Our Divemaster: Who drinks coffee all day? My group: Hane Does! Also does gardening, cooking, frugality on the Texas coast.

Joined February 2014
Replying to @JagsFanBrian
President Grant warned us. Ulysses S. Grant, 1822—1885 A quote from a speech in which Grant advocated for free public education so the electorate could make good choices. He saw a split between the educated & less educated as a profound & dangerous division:
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im a small government conservative and im demanding detailed information about your high school daughters menstrual cycle
The Florida High School Athletics Association is standing by its decision to require student athletes to give their schools detailed information about their periods, an unprecedented policy that is raising major concerns about privacy. newrepublic.com/post/170192/…
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I share a birthday with Thomas Aquinas, Giovanni Battista Velluti, Colette, Artur Rubinstein, Alice Neel, Jackson Pollock, and the great @alanalda 🎂 “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” - Colette
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You can’t be the #1 economy in the world if you don’t have the best infrastructure. That's why last year we funded almost 7,000 projects. By the end of this year we’ll be over 20,000.
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Yes, Humanity -- there are angels among us. Not enough of them, but... 👇🏽👇🏽
Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults. I like to remember this every Jan 27th.
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Tucker Carlson doesn’t like the U.S. sending money to Ukraine. I don’t like Russia sending money to Tucker Carlson.
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Wordle 588 3/6* 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Good morning. @MWJ1231 @zoomarang
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This. It's felt so disgusting. They are promoting the video of Tyre Nichols being killed like it's a horror movie trailer.
The way they’ve spent days & hours emphasizing the violence of Tyre Nichols’ murder like it’s a countdown to a movie release tells you everything about the depravity of the system we live under.
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"We're a nation awash in 400M guns and too few gun laws, and our states have invisible borders, where guns cross over as easily as cars do. So we're only as safe as the closest state with the weakest gun laws, which in California means Arizona and Nevada."harpersbazaar.com/culture/po…
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Don't send your kids to college in crazy states.
This is what we need. More people on school campuses walking around with guns.
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New York Public Library acquired the joint archive of Joan Didion and her husband...manuscripts, photographs, dinner party guest lists. Check out this article from @nytimes. read it through this gift link without a subscription. nytimes.com/2023/01/26/arts/…
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CNN's @DonLemon on Florida: "It feels like the 1950s all over again, with book banning. This is cancel culture from people who are – I guess they just want our kids to be ignorant, and to control the teachers. This is outrageous ... it's just ridiculous."
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I want to highlight a point @donlemon makes here: Books do cover uncomfortable topics. But that's how we learn, and grow, and develop critical thinking and empathy. Banning books and denying students honest history impedes that growth. cnn.com/videos/politics/2023…’
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Jane Hudson retweeted
Tyre Nichols’ family attorney Antonio Romanucci calls out police unions for not condemning Nichols’ fatal arrest at the hands of Memphis police: “We want to hear you say that what happened to Tyre... should never, ever happen again; that you condemn the brutality, the savagery.”
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From NYTimes newsletter today: "So officials tend to play it safe. Of the more than 50 million documents classified every year, just 5 to 10 percent warrant the classification, Hathaway estimated, based on her experience at the Pentagon." #ClassifiedDocuments
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