Jack Yoest

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Learning to Win: The 45 Laws of the Public Policy Process!

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[Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP @FrAquinasOP]

Congratulations to my friend @MontseEWTN on her appointment today! I’ve had the pleasure of working with her on @EWTN and with the @giveninstitute. She will continue to do great things for Christ and his Church.

[The Daily Signal @DailySignal]

Louisiana just became the second state—after Iowa—to receive a "Returning Education to the States" waiver, freeing up $18 million in federal tax dollars to flow directly to classrooms rather than bureaucratic compliance.

"Louisiana is well-positioned to accelerate their remarkable progress and cut through red tape," said @Linda_McMahon.
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Let AI eat the universities https://t.co/2PsWG8aFW1

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

For the FIRST TIME in DECADES,
the fountains are officially working at Lafayette Park in DC -
thanks to President Trump
PERSONALLY funding it with others
Beautiful!

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Bill Maher asks how Mississippi is kicking California's ass in education, and Texas is "blowing them away" in green energy for "way less money."

"Did you know that a black fourth grader in Mississippi is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in math and reading as one in California?

Mississippi is kicking our ass in education and for way less money. We're 37th in fourth-grade reading, they're ninth."

"Texas is kicking our ass in green energy. The average time to get solar panels connected there is three to four months.

About 1,000 days faster than it took me. Remember when I was trying to get my solar hooked up? It would have been quicker to build a windmill."

"Texas has passed California in solar and blows away California when it comes to wind and energy storage. How does a state with no pro-climate policies produce better climate results than a state where here, even though we have so much better bumper stickers on our Priuses?"

"I'II tell you why. Because you're allowed to build there because every third person in Texas isn't someone whose job it is to make sure nothing gets done."

"Democrats, these are your issues: education, race, the environment."
"And I say this with love: you're losing to the Waffle House, car-on-the-lawn states."

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The quote is a good provocation. The answer to it is exactly what you're building this semester [@CatholicUniv in @TheBuschSchool]."

h/t @Yoest

Learn more in, Learning To Win,

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"Unless you’ve cracked the code on building AI models, your job prospects are likely pretty bleak these days," quote from @BusinessInsider.

I asked, "Explain for my students,"

@claudeai responded:

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This is actually the argument for why they should enter.

The students who come out of this knowing how to spin up a Claude-integrated app on AWS, manage a GitHub repo, and demo something real to AI judges have a concrete differentiator on a resume.

They're not trying to crack the model — they're learning to wield it:

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City life in DC

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From @BusinessInsider

"Teradata’s memo mentioned investing in AI talent and expertise..."

And this must be managed and will be rewarded.

Learn how @CatholicUniv in @TheBuschSchool

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Good point --

We are in an Arms Race

[James P. Pinkerton @JamesPPinkerton]

The challenge is to accentuate the positive of AI on cures while eliminating the negative on bioweapons. From @semafor

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[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him.

His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang.

Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on.

That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was.

Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose.

And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot.

So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out.

Then he simply outlived everyone.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake.

He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him.

The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway.

We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's.

Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?