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Katie Bark
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K-8 Learning Support Teacher
Post lines of verse, song, prose, a hope or a prayer.
Everything is a gift. 🕯️ Welcome the stranger. ✨
Lakeland + Jacksonville, FL USA 📎
What is the cost to American taxpayers for identifying the political and billionaire brotherhood that sought vacays with pedophile Epstein?

I think the billionaires ought to reimburse us for DOJ protecting their identity.
February 2, 2026 at 11:35 AM
What an interesting life education historian Diane Ravitch has led. She continues to teach and inspire parents teachers and policymakers. Great interview.
February 2, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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Rep. Morrison on conditions at Whipple: "She said, 'they are treating us like animals in here. The women that are in this cell with me, we slept on a cold concrete floor last night. We were begging for a blanket, & guards were cruel'... we have to resolve that every single person deserves dignity"
February 1, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Meryl Streep reads The Three Questions
#kidlit Leo Tolstoy Storyline Online

youtu.be/uezGdrm9XI8?...
'The Three Questions' read by Meryl Streep
YouTube video by StorylineOnline
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February 2, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
January 31, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Cry me a river.
I’ve been scratching my head all day about why and who in the DOJ did this.
February 1, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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February 1, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Wisdom does not age.

From Berke Breathed, Penguin Dreams
February 1, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Army of lawyers needed.
We are fast approaching the day when we ask law students to "Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country," as JFK said, urging citizens to prioritize public service and collective responsibility.
‘Corruption on a Breathtaking Level’: Report Details Massive Foreign Investment in Trump Crypto Firm

A bombshell report from the WSJ revealed that a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family secretly backed a $500 million investment into the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture.

tinyurl.com/P2fDxu
'Corruption on a Breathtaking Level': Report Details Massive Foreign Investment in Trump Crypto Firm | Common Dreams
Bombshell report reveals Abu Dhabi royal family backed $500 million Trump crypto venture before UAE gained access to AI chip tech.
tinyurl.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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This race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement
February 1, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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The anti-immigrant policies enacted in GA in 2011 backfired disastrously then just as our economy is seeing the fallout of having that policy enacted nationwide now.
When are we gonna learn that the fallout from racism is the moral, social, and economic breakdown of America?
Ga. immigrant crackdown backfires
The governor's program to replace fleeing migrant farm workers with probationers backfires.
www.politico.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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🔥 ALHAMBRA, CA: “Don’t give up. Don’t give in. Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”

Original: www.instagram.com/reel/DUI-mOZ...
January 31, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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February 1, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.
January 31, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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January 31, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Nice idea.
Will be interested to see follow up reporting...
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Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley called on Catholics to pray “for reconciliation where there is division, for justice where there are violations of fundamental rights, and for consolation for all who feel overwhelmed by fear or loss.”
religionnews.com/2026/01/28/c...
Catholic bishops' conference president calls for Holy Hour after Minneapolis DHS killings
(RNS) — ‘The current climate of fear and polarization, which thrives when human dignity is disregarded, does not meet the standard set by Christ in the Gospel,’ wrote Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul…
religionnews.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:13 PM
“Education is the great equalizer of the conditions of men.” Horace Mann

Teacher In A Strange Land reflects on a graphic of most/least college educated voters in America. Take a look.

teacherinastrangeland.blog/2026/01/28/t...
The Fault Line in American politics?
I’ve spent a lot of time considering this graphic. IS education the fault line in American politics? First shock: There are 33 states with more-educated people than (purple) Michigan, where t…
teacherinastrangeland.blog
January 31, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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January 31, 2026 at 12:17 AM
#sunset #jacksonville St Johns River
Jan 30 2026
January 30, 2026 at 11:33 PM
I am definitely not following this Don Lemon story. He entered a private not public property and interrupts the pastor while a church activity is underway?

Why does everyone think he has some privilege over the church membership? It's not a public place not a city sidewalk not a public hearing.
January 30, 2026 at 9:16 PM
This! 👇🏼
January 30, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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“Attention is the beginning of devotion.” -Mary Oliver in her
Prose on #teaching children, nurturing creativity, cultivating their love of #nature.

She does not mention detaining them in Texas jails. #LiamRomas

thedewdrop.org/2019/07/03/m...
Mary Oliver - Teach the Children - The Dewdrop
This short and stirring paragraph comes right at the end of Upstream, Mary Oliver’s first essay in a collection of shorts that express her life’s trajectory towards nurturing and developing her creati...
thedewdrop.org
January 30, 2026 at 11:26 AM