Edward Shah-Sanchez

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[Edward Shah-Sanchez @Edwardss03]

@WillManidis We're laughing, but Elon Musk is taking this to heart and really naming his kids these names 😂

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

As a professor who favors free speech on campus, I can sympathize with the "nuanced" answers given by U. presidents yesterday, about whether calls to attack or wipe out Israel violate campus speech policies.

What offends me is that since 2015, universities have been so quick to punish "microaggressions," including statements intended to be kind, if even one person from a favored group took offense. The presidents are now saying: "Jews are not a favored group, so offending or threatening Jews is not so bad. For Jews, it all depends on context." We might call this double standard "institutional anti-semitism."

University presidents: If you're not going to punish students for calling for the elimination of Israel and Israelis, it's OK with me, but ONLY if you also immediately dismantle the speech policing apparatus and norms you created in 2015-2016. Please read The Coddling of the American Mind. @glukianoff and I laid out exactly where the oppressor/victim frame came from (ch. 3), how it spread out of a few departments to gain power over administrators and campus culture (chapters 4 and 5), and how it drove the creation of the bureaucratic structures and processes that now have us all teaching and learning on eggshells (ch. 10). In chapter 13 we offer advice to leaders on how to to return universities to their academic mission and regain public trust.

[Muriel Blaive, PhD @MurielBlaivePhD]

Yes, you are not dreaming, this is in the New York Times:

"The evidence is now in, and it is startling. The school closures that took 50 million children out of classrooms at the start of the pandemic may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education. It also set student progress in math and reading back by two decades and widened the achievement gap that separates poor and wealthy children. ... Economists are predicting that this generation, with such a significant educational gap, will experience diminished lifetime earnings and become a significant drag on the economy."

Good for you, dear @NewYorkTimesRP. You might investigate next why the people who said as much from the beginning are still banned or shadow banned on social media. Oh, and an apology would be quite appropriate, too, to all the people you relentlessly belittled and patronized for 3,5 years and whom you now see were right.

https://t.co/vAFuNMkh7F

[Edward Shah-Sanchez @Edwardss03]

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[José Morgado @josemorgado]

Shocking scenes in Budapest:

Facing a local player, Zhang Shuai got robbed in a mark at 5-5, complained about the situation, was ignored and then booed. Retired minutes later with a panick attack — she admitted some mental health concerns recently.

[Ryan @Some1NamedRyan]

erasing the ball mark and celebrating when your opponent retires from the match is a new low for sportsmanship in tennis

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

At the World Championships in Budapest, USA’s Anita Alvarez sank to the bottom of the pool.

Looking across the deck, and noticing she was under way too long, her coach, Andrea Fuentes immediately dove in after her fully clothed, pulling her to safety. Anita was unconscious and didn’t have the capacity to kick, paddle, or help herself in any way.

If Andrea would not have noticed, she would have drown.

But she knew Anita. She looked for her, quickly noticed she was under too long, then dove in without thinking twice.

This has resonated with me….

When you are under too long, who are the people that will look for you, notice, and dive in to pull you to the surface when you lose your strength to swim?

Who are the people that would do that for you?

And can someone count on you to be that person that would go looking and notice when they are under too long, diving in to support them when they are all out of fight and fuel to swim in these turbulent waters we call life?

If you like this retweet and follow me 🙏🏻

[Christina Hoff Sommers @CHSommers]

Prep school boy was falsely rumored to be a rapist. The rumor led to vicious & relentless bullying in school &on social media. Driven to despair, he killed himself. False rape accusations destroy lives. @LvilleSchool https://t.co/qbSpy1bqDB

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

This is Stancy Cardwell. He stormed the beaches of Normandy carrying a 60mm Mortar. He’s 101 years old and deserves endless retweets 🇺🇸

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Any institution that tries racial segregation in the workplace is begging to be on the receiving end of a civil rights lawsuit.

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

In 2019 everybody laughed at Dennis Prager when he claimed that trans ideologues were insisting that women could have penises on Real Time with Bill Maher

In 2023, it was a “bold claim” for the UK prime minister to say 100 percent of women don’t have penises

[Andrew Sullivan @sullydish]

I guess it's good to have the Democratic party position put plainly. Children decide; adults obey.

[Andrew Sullivan @sullydish]

Amazing. The Biden administration is committed to "equity" in everything, i.e. absolute equality of outcomes across all demographic groups - and even Bernie Sanders disagrees.

[Zach Henry @zhenryaz]

Bill Maher asked Bernie Sanders to explain the differences between ‘equality’ and ‘equity’

Bernie was left dumbstruck 👀

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

"Don't worry, I'm just removing a few of the offensive words in this Sumerian tablet. You'll still be able to read the rest of it fine."

[Bayt Al Fann @BaytAlFann]

Long known as "the cradle of civilization," Iraq has one of the richest art heritages in the world. For 500 years Baghdad was the thriving capital of the Muslim world, renowned for culture & research which has left a lasting unique charm

A thread on the everyday beauty of Iraq…

[Dr. Joel Brown FRSA @JoelBrownMD]

Race and gender baiting are the same kinds of sociopolitical grift. Obstinately against examining evidence to establish motive, they assert that association means causality. They know it's illogical but their income depends upon exploiting that deception.

[Patrick Moore @EcoSenseNow]

1975-1979 Greenpeace crews went into the Pacific and got in front of the harpoons that were killing 30,000 whales/year. I was on all 5 voyages. We stopped whale hunt. Now Greenpeace supports massive wind farms in whales habitat. Traitors all! #ClimateScam.
https://t.co/Ht7yEv9aBZ

[𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐥𝐢𝐧 @HamlinIsland]

The love is felt, & extremely real. No matter race or religion everybody coming together in prayer! 🙏❤️

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

The story of how the moral imperative to drug and cut off healthy body parts of minors came to overshadow all other goals on the agenda and in the rhetoric of the progressive borg has not been fully told