Conrad

[Jake Butt @Jbooty88]

Failure is extremely important to development and growth as a human being. Short term comfort harms long term growth. This is just so bad.

[Conrad @jcpental]

https://t.co/JUaOa0istT

[litquidity @litcapital]

How did NYC fuck up the Knicks parade so badly?

Knicks win the championship for the first time in 53 years and they get a micro parade on a Thursday morning in tiny streets near city hall

Meanwhile every random tiny country gets a whole parade down 5th Ave on weekends

Millions of people unable to come to the parade to celebrate their team today

Absolute clown show

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

Your 2025-26 Stanley Cup Champions

[Michigan Men's Basketball @umichbball]

🏆 CHAMPS 🏆

[Bethel McGrew @BMcGrewvy]

I'm putting together a team

[Conrad @jcpental]

"The UC schools required DEI statements, in which prospective faculty were asked to detail “future plans to advance diversity, equity and inclusion.” .. Under “Advancing Faculty Diversity,” UC administrators used DEI statements as a “first cut” to pools"
https://t.co/K10Qzq4qfD

[Conrad @jcpental]

“Most responding faculty agreed that diversity statements put pressure on faculty to express specific positions on moral, political or social issues. Faculty disagreed that diversity statements allow an institution to demonstrate a commitment to DEI.”

[Santa Ono @SantaJOno]

The University of Michigan will no longer solicit diversity statements as part of faculty hiring, promotion and tenure. https://t.co/mo3qoS7ZPN

[Conrad @jcpental]

https://t.co/q5yFUMcGXA
“That’s the lesson of this tragedy, that people are sick and tired of being isolated and cast out from polite society because they have the gall to ask a question or challenge the orthodoxy.”

[The Free Press @TheFP]

“Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s birth. Bobby Kennedy is mostly remembered today as a liberal icon, a tribune of the poor, and a critic of the Vietnam War, which he surely was. But it’s crucial, on this anniversary, to recall that he embodied a special brand of liberal patriotism that is at odds with so much of what the progressive left represents today.

There are many reasons why working-class Americans are skeptical of today’s Democrats, but one key factor looming behind it all is this: The party has a patriotism problem. There is a pervasive sense among voters that Democrats just don’t like this country very much.” —@RickKahlenberg and Ruy Teixeira

[Brad Galli @BradGalli]

“I’m a Michigan man, through and through.”

J.J. McCarthy wore his workman’s shirt from his Michigan days to his first game at Ford Field.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

They say my generation is wasting our lives watching mindless entertainment. But it’s worse than that: We’re not just consuming slop—we’re turning our own lives into it, writes Freya India for The Free Press. https://t.co/4wWvWe14aT

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

America will never be the same.

[Conrad @jcpental]

https://t.co/f4BWasmmsm

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

David Friedberg Breaks Down Zohran Mamdani's Win in NYC: The College Debt Crisis Has Led Young People to Socialism

"It's really a revolution against the system that brought them to this moment."

"Because the promise that we gave in America, the American Dream, was if you go to college, you will graduate, you will have income, you will have stability, you'll be able to buy a home."

"And what we did is we increased the government's role in making that dream possible, and in doing so, we created effectively a system where we gave unrestricted access to capital, which inflated the cost of education."

" People could go to school like Zohran and major in African studies and graduate with $200-300K of debt and then never get a job. The guy has not had a real job. And this is the truth for 32 million young Americans."

" They all have what is called negative capital. They have debt and they will never be able to get out of that cycle."

"So where do you turn in that moment? You don't go turn to corporations to solve your problems. You don't go turn to your friends and your siblings and your family, they're not gonna bail you out."

"You turn to the voting booth, and you hear a guy like Zohran show up and say, 'There can be a better path forward.'  The better path forward is the government can and should do more to help."

"And in doing more to help, we will increase government, we will tax the rich, we will tax the corporations. We will take all of that capital and we will redistribute it in the form of services and checks and support for all of the people that find themselves unable to take care of themselves."

 "And this becomes a tipping point when the majority of the voter base ends up in that situation where they're that deeply in need, where they have negative capital."

"And that is the situation America finds itself in today."

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Hard left socialists destroy specialized public high schools

The idea of social mobility is offensive to them and cannot be allowed.

We need to fight against these people and normalize equality of opportunity as our goal, not equality of outcome.

[Conrad @jcpental]

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[Conrad @jcpental]

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[Conrad @jcpental]

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[Conrad @jcpental]

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[Conrad @jcpental]

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[Conrad @jcpental]

https://t.co/OPfxnXFlFg

[Erec Smith Likes Rhetoric @Rhetors_of_York]

"If Bill Maher and Donald Trump can have a pleasant and generative conversation, maybe we all can."

My latest for Cato at Liberty. I think @billmaher is onto something,

https://t.co/9bVo2S5sUC

[Conrad @jcpental]

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[Conrad @jcpental]

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[Conrad @jcpental]

https://t.co/eJbOPXp1jf

[Sarah Hubbard, Regent, University of Michigan @RegentHubbard]

Today the University of Michigan is ending implementation of DEI.

We are eliminating programs, eliminating affiliated staff and ending the DEI 2.0 strategy.

Late last year we ended the use of diversity statements in faculty hiring. This is now expanded university wide and statements related to a person’s identity or commitment to DEI will no longer be solicited or considered in admissions, hiring, promotion, awards or reviews for faculty and staff.

Savings from these programs will be used to support making Michigan more affordable for our students and families through expansion of the Go Blue Guarantee to family incomes of $125,000 or less and other student facing supports. We are eliminating bureaucratic overspending and making Michigan more accessible.

I will continue to push for even greater financial support for talented students with financial need. The total cost of attendance at UM goes far beyond tuition when you consider the high costs of housing, transportation, food and other necessities. I will be working in the future to address these costs for our students who need the most help.

Ending DEI programs will also allow us to better expand diversity of thought and free speech on our campus. The end of litmus test hiring and curtailment of speech stops now. People from all walks of life representing a variety of ideologies will be welcome at Michigan. As we move forward with creation of the Institute on Civil Discourse, I look forward to hosting a variety of perspectives on campus.

Today’s announcement follows a number of policy and process changes that are making our campus safer and stronger as a place of learning and academic excellence. I’m honored to be a leader at this amazing institution.