Diane M. Kimura

Barely a third of fourth graders nationally are proficient at reading, with even fewer proficient in math.

• 26% of Chicago public school students meet English language requirements.

• 17.5% of Chicago public school students are proficient in math.

• Math proficiency in Chicago public schools has dropped by 78% since 2012.

•Reading proficiency in Chicago public schools has declined by 63% since 2012.

Chicago Public Schools hit record graduation rate as math, reading scores drop
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Timothy Birdnow

Hunter's guilty plea indicates that Joe Biden and his advisers think Kamala is going to lose the election. Hunter needs to get this thing closed up now so Joe can pardon him the day after the election. It's not even certain a President Harris will pardon him if she wins. This thing is designed entirely to wrap the whole proceeding up so Biden can end it.

BTW He's making an Alford Plea, which means he's not admitting guilt but admitting there is enough evidence to convict him. That keeps him politically viable after he's pardoned. The judge shouldn't accept that deal.

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Timothy Birdnow

The head of the Teamsters spoke at the GOP convention. Can't have that! The labor unions must be kept solidly in the Democrat's pockets. Biden knows the rank and file are about to bolt, so he tosseed yet another bone to them to bribe them. Sadly most union folks will fall for this yet again. How long will beads and trinkets buy Manhattan island?

Steve Roten observes:

So Briben sends $5.8 BILLION to bail out the pension fund for the most crooked union in history, the Teamsters, while doing nothing but cutting SSA for the rest of us. (See the spousal benefit elimination.)

The man has no soul.

Steven Chase adds:

$300 Billion for the CHIPS ACT, given to all silicon valley chip manufacturers, like INTEL. In just two years, Nvidia has 90% of the world's AI chips. More graft pure and simple.

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Diane Kimura

A good read on Trump’s court proceedings.

Thread by @julie_kelly2 on Thread Reader App
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Diane Kimura

Men who receive testosterone will become more conservative.

We need more manly men! Take away the soy products and send them to the gym!

Study Shows Democrats Turn More Conservative When Given Testosterone Treatment
notthebee.com

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Timothy Birdnow

Sorry; been having computer problems today.Hopefully I have it straightened out and will be back in the saddle tomorrow.

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"To achieve this rapid reduction in energy costs, I will declare a national emergency to allow us to dramatically increase energy production, generation and supply, which Comrade Kamala has destroyed,”


Trump vows to make electricity cheap with ‘hundreds of new power plants’ and modular nuclear reactors
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Willis Eschenbach

THE USUAL DEMOCRAT LIE: Trump called American service members "suckers” and "losers.”

THE TRUTH: Multiple Trump officials denied this ever happened and Trump yet Democrats continue to push the false claim.

Here is a list of everyone who denied it:

Zach Fuentes, former deputy to Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly:

"I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him about the weather. Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?"

John Bolton, former National Security Advisor:

"I didn't hear either of those comments or anything even resembling them. I was there at the point in time that morning when it was decided that he would not go Aisne-Marne cemetery. He decided not to do it because of John Kelly's recommendation. It was entirely a weather-related decision, and I thought the proper thing to do."

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former White House press secretary:

"The Atlantic story on Trump is total BS. I was actually there and one of the people part of the discussion - this never happened … I am disgusted by this false attack."

Hogan Gidley, former White House deputy press secretary:

"These are disgusting, grotesque, reprehensible lies. I was there in Paris and the President never said those things … These weak, pathetic, cowardly background ‘sources’ do not have the courage or decency to put their names to these false accusations because they know how completely ludicrous they are. It's sickening that they would hide in the shadows to knowingly try and hurt the morale of our great military simply for an attack on a political opponent."

Dan Scavino, White House deputy chief of staff for communications:

"I was with POTUS in France, with Sarah, and have been at his side throughout it all. Complete lies by ‘anonymous sources’ that were ‘dropped’ just as he begins to campaign (and surge). A disgraceful attempt to smear POTUS, 60 days before the Presidential Election! Disgusting!!"

Jordan Karem, former personal aide to President Trump:

"This is not even close to being factually accurate. Plain and simple, it just never happened."

Johnny DeStefano, former counselor to President Trump: "I was on this trip. The Atlantic bit is not true. Period."

Stephen Miller, former senior advisor to President Trump:

"[A] despicable lie ... The president deeply wanted to attend the memorial event in question and was deeply displeased by the bad weather call."

Derek Lyons, former staff secretary and counselor to President Trump:

"I was with the President the morning after the scheduled visit. He was extremely disappointed that arrangements could not be made to get him to the site, and that the trip had been cancelled."

Dan Walsh, former White House deputy chief of staff:

"I can attest to the fact that there was a bad weather call in France, and that the helicopters were unable to safely make the flight."

