I'll add on RBG: If reports of her "last wish" are true, then she had a fundamental misunderstanding of her role. She didn't own her seat -- merely had the privilege of filling it for many, many years -- and had no business telling the political branches how it should be filled.
My oldest son who is remote was just told by his teacher to remove his Trump hat my son came in the living room upset so I said you go back in there and you put your Trump hat back on. These teachers are out of their minds if my son is learning from home he can wear his hat!!!!
It’s profoundly embarrassing for the potential first female President to appear like she isn't in charge, isn’t capable of representing herself, and is really just a pretty face being used to create a “vibe” for whoever is really running–and hopes to continue to run–the country
Strange year update: "We are approaching a very weird election in which one of our major parties is taking a stand in favor of rioting, looting, arson, destruction of federal property, and violent attacks on law enforcement."
As someone who saved every penny to retire my student loans as soon as possible, and as a parent now facing tuition bills in a couple of years, I can't say I'm excited for higher taxes to pay off other people's education debts.
So
@fcpsnews
had security, police & a public affairs flack at the door of my elementary school today, all to deal with "threat" of my unmasked 7 and 9 year olds. They ordered a local journalist off the property who wanted to witness my polite attempt to exercise opt-out rights.
If RKF drops out today and endorses Trump, polling experts will parse how RFK’s supporters will split, but the biggest impact will be on Americans’ perceptions, not just of Democrats, but the media. The Democrats' iron-fisted campaign to deny RFK a public platform and then ballot
At a moment when politicians are claiming the right to put people under house arrest because they *might* become sick, it's good to see someone in government concerned with expanding privacy. Thank you
@RichardGrenell
.
Far-left, viewer-strapped conspiracy outlet
@CNN
upset that a communications company played a role in founding a competitor on the right. [Yawn] Lamest attempt at "cancellation" *ever*.
@IWF
@IWV
Here’s my story on how AT&T played a role in the founding of far-right conspiracy network OAN. AT&T put out a carefully worded statement earlier today. But when we asked an AT&T spox a series of follow up questions, the spox deflected.
The best moment was when the school district's security guy took off his mask to bark at some moms standing with me, admitting he couldn't "talk through this mask." (Duh) Really, FCPS, cops & a guy in a flack jacket to deal with a mom?
@JGunlock
@lukerosiak
@AsraNomani
@ishapiro
I note local school official was great. Bit the bottom line is: A valid EO exists allowing parental opt out from masks. A court has not yet ruled. But until that happens, FCPS isn't the arbiter of what's legal. They are, as of now, violating the law.
@IWV
@IWN
@PolitiBunny
Women's March protestors now surrounding ACB confirmation rally, screaming "RBG" and intent on shutting down any alternative speakers. This is the "tolerant left," folks.
Winsome Sears: "No one system can do it all for everyone. Let’s give parents the resources so they can make the right choice for their children.
We can do that with an Education Savings Account"
Funny because it's true. If masks and distance are effective -- as, I'm told, irrefutable SCIENCE says -- and if mass demonstrations and rioting aren't cause for concern, then orderly in-person voting should pose no problems.
I know the media establishment will studiously ignore this, but it's a true scandal folks. It makes the NYT's laughable "tax exposé" look like a high school news story by comparison.
How can Scandinavia be back to normal when they have far below the 97-98 % vaccination rate President Biden claims, without evidence, is necessary for the US to end Covid restrictions? It's a failure of leadership here, not there.
@IWF
@IWV
@IWN
Whither police brutality: "Minneapolis, MN has been under Democratic control since 1978. Chicago has been under Democratic control for 89 years; its present mayor is a black woman. Philadelphia has had Democratic mayors for 68 years..." h/t Instapundit
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms responds to a weekend of violence in her city describing a "perfect storm," and pointing to President Trump, saying his lack of leadership is stirring emotions which are playing out as "violence in our streets."
@UrielEpshtein
@benshapiro
Which "literally" are we talking here? The one where you literally don't get an obvious joke like "leftist tears" or the one where you misuse the word "literally"?
VDH on America's broken journalism: "The real warping of the news is not just a matter of slanting coverage, but deliberately not covering the news at all."
#FakeNewsMedia
@RichardGrenell
@nytimes
To be more precise: They denied things like shadow banning were happening, ridiculed those who pointed it out, but supported such stealth censorship while claiming to be champions pf free speech. Hard to imagine a more gutless approach.
How many girls are looking at this and deciding it's not worth all the training if they have no hope of winning against biological men? It's a new glass ceiling in athletics.
@iwf
@iwv
@iwn
Round of applause for Emma Weyant, the UVA swimmer who placed second in the 500y freestyle tonight, behind Lia Thomas. Second is the new first.
#savewomenssports
A must-read from Heather MacDonald: "The effort in which we are currently engaging—to 'stay safe' from one particular risk at whatever cost—is inimical to civilization."
