Becky Backert @BeckyBackert

@GovAndyBeshear Thanks Andy! I’m a social worker in mental health, and I appreciate the recognition for these social workers. They have hard jobs in very difficult situations and times.

Gov. Andy Beshear has ordered that flags at all state office buildings be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Saturday, March 7, in honor of trailblazing civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, who died Feb. 17 at the age of 84. Read more: tinyurl.com/jj48hwp3

The history books quietly bypassed is that Barack Obama, during the most pressure-saturated nights of his presidency, would retreat alone to the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House residence — not to strategize, not to take calls, but to handwrite personal letters to ten ordinary American citizens every single night, a practice he maintained with almost monastic devotion across all eight years, selecting the letters himself from the 40,000 that arrived daily at the White House, and his longtime correspondence director Fiona Reese confirmed that Obama would often weep privately while reading certain letters, folding them carefully before writing responses so personally detailed and emotionally present that recipients frequently described the experience of receiving them as the most significant moment of their lives, with one Ohio steelworker writing back to say that Obama's letter had physically stopped him from making a decision that would have permanently altered his family's future. What makes this practice almost unbearably moving is the detail that surfaced later — Obama never used a computer for these letters, always a black felt-tip pen, always legal yellow paper first as a draft, always rewritten onto White House stationery by hand a second time, because he believed, as he told historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in a rare private conversation later recounted in her 2018 work, that the physical act of pressing pen to paper forced a quality of attention that typing simply could not replicate, a philosophy rooted in his years as a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2004 where he developed the conviction that democracy only functions when its leaders remain genuinely, uncomfortably close to the specific gravity of individual human suffering rather than processing it from behind the insulating distance of institutions and screens."

A simple message with big meaning: "I am somebody." We are grateful to Rev. Jesse Jackson for helping teach generations of children to believe in themselves and in one another. Thank you for being part of our neighborhood. 💛💚

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@NicholasKlufas I do!! It’s a thing! Sometimes they do wave back.

@SawyerMerritt Betty White the Y is getting delivered this Sunday! 😊

@SawyerMerritt Any idea where they were headed as my white Y is scheduled for delivery. Asking for a frien…..truth, actually me. 😫

@teslaownersSV @SpaceX @elonmusk @inspiration4x In the 60s the Apollo astronauts came to my high school to tell us about the space program. Tonight I weep with the wonder of tonight’s launch and the miraculous progress.

@MichaelCohen212 The whole time I thought TFG stood for The Fat Guy, not The Former Guy. Fits perfectly.

@sandibachom The herd continues to cull itself.

@MichaelCohen212 TY for your courage and pursuit of these tricksters and scoundrels. It’s scratching an itch for me. Carry on.