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@GBNEWS @Jacob_Rees_Mogg Canada was in a similar situation. They swapped leaders and won an election. I suspect the UK Labour party will try the same strategy. The question is when.

‘I don’t think Starmer will last, I don’t know who will take over, but whoever it is should face you, the voters, and not just assume the reins of power as if by divine right.’ @Jacob_Rees_Mogg believes that it should be the right of voters to choose the Prime Minister.

@kaitlancollins At least he chose a good comparison. He probably thinks Vietnam was a draw.

"Don't rush me," President Trump says when asked about Iran. "So were in Vietnam for 18 years. Iraq, many, many years....I've been doing this for...six weeks."

@RealLindellTV @RepJeffries Washington dc is a swamp with endemic corruption in both parties.

🚨 We asked Hakeem Jeffries three questions about Ilhan Omar's $30M scandal... "Leader Jeffries - Omar's net worth went from $30 MILLION to under $100K. She's dissolving a fake winery. Does this warrant a House Ethics investigation?" @RepJeffries: "Not brought to my attention… she's under attack by right-wing conspiracy theorists… We're focused on Trump's war, the economy…" @Ilhan Omar slashed from her net worth. Dissolved her ghost winery. 9 days apart. But the House Minority Leader has no idea. Democrats protect their own at all costs. Sure, Hakeem. 🙄

@shellenberger In Australia, universities have also lost their way. They have become degree factories and backdoors to citizenship. They have no problem producing some degrees that provide no job but a big debt. The VCs are on $1M + salaries. Teachers are treated poorly. They don’t pay tax. …

Yale University released a candid report last week documenting why Americans no longer trust higher education in general and the Ivy League in particular. A ten-person faculty committee spent a year examining the collapse. One-third of Yale undergraduates, they note, no longer feel free to express political views in class, up from 17% in 2015. Public confidence in colleges and universities fell from 57% a decade ago to a historic low of 36% in 2024, according to Gallup. Seventy percent of Americans today say the sector is heading in the wrong direction. And Americans are more skeptical of Ivy League universities than any others. But the report fails to identify the cause of the rising censorship and public mistrust, and Yale’s special role in it: the intellectual assault on Western civilization. That academic attack, or “deconstruction,” is aimed at undermining the central commitments of Western civilization, including the pursuit of truth. And it has been going on at Yale and other universities since the 1980s, and arguably longer. There are, of course, other reasons for the worsening of the quality of American universities. The Yale report identifies several contributing factors, each of which is real. Social media amplifies conformity and shaming, and smartphones distract attention. Activist administrators enforce political dogma and overstep their role. Yale employs more than 6,000 managerial staff, roughly matching the undergraduate population. Students self-police. And there is grade inflation. But many of those are downstream of the prior assault on the foundations of the West. When professors teach that all claims to truth mask power, students learn that the moral move is to shame dissenters rather than argue with them. When an institution declares that its mission is “improving the world today,” as Yale’s 2016 mission statement now does, rather than the older and narrower goal of seeking the truth and creating and preserving knowledge, everything becomes political. The Yale report treats self-censorship as a generalized climate, noting carefully that “discomfort appears to be rising across the spectrum.” The phrasing implies symmetry, but a survey of 517 Yale in fall 2025 found that 79% of Republican students say they often self-censor in classroom discussions, while only 29% of Democratic students report the same. A separate survey found that 75% of Republican students and 47% of independents self-censored, compared with 26% of Democrats. In December 2025, researchers found that across Yale’s 43 undergraduate departments, the Law School, and the School of Management, 82.3% of identified faculty are registered Democrats or donate heavily to Democratic candidates, while only 2.3% are Republicans. That is a 36-to-1 ratio. At the School of Management, the ratio runs 78 to 1. At Yale Law School, the faculty is 94% Democrat versus 1.5% Republican. The Political Science department identified exactly one Republican. Twenty-seven of 43 undergraduate departments contained zero Republicans, and three departments contained neither a Republican nor an independent. All of this matters because Yale has a broad societal impact. For example, the “Yale and Slavery Teachers Institute” trains K-12 teachers and promotes teaching the 1619 Project to fourth through sixth graders. The 1619 Project, created and promoted by the New York Times, argues that America began with slavery, not with the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. The 1619 Project frames the United States as essentially racist. The reality is significantly more complex. Thousands of Americans died during the Civil War to end slavery. The Civil Rights Movement is widely viewed as a high point in American history. And the US has taken extraordinary efforts, far beyond other nations, to reduce racial discrimination to the point of creating widespread racial preferences for nonwhites in hiring, contracting, and admissions. No one is arguing that slavery, colonialism, and racial injustice should not be taught, but rather that it should be taught rigorously and in full historical context. Few who peruse Yale’s teaching of slavery will view it as fair or balanced. Instead, it trains teachers to teach children that America is dominated by “white supremacy” and that black people remain victims of it, a false and demoralizing message. The report notes the partisan imbalance in passing but pivoted to the softer language of “intellectual pluralism” and “echo chambers,” calling for department self-studies. It never asks the obvious question: what is the intellectual source of that imbalance?... x.com/shellenberger/… Please subscribe now to support Public's defense of free speech, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video! x.com/shellenberger/…

