Erin McGuire
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Erin McGuire
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Cultivating my own garden…although not sure Voltaire was right
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He who violates the law does not save his country.
The image is a screenshot of a tweet from an account named “Donald J. Trump,” with the handle @realDonaldTrump. The profile picture shows a close-up of Donald Trump’s face. There is a verified badge next to the name. The tweet reads: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” The background is black, with white text in a typical Twitter format. There is also a “Follow” button visible in the top right corner.
February 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Said every tyrant and dictator in human history to justify his actions.
February 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I missed this entirely:

The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines.

Musk demanded he resign.

He did.

On January 20th.

www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...
FAA Chief Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign
Michael Whitaker had only been in the role for a year but the SpaceX chief accused him of “harassment.”
www.thedailybeast.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Buttigieg had been laying low since Trump's inauguration, but his response to Trump's comments and attacks on him specifically after the crash -- "despicable" -- is further than any other Democratic leader has gone since Jan. 20
isaacdovere.bsky.social Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · Jan 30
Buttigieg’s response to Trump vis Twitter, on multiple levels:
January 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM