“…they don’t like a popular, effective program such as public schools, they slowly cut funding for it.

(Then) when the program begins to falter, they blame the people who work there, not their fiscal sabotage.” 📚✏️🏫
@cltomlinson.bsky.social

“Doesn’t matter who you are and where you’ve been. You’re one bad loss to Northwestern from getting a cardboard box and a pamphlet about Cobra benefits.”

C’mon Jason Gay: NU played maybe their most complete game that day in State College- very worthy of bowl invitation this year! #gocats 🏈🐈‍⬛

“..an apple breeder at Washington State University developed the Cosmic Crisp, (working on the variety) for two decades. It is a love child of the Honeycrisp and a more robust Enterprise apple, producing an eating experience that is reminiscent of its parent but slightly more tart and dense.” 🍎

“..Fruit breeders across the country have been racing to create crispier, more flavorful apples that will capture consumer loyalty like the Honeycrisp—but are easier to grow.”

“Even a healthy apple is susceptible to bitter pit, a disorder that marks the skin with black splotches and ruins the fruit’s flesh.

It’s no surprise that the industry has been desperate to dump its high-maintenance lover for almost as long as they’ve been together..”

“(Growers must) spray the trees frequently to treat an endemic calcium deficiency. And to coax the apple into developing its signature red-pink hue, workers lay out sheets of reflective material by hand.”

“Its thin skin is easily punctured by its own stem, which means workers must hand-clip the fruit from the tree, cutting productivity in half. The tree tends to produce more apples than it can handle, so growers must thin out the fruit.”

“But if consumers are charmed by the supermarket star, the farmers who grow it, especially in America’s apple-growing capital of Washington state, often wish they never met it.

“She’s a diva, an absolute diva,” fourth-generation Washington apple farmer Kait Thornton said of the Honeycrisp.”

“Consumers, bored by the softer, blander Red Delicious variety that had ruled grocery aisles for decades, discovered an apple that was sweet and so texturally satisfying they never looked back. Buyers could even stomach a premium price, often three times the cost of other varieties.”

“The result is absurd: As Brian Finucane, a former State Department legal adviser, told The Washington Post, “What they’re saying is anytime the president uses drones or any standoff weapon against someone who cannot shoot back, it’s not hostilities.”

“…On the other hand, the administration has also said that Congress has no authority to intervene under the War Powers Act, because these strikes don’t rise to the level of hostilities—no U.S. troops are in danger.”

“On the one hand, officials argue that involving the military, which doesn’t otherwise have a law-enforcement role, in these boat strikes is necessary, because drug shipments pose a direct threat to the United States; the Trump administration calls those killed “unlawful combatants…”

“..these people have not been convicted in any court, which makes their deaths extrajudicial killings. There’s another, more common term for that: murder.“

“Maybe I turned down a shot I could make with my eyes closed,” Wembanyama said, “but that was to get one of my teammates a shot he could make in his sleep”

“the guy I’m supposed to be covering insists on stringing sentences together better than I can..in English, which (he) picked up as a teenager”

Professor in nutrition department at University of North Carolina: “Why would you not want to measure it? I think the only reason why you wouldn’t measure it is if you were planning to cut food assistance, because it basically allows you to pretend like we don’t have a food insecurity problem.”

“Rhule told his players that road trips are a chance for them to build relationships with their teammates.

“I told our players they should take their headphones off in the cafeteria and sit down with someone (else) and say, ‘How you doing, man? “

“Rhule said members of Gen Z, such as his own kids, will say, “I’m fine, I’m straight,” when asked about their mental health. He said it’s important to try and “unearth” people’s struggles.”

#empathy #listen #checkinoneachother