With the new voter-approved funding, Texas is poised for a historic expansion of its 88-park system.
28.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 80 🔁 30 💬 20 📌 4@kenshetter.bsky.social
Working to make the world safer, especially for the marginalized. Hiking is healing. Protect our National Parks and public lands. Sic ‘em Bears. Fort Worth, TX
With the new voter-approved funding, Texas is poised for a historic expansion of its 88-park system.
28.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 80 🔁 30 💬 20 📌 4What could possiblie go wrong? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
04.07.2025 15:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sunrise hike at Cleburne State Park.
26.06.2025 12:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0With about 80 campers and more than 30 adult staff, heading to our 12th year of Camp HOPE TX. Before we rolled out i made my first post on Substack to share why this week of camp is so important. open.substack.com/pub/kenshett...
01.06.2025 17:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have some things I'd like to share and will be posting soon. I would love for you to subscribe to my substack: kenshetter.substack.com/subscribe.
09.05.2025 16:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Future president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt (center) in front of Mission Concepcion in San Antonio, 1898. He was there to gather and train his Rough Riders prior to charging up San Juan Hill at Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American war.
28.04.2025 14:55 — 👍 59 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1I know it’s not the most important takeaway here, but why the apostrophe at the end of Liddle’? 😂
27.04.2025 14:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In addition to the more obvious problems associated with placing disproportionate blame on immigration for violent crime, it also causes us to focus fewer resources on the actual causes of violent crime.
13.04.2025 22:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Check out this video chronicle of our Camp HOPE TX #BigBend adventure in January. #NationalParks #SaveOurPublicLands youtu.be/AI_wCyu8ZF4
06.04.2025 15:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“My friend, Madame President: I yield the floor.”
02.04.2025 00:06 — 👍 12105 🔁 1018 💬 178 📌 94@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
01.04.2025 23:40 — 👍 11331 🔁 1835 💬 84 📌 70Booker on Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here in spite of his speech. I'm here because as poweful as he was, the people were more powerful."
01.04.2025 23:31 — 👍 6269 🔁 1013 💬 42 📌 37A few Bluebonnets in Cleburne State Park. #ProtectOurPublicLands
31.03.2025 17:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hiking in the LBJ National Grasslands today. #ProtectOurPublicLands
31.03.2025 00:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Figuring out how to better protect pregnant women and their unborn babies from intimate partner violence is not “DEI”. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
29.03.2025 01:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0IPV during pregnancy is shockingly common—about 40% of @onesafeplace.bsky.social clients who have been pregnant by their abuser report having been abused during pregnancy. 3/3
22.03.2025 20:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In-utero exposure to #DV can affect fetal brain development, lead to lower birth weight and even birth defects. It can also lead to epigenetic changes which can alter how a child deals with stress and emotions later in life. 2/3
22.03.2025 20:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is really tragic. Perinatal #IPV involves concerns about the immediate health and wellbeing of the adult victim, but abuse during pregnancy is also an indicator of a greater likelihood of a homicide ultimately being committed. And then there are concerns about the health of the baby. 1/3
22.03.2025 20:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1In Stark County, OH this week helping plan for the development of a Family Justice Center. Reducing #DomesticViolence lethality is the best reason, but there’s an economic case too. IPV costs OH $1.2B every year. www.odvn.org/wp-content/u...
18.03.2025 13:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sunrise on the Paluxy River at Dinosaur Valley State Park. #SaveOurPublicLands
16.03.2025 17:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pretty terrible to order Park Rangers to deceive the public. #NationalParks #SaveOurPublicLands www.propublica.org/article/nati...
15.03.2025 19:35 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Who’s onboard? www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
11.03.2025 16:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sen @beverlyp.bsky.social still doing good work, speaking to the Tarrant County Stonewall Democrats. Reminding us that politicians—even after they’ve left office—can still do great and kind things (like lead the charge to raise $65M to build a new school for the children of Uvalde).
11.03.2025 00:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#NationalParks are a very good investment.
08.03.2025 15:44 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Sen Blumenthal speaking to Family Justice Center leaders from across the country kicking off our first ever Family Justice Center Capitol Hill Days. “What you do in lifting people up MATTERS.” #FamilyJusticeCenters
05.03.2025 14:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It definitely was!
26.02.2025 18:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The NOT Arcane Texas Fact of the Day:
It is February 24th. 189 years ago today, William Travis wrote the most famous document in the annals of Texas history. Remarkably, given the conditions under which it was written and sent out from the Alamo, Travis' letter still exists.
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If a song is a great song it doesn't matter what style it's played in. Milk Cow Blues has been covered by Bob Wills, Aerosmith, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Glenn Campbell, Ricky Nelson and, of course, Sleepy John Estes, who wrote it. Here's George Strait's version.
If Russia ceases combat operations, the war is over. If Ukraine ceases combat operations, Ukraine is over
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