Let Them Learn Oregon

We are working to bring School Choice to Oregon so Oregon families have the legal right to choose and fund the education that meets the needs of their children.

[Let Them Learn Oregon @Ed_Freedom_4_OR]

School choice is more than just letting students shuffle around to different schools. School choice is about letting students tap into what gets their flame of interest burning brightly!
@elonmusk

[Ned Stanley🎓 @NedStanley]

"This isn't about a lack of interest, it's about missed potential."

You've gotta stop what you're doing and read Justin's essay ASAP! Gets me amped about the opportunities kids in the future will be able to access.

[Let Them Learn Oregon @Ed_Freedom_4_OR]

Thank you Mr. Sinise.
Thank you military.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

He played a soldier who lost both legs.

The role earned him an Oscar nomination.

Then real wounded veterans started calling him “Lieutenant Dan.”

It changed his life forever.

After portraying Lt. Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump (1994), Gary Sinise became one of Hollywood’s most recognizable actors.

But after 9/11, something shifted.

As thousands of Americans returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with life-changing injuries, Sinise began visiting military hospitals.

The veterans didn’t see a movie star.

They saw someone who understood, even if only through a role.

So he kept showing up.

In 2003, he formed the Lt. Dan Band, performing free concerts for troops, veterans, and military families around the world.

Then, in 2011, he launched the Gary Sinise Foundation.

While still starring on CSI: NY, he spent his days filming and his nights raising money, visiting hospitals, and supporting military families.

Eventually, the mission became his full-time work.

One program became the heart of it all:

R.I.S.E. (Restoring Independence Supporting Empowerment).

The goal wasn’t simply to thank wounded veterans.

It was to give them their independence back.

The foundation builds specially adapted, mortgage-free smart homes for America’s most severely wounded veterans.

Wider doorways.

Roll-in showers.

Accessible kitchens.

Voice-activated technology.

Homes designed for people whose lives were permanently changed in combat.

Each one is given to the veteran free of charge.

Since its founding, the Gary Sinise Foundation has delivered more than 100 of these custom-built homes while also providing mobility equipment, mental health support, emergency relief, and millions of meals to service members, veterans, first responders, and their families.

Sinise once said:

“We can never do enough for our nation’s defenders, but we can always do a little more.”

He could have spent the last two decades chasing bigger movie roles.

Instead, he chose hospital hallways over red carpets.

A character he played for two hours became a mission he has lived for more than twenty years.

Sometimes the greatest role a person ever plays…

isn’t on a screen.

It’s in real life.

[Let Them Learn Oregon @Ed_Freedom_4_OR]

@newsguyeric @ChristineDrazan Wrong.
This is a taxpayer funded program for students in public and private schools.

[Azat @AzatAlsalim]

Pastor has his church and home burned down by islamist mobs in Nigeria, they slaughtered 150 of his congregation.

No protests for Christians in Nigeria!
The UN remains silent!

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

Why do many of our credentialed elite live one way while preaching something totally different?

That’s what Rob Henderson wanted to understand when he got to Yale University and saw the well-to-do students at Yale—most of whom grew up in stable, two-parent homes that valued hard work and crime-free, drug-free lifestyles—pushing ideas like dismantling marriage, decriminalizing drugs, emptying prisons, and abolishing police.

Unlike most of his fellow students, Henderson had grown up in poverty, never met his father, moved from foster home to foster home, and saw addiction, instability, and family breakdown all around him.

And that’s how he came to develop his now famous concept of luxury beliefs: “Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the affluent… while inflicting costs on the less fortunate members of society.”

It’s the new way to signal elite social status—by denigrating the very values that made them successful.

@robkhenderson @ARC_Conference

[Let Them Learn Oregon @Ed_Freedom_4_OR]

Sadly Governor Kotek puts her needs above the education needs of Oregon students.

Kotek opts Oregon out of Trump program offering up to $1,700 in education tax credits - https://t.co/mhOJqnWgud https://t.co/M8b7I8mmx9

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

250 years ago today on July 2, 1776 the Second Continental Congress voted to declare American independence from the dastardly British and their despotic King.

John Adams wrote the following foreshadowing of 4th of July celebrations:

“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.—I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”

[Let Them Learn Oregon @Ed_Freedom_4_OR]

@fOx1257067 I participated in a midnight performance in Seattle many many years ago.
Got to do it once in your life.

[Let Them Learn Oregon @Ed_Freedom_4_OR]

School Choice programs are proven to boost learning for all students because it causes all schools compete to retain and obtain students.

School choice incentivizes schools to improve the educational product they deliver by
1. focusing on the learning needs of the students;
2. listening to parents;
3. providing teachers with more opportunities to teach and be respected for their skills; and
4. rewarding innovation and effective teaching methods

https://t.co/artIKiCzbs

[Let Them Learn Oregon @Ed_Freedom_4_OR]

@AllieJade1 Bullwinkle!

[Marty Hogan @marty_hogan]

It has been hot, but not this hot. It could be worse, and prayers to those in harm's way.

[Let Them Learn Oregon @Ed_Freedom_4_OR]

@TinaKotek Define “thrive!”

[Let Them Learn Oregon @Ed_Freedom_4_OR]

Horrible

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP. In a jaw-dropping betrayal, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state officials have PARDONED an illegal alien CHILD PREDATOR who is convicted of s*xually assaulting a 10-YEAR-OLD

He called his actions a "cultural thing"

Democrats just condoned p*dophilia!! 🤯

This is their platform!

