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Cheri Heflin Callaghan

@cherifromwv.bsky.social

Humanitarian, Appalachian, wife, mother, dog lover, McDowell Co., WV expatriate recently moved to Southport, NC. Amateur genealogist. Terrible at good-byes. You’ll find me reading, writing or graveyard hunting. #voteblue #screenwriting #wordler #nytsb

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Thanks for checking! West Virginians are America’s greatest diaspora, IMO. I grew up in the McDowell County coalfields. Where are you from?

29.09.2025 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We are, but very sad 😢. We were in wv, American Fish our fave place, and I can’t imagine how terrifying.

29.09.2025 13:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You left out the part about the investigation into his porn activities at work.

25.09.2025 14:16 — 👍 112    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Not enough that he wants to derail public education in Oklahoma, now he wants to do it nationally. Let’s hope the investigation into his porn problem sidelines this 🤡.

25.09.2025 14:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks, Amy! I tried 3 times to get the picture not to be sideways and gave up, LOL.

25.09.2025 14:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I did not know about it, but just joined. THANK YOU! This is so awesome to hear. 🎉 I am so happy and relieved to learn there is a network there. We’ll be there full-time starting Dec 1, back and forth til then.

25.09.2025 14:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

❤️ ABSOLUTELY!!

25.09.2025 13:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Next time! Still getting moved. Good to know there’s folks like me and the hubs here.

25.09.2025 09:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Sound of Music came out in March 1965, about 20 years after WWII ended. Critics gave it mixed reviews, but by the time I was born (Dec ‘65), it was the number one grossing film at the box office. It stands as a classic for many reasons. Maybe one for #HATM? #untilalessonislearned

25.09.2025 09:02 — 👍 58    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 1
He was a podcaster who argued with College Kids. He wasn’t Nelson Mandela. Good God, people. Get a grip.

He was a podcaster who argued with College Kids. He wasn’t Nelson Mandela. Good God, people. Get a grip.

25.09.2025 08:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bride and groom pose on a boat in NYC harbor in front of the Statue of Liberty.

Bride and groom pose on a boat in NYC harbor in front of the Statue of Liberty.

Cheri and husband Mike, the bride’s mother and stepfather pose with a bouquet in a carriage in NYC Central Park.

Cheri and husband Mike, the bride’s mother and stepfather pose with a bouquet in a carriage in NYC Central Park.

Ok, I have to brag some, of the proud mama kind. My daughter got married to a very wonderful man on a boat in NY harbor this past weekend. It was perfect, they were joined by 8 family members, the weather was perfect, the I do’s so romantic, and NYC never disappoints. ❤️❤️

25.09.2025 08:50 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“Judicial independence is the basic starting point…. A person isn’t related by marriage or whatever… you want to think that they will be fair. The only novel notion in our constitution is that judicial system is independent… justice is binding … critical to how our system functions.”

28.06.2025 15:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Souter said he wanted to leave Washington and read books. Diaz compares ROberts interest in getting out of DC as well.

28.06.2025 15:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Diaz asks him about the death of Justice Souter. He talks about the thoughtful notes and letters that Souter would send out. He said that he didn’t understand why Souter was leaving bc he was in good health and liked the work.

28.06.2025 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Diaz asks about the frenzy of the end of the circuit. Roberts says that it is his job to keep the schedule on track, and he will try to work on the schedule so things are spaced out more.

28.06.2025 15:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Judge Diaz welcomes CH Roberts to the stage. “Nothing could keep me in Washington.”

28.06.2025 15:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Picture of the dais with title on presentation screen “A Conversation with Chief Justice Roberts,” noting that Fourth Circuit Judge Albert Diaz will join him.

Picture of the dais with title on presentation screen “A Conversation with Chief Justice Roberts,” noting that Fourth Circuit Judge Albert Diaz will join him.

In a few moments, Chief Justice John Roberts will address the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference. His presentation follows a very sobering presentation on current federal actions to limit the First Amendment. I will live Skeet. This is my view.

28.06.2025 15:19 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Morning yall! I’ll be live Skeeting SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts this AM from the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference at 11:15ish.

