Dan Geist

Anarcho-syndicalist. Wee heir. Patriot🇺🇸. No party line. F yer thoughtcrime. Black Category: bad element. Mischling, 1st degree. "A barbed cudgel of sarcasm."

[Dan Geist @DanielGeist]

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[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

As we promised!

We remove our hijabs and I hope everyone joins us.
Forcing women to wear hijab is not part of Iranian’s culture. It is the culture of Taliban, ISIS and Islamic Republic. Enough is enough.
#No2Hijab

[Dan Geist @DanielGeist]

"The U.S. arrived carrying something heavier than the pressure to make the quarterfinal, and it showed.... The country cheered and accepted uncomfortable justice before checking the price. It was steep. The hypocrisy cost us more than the disappointment."
https://t.co/iyGvpgBwJC

[Dan Geist @DanielGeist]

@_Loyalty_im_out @juanjocruzcruz No. It's extremely legal trapment.

[Dan Geist @DanielGeist]

"The regime supporters who storm demonstrations have already been invested with a sense of epic heroism. Once convinced that they alone represent righteousness, they are able to carry out the most extreme violence with remarkable ease."
https://t.co/Aohbvy3XO0

[Dan Geist @DanielGeist]

The IRGC, sanctioned by the EU as a terrorist organization weeks before the war and whose economic activities and institutional autonomy were being questioned by a regime mouthpiece close to the Supreme Leader, is now the main actor on the Iranian stage.
https://t.co/ktLiIuvSDK

[Dan Geist @DanielGeist]

What a loser. What a pathetic loser. The United States just bent the knee and surrendered to a once minor power, however vicious, that due to our commander-the-thief's thoughtless choices and profound cowardice is now THE regional protagonist.

[Dan Geist @DanielGeist]

Courtois "had no chance"? Too kind. In fact, he looked frozen. Should have come up at least a couple steps. #Belgium #Egypt

[Dan Geist @DanielGeist]

Yes! The perfect tribute for the master.

Sonny Rollins Changed New York. There’s a Fitting Way to Honor Him. https://t.co/GggxeNZvGe

[Dan Geist @DanielGeist]

Bing. Bong.

[Dan Geist @DanielGeist]

The tip is good. It's good. It's good.
#MiracleAtTheMecca
#OG

[Dan Geist @DanielGeist]

به نظر یک اقتصاددان ساکن ایران چیدمان جدید قدرت بازاریان سنتی و موتلفه را به حاشیه رانده و فضا را برای سلطه‌ی مطلق سپاه باز کرده است.  https://t.co/PYFwdCMunB

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Keep in mind that if you're defending Platner at this point you're signing up for 5 more months of defending an obvious pathological liar.

[Dan Geist @DanielGeist]

"The Iranian government had shown an interest in reducing the IRGC’s role because sanctions targeting the Guards also harmed the broader economy. But what Trump did effectively reversed that trend and made the IRGC central to the economy once again." https://t.co/A0ZOQbwuhi

[Dan Geist @DanielGeist]

Their best player is an alien. Ours isn't even a star. They're both blessed. But only one is an angel. #Knicks #JB

[Saeed Ghasseminejad @SGhasseminejad]

It looks like we are back to the Biden-era policy of hitting empty buildings: doing just enough to say we’re doing something while reassuring the regime that we’re not doing much.

Targeting telecom towers while the regime is trying to strike air and naval bases is, to put it mildly, underwhelming.

If the objective is to impose costs and restore deterrence, how about targeting actual IRGC bases with actual IRGC officers inside them?

[Dr. Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones]

This is the most 2026 thing I have ever seen.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

“We are admitting a cohort that cannot read at a college level and are pretending otherwise.”

Another college professor adds to the chorus of concern about student capacity.

In @chronicle:

“Six weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article. It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an undergraduate a decade ago. Not one student finished it.

When I asked why, a student answered honestly: It was too long, and she kept losing track of what the paper was about. This was not a remedial class: These were students who had cleared the admissions process and written essays good enough to get them here. Yet a routine academic reading assignment had defeated them.

Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. The lament is usually overblown, but data have caught up to anecdote, and what I am seeing in my classroom is no longer a hunch. There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.

In February 2024, Adam Kotsko, who teaches in the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College, wrote in Slate that students who once handled 30 pages of reading per class meeting now seem “intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding.” Crucially, he added that this is “not a matter of laziness on the part of the students” but of underlying skills they were never given a chance to build.

The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2024 investigation found the same pattern across institutions as different as the Stevens Institute of Technology and Wellesley College, where the average SAT exceeds 1400. Nicholaus Gutierrez, an assistant professor at Wellesley, told The Chronicle that the baseline for what students consider a reasonable amount of work has dropped so noticeably that he has cut his readings accordingly; a 750-word essay now strikes many students as long. At Stevens, the science and technology studies associate professor Theresa MacPhail described following the mantra of “meet your students where they are” for so long that she has begun to feel “like a cruise director organizing games of shuffleboard.”

Worse, the national data tell the same story in colder language. On the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) writing assessment, which is the most recent comprehensive writing benchmark, only 24 percent of 12th graders reached the Proficient level, and just 3 percent reached Advanced; another 21 percent scored below Basic. The reading side of the ledger is worse, and getting worse fast: The 2024 NAEP results released in September 2025 show 12th-grade reading scores at the lowest level recorded since the assessment began in 1992. Thirty-two percent of 12th graders now score below NAEP Basic in reading, meaning that, in the assessment’s own language, they likely “cannot draw general conclusions based on concepts presented explicitly in a text.” And yet more than half of these same seniors reported being accepted to a four-year college. That last sentence is the whole problem in one line: We are admitting a cohort that cannot read at a college level and are pretending otherwise.”

[Siaxares 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 @siaxares]

As an Iranian inside Iran, I feel like I have to speak out because at least on the surface, things seem grim.

Trump said he had a "good call with Hezbollah" and again just said that "we seem to be getting along quite well with the Ayatollah. I would like to meet him."

Is this the same Trump who took out Khamenei senior and boasted about it? The one who stared down the regime?

We Iranians didn’t rise up, bleed in the streets, lose over 40,000 souls in the fight against this regime — just so America could cut deals and “get along” with the Ayatollah.

You didn’t have to offer help. But you did. We trusted you. We put you front and center in the plan to finally end this nightmare.

This reversal? It’s nothing short of betrayal. I still have hope, but if everything is just as it seems then it's over.

If this is some 4D chess by Trump to wind everyone up, it better have a damn good punchline coming — because right now it looks like weakness, and weakness only invites more IRGC terror, more dead civilians, and more delay on the day the Lion and Sun finally rises.

Iranians are watching. There is still time to set things right, but the window is closing.

[Dan Geist @DanielGeist]

If you're into lingo, a great record just set at Roland-Garros—for the first time ever at a major, SIX of the eight men's quarterfinalists are native Romance-language speakers: Berretini, Arnaldi, Cobboli (Italian); Auger-Aliassime (French); Fonseca (Portuguese); Jodar (Spanish).

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

Hasan Piker's subreddit moderators are removing posts that link to my scholarly article "Why There Are Exactly Two Sexes" in threads discussing whether trans people can actually change their sex.

I know the deleted post contained a link to my article because Altmetric had already catalogued it, and the link takes me to the deleted comment.

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

they’re having to give disclaimers that they’re not transphobic when debating about what constitutes a grilled cheese sandwich and I think that’s really beautiful