# left behind (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 7 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover left behind. Page: Feed: --- ## [Sixth Year, Entry Ten - Roshan's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-ten-roshan-s-story) _2026-08-30 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ Day and Night Have Traded Places Day 1,841 Eight days after Kabul fell, Roshan applied for his visa. It was August 23, 2021. The gunfire that had interrupted him dressing for work on the fifteenth had already signaled his old life was over, and the airport crowds had already turned him back. So he did the next right thing available to a methodical man. He filed for his Special Immigrant Visa… ## [Exploiting Tragedy for Power](https://news.nathanwinograd.org/p/exploiting-tragedy-for-power) _2026-08-28 · Nathan Winograd · Nathan Winograd_ The Trojan Horse of State Animal Welfare Oversight ## [Sixth Year, Entry Nine - Rangin's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-nine-rangin-s-story) _2026-08-27 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ A Partner for America Day 1,838 The war was five years old in 2006. Most of the allies in this series had not yet begun their service, and Rangin was already running a company alongside the Americans. He was not hired help. He founded an Afghan construction company and served as its president, and from 2006 to 2011 his firm carried out projects with the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in… ## [Sixth Year, Entry Eight- Ehsan's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-eight-ehsan-s-story) _2026-08-25 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The Tankers were Burning Day 1,836 The tankers were already burning when Ehsan reached them. The convoy had been ambushed on a fuel run across the country, and the wrecks were blocking the road, so he drove past the fire without knowing whether another attack was coming. He named that as the day that frightened him most. For the day he was proud of, he gave a category instead of a date, which was… ## [The Adventure](https://nosoundleftbehind.substack.com/p/the-adventure) _2026-08-24 · Matthew Lavelle · No Sound Left Behind_ Strap yourself in ## [Sixth Year, Entry Seven - Ismail's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-seven-ismail-s-story) _2026-08-24 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The Man Who Kept the Warehouse Day 1,835 When Ismail applied for his visa, he thought it might take three or four months. His daughter was two years old then. She is seven now, and she has never been to school. Ismail did not carry a rifle or walk a patrol. From 2010 to 2011 he was a stock keeper in Mazar-i-Sharif, working under the U.S. contractor ANHAM. When the work crews came back from the… ## [Sixth Year, Entry Six - Safi's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-six-safi-s-story) _2026-08-22 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The Photography They Found Day 1,833 Safi kept everything from his years of service. He has his employment records, identification documents, certificates, and the photographs with the people he worked beside. Other allies burned their papers to survive, but he carried his through everything. "They are the reminders of the people I worked with and the commitment I made during my service," he said.… ## [Sixth Year, Entry Five - Jalil's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-five-jalil-s-story) _2026-08-21 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ Homework for America Day 1,832 Every day in Pakistan, Jalil does his homework for a country that has not yet let him in. He attends a language course, two hours with the travel there and back. When he is at home, he teaches his wife English for an hour because their newborn keeps her from attending a course herself. He takes his four-year-old for a walk, sometimes to the park near the house. He… ## [Allowing animal cruelty to fester in deference to abusive “cultural” traditions](https://news.nathanwinograd.org/p/allowing-animal-cruelty-to-fester) _2026-08-21 · Nathan Winograd · Nathan Winograd_ In other news: Public meeting following Bruce’s killing cancelled. ## [Major Major Esteban Rodriguez](https://news.nathanwinograd.org/p/major-major-esteban-rodriguez) _2026-08-20 · Nathan Winograd · Nathan Winograd_ First, he silenced Bruce. Is he now trying to silence the community? It sure feels like it. ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QVwyPmvq3aDI) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## [Sixth Year, Entry Four - Martin's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-four-martin-s-story) _2026-08-19 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The Man Who Burned His Proof Day 1,830 Some allies carried their proof out of Afghanistan. Martin burned his. "For security reasons, I destroyed everything," he said. The papers, the ID, anything that tied him to the Americans. He owned no smartphone in those years, so there were never photos. A week after Kabul fell, he moved his family into hiding, and before that he made certain that no… ## [Sixth Year, Entry Three - Zahra's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-three-zahra-s-story) _2026-08-18 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ She Was at Work Day 1,829 On the morning Kabul fell, Zahra was at work in a courthouse. While the government collapsed, she was at her desk in a Kabul primary court, doing the day's tasks of a person who believed the system she was building would outlast the war. The reports arrived, and the atmosphere turned within minutes, and everyone in the office understood all at once that the work itself… ## [Sixth Year, Entry Two - Zalmay's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-two-zalmay-s-story) _2026-08-17 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The Photograph in the Trunk Day 1,828 In a trunk among his wife's things, Zalmay keeps a photograph of his American supervisor. He carried it out of his home district, through the years of moving, and across the border into Pakistan. Today, It is still with him. "To me he was a sign of trust and commitment," Zalmay said. From 2010 to 2012, Zalmay served as a guard with U.S. forces at an American… ## [Roll the Cosmic Dice](https://nosoundleftbehind.substack.com/p/roll-the-cosmic-dice) _2026-08-16 · Matthew Lavelle · No Sound Left Behind_ Painting: Higher Vibrational Cosmology (Intro). ## [Sixth Year, Entry One - Ray's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/sixth-year-entry-one-ray-s-story) _2026-08-16 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ Six years before Kabul Fell Day 1,827 Ray applied for a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) in October 2015, six years before Kabul fell. He had earned it over three years as an interpreter for the U.S. Army, from September 2010 to September 2013, working across provinces in the south and the west. He interpreted during military operations and patrols, and in the daily back-and-forth between American… ## [Day 1,825 - Karim's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/day-1-825-karim-s-story) _2026-08-14 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ Two Pieces of Paper Karim was on duty at the compound the day Kabul fell, and the next morning he went back. Nothing was missing from his file, and he had spent fifteen years making sure of it. He was the security guard at an American-funded organization there, and the organization did not close in August 2021. It stayed open. So he kept doing what he had been doing since July 18, 2010,… ## [The Short Life and Tragic Death of Bruce](https://news.nathanwinograd.org/p/the-short-life-and-tragic-death-of-feb) _2026-08-14 · Nathan Winograd · Nathan Winograd_ Bruce is dead. ## [Day 1,824 - Nasir's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/day-1-824-nasir-s-story) _2026-08-13 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The Empty Passport On November 10, 2025, Nasir sat for his visa interview and left his family's passports at the embassy. He started with American companies in 2007 as a welder, and later he ran a warehouse. There were training stages and examinations to pass, and the work got more particular as the years went on. Among everything across those fourteen years, the job he names as his proudest was… ## [The Lethal Consequences of Lazy Journalism](https://news.nathanwinograd.org/p/the-lethal-consequences-of-lazy-journalism) _2026-08-13 · Nathan Winograd · Nathan Winograd_ The Real Crisis in L.A. Animal Shelters Isn’t Overcrowding — It’s Mismanagement ## [Day 1,823 - Khan's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/day-1-823-khan-s-story) _2026-08-12 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The Two Calls Two phone calls tell Khan's story, and they came from opposite directions. The first reached him in Mazar-i-Sharif in the days after Kabul fell, when he dared to switch his phone back on. It was his American captain, the officer he had served beside in Kandahar, calling from the far side of the world with two questions: What's happening? Are you safe? Khan was, barely, and only… ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UzJicIxSNSWE) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [Day 1,822 - Rafi's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/day-1-822-rafi-s-story) _2026-08-11 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ Time is Gold Five times in every twenty-four hours, Rafi checks his visa case. The check takes a minute; the status has not moved. Some hours pass, and he checks again. Every day he also watches the news for any announcement that the United States has begun issuing Afghan Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) again. His whole life now fits inside the space between those two habits. It is a strange life… ## [Day 1,821 - Rashid's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/day-1-821-g-m-s-story) _2026-08-10 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The call reached Rashid at eleven at night, which in Afghanistan in 2007 meant someone had worked hard to place it. One of the company's flatbed trucks had broken down in Shah Joy district, on the Kabul to Kandahar highway. The military convoy escorting it had moved the