DHS: "Tou Lue Vang was set to be removed from the country imminently after the pardon was announced. Now, the pardon could thwart his removal from the United States."

"According to court filings, Vang repeatedly s*xually assaulted a girl between 2002 and 2004. On one occasion, he tried to offer his victim $10 to keep quiet about the s*xual assaults."

"While being interviewed by police, he tried to justify his actions by saying that for him “it is a cultural thing...to marry and have s*x with girls as young as 12.” He also claimed that the victim was just as guilty as him and should also be arrested."

“Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child r*pist so he can remain in our country is disgusting."

TIM SHOULD RESIGN, TONIGHT!

[Let Them Learn Oregon @Ed_Freedom_4_OR]

@Chronoclock @benedtl End farming had paid signature gathers from out of state. Many signatures gathered in the Portland area.
Cost $$$ millions but the tab was also funded by out of state folks.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

We survived the Revolutionary War

And the War of 1812

And the Civil War

And World War I

And World War II

And many other conflicts

Will we survive the deadly elixir of open borders, a fraud-ridden welfare system, noncitizen voting, and unrestricted birthright citizenship?

[Let Them Learn Oregon @Ed_Freedom_4_OR]

How can this be tolerated?

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

HEARTBREAKING: Her 10-month-old baby was cut in half with a knife in front of her, her husband was shot dead, and she watched them split her second child's skull with a machete. They also cut off one of her hands.

This is life for Christians in Nigeria. The media remains silent.

[Handre @Handre]

Thomas Sowell is 96 years old, and the man has spent seven of those decades teaching the same lesson the political class refuses to learn: there are no solutions, only trade-offs.

He started as a Marxist. Worked in the federal government in 1960, studying minimum wage policy in Puerto Rico. The data told him what the textbooks would not: when you raise the price of labor by law, you price the least-skilled workers out of a job. His government colleagues cared more about protecting the program than protecting the workers. That killed his faith in central planning faster than any theory.

Read "Knowledge and Decisions" (1980) and you get the whole architecture of his thought. Prices carry information. No planner in Washington, however credentialed, can gather what millions of buyers and sellers signal every second through their bids and refusals. Hayek made this point in his 1945 paper on the use of knowledge in society. Sowell took it and built an entire method around it, applying it to housing, education, race, crime, and the endless parade of "compassionate" schemes that reliably wreck the people they claim to rescue. Rent control empties buildings. Occupational licensing locks the poor out of trades. Sowell documented every one of these disasters with numbers, not slogans.

You want the sharpest example? Look at his work on race and economics. He showed that black Americans made faster gains in employment and income in the decades before the great expansion of the welfare state than after it. The programs sold as help became a ceiling. He said it plainly when saying it plainly cost him invitations to every respectable dinner party in the country. He never flinched. He wrote another column instead and another book, well into his nineties.

This man never mistook good intentions for good results. Go read him. You will emerge harder to fool.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 WOW! Elon Musk just resurfaced this video of Chuck Schumer in 1996 saying that "the NUMBER ONE REASON" migrants come to America is to commit fraud and steal taxpayer dollars

"They can get benefits against the law because of FRAUD!"

ELON: "That’s what he said."

We need to pass the SAVE America Act so they CAN'T VOTE.

[Let Them Learn Oregon @Ed_Freedom_4_OR]

@_learnskills 15

[Let Them Learn Oregon @Ed_Freedom_4_OR]

Fantastic book.
A must read for all high school students.

I can’t read it again because what happens to Boxer rips my heart out.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Animal Farm by George Orwell, in short:

1. Old Major, the fattest pig on the farm, delivers a sermon about "liberation." He has never missed a meal in his life – but he is the most envious of the Man – the producer, the entrepreneur…

2. “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy” – the ideology is manufactured from the start, designed not to free the animals but to direct their resentment away from the pigs and toward a useful target. Every revolution needs an enemy. The pigs chose the farmer.

3. The revolution’s commandments were never a constitution. They were a management tool – sacred enough to motivate, vague enough to rewrite, and controlled from the beginning by the only ones who could read – the pigs.

4. Boxer the horse, the most honest creature on the farm, decent, loyal yet naive, totally devoted, responds to every setback with the same answer: “I will work harder!” He means it completely. He works himself half to death. It is the most heartbreaking sentence in the book – because the new system is perfectly designed to absorb exactly that kind of devotion and give nothing back.
When he finally collapses from exhaustion, he is sold to the knacker. For cash. The pigs buy more whisky with the proceeds.
The other animals are told he died in a hospital receiving the best care. The most useful animal on the farm is the one who never once suspects he is the product.

5. The commandments get rewritten at night not because power corrupted the revolution – the rewriting was always the plan. Language was the weapon from the first speech Old Major ever gave.

6. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” – this is not the system’s failure. It is the system’s true face, finally visible once the animals are too exhausted and confused to object.

7. Orwell’s message: the lie came first. And the "liberation" it promised delivered something far worse than what came before – because the fattest pig was merely selfish at the start, but by the end is selfish and fluent in the language of "justice." He took all the eggs. He took everything. And made the hens thank him for it.
The fattest pig knew what he was doing all along…