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While listening to a Whitney Houston song my granddaughter looked at her mom in awe and asked, “Wow, do you think Beyoncé knows about her?”
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Hand to goddess I didn’t know she knew the song much less every single word.
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Mugsy, the 6 year old grandkid, just sang every lyric to Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce and it might have been the purest thing my ears have ever heard.
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Someone could use this bike for free
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We found a bike during Evanston’s bulk pickup day.
Schwinn Wayfarer, one size likely for 5’5” - 5’9” riders.
Needs at least one new tube and a general tune-up.
Would like to give this away to someone in _need_ of a ride.
Deadline claiming it is 24 May.
Please share.
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She is precious and her laugh is infectious I 💗 her
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- our girl Freddie Jean is out the kitchen and in these streets.
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Her name is Geraldine Tyler. After falling $2,300 behind on her property taxes, the county added $13,000 in penalties, interests & fees.
When she couldn't pay, they seized her condo—valued at $93,000—sold it for $40,000, and kept the leftover $25,000.
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Let me put this in perspective. In Michigan, defendants found guilty of stealing over $20,000 face a decade in prison.
When the government stole *10 times* that—leaving a mom and her kids completely bankrupt—it was all in a day's work.
Make it make sense.
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When he’s truly a monster terrorizing the unhoused with BEAR SPRAY as they sleep and mind their own business. He’s an abuser.
Call him an abuser and not by some fancier-sounding 4-month title he managed to mess up by beating his wife. Let’s do that instead.
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They keep running this story of a domestic abuser and Cannabis dispensary owner (nothing wrong with that) and calling him a former Fire Commissioner which is a thing he did for FOUR MONTHS before being arrested.
But see how they protect his image so he comes off respectable?
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EXCLUSIVE: Defense attorneys for the man accused of attacking former SF Fire Commissioner Don Carmignani say the person shown in this video bear spraying a homeless person in the face appears to be Carmignani.
The video, taken in November 2021, is part of a trove of new evidence… Show more
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The conflict: she has a trans child and therefore should not weigh in on policies that affect her child. Not exactly a standard that is applied to legislators who justify censorship in schools because of concern about their kids or grandkids.
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Today I was informed that because of a complaint filed by David Begley, I am under official investigation for a conflict of interest for standing for trans rights.
My colleagues stood up offering support, but I don't need their words. I need their vote.
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If you are willing to vote for fascists because the economy has crashed, you incentivize fascists to crash the economy.
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In Trump's new videos/statements, and in the RNC video today, we're seeing a new attack against Biden - that the US financial system is going to crash on his watch.
It is very hard to understand how this could happen unless McCarthy intends to crash it.
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He gives a fantastic response to an awful question but this also may be a pretty good reminder for how we move through the world.
Basically, there’s LEVEL to this word Giannis is delivering here.
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Giannis didn't like @eric_nehm's question about whether the season was a failure and went long in his answer
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Finally watched Marcel the Shell with Shoes On movie and have decided it’s in the top 10 movies I’ve ever seen in my life.
No exaggeration.
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I’ll be saving and using this thread a LOT I think.
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As a final year resident my program director sat us down & threatened to put “not a team player” our files if we didn’t agree to be on call every third night for a year *without* compensation.
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I appreciate the humility and also y’all gotta stop underestimating us
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Took a major L today. Signed up for a class at the Y because the boxing gym is closed for renovations. Got in and a it’s a bunch of middle aged women in there, like silver sneakers club. I thought I signed up for the wrong class, I almost left but didn’t wanna be disrespectful.
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Reminder that something like 12 *hours* worth of the NYPD budget would fund the libraries fully for the year.
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NYC public libraries could close on weekends due to possible Adams administration budget cuts abc7ny.com/new-york-publi
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If you have a Facebook account go to the “Events” section, and search for “Stop the Violence” events in your area
If you aren’t on FB, you can do it on too.
Now, do the same for “Black Lives Matter” or “police brutality”
Shocking isn’t it?
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I can’t answer this question for Bill Maher but YOU CAN
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Bill Maher with quite possibly the most important and poignant questions ever asked on Real Time.
