College & Career Coach. I help students navigate transitions and discern vocations at https://teapawt.net/t.co/FIBmHDtsYX
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🚨VOTE MICHIGAN: YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!
Reject Democracy, Implement Islam”: The MSA Doctrine Abdul El-Sayed Helped Lead
The Muslim Students Association at the University of Illinois Chicago stated it plainly:
“The mission of Muslims in the West is to reject democracy and implement Islam.”
They continued: reject anything not from Islam, reject secular ideas in the West and in Muslim lands, do not compromise on the Deen or the Hukam of Allah, and implement Allah’s rule because that is the only path to justice and victory.
That is the same network Abdul El-Sayed helped lead.
At the University of Michigan, El-Sayed served as outreach chair for the MSA. responsible for bringing students into the organization and running da’wah (the invitation to Islam before jihad) - then as a staff writer, then as vice president. The chapter’s own charter subordinated it to the national MSA.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s 1991 strategy memorandum listed the national MSA among “our organizations and the organizations of our friends.” An FBI assessment called it the first formal U.S. Muslim Brotherhood organization.
As Hero Steve Emerson from IPT just exposed, while he sat on the board, the Michigan chapter planned a campaign for Tariq Ramadan, grandson of Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna.
It discussed a fundraising dinner for KindHearts, a charity whose fundraiser had been indicted in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas case and which the Senate Finance Committee had already flagged in its terror-financing inquiry.
El-Sayed’s own signed piece in the chapter newsletter called for metro Detroit’s Muslim community to become “the point of nucleation for global unification” in service of the worldwide Ummah.
Hello Michigan are you hearing this!?
The UIC speaker stated the end goal without disguise: reject democracy and implement Islamic rule.
Emerson’s recovered newsletters and board minutes show El-Sayed running the campus organization the Brotherhood built to advance that project in America.
Let's not forget: In 2012, Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed signed a letter urging Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi to “purge the media and the police as quickly as possible.”
The words are theirs. The leadership role is documented.
Jane Chamberlain retweeted
There are more routes from high school to a good career than most families ever hear about.
In the first episode of our new podcast, “What Comes Next After High School?, @JSelingo and I speak with guests about options for high school grads when college is not the next step.
We started with a basic question from a parent: What other options actually exist?
Jane Chamberlain retweeted
Another new civics institution founded at Clemson. @ufhamilton @UTCivics @CivitasInst @UNCSCILL @MadisonProgram @osuchasecenter Revolutionizing Higher Education open.substack.com/pub/cbradl…
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This is the biblical position. However, never underestimate the pride of man. I've made the argument that some white Christians today are making the same exact mistake as the Jews is Jesus' day. They believe that being white makes them special. They conflate being white and European with being Christian. This is why they conflate restoring white civilization with restoring Christianity.
If anyone had room for ethnic pride it was the Jews and yet we're told the children of God are those who are of the faith of Abraham. White European Christians are just Gentiles grafted in by grace. No different than the rest of us.
This should bring humility not pride. Not black pride not white pride. The culture can do what it wants but we as Christians should not operate as the world does. Reject kinism and embrace what Jesus said about who his family is.
Matthew 12:46–50
Jesus’ Mother and Brothers
[46] While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. [48] But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” [49] And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! [50] For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” (ESV)
One Race | One People | One Savior
Glad to hear of any such limitations on digital sports betting. The state already has a fully licensed, taxed, and regulated sports betting market. Prediction platforms shouldn’t get to bypass that just because they call their bets ‘contracts.
Jane Chamberlain retweeted
Today we are launching ACT Math Fundamentals on Math Academy (905 topics).
While building it, we uncovered 88 new "missing middle" topics - skills that appear regularly on the ACT but are rarely taught in a standard curriculum.
What's the missing middle? I'm glad you asked...
Most people assume that if a student earns A’s in Algebra, Geometry, and Precalculus, they have been taught all the math on the ACT exam.
Often, they haven’t.