Jamie McCourt, former U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco:

"In my presence, POTUS has NEVER denigrated any member of the U.S. military or anyone in service to our country. And he certainly did not that day, either. Let me add, he was devastated to not be able to go to the cemetery at Belleau Wood. In fact, the next day, he attended and spoke at the ceremony in Suresnes in the pouring rain."

Mick Mulvaney, former acting White House chief of staff:

"These claims are simply outrageous. I never heard the President disparage our war dead or wounded. In fact, the exact opposite is true. I was with him at the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy. As we flew over the beaches by helicopter he was outwardly in awe of the accomplishments of the Allied Forces, and the sacrifices they paid."

Maj. Gen. Bill Maz, secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission:

"I was the host of the event discussed by the false and despicable article published in The Atlantic magazine on 3 September … when the President’s visit was appropriately canceled due to weather, I received word also that he was upset he would not be able to make the wreath-laying visit…"

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Timothy Birdnow

The Chicoms are taking over.

Former aide to Democratic NY governor charged with being an agent for communist China.

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Timothy Birdnow

Lookie here.

Kamala And Mexican Government Are Colluding To Steal 2024 Election

Mexico plans to escort buses to the U.S. border to help Kamala steal the election via vote fraud.

And the backstroking Biden clone is negotiating passage through Mexico via an " asylum ap".

This is a crime, in violation of U.S. law. She should be impeached before the election.

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Robert Fenton Gary

Tim Walz got himself elected Governor of his state and then let the whole place burn down.

China wants to use Walz to do the same thing to USA.

Get Walz to be President then let all of USA burn down.

China cannot beat USA militarily but it can manipulate USA into turning itself over fully defeated to China, and it has software to do the job.

The software, based on modelling populations was developed in Vietnam by Simulmatics.

LBJ could not "sell" the Vietnam war. General Westmoreland was even worse. Every time the General spoke the war got a setback in the minds and support of the American voters. Westmoreland was telling obvious lies about our prospects for victory and the wider implications of the war in Vietnam. He was a lying hound. People saw it, and were rejecting the war in ever greater numbers.

So Simulmatics was called in to "sell" the idea that the war in Vietnam was necessary to the well being of USA and the American people. That company had already been used by both Nixon and Kennedy in 1960 to write speeches for them. In their debate, much of the argument was about who would be more aggressive in seeking democracy for Matsu and Quemoy (two islands off the coast of big China).

Nobody noticed the absurdity of the debate. It was generally assumed that the defense of Matsu and Quemoy was a worthy cause, and the focus was on the vigor and preparedness of Nixon compared the the knowledge and readiness of Kennedy.

Kennedy's speeches in that debate showed that he was the stronger and more adept of the candidates, so Kennedy beat Nixon and became President. About 1000 days later Kennedy was shot and killed and LBJ took over, bringing us the forever war in Vietnam, and the Great Society, which was an early version of the Obama/Biden/Harris/Walz nightmare dalliance with Socialism in USA.

Communism had been rejected in the 1930's after making it debut in US politics via Eugene Debs.

China knew that Socialism would weaken USA and make it an easy opponent to vanquish. So LBJ was installed, and did the job, like Walz is being installed to do the job again.

Americans are strong in their bombers and fighter jets, but weak in their minds and thinking skills. They are hard to beat in the sky, but easily beaten in the fields of rhetoric and political conduct. Americans have powerful gadgets but weak values and doctrine of social organization.

[Yes, I am a decorated Navy vet with service overseas, and not ready to accept disrespect on my FB page. So if you do that, you are gone. You will never see another post by me.]

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Michael Smith

I've always marveled at the contradictions of the leftist mind.

Contemporary progressives/statists/communists (whatever you want to call them) have no ideological basis. They support things because they believe the will get something tangible from them - money, destruction of a competitive enemy, status, influence - something that accrues to their benefit.

They are extreme materialists. Reality may be flexible in their minds but the rewards they demand are always tangible, therefore, the solution to every problem is more - more money, more aid, more welfare, more preferential treatment.

Don't look for these people to believe in concepts like liberty or freedom, even though their best opportunities to achieve what they desire lies in them. They simply cannot conceive of any benefit that isn't defined by the use of coercive force for personal gain.

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Roy W. Spencer

A new Heritage Foundation article by Joe D'Aleo and me about warming in the U.S. causing a decline in strong tornadoes since the 1950s

Twisters and Trends: An Analysis of U.S. Tornado Activity and Climate Change
heritage.org

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Lynn Chu

Fascism, the manipulation of corporations to do the will of the State, rather than act as fiduciary to their clientele—which is the check and balance inherent in capitalist structure—is what we now see percolating throughout the Democratic Party and its so called "progressives." Hitler after all was a huge admirer of the progressives of the early 20th century, particularly eugenicist and abortionist Margaret Sanger and her fascistic circle. The effort to suppress and control individual liberty globally is a resurrection of the Comintern. Communism was simply the Marxist utopian end state, and the Comintern the organization dedicated to its rise throughout the world, centrally controlled, over the long haul. We are now at the back of that long haul. The seizure of the US presidency and the elimination of all parliamentary or legislative power, and the transformation of the Congress into a Bolshevik-style lockstep servant of the Leader, is the Left's goal, now largely achieved.

