Facebook & Twitter Notes, April 17, 2019

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America's municipal water supplies, bridges, crazy zoning, public schools & healthcare are global embarrassments.
Anyone criticizing France for that fire should be embarrassed.

— John Ballard (@Hootsbudy) April 17, 2019

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar & sometimes a fire is just a fire.
The attic of Notre Dame was a pile of kindling with no modern fire protection. Hopefully the new one will have firewalls, alarms & ready access for fire-fighters if needed.

— John Ballard (@Hootsbudy) April 17, 2019

This image appeared in my Facebook timeline.

I cannot stress enough the importance of this TED talk.

Elizabeth Warren writes the Time Magazine note about AOC.
Take a look at the video.