Gifted and Talented, or G&T, programs have long been a perennial subject of debate, particularly in New York City, where it has bedeviled mayors for years. Some parents have already washed their hands of the whole G&T business, refusing to participate in what they view as a corrupt system of segregation. But countless others still place significant stock in the G&T designation and what it offers and are comfortable relying on cognitive testing, should it be required, to determine whether a child qualifies. “When your intelligence is the foundation of your self-perception, failing to achieve feels like soul death,” writes Katie Arnold-Ratliff. But if the limited amount of information we have about gifted kids long-term is any indication, most lead, at best, ordinary lives of modest accomplishment. A 35-year study of 677 gifted children found that by age 50, only 12.3 percent had reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors … Fortune 500 executives … judges and lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning journalists and writers.” This means 88 percent never did. Arnold-Ratliff digs into the myth of the gifted child, and how our notions of intelligence may be inherently flawed: nymag.visitlink.me/9mc2Wh

🚨HEAD’S UP, NC🚨 Why are power bills going up? I can tell you why in NC. Duke asked the North Carolina Utilities Commission to approve an increase to customer’s costs by 15% over the next two years. But why? Try this on for size: Duke Energy has a net profit of $5B! Yet they expect us to pay for a new fleet, diversified portfolios, coal ash cleanup, solar panels, and a storm reserve. That’s right. The increase in our cost isn’t for better service. It’s so that they can keep up their profit margins AND expand to rake in even more of our hard earned dollars. Why are we subsidizing a company’s growth and funding their capital investments? And is the NCUC going to approve this pay increase?

🔻 Two things happened in the last 24 hours that were not supposed to happen simultaneously. The first: Trump walked into the Situation Room at 2:14 PM. The meeting lasted exactly 2 hours. He walked out without announcing a deal. The media said "no decision was made." That is a lie. The decision was made before he sat down. The deal was leaked ON PURPOSE. The terms published were not the real terms. They were the terms meant for Iran to reject. The actual agreement was signed 6 hours earlier through a backchannel that does not appear on any official schedule. The second: Pam Bondi testified behind closed doors about the Epstein files. She admitted "redaction errors." Dozens of names were exposed. She blamed two men below her and refused to answer 14 questions. What she did not say — and what three people in that room already know — is that the "errors" were not errors. THE NAMES WERE RELEASED INTENTIONALLY. Not to expose victims. To send a message to 11 people who believed their names would never surface. Three of them are currently serving in European governments. One has not been seen publicly since April 19. The war you see is not the war being fought. The deal you were shown is not the deal that was signed. The names you think were "accidentally" leaked were placed there with surgical precision. There is a list. It is not long. But every name on it has a deadline now. **June 15 is not a release date. It is a surrender date.** Those who come forward before that date will be offered terms. Those who do not will be named in a format that cannot be redacted, retracted, or denied. THE EXTRACTION PHASE HAS BEGUN. ⟁ Forward this before it disappears.

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