Kathleen Leary MFA

@bportnoy15 Apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Been obvious that Phil Martelli was good people ever since he broke through at St. Joe's and then got to see him up close when he was on Juwan's staff at @umichbball. No surprise Junior shows himself to be a solid dude who "gets it"

@bportnoy15 Cool ass coach

@bportnoy15 Okay @Ben_Rekosh shoutout !!!

@bportnoy15 @_Mark_Cohen Very very cool.

@bportnoy15 What class!

@KYbluebelle82 @bportnoy15 It is a great fan club!

@bportnoy15 Well sign me up for the VCU Fan Club!

Really cool moment tonight postgame after VCU upset UNC. VCU head coach Phil Martelli Jr. made a point to shoutout the student reporters that made the trip. Lots of great stuff this time of year, but this was a really awesome, genuine exchange.

@bportnoy15 Especially in a time when so many coaches are openly hostile to media for no reason. Great clip.

@bportnoy15 @C_Arnold01 I love how the student reporter was all business, “Yeah, Yeah thank you…walk us through the last possession of the game?” lol

@MetsFanManager @bportnoy15 @C_Arnold01 Ben is humble that way - good kid

Time to build more insane asylums

@yankee32879 @SherriPizza @KathLeary @groupienights @pettingthedog @tumblingroses dailymusicnotes73.blogspot.com Remembering Sonny Terry, who left us 40 years ago today 😔🌹🌹🌹 youtube.com/watch?v=u_4xQ2…

All these conservatives praising Marco Rubio saying we need a Latino President are the same ones who couldn’t handle a Latino half-time show last week.

A simple message with big meaning: "I am somebody." We are grateful to Rev. Jesse Jackson for helping teach generations of children to believe in themselves and in one another. Thank you for being part of our neighborhood. 💛💚

Just because CBS kneels to Trump doesn’t mean the rest of us have to. Pass this along on every one of your social media accounts. Make sure it is seen far and wide in our country.

Pouring one out for The Reverend Jesse Jackson. A giant and a champion for civil rights and equality. But can anyone read Green Eggs and Ham better? No.

Jesse Ventura: “We have leadership now that has destroyed the Constitution … I took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. I view, after January 6th, the GOP is a domestic enemy to our Constitution.” (2026)

Hillary Clinton: More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term.

For nine months, my wife Brooklyn carried our baby boy knowing he was dying. Three months in, they told us he had severe hydrocephalus. Too much fluid crushing his brain. "Off the charts bad," the specialists at Cincinnati Children's said. So extreme they stopped measuring because it didn't matter anymore. The MRIs were sickening to look at. They said over 90% chance he'd either die right after birth or survive with such severe brain damage that any quality of life was impossible. We had meetings about breathing tubes. About when to remove life support. About letting our son "pass peacefully." Brooklyn moved to Cincinnati, lived in a hotel near the hospital in case she went into labor. I drove back and forth, working, trying to hold our family together while planning our baby's funeral. On July 8th, fifteen minutes before her C-section, we had another meeting about the breathing tube. About when we'd need to remove it and let him go to Heaven. Then Charlie came out crying. The sweetest sound I've ever heard. He stayed in intensive care until yesterday. Now he's home, doing everything babies do. Normal. Beautiful. The doctors have no medical explanation. His brain somehow cleared the blockage on its own, something they've never seen in a case this severe. Nurses with decades of experience kept saying "miracle" and "divine intervention." Thousands of people were praying for us. Friends, family, strangers, people we'd never met. I'm practical, I believe in science, but I know God was involved in this. I give Him all the credit. During those endless nights in Cincinnati, I started woodworking in the hotel parking lot just to keep my hands busy, to stop my mind from breaking. Made small toys hoping one day Charlie might hold them. Listed a few things on the Tedooo app where I'd been selling my work, and strangers started buying pieces they didn't need, sending messages saying they were praying for our son. That community held me when I couldn't stand. Charlie's here. He's alive. Prayer is real, and miracles still happen. By Amanda Cain

Thank you coach @MuffetMcGraw. Truth!