Gene Amberg
@tortuga-ga.bsky.social
Former Assoc Director, National Center for Principled Leadership & Research Ethics - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; former K-12 Superintendent of Schools
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
October 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“I can face the winter with calm. Crisp and sparkling days, long pleasant evenings, cheery fires. Good work shall be done this winter. Life shall be lived well. The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October.” ~A.A.Milne
October 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“I can face the winter with calm. Crisp and sparkling days, long pleasant evenings, cheery fires. Good work shall be done this winter. Life shall be lived well. The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October.” ~A.A.Milne
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” – William Cullen Bryant
September 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” – William Cullen Bryant
To remind me of man’s inhumanity...
And a reminder of the dangers children and families are taking in search of a better life. (3-year old Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi…)
And a reminder of the dangers children and families are taking in search of a better life. (3-year old Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi…)
August 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
To remind me of man’s inhumanity...
And a reminder of the dangers children and families are taking in search of a better life. (3-year old Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi…)
And a reminder of the dangers children and families are taking in search of a better life. (3-year old Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi…)
Trump and his cabinet lend the word stupidity new majesty…
June 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Trump and his cabinet lend the word stupidity new majesty…
My annual Father's Day quote by @jdickerson.bsky.social John Dickerson:
"...fatherhood is the gift: you never know something as deeply as when you can see it through your love of your children."
"...fatherhood is the gift: you never know something as deeply as when you can see it through your love of your children."
June 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My annual Father's Day quote by @jdickerson.bsky.social John Dickerson:
"...fatherhood is the gift: you never know something as deeply as when you can see it through your love of your children."
"...fatherhood is the gift: you never know something as deeply as when you can see it through your love of your children."
“And since all this loveliness cannot be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.” – Abba Woolson
May 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“And since all this loveliness cannot be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.” – Abba Woolson
“When a clown moves into a palace he doesn’t become a king, the palace instead becomes a circus.”
— Turkish proverb
— Turkish proverb
May 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“When a clown moves into a palace he doesn’t become a king, the palace instead becomes a circus.”
— Turkish proverb
— Turkish proverb
“There are silences harder to take back than words.”
James Richardson
James Richardson
February 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“There are silences harder to take back than words.”
James Richardson
James Richardson
There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.
Martha Ostenso
Martha Ostenso
January 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.
Martha Ostenso
Martha Ostenso
"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
—David Attenborough
—David Attenborough
December 30, 2024 at 8:46 PM
"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
—David Attenborough
—David Attenborough
No doubt many people have touched our lives, yet few have touched our hearts and spirit in the beautiful ways that Jimmy Carter has…
December 30, 2024 at 4:17 PM
No doubt many people have touched our lives, yet few have touched our hearts and spirit in the beautiful ways that Jimmy Carter has…
Reposted by Gene Amberg
Reposted by Gene Amberg
🚨FORMER CIA/FBI DIRECTOR SPEAKS OUT
William Webster, the only person to ever lead both CIA and FBI, released a letter warning senators about confirming Trump's picks of Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard.
1/
William Webster, the only person to ever lead both CIA and FBI, released a letter warning senators about confirming Trump's picks of Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard.
1/
December 27, 2024 at 6:34 PM
🚨FORMER CIA/FBI DIRECTOR SPEAKS OUT
William Webster, the only person to ever lead both CIA and FBI, released a letter warning senators about confirming Trump's picks of Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard.
1/
William Webster, the only person to ever lead both CIA and FBI, released a letter warning senators about confirming Trump's picks of Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard.
1/
Reposted by Gene Amberg
This is who Trump nominated for Attorney General. Let that sink in. It makes defeat of every other nominee imperative. They are that bad.
House Ethics report says Matt Gaetz regularly paid for sex, including payment to an underage girl wapo.st/4gR2iw3
House Ethics report says Matt Gaetz regularly paid for sex, including payment to an underage girl wapo.st/4gR2iw3
House Ethics report says Matt Gaetz regularly paid for sex, including payment to an underage girl
The former congressman regularly paid for sex, possessed illegal drugs and paid a 17-year-old girl for sex in 2017, according to a 42-page report released by the House Ethics Committee on Monday on Pr...
wapo.st
December 23, 2024 at 4:29 PM
This is who Trump nominated for Attorney General. Let that sink in. It makes defeat of every other nominee imperative. They are that bad.
House Ethics report says Matt Gaetz regularly paid for sex, including payment to an underage girl wapo.st/4gR2iw3
House Ethics report says Matt Gaetz regularly paid for sex, including payment to an underage girl wapo.st/4gR2iw3
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck
December 6, 2024 at 2:07 PM
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck