smh

My children matter most. That's all.

[Brad @BradleyKellard]

Malcolm Gladwell revealed why you shouldn't go to Harvard:

1. America does not have a shortage of students who want science and math degrees. It has a shortage of students who finish them. Half of all high school seniors who intend to study STEM drop out by the end of their second year. The problem is not interest. It is persistence.

2. The obvious assumption is that smarter students persist longer. So Gladwell tested it. At Hartwick College, a small liberal arts school in New York, the top third of math SAT scorers took the majority of STEM degrees. The bottom third dropped out in large numbers. The data seemed to confirm it. Smarter kids stick around longer.

3. Then he looked at Harvard. The bottom third of Harvard's math SAT scores are equal to the top third at Hartwick. By the logic above, everyone at Harvard should graduate with a STEM degree. They are all brilliant. Nobody should be dropping out.

4. Harvard showed the exact same pattern as Hartwick. Top students graduated. Bottom students dropped out like flies. Even though the bottom Harvard students were objectively brilliant by any global standard. Something else entirely was driving the dropout rate.

5. That something is called relative deprivation theory. Human beings do not measure themselves against the world. They measure themselves against the people immediately around them. A Harvard student in the bottom third does not think I am in the top one percent of all students globally. They think that kid next to me keeps getting everything right and I keep getting it wrong. So they quit.

6. The research from UCLA puts a specific number on it. Your odds of graduating with a STEM degree fall by two percentage points for every ten point increase in the average SAT score of your peers. Choose Harvard over the University of Maryland and your chance of finishing a STEM degree drops by thirty percent. Thirty percent. Just to put a brand name on your resume.

7. Relative position matters more than absolute position when it comes to confidence, motivation, and self belief. The eightieth percentile student at Harvard looks up at the people above them and feels like they cannot compete. The number one student at a state school feels like they can conquer the world. That feeling drives everything.

8. The practical hiring implication is radical. Class rank matters more than institution name. Gladwell argues companies should have a don't ask don't tell policy for where someone went to college. Hiring only from top schools means missing the top students from every other school. That is not smart hiring. That is brand worship.

9. When choosing a college, never go to the best school you get into. Go to the school where you are guaranteed to be near the top of your class. Being a big fish in a smaller pond does not just feel better. It statistically produces better outcomes than being a small fish in the most prestigious pond available.

10. So why do we keep choosing Harvard over Maryland? Because we are flattered. Because the acceptance letter feels like validation. Because we make an irrational decision in a moment of enormous flattery and call it ambition. Gladwell's conclusion is simple and brutal. When we have the chance to join an elite institution we do things that are genuinely against our own interest and we feel great about it the whole time.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Sepsis kills more people in American hospitals than heart attacks. 350,000 deaths a year, and the reason is brutally simple: the early warning signs are almost invisible.

A slightly elevated heart rate. A small temperature shift. A lab value drifting in the wrong direction. Each one looks like noise on a busy ward. By the time the pattern is obvious to a human, the patient is hours into a cascade toward organ failure, and every hour of delayed antibiotics raises mortality.

Tampa General built a system on Palantir's Foundry that watches roughly 1,000 inpatients continuously. Vitals, labs, medication records, clinician notes, all scanned in real time for the pattern no single nurse can see across 12 beds at 3am. When risk crosses a threshold, a rapid response team gets paged. Humans still make every treatment decision. The software just compresses detection from hours to minutes.

The results since 2022: overall sepsis mortality cut in half, 48-hour deaths down 68%, length of stay down 30%, roughly 900 lives saved. At one hospital.

Now run the national math. There are about 6,100 hospitals in the US. If even the 500 largest matched these numbers, you'd be looking at tens of thousands of lives a year from a single use case. The treatment for sepsis hasn't changed. Antibiotics and fluids, same as decades ago. The entire gain comes from starting them earlier.

The hardest problem in medicine was never the cure. It was noticing in time.

[Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY]

BREAKING: Massive BRAWL and Pepper Pray Deployed at Riotous KNICKS Fans Watch Party - Bryant Park

Video by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 | Licensing @FreedomNTV [email protected]

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, a 'Knicks watch party' in Manhattan turned into a pretty typical 'takeover' riot, complete with violent gang assault and brawls with the police.

Tomorrow, Mamdani will say with a smirk that all he saw was a bunch of kids having fun and it got a little out of hand, understandably because passion for the Kicks is running so high. Or something equally idiotic.

