Refugee of the People’s Republic of Seattle | Now in Scottsdale AZ | Corporate lawyer, but not: legal advice | your lawyer | or attorney advertising.

Joined August 2021
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Thank you @Moms4Liberty for letting me make the case - rigorous studies show school-based mental health programs fail their central purpose: ❌No academic improvement ❌No prevention of depression or anxiety ❌Some kids get worse Despite failures, schools fund $$$ them anyway.
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20-year teacher describes what really changed in education: “If the teacher is…reporting a violation or offense on the administrations part,…they are considered a threat” and pushed out “in the cruelest, most reprehensible way.”
A teacher colleague of mine, who does not teach at the same school as I do and wishes to remain anonymous because of the fear of retaliation, wrote this and wants me to share. She has been terribly harassed and bullied by school administrators. Also, this teacher is Liberal and votes for Democrats. If I win, I will strongly advocate for District Superintendents, Education Administrators, and School District Attorneys to be called into Congressional hearings to testify about their civil rights violations and corruption.
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Scottsdale on the map!

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Should be mandatory viewing in every port of entry, every airport passport control waiting line, international airline waiting to taxi into a gate. Over and over.

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In few days I worked with Fable, I had extraordinary output and came to one firm conclusion that, until then, I held at a distance pending more evidence. It’s this - opposing data centers/AI model development, is not just anti-science, it’s borderline unpatriotic.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Seek out a *school counselor* he says? 👀
Meet Ryan Delaney, the Council President for Plum Borough, PA. He claims he's "not a man or a woman" and encourages children to secretly discuss their gender with people other than their parents, including himself. "I urge you to find trusted adults to confide in... Sometimes it might be your weird aunt or uncle, it might be your school counselor, and if nowhere else, you can find an alley right here serving as your council president." Major red flags 🚩 Our tax dollars pay his salary. You can contact him here and let him know what you think: 412-795-6800 ext 4102
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Since 2002, US per pupil spending on non-academic student support services (where mental health programs reside) grew at a rate of increase far exceeding instructional spending (teachers and textbooks). 179% vs 99% 👉Non-cognitive investments yield non-cognitive outcomes
New NAEP results are out and it’s clear the bottom has fallen out for our lowest performing math students: The bottom 10% of students performed worse than any cohort of students on the history of the test going all the way back to the 1970s
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Europe, if you’re having fun now, come back in the Fall 🤘

