They Killed Cursive So You’d Need a Translator to Read Your Own History
Two generations now. That’s what we’ve manufactured.
You Can Thank Progressive Ideologue Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers
In 2010, cursive was quietly stripped from Common Core. No debate. No vote. Just gone — replaced by keyboarding and test prep. Fast forward to today, and the results are exactly what any thinking person would have predicted.
Drew Gilpin Faust — former Harvard president, not exactly a conspiracy theorist — walked into her Civil War seminar and discovered two-thirds of her Harvard undergraduates couldn’t read cursive. Two-thirds. At Harvard. One student admitted he’d reshaped his entire senior thesis to avoid sources with handwriting. Another abandoned Virginia Woolf because she couldn’t read Woolf’s letters.
Let that sink in. The elite are being graduated illiterate in their own language’s written form.
What’s actually been accomplished here?
- The Declaration of Independence is now a foreign document to most Americans under 30. They can’t read it. They depend on someone else’s transcription — someone else’s framing.
- Grandma’s letters from the war. Mom has to translate the birthday card. The direct, unmediated connection to your own bloodline? Severed.
- Original manuscripts, land deeds, family Bibles, journals, contracts. All of it now requires a credentialed interpreter — a new priesthood of specialists who tell you what your history says.
Faust herself spelled out the implication with brutal clarity: “Just imagine if you had some contract that you had signed and you couldn’t read it and someone told you, well, this is what’s in the contract. And then later you might find that it was something else.”
That’s not a bug. That’s the feature.
When a population can’t independently access primary sources, history becomes whatever the gatekeepers decide it is. The past isn’t discovered — it’s assigned. And a person who needs permission to read their own inheritance is a person who’s been quietly, thoroughly disempowered.
The technocrats will tell you it was just pragmatic modernization. Nothing to see here. Just optimizing the curriculum for the 21st-century economy.
Funny how the “optimizations” always seem to produce citizens more dependent, more disconnected, and easier to manage.
Teach your kids cursive. Buy the workbook. Spend twenty minutes a day. Not because it’s charming or vintage — but because a people who can’t read their own founding documents in the original hand are no longer a free people. They’re tenants in their own civilization, renting access to a past that was stolen from them one curriculum meeting at a time.
The Senate is going on ANOTHER vacation for 33 days from August 10th until September 11th.
Meanwhile:
The SAVE America Act. No action in the Senate for 162 days.
The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. No action in the Senate for 556 days.
Protect Children’s Innocence Act. No action in the Senate for 217 days.
The Chloe Cole Act. No action in the Senate for 308 days
Requiring Excise for Migrant Income Transfers Act (15% tax on remittances). No action in the Senate for 408 days.
The Ban Birth Tourism Act. No action in the Senate for 7 days.
The American Citizenship Act. No action in the Senate for 9 days.
The No Rogue Rulings Act. No action in the Senate for 469 days.
The No Licenses for Illegal Drivers or Truckers Act of 2026. No action in the Senate for 98 days.
If I were in Congress, the 3 most important pieces of legislation I would champion are:
1) End birthright citizenship & limit it to children of American citizens
2) The SAVE America Act to require photo ID & documentary proof of citizenship
3) Codify that the Census should ONLY include American citizens — neither illegal aliens nor legal non-citizens should count in the apportionment of House seats
I'm neurodivergent and have a PhD in healthcare research.
Here are 13 ways to regulate your nervous system you’ve probably never heard of:
1. Shower in the dark (reduces sensory input and is one of the fastest ways to calm your overstimulated nervous system).
Great Question - “Who in GA voted to soend taxpayer money on new voting machines?”
Answer:
Georgia Legislature, signed by Governor Brian Kemp.
HOUSE
• 94 Republicans voted YES
• 3 Republicans voted NO: Charlice Byrd, Noelle Kahaian, and Mitchell Horner
• 2 Republicans did not vote: Bill Werkheiser and Speaker Jon Burns
• Deborah Silcox was excused
• Democrats El-Mahdi Jackson, Mack Jackson, and Kim Schofield Willis were excused
• Every Democrat present voted NO
SENATE
• 36 voted YES
• 16 voted NO
• Blake Tillery was excused
Four Senate Democrats crossed over and voted YES:
• Sonya Halpern
• Ed Harbison
• Harold Jones
• Josh McLaurin (Democrat candidate for Lt. Governor)
Meanwhile, the Georgia State Election Board — represented by House, Senate, Republican, and Democrat appointees — voted UNANIMOUSLY to implement emergency procedures using hand-marked paper ballots for the November 2026 election.