Between standard textbook exercises and the problems that appear on standardized exams sits a large "missing middle": problems where familiar concepts are combined in non-standard ways, disguised in unfamiliar representations, or constrained so that standard textbook scripts fail.
With only about a minute per question on average across the ACT math section, encountering these structures for the first time on test day can kill your pacing. If you spend three or four minutes inventing a method on a few unfamiliar problems in the middle of the section, the clock runs out before you even reach the questions at the end.
Step one of serious test prep is making sure you never have to invent those methods on the spot.
ACT Math Fundamentals spans the entire breadth of the exam - from core algebra, geometry, and statistics up through matrices, 2D and 3D vectors, complex numbers, conic sections, logarithms, and full trigonometry - and integrates all of these "missing middle" skills directly into our knowledge graph.
Students begin with an adaptive diagnostic and work through the lessons untimed (with periodic quizzes to verify retention), first repairing upstream prerequisite gaps and then building fluency across every problem structure the exam tests.
And once students complete Fundamentals, they will promote into ACT Math Prep (launching soon) - a dedicated training ground of high-fidelity practice exams designed purely to master the strict timing of the actual test.
Over the next week, I’ll share a mini-series unpacking what this "missing middle" looks like and why standard curricula miss it.
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“Demoralized men are not depressed in the clinical sense. They can still enjoy things, still function when motivated, still complete tasks that interest them. What they lack is a felt sense that effort connects to a future worth reaching.” New piece by Bruno Manno:
aibm.org/commentary/why-cant…
People, including donors, don’t trust institutions led by people who are neither just nor truth-seeking.
The reputational destruction of Prof. David Sabatini was one of the worst excesses of the Great Awokening / Me-Too era. @BillAckman acted bravely in offering him support when the entire academic establishment cancelled him. Without his efforts, the complete absence of due process in his treatment by @MIT might never have come to light. The question I am left with: Will those whose misconduct has finally been exposed pay anything like the price they imposed on Sabatini? Will they be fired? Will their reputations be destroyed? They deserve it. He did not.
Jane Chamberlain retweeted
I'm pleased to announce that the Clemson U Board of Trustees has just voted to approve the creation of the Clemson Center for the Study of the American Founding.
We're going to Make the American Founding Great Again!!! And created by an immigrant to the USA no less! @elonmusk
“[Considering a college’s political climate] has gone from more than a quarter of students in 2024 to a third of students now in 2026, so that phenomenon is increasing in intensity.”
Students Increasingly Consider Politics in Choosing a College
The latest iteration of the Art & Science Group poll finds that more students on both the left and the right are ruling out institutions based on the political climate of their states. bit.ly/4zyspl5
ALT A student facing a forked path toward two different college campuses, one blue and the other red.
Jane Chamberlain retweeted
When I surveyed my colleagues on the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard for examples of how a lack of intellectual and political diversity was distorting scholarship & teaching in their fields, 1 example was avoidance of mentioning one of the most robust findings in happiness research: "Married people are happier. Period." | Why Americans Stopped Falling in Love. open.substack.com/pub/derekt…
“Families deserve to know not simply what PLNU’s mission statement says, but what students will actually encounter in classrooms, chapel, spiritual formation, and student life.”
…PLNU’s refusal to recognize a Turning Point USA chapter…divergence from its evangelical roots.”
The Dean of Students' dissertation was titled “Raging Waters of Whiteness: Addressing White Evangelical Racism in Higher Education.” It's all downhill from there.
thecollegefix.com/in-christ-…
Jane Chamberlain retweeted
I hope more conservative Christians get to voting. Here are two unnecessary obstacles I see preventing that. Then there is a third which I find hard to fix.
1. Perceived Powerlessness: The Christian feels that there's no point or that voting and taking action are basically ineffective so why bother. This is easily fixed as thinking of it as a stewardship before God, to contribute your vote and advocacy for love of neighbor as obedience to Christ rather than saying that if you can't singlehandedly change everything there's no need to bother yourself with it. Yes, your vote counts as faithfulness, which is what God asks of you.
