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Fleeing the Bird, I inadvertently found my peeps! Digging in my family history for great stories and connections is a favorite pastime. Also spend an inordinate amount of time contemplating my next knitting project, and training our puppy to play nice with the cat.
Family bloghttps://shootsrootsandleaves.com/
@timsmalley This photo is absolutely stunning. Tracking down your website for a print!
"For better or for worse, as a candidate, I speak and act the way I really am as a person. Frankly, I have very little tolerance for pretending. At the end of the day, I just tried to be the kind of guy that I would want to vote for." -@[email protected]
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/taking-every-county-every-vote-to-the-u-s-senate/
Taking “Every County, Every Vote” to the U.S. Senate

Opinion | When I decided to run for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat, I knew this wouldn’t be a typical campaign.

Democracy Docket
Today. Tomorrow. The day after that.
I live in NE PA, where unending gray skies hang heavy this January. Today I took my young English Shepherd for a walk during a snow shower in a nearby state park. Breaking the winter neutral landscape was this bit of spring green, poking above the snow-sprinkled leaf litter.
#winterdelight #snow #photography #fern #joy

RT @[email protected]

SAY HER NAME. April Valentine. Died in childbirth on January 10, 2023 “at Centinela hospital due to medical neglect. She and her bf complained for hours to the nurses that she could not feel her legs and they told her they could not call the doctors bc they would get upset.”

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RicoFresco_/status/1617566548889157635

Cucci Mane LaFlare on Twitter

“SAY HER NAME. April Valentine. Died in childbirth on January 10, 2023 “at Centinela hospital due to medical neglect. She and her bf complained for hours to the nurses that she could not feel her legs and they told her they could not call the doctors bc they would get upset.””

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My question is: Haven’t Floridians ever thought of defying this foolishness? Stop talking about what this clown is doing, organize, and then, en masse, just DON’T DO IT! Not easy but fighting authoritarians never is.

“[Teachers] are prohibited from using any instructional materials that include CRT, culturally responsive teaching, social-emotional learning, social justice, “and any other unsolicited theories that may lead to… indoctrination…”

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/new-training-tells-florida-school-librarians-which-books-are-off-limits/2023/01

#flowers #News #Politics

New Training Tells Florida School Librarians Which Books Are Off-Limits

Librarians must undergo training for selecting books and can’t choose materials about CRT, SEL, and culturally responsive teaching.

Education Week
If you've ever wondered why Democrats can have better facts about policy, but still lose the political argument, I've written about schemas -- a concept from neuroscience and psychology that helps explain why political messaging too often misunderstands how the brain works and relies on facts too much. https://brianklaas.substack.com/p/schemas-and-the-political-brain
Schemas and the Political Brain

Understanding how cognitive shortcuts work when processing new information is crucial to understanding modern politics—and it's a facet of cognition that Republicans manipulate extremely effectively.

The Garden of Forking Paths

This photo of 3 kids and their dog is one of my personal favorites.  

The photographer is unknown, but the photo was taken in 1890.

#houston #histodons #history #blackhistory