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[Brit Hume @brithume]

Fact check: true.

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

Millionaire who hates millionaires gives $1 million to another millionaire who hates millionaires so they can defeat third millionaire

https://t.co/CDe2D7zlwo

[Sickoflibbullsh*t @sickoflibbullsh]

@Devon_Eriksen_ I'm speechless, in a good way. This is the most insightful thing I've read in a long time. Btw, I'm a woman.

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

The one thing I’d want everyone to know about Direct Instruction is that the methods, materials and routines are far less important than the underlying drive behind it: the unswerving belief that EVERY child can achieve, regardless of circumstance.

DI is based on a deeply held conviction that if a child didn’t learn, it was because the teacher (or curriculum) didn’t teach them properly. In that sense, it is a movement rooted in social justice but one which takes responsibility for outcomes.

In the 60s and 70s, there was a view in the education academic establishment that formal academic work was premature for 4-year-olds, and doubly so for poor ones; so what they needed was enrichment and play.

Worse still, in the early 70s, some academics described DI as a racist enterprise*. Engelmann's own memoir notes that he and Bereiter were called “Nazis” and “kid-haters.”

Despite this, Engelmann taught disadvantaged 4 year olds to factor and to solve simultaneous equations, and filmed it. Bereiter and Engelmann’s argument, set out in ‘Teaching Disadvantaged Children in the Preschool’, was that the disadvantaged child was not “behind” in some general developmental sense but behind in specific, teachable things, that all kids could learn with the right scope and sequence.

The preschool they opened in the mid 60s ran for two hours a day, with three twenty-minute lessons in language, arithmetic and reading, taught to small groups by a teacher following a specific DI sequence. Those kids made huge gains which faded when they went to normal public schools.

DI has its limitations like everything but the drive behind it is sincere. As #SoldAStory season 2 will show, it has been portrayed as something very different to what it actually is and the animating principles behind it.

*Baratz and Baratz, ‘Early childhood intervention: the social science base of institutional racism.’

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Andrew Ross Sorkin gushes over Trump's new America. gov website on live TV while Joe Kernen sits there stunned.

Sorkin is not a Trump fan, and he lets that be known. But the moment he said the word "credit," Kernen nearly fell out of his chair.

SORKIN: “I want to be clear. I am actually not critical of the president in this instance at all, because I actually think it was great to bring everybody together.”

“For 29,000 websites, the ability to get a passport, the ability to get your medicare. I mean, the it was like being at a product. It was like being at an Apple product announcement. And when they went through what they did and the president was there in the morning and walked through what they were doing, and Marco Rubio was there, Scott Bessent was there, the whole cabinet was there. It was one of those moments where you actually thought the government was working for you, really? And Gebbia deserves an extraordinary amount of praise for it.”

KERNEN: “Do you feel great? Are you have the warmest fuzziest feeling right now listening.”

SORKIN: “And by the way, the president deserves credit for that."

KERNEN: "Oh my God!"

SORKIN: "Credit for putting you in that role. And Jeb and his team putting it all together.”

KERNEN: “So now I'm getting hot flashes. Wow. So this is just amazing.”

CONTEXT (What happened): Trump launched America. gov, a single government site meant to replace 29,000 federal websites for things like passports and Medicare. It was built by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, and Sorkin was in the room for the demo.

Sorkin also credited the Trump accounts interface as "really easy to use" and "like using a real app."

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Piker: "It’s laughable to say guys like myself, guys like Abdul El-Sayed, we hate America."

Also Piker: "I hate America."

[Miss Jamie Lyn @jamie99_jamie]

Long rant but stick with me here..

Amy Klobuchar wants Minnesotans outraged about the “horror show” farmers are supposedly living through? Here's something I would hope every Minnesotans knows...

AMY KLOBUCHAR IS THE RANKING MEMBER OF THE SENATE AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE.

I'm a Minnesota farmer, so let's cut through the campaign BS.

She says we're being devastated by trade.

She says we're losing markets.

She says fertilizer and fuel costs are hammering us.

THEN WHERE THE HELL IS THE FARM BILL?

You're not some helpless spectator standing on the sidelines, Amy.

YOU'RE THE TOP DEMOCRAT ON THE SENATE AG COMMITTEE.

Yet the Farm Bill is STILL unfinished while Washington continues fighting over SNAP provisions.

And now Minnesotans are being sold this idea that Amy needs to become Governor so she can “stand up” to Trump's FEDERAL trade policy?

Think about that for about five seconds.

She's already sitting in the UNITED STATES SENATE, on the AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE, in a leadership position, with an actual role in federal agricultural policy. But apparently the solution is to leave Washington for St. Paul and THEN she'll save Minnesota farmers from Washington.