Trust in universities fell 57% to 36% in the last decade, and 70% of Americans say they're headed in the wrong direction. A new Yale report whitewashes the reason why: because they're obsessed with teaching students to hate Western civilization and American values.

@Riley_Gaines_ Useful idiots are everywhere.

Notice there was zero pushback from the NYT. Just about any murder can be justified using this logic and the hosts just smile and nod their heads.

@ggreenwald We still haven’t seen any credible evidence that nuclear weapons were imminent. At least there was a fraudulent dossier to try to justify the Iraq war. At this point no sensible person would trust Trump’s word on such an important matter.

Trump is now completely reliant for every answer on the same exact claim used to sell the Iraq War: They're getting nukes; they'll give them to terrorist groups; they'll take out our cities; be afraid; we have to bear whatever cost to stop their WMD program.

@ThomasSowell Envy is a cardinal sin.

Tim Walz: "It’s okay in America to be successful, we should celebrate that. My beef is once you get successful, don’t be a greedy bastard and not pay your taxes. What we should demonize is people like Elon Musk."

@piersmorgan He has already been humiliated many times. He doesn’t seem to notice or care.

If I were Keir Starmer, I’d quit now over the Mandelson scandal - before the May local elections, which will be a historically humiliating repudiation of his entire agenda.

@ggreenwald Trump is so delusional these days there is a good chance he will have to be forcefully removed at the end of his term.

- The Trump/Netanyahu war is well into its eighth week - ninth week starts Sunday -- not 6 weeks as Trump claimes here. - The day he started the war, Trump told the NYT it'd be over in 4-5 weeks max. - Trump always had and has the option to end the war early without the war aims achieved. If he wants the war aims achieved, it will required protracted warfare and/or criminal levels of destruction. That's the dilemma he created for himself and the country.

@DrewPavlou @PeteZogoulas It was designed and approved to be a $15b scheme.

Labor just announced plans to slightly reduce NDIS spending from $55 billion next year to $52 billion @PeteZogoulas There's no actual cut - they plan to do this by reducing the scheme's growth from 10% to 2%. Senator Fatima Payman posted a video claiming that this will result in the mass killing of disabled people. Realistically the current plan is the one that puts disabled people most at risk because the failed market system continues to allow organised crime gangs to infiltrate the NDIS and threaten participants. So this ''reform package'' is like trying to throw a tea spoon of water on a bush fire.

@GetUpESPN @KendrickPerkins This reflects poorly on their coach.

"The Rockets are the dumbest team, and the most selfish team, in the postseason." —@KendrickPerkins on the Rockets following their Game 2 loss vs. Lakers 😳

@JustKimfromoz It is still a big number.

Now this is common sense! Vote One Nation 🇦🇺

@RositaDaz48 If they got pay for performance, they would have to pay us.

IMHO .. they are overpaid ..

TRUST IN TRUMP 🇺🇸📈

@PramilaJayapal Envy is a cardinal sin.

Elon Musk's net worth: $805 billion. That's more than the bottom 53% of Americans combined. His effective tax rate: 3.3%. A truck driver pays 8.4%. Tax the rich.

@goodfoodgal And $1T of national debt.

Arrogance + Incompetence = Really deep shit.

@TheCinesthetic Manchester by Sea … powerful scene.

what scene do you consider a masterpiece?

@BestMovieMom Still plenty of income to come … I will be buying it when it’s available online.

Ryan Gosling’s PROJECT HAIL MARY is tracking to cross the $600M mark at the global box office this weekend.

@nikiscevak Helps to explain why a resource rich country has $1T in national debt.

Australia has 5x the number of public servants per capita than China 🙈

@AlboMP Really? Where was the 90+ days of strategic fuel reserves? Where was the covid Royal Commission to better prepare for the next pandemic? Where is the investment in oil extraction and onshore refineries? Where is the protection of key manufacturing capacity? Come on man.

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