R Leonsky

Jewish millenial woman. Moderate conservative. Adhd mom. Akathisia survivor.

[R Leonsky @RLeonsky]

BLM is to saving Black lives
as
an anti-GMO group is to solving world hunger.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

One of the craziest things about the UK rape gang scandal is that it's largely considered a 'right wing' concern.

In a sane, serious country, it would be completely bipartisan. In fact, it wouldn't even be seen as a political issue, but one of basic justice and morality.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Cross sex hormones are not HRT. The clue is in the name. Hormone replacement treatment replaces small amounts of naturally occurring hormones that have diminished with age. Cross sex hormones don’t replace anything. They are intended to disrupt the body’s hormonal balance.

[Carolyn D. Gorman @CarolynGorman_]

Grade promotion for kids who are failing-but-labeled-passing is part of what’s behind the student behavioral and “mental health” problems in schools.

When I first started talking to teachers about youth mental health a few years ago, one teacher made a point to me that stood out (which others have since confirmed):

Half of the students in class, in this teachers case, were not able read. Those kids, out of embarrassment and shame that they can’t follow along, and for want to “participate”, act out or breakdown.

The other half of the students, who ARE able to read, don’t end up doing anything because the class gets nowhere, so THEY act out or breakdown, too.

Once students are passed along like this through grade after grade, the non-readers get further and further behind, and the readers lose any expectation they’ll do or learn anything.

Obviously, teachers are put in a tough spot themselves. What do you do with a 10th grade class that is so unengaged you can barely tell the readers from non-readers?

But adults now have another shield from accountability: the supposed “youth mental health crisis.”

The behavioral problems and the breakdowns stemming from illiteracy and boredom-abandonment are now wrapped in a mental health narrative.

Instead of making the first question “how is the students reading ability?” Or “how’s the students teacher?”, the first questions become, “how’s the students mental health?” and “could the student have oppositional defiant disorder/ADHD/depression?”

The mental health industry loves this because they’ve sold schools on the idea that kids can’t learn unless they have good mental health.

So now, instead of giving kids the thing they need to improve their behavior and reduce their distress—LITERACY, you know, something squarely in schools’ wheelhouse—schools do mental health and wellness activities that are totally superficial, don’t improve mental health, and don’t improve grades.

But once the mental health ideology gets into the school, it’s hard to get out. Mental health programs flag more kids — a mechanical outcome of having programs that are DESIGNED to flag more kids. That gets used to claim need and demand for even more mental health programs. Rinse and repeat.

Having and letting schools try to do the mental health system’s job—and fail—does nothing good for kids but shields adults from accountability. Just like grade promotion.

Important piece in @wsj by @jasonrileywsj

https://t.co/ZhkMOFg6sO

[Frank McCormick @CBHeresy]

I’m a “Ben Shapiro conservative.” I accept that I’m part of a dying generation of conservatives, and I lament it because I know what’s rising in its stead.

It’s a radical and revolutionary reactionary force that you helped create through years of demonizing and dispossessing white men. From making them scared and desperate. From trying—and often succeeding—in destroying the most milquetoast of conservatives for daring to question your Woke orthodoxy.

I was one of those casualties. It cost me everything as a teacher and I’m still a pariah amongst the Leftist ideologues that run our schools—unemployable in public education.

I have every reason to hate people like you—and perhaps if I possessed a different temperament I’d be part of the new revolutionary Right.

But I’m not, because I know that the polemic wars of the far Left against the new far Right will do to this country that I love.

And I should warn you against reveling in Ben’s diminishing audience, because what is replacing it frightens me, and it should utterly terrify you.

You’re going to reap what you sowed, and one day, you’ll pray for the return of conservatives like Ben,

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Blaming the Iranian people for "not rising up" is worst kind of victim blaming

They *did* rise up and were slaughtered

Trump said help was on the way

Help came, but it was late, botched and then he surrendered.