I'm actually farming in Minnesota. I don't need a politician explaining that fertilizer is expensive. I WRITE THE CHECKS. I don't need a politician explaining that markets matter. MY LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON THEM. Also, us Minnesota farmers damn sure shouldn't be hauled out as campaign props while the people already holding power in Washington point fingers at everybody else.

Forget the campaign slogans for a minute, Minnesota.

Ask what she's accomplished with the power she ALREADY HAS.

Because blaming Trump from an interview is easy.

[New York Post @nypost]

Gavin Newsom claims he 'didn't even know' about 5,000-bottle wine cellar at his $7.5M home https://t.co/LYFmlWB7cT

[MAZE @mazemoore]

This is one of my better videos.

Bernie for the past 35 years: We are rapidly becoming an oligarchy! 🤣

I'm working on a new Bernie video today. It will be just as funny. He's been working off a script for the past 40 years.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Yes, Mississippi improved reading scores so much, people call it The Mississippi Miracle.

But it wasn't a miracle.  Here’s how they did it:

[Camus @newstart_2024]

A kid’s tantrum is often the proof you just set a real boundary.

Dr. Becky Kennedy is clear on this. When you hold a true limit for the first time, the reaction is almost always the same: big feelings. Parents usually read that explosion as failure. It is frequently the opposite. The tantrum means the boundary landed. You did the hard part.

Once you see the upset as confirmation instead of catastrophe, you stop scrambling to undo it. You can validate the feeling and still keep the line. “I know you want more TV. It’s still not happening.”

The parents who last are the ones who stop treating every meltdown as a referendum on their worth.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

This piece on YouTube in schools may turn out to be the most influence on K-12 perspectives this year.

The stats in the piece come up all the time in conversation.

'Amy Warren’s "mom siren” went off when her seventh-grader in Wichita, Kan., seemed to know too much about Fortnite, a battling-and-shooting videogame he is barred from playing...

When Warren signed into his school Google account, she was aghast: Her son Ben had accessed more than 13,000 YouTube videos during school hours from December 2024 through February 2025, according to viewing data she provided the Journal.

His feed was rife with inappropriate content. Videos glorifying gun culture, asking about silencers on Nerf guns, “head shots” where children realistically portray being killed, a video with sexually explicit jokes about neighbors sleeping together.

YouTube during snack time, dismissal and indoor recess. YouTube to teach drawing to first-graders. YouTube to read a book to class. YouTube under the covers at night, watching hamster videos on school-issued Chromebooks. A survey touted by YouTube executives shows that 94% of teachers have used YouTube in their roles.

Granular data provided by parents highlight the scale: A second-grader in New York watched more than 700 videos in two months during school hours, including one featuring pole dancing. A tenth-grader in Oregon scrolled through more than 200 between 9 and 11:40 a.m. on March 6...

YouTube is a top-viewed website on school devices, sometimes accounting for half of student traffic, according to administrators and web-filtering companies...

When his middle-schooler began falling behind late last year, Massachusetts data scientist Jason Merkin sought her usage from her school district. They declined. He resorted to screenshotting her daily Chrome history and analyzing it with AI.

He discovered his daughter spent some 40% of her computer time on noneducational sites at school, including accessing more than 1,000 YouTube videos in about 50 days.

Watertown Public Schools said Merkin’s and others’ feedback—as well as a realization that YouTube’s filters “increasingly proved ineffective”—led to a districtwide block by January...

Stan Winborne, superintendent of Granville County Public Schools in North Carolina, blanched to find YouTube was a top-accessed site in an audit he commissioned. His district calculated that “distracted” screen time was costing students up to 31 instructional days per year.'

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

I'm not voting for anyone who thinks the wrong side won the Cold War or cheers for the Intifada like it's the World Cup.

[luckygirl @grinerjen]

Elementary teachers should be able to specialize in one area, allowing themselves and there students to go deeper in a subject area. (Right now they are a mile wide and an inch deep in all subjects) Departmentalize in primary schools. If that won’t fly, classroom elementary teachers should be paid more than pe, music, and art teachers since they have so much more to teach and report on and do.

[luckygirl @grinerjen]

@0Beanie05923291 Let elementary teachers become experts in one focused area. Primary school should be departmentalized.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Conservatron @Conservatron1]

Open doors....safe.... BBQ's.
America is so chill.

[Duncan Lamont @DuncanLamont2]

As a Scotsman, my week in Boston was one of the best of my life. Sheer joyousness

The love from the locals. The love back to them. The love amongst ourselves

A complete bubble where everyone put aside their usual grievances and forgot about the real world for a moment. So good

[Jum @JesterJum]

How do I know the media is brainwashing people?

Obama's ICE Chief received the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service for removing over 900,000 illegal aliens.

Trump's ICE Chief is called a Nazi.

It is the same person.....Tom Homan....

The only difference? The narrative.