Not buying it. Starbucks isn't closing underperforming stores. They are closing stores because they don't like having to pay livable wages to its employees.

The usual pattern: a older man who never stepped aside for any woman now wants younger men to be discriminated against in selection.

I’ve spoken on the phone with President Trump and nine ICE & DHS sources about this today. Here’s what I’ve learned. Yes, this verbal guidance did go out to ICE offices across the country last night. I’ve spoken with ICE agents who received it & were shocked & frustrated by it. It’s unclear who it started with. However, I’m told it’s erroneous, was some type of “miscommunication” during conversations about prioritizing “worst first”, and there is no change in immigration enforcement policy. President Trump tells me anyone in the country illegally remains “on the table” for ICE arrest & deportation. I’m also told new guidance went out to ICE field offices tonight to reaffirm this and that yes, arrests of illegal aliens and “collaterals” without additional criminal history will continue. ICE sources confirm to me they received the new guidance. I’m not really sure what happened here - but everyone is on the same page, including President Trump, in telling me that his immigration enforcement agenda isn’t scaling back.

They raped her for 7 hours STRAIGHT with KETAMINE on their dicks and POSTED FREE PUSSY IN A GROUPCHAT. And all the school did was made them write an essay!?!?? Investigate the school & alumni’s need to stop donating!

This is a good lesson. Nativists like MBD hurl ridiculous critiques, we say "no, we want portability," and then MBD's fans come out and say that's worse. There's nothing we can do to win because they just dislike all immigrants. Unless they're from Ireland.

There is no free market solution to making schools better: the market would simply shut down the bad schools and the bad students just wouldn't go to school. The market does not make costs go to zero nor supply to infinity, it makes them go to/equilibrium/. Universe of difference

is there any tv show in which their later seasons are better than their first?? feels like that never happens

is there any tv show in which their later seasons are better than their first?? feels like that never happens

There is no free market solution to making schools better: the market would simply shut down the bad schools and the bad students just wouldn't go to school. The market does not make costs go to zero nor supply to infinity, it makes them go to/equilibrium/. Universe of difference

"Tacit suggestion that AZ got bluer due to Latinos is stupid, given Latino shift to GOP (till now)." It's only stupid if you don't understand basic arithmetic or overestimate the shift toward the GOP by Hispanic voters. When McCain entered Congress in 1983, the Hispanic vote in Arizona was small - less than 10% of the total electorate and perhaps closer to 5%. It was just 2% of the national electorate. While no one has any breakdown of how Arizona Hispanics voted in that period, we do know that, nationally, Hispanic voters went ~55% for Jimmy Carter in 1980 and ~65% for Walter Mondale in 1984. And peaks in a variation are not a shift. Reagan won 37% of the Hispanic vote in 1980; Bush won 44% in 2004; Trump won 46% in 2024. (Carter 56%; Kerry 53%; Harris 51%.) So the small overall growth in the percentage of the Hispanic vote by GOP presidential candidates over the past forty years has been destroyed by the rapid growth in that Democratic group. The faster Republicans run with Hispanics, the further they fall behind because the group has ballooned in size To put another way, we shouldn't really care much about demographic breakdowns in partisan vote trends when the group in question represents 2% of the total electorate - as Hispanics did in 1980 - but we are forced to care when they reach double digits, as Hispanics first did in 2012. Consider it numerically. In 1980, Hispanics were 2% of voters and split roughly 37/56 for Reagan/Carter - a Democratic advantage of about 19 point. That's a net DEMOCRATIC contribution to the popular vote of 0.38 points. In 2024, Hispanics were 11% of voters splitting 46/51 for Trump/Harris - a Democratic advantage of only 5 points, but among a much larger group representing 11% of the electorate. That's a net DEMOCRATIC contribution of about 0.55 points. So even though the margin narrowed sharply (19 points down to 5), the share of the total popular vote that margin represents moved even further in the Democrats' direction. Get it now? In other words, Trump fell slightly further behind in the popular vote in 2024 due to Hispanics, despite losing that Democratic group by just five points to Harris, than Reagan did in 1980, despite losing it by 19 points to Carter. It will sure be a nice day for our party when you Mitch McConnell Republicans learn how to do some basic arithmetic. ***** Besides, why give McCain credit for the shift in the Hispanic vote toward Trump in 2024? The former Arizona senator had been dead for six years by the time of that election and he certainly would not have endorsed Trump had he been alive, nor would he have predicted the shift.

All these chains that are closing—Starbucks, McDonald’s, etc—made themselves inhospitable to people hanging out or working there, plugging in their phones, using the restroom. In some you can’t even sit down anymore! They thought their brands were so big they couldn’t fail.

"Those kids" can learn in well-run urban schools (often charters): Teach explicitly, use a strong curriculum, enforce rules. tinyurl.com/23a2n2rb

eavesdropping on hyper neurotic moms having a 20 minute long convo about how worried she is that her 4 year old is writing lowercase bs and ds the wrong away round. she’s called the pediatrician. she’s scheduled a meeting with his teacher. she’s talking about getting him tested

The New York Times’ final list of the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century is now complete. What do you make of the final ranking? Which placements surprised you the most?

"get their kids into good schools" = "get my kids into schools with fewer kids like my kids."

Everyone should read @MichaelPetrilli this morning. The definitive roundup of the past week and the implications for ed reform. Agree that Hughes and Moskowitz were the most important reads of the bunch. schooledbymikepetrilli.subst…

Good- New policy that student athletes must currently have a passing grade to play on a day by day basis. Less than ideal- The no play list is generated at 9 am and they have until 2 pm to get themselves off the list. I get about two dozen emails a day while teaching now