The voters spoke.
The State Election Board spoke.
Yet the Republican supermajority voted to preserve illegal QR-code voting through 2028.
Even more remarkable, SB 189, signed in 2024, mandated removal of the QR code by July 1, 2026. Rather than comply with that deadline, the 2026 General Assembly voted to extend QR-code voting for two more years into a presidential election year.
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Mike Lee wants Senators to cancel the August recess and debate the Save America Act until it's passed
Any Senator that goes on recess B4 passing it.... is a traitor... and needs to be primaried
(RP) if you want @SenMikeLee to formally object to it and force the Senate to stay
It’s remarkable how voters can turn out in record numbers, hand Republicans a trifecta, a clear mandate, and an easy to-do list, then spend the next two years fighting Republicans in Congress, only to end up getting scraps, watered-down garbage, or Chuck Schumer’s wishlist.
The Graham legacy lives on: sister Darline Graham Nordone sworn in to finish Lindsey Graham's term, and she just made South Carolina history doing it -- first woman the state has ever sent to the Senate.
67 of 67 economists were wrong about President Trump’s inflation report, with inflation falling 0.4% over the month, the largest monthly decline in 6 years, per WH.
I need to tell you something that makes me angrier than anything else in medicine.
60 randomized controlled trials. 323,950 patients. Every cholesterol-lowering drug ever made. Statins. PCSK9 inhibitors. Ezetimibe.
One question. Did lowering LDL cholesterol make people live longer?
Look at the chart. Every dot is a trial. The red line is zero benefit. If these drugs saved lives, the dots would be above the line.
They are not. They reduced LDL by up to 80%. Nobody was saved.
But that is not what makes me angry.
What makes me angry is that millions of people believe they are safe because their LDL is low. Their doctor says "your numbers look great." They go home and never think about it again.
Meanwhile the 12 things that actually cause heart disease are silently building inside them. Nobody is checking. Nobody is testing. Because a cholesterol number gave everyone a false sense of security.
That is not a failure of medicine. That is a fraud.
Ennezat et al. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology. 2023.
Consider these words from 1920, written by French author Hilaire Belloc:
“The modern world imagines that it has outgrown religion. It has done nothing of the kind. It has merely forgotten it. And because it has forgotten it, it no longer understands itself. Men do not realize that the whole framework of their moral judgments, their political habits, and even their intellectual methods were formed within a Christian society and cannot exist long outside it. When that framework breaks, they will not find themselves enlightened, but bewildered; not free, but enslaved; not rational, but confused.”
🚨🇺🇸 HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY, AMERICA!
Thank you so much to God for giving us this great country and for giving us our rights. We are so honored, and we pray for this country.
Everyone say a Prayer that we are still around in 250 years, strong, free, and united under God. 🙏
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
The man who discovered vitamins proved, by accident, that you cannot live on plant chemistry alone. Then he proved margarine was rubbish. Nobody thanks him for either.
Cambridge, 1912. Frederick Gowland Hopkins is feeding rats a diet of pure, purified building blocks. Clean protein, clean fat, clean carbohydrate, the right minerals, everything the science of the day said an animal needed. The rats stop growing. Then they begin to die.
He adds a tiny splash of milk to the daily ration. Just a few drops. The dying rats get up and grow.
Whatever was in that milk, and missing from the pile of purified plant chemistry, was the difference between life and death. He called these missing pieces accessory food factors. We call them vitamins, and he won a Nobel Prize for finding them.
Sit with what that experiment actually showed. You can assemble every macronutrient a textbook lists, in perfect amounts, and an animal fed on it will waste away, until you give it something that came from an animal.
There is a coda that never gets told. During the war Hopkins was asked to test margarine, and found it inferior to butter, because it lacked the fat soluble vitamins that butter carries and the factory could not fake.
The father of vitamins found life in a drop of milk and found butter beat the cheap substitute. A hundred years on we are still selling people the substitute and the purified powder, and calling it science.
Nick Shirley goes straight to the source.
He’s calling out California AB 2624, the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” the bill that could slap people with lawsuits for sharing recordings tied to immigration service providers.
Staff even went silent when he started asking questions.
This is how you push back when free speech is under attack.
Writer: Val