His Nets

10/08/2025

Quote: "Even as McMahon has shrunk the Department of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how children will learn for years to come. The department’s actions and policies reflect a disdain for public schools and a desire to dismantle that system in favor of a range of other options — private, Christian and virtual schools or homeschooling."

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

05/15/2023

Just saw a book titled, Surrounded By Idiots. Do not read that book because the author hangs out with them. Lol. Just kidding. Looked intriguing except for the title.

03/16/2020

Is Joe Biden president yet? Biden certainly sounded like the commander in chief on Thursday morning when he addressed the pandemic crisis in a sobering televised speech. Calmly yet firmly, he called the American people to action, proposed a substantive and detailed plan to mitigate the new coronavir...

09/16/2019

BY JOHNSON BRIDGWATER While most of Oklahoma’s Congress members and state legislators continue denying climate change is real, a great number of the rural Oklahomans they are supposed to be looking out for have routinely been experiencing personal and financial damage and loss for many years. Whet...

06/24/2019

BY JOHN THOMPSON Next January, Diane Ravitch’s long-anticipated book on education reform, Slaying Goliath, will be published but it is being preceded by an anthology, The Wisdom and Wit of Diane Ravitch. I contribute to Ravitch’s blog, and we have only had two types of disagreements. One is addr...

05/03/2019

It was a lousy week for the little guys at the state Capitol. Gov. Kevin Stitt dropped the veto hammer on two measures that really could have helped workaday Oklahomans – an especially dispiriting …

12/16/2017

https://vimeo.com/album/1488426/video/17681268

His Nets, a U.S. non-profit founded by T Thomas who also serves as Coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Oklahoma, distributes its 100,00th insecticide…

12/09/2017

blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/supermalaria-is-on-the-way/

A drug-resistant strain is spreading across Southeast Asia—and proposed cuts to the President’s Malaria Initiative won’t help

04/21/2017

http://www.ethicsdaily.com/baptist-church-plays-role-in-curbing-malaria-in-ghana-cms-24046

By: Mitch Randall Malaria was eradicated in the U.S. in the early 1950s, but the disease still kills 438,000 people globally each year. These deaths can be prevented, and one Baptist church in Oklahoma is doing its part.

02/19/2017

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/health/malaria-zika-mosquito-bite-prevention/index.html

With mosquito-borne diseases infecting millions each year, researchers are exploring creative ideas to stop people getting bitten, through soap, clothing and furnishings.

04/09/2016

https://baptistnews.com/2016/04/08/whats-the-most-effective-weapon-in-the-battle-against-malaria-nets-say-baptists-in-virginia/

The statistics surrounding malaria are mind blogging — and terrifying. Close to 200 million cases occur every year and half a million people die from the disease annually — including one child every two minutes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Malaria No More. [caption i

01/26/2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35398568

Chancellor George Osborne and philanthropist Bill Gates announce £3bn in funding over the next five years to tackle malaria.