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Two sociologists were walking along a sidewalk and came across a man beaten and bleeding, unconscious.
They looked at each other. "The man who did this needs our help."
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@charlescwcooke
@StevenBeschloss
It's like people don't understand why the government randomly giving people from 10-200K free while giving everyone else nothing might be upsetting.
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@olivertraldi
Yeah, "finally dumped my wife for a younger model and my god, I've found myself" is only popular in real life, not magazines.
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@bdomenech
THis would all be so much more compelling if we couldn't search twitter 2016 and find:
.
@bdomenech
: "The problem for Donald Trump is even if he won 100% of Republicans in that poll, he'd still be losing to
@HillaryClinton
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@BamaExpat
It'd even be more hilarious if it were all lies (as is not uncommon in memoirs).
"Hey, Mom, I'm going to present you as a meth obsessed junkie and MawMaw as a ruthless gun obsessed bitch who set her husband on fire. It'll be a bestseller."
"But honey. I've got all my teeth."
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According to Toad, he was suspended for "ban evasion", which is bullshit. He's never been banned. Can
@twitter
respond to this? Tagging people with bigger audiences.
@phl43
@BDSixsmith
@DamonLinker
@EdAsante77
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This is an excellent point. If it was heat stroke, they'd be shocked & concerned. This is business as usual.
Most telling part is flawless calm choreography of her staff and detail. They do this often.
#HillarysHealth
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@mattyglesias
Florida is 2nd from top in elderly population. California is second from bottom.
Florida is 26th in deaths per capita. California is 28th.
Yeah. It's better.
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"At expensive prep schools, even students close to the bottom of the class usually have above-average SAT scores, mostly because they have access to high-octane test-prep classes and tutors."
Uh, no. They have low grades because they don't give a shit about homework.
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@juliagalef
@SpencrGreenberg
This is really horrible and if you love it, there's something wrong with you.
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By age 15, every country on that list except us has ruthlessly tracked kids who can't do math into vocational education.
Not lying is a good starting point when talking about education.
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All the data shows poor whites outscoring non-poor blacks, and roughly matching non-poor Hispanics. If that's changed, it's news. If it hasn't changed, then the gaps aren't primarily poverty driven.
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They have above average SAT scores because they are smart.
Low test scores/high grades: hard worker in easy grading school.
High test scores/low grades: smart kid who doesn't play ball.
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@moultano
There are several hundred thousand books on boy scientists, and thousands of robotics programs that are populated entirely by boys. Do you *look*for things to be bothered about?
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Fantastic news.
When Andre Braugher and Richard Belzer died last year, it highlighted a TV injustice: the groundbreaking cop show they starred in, Homicide: Life on the Street, wasn't on streaming. Peacock finally rectifies that Aug. 19, debuting 7 seasons and a TV movie in HD and 4K.
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Bryan Pesta, tenured and fired, is raising money for his defense.
@charlesmurray
and
@Steve_Sailer
have been writing about him, and this is Pesta's take on it. Please give generously.
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And to reiterate: US grandparents have *no* visitation rights in America. But we have to let non-citizens in to visit grandkids.
Is SCOTUS saying cousins & grandparents have constitutional right to immigrate? None of this is the courts' business
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There are several states that do that, with the SAT or ACT. I'm all in favor of it, but don't kid yourself it does anything except identify a whole bunch of smart poor white kids. Poor Asian, black, and Hispanic kids are already on the radar.
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@InezFeltscher
The 90s divorce rate wasn't high. The *70s* divorce rate was high. The kids most impacted by divorce were late gen boomers growing up in the 70s with Silent Generation parents.
Blame your emotional dysfunctions on your own personal failings.
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In other words, the media worked hard to remove immigration. They realized that asking Trump about immigration led to him making statements that they thought would ruin him, but instead made him more popular.
Only real question is why Trump played along.
There were a lot of surprises in 2020, but I'd put the vastly reduced salience of immigration in this election v. '18 and '20 on the list. Immigration wasn't even mentioned in the first debate, and the exit poll didn't bother to ask about it, either
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@YellowstoneTen
@MaryMinifie
suicide rate is really high among trans regardless. probably should look for another cause.
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@AlexBerenson
They aren't picking on her over her dissertation, but on her insistence on being referred to as Dr Jill. All she's doing, by the way, is completely devaluing an EdD for everyone else.
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He's just talking risk free. He won't have to quit if Trump wins. He talks now about the "big problems" Clinton faced, but here he is exactly 4 years ago: Trump melting down, Dems picking up 10-20 seats, suburban women who can't vote Trump, etc.
