Bill Hine
@billhine.bsky.social
Classic Carlin.
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Classic Carlin.
"Some of these parents [who home-school or microschool] identify as being part of an 'unschooling' movement, in which they believe that school has done more harm than good for their children."
"Starting in the 1980s, a metrics-obsessed regime took over American education and profoundly altered the expectations placed on children, up and down the class ladder. In fact, it has altered the experience of childhood itself.'
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America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
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November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"Some of these parents [who home-school or microschool] identify as being part of an 'unschooling' movement, in which they believe that school has done more harm than good for their children."
"Our entire safety net is designed to catch people at the very bottom, but it sets a trap for anyone trying to climb out. As income rises from $40,000 to $100,000, benefits disappear faster than wages increase. I call this The Valley of Death."
Must read.
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Must read.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Our entire safety net is designed to catch people at the very bottom, but it sets a trap for anyone trying to climb out. As income rises from $40,000 to $100,000, benefits disappear faster than wages increase. I call this The Valley of Death."
Must read.
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Must read.
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The president of solutions? Be serious.
Scott Bessent on the administration's affordability plan: "We'll see. He's the president of solutions, and I'm sure that we will have a solution to this."
(Note the complete lack of pushback to this by Rebecca Quick and contrast with her recent attempted ambush of Hakeem Jeffries)
(Note the complete lack of pushback to this by Rebecca Quick and contrast with her recent attempted ambush of Hakeem Jeffries)
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The president of solutions? Be serious.
"Starting in the 1980s, a metrics-obsessed regime took over American education and profoundly altered the expectations placed on children, up and down the class ladder. In fact, it has altered the experience of childhood itself.'
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America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"Starting in the 1980s, a metrics-obsessed regime took over American education and profoundly altered the expectations placed on children, up and down the class ladder. In fact, it has altered the experience of childhood itself.'
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Powerful and poignant. A clarion call for sensitive public policy. Caregivers need help.
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Opinion | ‘We Had No Idea What Was Coming’: Caring for My Aging Father
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November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Powerful and poignant. A clarion call for sensitive public policy. Caregivers need help.
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When it's all over, I wonder if these grifters will consider it to have been worth it: a few years of unearned privilege for a permanently trashed reputation.
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
When it's all over, I wonder if these grifters will consider it to have been worth it: a few years of unearned privilege for a permanently trashed reputation.
That 0.5% will pay for the move, yeah? No? It won't?
Ladies and gentlemen, that's our Treasury Secretary doing the math.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's our Treasury Secretary doing the math.
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
That 0.5% will pay for the move, yeah? No? It won't?
Ladies and gentlemen, that's our Treasury Secretary doing the math.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's our Treasury Secretary doing the math.
Starmer's phone calls won't do it. He needs to appear at the White House gate bearing gifts.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “We're making some changes to the peace plan after talks with Ukraine.”
Meanwhile, Starmer has spoken to Trump twice in the last 24 hours to try to influence events.
Meanwhile, Starmer has spoken to Trump twice in the last 24 hours to try to influence events.
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Starmer's phone calls won't do it. He needs to appear at the White House gate bearing gifts.
2-point plan.
K.I.S.S.
K.I.S.S.
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
2-point plan.
K.I.S.S.
K.I.S.S.
Great piece. Needs to be shared widely.
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Great piece. Needs to be shared widely.
The 28-point plan, proclaimed as Trump's, is a joke, fed to a Kremlin tool, the masterful Steve Witkoff.
Witkoff can F*ckoff.
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Witkoff can F*ckoff.
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Opinion | Zelensky may never have faced a more agonizing choice
U.S. officials tell me Trump’s peace plan is flexible, but a painful decision lies at its core.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The 28-point plan, proclaimed as Trump's, is a joke, fed to a Kremlin tool, the masterful Steve Witkoff.
Witkoff can F*ckoff.
wapo.st/4ohhjea
Witkoff can F*ckoff.
wapo.st/4ohhjea
Whatever drug cocktail was administered to POTUS prior to the Mamdani tête-à-tête seems to have worn off. Up the dosage, please.
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Whatever drug cocktail was administered to POTUS prior to the Mamdani tête-à-tête seems to have worn off. Up the dosage, please.
"The threat from Vladimir Putin’s despotic, expansionist regime calls for Churchillian resolution, unity and strength on the part of the transatlantic alliance. Instead, Neville Chamberlain-style irresolution and confusion reigns on both sides of the Atlantic."
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Opinion | Ukraine needs Russia’s frozen $200 billion immediately, Europe
With Trump seeking Kyiv’s capitulation to Russia, now is the moment for decisive European action.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"The threat from Vladimir Putin’s despotic, expansionist regime calls for Churchillian resolution, unity and strength on the part of the transatlantic alliance. Instead, Neville Chamberlain-style irresolution and confusion reigns on both sides of the Atlantic."
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It was quite a change for Donald to go from being surrounded by people who never stop saying stupid things to being with someone smart enough to know when to keep quiet.
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It was quite a change for Donald to go from being surrounded by people who never stop saying stupid things to being with someone smart enough to know when to keep quiet.
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There are so many disgraceful features of the Trump Administration, but its embrace of Putin & betrayal of Ukraine is the very worst of them, and is likely to have the most dire long-term consequences. Why trust the U.S. any longer?
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
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Opinion | Trump Issues an Ultimatum to Ukraine
His latest peace offer fulfills Vladimir Putin’s wishes and leaves Kyiv with a terrible choice.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
There are so many disgraceful features of the Trump Administration, but its embrace of Putin & betrayal of Ukraine is the very worst of them, and is likely to have the most dire long-term consequences. Why trust the U.S. any longer?
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
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‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
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November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
"It just proved that Trump admires charismatic winners more than he cares about ideology — or consistency...Unfortunately, we don’t get to see this genial Trump very much these days. He’s mean when he’s cornered..."
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Opinion | Piggy Gets Polite
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November 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"It just proved that Trump admires charismatic winners more than he cares about ideology — or consistency...Unfortunately, we don’t get to see this genial Trump very much these days. He’s mean when he’s cornered..."
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Cool, yes. And erudite. And charitable. Comfortable in his own skin. A winner. There are not many of those in Trump's administration. A breath of fresh air for DJT.
He’s surrounded by such wormy little losers at the White House that I think he was like wow a cool guy
Trump says more nice things about Mamdani and they shake hands
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Cool, yes. And erudite. And charitable. Comfortable in his own skin. A winner. There are not many of those in Trump's administration. A breath of fresh air for DJT.
Trump used to say that he wanted "the best people" working for him. He just found one.
Find you somebody who looks at you like Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Trump used to say that he wanted "the best people" working for him. He just found one.
He had seven weeks of free time to study up.
Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Democrats to be executed: "Attorneys have to parse the language and determine all that."
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
He had seven weeks of free time to study up.
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Trump has reportedly been in conversation with Paramount and his billionaire ally Larry Ellison about a potential takeover of CNN that would include firing journalists he dislikes.
Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.
Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Trump has reportedly been in conversation with Paramount and his billionaire ally Larry Ellison about a potential takeover of CNN that would include firing journalists he dislikes.
Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.
Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.
