Jim Vail

I am a teacher, journalist, activist, fighting the fight to save public education and speak out for the People!

[Melinda Person 🍎✌🌈 @MelindaJPerson]

A NYT investigation confirms what educators have long known: social media companies made deliberate choices to capture students' attention during the school day, despite internal warnings about the harm to learning and mental health.

Educators have carried the weight of this for years. We owe it to our students to demand accountability and keep classrooms focused on learning.

https://t.co/EkULFX9a0x

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov on nuclear weapons:

Gaddafi gave up his nuclear program — and he was mocked and killed on live television to the delight of Hillary Clinton, who literally applauded in front of the screen.

North Korea simply concluded that without nuclear weapons, they would be wiped off the face of the earth.

They are acting on this choice — and no one touches them.

With Iran, all of this started because Iran had supposedly been promoting international terrorism for 47 years. It very quickly became clear that the reason was once again oil.

The Americans proposed that they and Iran control the Strait of Hormuz 50/50. It's all about oil again — all about the world's energy markets.

[therealsubstancenews @realsubsnews]

Thank you @jvail900 for carrying on George's legacy.

[therealsubstancenews @realsubsnews]

Would the Real Substance News Site Please Stand Up!, by @jvail900 https://t.co/maA9McOkLE

[Jim Vail @jvail900]

I just wrote a @ctulocal1 letter: Call a Special Session to Combat Budget Inadequacies, Fight Trump Cuts. Write one here: https://t.co/9wt0dINQHQ

[Jim Vail @jvail900]

I just wrote a @ctulocal1 letter: Tax wealthy corporations to fund schools and services. Write one here: https://t.co/40lzATPjfV

[Jim Vail @jvail900]

I just wrote a @ctulocal1 letter: Tax wealthy corporations to fund schools and services. Write one here: https://t.co/40lzATPjfV

[Jim Vail @jvail900]

@nakedtruthguy @YouTube They say that about the slaves and dark people behind bars.

[Yasha Levine @yashalevine]

First wife is hotter, too.

[Chris Tobe, CFA @tobecb]

Private Equity does not belong in 401k - CFA Institute
https://t.co/1CuK19VDpb

[Chris Tobe, CFA @tobecb]

Trump EBSA Nominee wants to protect excessive 401k fees https://t.co/uUkaxGoxZh via @401kspecmag

[Jim Vail @jvail900]

I just wrote a letter to @byronsigcho and other City Officials: NO Pilsen TIF expansion!
Write one here: https://t.co/HXhQqcoHBD

[Chris Tobe, CFA @tobecb]

@theintercept https://t.co/oFpainYgGD

[Michelle Celarier @mcelarier]

Private equity is coming after your 401(k)

Can New Structures — and New Investors— Fix a Fundraising Dilemma? https://t.co/FtUflXzDyc

[Chris Tobe, CFA @tobecb]

@AndrewWelsch @barronsonline https://t.co/oFpainXIR5

[Michelle Celarier @mcelarier]

When @billackman was an activist investor, Bill Ackman could rattle corporate cages, and his hedge fund far outperformed the S&P 500. Then passive investing came to dominate markets.

Ackman’s Pershing Square Suffers from the ‘Passive’ Phenomenon https://t.co/lCpu25gxww

[Erin Arvedlund @erinarvedlund]

Ohio House Republicans pitch state investments in Bitcoin https://t.co/DU78fXJgcs

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.

Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at https://t.co/Zp7SvobICU. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.

IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)

[Jim Vail @jvail900]

I just signed a @CivicLabChicago petition: No Public Dollars for Sports Stadiums. Sign here: https://t.co/6OaPmhJ58Q

[Jim Vail @jvail900]

Jerusalem Post Targets MintPress After Exposé on Israeli Spies in US Media https://t.co/Om3W73O6pc via @Scheer_Post