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📢Dept of Ed “unlawfully continued processing Title IX complaints related to gender identity and sexual orientation, defying both a federal court injunction and the advice of the department’s own legal counsel and the Department of Justice” 👉Ofc, and schools still Resisters
A new report from the @US_OSC confirms protected disclosures made by @EMPOWR_us whistleblower Tim Mattson that the @usedgov violated court orders by unlawfully pushing gender identity over biological sex in Title IX cases. Two years after first providing information to the Office of Special Counsel, Mattson's disclosures have been substantiated. Represented by Empower Oversight, he provided evidence that the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights continued processing Title IX complaints related to gender identity and sexual orientation despite a federal court injunction and contrary legal guidance from both the department's own attorneys and the Department of Justice. Listen to Mattson and his attorneys from Empower Oversight discuss the case, the findings in the report, and what it was like to come forward as a whistleblower. Listen to the full interview:
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📢Arizona joins socialist led Seattle City Council, caves to anti-growth, anti-AI coalition. PRC, DeepSeek rumored to be chuckling.
This is unfortunate. A three-year moratorium on Arizona’s data center tax incentive is arbitrary, bad for business, and not supported by the facts. Arizona has had this incentive on the books since 2013. Lawmakers renewed it in 2021 and extended it through 2033. So what has changed since lawmakers renewed it? Well, it is certainly not the math. Critics estimate the incentive costs roughly $40 million in foregone state revenue. Meanwhile, the industry generated an estimated $863 million in state and local taxes and boosted Arizona’s GDP by $25 billion in 2023. From 2017 to 2021, it generated an estimated $2.3 billion in state and local tax revenue. The incentive has a cost. But ignoring the other side of the ledger is disingenuous. And it’s not as if the industry has moved backward. Many projects are moving toward lower-water designs, utilities have said data centers should pay their own way on power and infrastructure, and cities have added guardrails on zoning, noise, infrastructure, and project-specific conditions to ensure these projects have local oversight. So if the math did not change and the industry has more guardrails, what changed? The politics did. Data centers have become the convenient boogeyman for serious issues facing our state: housing affordability, water, utility costs, infrastructure, you name it. And the moratorium itself gives the game away. If this incentive is truly indefensible, make that case and repeal it. If the issue is accountability, cost, water, power, noise, or local impacts, debate reforms. But a three-year pause is splitting the difference. It lets policymakers say they are “doing something” about data centers without making the full case that Arizona should walk away from the program. That is not serious policy. It is political expediency. So when people ask, “Why shouldn’t we just get rid of the incentive?” here is the answer: because Arizona’s word has to mean something. This is not an argument that tax incentives are always good policy. Government shouldn’t be in the business of picking winners and losers. But Arizona also made a commitment. We told the industry that if they bring tens of millions of dollars in investment to Arizona, and often much more, we will make it worth their while. Going back on that commitment affects more than just data centers. It tells every other industry looking at Arizona that our commitments are only good until they become politically inconvenient. A stable regulatory environment matters. Companies do not make long-term investments when the rules change every time the political winds shift. Dozens of states offer similar data center incentives. Arizona is not competing with itself. A moratorium does not make the investment disappear. It just gives other states a better shot at landing it. Money goes where it is welcome. A moratorium risks sending billions in private investment, construction jobs, permanent jobs, utility payments, infrastructure improvements, and future tax revenue to other states. We are trading long-term competitiveness for short-term politics. It is bad policy, bad for business, and bad for Arizona.
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🔍FLASHBACK: AZ auditor general: teacher salaries in AZ Increased 📈34.6% since 2017
Replying to @ALegalProcess
Teacher pay continues healthy increases: 📈34.6% since 2017 5/
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VDH: K-12 schools failing students because “they are teaching therapeutic courses” 👀
Victor Davis Hanson: The Collapse of Higher Education “ When I started in 1984 at Cal State Fresno, I had really good students. When I finished 20 years later, I couldn't even offer a class with the same syllabus. The kids couldn't do it.” @VDHanson shares stories from decades in higher education and explains why many students arrive on campus unprepared for college-level work. Full episode: youtu.be/YXRgipQd4Xo
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School *counselors* - despite lacking licenses permitting them to diagnose or treat any mental condition - still get the public-facing vestments of a mental health professional: the title, the program, and, of course, private offices…. 👉But none of the regulatory oversight.
Felony sex crimes against children: Charlottesville area's Hollymead Elementary School "social emotional counselor" Michael Swiney charged with 11 felonies -- at least 4 kids involved, police seeking more Police got involved in January 2026 but Albemarle County PS didn't notify parents until a letter on 6/4/26 The "woke" school district's Superintendent Matt Haas, his admin & school board have faced criticism as a "sanctuary school district" for illegals; downplaying the culture of fighting of Black students at Albemarle HS; years of low test scores; transing children without parental consent; and quashing free speech of TPUSA chapter at Western Albemarle HS, which school board member Allison Spillman compared to the KKK Swiney is innocent until proven guilty
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When schools say they are addressing the “whole child” - maybe don’t. Maybe look at half the child, the one that you are charged to instruct, to educate, not get to know and break down barriers so they open up to you. Stop looking at kids that way. ▶️Pupils, not patients
WHOA. Head of Security at @JeffcoSchoolsCo reveals there’s a “huge uptick” and “spike” in parents, staff, and students reporting grooming behavior and s*xual misconduct
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The darker side to "whole child"-focused education theory. They are pupils, not patients. Every day, another story of a teacher and a disordered sexualization of a child. Bring back barriers. 👉~40% of all teacher misconduct actions in Arizona involve sexual interest in children
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We need FEWER billions spent on school-based mental health, not more. This is terrible use of taxpayers dollars
📢US Rep bill to inject $5,000,000,000 into US schools for more school counselors, social workers and psychologists for mental health programs. In 2023, states spent $52.6B on non-academic student support services, in part, to fund SBMH as proficiency scores still plunging.
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📢US Rep bill to inject $5,000,000,000 into US schools for more school counselors, social workers and psychologists for mental health programs. In 2023, states spent $52.6B on non-academic student support services, in part, to fund SBMH as proficiency scores still plunging.
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AZ ESAs don’t need reform, but AZ public schools do.
📢 Class of 2024 Arizona ACT Scores: 100% of AZ students take the exam, 55% fail to pass even 1 core academic benchmark for college readiness in English, Math, Reading, Science ▶️ Continues year-on-year decline since ACT mandated in 2021-22 school year 1/
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⚖️Alabama District Attorney, on conviction of school counselor who botched a sexual abuse investigation by doing it herself instead of reporting as required by law: “Your job is not to become an investigator. It’s that simple. You report, then the actual investigators who are trained in forensic interviews and are partnered with police departments can do the investigations. They’re in a much better situation, much better training and they can determine the truth.”
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