keyes
David Keyes@DavidMKeyes·
🚨🚨🚨 After much back and forth, the President has made a VERY bold decision. True leadership!
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Marvin Smith
Marvin Smith@smith_marv19191·
@dianesbaker1 @rparloff @davidfrum I suggest you spend a bit more time and energy on BC politics since you posit you have “… so much to offer.” Leave U.S. politics to its citizenry.
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Diane S. Baker
Diane S. Baker@dianesbaker1·
@rparloff @davidfrum R Grenell, an incompetent muppet, wouldn’t know how to be a managing director, etc. Dump has a lifetime record of business failures. As he is a felon, cannot suddenly be the “draw”.
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Roger Parloff
Roger Parloff@rparloff·
As for Trump's "last-ditch" claim (filed 5/26) that removing his name from the Kennedy Center would render it "financially nonviable," Judge Cooper drop-kicked it in a footnote: untimely; "zero evidentiary value"; "unsupported opinion" & "contradicted by the record" & 60 yrs of history.
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Jeffrey W. Ludwig 🇺🇸 🇮🇱
@DavidMKeyes How many times has Trump said this and within a few days totally backtracks? One has to wonder when Trump refers to “unconditional surrender” that he is referring to the US surrendering.
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UAP Juan
UAP Juan@planethunter56·
“Full disclosure, to the whole world… all at once.”
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KatiewalkswithGod
KatiewalkswithGod@immortalnchrist·
@MarioNawfal Fatboy is a Freemason bloodline working for IHS octagon like that psychopath @TuckerCarlson hiding fact that millennial reign of Christ happened their bloodlines did genocides in 1800s hid it set up Freemason Disneyland w their fake churches frogs I’m calling the fire
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Mario Nawfal
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal·
Rev. Dr. Stephen De Young breaks down how the absurd ages in Genesis and the Sumerian king lists might be encoded in Babylonian base-60 math, which is why we still have 60 seconds in a minute today. The wild part: the seventh king in the Sumerian list invented the solar calendar, and Enoch, the seventh from Adam in Genesis, lived exactly 365 years. Ancient texts are hiding math in plain sight. Source: @TCNetwork
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Oye Sam
Oye Sam@Oyelens·
@MarioNawfal Interesting theory, but it assumes that the ages in Genesis were intentionally encoded using Babylonian mathematics. The evidence for that is far from settled.
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TradingMaster
TradingMaster@MichaelMi39403·
@MarioNawfal Fascinating take; base-60 math linking Genesis ages to Sumerian kings shows ancient wisdom encoded in numbers. Enoch’s 365 years aligning with the solar year is brilliant.
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Brent Scher
Brent Scher@BrentScher·
Who is paying MTG to post about an “America First” challenge to Marco Rubio and JD Vance for the 2028 presidential run? Doing paid promotion from what was once her official account is great grifting.
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John Devlin
John Devlin@Devlinside123·
No, you’re not understanding…these are prospective STEM students…they’ve already gotten A’s in precalc…and now it turns out they can’t do basic algebra(middle school math) What would be interesting is to test the humanity types…their math would be even worse… And why isn’t anyone bringing up the English side of the equation? Does anyone honestly believe the institutional rot that’s been shown in math preparedness is any better in English? And now there’s AI to paper over all these deficiencies…🙄
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Steve McGuire
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79·
A new report shows that 30% of Berkeley Calculus students are severely underprepared. These students have “non-passing rates as high as 46%.” From 2021-2023, “over 800 students (or 24% of the total population) did not pass their Calculus I classes.” Of the 500 among them who were tested for proficiency, “-63.6% came from the proficiency tier with severe preparation deficiency (0-2); -30.2% came from the proficiency tier of underprepared students (3-6); -6.2% came from the proficiency tier of prepared students (7-8).” “Obscuring these preparation gaps does not provide access; it provides a near-guaranteed introduction to failure for our most vulnerable students.”
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"Current admissions practices do not provide a sufficiently reliable check on mathematical readiness for STEM majors." Over 280 University of California STEM faculty have signed an open letter calling on the Board of Regents to reinstate standardized testing in admissions:

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Marvin Smith
Marvin Smith@smith_marv19191·
@sfmcguire79 When you are accepting students who have little understanding of limits, especially behavioral, they might have problems with calculus.
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Marvin Smith
Marvin Smith@smith_marv19191·
@Iqbal3961529744 @MarioNawfal So why weren’t “baby bonds” implemented. Just another Dem talking point with no follow through.Grift is their business, their only business.
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Iqbal
Iqbal@Iqbal3961529744·
@MarioNawfal It's Just a Repackaged, Less Helpful Idea: This is basically the "baby bonds" concept championed by Hillary Clinton and Cory Booker, but much weaker
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Mario Nawfal
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal·
🇺🇸 6 million American kids are getting a $1,000 stock portfolio next month whether their parents know about it or not. Trump Accounts launch on July 4th. IRA-style savings accounts for every American under 18, with the government seeding $1,000 for kids born during Trump's second term. Parents can add up to $5,000 a year tax-free. Michael Dell is throwing in $250 per account for kids who missed the cutoff. Nicki Minaj is contributing up to $300,000 for her fans' kids. Leave it alone for 18 years and that $1,000 becomes $10,000-$20,000 minimum. The catch: you have to sign up yourself. Nobody's doing it for you. TrumpAccounts .gov. Form 4547. Go. Source: NY Post
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Marvin Smith
Marvin Smith@smith_marv19191·
@xSaltySatoshi @MarioNawfal Yeah because it is such a burden for new parents, or any parent for that matter, to take responsibility for their children’s future.
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🧂SaltySatoshi 🇺🇸❤️
@MarioNawfal This is one of the positive things Trump has done. The only problem is parents still have to enroll their child through government paperwork. It should be automatic at birth once SS# assigned. Great idea, the law just needs a tweak.
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Mark Gabriele
Mark Gabriele@MarkGabriele22·
@draloneboy This is exactly what they should do. I don't understand why the survivors did not bring at least civil cases against their abusers.
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Dralone&_DR145
Dralone&_DR145@draloneboy·
MAJOR BREAKING: Epstein survivors just announced they will release their own list of names. “We know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-led—for survivors.” The government stalled. Now the victims are doing it themselves.
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