Brian Fendrich

Math/Computer Science Teacher at Rosemount High School. Assistant xc coach/ occasional runner

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Graham could talk to people who would not talk to each other. He went from John McCain's closest partner to one of Trump's loudest defenders, carried his line on Russia intact through that shift. 4X

[Brian Fendrich @BrianFendrich1]

@001Oxygen And he has the patience to NOT make a mad dash towards the ball as it bounces away from the goal. He foresees what is about to happen and his teammate finds him. Wow.

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

"It’s a very Western idea that if things are going horribly, you’re going to go and express your disillusionment publicly. Russians don��t protest this way. Russians protest with a middle finger hidden in their pocket."

The great Nina Khrushcheva on life in Moscow.

https://t.co/Vx9iE1dcCb

[Mike Walsh @MikeyWalsh8]

According to ESPN's Pete Thamel, Murray State is set to hire former Northern Illinois head coach Rashon Burno as its president of basketball operations and an assistant coach.

Burno brings five years of Division I head coaching experience to the Racers.
https://t.co/8VveZTddnK

[The Free Press @TheFP]

"As a former Democratic operative, I worked with many of today’s rising far-left candidates. What you’re seeing now is only the beginning."

[Brian Fendrich @BrianFendrich1]

@camolNFT THIS! 100 times THIS would make the game better. A few more goals in a game, making the one individual call not the ONLY reason a team wins or loses.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Overwhelmingly, Americans say that obeying the law, supporting the Constitution, believing in the Declaration of Independence, being a citizen, and voting in elections are what make you a real American.

Overwhelmingly, they say it's NOT about race, religion, or family heritage.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

The stunning disclosure that crypto ventures earned President Trump some $1.4 billion last year underscored the different reality the president is living in from many of the investors who have embraced digital assets alongside him. 🔗 https://t.co/H8T3RBb9Yv

[Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. @neoavatara]

Trump has made more money through buying stocks in a market that he influences than all the Democrats in Congress over the last decade put together, even Pelosi.

And strangely, those crying about corruption and the swamp are now silent.

[Brian Fendrich @BrianFendrich1]

@iJordanMoore I assume, if they it met NBA bargaining agreement language , Celtics would have preferred to NOT take back George. They would have preferred to pick the player or players on the contracts they liked.

[Brian Fendrich @BrianFendrich1]

@PensareBBall This is EXACTLY what was going on with KAT in Minnesota. They tried to trade BEFORE the expiration date. Elite level pay(super Max money ) without dominating talent can be lethal.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Left-wing "progressives" have made their choice: not peace, not freedom, but the comfort of hating the West more than they hate tyranny.

London today offered a clean, ugly picture: peace symbols, Palestinian flags, and the face of the Ayatollah carried by the same crowd. Not as a warning. Not as a protest against the Islamic Republic. As part of the display. The Iranian regime's flag waved like a badge of virtue, even as that regime crushes its own people with bullets, rope, and torture.

The Islamic Republic is not a hard case. It is not a "grey area". It is a theocracy that polices women's bodies, jails dissent, and kills opponents. And in the recent uprisings, some reports put the death toll at over 30,000. Jake Wallis Simons described it plainly: this is not war, it is mass murder. No combatants. No battlefield. Just civilians. That scale matters because it strips away the usual excuses. There is nothing here to contextualise. Nothing to relativise, dilute, or soften. There is only slaughter.

So why do we not see wall-to-wall outrage? Why do we not see the great moral machinery of progressive activism roaring into life for Iranian women, students, and workers? Because this isn't about human rights. It never was. It is about a story. And the story says the West is the root of evil, Israel is the eternal villain, and anyone who stands against them gets a moral pass, no matter what they do to their own people. Iran destroys the Left's theory, so the Left dodges Iran.

That is the heart of it. A liberal democracy is treated as uniquely wicked and held to impossible standards, while a theocratic dictatorship is handled with silence, softness, or outright sympathy. The same people who claim to "believe women" can share a march with the symbols of a regime that beats women for showing their hair. The same people who wrap themselves in rainbow flags will stand beside the banner of a state that executes gay men. They do it because their loyalty is not to victims, but to the idea that Western power must always be guilty.

This is why the peace symbol has become a prop. It now sits comfortably next to the face of a cleric who rules by fear. "Peace" no longer means the end of violence. It means the right people are being blamed. It means Israel is the target. It means the West is the enemy. That is the bargain. And it is why Islamists and progressives keep finding each other in the street. They do not share values. They share a foe.

And then there is the cowardice of the British state and its institutions. Britain still drags its feet over proscribing the IRGC. London can host a visible pro-regime ecosystem and shrug. Sanctions are timid. The ambassador stays put. We are firm with our own citizens and limp with hostile regimes. That is not "diplomacy". It is appeasement dressed as prudence.

The media play their part too. Gaza gets saturation coverage and constant moral instruction. Iran gets scraps. That imbalance reflects the same sickness: outrage is directed where it is culturally safe and politically fashionable. It is withheld where it would force a reckoning with Islamist power and with the Left's long habit of excusing it.

If you want the simplest test of whether a movement is serious, watch who it can condemn. Real moral courage does not pick easy villains. It does not chant only where it will be applauded. It does not march under the flag of a regime accused of mass killing and call itself righteous.

London today was not a march for peace. It was a confession. A confession that for a loud slice of the progressive Left, hatred of Israel and the West now outranks compassion for slaughtered Iranians. A confession that "human rights" has become a slogan, not a standard. A confession that they would rather stand with tyrants than admit a basic truth: some of the worst oppression on earth is Islamist, home-grown, and defended in our streets by people who call themselves the good guys.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Kasparov: My triad since day one of the full-scale war — Ukraine's victory, Russia's defeat, collapse of the empire. That is the only outcome this war can have.

Only the liquidation of Putin. No other options exist. While Putin is there, it is war. Only his liquidation. 1/

[Brian Fendrich @BrianFendrich1]

@p_m_robinson I wish you a speedy recovery. I absolutely love your curiosity and questions on UnCommon Knowledge.

[Alan Shipnuck @AlanShipnuck]

Never worked harder on an article in my life, including rigorous vetting by two top media attorneys and an ace fact-checker. Here’s the real story about the real Phil:

[Brian Fendrich @BrianFendrich1]

Irish Boys Baseball Minnesota AAA CHAMPS!

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

No therapist accepts a 14-year-old's self-diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Questioning it is the job.

Unless the diagnosis is gender.

I flagged SB 934 here two days ago. I've now written an in-depth piece about how California is building a law where caution is the malpractice and the scalpel is the safe harbor.

Full Just the Facts piece in the first reply below 👇

[Brian Fendrich @BrianFendrich1]

@RosemountCC Wyatt was the unofficial captain of Room N31 advisory last year at Rosemount High School, always curious, always asking questions. Apparently he listened to some of his advisory teacher’s golf advice.

[WCCO | CBS News Minnesota @WCCO]

A congressional report released Monday accuses senior Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, of ignoring clear warnings of widespread fraud in federally funded social programs as early as 2019. https://t.co/aUwsfta6sw

[KARE 11 @kare11]

A 205-page U.S. House Oversight Committee report alleges "stunning oversight failures" by Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison to stop fraud in Minnesota, while calling for a review of all Minnesota social service programs. https://t.co/PYqW9ez0co