Larry Butti

Humanities consultant. Lover of books, the arts, travel, and life!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

[Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham]

Join me, @CarolJago, David Steiner & Carey Wright for a discussion of the latest NAEP reading results, presented by the National Assessment Governing Board, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy. Feb. 4, 10 a.m. Eastern US
https://t.co/pc9RtBStSR

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

After Trump’s presser…..
"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.
A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.
And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule
of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

~Hannah Arendt, (Oct, 1906 - Dec, 1975) German historian and philosopher

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

If we don't start taking care of our teachers, soon there's going to be no one left to take care of the students.

[Secretary Pete Buttigieg @SecretaryPete]

Travel can be stressful, even when all goes as planned. Remember to show kindness and patience to fellow passengers, airline workers, and airport workers who keep our transportation systems moving.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”

― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

[Larry Butti @LawrenceButti]

@JoJoFromJerz Not our fault. Over 72 million people to blame!

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.  “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times.  But that is not for them to decide.  All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

[LeVar Burton @levarburton]

I am so grateful this was sent to me this morning. #bydhttmwfi

[David Frum @davidfrum]

".... you must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on."

-Samuel Beckett, The Unnameable.

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

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[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"If one asked me to what do I think one must principally attribute the singular prosperity and growing force of this people, I would answer that it is to the superiority of its women."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America II, 3.12

[Larry Butti @LawrenceButti]

@BigImpactHumans Yeah, very confidence- building.

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

"Learning should be seen as a qualitative change in a person's way of seeing, experiencing, understanding, conceptualizing something in the real world - rather than as a quantitative change in the amount of knowledge someone possesses."
-Paul Ramsden (Australian educator)

[Carol Jago @CarolJago]

My message to the world: We all need to read more books - classic and contemporary, comic and tragic, fiction and nonfiction.

https://t.co/5rYQIKWuDO

[NCTE CEL @ncte_cel]

Come learn from @CarolJago and @SonjaCherryPaul at #CEL24 this November as we discuss why LEADERSHIP matters as well as the daily MATTERS of leadership.

Information and Registration: https://t.co/mrnbHPlXay

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

Fear no more the heat of the sun,
Nor the furious winter's blast;
Thou thy worldly task has done,
And the dream of life is past.
Golden lads and girls all must
Follow thee, and come to dust.

Fear no more the frown of the great,
Death does mock the tyrant foe;
Happiest is the early fate,
Misery with time does grow.
Monarchs, sages, peasants must
Follow thee and come to dust.

No exorciser harm thee,
No spell of witchcraft charm thee,
Grim ghost unlaid forbear thee,
The fairy elves be near thee!
Quiet consummation have,
Unremoved be thy grave.