It's rapidly getting to the point that we simply cannot have outdoor events in NYC anymore without the typical 'takeover' enthusiasts turning it into a violent riot.

And the mayor excuses it every single time.

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

Don’t worry guys.

It’s totally normal for the no-name candidate deep in 3rd place to give a tear-filled concession speech on election night and then miraculously receive almost every Democrat vote in the 2 weeks after the election to defeat the most charismatic Republican candidate in decades.

Just another “safe and secure” election in LA.

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

Did he break the glass?

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Voting with a gym membership or prescription label? That’s absolutely insane, and yet another reason that we must pass the SAVE America Act.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Suicidal empathy becoming homicidal empathy

[Edward Dowd @DowdEdward]

Three things I didn’t expect to see all in one X post in 2026:

Hotez, Cialis and multiple marital affairs. 🤣😂🤡

[smh @smhc8]

@RyLiberty @elonmusk Because it wasn’t about slavery. It was about federal power over states & since then the federal stranglehold has increased exponentially, predominantly with a federal income tax & the creation of a multitude of federal agencies who almost all answer to the executive branch.

[🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋 @DeepBlueCrypto]

@loganclarkhall White slavery was much more prominent than black slavery… but whites freed slaves first

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

He travelled to Bosnia where he volunteered for an Al Qaeda offshoot.

Congress would be within its rights not to seat him.

Our enemies should have no expectation they can infiltrate us from within.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

America routinely taking days/weeks to count ballots now is f’n hilarious. They might as well announce results in Hamburglar costumes

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

Africans hold a machete to the throat of a young White boy in Melbourne & tell him he’s going to die.

The Africans then force the 2 White boys to fight or they will kill them both.

This is multiculturalism.

This is ‘New Modern’ Australia.

WE DON’T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS.

PROTECT ours nations kids 🤍

If it is this bad NOW, imagine a few more years of third world immigration.

[Jimmy Failla @jimmyfailla]

🚨ELECTION UPDATE🚨it looked like California was going RED but it’s currently going BLACK from all the printer ink they're using to make extra Democrat ballots right now.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

New Jersey Democrats really just elected an Islamic terrorist linked Egyptian man to represent them in Congress

The enemy is already here.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

7 UK officers dragged an autistic girl from her home and arrested her for calling an officer "lesbian"

The woke rot runs deep in UK policing

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This MUST keep being talked about

Elon Musk and Joe Rogan talked about how California Democrats have a voter fraud scheme

“California made it actually illegal to ask for ID when people vote”

“Yes. California — You are not allowed to show your ID when you vote. I just wanna be clear. So everyone understands this. In California you are not allowed to show your ID even if you want to.”

“Man, if you're trying to do, if you're trying to facilitate fraud in elections, it's a great idea.

That's the only reason. There's no other reason”

“Let's say you wanted to commit fraud. What are the things you would do? You would say you don't need ID and you can mail in your ballot”

He’s absolutely correct

Gavin Newsom signed a law making it illegal to check ID, but that’s not all Democrats did

California moved aggressively toward universal mail-in ballots. Key steps included:

- 2016-2018: Laws like the Voter’s Choice Act expanded vote-by-mail options.

- 2020+ Permanent universal mail-in ballots, every registered voter gets a ballot mailed automatically

Ballot harvesting third parties collecting and delivering ballots was also legalized and expanded

Democrats are rigging California elections

[SherryM @SherryM1136]

@CollinRugg @BurtMaclin_FBI

[smh @smhc8]

STOP THE STEAL!

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

🚨 THIS IS DISGUSTING. What we’re watching in California is election corruption in plain sight.
NBC just admitted it: “They’d need a flood of ballots coming in the wee hours of the morning to lift both Dems above (R) Steve Hilton.”

While Florida and Texas had clear results on election night, California drags it out with mysterious late-night ballot dumps.
This isn’t democracy. This is how a corrupt one-party state cheats to stay in power.
Enough.

If Republicans like John Thune actually fought back and demanded real election integrity reforms — paper ballots, same-day counting, voter ID, no more hidden mail-ins — we could stop this.

Californians deserve better. Steve Hilton is fighting for real change. Share if you’re tired of the games.
#StopTheStealCA #HiltonForGovernor #ElectionIntegrityNow