Rob Schläpfer

How do we prepare young people to flourish? By promoting high-quality *American* Education grounded in The Science of Learning and Liberal Democratic values.

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

Learning isn’t fun. It’s hard work for almost all of us, especially at the beginning. Education is a novel, human-created accelerator of our brains. The goal is to ensure that every child is literate, numerate, widely read, and knowledgeable — none of which comes naturally to us or can be obtained without significant effort.

Read the new investigation on The Science of Learning from the Oregon Education Project.

https://t.co/wubOoAqZNo

[Encounter Books @EncounterBooks]

“To be an American is not to be someone, but to believe in something.”

Allen C. Guelzo remembers Gordon Wood’s commitment to historical truth and the universal ideals of the American founding in @NRO.
https://t.co/ScXGJQ7NwH

[Brett Hall @ToKTeacher]

Ideological capture has led to very few ever learning about the *good* of our societies in The West. So they won’t pass on lessons never learned:

[Fredrik Lundberg @lundberg24]

John Adams on Equality:

"That all men are born to equal rights is true. Every being has a right to his own, as clear, as moral, as sacred, as any other being has.

But to teach that all men are born with equal powers and facilities, to equal influence in society, to equal property and advantages through life, is as gross a fraud, as glaring an imposition on the credulity of the people, as ever was practice."

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

@edudissenter @JDHaltigan @ChuckHosea Yet doesn’t understand “Liberalism.”

[J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 @JDHaltigan]

Amy Wax: Feminization of academia means that "the values of the nursery and the kindergarten have now been elevated to the paramount considerations and the old traditional and traditionally masculine values of truth-seeking, of argumentation, of reason, evidence, and objectivity have been downgraded."

[J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 @JDHaltigan]

Lmao. Utterly delusional. Maybe you should consider that the same psychopathology that drives TQ+ mental illness is the same psychopathology that is behind the problem gambling.

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

New declassified records confirm the evidence ALWAYS supported the lab leak theory: the virus was engineered in Wuhan with US taxpayer dollars.

https://t.co/lINv89zm9R

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

David Friedberg just said what a lot of people in tech are thinking but won't say out loud and the evidence backs him up (Save this).

@friedberg argument is that the people who talk loudest about inequality, fairness, and protecting the working class are the same people building the most sophisticated machinery of economic control this country has ever seen and disguising it as virtue.

He calls it the Great American Politburo.

The Politburo, for context, was the small committee that ran the Soviet Union controlling the economy, education, media and what citizens could and couldn't do, while insulating its own members from the rules they imposed on everyone else.

Freeberg's case is that Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Ro Khanna are doing the exact same thing, American edition.

And here is the evidence.

Congressional members outperformed the S&P 500 again in 2024 , Democratic representatives averaged 31% returns while Republicans averaged 26%, compared to a 24.9% gain for the S&P itself.

Nancy Pelosi's Nvidia positions have returned 586% since 2021 while she simultaneously sat on committees regulating the semiconductor industry.

Elizabeth Warren publicly calls for soaking the rich while financial disclosures reveal she has made millions on Wall Street investments, the same markets she campaigns against.

A nonpartisan tracker of congressional wealth found that roughly half of all 540 members of Congress match or beat the S&P 500 on an annualized basis.

These are people with access to intelligence briefings, regulatory decision-making, and committee hearings held months before public disclosure and they're trading the whole time.

The AI angle is where this becomes directly relevant to every reader of this newsletter.

In February 2026, Sanders and Khanna held a town hall at Stanford specifically calling for slowing down AI development warning of profound dangers from AI controlled by billionaires like Musk, Zuckerberg, and Thiel.

They called for keeping humans in the loop," broad AI regulation, a federal AI regulatory agency, and ensuring productivity gains are shared with workers.

On the surface, that sounds reasonable. Who could be against sharing gains with workers?

But look at what that agenda actually means in practice, a federal AI regulatory agency means political appointees deciding which companies can and cannot deploy AI, which models can and cannot be released, and which applications are approved or denied with no market mechanism and no accountability to the people actually building the technology.

That is the Politburo structure Freeberg is describing, translated into tech policy.

[Resist the Mainstream @ResisttheMS]

Elon Musk reveals his concern "for all the major AI programs."https://t.co/IGNSWcPShE

"I mean, the two biggest ones obviously are Google Gemini and OpenAI."

"The concern I have, and this may seem like a small concern, but I think it's actually a very big issue, is that they are not maximally truth-seeking. They are pandering to political correctness."

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

True

[Joanne Jacobs @JoanneLeeJacobs]

Safe schools set and enforce rules. Teachers aren't therapists. Students aren't victims. https://t.co/Yj7zCNlvm6

@tetheredtoed1 @KelseyTuoc @Doug_Lemov @MrZachG @OsborneDavid @tracewoodgrains

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

@JDHaltigan You don’t seem to understand “Liberalism”; conflating it with “progressivism”.

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

@hothingsgirlsay All of these studies are outdated.

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

@hothingsgirlsay Festinger’s research has long been superceded by Keith Stanovich, Hugo Mercier, and Dan Sperber’s work on “My Side Bias.” Please update.

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

In 2011, Breitbart breaks down how Frankfurt School Marxists like Adorno, Marcuse, & Horkheimer escaped Germany for 1940s Golden Age California -only to hate the endless cheer, productivity, and capitalism. They devised cultural Marxism to subvert the US.

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

@fox13seattle Clear selection and framing bias.

[Real Ed Diehl @Real_EdDiehl]

🚨 Governor Kotek Rejects Federal Support for Our Kids

Oregon has turned down a major federal scholarship initiative for K-12 education while 31 other states are participating.

Governor Kotek confirmed the state will not opt into the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program. This initiative lets taxpayers redirect up to 1,700 dollars in federal taxes to scholarship organizations. The scholarships can be used for public or private schools to support tuition, tutoring, and other educational costs.

This decision leaves Oregon families without access to these scholarships. Taxpayer credits will flow to other states instead of supporting local students. It is a missed opportunity at no cost to Oregon’s state budget for our children.

Rejecting resources that expand educational options is the wrong choice for our families and our future.

This is complete BS by the governor.

[Rob Schläpfer @OregonEdProject]

"Being black is not an accomplishment."
Heather Mac Donald

Race is real, but it’s not an identity marker to separate Americans. Read the new broadside, "Colorblind Realism" https://t.co/BORGJx8sgR