Jane Balvanz

Co-founder:A Way Through, LLC & Global Alliance for Preventing Relational Aggression (GAPRA), retired elem school counselor, RPT, ♥ family, + thinker, eclectic!

[Jane Balvanz @JaneBalvanz]

@terri0928 That's just crazy!

[FeverStats @FeverStats]

Sophie Cunningham in June:

10.6 PPG
2.6 3PM
60/68/100%

She is the most efficient player in the entire WNBA to start the month (83.4% TS).

[Jane Balvanz @JaneBalvanz]

@0ivankaTrump1 D. Hell no!

[Indiana Fever @IndianaFever]

😤

[Classic Rock In Pics @crockpics]

John Lennon and Paul McCartney writing songs on a set of porch steps in Rishikesh, India, March 1968. Portrait captured by filmmaker Paul Saltzman during the historic acoustic sessions that birthed The White Album. What is your favorite track on The White Album?👇️

[Rock and Roll Garage @rocknrollgarag1]

Happy 84 birthday to Paul McCartney!

📸Mj Kim

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

Happy 84th Birthday to the one and only Sir Paul McCartney! 🎉🎸

Here he is performing ‘Let It Be’ live — just a few months ago. No lip-sync, no backing tracks. Just pure Paul.

We’re so lucky he’s still doing this. Legend. ❤️

[Jane Balvanz @JaneBalvanz]

Trump - simply an embarrassment on the world's stage. Worst speaker ever!

[Indiana Fever @IndianaFever]

"We gotta protect home court...Proud of our whole team, I think we really dialed in tonight."

Sophie Cunningham after dropping 24 PTS (6 3PM) in tonight's 113-91 win over the Tempo 🔥

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

Through 13 games, Caitlin Clark has 265 PTS and 108 AST 🔥

She is the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 250 points and 100 assists in a single season, beating the previous record by three games!

[Indiana Fever @IndianaFever]

a new franchise-record 113 points in regulation 😤

#FeverWin

[Jane Balvanz @JaneBalvanz]

@WNBAlouvre She was fabulous in every way! So much fun to watch!

[Clark Report @CClarkReport]

CAITLIN CLARK BEHIND THE BACK OH MY

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

It means so much to Barack and me to open up the Obama Presidential Center on the South Side of Chicago. This is where I grew up, where Barack got his start, and where we raised our girls. So having a place where kids from our community can see themselves, connect with each other, and channel their hope—there’s nothing more powerful than that.

[Jane Balvanz @JaneBalvanz]

@lilysnotepad Briliant

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

This is a First Lady who is not in the Epstein files

Retweet if you support her 💙💙

[viral next @viralnext1aig]

They brought the energy.
They brought the confidence.
And together, they brought the win.

Caitlin Clark 🎯
Sophie Cunningham 🔥
Lexie Hull ⚡

Three different strengths. One unstoppable squad. 🏀💙

[Indiana Fever @IndianaFever]

every angle of Caitlin Clark's behind-the-back DIME to Makayla Timpson under the basket is today's 360 degree play presented by Sequel 📐📹