Neeraja Deshpande
@neerajadeshp
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policy analyst @IWF & @IWV // senior contributor @iwfeatures // words in @PirateWires, @TheFP, @realDailyWire, @DailyCaller, and more // views mine
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Joined July 2024
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@jrgoob @neerajadeshp @adamscochran She's a D.C. think tanker who writes white papers on policy, you dolt.
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@neerajadeshp and, in my experience, specialists enable it because they want to help the kids... out of a sense of helping them out.
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This still happens in our country as well. And unsurprisingly, the men who request transfer to female prisons are disproportionately sex offenders, at the astonishing rate of one in three.
A man who raped a 3 month old baby and drowned a 3-year-old was given breast implants by the BC government and is serving time in the women’s penitentiary.
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When you coddle people, it stunts their development
Lots of people assuming this is purposeful manipulation, and, yes, there are definitely cases of that (e.g., Varsity Blues), but the reality, from what I’ve seen, first among my peers and then as a teacher, is actually worse: these kids *actually* believe they are disabled! Yes,
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@neerajadeshp Watched this happen first semester of grad school- straight A stem undergrads encounter truly tough classes and by the end of the semester ~20% had a newly dx’d disability + accommodations + a true belief in their intellectual disability that they shared with anyone who would
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Today's MUST READ: One of the biggest problems in schools right now is no one is empowered to ever hold the line on a standard. The result? "We have a two-speed student population."
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This is a funny announcement, insofar as I was under the assumption that if you didn't have a REAL ID you couldn't fly.
The TSA has announced that any traveler going through airport security without a REAL ID or passport will face a $45 fee starting Feb. 1.
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Lots of people assuming this is purposeful manipulation, and, yes, there are definitely cases of that (e.g., Varsity Blues), but the reality, from what I’ve seen, first among my peers and then as a teacher, is actually worse: these kids *actually* believe they are disabled! Yes,
This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics. - At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled - At Amherst: more than 30 percent - At Stanford: nearly 40 percent Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving
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We spent at least $23 billion over 10 years (DHS estimate) to implement REAL ID in order to force terrorists to spend $45 extra to accomplish their mission.
BREAKING: U.S. air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee, per AP.
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This is fantastic polling and analysis:
There's been a lot of talk in recent weeks about the American right and fractures within today's GOP. What does it mean to be MAGA? Can President Trump’s coalition remain cohesive once he exits the stage? To explore these questions, the @ManhattanInst has conducted one of the
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The upper class version of subway fare jumping Breaking rules just because you can. And making everyone who follows the rules into chumps.
This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics. - At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled - At Amherst: more than 30 percent - At Stanford: nearly 40 percent Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving
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There's very little that pisses me off on this app because it's all so silly, but this is one take that does.
Why are people talking about “losing years to quarantine”? Was there an alternate reality where everyone was locked in their home for 2 years? Trying to understand.
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This is the American position. The Soviet—or Bolshevik—position was to hush up the Holocaust.
"Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." General Dwight D. Eisenhower while visiting the Nazi Ohrdruf concentration camp (April 12, 1945)
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Ben Rhodes nickname in the Obama White House was "Hamas." If he's providing the 2028 platform for the Democratic Party, then turnout the lights because the party is over.
.@brhodes lays out the future vision for Palestine & Israel that must be part of the 2028 Democratic platform. He gets that "sometimes to win, you must show that there are principles for which you are prepared to lose." This is why @BarackObama & @BernieSanders inspire
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I think it was Churchill who once said, “If you're not a heterodox economist by the time you're twenty, you have no heart. If you're not a mainstream economist by the time you're forty, you have no brain.”
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In August I went on a really amazing trip. While there and just after, I wrote a letter about it to a shy Zoomer who's in a group chat with me. It's a bit different from my normal writing, so I decided to put it on Substack. Link below.
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i wonder how much nihilism/low social trust comes from the sense that everyone is getting one over on you and everyone else
This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics. - At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled - At Amherst: more than 30 percent - At Stanford: nearly 40 percent Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving
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@neerajadeshp @razibkhan When my parents immigrated to the NY in 1970s the ISKCON temple was one of the few Hindu temples around. So we attended their temple in downtown Brooklyn for a longtime.
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I won’t give them the dignity of calling them doctors. Evil doers for sure.
Officially TWO DAYS till my top surgery this is surreal I’m so excited
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“Find a regulation to improve competition and I’ll show you how its used to make the market less competitive.”
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