Thomas Harland

FAITH FAMILY FREEDOM

+Common Sense Education Advocate
+Continuous Improvement Professional
+Milwaukee Ads Fan
+Carroll University Alum

[John Fanta @John_Fanta]

This is the best thing you will watch today.

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

A CS professor at a mid-tier state university just sent me their internal placement data

Fall 2023: 89% of their graduates had offers by graduation. Average starting salary $94k

Spring 2024: 71% placement rate. Average dropped to $78k

Fall 2024: 43% placement rate. Those who got offers averaged $61k

Spring 2025: 31% of graduates employed in software roles six months out

This semester? 19% placement rate and falling

Faculty meeting last Tuesday got heated when the department chair suggested "pivoting curriculum toward AI collaboration skills"

One professor stood up and said "we're teaching students to build the systems that eliminate their own jobs"

The career fair last month had 12 companies show up. Half were MLMs and insurance sales

Students keep asking why they're learning data structures when the job postings all say "3+ years experience with LLM integration"

Professor told me the hardest part is the parent meetings

"My daughter took out $140k in loans for this degree and she's working at Starbucks"

Meanwhile the university is still running ads promising "94% job placement rates in high-growth tech careers"

The disconnect is crushing everyone involved

Faculty knows the industry has fundamentally shifted but the marketing department is still selling the 2019 dream

These kids mortgaged their futures for careers that evaporated while they were in class

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Sec. Marco Rubio breaks out in SPANISH to Latin leaders and tells President Trump, "I think I'm a good interpreter!"

I think Marco just signed himself up for YET ANOTHER job 🤣

"You alright if I? Good. We don't need an interpreter for this one...I think I'm a good interpreter, you'll find out in a second!"

Marco is awesome.

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

This is 100% accurate

[U.S. Department of Education @usedgov]

Parents are the best educators.

Literacy starts at home!

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

Are you paying attention yet?

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

A church in York Pa has issued a "Loud Kid Policy."

[Thomas Harland @HarlandT]

Lion King has always been my favorite Disney movie.

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

I refuse to accept this information

https://t.co/Z9eEgQyJib

[Thomas Harland @HarlandT]

Pardon the language, but this is awesome!!!

[🇺🇸Steve2A🇺🇸God🇺🇸Family🇺🇸Country🇺🇸 @lakemonstercl1]

Coincidence, or is something else going on here?

[Thomas Harland @HarlandT]

USA USA USA 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[The Sporting News @sportingnews]

For the first time in Olympic history, Team USA won the gold medal in both men's and women's hockey in the same year 🇺🇸

[Thomas Harland @HarlandT]

SDW continues to set itself apart

"almost one out of every five local school tax dollars is unavailable for instruction or student support"

As of April 1st, SDW will be debt free, keeping tax dollars in the classroom to ensure our students are community, college & career ready.

[Journal Sentinel @journalsentinel]

Opinion: School debt repayment should be a priority, not deferred | Opinion https://t.co/0eebXlJp19

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Welfare State explained for people who actually work for a living.

The system is working. Just not for you.

You wake up before your kids do. You drive an hour to a job that barely covers the bills. You eat lunch at your desk. You miss the school play. You come home tired, check your paycheck, and half of it's gone before you touch it.

Now picture your neighbor.

She hasn't worked in three years. Her kids are in free childcare. Her rent is paid by the state. Her groceries are covered. Her healthcare is free. She takes home more than you do.

Not because she's cheating the system. Because the system told her to.

Her caseworker ran the numbers on an $18/hour job offer. Taking it would lose her food assistance, childcare, cash benefits, healthcare. All in, that job would leave her $27,000 poorer per year than staying home.

She didn't take it. You'd have done the same.

Now picture your buddy and his girlfriend. Together six years. Two kids. They want to get married. But the government charges them $20,200 a year to be a legal family. So on paper, they aren't one.

Now picture your uncle. Bad back but functional. He can work. But disability pays $28,000 plus free healthcare. Working part-time pays $22,000 with nothing. Over 1,400 law firms exist solely to help people make that switch. Less than 1% ever come back to work.

These aren't lazy people. They're doing basic math.

And the math is everywhere.

There are over 80 federal welfare programs in this country. Not 5. Not 10. Over 80. That's before you touch the states. California adds 23 more. New York adds 24.

A family of four on maximum federal benefits takes home $90,000 a year. Tax free. Without working.

You know what the median family that actually works makes? $80,000. Before taxes.

Read that again. The family on welfare takes home more than the family going to work every day. And the working family is paying for it.

