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Jon Lustig retweeted
Apparently, this was the âpollsterâ that JD Vance was referring to in his now infamous post-election tweet, who blamed the loss on Israeli relations.
Mark here was fired from Rasmussen forâŚwellâŚit wasnât revealed, but doesnât exactly seem like a mystery.
Jon Lustig retweeted
From March, 11 last year. He didnât. nationalreview.com/2025/03/dâŚ
Jon Lustig retweeted
It was gas prices.
It was the war.
It was also the corruption.
The incompetence.
The tariffs.
The playing nice with Russia.
The impression of cruelty.
The overly aggressive deportations.
The accidental arrests of American citizens who were Hispanic.
The arrogance.
The ballroom.
The reflecting poll.
The golf courses.
The arch.
The Qatari 747.
The aggressive redistricting push.
The threats against enemies.
Jon Lustig retweeted
Trump and his political team have managed to do what the pre-Trump GOP never did â shrink the map of Republican states. Bush and Rove turned Texas red. Trump turned it blue. The pre-Trump GOP turned Georgia red. Trump turned it blue. But MAGA says we can't go back to winning.
Jon Lustig retweeted
As a rule, I don't like to comment an institution I was formerly involved with...but, man, this is sad.
During my 10 years at Popular Mechanics we worked hard to avoid political fads and keep the magazine focused on technology.
Even when we tackled politically fraught topicsâlike debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories, reviving nuclear power, or digital surveillanceâwe endeavored to stick to hard facts.
The lead story in the new issue of Popular Mechanics is âHow to Fight a Data Center.â
How sad and bizarre. Another once-great technology magazine turned against technology by leftists.
Subscribe to @arenamag - we actually like technology, and America đşđ¸
Jon Lustig retweeted
I'm talking about things Democrats actually propose & campaign for - including their leaders in Congress & their most recent presidential nominee.
Here's a simple one, Tom: will you promise your readers that Democrats would never attempt to eliminate the Senate filibuster?
Jon Lustig retweeted
Abdul El-Sayed would rather risk losing a winnable Senate seat than deny that Jews are the reason you canât have nice things.Â
Latest me in @theFP
thefp.com/p/haley-stevens-abâŚ
Jon Lustig retweeted
Always funny to me that Iâm willing to stake out opposition to Republicans who affiliate with white nationalists and antisemites and the Bulwark crowd that always demands the GOP takes moral stands will justify supporting a Graham Platner or a Abdul El-Sayed because theyâre always able to convince themselves the alternative (Susan Collins!!!) is worse. They are mirror images of the other side.
Jon Lustig retweeted
I am speechless. Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT.
It compares the 1980/87 test with 2026. The findings should terrify every parent and teacher...
Vocabulary has collapsed.
Old SAT: 70.6% of questions tested vocab.
New SAT: 15%.
The old test forced students to know a wide range of words through analogies, antonyms, and sentence completions. The new test abandoned that. Most vocab questions now just ask students to fill in one blank from context.
Reading passages also got radically shorter (average ~97 words vs 300â340).
The new test uses short expository passages and hands you the necessary background knowledge inside the text. The older tests leaned much more heavily on argumentative and persuasive writing, assumed far more historical, scientific, and cultural knowledge, and penalized students who lacked it.
This is a redefinition of what "college readiness" means.
If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these.
If you want a future where children can actually read difficult texts and construct complex arguments, the SAT must be replaced now.
This cannot go on.
We were concerned that the SAT has become a less reliable measure of student preparedness for a rigorous college curriculum.
So, we commissioned a study from Johns Hopkins University. What does this study tell us about the state of higher education?
The results are shocking. thaq.co/4iLThZ0
Jon Lustig retweeted
Affordability comes and goes. Antisemitism is a permanent stain.
My column this week on the 2026 stakes @WSJFreeEx wsj.com/opinion/free-expressâŚ
Jon Lustig retweeted
kara swisher is absolutely psychotic. edward "big balls" coristine was not even drinking age when he joined DOGE because he wanted to serve his country. he never broke the law. he's done nothing but admirable work for the government since. she nonetheless wants him destroyed.
Kara Swisher: "They could just pick a few people. To me, that's the way you go. You pick like a Hegseth, a Musk, and I don't know, Big Balls."
"Rather than go for Trump, go for everybody. Make it so broad that it'll exhaust people who just do want to move on."
The left is already celebrating, and they're telling us exactly what they plan to do after the midterms. GET OUT AND VOTE!
Jon Lustig retweeted
These people inhabit a really intense, self-reinforcing universe. Jason Arday has been 'cleared.' You can literally access the papers with the plagiarized and fabricated material. It's right there! It's a matter of objective reality! Not to them. We're cooked.
Jon Lustig retweeted
Yes, Jews must vote for the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned candidate who says "hurt people hurt people" about Islamic terrorists who try to murder Jewish schoolchildren. To fight anti-Semitism, you see. Says the guy who served alongside a fellow Obama speechwriter nicknamed "Hamas."
Jon Lustig retweeted
Jews are expected to offer their necks to the chopping block merely to prove that their executioner doesn't actually hate them.
Jon Lustig retweeted
Would that the Peltola staffer asked to find random Dan Sullivans for the purpose of screwing with Alaska voters had been as precious about their time and dignity as the one asked to feed the damn lizard.
SCOOP: Democrats have insisted they have nothing to do with the other Dan Sullivan on Alaska's Senate ballot.
But aides with the Mary Peltola campaign and DSCC were part of a monthslong secret plan to recruit him to run -- as well as other candidates.
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/poâŚ
Jon Lustig retweeted
democrats: if we take power we will seize elon musk's companies and put him in prison and no, we do not care if he technically committed any crime or not
also democrats, somehow: why is elon musk funding republicans?
Jon Lustig retweeted
Dear Americans, please look at what blaming Israel for everything did to our region. Donât fall for the same lie. Donât import this garbage. Protect America, the last bastion of freedom, from this virus. Donât allow this kind of Third World politics to infect a great American institution.
Jon Lustig retweeted
I think it's weird how few people are troubled by the gist of Sayed's Islamophobia defense. If you say that asking about support for the Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamophobic attack on your religion, then at some level you're suggesting -- or at least encouraging the inference -- that the MB's form of Islam defines or informs your interpretation of Islam. There are lots of Muslims that don't subscribe to the MB version and when you ask them about the Muslim Brotherhood, they don't respond by saying "how dare you attack my religion?"
Jon Lustig retweeted
Indeed Bernie. Bodies lying all over the place here in Europe.
No, wait. The 32,000 is not an actual body count. Itâs the result of modelling by Imperial College on the basis of several dubious assumptions.
People did die of heat this summer. They usually do when it gets v hot e.g 1976, 2003. The exact number is not clear.
But even if 32,000 was a real figure we know for sure many, many more will die of cold this winter. They always do.
