W.E.D.em Boyz

You should resign

In countries where students spent a lot of time using devices for leisure during the school day, test scores plummeted between 2012 and 2022. In countries where they spent less time, test scores merely slid. Thus there was a significantly larger decline in scores in the countries where students spent more time using devices for fun during school hours (see Figure 1). 505 500 495 performance mean 490 485 480 475 470 465 460 455 d • Science, less device use • Math, less device use Reading, less device use Science, more device use Reading, more device use Math, more device use 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Figure 1: Scores on standardized tests of math, reading, and science for 15- and 16-year-olds in 36 countries, by low or high use of electronic devices for leisure during the school day. Note: Controlled for GDP per capita. Source: Twenge (2025) using data from PISA.

The global decline in test scores since ~2012 is highly correlated with smartphone penetration

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An Emerson poll showing Talarico up 52% against 47% for Crockett. N=850. Likely Dem voters.

I think all we know about the Texas Senate race at this point is that it's going to be extremely close

it's why the inevitable peer level competition will shake Americans to their core, if only because there's an expectation that America will always have technological overmatch

That's right

Francesca Albanese @FranceskAlbs tweeted: We warned you: the wholesale destruction of Gaza was not an exception, it was a blueprint to crush anyone who opposes the plutocratic imperialism embodied by US/Israel and their global allies. Act now: defend int'l law from lawlessness, before the rupture becomes irreversible. Robert Inlakesh tweeted: BREAKING: Israel Just Targeted The Iranian Red Crescent Headquarters In Tehran. A clear direct assault on medical workers.

I think @mark-carney.bsky.social needs to read this.

Reuters is reporting that the price of gas is likely to hit $3 for the first time in 3 months on Monday

No campaign ad has ever written itself more clearly than this one

I really don't know. One of my pet obsessions is how loyal the Democratic Party is to its leaders. When was the last time they had a leadership fight? In some ways it seems like unless AOC runs for that seat, the other senators will just keep letting Schumer run the party into the ground.

Relatedly, there's a split between people like Ossoff and Gallego who need to remain popular to get re-elected and people like Jeffries and Schumer who are more concerned about achieving their ideological goals because they don't (yet) fear any political pressure.

What does that have to do with my post and what “haven’t I been paying attention” to?

The military was already leaking to FT yesterday that they’re incredibly low in missile defense munitions and will have to dip into their Pacific supply. Four weeks is… a long time. Plus the Persian Gulf and those it supplies (e.g., India) are going to get antsy real quick about Hormuz.

Not to be one of the people gambling on death and destruction, but I’m taking the hard under on this

From Drop Site: Several hours after a bomb struck a girls' elementary school and killed 165, a strike on the town of Lamerd killed teenagers in a gymnasium.

Wearing a sweatshirt and sweatpants to the gym to conceal my sleeper build. All will be revealed in due time.

If a company developed a cure for cancer but did so without going through proper FDA protocols, no one would then say "oh it's bad that they did that, we don't want the drug." This is what Democrats sound like when they say regime change is good but Trump needs to go to congress first.

Israel imposes a strict blackout on showing war damages, so we don't see a lot of what's happening, but here is damage from a single Iranian missile in Beit Shemesh from ~5 hours ago. Israeli media reports 9 dead and 11 still missing.

Democrats should be flooding the airwaves right now about the American troops that have already been killed. This war is already unpopular and they could sink whatever support is left. But they won't do it because they also think American lives are worth sacrificing to bomb Iran.

The C.I.A. Helped Pinpoint a Gathering of Iranian Leaders. Then Israel Struck.

This is so funny. NYT did a spy-novel style write up of how U.S. intelligence tracked down Khamenei "for months" and allowed Israel to target him. They killed him.... at his home.

Take a close look at what? It's the most straightforward vote any Senator will ever take.

They think we're a bunch of idiots

Khamenei had issued a fatwa declaring that nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islamic law, going back to mid 1990's. It goes without saying that assassinating him is the last thing you would do if you didn't want Iran to have develop nukes.

Operation Epstein Fury

Evergreen

Getting a 21-gun salute after losing my life in Operation Epic Bacon

Reuters estimates that at least 150 tankers have dropped anchor (in red on the map). In typically times, up to 25 ships pass through in an hour. Zero ships have passed today.

If one were making a tier list, they are S-tier and then the next best person is like C-tier lol

There were def people in Washington who advised Trump not to do this, basically saying, "hes 90, hes had cancer twice, hes going to die soon anyway. Dont make him a martyr for the cause". He didnt listen.

It's not just oil by the way! A massive percentage of food imports and exports to and from the Persian Gulf come through Hormuz as well.

I wouldn't call Americans "anti-war" but they do like to think of themselves as such, and there is nothing that will make the public turn on you like when you started a war they don't like. The Iran war is already disliked on day one. A real opposition party would be taking full advantage of this.