Mr. Hallauer

LPC/NCC school counselor and XC coach

[Mr. Hallauer @MrHallauer]

"Fear is such a powerful emotion that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts." - St. Thomas Aquinas

[Mr. Hallauer @MrHallauer]

@kirsis_andris @kingdom_royals And the Pacific League tends to pay better than AAA. The change of scenery and style of play may be beneficial, too. Good for Sam, I hope he enjoys it.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.

A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.

Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.

So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.

The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.

The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.

Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Jeff Bezos fired more than 300 people and didn’t even arrange for them to get safely home.

Staffers were abandoned in foreign countries and war zones and are having to crowd source to get home.

One of the richest men in the world left them behind.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion

Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion

Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion

Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million

Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million

Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million

Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion

Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion

Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million

Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5

@JeffBezos

[Mr. Hallauer @MrHallauer]

@TaxAddict @PaulBlume_FOX9 @FOX9 But in this case, it seems like a lack of lawyers is part of the problem. She can't fix that problem, but her quitting just leaves innocent people in jail for longer because they are not getting processed. Good people quitting government isn't an answer.

[Lizzie Johnson @lizziejohnsonnn]

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.

[Mr. Hallauer @MrHallauer]

@TrpkovskiM1 @Connor_J_Hughes The last time a Jets QB won 14 games was Sanchez more than 10 years ago. Geno, Fitz, Sam and Zach all left before reaching 14. It takes a lot of resilience to reach 14 in a Jets uniform.

[nicole ruiz @nwilliams030]

“The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative.

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[Daniel Kunka @unikunka]

I’m not sure there’s been a more succinct argument against algorithms and AI in movies and art. From Pope Leo —

“The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable.”

[Catholic News Agency @cnalive]

U.S. bishops are launching an initiative called “You Are Not Alone” to focus on providing accompaniment to migrants who are at risk of being deported. https://t.co/T1BJ03Tfks

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: A Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million and apologize over a 2023 police raid on a small-town newspaper, editor says. https://t.co/M1eYR8m5NP

[America Magazine @americamag]

After an appeal was made through Illinois States Troopers at the site, federal officials declined to allow the clergy to enter the facility to share the Eucharist with the alleged undocumented migrants held inside.

Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility

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[Jack Jenkins @jackmjenkins]

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” https://t.co/0NbmPU0hTa

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The world needs honest and courageous entrepreneurs and communicators who care for the common good. We sometimes hear the saying: “Business is business!” In reality, it is not so. No one is absorbed by an organization to the point of becoming a mere cog or a simple function. Nor can there be true humanism without a critical sense, without the courage to ask questions: "Where are we going? For whom and for what are we working? How are we making the world a better place?"

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The media cannot and must not separate itself from the destiny of truth. Transparency of sources and ownership, accountability, quality, clarity, and objectivity are the keys to truly opening citizens' rights for all peoples.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Leo XIV to university students: “As a young man, Saint Augustine was brilliant but deeply unsatisfied, as we read in his autobiography, The Confessions.  He searched everywhere — in success and in pleasure — and got involved in all sorts of things, but he could find neither truth nor peace.  When he discovered God in his own heart, he wrote a very profound phrase that applies to all of us: “My heart is restless until it rests in you.”  This is what it means to educate ourselves for the interior life: to listen to our restlessness and not flee from it or fill it with things that do not satisfy.  Our desire for the infinite is a compass that tells us: “Do not settle — you are made for something greater;” “do not simply get along, but live.””

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God shows a preference for the poor: the Lord’s words of hope and liberation are addressed first of all to them. Therefore, even in their poverty or weakness, no one should feel abandoned. And if the Church wants to be Christ's Church, it must be a Church in which the poor have a privileged place. #DilexiTe

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In our age, science has extended life expectancy, technology has brought continents closer, and knowledge has opened horizons once thought unimaginable. Therefore, allowing millions of human beings to live—and die—stricken by hunger is a collective failure, an ethical lapse, and an historical culpability. https://t.co/joqZNWdpvp

[Ashley Springsteen @shakeitupbabyy]

One of the best parts of the postseason so far has been the dueling graphics between teams but this one by Matt Milligan (MilliganFam8 on Instagram) is EASILY one of my favorites so far! #SeizeTheMoment

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Doing the work of a journalist can never be considered a crime, but it is a right that must be protected. Free access to information is a pillar that upholds the edifice of our societies, and for this reason, we are called to defend and guarantee it.
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