In California, a family of four can pull $114,000 a year in combined benefits. In New York City, $118,000. The city will pay $4,100 a month for your apartment alone. That's a doorman building.

It doesn't stop at the border.

In the UK, a jobless family with three kids takes home £46,000 in benefits. A family with both parents working full-time on minimum wage? £28,000. You'd need to earn £71,000 to match what the non-working family gets for free. And in November 2025, the UK removed its child benefit cap entirely. Every additional child now unlocks more money. No limit.

Now here's the part that should make you set your phone down.

There's a nurse in Sacramento. She makes $85,000. Works nights. Takes home $61,000 after taxes. No childcare help. No food assistance. No housing voucher. Makes too much for any of it. She is funding a system that pays other people more than she takes home. And her only return on investment is the bill.

Maybe that nurse is your wife. Maybe that family making $65,000 with two jobs and no help is yours. You were told to go to school, get a job, work hard, play by the rules. And for that you get to fund a system that pays people more than you make.

$1.2 trillion a year. $3,600 from every working American. Fifty years. Same poverty rate as 1973.

We didn't build a safety net. We built a gateway drug. You get on one program, that qualifies you for three more, those qualify you for five more. Before long you're enrolled in fifteen programs and any attempt to earn more costs you thousands in lost benefits.

The system doesn't help you climb out. It makes climbing out expensive.

And if you dare question any of it, you're "heartless." You "hate poor people." You "want children to starve."

No. I want a system that helps people get back on their feet. Not one that pays them to stay down.

When you can stack 80 programs to clear six figures without working, you don't have a safety net. You have a country addicted to dependence.

Every bureaucrat needs the poverty to justify their job. Every politician needs the dependency to justify their vote. Every program needs more funding to justify its existence.

They don't want to solve poverty. A solved problem doesn't need a budget.

You paid for it. You're still paying for it.

And the people running it are going to ask you to pay more.

[The Launch Pad @TheLaunchPadX]

🚨BREAKING! NASA TARGETS MARCH 6th FOR ARTEMIS II LAUNCH!
NASA has confirmed they are targeting March 6th, 2026 for the launch of Artemis II following yesterdays successful Wet Dress Rehearsal

🕘Launch T-0: March 6, 2026 at 8:29pm EST
📅Launch Window: 8:29PM - 10:29PM EST
🔁Additional opportunities through March and April

We are getting closer to humanity’s return to deep space and this time we are going back together!

FOLLOW for the latest Artemis II updates!

#ArtemisII #WeAreGoingBack
#Moon #Orion #SLS #NASA #CSA

[Elizabeth Wolnik @ElizabethWolnik]

Deregulation = affordability

Huge thank you to Erin Gamble of @WILawLiberty for walking us through why Wisconsin needs a Red Tape Reset

Our businesses are being held back by burdensome regulations 👎

Modernizing our regulatory system is what we need to get back on track ✅

[Thomas Harland @HarlandT]

This is awesome! Im working to bring a civics curriculum to @waukeshaschools

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis makes a stunning announcement that 21,000 THOUSAND teachers completed an American Civics course, getting a $3K bonus and SURGING pro-USA teachings

Florida DOES IT RIGHT, we are destroying leftist indoctrination and promoting western values! 🇺🇸

[Thomas Harland @HarlandT]

@WellsJorda89710 @GovEvers you taking notes?

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

🚨 BREAKING: Florida leads again!
Gov. DeSantis launched a powerhouse Civics course for teachers—covering Western civilization's roots in ancient Greece & Rome, the Scottish Enlightenment, English literature's impact, and real American founding principles.

Teachers get a $3,000 bonus just for completing it.

Result? Over 21,000 educators have already stepped up and taken the course.

No woke shortcuts. Just straight knowledge and incentives to teach kids what made the West—and America—great. 🇺🇸💪

Florida showing the nation how it's done. Who's next? 🔥

[Talk Church @churchtalkative]

If we treated our Bibles like our phones.

[NASA @NASA]

We're targeting Thursday, Feb. 19, as the tanking day for the second fueling test ahead of our Artemis II test flight around the Moon. A formal launch date will not be set until after a successful rehearsal and data reviews. Details: https://t.co/QWuBLYzKdk

[Secretary Linda McMahon @EDSecMcMahon]

Calling all high schoolers! Do you have what it takes to pass the IMPOSSIBLE Civics Test?

Step up and compete for scholarships totaling $250,000 as we celebrate America’s 250th birthday!

Sign up today for the Presidential 1776 Award at https://t.co/KRbxEzNYDW!