2. Inability to Choose Suboptimal Candidates: This is just the way it is. It's not just a "lesser of two evils" choice but a "make things better than they otherwise would be" choice. When choosing a school for your kids you do it. When choosing where to live you do it. When choosing a church you do it. It is the nature of limited choices that causes us angst about non-optimal choices. Just make things better. I no longer ring my hands at this now that I see my job as not maintaining my own purity but as benefiting my neighbors the best I can within the available options.
3. Misinformation and Tribalism: Yeah. I don't currently know how to address this in a wide way. Do your research. Fact check the people you TRUST (that's probably the single best piece of advice I have). And try to keep your priorities in order. Still, those impacted by misinformation and tribalism will likely think it's only other people who have that problem. So, I reiterate, fact check the people you trust and not just by getting Grok to agree with you.
Vote like it matters.
Jane Chamberlain retweeted
Peter Thiel on how you should think about your future:
"What you end up doing when you think of the future as indefinite is you pick a job that you think will look good on your resume, because it will lead to a different job later on. There's even a credentialing version where you go to grad school, you get a consulting job, and you think of it as this branching tree diagram where you never really do something that you want to do.
You can think of the future on three horizons. Very short-term is: are you going to be happy, and will you be learning a lot? Medium-term is: how good is it on your resume? And very long-term is: are you working on something important or meaningful? We're in a skewed world where we overweight the medium-term and underweight some combination of the short-term and the long-term. I would recalibrate to focus on the short-term and the long-term, and forget about the medium-term."
Jane Chamberlain retweeted
Parents - this is a great data source for you and your college bound students. No it should not be the only valid data source, but it’s good information.
Where does your college stand? The university map covers 1,557 four-year schools on two questions: how well each could absorb a hit to enrollment or revenue, and how its graduates do. Refreshed this week with the newest IPEDS and College Scorecard data.
kylesaunders.com/university-…
Next year, LSU is “opening up its cadet corps to students who aren’t in ROTC…A “National Security Battalion” will consist of students who want to serve in government and business and learn leadership through a military structure, he said.
Hegseth: Hillsdale, Liberty, LSU, Miss. State, Tuskegee Will Develop Cadet Corps
The defense secretary criticized Ivy League & liberal arts institutions as “anti-American, DEI-worshipping woke factories” while announcing partnerships with 5 universities. bit.ly/4yoXEP9
ALT Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, a white man with an exaggerated widow's peak in his black and gray hair, wearing a blue suit and a Band-Aid on his neck.
Jane Chamberlain retweeted
Michael McDonald: "I think it's amazing tribute that adoption is a wonderful option."
This is one of the most amazing stories you’ll sea this year. Adopted Man discovers his biological father is… MICHAEL MCDONALD! Thanks to KFYR TV for reporting.
#YachtRockRadio #YachtRock
Jane Chamberlain retweeted
Pro-tip about 3-year college degrees. The ones that lop a year off the bottom (freshman year) are good. The ones that lop a year off the top (senior year) are bad. Ask first, before you hire one!
Jane Chamberlain retweeted
North Korean defector issues stark warning about America ahead of Christian university's anti-communism event foxnews.com/media/north-kore… #FoxNews
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Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed helped lead a 2007 University of Michigan protest against an event featuring three self-described former Muslim terrorists who said they had left extremist organizations and converted to Christianity, with El-Sayed celebrating a student walkout by declaring: “We’ve done something good today, and we need to keep that going in the future.”
The speakers were Walid Shoebat, Zachariah Anani and Kamal Saleem, who were touring U.S. campuses discussing what they described as their former involvement with the Palestine Liberation Organization and Muslim Brotherhood before becoming Christians. Organizers said the event was intended to educate students about the dangers of Islamist extremism, while protesters argued it generalized Muslims as a group.
El-Sayed was then vice president of the University of Michigan Muslim Students Association. Recent congressional testimony from extremism researcher Lara Burns described how Muslim Brotherhood members established a U.S. presence beginning in the 1960s and operated particularly through Muslim student associations on college campuses.