#standagainstfear
Read this from Democrat activist & Hill staffer. Questioning whether
#AmyConeyBarrett
*illegally* adopted her children from Haiti, maybe snatching them from birth parents! This is the Dem gameplan. Nothing but raw bigotry and hate. I promise you, this will not stand
Spoke at my 1st FCPS board meeting. Most disheartening was all the self congratulation about woke minutia & "equity" even as students are struggling w/ unprecedented learning loss. An aloof, one-party school board and it shows. But got to hang w/
@AsraNomani
! 😃
@JGunlock
@IWN
"Across Virginia, right now adults are gathering in gyms, bars, and clubs and laughing together maskless. Yet my 5 kids just spent 8 hours in masks in Fairfax County Public Schools."
@carrielukas
spoke before the Fairfax County Public School Board tonight and it's a must listen:
No wonder Americans don't trust "public health" experts. Just as
@HadleyHeath
explains here -- they pretend to know everything and change based on political whims.
@iwf
@iwv
Sound advice from
@VDHanson
: "As a general rule, the next time an official, a politician, or an expert lectures us on the 'science,' make sure that he is not projecting his own unscientific biases onto others."
Glenn Reynolds voted yesterday: "Everyone was masked and spaced....The poll workers did a good job keeping everything moving and nobody seemed to have any problems. So much for the notion that a pandemic interferes with in-person voting."
Why "we" lost? So you're saying the teachers unions are just appendages of the Democrat party and teachers who are independents and Republicans shouldn't be members? Appreciate the honesty.
@IWF
@IWV
@IWN
Losing in Virginia is rough. But it is important to understand why we lost and to look at what happened on the issue of education in other parts of America.
New
@fcpsnews
study shows Fs up 83% over last year. Children with disabilities doing worse. Yet teachers unions refuse to allow in-person learning despite countries around the world safely doing just that.
Truth is, teachers unions don't care about kids.
I attended
#Princeton
, so you can imagine my horror to learn it's now a sewer of "systemic racism." As nearly 100 percent of the students and faculty are leftists -- true even when I was on campus -- seems the left must have a serious racism problem.
And that's not the only time FCPS broke the law. The school district is too big/unwieldy and the ideologically monotone board doesn't represent the diversity of the area. It's time to both break up this district & to usher in choice.
@JGunlock
@NoVA_Campaigns
@AsraNomani
@IWN
A federal judge ruled today that Fairfax County Public Schools broke the law by committing racial discrimination in the name of "equity."
The FCPS school board turned the top-performing math school in the nation into a school that provided remedial math to get rid of Asians.
@Grace4NY
As far as I have seen, 99.9% of the harassment goes in the other direction, and I haven't seen many calls for kindness or understanding on that side of the debate.
But keep wearing your mask, recovered people! It's important to pretend you have no immune system so as to safeguard the feelings of others.
#CovidTheater
This suprises me not at all. At
@KSG
I never heard more about diversity but witnessed less actual diversity of thought in my life. Zero education and debate, 100% groupthink.
@iwf
@iwv
#ProgressivePrivilege
@Networkinmaniac
@LVozzella
@ChapPetersen
@Dunnavant4VA
This is an absurd statement. Public health policies involve multiple tradeoffs & value balancing that's inherently political and should reflect popular will via democratic process. Even in the world you want, there's no one health information oracle that can dictate best policy.
Today at 12:45 p.m. ET,
#ClayAndBuck
welcome
@carrielukas
to the program. The president of
@iwn
and mom of five kids in
#Virginia
public schools will discuss police being dispatched over a mask dispute. Join us!
@iwf
Check your local listings:
American workers have more flexibility + greater individual negotiating power + more opportunities.
Why do they still need unions?
#IWww
#gigeconomy
#jobs
Masks are rapidly becoming a symbol of compliance eagerly enforced by virtue-signalling woke scolds like
@jbendery
. It's Kramer and the aids ribbon for the age of the
#wuhanflu
.
@IWV
@IWF
Good morning! ☕ Trump hosted nearly 20 House Republicans at the White House yesterday for more than an hour to talk about the coronavirus -- and not one of them wore a mask or stayed apart.
Quiet part? It's not quiet at all: We want $ to follow students & real choice, meaning an end to govt monopoly. The majority supports this because it's good for kids. You don't because it's not good for unions & your hard-left party.
@DeAngelisCorey
@JGunlock
@PolitiBunny
@IWN
According to hard-right Del. Nick Freitas, it's only real "choice" if it's *outside* of the public school system. Saying the quiet part out loud... cc:
@DelDanHelmer
@MarkSicklesVA
@VVforDelegate
@nookalanagesh
@brithume
Try this thought experiment: the Trump administration doing the same thing, using its own definition of misinformation and lies. Companies comply based on worries the gov might go after them if they don't.