A few days out, the picture of this race is pretty clear:
1) Biden's lead (52%-43%) larger & more stable than Clinton's in '16
2) Far fewer undecided/third party voters than '16
3) District-level polls (which showed big problems for Clinton in '16) back up national/state polls
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@larissaphillip
@TimothyDooner
"Many are not dyslexic, just were never taught."
Maybe not dyslexic, but there was something cognitively amiss. Or they just didn't go to school.
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I don't think it was crude. The Khans were acting as political advocates, not grieving parents.
Trump's reaction to Khizr Khan was crude, but Khan's grasp of U.S. Constitution seems shaky at best.
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@asymmetricinfo
Oh, come on. That's pathetic. The "communities coming together to walk in solidarity" are doing so to REBUKE people who don't even exist! Meanwhile, "journalists" get 100 stories about how racists are put in their place and it's horseshit.
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That's right, guys. She was filmed having sex with a guy on a reality TV show!! While engaged to someone else! It's totally different!
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@JonahDispatch
Worth pointing out that Washington and Jefferson thought religious diversity was Episcopalian vs Presbyterian, and their notion of tolerance was Catholic and maybe Judaism. Let's not pretend they would have been on the up side of invented religions.
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@SaysSimonson
This is hilarious, but in fairness, you'd never catch Trump on a bike. Or perhaps that's the point.
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@asymmetricinfo
"Tax all inheritances as ordinary income to the recipient--no free money capital gains step-up at death"
hahahaha.
Good luck with that.
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Why? You would all unhesitatingly turn on someone who said the wrong thing, deluge of negative attention,get them fired, without blinking.
No one should feel bad for reporters. But you should respect people just trying to do their jobs as well as they can.
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My newest piece is an end, FINALLY, to my year-long series on the rise and fall of the Bush/Obama Education Reform era.
I have been working on this ever since
@toad_spotted
wrote the wonderful Waking from Meritocracy, that included this passage:
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@CHSommers
Gee, I dunno. You think it'd go over well if a male Senator told women to shut the hell up?
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@mattyglesias
Sez the guy who couldn't even safely express his opinion in the magazine he founded because the underlings complained.
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@McCormickProf
@CHSommers
Why does everyone assume the girl doing the beatdown isn't going to show up in your cozy little private school?
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@g_shullenberger
This is incorrect. The taboo on discussing IQ is because in a multi-racial society, wide discrepancies in race make education policy very, very difficult to discuss honestly. Everyone just hoped it would go away.
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I just realized:
@Steve_Sailer
's whole indelicate scenario about white and Asians gentrifying the cities, booting African Americans out to the exurbs while replacing them with Hispanics, is kinda all over.
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He's joking, but this is really important. Universities are rejecting qualified Americans constantly in favor of foreign students.
You mean spaces are opening up for American students? Can't have that!
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True fact: Clooney is one of my favorite celebrities. Even if he'd spit on me for being a Republican. Even if his politics suck. Few people have ever managed fame as well as he has while keeping friends and family intact.
Lots of ppl talking about Clooney today is a good excuse to share my favorite story about him
The time he smoked DiCaprio in pick-up basketball:
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This would be the same
@RobertPlomin
who was a signatory to Mainstream Science on Intelligence, which stated that: "Heritability estimates range from 0.4 to 0.8 ... indicating genetics plays a bigger role than environment in creating IQ differences"
This differs from Watson how?
I sought out
@RobertPlomin
’s comments precisely because he has staked out the extreme end of the nature-and-nurture continuum. His book is “Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are.” His recent piece for
@sciam
is “In the Nature-Nurture War, Nature Wins.’’
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@libsoftiktok
@chrissyclark_
@AustinISD
Asking in all seriousness, how do you have internal messages from a 4th grade elementary teacher in Austin?
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There are millions of people out of work, but we need immigrants or crops will rot in the field.
The
#coronavirus
is hitting farmers hard. Some dairy farmers are being forced to dump their milk, instead of selling it, because of low demand with restaurants & schools closed. Other farmers are struggling to harvest crops, which could affect what you see at grocery stores.
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How the hell is it racist to make a joke about Koreans eating dogs? They eat around 2 million a year.
- Jay Leno racist Asian “joke” “one of several examples of what insiders called a toxic culture at the show.”
- Gabrielle Union was subjected to a very specific critique — that her rotating hair styles were “too black” for the audience of “AGT”
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@mattyglesias
But that's my point, too: you were famous and had multiple income sources and a job expressing your opinion before you founded a magazine and a) you still had problems; b) your way forward isn't open to the most of the rest of us.
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@charlesmurray
This is correct, with two modifications: the researchers acknowledged that this was an average, that some kids saw HUGE improvements, a few got slightly worse, and the rest saw small improvements.
The other change is Asian test prep, which is years, not weeks.
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@EdAsante77
@joshtpm
@NickRiccardi
Hell, it was such received wisdom that it made a West Wing episode.
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@mtracey
The whole point of these releases is to show that the texts are genuine, that they weren't hacked or faked.
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@mtracey
Well, I don't make fun of people wearing masks. I just think they're germophobes who have an unrealistic notion of risk. And on that point, nothing that happens to Trump will change my mind about your wearing a mask.
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@SaysSimonson
@toad_spotted
and the casually tossed off "poorly thought out transition surgeries?" like that's not a fucking problem in and of itself.
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50 yrs ago, National Review opposed the Civil Rights Act. What's racist now was "decent and responsible" then.
Trump's alt-right supporters make Birchers of 50+ years ago seem decent & responsible. Once upon a time conservatives repudiated Birchers.
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Ask anyone over 45. When Reagan was elected, the left--meaning Hollywood--was convinced he'd start a war. There was a whole batch of "life after the bomb goes off" movies in the early 80s--Day After, Special Report, Testament, Threads
Ezra Klein just said "we" are not used to thinking about nuclear war. Ask anyone over 60, dude.
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@aaronsibarium
Asians spend hours and hours and hours and hours and hours on test prep, which makes a lot of difference on relatively easy tests. Asians don't do nearly as well on, say, the LSAT.
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It is categorically absurd to call a 70 year old who grew up in Canada, lived in Israel for 50 years and raised her kids on a kibbutz "American".She's an Israeli who's American by technicality. He's an Israeli who got US citizenship by marrying an Israeli born in the US.
JUST IN: Two more American hostages taken by Hamas identified
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@gabrielsnyder
No, "how the free market works" doesn't involve the government forking out money for people not to work when there are lots of jobs. In any other context, I believe this is referred to as "welfare".
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I actually like this. It shows Trump isn't cowering in a bunker.
President Trump on the golf course as Joe Biden is projected the winner of the presidential election.
(h/t our great
@CBSNews
cameramen)
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1. Major court decisions: Plyler, Lau, force schools to accept and teachimmigrants speaking no English
2. IDEA: rolls all special ed into school, costs a fortune as med advances create more kids in wheelchairs and diapers for life.
3. ADA: wildly increases "disabilities".
Between 1970 and 2012, public school enrollment has barely moved, but the numbers of staff they employed have skyrocketed, with the largest increases happening among staff not involved in teaching.
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@Chancetolman
@NateSilver538
Very few kids died of covid and those who did had severe health problems.
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I'm no fan of Common Core, but this is a moronic critique.
1. Explaining stacked multiplication would take a lot longer than an adult doing it, so what's your point, exactly?
2. The explanation isn't very good, but the method is perfectly reasonable.
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No. Demand that journalists stop citing SPLC as a neutral organization with any pretense to credibility.
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@JonahDispatch
1. If K-12 education does so little to prepare kids, then why did black and Hispanic scores decline so dramatically during the pandemic, when they chose to be educated remotely?
2. There is no evidence--literally, none--to support your claim that K-12 ed is responsible for gap.
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Alert the media: high IQ poor kids do better than low IQ poor kids, on average.
The lowest-SES 10th-graders with top-half math scores are 2x as likely to become high-SES young adults as their peers with bottom-half scores. Disadvantaged kids can of course achieve, but their chances are better with interventions—the earlier the better.
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@CathyYoung63
@ZachG932
@coldxman
This is such an appalling argument. "People might badthink, so let's lie and call anyone who disagrees a racist. Because we know better."
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She screwed Willie Brown for two years to get some easy no-show appointments to California commissions. If you can't say that, conservative media, to hell with you.
YOU'VE BEEN WARNED: Biden's Running Mate Shall Not Be Criticized
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@asymmetricinfo
@phl43
@tedfrank
In fact, "don't eat at a sitdown airport restaurant" is a good rule.
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2) Why is Gallup including IMMIGRANTS in a poll about increasing immigration? Then touting it as "U.S. Support for Increased Immigration"?
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In which
@noahpinion
reminds us of his belief that anyone can learn math. Back in 2013, he claimed kids of 70 IQ could learn algebra. ( and ) I....disagreed.