28.06.2025 13:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why does checking into a hotel always feel so awkward?

27.06.2025 00:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
An evening gown styled with ridiculous accessories, including a fur parka and silver Birkenstocks.

An evening gown styled with ridiculous accessories, including a fur parka and silver Birkenstocks.

Y’all. AI I has *clearly* run amok. And they want us to pay them for styling? L. O. L.

19.06.2025 19:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The day ended with this #rainbow. #pridemonth

16.06.2025 01:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Great day at the WV Renaissance Faire! Yes, I’m feeling the stirrings of some hope after this weekend.

16.06.2025 01:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Oh my God. Nationalizing key industry by sleight of hand.

15.06.2025 22:32 — 👍 842    🔁 351    💬 51    📌 12
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The treatment of Senator Alex Padilla is disgraceful — no matter how you look at it.

If this is how the Trump Administration treats a sitting U.S. Senator, we should all be alarmed.

13.06.2025 03:29 — 👍 2363    🔁 561    💬 134    📌 19
Abstract
Workers who are worried about their personal finances may find it hard to focus at work. If so, reducing financial concerns could increase productivity. We test this hypothesis in a sample of low-income Indian piece-rate manufacturing workers. We stagger when wages are paid out: some workers are paid earlier and receive a cash infusion while others remain liquidity constrained. The cash infusion leads workers to reduce their financial concerns by immediately paying off debts and buying household essentials. Subsequently, they become more productive at work: their output increases by 7% (0.11 std. dev.), and they make fewer costly, unintentional mistakes. Workers with more cash on hand thus not only work faster but also more attentively, suggesting improved cognition. These effects are concentrated among more financially constrained workers. We argue that mechanisms such as gift exchange or nutrition cannot account for our results. Instead, our findings suggest that financial strain, at least partly through psychological channels, has the potential to reduce earnings exactly when money is most needed.

Abstract Workers who are worried about their personal finances may find it hard to focus at work. If so, reducing financial concerns could increase productivity. We test this hypothesis in a sample of low-income Indian piece-rate manufacturing workers. We stagger when wages are paid out: some workers are paid earlier and receive a cash infusion while others remain liquidity constrained. The cash infusion leads workers to reduce their financial concerns by immediately paying off debts and buying household essentials. Subsequently, they become more productive at work: their output increases by 7% (0.11 std. dev.), and they make fewer costly, unintentional mistakes. Workers with more cash on hand thus not only work faster but also more attentively, suggesting improved cognition. These effects are concentrated among more financially constrained workers. We argue that mechanisms such as gift exchange or nutrition cannot account for our results. Instead, our findings suggest that financial strain, at least partly through psychological channels, has the potential to reduce earnings exactly when money is most needed.

Study out of India finds that reducing financial concerns could increase productivity. A cash infusion led to paying off debts followed by becoming more productive at work. Output increased by 7%, and they made fewer costly, unintentional mistakes.

Now imagine UBI.

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12.06.2025 14:28 — 👍 223    🔁 74    💬 10    📌 7

After recovering his classic car from a beach mishap, a lonely astronaut deals with his aging neighbor’s family drama: her hypochondriac daughter whose rich best friend and professor husband square off in a custody battle.


12.06.2025 03:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hahahahaha

12.06.2025 02:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

SAME!

12.06.2025 02:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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two men standing next to each other in a room Alt: Ross from FRIENDS declaring 'It's not the same!'. Ross wears a purple hoodie and he's standing next to Chandler, who wears a pale T-shirt under a brown jacket. They're in an apartment.

if you're an AI shill and you believe 'AI stealing artists' work and smushing it all together to create godawful slop' is the same as 'as an artist I was inspired by X and Y when I wrote Z' then I don't know what to say to you

11.06.2025 11:25 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is why healthcare is too expensive.

"Here’s a wild-but-true factoid: 10 of the 20 largest companies on the new Fortune 500 list derive profit from the 340B program. I guess you can’t throw off tens of billions of profits without titans of industry figuring out how to get their hands on it."

10.06.2025 00:53 — 👍 4426    🔁 812    💬 230    📌 40

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