Searching & sharing insights on: learning, #teaching, #writing, & living. Eric teaches #English & co-authors the Compelling Conversations #books. #Travel #1A

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Panel Discussion on ‘#Teaching with #AI Possibilities, Puzzles, and Perils’ youtu.be/NXkTcEgkqeg?si=U3Ud… via @YouTube I enjoyed this lively #conversation. Let’s dwell in the possibilities created by AI to recenter individual learning and cultivate curiosity. Thank you for inviting me.
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Californians pay the highest gas taxes yet drive over the deepest potholes. We spend the most to combat homelessness yet have the most homeless. We spend the most to alleviate poverty yet have the most poverty. This is the very definition of failed governance.
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I'm one of the 1.9M people that left California in the last 7 years. California is a failed state and they keep doing more of the same shit that got them here. Of course, CNN cites CA's failings after mocking Pratt during the campaign. Pratt was right about it all.
When I said this throughout my campaign, CNN people called me cruel and unhinged. Now, after they helped secure the election for the 2 dorks responsible for all these problems, CNN is now echoing my campaign talking points as gospel. Fascinating!
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What’s gone so wrong with California’s government? CNN Commentator Fareed Zakiah politely reviews some shocking facts. The lack of accountability and transparency- along with some utopian assumptions- have created a fraud friendly environment. All avoidable! x.com/JasonJournoDC/status/2…

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Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain. We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable. He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness. As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy. Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.” When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?
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Muslims went crazy after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this: "Radical Islam doesn’t want just a small caliphate in Iraq or Syria. They see the United States as the greatest evil on Earth and seek to dominate the entire West. Radical Islam is revolutionary, it wants endless expansion, terrorism, assassinations, and total control. They hate America, Europe, Israel, and every Muslim nation that partners with us. Orlando, Pensacola, and domestic attacks prove it. Radical Islam is a clear and imminent threat to the world." I agree with every single word he said.
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In my Saturday column for @RestoringWest, I argue that real equality means one law and one standard for everyone. The moment we exempt some people from the rules, we undermine both justice and freedom.
It isn't kindness to exempt some people from the rules everyone else must follow. . @Ayaan argues that real equality means equal obligations, equal accountability, and equal justice under the law—regardless of race, religion, or background. A society that abandons this principle undermines both trust and freedom. Read: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/e… #RestoringTheWest #RuleOfLaw #Justice #EqualityBeforeTheLaw #Freedom #AyaanHirsiAli #WesternCivilization
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California universities dropped the SAT to help low-income and minority students. The policy is doing the opposite, writes Svetlana Jitomirskaya, a professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley. thefp.com/p/bring-back-the-s…
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💥NEW: Andrew Cuomo to Stephen A. Smith on TRUMP🇺🇸 “I believe the [Iran] deal has to have no nuclear capacity. And if he gets that, God bless him … If he accomplishes that, that’s a great victory for America. I don’t care Republican, Democrat, Independent, what he is.”
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Applebaum: What binds Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is not religion or ideology. China is communist, Russia nationalist, Iran theocratic. What binds them is fear of liberal language: rights, rule of law, separation of powers and independent courts. 1/
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What's really goes on at UCLA? This Op-ed is rich with documents and links to statements and reports by University officials, as well as incriminating statements by Zionophobic UCLA faculty members who are responsible for the recent DOJ lawsuit against the University. mailchi.mp/amchainitiative/a… @JFrgatUCLA @AkaLazarus @DavidSuissaJJ @RabbiWolpe @DionJPierre @bandlersbanter
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💥NEW: @DavidSacks: “We know that there’s billions of dollars in fraud in California for things like Medicaid, unemployment, EBT, hospice, the homeless industrial complex and on and on. That’s all been proven.” “Is it really so hard to believe that some of the same groups — the same interest groups, the same NGOs — would be willing to exploit these loopholes in the dirty voter rolls, in the millions of ballots that go to incorrect or non-existent addresses, the non-existent chain of custody, the non-existent signature verification?” “The no ID, not only to vote but to register, counting ballots without postmarks if received 7 days later, registering thousands of ballots from homeless shelters that don’t even have any beds?” “These are all known things. So when you say that there’s no fraud, it’s like, come on, there’s loopholes!” “And all you gotta do is look at the results and see that there’s something crooked going on here.” “It may be legalized — but it’s fraud!”
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A new mural in San Francisco is getting lots of attention as the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on the fight over birthright citizenship this summer: nbcbay.com/lja9QmK
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Why does California have the most fraud friendly, least transparent, and slowest elections in the United States again? How could they possibly be improved?