container onto another truck and continued the mission. The driver was still out there. Rashid was the transport manager, and… ## [Day 1,820 - Farida's Story](https://www.nooneleft.org/post/day-1-820-farida-s-story) _2026-08-09 · matthew133273 · No One Left Behind_ The School in the House Farida's Story Every morning in a small rented home in Pakistan, class begins. The teacher is Farida, and the students are her two sons. There is no school because the family cannot afford one, so she built one out of what she had, which is herself. "I am a wife, a mother, and a person who believes in education and hard work," she said. That belief has a long history for… ## [Red barns, White Sheds, and Orange Dots](https://news.nathanwinograd.org/p/red-barns-white-sheds-and-orange) _2026-08-07 · Nathan Winograd · Nathan Winograd_ The Miranda’s Rescue scandal is not an isolated incident. Scandals at other organizations show the problem is systemic and that animal welfare is plagued by betrayal ## [a post about posting other posts](https://skryblans.com/a-post-about-posting-other-posts/) _2026-08-04 · skryblans · skryblans_ Bear is good. I like Bear. However, I am also blogging elsewhere now. There is Wobbly Bear and Syllibosity As with this blog, there is no definite subject matter. They're not generally very topical either. They just wander about aimlessly. Lost probably. The one named syllibosity is for haiku normally, so that at least has the benefit of most posts being really, really short. If they're very, very… ## [Quartets and Trios](https://nosoundleftbehind.substack.com/p/copy-quartets-and-trios) _2026-08-04 · Matthew Lavelle · No Sound Left Behind_ How life became music and beyond ## [The weirdest coffee shop in Manhattan](https://emmastephenson1.substack.com/p/the-weirdest-coffee-shop-in-manhattan) _2026-08-04 · Emma Stephenson · Embivalent_ On the virtues of writing in liminal spaces ## [an imperfect analysis](https://skryblans.com/an-imperfect-analysis/) _2026-08-02 · skryblans · skryblans_ I have made it! One of my blogs has been given the Imperfect treatment. https://imperfect.bearblog.dev/just-vibe-more/ What an honour to have a post analysed, thought about, and commented on by such an apparent deep thinker. I won't do a reply post. Mainly because I never have any idea what they're really saying. And writing this one has already taken twice as long as writing the one they're… ## [Lawsuit: Rescue group killed dogs they claimed were adopted](https://news.nathanwinograd.org/p/lawsuit-rescue-group-killed-dogs) _2026-07-31 · Nathan Winograd · Nathan Winograd_ In other news: No animal left behind. ## [In the interest of justice](https://news.nathanwinograd.org/p/in-the-interest-of-justice) _2026-07-29 · Nathan Winograd · Nathan Winograd_ As previously reported, Ventura County Animal Services (VCAS) is being sued to prevent it from killing Bruce, a dog ordered destroyed after being declared “vicious.” The lawsuit was filed by the Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center (SPARC), which argues that it retained contractual rights to Bruce under the adoption agreement executed when the dog was adopted in 2023. ## [Senior engineers, one flat rate (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HOqMxQDUs306) _2026-07-29 · **Sponsored**_ A senior engineer runs an AI-agent fleet for full‑stack builds at $100/hour. ## [The 12 Houses 2.0](https://nosoundleftbehind.substack.com/p/the-12-houses-20) _2026-07-26 · Matthew Lavelle · No Sound Left Behind_ The music story continues ## [the more sophisticated scribbles blog](https://skryblans.com/the-more-sophisticated-scribbles-blog/) _2026-07-26 · skryblans · skryblans_ background J doesn't need a sophisticated bells and whistles website for her pottery hobby. She doesn't need e-commerce and card payments because she's not bothered about selling her craft online. She just needs a place to direct people to see her craft fair schedule, and perhaps do the odd post to showcase what she has recently made, or is working on. Basically, it just needs to be 'Instagram… ## [575 verse - talents](https://skryblans.com/575-verse-talents/) _2026-07-24 · skryblans · skryblans_ Is there not an end to my many talents? No! Also, there's no start   post link for sharing: https://skryblans.com/575-verse-talents Email Me or Contact via Letterbird If you got this far, you may as well click the star below on your way out. ## [No Animal Left Behind](https://news.nathanwinograd.org/p/studies2026) _2026-07-23 · Nathan Winograd · Nathan Winograd_ This is an updated version of an article that was first published in 2022 and then republished with updated studies in 2024. The current article has several new studies, expanded discussion, and additional recommendations. New studies and updated discussions are clearly marked throughout. ## [Happy Gotcha Day, Commander!](https://news.nathanwinograd.org/p/happy-gotcha-day-commander) _2026-07-21 · Nathan Winograd · Nathan Winograd_ On July 21, 2011, we found a little pigeon huddled behind the back wheel of a large, parked truck, a wing hanging low and limp by his side. ## [world cup turn off](https://skryblans.com/world-cup-turn-off/) _2026-07-20 · skryblans · skryblans_ Did you see that excuse for a football match that was the World Cup Final last night/yesterday/whatever it was in your time zone? Once Argentina had (literally) fought past England to contest the final against the football purist mastery of Spain, I was not that hopeful of a proper football match breaking out at any stage. I watched the first half (which is now halved itself with the 'hydration… ## [Tales From the Front](https://nosoundleftbehind.substack.com/p/tales-from-the-front) _2026-07-19 · Matthew Lavelle · No Sound Left Behind_ Walking the path of live or die in music ## [this IS a new post, not one of those new posts where new people have forgotten to add a title](https://skryblans.com/this-is-a-new-post-not-one-of-those-new-posts-where-new-people-have-forgotten-to-add-a-title/) _2026-07-19 · skryblans · skryblans_ This is a new post. Unlike my last few posts, which were not entirely new. They were old posts I had already published here a year ago, but edited and then re-published during the last two weeks, as if they were new ones. Except the haiku one ( 575 verse - syllables ). That was new, but it was a mental retreading of posts I had done versions of before on previous blogs. It was me, flailing around… ## [Cats found NOT GUILTY of decimating wildlife](https://news.nathanwinograd.org/p/cats-found-not-guilty-of-decimating) _2026-07-17 · Nathan Winograd · Nathan Winograd_ A new study on wildlife injuries and deaths finds that humans are framing cats for the harm they cause themselves ## [The battle to save Bruce continues](https://news.nathanwinograd.org/p/the-battle-to-save-bruce-continues) _2026-07-16 · Nathan Winograd · Nathan Winograd_ Ventura County officials intent on denying SPARC their day in court and Bruce an opportunity for life and happiness ## [The Abandoned Sound](https://nosoundleftbehind.substack.com/p/the-abandoned-sound) _2026-07-12 · Matthew Lavelle · No Sound Left Behind_ No sound left behind and the path ## [Dogs are being neglected, abused, and killed by those tasked with protecting them](https://news.nathanwinograd.org/p/dogs-are-being-neglected-abused-and) _2026-07-10 · Nathan Winograd · Nathan Winograd_ In other news: Celebrating America. ## [Schools Can't Do It All. So, How Best To Ask For Help?](https://powerfulknowledge.substack.com/p/schools-cant-do-it-all-so-how-best) _2026-07-08 · Alex Crossman · Powerful Knowledge_ Schools need durable partnershps with other types of organisation to do all that they can for their students and all that is expected of them by government. These five principles are a place to start. ## [575 verse - syllables](https://skryblans.com/575-verse-syllables/) _2026-07-07 · skryblans · skryblans_ Historically, I've always messed about with posting daft 575 verses on my many blogs. So far, in my latest incarnation here, I have managed to protect you from the silliness of these efforts. Well, today that ends. Sorry. I also tend to post an explanation, showing that I know the difference between haiku and senryu ­– and why my verses are neither – on my first 575 verse post. This also explains… ## [A Painting for Marshall](https://nosoundleftbehind.substack.com/p/a-painting-for-marshall) _2026-07-05 · Matthew Lavelle · No Sound Left Behind_ The story of a painting that took 43 years to make ## [Introducing WingIt!](https://skryblans.com/introducing-wingit/) _2026-07-03 · skryblans · skryblans_ Welcome to the introduction of what is a new approach to productivity that you've never come across before. An approach that will bring instant relief to those struggling with task lists that are just too convoluted, systems that are too complicated, or with organisation in general being a struggle on a daily basis. This method has served me well through a professional sales career, and the… ## [British Schools Need a Bolder Rethinking of 'Enrichment'](https://powerfulknowledge.substack.com/p/british-schools-need-a-bolder-rethinking) _2026-06-30 · Alex Crossman · Powerful Knowledge_ The Department for Education's Enrichment Framework could form the basis for a more ambitious reframing of the fundamental purpose of schooling. ## [Free Jazz Force Ghosts](https://nosoundleftbehind.substack.com/p/free-jazz-force-ghosts) _2026-06-29 · Matthew Lavelle · No Sound Left Behind_ Between playing at the Vision Festival in NYC last night, and working full time as a closing manager at a supermarket, I have no new topic to delve into this week, so I’m going to do what Johnny Griffin said he did with Monk, and go for myself. ## [John Coltrane and The Creed](https://nosoundleftbehind.substack.com/p/john-coltrane-and-the-creed) _2026-06-22 · Matthew Lavelle · No Sound Left Behind_ His work with Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Hodges, and beyond ## [Would Reducing Selection Increase Opportunity? A Response to Sam Freedman](https://powerfulknowledge.substack.com/p/would-reducing-selection-increase) _2026-06-16 · Alex Crossman · Powerful Knowledge_ The blogger and education policy specialist has made a timely intervention in the discussion about schools' role in addressing inequality. Could any of it work in practice?