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[Drchambersoncall @DrJConcall]

This is simply embarrassing...and deeply damaging to Ireland's international reputation.

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

I honestly think if Ireland was forced to spend more of our GDP on defence (0.1% in 2025 - the lowest in the EU by a significant margin)* that we would see far less of this abject nonsense.

Most countries don’t have the luxury of descending into such deranged hysteria over a football match that parliamentary committees are held on it. I mean, what are we even doing here?

[David Ignatius @IgnatiusPost]

https://t.co/xMW7kRrtKV

[Sean Spicer @seanspicer]

Preach

If you care about the education of America’s youth listen to this

[TheManWhoFellToEarth @ReturnofColin2]

Brendan O'Neill on Ireland 🇮🇪

[Drchambersoncall @DrJConcall]

They cut away each time... 🤨

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them.

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

My insistence that my children get a good education is neither tawdry nor a bargain. It’s called being a good parent, and Nikole Hannah-Jones could and should have done it for her own child, writes @MaudMaron
https://t.co/2rKEdgp6kB

[Rich Lowry @RichLowry]

They really never learn

[Maud Maron @MaudMaron]

"Against the tide" indeed Natalia. Her ideological framework won and governs most of the decision-making in large city school systems today--everything from assessment testing, admissions processes, gifted and talented programs, and discipline. And it all makes the schools worse.
The frustrating part of the avalanche of coverage her newest article has unleashed is that so much of it, like the article itself, focusses on her experience as a parent and the impact on her child, and not her impact as an advocate on everyone else's children. NYC public school education got worse over the years because of her advocacy against screened schools, academic rigor, and meritocracy.

[Drchambersoncall @DrJConcall]

Good but incomplete list…Band of Brothers must be included on any top ten list…🤗

[Benjamin Domenech @bdomenech]

I stand by this.

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

From @WSJFreeEx: Why is Ireland so anti-Israel, and why does the feeling of hostility go back decades? asks @DavQuinn
https://t.co/CgWYz22OLw

[Drchambersoncall @DrJConcall]

That says a lot about the Pulitzer Prizes…

[John McWhorter @JohnHMcWhorter]

It's not just that Nikole Hannah-Jones' daughter will have her pick of universities because of this piece. I have no reason to think NHJ wrote the piece with that in mind, but there's something else I doubt she had in mind which will, nevertheless, happen anyway: the piece will earn her another Pulitzer.

[Eric Bahn 💛 @ericbahn]

Just finished Lonesome Dove, and it is one of the best things I’ve ever read.

I bought it after I read an article, where some journalist asked Stephen King what his fav novel of all time was. He picked this book.

It’s 864 pages. Read the physical book, and read each sentence as slowly as you can. Don’t rush it. This world is so special. It was a wonderful few weeks immersing myself into the frontier West.

Reminded me that reading fiction is so lovely, and so important.

[Mona Davids - Unbought and Unbossed @MonaDavids]

My Thoughts on Nicole Hannah-Jones’s NY Times Op-Ed

I am a Black mother of two. My children, former NYCPS students graduated and are doing fine. Yet I spent nearly two decades fighting for Black and Brown children in NYC public schools because I believed every child deserves a high-quality education.

I fought to extend the time teachers had to earn tenure, strengthen teacher evaluations, hold schools accountable, and give parents a voice.

I fought in schools, on the streets, at City Hall, in Albany, and in the courts as a plaintiff in a few education lawsuits including the landmark case Davids vs. New York.

I would NEVER sacrifice my children — or anyone else’s children — at the altar of the teachers’ union.

A decade ago, Nikole Hannah-Jones chose to send her daughter to a failing, predominantly Black school rather than a higher-performing school. She made that choice in the name of confronting segregation — and persuaded other Black and Brown parents to make similar choices. A decade later, she writes about her daughter’s academic struggles.

But here is what cannot be ignored: Hannah-Jones has the financial resources to address the consequences. Many Black and Brown parents do not.

They cannot necessarily afford tutors. They cannot simply put their children in private schools. They cannot buy their way out when the public school system fails their children. So the consequences extend far beyond one child.

It wasn't only Hannah-Jones’s child who was asked to pay the price. It was the children of the Black and Brown parents who listened to her, too.

Black and Brown children should never be sacrificed to prove an ideological point.

[Drchambersoncall @DrJConcall]

This is not a very good test…too many false positives, too many false negatives and very little real early detection…hopefully better tests soon.

[Jeff Huber 🇺🇸 @jhuber]

An FDA advisory committee reviews GRAIL's @GalleriTest multi-cancer early detection (MCED) test this Wednesday. The WSJ editorial board laid out the record this weekend. Lines worth reading:

"Galleri caught four times as many cancers in total than the U.K.'s four recommended screenings for colon, breast, lung and cervical cancer."

"More than half of cancers detected were at early stages, and 73% don't have recommended screenings."

GRAIL's mission to 'detect cancer early, when it can be cured' approaches a big milestone that will drive down cost, make it accessible for many more, and save many lives. Let's hope the @FDA suports letting patients and doctors choose.

https://t.co/2e0ZatCfRe

@WSJEditorials @GRAILBio
#DetectCancerEarly #MCED

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Investment in domestic production, quiet mediation from Gavin Newsom and the threat of relocating helped Paramount forge a settlement with state attorneys general. https://t.co/1TFr4XcGDc

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Ari Emanuel shares his unfiltered take on dealmaking, his aggressive mindset—and advising his own children that it’s probably best to skip the rage. 🔗 https://t.co/CU85aMI7X1

[Brit Hume @brithume]

This whole post is ignorant. The White House tv pool was created because many rooms in the White House, e.g. the Oval Office, are too small to accommodate all the tv outlets who may want to cover a presidential event. The same is true for Air Force One and presidential motorcades. So one network covers for all on a rotating basis. To be a part of it, an organization must have present every day a full broadcast crew, a producer or reporter and the equipment and personnel needed to record and distribute the video shot by the pool crew. At the moment, only a handful of outlets qualify. Back when ABC, CBS and NBC were dominant, they tried to keep CNN out of the pool. But CNN had the equipment and personnel to do the pool job and were admitted by court order. "Anyone with a camera," as this writer says would not qualify. And he suggests the White House could cover these events. Then it would be "official" for sure. Would he really like that better?

[Face The Nation @FaceTheNation]

When asked about President Trump characterizing fears around AI as “a hoax,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says “however it's characterized,” there is a “0% chance” the world will end by 2030 because of AI.

“I think that scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible,” Huang tells CBS News’ @jolingkent. Huang also says he agrees with the president that existing regulations should be applied rather than adding new ones.

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures.

The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019.

A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.

Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out — this is the complete national picture.

The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.

Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.

"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded.

Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.

The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.

The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.

How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?

[Brit Hume @brithume]

Excellent analysis of the state of play in the Russia/Ukraine war. https://t.co/QIR7ZrI066