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[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

Hey, Bioware...how much do you want for the IP rights to Jade Empire? I will pay you $10,000 right now cash. DM me.

[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

@DrewPavlou Can't keep the guy around after he compromises himself with a communist spy.

I take no pleasure in saying this, but he has to be investigated for espionage now. And imprisoned if the evidence is there.

[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

Humanity is worse off without Scott Adams.

[Marcela Peña @MarcelaMarjean]

Happy Scott Adams Book Day! 👏

[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

@Arkypatriot What, did he photoshop himself dressed as a woman into a picture of him dressed normally?

[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

@Grummz It's not even like he was JUST screwing around. That can be forgiven. The Chicom spy was fatal. Not just bad judgment, not just embarrassing, but compromising the company itself and the country, too.

[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

Me on Monday: "Fine, NVIDIA is back up to $179, I guess I'll sell, feel bad about it though. Wonder if it's going to rally, I really think the fundamentals are good."

Me today:

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Breaking News:
Jensen Huang resigns as CEO of Nvidia.
Shares drop to $155.28

[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

@jayplemons Scott Galloway is a traitor to America who should be treated accordingly.

[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

JENSEN HUANG RESIGNS AS NVIDIA CEO OVER AFFAIR WITH CHICOM SPY

[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

Oh, Posner was so.... utility maximizing!

[Jack Goldsmith @jacklgoldsmith]

RIP Richard Posner.
He was an intellectual colossus and (outside of academic fights) a sweet man from whom I learned a lot.
But more importantly, he married my wife and me when we eloped 31 years ago.
It was a doubly stressful moment for a young academic—meeting Posner for the first time, and eloping.
“The only material question,” Posner said as he pulled a folder of wedding ceremonies from his desk, “is whether you want an allusion to a divine being.”
"Yes, please” said my dear bride, “we’re getting our marriage blessed in church when we get home.”
Posner the impish atheist looked at us with a twinkle and married us before God.
(And we did indeed have the wedding officially blessed a month later.)
Much love to Richard Posner and condolences to his family.

[Jack Goldsmith @jacklgoldsmith]

RIP Richard Posner.
He was an intellectual colossus and (outside of academic fights) a sweet man from whom I learned a lot.
But more importantly, he married my wife and me when we eloped 31 years ago.
It was a doubly stressful moment for a young academic—meeting Posner for the first time, and eloping.
“The only material question,” Posner said as he pulled a folder of wedding ceremonies from his desk, “is whether you want an allusion to a divine being.”
"Yes, please” said my dear bride, “we’re getting our marriage blessed in church when we get home.”
Posner the impish atheist looked at us with a twinkle and married us before God.
(And we did indeed have the wedding officially blessed a month later.)
Much love to Richard Posner and condolences to his family.

[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

@grok @PlanetOfMemes How do these compare to data for human drivers over the same amount of miles driven?

[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

@Mike___Kilo "Plain Jane?" Shut your mouth, sir.

[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

When I was a high school student, I vowed that my children would never go to public school.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education.

The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her.

MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school."

HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities."

MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one."

HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad."

MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better."

HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia."

MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—"

HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period."

MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue."

HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time."

MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW."

ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW."

MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one."

CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test.

And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500.

Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power.

A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws.

If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students."

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education.

The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her.

MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school."

HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities."

MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one."

HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad."

MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better."

HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia."

MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—"

HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period."

MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue."

HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time."

MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW."

ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW."

MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one."

CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test.

And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500.

Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power.

A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws.

If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students."

[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

A fair question and she handled it beautifully.

Oh and Helen Mirren > Judi Densch every day of the week.

[CroveliX @CroveLix]

The Sex Queen of the ’70s. The “Most Erotic Actress in the World.” Critics reviewed her body before her acting - one even called her “an amorous boa constrictor.” Helen Mirren was 30 when Britain’s biggest talk show host asked her on live TV if her “equipment” got in the way of acting - and she turned him into a punchline. Then she got a tattoo after two glasses of brandy and fainted. Then she became a Dame. Then she won an Oscar for playing the Queen of England. Today she gets up to $8 million a role, $1 million an episode on TV - and shares a $100 million fortune.

It was 1975. Michael Parkinson was the king of British talk shows, and Helen Mirren was the hottest young actress on the London stage. He introduced her by reading her reviews out loud. One critic had called her “an amorous boa constrictor.” Another praised her “sl*ttish eroticism.” The audience laughed. She didn’t. Then he leaned in and asked the question that would follow him for the rest of his life.

Did her “equipment” hold her back as a serious actress?

She didn’t blush. She didn’t laugh along.

She made him say it.

What equipment? Her fingers? He stumbled. He tried again. Her figure. Her “physical attributes.” By the time he finished, the most powerful interviewer in Britain looked like a schoolboy caught passing notes.

Then she finished him off - calmly asking whether he meant serious actresses aren’t allowed big bosoms. And calling the whole line of questioning exactly what it was. Boring.