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Why aren't we debating why the only alternative is to let the kids and families come on in and drive up housing and education costs and make a mockery of our borders?
I mean, Jesus, there's a million bad things that happen to American kids. This is all political posturing.
You shouldn't even need a doctor to tell you ripping children away from their parents is bad for them. Like, really bad. You should just know this, because you were once a child. And you have met children. How are we even debating this particular point?
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@bdomenech
Yes. You changed your mind. Making your earlier dire predictions look....premature.
Any lessons you might want to learn 8 years later?
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That's backwards. Well off white kids create public schools with high test scores, which drive up housing prices for that zone, which prevents any but well off people from buying.
Best public schools are zoned for well-off white kids, as districts perpetuate segregation.
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Well, sure, except for being married, having child(ren), owning his own home, being an expert in several fields, and envisioning a political strategy that won Trump the election. He's just like a 24 year old living in his mom's basement.
@Steve_Sailer
@trumps_feed
Steve Sailer seems to be a self-parody of every unemployed 24-year old cheetoh-eating gamer that lived in his mom's basement, ever.
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@EddyElfenbein
@asymmetricinfo
George Clooney is the same age that Alec Guiness was in Star Wars.
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Media is already signaling the plan. If Biden gets elected, they will suddenly notice that he's a vegetable and push him to step down via the 25th.
Joe Biden made the pick that maximized his chances of continuing to make the race a straight referendum on Trump while also selecting someone whose resume suggests being ready to step in, if and when Biden decides to step aside. | Analysis by
@CillizzaCNN
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@phl43
I think you're missing the biggest reason, which is that the press isn't making their lives a living hell for their mistakes.
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Courts say immigration is a federal issue when states want to get tough, and a state issue when the feds want to get tough.
That is very worrying.
Don’t want to a refugee resettlement program in your state? Tough. States can check out of refugee resettlement, but they can never leave.
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I disagree. They're going after Pinker because they've been waiting for a long, long time to go after Pinker.
They’re going after Pinker now because he’s been photographed with Epstein (which he regrets & has addressed) & because he’s previously made the common sense observation that rape has something to do with sex. Shameless
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@DavidLimbaugh
@davidfrum
Yes, indeed. Trump finally gives us the chance to vote on immigration
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@neontaster
@ltthompso
"Also why is she in an under 35 segment?"
How dare you refer to her "biological age?" She is as old as she feels inside. You're dead-aging her.
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@davidshor
@GlauSciathan
@mattyglesias
Not entirely on point, just a btw, but any sub-40K professor is choosing not to be a k-12 teacher making more money and benefits, and that's definitely a class-based decision.
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Amazing how everyone's discovering that maybe there was a point to restricting gambling and weed after mocking all the "prudes" who supported it.
“The rise of sports betting has been one of the most startling changes of my lifetime. You can bet something else is coming alongside it.”
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@conor64
@DavidMastio
Haven't you read Maumauing the Flak Catchers? DEI isn't about improving opportunities. The jobs *are* the opportunities.
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It's not incoherent at all. They just literally *can't* articulate them without getting sued.
"We want creative, smart people AND: enough blacks and Hispanics to preen about, not too many Asian swots, and some international students to maintain a global presence."
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@herandrews
One thing Douthat fails to address (and I'm sure Deneen does as well) is the fact that American political discourse is almost entirely a debate between (mostly) whites, while non-whites all vote Dem in large numbers.
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It's NPR talk. Haven't you ever noticed? Fake idiomatic, we're just guys tone.
"OK, now we're gonna talk about something that's....kinda weird."
or "Some people might not like this, or well, think it's just gross."
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@itsbirdemic
@hbdchick
@BenWinegard
@JayMan471
"Men are taller than women". "Men are, on average, taller than women."
Which statement recognizes the world where Michelle Obama is taller than Robert Reich?
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Francisco Galicia is only a US citizen because his mother came here illegally and then committed document fraud with his birth certificate. He was picked up with two illegal aliens.
He was not wrongfully detained. He was detained until he could prove he was here legally.
I don’t know if Swedish law is being appropriately followed in the case of A$AP Rocky. I am struck that President Trump seems far more concerned about him than Francisco Galicia, also a U.S. citizen, wrongfully detained for a longer time and in worse conditions here in the U.S.
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@CathyYoung63
@CHSommers
@donmoyn
She wasn't fired. If she'd been fired, she wouldn't be teaching. They decided they didn't want her back next year because, when she was warned about the questionnaire, she didn't pull it. She wasn't tenured. She was going to be a hassle. Simple call.
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