A federal program gives donors a $1,700 tax credit to fund school-choice scholarships, with zero cost to participating states. Despite this, almost every Democrat-led state refused to opt in after the teachers unions — led by Randy Weingarten — opposed it. Bongino: they hate your kids.
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Bongino broadens his geographical scope beyond New York to Texas, arguing the radical left threat is not parochial. His target is James Talarico, a Democratic socialist running for Senate in one of America's most conservative states. [1] — Dan Bongino "Texas Senate candidate shares checking account with mom at age 32: Texas Senate candidate James Talarico reportedly shares a single checkin…" 58:58 First he plays a clip of Talarico in an interview saying his 'whiteness' and 'masculinity' limit his imagination about what's possible, and that he must 'continually press against' these limits. Bongino is gleefully contemptuous — noting Talarico is running as a vegan in the 'barbecue capital of the world' and asking Texas voters for help. He then plays a Fox News report by wounded veteran Johnny Joey Jones revealing that Talarico reportedly shares a single checking account with his mother, who covered $1,500 in moving expenses when Talarico was 32. Bongino connects Talarico to the broader DSA / socialist accommodator pattern he's been tracing throughout the episode, and pleads with Texas not to send him to Washington.
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico reportedly shared a single checking account with his mother and had her cover $1,500 in moving expenses at age 32. Bongino pairs this with Talarico's on-camera admission that his 'whiteness' limits his imagination, asking Texas voters to reject him.
Texas Senate candidate James Talarico reportedly shares a single checking account with his mother, who covered $1,500 in his moving expenses when he was 32 years old.
A baseball-playing junior who learned about compound interest now wants to quit the sport to start working and investing. George says let him decide and own it. Jade says team sports build something a job can't replace — try doing both during off-season first before making the call permanent.
May is 33, carries $69K in combined household debt, and wants to spend 11–13 years training to become a forensic pathologist at $14K/year in tuition. The prerequisite is non-negotiable: zero debt before a single class. Then, with the spouse earning $4,500/month and able to run the household debt-free, cash-flowing medical school is genuinely possible.
Kavak launched the Jedi Academy, an internal program where every employee — from CEO to mechanics — completes a 6-week training and ships a production-ready AI agent. The message to staff was blunt: train and adapt, or this may not be the right place for you.
The worst AI outcome for young people isn't cheating on homework. It's that passive, mindless consumption strips away the motivation and agency their brains need to develop. The second worst outcome is banning AI from classrooms entirely. The winning path is giving students AI-powered agency.
Prompting AI effectively is a skill that should be taught in K-12. The best prompter in history? Socrates. His method of relentlessly asking precise questions to uncover truth is exactly what powerful AI interaction looks like — and schools should explicitly teach it.
When ChatGPT launched in November 2022, Fei-Fei Li's first move was to email her child's elementary school principal and offer to lecture teachers and students. No investor or tech company did that. Teachers are scared, forgotten, and lectured at — and if they're not helped, neither are the kids.
After the KSI show exposed how hard physical comedy really is, Andrew Santino sincerely proposed doing a semester at clown school in France. Bobby agreed. This is apparently a real plan.
K-12 schools ask students to sit still, raise their hand, use fine motor skills, and be pleasers — behaviors that describe girls more than boys. Boys are twice as likely to be suspended for the same behavior, and five times as likely if they're Black. The system needs male teachers, national service, and kindergarten starting at 6 for boys.
Sunk costs are gifts from your former self — and like all gifts, you're allowed to decline them. Godin reframes every stuck-due-to-sunk-cost situation as a single question: knowing what you know now, would you choose this again?
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