See any problems now?
Watch brave mama bear
@CarrieLukas
+ her cubs, Maggie, 9, grade 4, + Max, 7, grade 1.
@FCPSNews
refuses Maggie + Max entrance into Forestville ES for not wearing masks. Carrie cites
@GovernorVA
Executive Order 2. Wait for the cop cars that show up later. SOS
@JasonMiyaresVA
Pure
#ProgressivePrivilege
. Fawning coverage for liberal women; conservative women ignored or worse.
@IWF
@IWN
@IWV
Ketanji Brown Jackson's Vogue photo shoot stands in contrast to Amy Coney Barrett's treatment
Fairfax co. intentionally missing the point on Younkin's EO. FCPS can keep a mask policy. But it must allow opt-outs for any reason. This doesn't contravene VA law, this is now law. Parents may use the fully legal opt-out.
@FCPSSupt
is the unlawful actor.
@IWV
@IWF
@AsraNomani
And yet millions of people with immunity are forced to pretend they're equally vulnerable. If you think this isn't harmful you're not paying attention. We need those who can to get back to normal to do so.
Just not to MSNBC/CNN.
"It has by now become obvious to all but the willfully blind that neither the President nor any of his “expert” advisors has a clue how to fulfill Biden’s 2020 promise to the voters that he would end the pandemic if elected."
Great piece
@jcbraceras
: Feinstein... played Ford like a pawn. That is not a condemnation of Ford, it is a condemnation of Feinstein. Saying so isn’t “survivor shaming,” it’s “Senate shaming.” via
@iwf
In communist Cuba, the government cracks down on social media access as a way of stifling dissent.
In the US, social media handles the stifling and crackdowns all on its own.
Behold the efficiency of capitalism!
#FreeSpeech
@IWF
@IWV
@abfrancois
@ishapiro
Are you actually curious to understand? Because it's clear he meant the president was doing a disservice to his pick by announcing criteria that have nothing to do with merit before making a nomination. The only person that benefits is Biden.
School children forced to wear masks 40 hours a week in intransigent blue NoVa schools while smiling adults supporting that policy breathe freely. VA bars & restaurants also full of unmasked adults. This is a travesty.
@IWV
@IWN
@JGunlock
@PolitiBunny
@LarryOConnor
@clayandbuck
Trump with 1.5 percent lead in North Carolina with 100 percent of votes in, but still no call by
@FoxNews
. Are the outstanding ballots that could change the result or is it just that Fox doesn't want to call states for the president?
It's absolutely absurd our gov doesn't consider or even mention naturally acquired immunity in its Covid vax dictates. No federal official discusses it. That's 100 million+ people. For an administration claiming to follow "science," this sure smells like politics.
@IWV
@IWF
Very thoughtful piece from
@IWF
's
@HadleyHeath
. Our public health experts have damaged their reputations by conflating medical knowledge with policy expertise. It's in every one's interests for them to stay out of politics.
Xi Jinping’s "China dream" is a world in which his totalitarian Chinese Communist Party sets the norms and calls the shots. The good news is that Americans are waking up to the reality that Xi’s dream is, in practice, a nightmare.
#StandWithHK
#IWfp
#CCP
I admit to a certain schadenfreude watching many leftists on Twitter bemoan possible exosure to a broader spectrum of "mean" views. Maybe you've not noticed, but conservatives/libertarians are regularly savaged here. We argue back, ignore, or delete the app. Get over yourselves.
With more horrible violence in Minneapolis last night, seems a good time to consult
@exjon
's always useful media narrative chart. No sign yet of this story on CNN's Web site.
@nominalthoughts
@LikeTheMountain
Your choice to drive a car puts me at risk too. I demand no one drive cars except me. It's the only way my right to a more risk free life can be realized.
@IWF
's
@Riley_Gaines_
tells about being attacked while trying to defend female athletes. Insane that legitimate debate is now shouted down on America's campuses and this kind of violence is tolerated.
As expected, FCPS
@fcpsnews
chosing to illegally flout state law. Veiled threat to close schools a classy touch. But until a court says otherwise, families now have a legal right in VA to opt out of masks & should do so if they wish.
@JGunlock
@PolitiBunny
@AsraNomani
@ishapiro
Just glanced at the Biden Napoleonic self coronation on CNN....funny, I don't remember the media accepting/celebrating the George W. Bush win in 2000 while votes were still being counted.
#fakenews
Glenn Reynolds of fame has a new home at
@nypost
after USA Today lamely quashed one of his columns on the Biden corruption scandal. A great win for the NY Post!
@IWV
@SenatorCollins
thank you Senator Collins -- try to ignore the protesters. There is a silent majority who applauds you for standing up for fairness and the Constitution.