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Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 23m

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”

Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 1h

Applications for $1B Texas school voucher program to launch in February, contract documents show.

Bye-bye public schools.

Exclusive: Texas school voucher program to launch in February, documents show

Families have answers for the first time about key details of Texas' $1 billion school voucher program, for which applications will open in February, new documents show.

www.houstonchronicle.com

Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 2h

It's a step up from rush limbaugh?

Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 2h

It was the same during trump's first term.
The Keep Airtravel Safe Act was proposed to pay the tsa agents who work during shutdowns.

Brownley, Dingell Introduce Legislation to Ensure TSA Agents are Paid During Government Shutdowns - Congresswoman Julia Brownley

Congresswoman Julia Brownley and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell introduced the Keep Air Travel Safe Act, legislation to ensure Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees are paid during government shutdowns. This bill redirects funding from President Trump’s dangerous $45 billion slush fund for building and expanding new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers to support essential TSA workers during prolonged funding lapses.

juliabrownley.house.gov

Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 2h

I respect senator Murkowski. She says what she means. No smoke and mirrors.

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Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 2h

I volunteer for the sleeping goal.

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Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 2h

You've been reading too much political news. Get in touch with your inner stooge.

The THREE STOOGES have their sunny side up #threestooges #3stooges #comedy

YouTube video by The Three Stooges+

youtube.com

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Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 3h

Dr. Jane Goodall's 2025 Earth Day Message - Jane Goodall's Good for All News

There is one really important message that I want to share on Earth Day 2025: I urge everyone to treat every day of the year as Earth Day. Planet Earth is the only home we shall ever know yet we are r...

news.janegoodall.org

Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 4h

Perfecto! Thanks!

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Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 4h

...Cardboard-box production is one of the most reliable indicators because cardboard boxes are a very straightforward proxy for the quantity of goods being shipped around the world.

On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported that box shipments are at their lowest levels since 2016.

Clues That a Recession Is Coming

Cardboard-box demand can be a legitimate indicator. Hemline length? Not so much.

www.theatlantic.com

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Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 4h

Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 5h

In fact, over 4.5 million children were denied adequate schooling before legislation to ensure equal educational opportunities for special education children began in the early 1970s.*

This was a dark period in special education history.

A Short History of Special Education | All Education Schools

Learn about the history of the work that pioneered quality special education training in the United States.

www.alleducationschools.com

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Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 4h

Who are these politicians that you reference?
Without knowing, it's more heresy.

Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 4h

The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending

Anti-Semitism on the right and the left threatens to bring to a close an unprecedented period of safety and prosperity for Jewish Americans—and demolish the liberal order they helped establish.

www.theatlantic.com

Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 4h

"She ain't wrong," Steele posted on X. "When I began in GOP politics the first thing noticed was Republican women were far more adept at "politics" than the men. From the Women's Federation to actual candidacies men in leadership ALWAYS underestimated their value and political potency."

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Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 4h

Is your mom deeply religious? That tie can cancel everything you've done in your life to help others.

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Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 5h

In fact, over 4.5 million children were denied adequate schooling before legislation to ensure equal educational opportunities for special education children began in the early 1970s.*

This was a dark period in special education history.

A Short History of Special Education | All Education Schools

Learn about the history of the work that pioneered quality special education training in the United States.

www.alleducationschools.com

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🐸 Die Bee 📎 @blubinsky.bsky.social · 5h

#Drogen für mich, aber nicht für dich, sagt Elon #Musk

www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...

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Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 5h

Not a moment to soon.

Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 5h

I'm not sure how to take your reply.

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Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 5h

Zionism strives not for power,” he writes, “but for dignity and recovery.

If we did not have to live among intolerant, narrow-minded, violent people, I would be the first to reject every form of nationalism in favor of universal humanity.

Reviewing Vol. 17 of Einstein's papers, with writings on Zionism | The Jerusalem Post

Volume 17 contains an intriguing expression of Albert Einstein’s strong support for Zionism in the early 1920s.

www.jpost.com

Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 5h

Google her credentials, and her father's, if you need to.

Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 5h

Anne Rethmann @arethmann.bsky.social · 12d

Sad that this still needs repeating.
#antisemitism #Manchester
@faniaoz-salzberger.bsky.social

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Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 5h

That's the source my old friend sent me on Oct 7th.
She didn't know why Israeli's were so cruel, and Wikipedia gave her the answer.
Try reading a bit more before you reach uninformed conclusions, Yall.
Mother poison??

Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 5h

After Oct. 7, the daughter of Amos Oz believes in the two-state solution more than ever

Israeli Historian Fania Oz-Salzberger Explains Why 'Freeing Palestine From German Guilt' Is a Very Bad Idea and Why She Thinks the Events of the Past Year Ruled Out the Possibility of a One-state Solu...

www.haaretz.com

Sherrill @sherrillann.bsky.social · 6h

The flip side of west Germany’s accommodation of Nazis was what Améry called an “obtrusive philosemitism”. This philosemitism – parasitic on old antisemitic stereotypes, and combined with sentimental images of Jews – still shapes Germany’s relationship to Israel.

Inhabiting the victims?

Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’

Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra

www.theguardian.com