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BayCare’s second #BehavioralHealth Urgent Care is now open in #DadeCityFL. Special thanks to @RepGusBilirakis, #PascoCounty commissioners @LisaYeager5 @SethWeightman for continuing to support improved access to behavioral health care for Pasco residents.. bit.ly/4o0ysKv

I miss your dad, Daniel. He was a patriot.

One of the bills I signed today allows school boosters to raise money to enhance compensation for coaches. We can’t keep letting coaches from neighboring states like @3YearLetterman get windfalls while our FL coaches get paltry compensation.

The thing about watching the West Wing today isn’t that it’s aged poorly (it hasn’t). It’s that it takes you back to a time when many still believed that public service could be a noble calling. An entire generation has now grown up without that feeling.

South Florida knows what this building stands for. 🇺🇸

Your favorite Roma emperor tells us a lot about you. So tell us... Who is your favorite Roman emperor?

Essential to the curriculum? You know what should be essential? Books. That’s it.

Senator and Mrs. Hooper have been such a huge part of our Senate family for the last 8 years. We cherish the time we've had with them and wish the Hoopers every happiness (many cruises and lots of golf) in retirement. ❤️⛳️🚢

Pope Leo XIV Accepts Resignation of Bishop Frank Dewane of the Diocese of Venice; Appoints Reverend Emilio Biosca Agüero, OFM Cap., as Successor | Read the full release at: ow.ly/9Uav50YYtB6

I will never forgive HBO/BBC for cancelling this prematurely and rushing the final episodes to wrap it up. They built these amazing sets which they could have used for 10 more seasons and then just scrapped them. And it’s not like they lacked for storylines.

If you pitched this as a screenplay every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose. A 73-year-old architect walks to confession in 1926 and gets hit by a tram on the Gran Via in Barcelona. He's mistaken for a vagrant because of his worn clothes and left at a pauper's hospital. He dies three days later. His name is Antoni Gaudí. The cathedral he leaves behind is less than a quarter complete. The plans to finish it sit in his workshop as plaster models and detailed drawings. Ten years after his death, in July 1936, FAI anarchists break into that workshop. They smash the plaster models. They burn the archive of drawings and calculations. They pry open Gaudí's tomb. For the next 50 years, architects piece together a destroyed playbook from photographs and broken plaster fragments. The geometry was the real problem. Gaudí designed the church using upside-down hanging-chain models because the math for hyperboloid intersections did not yet exist on paper. He had solved it physically. Computers finally caught up to him in the 1980s. By 2010 the project was 50% complete. By 2015 stone elements that took months to hand-carve were being modelled digitally and machine-cut in days. Now the kicker. The building is funded entirely by people paying admission to see scaffolding. €134.5 million of income in 2025, all private, none of it from the Spanish state or the Vatican. About 4.7 million tourists a year buying €26 tickets to watch a cathedral get built. The unfinished state was the product. On June 10, 2026, exactly 100 years to the day after Gaudí died, the cross goes up on the Tower of Jesus Christ. 144 years from groundbreaking. 172.5 meters tall. The tallest church building in the world, beating Ulm Minster, which took 513 years. When asked why his project was taking so long, Gaudí said one thing: "My client is not in a hurry." Turns out neither was he.

This may be the most articulate response I’ve ever heard to this question.

If you told me this were George III and Gen. Washington transported here via a telephone booth in front of a Circle K I would certainly believe you.

10 — Diners, Drive-ins & DeSantis Is Everglades City the stone crab capital of the world? Camellia Street Grill Everglades City, FL

Tampa: access to TLM at Epiphany Parish in Seminole Heights; two thriving parishes in South Tampa (Christ the King and St Patrick’s) as well as the historic Sacred Heart Parish run by Franciscan friars in downtown…a budding classical Catholic education community with Regina Caeli and St. Thomas Aquinas Academy…

On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.

Thank you @FLHospitalAssn President and CEO Mary Mayhew for rounding with our CEO, Stephanie Conners, at Morton Plant North Bay Hospital yesterday. Our hospital leaders enjoyed showing you how we care for patients in Pasco County.

Antony Mascovich spent his adult life worried about his weight. After weight loss surgery at our St. Anthony’s Hospital, he began to enjoy participating in sports again. This year, he will tackle the St. Anthony’s Triathlon Olympic race. bit.ly/4ci66Gb

💙 BayCare is making #ProtonTherapy, the most advanced treatment for cancer, more accessible for patients across to #WestCentralFlorida. The BayCare Proton Center on our St. Joseph’s Hospital campus in the heart of Tampa is expected to open in the coming months.

Christ is risen from the dead, and with him, we too rise to new life! This Easter proclamation embraces the mystery of our lives and the destiny of history, reaching us even in the depths of death. #Easter