Andrew Koricich

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

America always comes for what Appalachia has and just takes it. Including its people.

Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say Dr. Mehmet Oz, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is advancing a $50 billion plan to modernize rural health care.

“Health care has always been about humanity and relationship," says NRHA President Carrie Henning-Smith. "If your first and only provider is an avatar, we're removing trust, comfort, and continuity." Read more: www.npr.org/2026/02/14/n... #ruralhealth

Shingle Diggins Family Restaurant
Coloma, MI

Post Office
Ophir, CO

Dispatches from the High Country ecosystem.

UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings.

This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.

Do not take Zddloinp if you’re allergic to Zddloinp. If you develop serious reactions, stop taking Zddloinp and talk to your doctor.

Vanilla Sky.

To this day, I still have no idea what the hell that movie was about.

If you’re worried about your dog running away, get a GPS collar, not a Ring spycam.

Crenellation
Robinson, ND

I can move farther and faster in something with wheels. I thought we already figured this out millennia ago.

I'm fortunate to be on the advisory board for @nchems.bsky.social's project on the rural US, land-grants, extension, & workforce nchems.org/project/serv... Excited to share a project-related brief "Recognizing Extension Learning: Pathways to Credit and Career Advancement" nchems.org/wp-content/u...

i will believe him if he comes with me to Cherry Grove, WV (pop: can't find an exact ref but under 200) and explain to them how "AI-based avatars" are gonna work when they can't get any high-speed internet at all

There is NO scenario in which the best way to help rural communities receive healthcare is some AI bullshit.

There is NO scenario in which the best way to help rural communities receive healthcare is some AI bullshit.

NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Rural Minnesotans Stand Up to ICE As federal agents descend on small towns in Minnesota, residents are uniting to protect their immigrant neighbors.

Rural Minnesota isn’t staying silent.

As ICE expands raids into small towns, neighbors, faith leaders, and students are stepping up to protect Somali communities and each other.

Betsy Froiland reporting on the residents uniting to protect immigrant neighbors.

three men in armor are standing next to each other with the words so it begins written on the bottom Alt: three men in armor are standing next to each other at night in the rain with the words so it begins written on the bottom

Me, doing final inspections, as the first bands of sleet move in:

Hey, I just met you
And this is crazy
But here’s my number
So, call me Ishmael.

Find me someone who says “education desserts don’t exist,” and I’ll show you someone who has exactly no idea what they’re talking about.

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

YouTube video by Federal Reserve Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

The four South Park boys waiting at the bus stop wearing gas masks and asking “remember when life used to be cool?”

This hit hard tonight.

The four South Park boys waiting at the bus stop wearing gas masks and asking “remember when life used to be cool?”

This hit hard tonight.

I had a chance to talk to @bethmacy.bsky.social when she was working on her most recent book. It was a true delight, and she is the real deal! I will be cheering her on from one state down!