Alyce Kieklak

“her area of the world” is Minnesota

You can do things that help create the world you want to live in.

Kids didn’t even tell me until after lunch 🤦🏻‍♀️

I’d like to see Chicago take this to court under the Quartering Amendment 🧐

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

“Better than being killed” NO SIR we have records of THOUSANDS of captive Africans dying by suicide by jumping overboard, starving themselves, and even a mass suicide at Igbo landing. It seems instead, cartoon Christoper Columbus, that to many death was a better fate than enslavement.

VOTER: “West Virginia has 4 members of Congress… none of them are willing to come here and do what you’re doing. What can we do?”

BERNIE: “We need a political revolution. We need to elect people accountable to the working class rather than raising money from billionaires.”

238 is ready for year SEVENTEEN 🐯#EduSky

Fuck it. Put a reactor on the moon. Launch a nuclear submarine into the sun. Put a brown bear in charge of the Army. Let's destroy some shit.

Homer Simpson was an Obama voter and a 2020 Biden voter within the show. He’s a union member, astronaut, small business owner, has LGBT family members and friends, and adores his intelligent and progressive daughters. I’ve watched this show since 1992. Not a chance he’s a Trump voter.

Goodnight, summer break 🫶

Wondering why I didn’t get a “National Girlfriend Day” post on Instagram then remembering that I am 40 years old and someone’s wife 🤣

I’m working for my state department of education later this week, so I have to take my back to school angst out on other states departments of education.

Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!

Only a man who deeply fears pornography (and the progression of human society) is dumb enough to have a nudie flick on the TV IN HIS OFFICE. It’s 2025 man! Download a VPN and watch that shit on your phone.

That cowboy hat is trying to escape association with Markwayne Mullin.

Reform Jewish Movement Statement on Starvation in Gaza July 27, 2025 - The ongoing crisis in Gaza is a devastating reminder of the immense human cost of war. Nearly two years into Israel's war against Hamas, Israelis are still waiting for the return of their loved ones held hostage, and innocent Palestinians are caught in a mounting humanitarian catastrophe. Hamas has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to sacrifice the Palestinian people in its pursuit of Israel's destruction, but Israel must not sacrifice its own moral standing in return. Neither escalating military pressure nor restricting humanitarian aid has brought Israel closer to securing a hostage deal or ending the war. While long-delayed and not-yet-certain to be more effective than previous efforts, we are encouraged by Saturday night's announcement that the Israeli military would revive the practice of dropping aid from airplanes and make it easier for aid convoys, including those from the UN's World Food Program, to move through Gaza along "designated humanitarian corridors," and to temporarily cease fighting in Gaza for a humanitarian pause. No one should be unaffected by the pervasive hunger experienced by thousands of Gazans. No one should spend the bulk of their time arguing technical definitions between starvation and pervasive hunger. The situation is dire, and it is deadly. Nor should we accept arguments that because Hamas is the primary reason many Gazans are either starving or on the verge of starving, that the Jewish State is not also culpable in this human disaster. The primary moral response must begin with anguished hearts in the face of such a large-scale human tragedy. Our tradition teaches that all people are created b tzelem Elohim — in the image of God. One consequence of this is the moral priority, which is affirmed throughout the Bible and rabbinic tradition, of feeding the hungry - both for the individual and for the self-governing Jewish community. More than a few members of t…

