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Lover of wife, things with wheels, and sound making devices. Also followed by small, emotionally troubled dogs.

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Lesson 1 on how to boogie.

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

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RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Regarding Reiner, I have known a lot of musicians and been in bands myself. I can’t overstate the importance of This Is Spinal Tap in adjusting the self-importance of musicians. Everyone knows the movie, everyone has identified Spinal Tap moments, everyone is humbler and funnier as a result.

For realz. Just go hang out at the beach with the grandkids weirdo.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

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The President barely batted an eye or offered a word for families of dead children murdered in school shootings. And he didn’t say a single public word for the democratic lawmakers in Minnesota murdered in their own homes. And now he wants every flag in this country flown at half-mast. Get real.

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Ah, he's going to deploy the police in a strategic perimeter around the Epstein Files. Now I get it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump announces he's placing the DC police department "under direct federal control" and deploying the National Guard in the city

Imagine being the leader of a country, english is your second or maybe third language, and waking up to this aneurysm inducing document in your inbox from the POTUS. As an aside, this reads very similar to the emails I would get from a wacky stalker dude I endured a few years back.

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HIMES: “I had not seen any intelligence as a member of the gang of eight to suggest that Iran had taken the decision to build a weapon. I don't think there's any intelligence out there that suggests that that's true.”

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She says, “Without due process, without belief in the Constitution, we are not Americans. “ This is a common (and once widely held) notion. As Pres Biden used to say, “We are the only nation founded on an idea.” If you’ve ever heard me talk about the Constitution, you’ve heard the same thing.

On April 24, ICE agents broke into a home of a family of US citizens in Oklahoma. The family repeatedly said we are citizens, you have the wrong people. ICE terrorized the family, ripped apart the house. It's not "other people" that this is happening to. It's us. Open your eyes. Wake the hell up.

The collective amnesia is truly fascinating.

Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

What kills me is I know a bunch of very rich very stupid people who voted for him because they said he’d be good for the economy. Anyone alive during 2016 to 2020 would’ve been able to tell you that Trump is completely nonsensical and moronic. we are the United States of amnesia.

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