Tim Booher

SVP Leidos, was VP Autonomy, strategy @ Boeing, USAF reserve. fmr VP Lockheed, DARPA PM, fmr chief data officer, CISO and CTO at Colgate-Palmolive, HSBC Bank.

[Tim Booher @timbooher]

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Scottish athlete Josh Kerr breaks the 1-mile world record with a time of 3:42.66, the previous world record having stood for 27 years.

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Texas State Board of Education Adopts New Social Studies Standards and Required Literature Reading List

Landmark curriculum overhaul to deliver chronological history education and increased literacy rigor across Texas public schools

AUSTIN, Texas — June 26, 2026 — The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) today voted to adopt new social studies Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and a required literature reading list, marking a transformative shift in how Texas students will learn history and literature.

A Chronological Approach to History

The newly adopted social studies TEKS are structured around a chronological framework, giving students the foundational knowledge and context needed to think critically about the past. By following history in sequence, students can observe how one event led to another — building a deeper, more coherent understanding of the forces that shaped the modern world. Students will understand the arc of America becoming a more perfect union.

SBOE Chairman Aaron Kinsey praised the new standards: "Students will finally get the full story. This is how historians work. Students can trace the development of liberty, self-government, free enterprise, and constitutional principles across generations. Students will see how people, ideas, events, and institutions influenced one another across time rather than studying them as separate topics."

The new TEKS emphasize understanding why people, events, and ideas mattered and how they shaped the world — moving away from an approach that overwhelmed students with disconnected lists of names, dates, and events, resulting in generations of students who do not know the greatness of America or its greatest state, Texas.

Texas History Capstone in 8th Grade

A centerpiece of the new standards is a Texas history capstone course in 8th grade. The course tells the story of Texas from its founding through the present day, with a particular focus on how Enlightenment principles shaped the Texas Constitution and the state's founding ideals.

Required Literature Reading List

In response to a mandate from the Texas State Legislature to increase literacy rigor statewide, the SBOE also adopted a required literature reading list. The Board took a classical approach — selecting enduring works that have stood the test of time — ensuring students engage with important literary texts that cross-reference the historical events they are studying in social studies.

A Unified Curriculum Vision

Together, the new social studies TEKS and required literature reading list represent a unified curriculum designed to raise reading standards and give students a comprehensive understanding of the arc of history — from the rise of Western Civilization to the founding of the United States and the ongoing American experiment in self-government.

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Habits for Humanity in the Age of AI https://t.co/AxoHrzLZFk

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Five years ago we started @GalvanickCo with a simple mission: use the power of DATA to detect attacker BEHAVIOR on our nation’s most sensitive industrial networks - from manufacturing to critical infrastructure.

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We won our independence, tamed a continent, ended slavery, beat the Nazis, stood down the Soviets, and built the world’s greatest economy.

Now we spend our days puzzling out the difference between men and women.

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A Final Message From Scott Adams

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Who Will Build NYC if Builders Are the Enemy?

As a New Yorker Jew, I'm surrounded by people who have been in real estate their entire lives. I am not trying to feed a stereotype, but that's my reality. They aren't activists or online commentators. They are people who bought their first buildings with all their savings, carried debt through rate hikes, fixed things themselves when there was no money to hire, and stayed in New York through high crime, recessions, 2008, COVID, rising taxes, insurance increases, and an ever-expanding book of laws and codes. None of them were promised fairness before they started, and none of them were protected from risk. They succeeded very slowly, and painfully, but with responsibly.

That experience is exactly what is missing from the worldview of Zohran Mamdani, and it shows in every part of his housing agenda. Mamdani has never built anything. He never signed a personal guarantee, never met payroll, never carried a mortgage through a rough month, never had to choose between fixing a boiler now or hoping it survives another winter because there is no cash. He has only operated in a political world where consequences are abstract and other people absorb the risk. When you have never operated in the real economy, it becomes easy to believe that shortcuts are solutions.

It is also why his message resonates with a certain type of voter. The people demanding “housing reforms” are not bad people. They are frustrated renters who feel like the system is rigged against them. I understand the frustration. But frustration doesn't change math. Housing is hard. Ownership is a very slow process. Building anything meaningful in this city takes years of stress, and debt. The people calling for "landlord policies" often want the outcome without the grind, the stability without the risk, and the reward without the years of sweating that every responsible adult who succeeded here had to endure. But it does not work like that.

NYC is in housing crisis. Citywide vacancy sits around 1.4 percent, a level economists consider an emergency. Median rents keep rising anyway, with Manhattan near $4,800 and Brooklyn around $3,800, even under an already thick layer of regulation. The reason is obvious. Supply has not kept up. In a good year, New York adds roughly 30,000 units. The city needs hundreds of thousands more over the next decade just to stabilize prices. At the same time, construction costs here are among the highest in the country, financing is extremely difficult, and insurance is wildly expensive

Mamdani’s proposals take that fragile situation and make it worse. When you cap upside while leaving downside unlimited, rational people stop participating. Developers do not argue on X. Lenders do not protest. They simply reallocate. Projects stop coming up. Renovations are postponed. New construction dies before a shovel hits the ground. The people I know in real estate are not angry. They are disengaging. Some are buying elsewhere. Some are sitting on cash. Some are done entirely. And when that happens, tenants do not win. Buildings deteriorate, supply tightens further, and rents rise anyway.

What Mamdani offers is emotional satisfaction, not solutions. He tells voters that prices are high because someone else is greedy, not because the city has spent decades making housing harder and almost impossible to build. He frames landlords as villains instead of participants in an ecosystem that only works when incentives align. That framing feels good, but it does not produce housing. It produces resentment, fear, and withdrawal.

Everyone I know who made it in this city did it the same way. Slowly, without shortcuts. Policies written by people who never did that do not create fairness or affordability. They create shortages. NYC doesn't have a landlord problem. It has a confidence problem. And a city that teaches people to hate the builders while demanding more building is a city sabotaging its own future.