NeedleholeHalo©

$daledo123; must be 21+ to follow. #doge

[NeedleholeHalo© @daledo123]

@dennis_trusty Of course I didn't bet it right, but nice hit on that last race!

[NeedleholeHalo© @daledo123]

@Rennietime @BelmontStakes @smokeandponies 💨💨💨

[NeedleholeHalo© @daledo123]

@LiveHorses1 Fuhgeddaboudit

[Trusty_Picks (aka Dennis Trusty) @dennis_trusty]

Churchill Downs Free Picks AND Write Up! I'm glad to be back, trying to give out some winners, I have some high odds horses today trying to cash a decent paying ticket or two!

[NeedleholeHalo© @daledo123]

"at the windows" I love that!!

[Matthew DeSantis @failedtomenace]

IN SCOPE breaks her maiden impressively at @ChurchillDowns. Her debut 90 BSF finishing third to Mashallah is backed up in a big way.

The daughter of Gun Runner for Rusty Arnold had no problem in the mud and justified the strong support at the windows. #HorseRacing

[NeedleholeHalo© @daledo123]

@LiveHorses1 This may be an accidental copy/paste of race eight projections

[NeedleholeHalo© @daledo123]

@bpmacphee @BostonSatire Lol

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Why does this guy always talk like a World of Warcraft npc

[Conor Ryan @ConorRyan_93]

oh my god

[Fairplaygov @fairplaygov]

A co-conspirator matching the description of Trail Blazers Coach, Chauncey Billups, is named in the Terry Rozier indictment. He is alleged to have told a defendant that the team would bench starters & tank the March 24 game. That defendant shared this info with bettors previously indicted in the Jontay Porter scandal.

[Fairplaygov @fairplaygov]

The Trail Blazers went on to bench starters & lose by 28 points.

This was literally the next night after the game in which Terry Rozier allegedly tipped defendants off that he would leave a game early & to bet his unders.

This is going to be made into a movie.

[NeedleholeHalo© @daledo123]

@RobertParish00 Chieeefffff!!

[Robert Parish @RobertParish00]

Hello everyone! The Chief here, Robert Parish! Go easy on me, I'm new at this.

[𝓒𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻 🏴‍☠️ @c0mmandderr]

Ngga looks like he's about to float towards the scent of a freshly baked pie

[NeedleholeHalo© @daledo123]

@soiled_plants2 Sunlight

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

A message from a Kindergarten teacher:

After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old:

“My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.”

No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s innocent. He blinked, then added, “You don’t even have a TikTok.”

My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me.

When I started teaching in the early 1980s, it felt like a promise — a shared belief that what we did mattered. We weren’t rich, but we were valued. Parents brought warm cookies to parent nights. Kids gave you handmade cards with hearts that didn’t quite line up. Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic.

But that world slowly slipped away. The job I once knew has been replaced by exhaustion, red tape, and a kind of loneliness I can’t quite describe.

My evenings used to be filled with construction paper, glitter, and glue sticks. Now they’re spent filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children — one filming me with his phone while I tried to calm another child mid-meltdown.

And the kids… they’ve changed too. Not by choice.

They arrive tired, anxious, overstimulated. Their tiny fingers know how to swipe a screen before they can hold a crayon. Some can’t make eye contact or wait in line. We’re expected to fix all of it — to patch the gaps, heal the trauma, teach the curriculum, and document every move — in six hours a day, with resources that barely fill a drawer.

The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.” A young principal once told me, “Clara, maybe you’re too nurturing. The district wants measurable results.”

As if kindness were a weakness.

Still, I stayed. Because of the small, holy moments that no spreadsheet could measure —
a whisper of, “You remind me of my grandma.”
a shaky note that read, “I feel safe here.”
a quiet boy finally meeting my eyes and saying, “I read the whole page.”

Those tiny sparks were my reason to keep showing up.

But this last year broke something in me.

The aggression grew sharper. The laughter in the staff room turned to silence. The light went out of so many eyes. I watched brilliant teachers — my friends — vanish under the weight of burnout, their joy replaced by survival.

I felt myself fading too, like chalk on a board that’s been wiped one too many times.

So today, I began my goodbye. I pulled faded art off the walls and tucked thirty years of handmade cards into a single box. In the back of a drawer, I found a letter from a student from 1998:

“Thank you for loving me when I was hard to love.”

I sat on the floor and cried.

No party. No applause. Just a handshake from a young principal who called me “Ma’am” while checking his notifications.

I left my rocking chair behind, and my sticker box too. What I carried with me were the memories — the faces of hundreds of children who once trusted me enough to reach out their hands and learn. That can’t be uploaded. It can’t be measured. It can’t be replaced.

I miss when teachers were partners, not targets. When parents and educators worked side by side, not in opposition. When schools cared more about wonder than numbers.

So if you know a teacher — any teacher — thank them. Not with a mug or a gift card, but with your words. With your respect. With your understanding that behind every test score is a heart that cared enough to try.

Because in a world that often overlooks them, teachers are the ones who never forget our children.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

The Government is now shut down,but apparently no body called the school in Bronx that had come to the Capitol for their tour today so they’re getting the treat of a lifetime since AOC agreed to give them the tour herself! Im loving this for all of them! 💙🎤🔥

[Katie Davis McCarthy @jockeykdavis]

♥️🙌🏻

[Red Sox @RedSox]

WALK-OFF CLINCH.

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚: This guy on TikTok has gone viral for doing onside kicks into random things.

Just amazing 🔥🔥