We need a general tweet of the day thread

There was never even an investigation. None. Nancy blocked it as she was in charge of capitol security as speaker of the house.

But it wasn't arson or timed…

What's the functional difference between the Stanford president and the dazzler? Compare and contrast with a student editor of the conservative Stanford Review and a supposedly elite University president. Bonus question, what is the functional difference between the Stanford Faculty Senate and the dazzler?

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/12/stanford-in-the-hot-seat.php

The Stanford Review, the conservative student newspaper that Peter Thiel and others founded back in the 1980s, managed to persuade Stanford’s new president, economist Jonathan Levin, to sit down for an interview. It’s worth reading the whole thing, but in short the Stanford Review did a great job of putting Levin on the hot seat. Some excerpts, starting with the one that is getting the most attention on social media right now:

Stanford Review: What is the most important problem in the world right now?

President Levin: There’s no answer to that question. There are too many important problems to give you a single answer.

Stanford Review: That is an application question that we have to answer to apply here. . .

 Stanford Review: The first two categories are the buckets of questions that I have. So I’ll move on to my first question about Stanford’s educational and political climate at the present moment. In one of my classes, I was randomly assigned a partner to work on a presentation together. He told me that he had not read a book, cover to cover since the third grade, let alone at Stanford. In June, he will graduate with a degree from Stanford. How is this possible?

President Levin: Have you read a book at Stanford?

Stanford Review: I actually have. I’ve read fifty. I’ve counted. Probably at sixty now.

President Levin: I can’t speak to the particular student you worked with and exactly the way he or she has approached things. I think it’s a missed opportunity if you go through Stanford without doing a lot of reading, because at least in many fields, that’s the way to learn. Now, some fields, it’s true at Stanford, you learn in different ways that aren’t necessarily from books [like Shop?], but you know, I certainly would hope [but certainly not a requirement] that any student who came to Stanford would spend a lot of time reading and thinking and reflecting. So I think it’s a missed opportunity if that’s not how you choose to spend a good fraction of your time here. . .

Stanford’s Ivory Tower Tyranny: Atlas Censure Vote Reveals Academia’s True Colors

Last Thursday, the Stanford University Faculty Senate voted against repealing the 2020 censure of Dr. Scott Atlas, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former Trump administration advisor on the White House Coronavirus Task Force. . .

It reveals a troubling reality within elite academic institutions: the hollow nature of their proclaimed commitment to free speech. Initially twice postponing the vote to avoid political interpretation, the Faculty Senate has now taken the dramatic step of refusing to rescind the censure, cementing its politically motivated decision.

The Senate’s outright rejection is particularly striking given the subsequent dismissal of several positions for which Atlas was initially censured. When Stanford faculty censured him in 2020 for questioning COVID-19 policies like lockdowns and mask mandates, they did so without even offering him an opportunity to defend his positions. Even as evidence has mounted supporting many of Atlas’s positions, the institution has doubled down on its censure.

That was quick

Not sure whether this is necessarily a bad thing - wiping Oregon and San Francisco off the map.

No call for genocide. Don’t twist.

If only we had a massive federal department of education and spent the most money per student in the world then that level of commitment for our kids' education would pay off. The new math is working as well as our elites abandonment of phonics for reading instruction. Ern has it nailed, we just need to spend more money for administrators. Nothing says commitment to the kids education like voting for a democrat. Time for another lockdown.

https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/u-s-math-scores-show-devastating-decline

U.S. students' math scores fell sharply between 2019 and 2023 for fourth- and eighth-graders, according to new results from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, known as TIMSS. Some countries improved, passing the U.S. in international rankings, writes Erica Meltzer on Chalkbeat.

The declines were "steep" and "devastating," said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. While high achievers held their own, low-performing students lost the most, widening achievement gaps.

"One in five U.S. eighth graders scored below the low benchmark, meaning they lacked even basic proficiency," Meltzer writes. That's way up from earlier years.

The drop in science scores was less extreme, but U.S. fourth-graders now score worse in science than they did in 1995.

Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan topped the rankings. Poland, Sweden and Australia made the greatest gains, passing the U.S. “We have countries leapfrogging over us,” Carr said.

It's not clear whether school closures, which lasted longer in the U.S. than in Europe or Asia, led to more learning loss. But one of the countries that raised achievement, Sweden, didn't close elementary schools or mandate masks. TIMSS now ranks Sweden 14th in math achievement, while the U.S. is ranked 24th.

"American students’ scores actually started to decline before the pandemic for reasons that are not entirely clear," writes Meltzer.

"The U.S. is failing to meet the challenges of academic recovery," Stanford economist Thomas Dee told Kevin Mahnken. "Nearly three decades of math achievement growth" evaporated in a few years.

Before the pandemic, federal accountability laws were weakened, notes Dan Goldhaber, director of the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research. That may have hurt students who were already behind, he speculates.

Every mistake American education made regarding phonics vs whole language, it’s about to make again with math instruction," tweets Daniel Buck. "And once again a handful of gurus and education professors are about to make millions off of miseducating kids based on pseudoscientific theories and vibes."

He's talking about groups of students struggling with problems -- standing up and with white boards! -- instead of listening to a teacher's explanation first. That's not how they do it in Singapore.

Like I said they want to kill you!

I'll sort of disagree. First, Fetterman seems to have made a full recovery from his stroke, which wasn't true when he was running as a candidate. Also, the New York trial for Trump was purely selective justice. A federal criminal statute which wasn't charged by even a weaponized DOJ was used to turn New York misdemeanors with an expired statute of limitations into state felonies, something that hadn't occurred before. Hunter was caught because of his laptop and a failure to report millions on his tax return. The actual prosecution was a fake prosecution with a sweatheart deal with Hunter pleading guilty to misdemeanors and no jail time and a promise of no further prosecution. That deal died when it was too much for the federal judge who called BS on the settlement. Compare that with the selective prosecution of Trump's associates with the book thrown at them or the sentences for the January 6th protestors versus the antifa/blm rioters. This was after federal prosecutors let the statute of limitations expire to minimize the criminal charges.

Democrat, communist, same, same. Need a T shirt with that on it.

You don't think AOC would use the government to shut up American citizens? barry's cabal and the dementia patient had no problem censuring social media sites. We have lots of free speech repression on college campuses with firings of those who don't toe the part line. Same with big US corporations like with ESPN and Curt Shilling or Levi Strauss with Jennifer Sey. Trump was headed for jail at the behest of Soros DAs or the federal DOJ. Not one Tug leftard has spoken out about the weaponization of the US justice system. Look at the Rittenhouse trial or the current Penny trial in New York.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jairhilburn/2022/02/14/levi-brand-president-jennifer-sey-resigns-citing-school-closure-disagreements/

Levi Strauss’ chief marketer Jennifer Sey has resigned from her position, claiming she was forced out after voicing her opinion that schools should remain open during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In an essay published on writer Bari Weiss’s Substack, Sey—a 20-year veteran of Levi’s who has been global brand president since 2020—said the company’s CEO, Chip Bergh, offered her a $1 million severance package in exchange for her signature on a nondisclosure agreement. However, she said declined so she could “keep my voice.” 

#1 name for boys in England, and #4 for all European countries in 2023, was Muhammad.

That entire continent is going to be lost very soon. Jihadists actually reproduce.