[Rocketshipalx @rocketshipalx]

My thoughts after 3 months in the US/Texas🇺🇸:

- Americans are way more extroverted than Europeans
- Talking to strangers is normal here
- My first H-E-B trip felt like Boris Yeltsin seeing an American grocery store
- Some food is more artificial, but the amount of choices is insane
- You can still eat healthy. You just have to choose it
- High risk, high reward is real
- Way more people are entrepreneurial
- People dream bigger than in Europe, and they actually execute
- Obv not everyone is smarter, but the smart people are world-class
- Successful people here are way more down-to-earth. In Europe, successful people care about status and can be arrogant
- Cars. Enough said
- Americans have perfected artificial sweets
- There’s still more freedom here than in Europe
- One thing I didn’t expect: some Americans talk down on America
- As an outsider, that’s weird, because imo it’s still the greatest country on Earth🇺🇸🇺🇸

[R Leonsky @RLeonsky]

@ClubShayShay @neiltyson Terrence also believed the "This is Maga Country" hoax.
Not the brightest bulb.

[Mark Zlochin - מארק זלוצ'ין༝ @MarkZlochin]

Qatar is everything antisemites want you to believe AIPAC is.

[U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen @RepPettersen]

I'm utterly horrified that a group of students in Boulder justified the deadly firebombing attack last year that targeted the Jewish community and encouraged others to follow the murderer's "act of resistance."

Anti-Semitic rhetoric like this continues to put the Jewish community at risk and paves the way for exactly the kind of hate-fueled violence we witnessed that day.

This behavior is a disgrace and should be denounced by every Coloradan and American. This is not who we are.

[Ari @thetweetbeat365]

Pediatric survival rates

[Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick]

hey, this is what antisemitism looks like.

The only reason to bring Israel into this is to suggest that those speaking out about a Nazi tattoo are controlled by a foreign power, rather than legitimate concerns about extremism.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The crusade against standardized testing failed so hard.

[Graham Allen @GrahamAllen]

This is hilarious… two brown guys just walked out of ICE’s Newark facility, and leftist idiots started CHEERING

They didn’t realize that they WORK THERE🤣🤣🤣

“THEY WORK HERE, DUMBASSES!”

[R Leonsky @RLeonsky]

@ConceptualJames I do sometimes wonder if the person behind the insane antisemitic tweet is in fact writing it from a tent and muttering to himself.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

The Bund rejected Zionism. The Bund were all killed by Nazis and communists. For the vast majority of the Jews of the Eastern Hemisphere, the only survival and freedom they could find -- after trying every other imaginable option -- was Zionism.

Zionism is big and diverse and complex and beautiful. Zionism is also the product of a vast, unspeakable tragedy.

The Bund *should* have been able to build an interesting and flourishing Jewish world all its own, in the "hereness" of Eastern Europe. And in a better world, the Bund would have. But this isn't that world.

In this world, the Nazi war on the millenia-old European Jewish civilization was successful, the Jews of Europe were wiped out -- and old ideas that once animated Nazis and Stalinists in their murder of Bundists have now returned into fashion on left and right and gone looking once more for the Jews.

Is there a word that describes a Jew so pitiably afraid of the current whirlwind of hatred that they choose to build a fake past to live in, just so they can pretend that Jews ever had an alternative to Zionism?

The Bund's story, like Molly Crabapple's ahistorical polemics, is merely one more data point demonstrating that Zionism's case is actually -- tragically, in fact -- impregnable. That it is a story of the transformation of catastrophic annihilation into triumphant freedom and survival.

[Nick Matau @nick_matau]

So can someone answer me... is this freeing Palestine?

[Yisrael official 🕎 @YisraelOfficial]

👇

[R Leonsky @RLeonsky]

Britain is not okay.

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

British student stabbed by Sikh man dies because police cuffed him on suspicion of being racist instead of treating stab wound
https://t.co/n8DUEAtP8J