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I will always argue that rap, when done well is one of the highest forms of literature. The most revered writers of antiquity could never have imagined the layered rhyme schemes, cadences, metaphors, entendres & other elements at play with such pace. To even process takes skill twitter.com/nfr_podcast/st
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Don’t walk away from an offer like this. RUN
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My wife’s name is Kourtney. A school not in this state (?) has confused her with *another* Kourtney who is interviewing for a position there. There was an email mixup (by one number) and they sent Kourt the school policies for preview.
And they’re BANANAS.
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We’re I there I would have seen this win, too. Congrats to Thomas, Sue. 💗
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Congratulations to @HingleTom for winning the People’s Choice Award at the 30th Annual @siusom Scope Art Program for his digital art titled “Bruce” Very proud of him and happy that his creativity is being recognized and appreciated 
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The Literary Arts Magazine at SIU School of Medicine, SCOPE, was released yesterday but I am presenting a poster at a medical conference out of state. My daughter showed up for me and my painting won the Dean's Choice Award!
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this is a brokenness that cannot be fixed
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Someone shared a funny graphic with columns to pick from on how to hilariously title your dissertation and now I need it so if you know what I'm talking about can you do me a solid and point me that way? Google isn't helping.
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I shared the correct way to eat a pot pie which is to turn it upside down when you serve it and folks got in their feelings about it.
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what was your biggest twitter controversy?
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I don’t feel like enough attention is being paid to what looks like whole cucumbers in this sin against humanity they’re trying to call gumbo.
Just seeing limes was already devastating but .. are those entire cucumbers, y’all?
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Good morning to everybody except the mutha fuckaz that thought this was a good idea
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Today, someone I haven’t seen in a while, asked me how my boys were. Plural. She didn’t know.
That’s the first time that happened; being asked that way & being reminded it’s not plural anymore. My boys. My boys. My boys.
I’ll never stop saying it, though.
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Oh good, I was worried my blood pressure was getting low
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NEW INVESTIGATION:
A crew of real estate speculators—all with criminal histories—are finding out-of-state “heirs,” scooping up minority shares of houses in Black NYC neighborhoods + demanding longtime residents pay up—or face a forced home sale:
thecity.nyc/2023/4/17/2368
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Ngl, no theme is funnier to me than the "men get divorced thinking single life is gonna be lit for them, find out their crush they would cheat with doesn't want them, and the wife they thought was worthless is out living her best life as a newly returned hot girl" trope.
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illuminati shit will always be hilarious to me. y’all got politicians publicly campaigning for 12 year olds to have the right to get married, laxing gun laws after record amounts of mass shootings, record high inflation, and houselessness. and the evil is black rappers & singers?
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Now this is the kind of dirty joke I’m here for. 🤣
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21-year-old natasha lyonne telling this joke on live television twitter.com/PopCrave/statu…
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in a year, this is gonna be the "how it started" with the "how it's going" an article about this guy headed to jail
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🚨 THE FINAL FOUR IS HERE🚨 What would voting be in this country if not challenged at every step? Whew. The #NonSequiturTournament executive committee ( and I) pulled out calculators (we're English teachers) and found the truth. There was an error. It's been corrected.
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I probably think about this on a monthly basis.
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Favorite tweet of your own?
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My colleagues and I had our proposal accepted here where our VP picked up and award and I got to meet a longtime Twitter friend !!!
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This succinctly reveals why this thing feels icky to me.
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Performative violence in reaction to culture war flashpoints like the Bud Light meltdown sells the fantasy of murdering or assaulting vulnerable communities like transgender people
It’s what the GOP is built on: appeals to gleeful, aggressive intolerance
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I love this story so very much (and never knew this about you, Angie!)
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my father is a municipal judge. In 2013 NM made gay marriage legal. In protest, every judge in his county stopped performing ALL marriages. Except my dad, who bought a rainbow bow tie and had me rewrite his vows to be gender-neutral. Here he 9 months later at his 80th ceremony. twitter.com/feyiszn/status…
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