Professor Plum

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Professor Plum

Professor Plum

@dynamiteddan

America First Conservative 🇺🇸 Lawyer ⚖️

United States 加入时间 Kasım 2016
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𝕮𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝐓𝐲𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖓𝐲 XII
@Oilfield_Rando It's because if they remove some Civil Rights Hero, then the leftists will bash them in commercials and TV News channels for weeks about it by claiming "see they are racist or confederate" So no we don't want to wield power the same way -- certainly not for Confederates.
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Professor Plum@dynamiteddan·
@armondboudreaux Then they shouldn’t be freshman. They should be working a job, not pretending to get an education.
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Neetu Arnold
Neetu Arnold@neetu_arnold·
“Sustained classroom performance provides the story that we need to know about your academic preparation. Test scores don’t tell me that. I don’t get too bogged down in SAT data” Bold of the UVA admissions dean to say this when there’s rampant grade inflation in K-12 schools
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee

This is the person at UVA in charge of selecting which students get in: 1) she doesn’t know if out of state students’ SAT scores are higher, 2) measuring academic preparation: “the test scores don’t tell me that,” and 3) says SAT is not as compelling as “the real academic data”

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Unlimited L's@unlimited_ls·
BREAKING: Despite more than 11,000 officers signing a petition to keep NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran out of prison, a judge sentenced him to three to nine years for throwing a cooler that killed a fleeing suspect on a scooter Former NYPD Sergeant Erik Duran was sentenced to three to nine years in prison for the 2023 death of 30-year-old Eric Duprey Prosecutors said Duran threw a cooler at Duprey during an undercover operation as he fled on a scooter Duprey crashed into a tree and die at the scene. Duran was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in February A police union backed Duran and gathered over 11,000 signatures asking for no jail time
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Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee·
This is the person at UVA in charge of selecting which students get in: 1) she doesn’t know if out of state students’ SAT scores are higher, 2) measuring academic preparation: “the test scores don’t tell me that,” and 3) says SAT is not as compelling as “the real academic data”
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Professor Plum@dynamiteddan·
@marcportermagee @BeltwayGreg Outrageous. Standardized tests should be mandatory and scores of admitted students made public. Force them to humiliate the DEI clowns who get in with shitty scores.
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Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee·
@BeltwayGreg 40% of students got in without showing their test scores. Our student tour guide at UVA spent a fair bit of the tour explaining how to get out of the hardest requirements.
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Chris
Chris@chriswithans·
@marcportermagee You can tell her she's being racist against White students but she won't care. You have to tell her she's being racist against Asian students.
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Matt Van Swol
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol·
🚨#BREAKING: Two men in Charlotte NC have been arrested after one man attempted to stand on top of a horse's back in Uptown Charlotte, falls off, and then the horse runs into the street and is hit by a car. It's unclear whether the horse survived. The men have been charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. This is hard to watch...
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Professor Plum@dynamiteddan·
@Iureetde @MorosKostas You’re not an American. You’re not a lawyer. You don’t understand our constitution. Worse, you’re doubling down after being exposed as incorrect on a straightforward issue. Congress can regulate the courts docket. I’ve wasted enough time, Jose. Adios.
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Kostas Moros
Kostas Moros@MorosKostas·
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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OMG It's Derek
OMG It's Derek@omgitsderek·
@XVanFleet Bro, I'm American and I let my kids open up shit all the time that I'm going to pay for. As long as she pays for it who cares
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Professor Plum@dynamiteddan·
@Iureetde @MorosKostas I’ve pointed you to a law that specifically granted the court the ability to choose cases. It was literally called the Certiorari Act. It was an act of Congress. It was meant to reduce the courts workload. It can be repealed! What about this is confusing, foreigner?
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Brian Beck
Brian Beck@tigerhawk310·
@EWErickson In our school district, Rosh Hashanah, Good Friday, and Eid are all days off, without any description of what those days are. Which is the right answer.
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Chris@TrixStar76·
@EWErickson Oh dear how will Christian’s ever survive. Literally the biggest bunch of crybaby snowflakes I’ve ever seen.
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Professor Plum@dynamiteddan·
@Deigenes @alexpriou They have hundreds of thousands of better customers lined up to replace the DEI losers they foolishly admitted
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Brian@Brian5_8_1899·
I was at a dinner party about 2 years ago with an econ professor from the Netherlands and he or she made the same complaint that Brandon is making, and it was an Econ professor, not history or Phil so the reading was presumably much lighter, and he or she said that it was because they all "grew up with screens." There are two people I know who are worth reading on this topic, one is Maryanne Wolf, who has argued that skim reading is the new normal and when you constantly skim, you lose the capacity for deep reading and reflection. She was on Ezra's podcast two years ago and you can listen to that convo by googling it... The other is a guy named Nicholas Car who has made similar points, his most famous piece (I think) is an essay titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” He also has a booked titled "The Shallows." But his basic argument is that the internet trains us toward distraction and we end up with a weak ability to sustain attention on something that is difficult. For what it is worth, the Dutch and Flemish peoples are not woke, it is hard to see that from the outside sometimes, but you would be very surprised how these people talk in private once they get the sense of your politics and feel safe being more candid.
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Brandon Zicha
Brandon Zicha@ProfBZZZ·
A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's. This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates. This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages. What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime. This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12. Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79

79% of grades at Yale are A-range. Graduating summa cum laude requires a record high GPA OF 3.98.

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For me, it is a tax 💚
@dynamiteddan @MorosKostas Indeed, but it does not grants the Congress the power to say how SCOTUS has to decide certiorari. In a rule of law system, the judiciary controls the legislative and the executive.
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Professor Plum@dynamiteddan·
@Iureetde @MorosKostas That’s a very cramped view of what Congress can do here. Section 2 explicitly involves Congress in defining the court’s appellate jurisdiction. You guys are all in for judicial supremacy. Crazy.
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