It will probably be finally achieved by the sleights of hand of massive vote fraud. NGO's that are paid to flood the field with false ballots. The voter rolls are full of tagged IDs. There are millions of non-citizens on the voter rolls, pressed on at their local DMVs or other Hatch Act violations, by which the Democratic Party has pushed to fill the voter rolls with ID registrations, most of which will not be used by their owners, many of whom know that to do so would be illegal and get them personally into trouble. And half of American citizens do not bother to vote. This leaves all of these IDs on the state voter rolls available for massive fraud. This is how totalitarianism will unfold.

We will need to be prepared. Violence is altogether possible and is already manifesting in many parts of this State, that I believe was stolen by fraud in 2020, and that appears to be preparing to rig the upcoming 2024 election, just as Maduro has done in Venezuela, and Lula, via lawfare in a captured Brazilian judiciary, probably did recently in Brazil. With the active collusion of the US and other Western governments, which appear to desire totalitarian control.

Tim adds:

Agreed. The Communists had a slogan in the thirties "first Brown then Red" meaning that they saw fascism as the final stage before Communism. Fascism only became "right wing" after Hitler attacked the Russians. Until then it was rightly understood as the stepping stone for Marxism.

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Carlos Velazquez

I consider Eric Weinstein's ominous warning very seriously although I hope he's wrong. Eric is a famous venture capitalist investor and economist with a Harvard PhD in Mathematics. Here's a quote from a recent podcast ( see link to entire podcast video). Weinstein doesn't think Trump will be allowed to become president. See the 4 minute clip just below. >>>>>

Economist Eric Weinstein says he doesn't know if Trump "will be allowed" to become president, says the goal of the World Order is to have two candidates who are both acceptable to them.

"Democracy was the illusion of choice..."

"You had two candidates that were both acceptable to the international order... We called that democracy. And so democracy was the illusion of choice. That's called magician's choice."

"Magician's choice in the primaries, and then you'd have the duopoly field, two candidates, either of which was acceptable, and you could actually afford to hold an election and the populace would vote."

"Donald Trump broke through the primary structure."

"They learned their lesson. You cannot afford to have candidates who are not acceptable to the international order."

Tim adds:

I agree; I've been saying that for four years now. When they stole the election from Trump in 2020 that was their final warning to him. They won't let him become President. He will meet with an untimely end, methinks. Nobody can be allowed to think they can get away with circumventing their power.

Our "democracy" is pure fiction, a choice between six and a dozen. In the end the Ruling Class has the game rigged.

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Richard Cronin

Just saw an interview of a Trump supporter from San Diego ( California no less !) who spoke about the skyrocketing cost for rent and housing and why it is so.

This not just the product of the inflation you see in groceries, gasoline, and eating out.

In the case of the housing market, we are saddled with housing for 12 million illegal (ahem, "undocumented”) aliens surging across the border for the last three years. So they are crowding into whatever shelter they can find, with government largesse to provide housing for them. Lizzie Warren and her ilk blame "corporate greed” and "buying above asking price” (and what would Lizzie expect to happen ?)

Realtors are losing their rear ends on commercial properties. The financial districts in New York and other major cities are ghost towns.

So what have the realtors done ? They’ve shifted their focus to rental properties and the market is distorted to provide illegals with accommodations paid by taxpayer dollars.

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Jerry S Rainforth

Their usual unconstitutional tactics...

Wisconsin Court Thwarts Democratic Attempt To Limit Ballot Access for Third-Party Candidates

The Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a Democratic National Committee operative's petition to remove the Green Party's presidential ticket from the state's ballot.

The DNC argued that the Green Party was disqualified because they have no members in state offices or legislature to nominate presidential electors.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein celebrated the decision as a win against the "Democratic Party's war on democracy and voter choice."

Critics view the DNC's efforts as an attempt to eliminate competition in swing states, where even small vote totals could be significant.

TCN

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Carlos Velazquez

Famous podcaster, Lex Fridman who has over 4 million subscribers to his YouTube podcast, just interviewed Donald Trump.

There was nothing newsworthy except Trump was not his fiery self but was very composed and polite. In terms of news, nothing new for me except one thing I didn't know what Trump thought about this:

Trump said he will get the DOD to release all UFO footage they have. Good idea. I can't wait to see what they have been hiding.

Donald Trump Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #442
youtube.com

Tim adds:

I think UFO's are experimental aircraft and security coverups. If the government lies to us about little things why wouldn't they lie about big ones?

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