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Kerem Cagin
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Texas A&M Alumni | Former SPED Sub | Aspiring SPED Educator and Author
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Kerem Cagin @kcagin.bsky.social · 22h
I feel like the least toxic social media sites are LinkedIn and potentially here (but I have heard some bots are trying to take over this site)!
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The true unsung heroes of America:

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Central Georgia couple takes care of medically-fragile kids
YouTube video by 13WMAZ
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December 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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People who don’t have friends share these five personality traits
YouTube video by The Mindset Mentor Podcast
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December 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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My four favorites from March 2025.
Which one of these do you like the best?
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*All SOLD
December 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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a small painting from a while back that i still get lost in, gratefully
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#ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #AbstractArt #AbstractExpressionism #Painter #Art #Artist #WomensArtBlueSky #AbstractArtist #BlueSkyArt  #OregonArtist #Oregon
Abstract painting, swirls and lines with browns, reds, lavender, and specks and swirls of other colors including one deep blue-purple.
December 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Yikes. This is awful.
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Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he doesn’t have much time left.

Sasse is just 53 years old.
Ben Sasse • @BenSasse G... Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I'll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it's a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too - we all do. I'm blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, "Sure, you're on the clock, but we're all on the clock." Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I've got less time than I'd prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can't begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we'd temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer - and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she's off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she's a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we've been driving off-book for six years — but now we've got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn't be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There's not a good time to tell your peeps you're now marching to the beat of a faster drummer - but the season of advent isn't the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what's to come. There's not a good time to tell your peeps you're now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn't the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what's to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle | once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say "hope" when what we mean is "optimism." To be clear, optimism is great, and it's absolutely necessary, but it's insufficient. It's not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you're not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they're gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That's why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city - with foundations and without cancer - is not yet. Remembering Isaiah's prophecies of what's to come doesn't dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity's perspective: "When we've been there 10,000 years...We've no less days to sing God's praise." I'll have more to say. I'm not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God's grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren't the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We're zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I've pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatmen…
December 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
kcagin.bsky.social
I feel like the least toxic social media sites are LinkedIn and potentially here (but I have heard some bots are trying to take over this site)!
December 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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People who adopt kids with high developmental needs are a gift to humanity:
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Nothing beats having a good time and singing music with a popular singer:
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Day 22 of #ArtAdventCalendar

"What Would Happen If…”

Analog #Collage

#ConeyIsland
#Brooklyn
#FlowersForAlgernon

Analog collage on canvas using vintage paper, ephemera, acrylic paint

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Inspired by Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon an ink plot, dominates the center of the canvas. Yellow magenta, gold, and purple acrylic paint covers the top and bottom portion of the canvas. At the bottom of a photo of Coney Island.
December 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, artist, genius. Born this day 1960. Taken, as is the way of these things, too soon.
December 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Eleanor Esmonde-White (South African, 1914 - 2007). Ladies caught in the wind (oil on hessian).
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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A couple of my atmospheric views of Cambridge. The first shows Gonville and Caius and the second is a degree day at the Senate house. See Alt text for description of technique. These both found buyers.
#art #mixedmedia #Cambridge
Mixed media painting/drawing of Cambridge. For this technique I lightly prime stiff paper or card with dilute gesso Then I work over it haphazardly with watercolour/gouache, ink and just a little oil pastel. The oil pastel resists water so sometime it's necessary to rub water-based paint in with the fingers. Then it's possible to draw into it while damp with a dip pen (mostly using Daler-Rowney FW acrylic ink). See alt text on the other painting
December 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Traveled to Japan last month and here is my attempt of capturing the vibrancy of autumn in one of the temple grounds in Kyoto #painting #art #landscape
An abstract landscape painting of a pond scenery with trees in the foreground and a bridge in the background.
December 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Epstein victims broke down in tears after newly released files showed the FBI ignored a child pornography complaint decades ago.
December 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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to be clear, the Chicago Bears were down by 10 against the Green Bay Packers with 2:01 left in regulation.
December 21, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Survivors are 'nervous and sceptical' about partial Epstein file release
US lawmakers who pushed for the documents to be made public have criticised the initial release as incomplete.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Two of my watercolour drawings of the Warrior, Portsmouth. These were both done (plus others) sitting on the shore near the dockyard entrance in the early '90s. The first one was sold and the second one is a rather dull photo of the original
#art #watercolour #Portsmouth #Warrior #pleinair
Watercolour drawing of the Warrior in Portsmouth done on location Watercolour drawing of the Warrior in Portsmouth done on location
December 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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This is a bipartisan issue which needs transparency:

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Over 500 pages in Epstein files were entirely blacked out, CBS News finds - NewsBreak
The Justice Department released thousands of new photos and records on Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, but at least 550 pages in the documents are fully redacte
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December 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Mike Johnson was pissed that we pushed a petition through and are forcing a vote on extended ACA tax credits. He just can’t stop losing.

But right now we need your help. We need everyone to contact Congress and tell them to get it done:
Tell Congress: Demand Speaker Johnson hold a vote IMMEDIATELY on the ACA tax credit extension
Contact Congress today!
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December 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Bloomed
Ink/Acrylic
48”x24”
Canvas
December 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Another survivor speaks out.

Will the survivors tell the story the Epstein Files are not?
December 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Today, we're learning why DOJ didn't release the redacted files last March. Because the multitude of redactions exposes how much they're covering up.
December 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Why the BMW i3 Makes the Perfect First Car

Choosing your first car is an exciting milestone. It’s a decision that balances practicality, cost, and a touch of personality. For those who want something stylish, sustainable, and easy to live with, the BMW i3 stands out as a remarkable choice. This…
Why the BMW i3 Makes the Perfect First Car
Choosing your first car is an exciting milestone. It’s a decision that balances practicality, cost, and a touch of personality. For those who want something stylish, sustainable, and easy to live with, the BMW i3 stands out as a remarkable choice. This innovative electric vehicle redefines what a first car can be, blending German engineering with forward-thinking design and everyday usability.
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December 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Massie: "This is about oil and regime change"
December 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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It seems that Friday we will be at war, to keep the EPSTEIN files hidden.
December 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM