Pam Rasmussen

These kids weren’t born this way. We did this to them. We handed them devices during the darkest days of the pandemic and told them it was “education.” We normalized constant connectivity as “engagement.” And now we are shocked that they cannot sit through a 50 to 90-minute class without phantom vibrations pulsing in their pockets. I am begging you, please, for the love of God and these kids, let us return to what actually worked. Give them paper textbooks again. Real books with spines that crack when you open them, pages that smell like 1997, margins where they can scribble their thoughts and doodles in pencil. Let them underline, circle, argue in the white space. Let them feel the weight of knowledge in their hands instead of the weightless scroll of a screen. Hand them pencils, actual wooden pencils, and watch their handwriting slow down long enough for their brains to catch up. The research is clear, but more than that, my daily experience is undeniable… when the screens go away, something in them wakes up. They remember more. They argue more passionately. They sit longer with hard ideas. They endure. And for the love of everything holy in education, institute a complete, bell-to-bell ban on cell phones. Not “in your bag on silent.” Not “face down on the desk.” Not “only for emergencies.” Banned. Collected at the door, locked away until the final bell. Because every single time that tiny rectangle vibrates in a pocket, it rips another thread from the fragile fabric of their attention. We are not preparing them for the “real world” by letting them live in their pockets; we are training them to be terrible humans, distracted, shallow, unable to listen, unable to wait, unable to be present. They deserve better. They deserve to be here, fully, with us. I am not anti-technology. I am pro-child. I am pro-future. And right now our students are being robbed of the ability to think deeply, to read deeply, to feel deeply. Their eyes are tired. Their spirits are restless. Their minds are starving for something real in a world that keeps feeding them pixels. Please. Let us give them back the classroom they deserve. Let us give them paper, pencils, and the quiet dignity of undivided attention. Let us save them from the very devices we once thought would save them. Because if we don’t act now, we won’t just lose their focus. We will lose them.

@sporkfriendly @andrew3695555 @allenanalysis Trump hates anyone who doesn't fawn on him, flatter him, or is in a position to be of benefit to him - regardless of their nationality.

@andrew3695555 @allenanalysis Trump fucking hatess americans.

The President of Iran just published an open letter on X addressed directly to the American people. 860,000 views. 20,000 likes. 6,500 retweets. Read it carefully — not for what it says. For what it doesn’t say.

@allenanalysis Trump has made his priorities clear and none of them serve the interests of everyday Americans.

🚨Trump today: “We can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country. We’re fighting wars. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.” The United States has spent: $21 billion on the Iran war in 30 days. $100 million on Trump’s golf tab this term. $200 billion requested for Pentagon weapons. $8 trillion on wars since September 11th. But daycare is not possible. Medicare is not possible. Medicaid — which covers 72 million Americans including children, seniors, and people with disabilities — is not possible.

In 1930, rural Virginia, a Black girl born into sharecropping poverty wasn't supposed to leave the tobacco fields. But Gladys Mae Brown had other plans.... Her hands picked crops. Her mind solved equations no one asked her to solve. Her parents, despite barely scraping by, made a choice that defied every expectation placed on them. They kept her in school. She became valedictorian at a segregated high school with torn textbooks and broken windows. She earned a scholarship to Virginia State College in an era when being Black, female, and intellectually brilliant meant the world tried to crush you three different ways. In 1956, she walked through the doors of the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren as the second Black woman they'd ever hired. Four Black employees. Hundreds of white men. Most didn't think she'd survive the week. They were catastrophically wrong. Gladys calculated weapons trajectories by hand. Complex differential equations that consumed hours of meticulous work. Her accuracy became legendary. When computers arrived, she didn't resist the future. She learned Fortran. She mastered programming languages. She transformed weeks of calculations into hours. Then came Seasat in the 1970s. The first satellite studying Earth's oceans from orbit. She became project manager. But her true contribution remained hidden in the mathematics. For GPS to function, you need Earth's exact shape. Not close. Exact. Earth isn't a smooth sphere. It's an asymmetrical, gravity-distorted, irregular mass of mountains and ocean trenches. Gladys spent years constructing mathematical models describing every deviation, every curve, every gravitational anomaly of our planet's true form. She analyzed satellite data. She built geoid models. Tedious, invisible, revolutionary work. That mathematics became the foundation of GPS. Every navigation app. Every emergency rescue. Every autonomous vehicle. Every precision farming system. Her equations make it possible. Forty-two years at Dahlgren. Retirement in 1998. GPS fully operational worldwide. Billions of users. Almost nobody knew her name. She raised three children. Earned her PhD at seventy after surviving a stroke. Lived quietly. Until 2018, when someone at a sorority event read her biography aloud. The room went silent. The story exploded. At eighty-eight, Gladys West was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame. The world finally learned her name. She mapped the entire planet. Then everyone forgot. Until they remembered. Gladys West worked alongside her husband Ira West, who was also a mathematician at the Naval Proving Ground. They met at Dahlgren and built both a family and parallel careers in an environment that actively discriminated against them. After retirement, she didn't stop. She earned her PhD from Virginia Tech at age 70, proving that intellectual curiosity doesn't have an expiration date. The GPS system relies on something called the geoid, a mathematical model of Earth's shape that accounts for gravitational variations. Gladys West's calculations helped create these models by analyzing millions of data points from satellite altimetry. Without accurate geoid models, GPS coordinates would be off by hundreds of meters, making the technology essentially useless. Her story remained hidden partly because classified military work doesn't generate headlines. Many pioneers of satellite and navigation technology worked in obscurity for national security reasons. The sorority member who recognized her contribution was reading through Alpha Kappa Alpha biographies when she noticed the GPS connection and brought it to public attention. © Women Stories #drthehistories

@mmpadellan April Fools Day to you, too! 🤣

TWEEPS: After a great deal of soul searching, I can no longer bring myself to oppose the incredible achievements, intellect, and compassion of President Trump. I know I may lose some followers for this, but at some point you have to acknowledge unmatched leadership and vision when you see it, even if it’s unpopular. Yes, there of many of you with whom I have previously disagreed, but I now see that January 6th was a fully justified freedom of speech. And it actually is good that we have a President who takes the time to enrich himself and his friends at the expense of hard working Americans. April Fools... that fucker is insane and unfit.

If the 14th amendment was only meant to protect the “babies of slaves” then the 2nd Amendment is only meant to protect the right to own a musket.

Great to know that DHS is so very grateful to our Marines. When one adds this to 1) the many ways in which veterans’ benefits have been cut, 2) resources at veteran medical care facilities have been slashed, & 3) new & difficult requirements have been introduced that make it much harder for veterans to get medication & certain medical treatment covered, it’s tough not to conclude that administration truly values those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for this country. Imagine if the administration didn’t value our service members as much as it did. It might be willing to put them in harm’s way with little thought or planning & against the advice of senior officers in the military…

@TruthMatters825 @RepMikeLevin Trump took those specific documents for a reason, then tried to hide them, lied repeatedly that he didn't have them or they had been returned, and tried to get others to lie on his behalf. Why was he so intent on obtaining and keeping them?

More people need to be talking about this. Remember the classified documents case Trump made disappear the second he took office? The one he was facing 40 felony counts for? The one where a judge he appointed buried the Special Counsel’s report? Well, Washington Republicans handed Congress documents last week to clear his name, and it backfired. BADLY. Because those documents contained evidence that Trump was showing passengers on his private plane some of the most CLASSIFIED secrets in existence — material so sensitive that only SIX people in the entire U.S. government had clearance to see it. This isn’t over. axios.com/2026/03/25/tru…

@WordWanderer @KSil855363 @RepMikeLevin He also had them moved multiple times in an attempt to hide them from the FBI and tried to convince people to lie about their existence / location.

@KSil855363 @RepMikeLevin She had a handful that were classified after the fact. Trump had hundreds in a ballroom and bathroom and refused to return them under a subpoena

@KSil855363 @RepMikeLevin Information Clinton sent through the unsecured server was classified at the time; that designation was applied afterwards. Unlike Trump, who was very much aware he was removing classified documents. (He later tried to claim he could unclassify them just by thinking it.)

@RepMikeLevin Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was storing and sending classified information from an unsecure server at home, a serious breach of the law. Democrats allege Trump had some classified documents at home, which seems picayune in comparison.

@mjfree @grok Also per Grok: Visible improvement: By 4–8 weeks, the surface is usually closed, though the area may still look pink, slightly indented, or irregular.

@grok But it was healed in less than a week. Perfectly. He wore gauze for a couple days and it was healed.

Hey @Grok - How did Donald Trump's ear grow back so quickly after being shot? My doctor says ears don't grow back like that. Can you do some quick research and let me know. Thanks! MJF

When the whole world learned about Bucha. About Ukrainians butchered in the streets of Bucha by Russian occupiers. About our people tortured in basements. About those shot on the roads. About adults and children whose bodies were found in graves in Bucha. Everyone saw the horror that Russia and its aggression bring. They saw what Ukraine is really defending itself against. Today, on the fourth anniversary of Bucha’s liberation from Russian occupiers, we honored the memory of Ukrainians who were killed and tortured there. We remember and will never forget what the enemy did. Every Russian murderer, executioner, and terrorist must be held accountable for every crime against our people. Blessed be the memory of everyone whose lives were taken by Russia – to all who were killed in Bucha and across Ukraine at the hands of Russian occupiers.

@VP Great! When are you going to stop the blatant insider training and corruption involving Trump, his sons, his inner circle and his billionaire cronies?

“[Fraud] has to stop. The President of the United states has ordered us to stop it, and that's what this task force is going to do” - Vice President Vance🇺🇸

Schools were not forcing kids to have transgender surgery. Babies were not being aborted after they were born. Migrants were not crossing the border to vote for Kamala Harris. Donald Trump is a pathological liar and, if you believed this shit, you are a pathological dumbass.

In October 2020; under the presidency of Donald Trump, the U.S. army announced it was going to disband the Asymmetric Warfare Group. The AWG offered support to US soldiers, boots on the ground; when facing unconventional, asymmetric threats. “Asymmetric warfare” emerged as the

@laf1rick @micyoung75 @Scaramucci George Washington's 1783 Newburgh address - you can look it up.

@micyoung75 @Scaramucci You continue to vomit statements that didn’t occur. TDS much?!

At Newburgh in 1783, Washington walked into a room of soldiers who wanted to march on Congress and install him as a constitutional monarch. He reached into his pocket for his eyeglasses — the calculated theater of a man who understood exactly what the moment required — and said he had grown not only gray but nearly blind in the service of his country. Some men broke into tears. The conspiracy died in that room. Nichols asks us to sit with what Washington chose not to do in that moment. A lesser man, he writes, would have nodded and taken the throne. Washington had the army, the love of the citizenry, and a government too weak to stop him. He chose to go home instead. Trump stood in Arlington National Cemetery and looked at the graves of the honored dead and said: “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” He said that in the same country, about the same army, whose commander-in-chief he was. The distance between those two men is not partisan. It is the entire argument for why the republic was designed the way it was.

@Doublemindedman @micyoung75 George Washington's 1783 Newburgh address - but you're too lazy to look it up.

@micyoung75 Fake quote is fake

Zelensky just connected the dots nobody in Washington wants to connect. Russia is photographing US military bases for Iran. Diego Garcia. Prince Sultan. Al Udeid. Incirlik. Kuwait Airport. Saudi oil fields. All imaged. All passed to Iran. All within 72 hours. This isn’t just an Iran war anymore. Russia is Iran’s eyes in space — while America discusses lifting sanctions on Russia. Think about that. You’re fighting Iran with one hand. You’re rewarding the country feeding Iran targeting data with the other. Zelensky’s question is simple and devastating: How do you lift sanctions on a country actively helping your enemy find your bases? Nobody in DC has answered that yet. @ZelenskyyUa #Russia #Iran #IranWar #Ukraine #Geopolitics

@beecrab @TheTNHoller @LouiseMont Whether it was authorized or not, it has been confirmed that a flyover of the protest did happen.

@TheTNHoller @LouiseMont There isn’t the slightest possibility they would be authorized to do that. It’s AI.

How much is it costing taxpayers for Trump to send military helicopters to do fly-bys for washed up *musicians* and try to intimidate NASHVILLE protestors?

@DonaldMichael @TheTNHoller Coming from a Democrat, I have no problem with her being held accountable and losing her seat if found guilty. But it must be applied equally, with no pardons from Trump for Republicans found guilty of a serious crime. Do you agree?

@TheTNHoller Not as much as the fraud committed by Democrats