It was 1999.
The previous year, Matthew Shepard, just 21, had been beaten, tortured, and left to die on a fence post in Laramie, Wyoming because he was openly-gay.
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Per Maui County, there is a new fire in the Kaanapali area. I am monitoring the situation closely. Please follow any evacuation orders from county officials. This is not a drill. Turn on TV or radio for emergency alerts to confirm.
Report from Hawaiʻi🎥WCK teams reached the island of Maui last night where wildfires have killed dozens of people & destroyed neighborhoods. We arrived with sandwiches & water for first responders fighting the flames & will begin providing meals to evacuees today.
#ChefsForHawaii
@TheRealHoarse In Chinatown near Union Station, Philippe’s has been continuously operating since 1908—they’re doing something right. Claim to have originated the French dip. Great funky atmosphere.
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Historian here to remind you that when the student body was predominantly white, world-class public universities like Berkeley charged no tuition. Today's student debt is a product of underfunding of education right as integration began to take place.
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SCOTUS deciding that it’s legal to discriminate against gay people has me thinking about Barney’s Beanery, the West Hollywood chili restaurant to at had this sign above the bar for decades.
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@mauisrf7@jayfarnold When I watched it as a teenager, I had little understanding of what was going on, but I tuned in every week, that summer.
A friend made bootleg DVD copies of the episodes to give me as a gift.
@mauisrf7@jayfarnold Years ago, Oregon Public Broadcasting aired The Prisoner. Following each episode a psychology professor from Oregon State explained the different methods of mind control that was employed in each one.