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Personal Mission statement; Strive for Educational Equity everywhere

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

RETWEET if you stand with Stephen Colbert after Paramount/CBS fired him.

[Hugo @Hugodor]

@front_ukrainian 🇵🇷 ❤️’s 🇺🇦

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

trump, Stephen Miller, and Tom Homan are FURIOUS about this ICEBlock app, which informs folks where ICE is operating.

So you definitely shouldn't RT this like crazy, because it would make trump even madder.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

People on both sides of the political spectrum need to listen to this. Please!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Always great being in North Carolina! Folks here are fired up to vote for @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz.

Let’s make every single day from now until Election Day count. Encourage everybody you know to go out and vote. Volunteer for the Harris-Walz campaign when you can. We need to show up – this election is that important.

I hope you’ll get involved and vote: https://t.co/jxvEFWOoEM

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Our children are already growing up in a country where a presidential candidate can spew hate, threaten opposition, and express admiration for Hitler. It’s time to change course, and let Trump be history. Watch our ad “Their Future” on @msnbc with @Lawrence.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Michelle Obama just laid into Donald Trump like no one has before. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this takedown

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The stakes of this election couldn't be higher.

Thank you to @RubenGallego and the men who sat down with us in Tucson last week to talk about their concerns, their hopes, and what this election means for them and their families.

[DJLawman @Djlawman]

I WAS a life-long Republican. I went to the 1976 GOP Convention in Kansas City. In 1978, I helped run a GOP Congressional campaign. In law school, I worked for the GOP members of the NJ State Assembly. From 1981-1987, I worked in Ronald Reagan's Justice Department. 1/3

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

IMPORTANT - North Carolina removed 747,000 voters from the voter rolls, either because they had new addresses or because they had not voted in last 2 elections

If you live in NC, CHECK YOUR STATUS right now

There is still time to re-register so you can vote in this election

[Ben Meiselas @meiselasb]

Colin Allred has one of the most incredible stories. High School Class President. Football Star at Baylor. 5 seasons in NFL. Quits NFL to go to law school at Berkley. Becomes civil rights lawyer. Works in Obama admin. Became Congressman from Texas's 32nd congressional district.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

It's too bad they don't make steel-spine journalists like Barbara Walters who could look trump in the face and tell him how full of shit he is.

This is CLASSIC. 👏👏

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Thank you for your love and kindness today.

I remain hopeful that we will defeat injustice without destroying each other.

I believe these words from my father, spoken the night before he was assassinated.

We will get there.

#MLKDay2024 #MLKDay #MLKJr #MLK #Glory #Mountaintop

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Florida prosecutors have dropped charges against Willie Williams, sentenced to LIFE in prison in 1976 for attempted murder & robbery. The Innocence Project showed his conviction was obtained with the use of evidence that wasn’t disclosed to the defense & was unreliable. 🙏🏿

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Fall in love with some activity and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about and it doesn't matter.

[Matt Miller 🗑️ @jmattmiller]

I felt this one in my soul ...

✨ You run into a former student at Target.

✨ Your mind races through years of faces, trying to place the student.

✨ The conversation is short and you go your separate ways.

✨ But it's the next several minutes when you remember that kid the best.

✨ But it's too late to go find them and say that you remember their name and all of these details about them.

✨ In the end, you just hope you're remembered as a fair teacher who heard them.

Quick read worth your time: https://t.co/59ROhS3rvN

[Hugo @Hugodor]

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[NASA @NASA]

As this year comes to an end, we’ve been hard at work. In the past two weeks, we tested rockets and spent the holidays in orbit.

Looking for a recap of the whole year before ringing in 2024? We’ve got you covered: https://t.co/Kx6PvqJKRr

[Thomas C. Murray @thomascmurray]

Just because something is digital does NOT mean it's any good. We can be 100% digital and 100% low-level learning, a narrative not often shared in the #edtech community. What is it that really works? #LT8Keys #AuthenticEDU

[Hugo @Hugodor]

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Ikigai (生き���斐) is a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose, a reason for living.

Japanese have basically a word for any concept that in other languages require lots of words (except German, obviously).

The term compounds two Japanese words: iki [生き, meaning 'life; alive'] and kai (甲斐, meaning '(an) effect; (a) result; (a) fruit; (a) worth; (a) use; (a) benefit].

Interestingly, Ikigai has been the subject of many interdisciplnary studies.

According to a study by Michiko Kumano, feeling ikigai usually means the feeling of accomplishment and fulfillment that follows when people pursue their passions.

National Geographic reporter Dan Buettner suggested ikigai may be one of the reasons for the longevity of the people of Okinawa.

Studies have even shown that people who do not feel ikigai are more likely to experience cardiovascular diseases.

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[Hugo @Hugodor]

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

#OTD in 1996, Carl Sagan died: 27 years without Carl

«When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me ― it still sometimes happens ― and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife.

They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl.

But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting.

Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance.

That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful.

The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful».

― Ann Druyan