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In his viral ARC speech in 2025, @DouglasKMurray suggested it was time for us to enter ‘the Age of Reconstruction.’ The more we thought about it afterwards, the more we felt it captured our vision for the conference this year, so we’ve built our programme to discuss what it would actually take... What ideas are we holding that we need to throw away? What ideas have we forgotten that we need to recover? What does it look like to go from deconstruction to reconstruction across every sphere of society: philosophy, business, family, energy and technology? At ARC 2026 we will go on a 3 day journey, examining how decades of deconstruction have brought us to where we are today, discovering the mindset shift that’s need for us a society to move towards reconstruction, and finding out what it actually looks like to build again from those who are leading the way. We’re excited for you to come with us on that journey
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Shouldn’t everyone in the UK - including the #BBC - be horrified by the Belfast beheading? How can officials act like it’s wrong to enforce laws against beheadings or bogus asylum claims? Immigration advocates need to support strict vetting of immigrants or the gates will close!
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Labour are now at the point where they can’t bring themselves to say that beheading is an alien culture. Insane
🚨ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE! 🤯 🤦‍♂️ Ferrari Asks Benn SIX times: “Is Beheading an Alien Culture?” — Labour MP Still Can’t Say YES Nick Ferrari just hammered Labour’s Hilary Benn on LBC, demanding FOUR TIMES if beheading is an “alien culture” after a Sudanese asylum seeker tried to hack a man’s head off in Belfast. Simple. Straightforward. Bleeding obvious answer: f*cking YES! But watch Benn squirm like he’s being asked to defuse a bomb. Painful. Ridiculous. Embarrassing. Ferrari: “Is beheading an alien culture?” Benn: Starts waffling about the “criminal justice process”… Ferrari (cutting him off, frustrated): “I’ve moved you globally, Mr Benn. We’re not talking about the UK. Globally, is beheading an alien culture?” Benn: Calls it “abhorrent” but still dodges… Ferrari: “And is it an alien culture?” Benn keeps refusing to just say it. Talks about “all countries would condemn it.” Ferrari: “So it is an alien culture?” Benn starts rambling about “what is that saying about people who come from a particular country…” Ferrari (now properly irritated): “I’m going to ask for the fourth time: is beheading an alien culture, Mr Benn?” Benn: “It is abhorrent and it is a terrible thing to do.” Ferrari: “It is or it is not?” Benn (still can’t quite say it, but closer): “It is alien to all right thinking people.” ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. He literally cannot bring himself to say the bleeding obvious. What the hell is wrong with these politicians? Who exactly are they so terrified of upsetting with a basic question like this? Is there a town square of beheaders somewhere going “He said WHAT!? We’ve been cancelled!” 😂 Just say it, for God’s sake.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​!
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Joe Rogan shouts out Conflicted! On the most recent episode of @joerogan the @triggerpod guys gave a massive shout out to Conflicted’s very own ‘Al-Qaeda MI6 double agent’ @AimenDean
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My focus is on positive, practical & common sense change to help the people of California. $3 gas, your first $100k tax-free, a home you can afford, cut your electric bills in half—these aren’t ideological, just practical things to help you and your family. ☀️👊 @CNN @Elex_Michaelson
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California has a requirement for Native American shamans to oversee many of the "controlled burns" that are desperately needed to prevent wildfires. Gabriel Mann, a Choctaw Indian, says this requirement is insane. @Hotshot_Movie
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California said the system was secure?!? Then 23,000 mistaken registrations surfaced. Then 77,000 flawed voter records were exposed. What happened next sparked accusations of a cover-up—and one decision by lawmakers only added fuel to the fire. Watch the full episode on my YT channel! Link is in the comments ⬇️
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