Despite PM Netanyahu's calls to ignore these full members of his cabinet, their presence in this government has consistently morally compromised Israel's actions. Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the "total victory" over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law. It's hard to imagine that this tragic approach will bring home the 50 remaining hostages, including the 20 who we pray are still alive. It's imperative that the Government of Israel ensures that the recently announced plans to deliver humanitarian aid succeed as Israel works with international partners to ensure its safe and sustained delivery and do whatever possible to reduce or eliminate the shootings and other injuries sustained at food distribution centers. We applaud Israel's green light for foreign nations to resume providing humanitarian aid to the Gaza population desperate for food and are confident that they will do all they can to ensure that such aid does not fall into the hands of Hamas. As Israel has effective control of 70% of Gaza, with the intent to remain in significant swaths of it, even if only temporarily, it should be directly involved, facilitate and cooperate with the international community, international humanitarian NGOs, and regional friends, to take urgently needed actions, such as these suggested by Israeli Reform rabbi and Member of Knesset Gilad Kariv: • To prevent the alarming number of civilian deaths in and around the food and humanitarian aid distribution sites. • Opening a significant number of food distribution centers at various locations across the Gaza Strip. • Large-scale entry of infant formula (especially liquid formula) and ensuring safe delivery to both functioning medical centers and the few remaining international aid facilities. • Establishing secure methods - potentially through cooperation with regional countries - for delivering food supplies to aid organizations and international agencies. • Resuming su…

Finally, while it is imperative that Israel and the U.S. resume diplomacy to bring home all hostages and end this war, denying basic humanitarian aid crosses a moral line. Blocking food, water, medicine, and power- especially for children- is indefensible. Let us not allow our grief to harden into indifference, nor our love for Israel to blind us to the cries of the vulnerable. Let us rise to the moral challenge of this moment. Union for Reform Judaism Shelley Niceley Groff (she/her) North American Board Chair Rabbi Rick Jacobs (he/him) President Central Conference of American Rabbis Rabbi David A. Lyon (he/him) President Rabbi Hara Person (she/her) Chief Executive Officer American Conference of Cantors Cantor Josh Breitzer (he/him) President Rachel Roth (she/her) Chief Operating Officer

INBOX: Union for Reform Judaism, Central Conference of American Rabbis & American Conference of Cantors issue a lengthy statement declaring:

"Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the 'total victory' over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law."

Boats in the harbor on Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont

Boardwalk at Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont

Had a lovely evening in Burlington, VT to cap off lovely week in the Upper Valley. Lake Champlain, you may not be “Great” but you’re very, very good at pristine boardwalk sunsets.

As a result of rampant overuse of AI last year, I’m moving all of my AP Social Studies classes off the laptops and back to paper/notebooks during class time this year. I’m one gentle nudge away from quills and inkwells!

It blows my mind that in 2025 people are afraid of a “woke” ChatGPT monster that’s aware that trans people exist. There’s a LOT of things to fear as this tech learns and develops over time. The existence of marginalized populations ain’t one of them.

Intersectionality doesn’t care about AI, we can all be viewed through it’s lens. Every human holds some extent of unconscious bias whether AI acknowledges it or not. Trans people will continue to exist, as they always have, no matter if your AI model is trained to see them. All of this is bad.

Summertime at Dartmouth College nourishes my soul 💚 Joe works and I put around looking at dream homes, lush landscapes, and boathouses.

FFS the man writes exclusively in black sharpie. I rest my case, your honor.

Hurricane Dorian map drawn on with sharpie by then President Trump.

Lest we forget a more recent doodle…

These doodles are…in a word…phallic

To whatever state she’s from, get ready to meet your next governor!

XOXO- Arkansas

Someone with a tiny mustache tattooed on their index finger waits in the shadows to be relevant again.

What the public views as a prisoner or a criminal, is a real person. In this case, my father. The detention camps in Florida today make me think of him. A 15-year-old boy rotting in this place. My Nana fought for a year for his release. So few of these boys were lucky enough to have someone like her

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As the story of Dozier became more public, I helped my dad connect a support network via Facebook for men who were once held at the school. The WHB site holds an oral history of abuse and horror. This is the story of what happens when you throw human beings away. www.theofficialwhitehouseboys.org

One day I’ll write the story of my father being sent to the Dozier school in the late 1950s. It affected the trajectory of his life in so many awful ways. I’m lucky to have him still, but he’s a deeply broken 80 year old man because of the abuse he endured in this terrible place.

Wednesday marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the first ever human-controlled nuclear explosion.

On July 16, 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer and a team of scientists detonated an atomic bomb on the Alamogordo Bombing Range in New Mexico as part of the Manhattan Project.