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Maureen O'Brien

@mobpoet

Author “Light on the Water, poems by Maureen Hogan O’Brien.” Levellers Press 2023. Available on Amazon.

United States Katılım Kasım 2017
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Maureen O'Brien
Maureen O'Brien@mobpoet·
@NormOrnstein In addition to the economic thoughtlessness, I am very very tired of the name calling. It’s irritating and juvenile. Geez
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Senator Andy Kim
Senator Andy Kim@SenatorAndyKim·
I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. Instead of engaging with me and others about the poor conditions, ICE sent in an armored vehicle and a line of armed agents that only poured gasoline on the fire. Civilians were tackled and restrained, and agents fired pepper balls and spray into the crowd. This is more of the same lawlessness we’ve seen elsewhere around the country. 

Our country deserves accountability. Our country deserves the humane treatment of every person here. In fact, our Constitution demands this. What I witnessed and experienced today was shameful. Delaney Hall is a failure; it’s this administration’s failure. The only way to make this right for our communities is to shut it down and make sure the failures we’ve seen never happen again.
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Sarah Evans
Sarah Evans@SarahjevsEvans·
Howard Kevin new portrait oil on paper
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David Axelrod
David Axelrod@davidaxelrod·
You can call the insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol and 140 police officers heroes & patriots, Mr. @POTUS. You can pardon & pay them off w/tax dollars. You can wipe the DOJ archives of these events. But you can't unring this bell. nytimes.com/2026/05/23/us/… via @NYTimes
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Maureen O'Brien@mobpoet·
@davidfrum Producers of this “post constitutional” reality show will someday reckon with those of us who honor the blood and treasure spilled from the Founding to the Civil War, two world wars, and the civil rights struggle.
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Joyce Carol Oates@JoyceCarolOates·
Nazi Germany defined enemies of Germany as: "Communists, Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill, disabled." in T***pDarkAge there has been a steady, consistent, relentless campaign against the disabled, elderly or impaired, so long as they are also poor. promulgating an agenda that allows for something called "herd immunity" means allowing a percentage of the population to die, deliberately. (T***p Covid policy.) restricting the rights of the disabled & elderly to own "assistance animals" is a continuance of the Nazi-like campaign against the disadvantaged & the poor. for some persons, a single animal is the difference between life and death.
Leah Goodridge@leahfrombklyn

Oh boy: “The Trump administration on Friday narrowed the definition of an “assistance animal” allowed to live with disabled tenants in housing, a move that could lead to thousands of animals and their owners being evicted.” nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/…

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Maureen O'Brien@mobpoet·
@urbanponds101 Me, too. Every day another ephemeral beauty surprises, even as last week’s blossoms fade. And the green…
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Urbanponds101
Urbanponds101@urbanponds101·
I want to live in May forever 💚
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@womensart1 I’m interested in the forest print. Who is the artist and how can I contact her?
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#WOMENSART
#WOMENSART@womensart1·
Thank you for following 💙 !
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Eli McCann
Eli McCann@EliMcCann·
My husband made me take new headshots for my upcoming book because I've been using the same one for like seven years. I hate pictures of myself. Please just tell me which one of these to use for the back of the book.
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The Shallow State
The Shallow State@OurShallowState·
We've gone from being a country with a constitution and presidency that was respected and revered by all the free world, to a corrupt and reviled country filled with conflict of interest, that is pillaging the people of the free world, all from the office of its presidency.
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todd dillard@toddedillard·
listen, as an editor, an easy way to impress me is to write something I have never read before, preferably in the poem's opening lines, which ultimately culminates into something greater than the sum of the poem's individual parts, as if the poem has always been a part of me
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John Dabell
John Dabell@John_Dabell·
From critical care to critical determination. Today is my 60th visit to hospital so far this year. It never ends. And neither do I. Every day is mission critical.
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Rep. Jim McGovern
Rep. Jim McGovern@RepMcGovern·
🚨BREAKING: Republicans just voted AGAINST my amendment to stop Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund from bailing out the convicted felons who assaulted cops on January 6th. You read that right. They blocked us from even debating the issue on the House floor. Beyond shameful.
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Above_96th@Above96th·
Long-time visitors to this page will know that few images make me happier than a Northern Flicker in flight. Just look at those gold-shafted feathers! ❤️💛❤️ #Flicker #CentralPark #birdcpp
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
Senator Chris Van Hollen@ChrisVanHollen·
Not a single survivor of Epstein's abuses should hear silence from the Department of Justice. But that's what these survivors have faced. @DAGToddBlanche must follow through on his commitment to me this morning and meet with these survivors at once.
Aaron Parnas@AaronParnas

NEW: Epstein survivors blast Todd Blanche for suggesting he met with them or their lawyers. “Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has not met with any of us.”

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Democritus Sr
Democritus Sr@DemocritusSr·
Robert Frost, from “Home Burial” (The wife to the husband)
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@ihtesham2005 As a retired reading consultant, I volunteered at a local elementary school, and where handwriting was not taught systematically. Three youngsters I was tutoring in automatic syllabication had terrible handwriting. It appeared they had a weakness with sound/letter processing.
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Ihtesham Ali
Ihtesham Ali@ihtesham2005·
A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.
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