Angela Koontz

Calvin's Mom, wife, teacher, gardener, canning fool, and history nerd 🇺🇸

[Angela Koontz @Koontza]

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[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Turn the volume up.
Stand for the nation.
Sing every word.

For the 250th time…
Happy Birthday America. 🇺🇸

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

I miss the days when the news smacked so fucking hard Peter Jennings had to fire up a heater just to deliver that shit.

[Angela Koontz @Koontza]

@Moth3693 @AdamParkhomenko Omg…the Comic Sans font 😳

[Angela Koontz @Koontza]

Ghoul

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Ohio Gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claims that "a Black baby" is "probably safer in the streets of Chicago than in the womb of his own Black mother"

[Angela Koontz @Koontza]

@AndrewIrelandIN The thing is, if you live in Indiana you ad you want to have a say in local/state government you are going to end up voting for a Republican. Twenty years ago, Hoosiers voted for the best candidate regardless of party.

[Angela Koontz @Koontza]

This is unacceptable!!

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

Indiana electric utilities now have ~8,700 MW of new data center load under executed contract with Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft.

That's equivalent to 2x all household electricity consumption in Indiana.

Dozens of additional DCs have been proposed.

We need a moratorium.

[Paul @Paulgreyy88]

The kidnapper thought he had everything planned until he opened the trunk💀😳

[Michael O'Fallon - Sovereign Nations @SovMichael]

So, who is paying for the AI data centers that will create the digital panopticon?

You are.

American taxpayer dollars are subsidizing the construction and operation of AI data centers, primarily through state-level tax incentives, utility rate structures, and, more recently, federal initiatives aimed at accelerating AI infrastructure.

It is USAID all over again.

[Appodlachia @appodlachia]

When people ask why the average person hates data centers and wants nothing to do with them, this is why:

[Abby @Abbywabby01]

What men don’t understand about the mental load

[BMB Empower Network @Bmbempower]

Senator James, Langford of #Oklahoma just received a hard check from #Senator #RaphaelWarnock of #Georgia regarding the SAVE America Act.

Repost from @trinitychgo

[Angela Koontz @Koontza]

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[Jared Henderson @jhendersonYT]

The sad future is that a screen-free education (or even an education with minimal screens) is going to become a premium product, while many public schools will continue to give kindergartners tablets and chromebooks before they can tie their shoes.

[Angela Koontz @Koontza]

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[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

Reading is a form of intellectual focus. A child who reads for hours a day isn't just building vocabulary. They're building the capacity to sit down and concentrate. In an age of digital distraction, that skill alone puts them ahead. And it transfers across every domain.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

A beautifully written case for why physical textbooks are so much better for learning than the online distractions that have replaced them.

From Sophie Winkleman and @drdavidajames

https://t.co/Jpmd5tJ9nm

[Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 @SaraForTexLege]

It seems like a good time to pull this out.

J.B. Pritzker said it best:

“When we see someone who doesn't look like us, or sound like us, or act like us, or love like us, or live like us, the first thought that crosses almost everyone's brain is rooted in either fear or judgement or both. That's evolution. We survived as a species by being suspicious of things that we aren't familiar with. In order to be kind, we have to shut down that animal instinct and force our brain to travel a different pathway.

Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being. They require the mental capacity to step past our most primal urges. This may be a surprising assessment because somewhere along the way in the last few years, our society has come to believe that weaponized cruelty is part of some well-thought out Master plan. Cruelty is seen by some as an adroit cudgel to gain power. Empathy and kindness are considered weak. Many important people look at the vulnerable only as rungs on a ladder to the top.

I'm here to tell you that when someone's path through this world is marked with acts of cruelty, they have failed the first test of an advanced society. They never forced their animal brain to evolve past its first instinct. They never forged new mental pathways to overcome their own instinctual fears. And so their thinking and problem solving will lack the imagination and creativity that the kindest people have in spades. Over my many years in politics and business, I have found one thing to be universally true. The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.”

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

It’s hard to escape the feeling that folks were happier in previous generations. They had hobbies, friends, community, they read books, had beautiful buildings, were closer to nature. You can’t call it progress when all the color and joy has been drained from life.

[beanie0597_2.0 @0Beanie05923291]

At some point, the K-12 education community is going to have to stop falling for every novel thing that promises to work miracles. Education requires time, patience, and solid instruction. Schools need to stop looking for quick fixes and shortcuts and just do what works.

[Angela Koontz @Koontza]

OMG…facts!

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

George Orwell on writing:

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Today's humans have won in technology but lost in art.