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Amanda Ruth retweeted
#BooksAtHeart is excited to celebrate #ReadAcrossAmericaDay and bring the joy and benefits of reading to the youngest ❤️ warriors @TexasChildrens @TCHheartcenter @bcmhouston. Thanks to all the parents, nurses, parents, and team members who read 📚 to the babies 👶! @CardiacNeuro
How will you celebrate #ReadAcrossAmerica Day? Share with us your favorite book. Every Friday this month we will celebrate the diversity in America by sharing our #FavoriteBookFriday with books that represent all of the children in our beautifully diverse country.🌎📚
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Amanda Ruth retweeted
#Booksatheart needs an urgent consult 🙏🏽- a champion 🏆 📕 reader at @TCHheartcenter made us aware that we have no dinosaur 🦕 books📚!! ☹️ We have 🦔 🐷 🦦 🦉 🐛 🐌 🐳 🦊 🐻 🐘 books, but need your recs for your favorite 🦖 🦕 📚! @reachoutandread @CardiacNeuro @bcmhouston
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Amanda Ruth retweeted
#Books@Heart - What brings us more cheer than new books? A reading chart with a 💯 record! In the past 10 months, 311 👶 received 440 📚They enjoyed 3946 stories from parents, nurses, & therapists - and won 76🏅and 53🏆! ❤️Learn more about #Books@Heart - texaschildrens.org/blog/book…
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Amanda Ruth retweeted
#Books@Heart is an early childhood literacy initiative at @TexasChildrens @TCHheartcenter. We love books and we know reading 🤓 books 📚 is good for neurodevelopment 💪🏼 ! Check out our poster at #CNOC2021 to learn more! And we would love to hear from you bit.ly/3CxahKq
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Amanda Ruth retweeted
#Books@Heart ‘Which book should we read next’ edition: 275 👶, 376 📚, over 3200 reading encounters, 60🏅and 40🏆…#Books@Heart is continuing to reach more infants in the @TCHheartcenter , thanks to the support of friends, families, nurses, therapists, and @TexasChildrens
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Amanda Ruth retweeted
#Books@Heart - Proud of @TCHheartcenter nurses for being incredible #reading ambassadors for our program. 230 👶 have been read 2600 stories and counting from over 300 📚 ..very grateful for the parents, therapists, and reading enthusiasts who support us! voiceofnursing.org/bookshear…
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While Texas kids are uninsured, food insecure, housing insecure, energy insecure and expected to go into mask-optional classrooms, our governor injects himself with expensive fetal cell treatments and holes up in his mansion. I'm asking for prayers for my thoughts.
As you may have heard, I have Covid. Right now I have no symptoms such as fever or aches and pains. Thanks for the well wishes from around the country. I will remain engaged every day to govern the great state of Texas. God bless you all, and God bless Texas.
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Amanda Ruth retweeted
Tonight, the #HISD Board of Education approved a resolution in support of Superintendent Millard House’s decision to mandate wearing face masks while indoors on all campuses, facilities, and buses.
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Replying to @RistinRaccoon
They hyped up essential workers as “heroes” so that their inevitable deaths could be framed as noble sacrifices and not a preventable tragedy.
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“I see no color” is not the goal. “I see your color and I honor you. I value your input. I will be educated about your lived experiences. I will work against the racism that harms you. You are beautiful. Tell me how to do better.” ... That’s the goal. – at Breñas, Puerto Rico
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On June 22 Florida Gov DeSantis and our colleague, Laura Ingraham, mocked me on Fox for predicting the return of COVID19 to the Southern US. As of today, Florida has the 2nd highest rate of Covid nationally +257% rise over last 14 days, with Jacksonville area among worst affected
Gov. DeSantis gives his thoughts on predictions that there will be a "summer surge" of COVID-19.
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I interviewed for a job once that was comically beyond my qualifications & got an offer. I asked a man of certain demographic in a very senior position for advice & he told me to take the job I didn’t qualify for & wing it like he has always done. I think about this sometimes.
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A culture rightly bent on justice, but lacking the will and mechanisms for forgiveness is life and soul destroying. Without tools to cancel sin, we are left only to cancel people.
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I’m very sick of the whole world trying to manipulate and bully women into having children but doing nothing to make life any easier for women who do. From the health risks to the pitiful maternity leave to the even worse government support, for many women there are no benefits
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This is straight TRASH. I have lived in Houston for nearly 7 summers now and not once did we ever had Conservation Alerts. But now, as the grid is smashed in the winter, y'all can't handle JUNE heat?? Unacceptable.
ERCOT has issued a Conservation Alert, and Texans are being asked to safely reduce their electric use.
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Amanda Ruth retweeted
Nothing will ever beat the telegram that Dorothy Parker (a patron saint of blown deadlines) sent to her editor at Viking in 1945:
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No one will be on their death bed saying they wished they had published more
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