Julia Crusius

#txlege staffer • alum @Trinity_U

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

If you’re a woman looking for a mom to rally around and celebrate, may I suggest this one instead of Lindsay Clancy

[Julia Crusius @juliawestwick7]

If you live in Texas, you need to be using the HEB app with your spouse! Life-changing

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

I have never seen anything so accurate on this site.

[Pamela Hobart @gtmom]

back-to-school disillusionment posts are cropping up

it will take another month or two for the gifted program specific ones though ("they identified my kid as 'gifted' but then nothing changed...)

[Wayne Christian @ChristianForTX]

Texas leads the nation in natural gas production, and we should use that advantage to strengthen our grid and power our growing economy. The answer to rising electricity demand from data centers and new industry isn't to stop growth—it’s to build the infrastructure needed to support it.

[Julia Crusius @juliawestwick7]

@cremieuxrecueil It’s probably not an error. To a socialist, the primary concern IS inequality.

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

The College Board has overnight dumbed down its AP tests and inflated passing rate, and seemingly no one is paying attention

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

Not a hill I'm prepared to die on, but legacy preferences don't bother me, assuming the student meets entrance criteria. Multi-generation relationships with institutions strike me as something to celebrate, not regulate.

[Julia Crusius @juliawestwick7]

@Mariah_Selene @chiproytx “Much of the success achieved so far rests on executive authorities that a future administration could choose to weaken, reinterpret, or reverse with the stroke of a pen.” ‼️

[Selene Rodriguez @Mariah_Selene]

Americans should not mistake progress for permanence. Spain is a reminder that no nation is immune from weak policies. @chiproytx's Permanent Trump Secure Border Act would codify many of the enforcement authorities currently being implemented through executive action.
https://t.co/Rnefmysh7V

[Julia Crusius @juliawestwick7]

@Dale_Chu @educationgadfly @MichaelPetrilli “Other measures can inform school improvement, but not everything belongs inside an accountability formula.” 🙌

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

For what it’s worth I’m opposed to making the citizenship test a high school graduation requirement. It should be a graduation requirement for *elementary* school.

Yes, I’m serious.

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

People don't like to hear this, but the issue starts at home

American schools don't serve this (in part) because American kids won't eat this, and we are tied down by the pickiest eaters

[Patrick Wolf @FlowTap1]

Great essay by @ua_edreform alum @annaegalite quotes a public school superintendent: "The only viable response (to #schoolchoice competition) is to become “more accommodating, more receptive and more accessible to parents and students.”"
https://t.co/1kd6HONogz

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

I tuned into Joe Rogan yesterday and heard Bernie Sanders' economics, Barack Obama's foreign policy, and Ro Khanna's conspiracy theories.

And then I realized JD Vance was talking.

I want a candidate in 2028 who doesn't mirror the Democrats -- and who can win.

Mr. VP, this is not the way.
https://t.co/VcoYxzy89K

[Julia Crusius @juliawestwick7]

@emmma_camp_ @WSJFreeEx Is it true that modern refrigerators do not last as long?

[Robert Henneke @robhenneke]

Never give up, never surrender.

@TPPF @LitigateLiberty brought the @yct v.@UNTsocial case to the 5th Cir. 3+ years ago. While our effort was not successful then, the panel's opinion established the basis for this correct outcome.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Example of why the Founding Fathers rejected a government-by-plebiscite in favor of a republic in which representatives are supposed to “refine and enlarge” the public’s views.

[James Frank @RepJamesFrank]

Apparently hospitals are capable of posting their pricing for procedures. #txlege #patientsfirst

[Vance Ginn @VanceGinn]

Texas lawmakers are right to ask why health care keeps getting more expensive.

Texas Speaker @Burrows4TX created the House Select Committee on Health Care Affordability⁠ this year, and lawmakers have already heard testimony that health costs are consuming more of family budgets.

Chairman @RepJamesFrank said the goal should be to address root causes instead of playing “whack-a-mole with the symptoms.”⁠

That is right. The wrong answer is for Texas to copy Tennessee and Arkansas by forcing private health care companies to unwind longstanding business arrangements.

Here’s why in my latest commentary: https://t.co/OEdq84oSWe @GregAbbott_TX @DanPatrick

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Compare Calvin Coolidge on America’s 150th anniversary:

“It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."