30 years old. Live TV. Zero fear.

And she wasn’t done. Later in the same interview she casually explained the tattoo on her hand. Two glasses of brandy, an Indian reservation, a girl with a needle - she fainted on the spot and woke up marked for life. She’s never regretted it once.

$2 million for a small role in a blockbuster. Up to $8 million for a lead. $1 million an episode on “1923.” A $100 million fortune.

Not bad for a “boa constrictor.”

Decades later she called him “a sexist old fart.” He never took it back - when asked if he was sexist, he said, “No, I’m Yorkshire.” He died in 2023 without ever apologizing. And then came the twist nobody saw coming: Mirren admitted that in a way, he had been right - her looks really did stop people from taking her seriously. She proved them all wrong anyway. Dame Helen Mirren. An Oscar. An Emmy. A Tony. The Sex Queen of 1975 ended up playing the actual Queen.

Sexist question - or fair one?

[Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman]

It took ~10 years for right-wing libertarians to control the NHGOP.

They had to show up year after year, build relationships, and grow the numbers.

Do Groypers do politics IRL? My understanding is they mostly follow the libertarian strategy of just whining online.

[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

Deport. To Yemen.

[Vote RED! @PetsRescues]

Honduran Illegal Alien Who Stormed Cockpit of United Flight Claimed to be Transgender on Asylum Application to Get 'Fast Pass' Into US https://t.co/m49HCyNTtv #gatewaypundit via @gatewaypundit

[Coffee and Chocolate @RealCoffeeChoco]

Why would a non Muslim endorse this bill?

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Looking forward to sharing a prison cell with @GadSaad and @jihadwatchRS if the useful idiots pass this bill in New Jersey.

Assembly Bill A1146 (2026–2027 session), sponsored by Assemblyman Joe Danielsen (D) and co-sponsored by other Democrats.

Islamophobia: a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness, which may be expressed as hatred toward Muslim persons, including, but not limited to, the following:

1. Hatred or severe disparagement toward Muslim persons or their culture.

2. Hostility and fear of Islam, and as a result, a fear of and aversion to all Muslims or the majority of Muslims.

3. Discrimination, harassment, prejudice, and unequal treatment of Muslim persons or Muslim-majority communities.

4. Exclusion of Muslim persons or Muslim-majority communities from major political and social spheres.

5. Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Muslims (or Muslims as a collective group), especially conspiracies about Muslims entering politics/government/other institutions, the “myth” of Muslim identity having a unique propensity for terrorism, and claims of a demographic threat or Muslim takeover.

6. Rhetorical, violent, or physical anti-Muslim manifestations directed against Muslim or non-Muslim individuals, their property, or Muslim community institutions and religious facilities.

7. Shouting, verbal or physical abuse, pushing, spitting, pulling hijabs from Muslim women, and other prejudicial abuses targeting Muslims.

8. Calling for, aiding, encouraging, supporting, or justifying the killing, harming, or defaming of anyone simply for practicing Islam or exhibiting a Muslim identity or heritage.

9. Expressing an outlook or worldview involving an unfounded dread and dislike of Muslims that results in practices of exclusion and discrimination.

10. Accusing those practicing Islam (or exhibiting Muslim identity/heritage), individually or collectively, of being wholly responsible for any real or imagined wrongdoing by a single Muslim person or group.

11. Accusing Muslim citizens of being more loyal to a transnational Muslim community, their countries of origin, or the alleged priorities of Muslims worldwide than to the interests of New Jersey or the United States.

12. Accusing those practicing Islam (or exhibiting Muslim identity/heritage), individually or collectively, of being wholly responsible for any real or imagined wrongdoing by any Muslim-majority country.

13. Accusing those practicing Islam (or exhibiting Muslim identity/heritage), individually or collectively, of being more loyal to any foreign Muslim-majority country or the alleged priorities of Muslims worldwide than to the interests of New Jersey or the United States.

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

“The sacrifice wasn’t worth the result.”

Painful words from a 100-year-old British veteran.

Here in Canada beyond wearing a poppy and observing a silence, what are we doing to preserve the freedoms they fought for?

[Australian Jewish Association @AustralianJA]

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived in a country that:

Illegally occupies territory belonging to another sovereign nation.

Has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

Has a history of genocide against ethnic minorities.

Has been condemned for serious human rights violations.

Refuses to recognise the sovereignty of a neighbouring country.

Surely Albanese will be demanding sanctions, international accountability and an end to the occupation?

Of course not.

He's visiting Turkey.

The occupation is Northern Cyprus. The genocide was against the Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and others.

Apparently, international law and historical injustices only matter when Albanese has a way to attack Israel.

The double standards are extraordinary.

[TheBlaze @theblaze]

Trump: “The Republican Senate can no longer be the place where things go to die. Not passing the SAVE America Act was devastating to the Republican Party in the Midterms.”