We really need a boost in CDs 4 and 7, so if you're in those districts be sure to sign! And if you have friends, family, or just random acquaintances in those districts (Springfield, Joplin, Branson, Warrensburg, Sedalia, Lebanon...) please call/text/email them to make sure they sign this weekend!
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I feel like the alert on my phone was much scarier than usual, it got me up and moving quick where I would normally be looking at the radar before heading down
Don’t forget the basic research that made it all possible. Ozempuc originally comes from discoveries from Gila monster venom.
Let’s stop the attacks on basic research, and enable the discoveries of the future. SamForNJ.org
student portal account with that school. As the family travel planner that was uncomfortable having to just ask kid to do it and wait!
and to try new things
- plan to have applications mostly all submitted before school starts Senior year
The amount of stuff that the kids have to do themselves is a bit unsettling, for example I couldn’t sign up for us to attend an admitted students event - she had to do it through her…
and English teachers on hand.
- look at more in-state schools
- start visiting schools early (even if it is a school nearby that kid no real interest in attending) to help them figure out what they want / don’t want in college environment
- encourage kid to do stuff they are interested in…
July before senior year so you aren’t waiting for scores while competing applications
- take advantage of high school’s resources - their school sets us Scoir for kids and holds an optional “boot camp” right before senior year where they all work on essays and apps with college counselors…
I have a senior who got into multiple schools - things I will do for kid who is currently a freshman:
- schedule an ACT early Junior year (even if the school does one - the test errored out twice at senior’s in-school test day and that set us behind) be done taking ACT/SAT by…
Even if you are 100% convinced that Democracy is already dead and our votes won't count...
PLEASE VOTE ANYWAY!
I'm begging everyone. There is a critical mass of voter turnout that will be too big to fix.
Please vote, no matter how bleak it seems.
I voted on Election Day religiously until 2004 - the images of voters standing in line in Ohio stayed with me.
I'll tell anyone who will listen to vote early in the midterm.
*too (sigh)
Candy corn teeth would be to endearing! Vampire meth teeth is better 🦷🧪
Ok but LOOK at this sleeping bag!!
Meet Mo, the newest Respect MO Voters volunteer!
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my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
A crochet duck sits on a stone wall at sunset
Mini 3D printed ducks around the larger crochet duck sit on a stone wall, the crochet duck looks a bit like Godzilla
Mini 3D printed ducks around a larger crochet duck sit on a stone wall. The crochet duck looks less threatening in this one
Kid crocheted a duck for a friend. I am her crochet instagram photographer. Had about 20 minutes of daylight when she told me if I wanted to get pictures I had to do it yesterday, so I made the most of it (she printed the mini duck army too)
Strangely she refused to go with me when I went running for the little park that sits across an intersection at rush hour with a gift bag full of ducks 🤷♀️
A crochet duck sits on a stone wall at sunset
Mini 3D printed ducks around the larger crochet duck sit on a stone wall, the crochet duck looks a bit like Godzilla
Mini 3D printed ducks around a larger crochet duck sit on a stone wall. The crochet duck looks less threatening in this one
Kid crocheted a duck for a friend. I am her crochet instagram photographer. Had about 20 minutes of daylight when she told me if I wanted to get pictures I had to do it yesterday, so I made the most of it (she printed the mini duck army too)
Listened this morning and it put me in such a good mood. Wesley Morris is like top 5 earnestly excited people to listen to. Being into stuff is good!
We had an Apple 2C and a dot matrix printer and we were so high tech!
Omg I loooved this game!! 🍋🍋🍋
@repwesleybellmo.bsky.social - is your office doing anything to help this father who has been in detention since October?!
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Have volunteered with them on multiple elections outside polling places - they make it easy and you get to wear a cool Election Protection t-shirt!
Came here to say this!
Here's why Nick from Columbia, MO volunteers!
Be like Nick! Sign up at respectMOvoters.org/join!
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You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
Yes-anding this to add that it is also really important to acknowledge when I realize I was wrong about something!