{"id":266078,"date":"2026-04-25T17:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266078\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:25:12","slug":"we-have-animals-coming-in-all-day-long-and-other-quotes-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266078\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We have animals coming in all day long,\u2019 and other quotes of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt has been overwhelming … We have animals coming in all day long, and they\u00a0require\u00a0around the clock care, hand feedings, wound care, specialized diets\u2026\u201d –\u00a0Rebecca Hamlin, president of the North Texas Wildlife Center, talking about the\u00a0record number of wild animals the Plano facility is taking care of, including opossums and eastern gray screech owls. (Monday, The Dallas Morning News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cDirector Patel does not drink to excess at these establishments or anywhere else, and this has not, and has never been, a source of concern across the government.\u201d –\u00a0A\u00a0complaint\u00a0filed by FBI Director Kash Patel,\u00a0who is suing The Atlantic over an article that claimed his excessive drinking and unexplained absences were\u00a0jeopardizing\u00a0his job.\u00a0(Tuesday,\u00a0The New York Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0a reality in 2026 that school districts must be prepared for active shooters \u2026 Unfortunately,\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0never prepared when one of those active shooters is a family member,\u00a0and it happens outside at that child\u2019s home.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Keith Burton, superintendent of the Caddo Parish Public Schools, talking about a massacre in Shreveport, La., in which a man who shot and killed eight children, seven of whom he had fathered. (Tuesday,\u00a0The New York Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re standing here today as a united coalition to send a clear message that\u00a0public safety funding should never be used as a political weapon.\u201d –\u00a0State Rep. Venton Jones, who chairs the Dallas-area Democratic delegation, speaking against Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s\u00a0threat to withhold tens of millions of dollars<\/a>\u00a0from Dallas over a police policy on immigration enforcement. (Wednesday,\u00a0The Dallas Morning News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cI have ordered the United States Navy to\u00a0shoot and kill any boat, small boats\u00a0though they may be … that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d –\u00a0President Donald Trump, shortly after the U.S. military seized another tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil (Thursday, Associated Press<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe film panders to\u00a0a very specific\u00a0section of my dad\u2019s fandom\u00a0that still lives in the fantasy … And\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0going to be happy with it.\u201d –\u00a0Paris Jackson, talking about the new film \u201cMichael\u201d,\u00a0a biopic about her father, Michael Jackson. (Wednesday, CNN<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“I have noticed that while HHS has done relatively\u00a0little promotion of the life-saving measles vaccine\u00a0[\u2026] you have been doing a lot of your own self-promotion using official government channels and resources.” –\u00a0Sen. Maggie Hassan,\u00a0D-N.H., asking Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about a series of promotional videos, including one of Kennedy with the musician Kid Rock drinking milk in a hot tub, and others of Kennedy shirtless as a\u00a0WWE fighter and as a video game hero.\u00a0(Wednesday,\u00a0NPR<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s\u00a0no way to program a robot by hand to play table tennis. You\u00a0have to\u00a0learn how to play from experience.\u201d –\u00a0Sony AI researcher Peter D\u00fcrr, talking about a paddle-wielding robot that is beating elite players using artificial intelligence learning methods. (Wednesday,\u00a0Associated Press<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Have thoughts about this? Send a letter to the editor using our letters form or email letters@dallasnews.com. Letters should be no more than 200 words and include the first and last name of the writer and city of residence.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt has been overwhelming … We have animals coming in all day long, and they\u00a0require\u00a0around the clock care,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-266078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}