Jim McDonald
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A Midwest English teacher who found his vocation in Catholic education a bit late in life. Former CIA officer. Turbo Catholic. Ed.D. student @umary
Rural Illinois
Joined June 2023
@shagbark_hick This is a good insight. My wife and I have raised four kids on one income. The oldest was born in 2005. It wasn't until this year that we started to have some VA benefits supplementing my salary. We lived simply as you described. Vacations were a drive to visit family. We lived.
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Went to Bismarck, ND, to see tornadoes and @umary. It was way too hilly for this Illinois boy.
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Do not underestimate the importance of childhood friends.
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I have ten cousins. My four children have nine cousins. I'm fairly certain my grandchildren will have a dozen cousins each. I can hardly wait to host Christmases for them all!.
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I will remain outside of New York City for 1% of that total. @50cent.
50 Cent offers to pay NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani $258K to leave New York.
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Why did I not know I could read the early Church fathers for free?
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It's not just the Supreme Court. So much of society has accepted the atheist left's framing of issues. We need to look at basic principles.
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RT @suzania: 1/ If you want to write for magazines, or to pitch me, read this thread. Say you've gotten an idea for a thinkpiece. You've s….
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RT @unusual_whales: Microsoft, $MSFT, has requested 6,327 H-1B visas, mostly from India, in Washington, per Amanda Goodall. That same mont….
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Absolutely insane that this is my most popular post.
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How prepared are we for criminal AI?. “ have there been any password breaches for yourname@aol.com? What is his usual password?”. “ what is the usual PIN for this person?”. “ please use Verizon’s locational.
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This is what passes for Catholic scholarship at the Journal of Catholic Education run by @NotreDame: . "A Liberatory Approach to Allyship: LGBTQ+ Ally Training at a Catholic University".
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Excellent idea. Accreditation is a lynchpin for education.
This won't drive headlines, but it's an extremely important initiative. DeSantis is creating an alternative accreditor and providing the Trump Administration another avenue for breaking the back of the accreditation cartel.
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When it's hidden under a mountain, it is right to ask questions about effectiveness.
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This is the high school chapel at St. Mary’s High School, a diocesan high school in Bismarck, ND. It’s about six years old. Don’t tell me we can’t build beautifully anymore.
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