The costs of supporting Israel’s war on Iran:
- Dead American soldiers
- Dead elementary schoolgirls
- Over $1 Billion/day for combat ops
- Soaring gas prices
- Tanking markets
- Betrayed GCC allies
- Another constitutional crisis
…and growing.
Only six counties left to explore in NC as part of my #100counties #nc project! Checked Pender County off my list this week
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Lots of people seem to forget: It is Ramadan, which would affect the pattern of life of everyone in Iran.
When it snows, bones ache like the pressure will break them again. As stress rises so does the pain of every purchase. Unproductive moments scream like sin, idle hands spike with carpal tunnel. Broken promises hollow you out completely, heartless. Residual guilt floods, until there’s no recourse left, except to rupture.
I've been having massive fights with capitalization, punctuation, and line breaks lately. This may be done, or I may cut it to ribbons. Also no idea if it has a home in a project yet. Anyway, enjoy and best wishes 🤗
#wip #wipwednesday #weirdmicro #residualguilt #promptcombo #rupture #poem #poetry
It will be better this time It will be better this time I tell myself As I drive west fall leaves breathtaking colors mountains The Badlands It will be better this time there will be more; more - friendship, music, laughter maybe that love even if it is my own I'm different changed somehow It will be better this time 1 say - tearfully as it takes three days driving through Montana Icy roads, treacherous cliffs, Yet, the most beautiful snow-covered mountain peaks and white moon I've ever seen there will be happiness right? It will be better this time ~ Alison P. Birch
A poem from the B Side —
It Will Be Better This Time
~ Alison P. Birch
—It will be better this time
I tell myself as I drive west, The Badlands
It will be better this time, there will be more/I'm different —changed somehow/It will be better this time
I say—tearfully —there will be happiness, right?
Karoline Leavitt: "The president will be making a few new policy announcements to continue tackling the affordability crisis that Joe Biden created one year ago." (Joe Biden was no longer president one year ago.)
One of the things They don't tell you is that a lot of being creative involves wondering whether or not you're screaming into the void. And a lot more of it is realising that as long as you're screaming, that's the point. And a lot of the rest of it is working out if you're singing or screaming
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
This means I literally could not teach my subject (African politics) at the institution at which I earned my PhD.
New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
Former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested
my problem with AI is that I lived with someone in my 20s who'd leave the faucet running and was super quick to confidently tell me the wrong thing and I just don't want to go back
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The judge, a President George W. Bush appointee, likened the administration’s rationale for removing the panels to the authoritarian regime in George Orwell’s novel "1984."
My latest nonfiction read is Tavris and Aronson's "Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)" is quite a good read about cognitive dissonance.
What's everyone reading?
#amreading #nonfiction
I have two more poems up in @oneart.bsky.social oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/15/t...
#poetry #poems #oneart #publication #amwriting #amreading
Think Twice Before Doing Another Historical Simulation offers good advice on why you shouldn't. www.cultofpedagogy.com/classroom-si... The choices teachers make about their favorite simulations (slavery, Jim Crow, Trail of Tears) and all those they avoid are highly revealing.
Hi friends,
As many of you know, ICE is operating in ways that tear families apart, enter homes without warrants, and traumatize innocent people. This is not law enforcement — this is terror and an abuse of power.
My last county visit of the current trek into Eastern, NC was to Hoke County. And, with that, I have 7 counties left! They present a bit more of a challenge, but I'll get there! (Eventually)
#100counties #nc #hokecounty #raeford
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The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then?
Fry cook chatting with customer after first bumping compliments
Ya know what makes my evening? When a guy asks to fist bump the fry cook for a superb job
Enjoy a little of my random debate and speech wandering in this brief look at Cumberland County (where I attended a lot of debate and speech tournaments in HS)
#100counties #nc #nfl #notthatnfl #forensics #notthatforensics #debateandspeech #fayettenam
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If you ever seen anything at SNHU, drop me a message, and I can tell you more about working there!
My second county visit yesterday, while driving towards Elizabeth City was to Duplin County.
Ya know, sometimes, you just don't spend a ton of time on one of the visits LOL
Sorry Duplin #100counties #nc #duplincounty
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Blogging the same day as you travel? That's what happens when you aren't super interested in the Super Bowl LOL
Stopped by Sampson County which included the town of Turkey? And some cows chasing a deer?
#blog #sampsoncounty #nc #100counties
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Thank you @bookgaga.bsky.social for resharing with the quote! I realize that I didn't also include a link to the book that gave me some inspiration for that portion.
#poetry #poems #inspiration
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