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Richard Neill
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Retired but not retiring family doc. KY, Philly, New Zealand, NC
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Watching Apocalypse Now as a stoned college sophomore in 1979 and having a minor internal freak out because…stoned. Here’s me 35 years later at my son’s wedding. In Hanoi.
December 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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IF YOU START SAYING NICE THINGS ABOUT DUKE I WILL TOTALLY UNFOLLOW
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Now I’m wondering about plural of Lasagna.
October 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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The Remarkables and the older Kentuckian. And an Illini.
September 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h • Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY
April 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM