MJ

Wife to my awesome husband. Mom to 3, surromom to 3, daughter, sister, boxer mom, Buckeye and Browns lover and friend. I just enjoy reading tweets....

[Turning Point USA @TPUSA]

Husband. Father. Leader. Faithful Servant.

[MJ @MJalreadytaken]

@FreddyLA7 I don't think you have The Ohio State on your football tour, but if you get an opportunity to go to a home game, the team won't disappoint you and we have TBDBITL and they always put on an awesome show! Worth a visit!

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

This ESPN special on Welles Crowther, college lacrosse player turned equities trader, who died on 911 after leading over 10 people to safety is a must watch every year.

The Man In The Red Bandana

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

8 years ago… I reported on Philadelphia’s new tax on soda. The politicians promised to spend the money on early childhood education.

8 years later… here’s what happened:

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

It was a bizarre news story -- seven academic journals published absurd hoax papers.

Six Editors wouldn't talk with me -- but one, Roberto Refinetti of the journal Sexuality and Culture, agreed to give his side of things.

We debate:

[MJ @MJalreadytaken]

@emzanotti That would have been helpful to know some 35+ years ago 😒

[MJ @MJalreadytaken]

@GayPatriot I think Rock City?

[MJ @MJalreadytaken]

@RonDeSantis It's not the tuition that gets you, it's the room and board! It's as much or more than the tuition. My daughter's tuition is paid for but the room and board is ridiculous.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Nostalgic memes spread misleading messages, like:

“Once, families could own a home & send their kids to college on one income.”

But the homes were smaller.

Most kids didn’t go to college.

The memes ignore facts.

We give them to you:

[MJ @MJalreadytaken]

@EWErickson I love John Adams, but a great president he wasn't. And Grant worse than Buchanan 🤦‍♀️ oh my goodness.

[MJ @MJalreadytaken]

@FrankLuntz Would this fall under car seats and seat belts 🤷🏻‍♀️. I want to say parents have that decision but I also think a lot of parents don't understand the dangers, and plenty more just don't care.

[MJ @MJalreadytaken]

@UltraMamaTee She's an American ICON, National Treasure, or whatever else you want to call it. If any citizen deserves flags to be flown at half staff, she is one of the very few.

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

[Brian Tyson, MD 🇺🇸 @btysonmd]

If this doesn’t solve the argument, nothing will.

XX XY in sports

[MJ @MJalreadytaken]

@SenTomCotton I don't know a lot about this, but if prices are too high because our herds are too small, how is bringing in beef making that situation worse? It seems like this will help alleviate the cost for consumers, while giving the ranchers time to rebuild their herds.

[MJ @MJalreadytaken]

@BigDemoPrez I just tried them a few weeks ago, and I am planning a return in the winter so I can eat them with hot chocolate 😋. It was so yummy!

[MJ @MJalreadytaken]

@dcexaminer He should have a debate with someone named Hatie Kobbs and when asked questions let Hatie answer them in the most outrageous way. Not that any station would actually air it but it would be fun to watch.

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Jason Arday shouldn’t be dead.

But he is dead - because he didn’t tell the truth.

And Cambridge University didn’t look for the truth - because he’s black.

And fellow black professors didn’t ask for the truth - because he is black.

Jason lied repeatedly.

And he told the exact lies that allow one to excel in the system that elite universities have adopted.

A system that factors in race, hardship, and lived experience under the banner of equity, instead of pure performance.

Nearly everyone in these institutions ignored Jason’s lies, to try and protect black people.

They called the people seeking the truth racists.

Of course there were some racists.

But the majority of people just wanted the truth.

Avoiding the truth didn’t help black people.

Double standards in academia aren’t helping black people.

They hurt the perception of black people who are truly the best, and would have held prestigious positions at elite schools, solely off the merits of their performance.

Double standards always backfire.

Even when well intentioned.

Even when intended to correct for past oppression.

Race-conscious hiring and admissions have created a situation where it is rational to wonder whether a black person has achieved their position because they were simply the best, or because they were good enough, and black.

This is not a racist thought.

It’s a rational thing to wonder when a system promotes people based on race.

It’s a thing I’ve wondered about myself, as someone who graduated from Harvard - which had race-conscious admissions.

No amount of insistence that it’s racist will make it racist.

It’s no more racist than it would be to wonder whether a white player got into the NBA off of just performance, if the NBA decided to focus on “fixing” the underrepresentation of white people.

This is the logical downside of race-conscious hiring and admissions.

You can think the downside is worth the upside.

But the downside remains.

Calling people with legitimate concerns racist didn’t protect black people.

It didn’t protect Jason.

It hurt black people who have earned their positions.

And it allowed a troubled man who built his career on lies to rise to a height so great that his fall from grace killed him.

We could have just had the truth.

Instead, we have a tragedy.

[MJ @MJalreadytaken]

@JennyErikson Hehe, I giggle everyday. One mom was asking how her son was supposed to get around the campus. 🤔 does he have legs?

[MJ @MJalreadytaken]

@bethanyshondark Librivox is a free ap where you can listen to classics. Some of the narrators are questionable, but there are others that are great. So you'd have to take a listen.