Paul R. Reed

A husband, dad, celiac and lover of anything fall, 80’s, and family time.

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@C_3C_3 She is sick and needs to be deported

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@MatrixMysteries What happened to separation of Church and State?

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@MatrixMysteries Stop this! I am a Texan and this is not something I support. We are getting played!!!

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@libsoftiktok @realDSteinberg @SPPS_News She is a sick piece of shit!!!

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@NiohBerg Get then out!!

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@GovPritzker You mean the Supreme Court is actually follwing the law. I lived in Illinois for 53 years and finally moved to Texas 10 months ago. Freedom! I also don’t pay state income tax! You suck bro.

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@EricLDaugh You need to respect the rulings of the Supreme Court!! That is the American judicial system!!

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@USMNT Dallas!!

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@RepBrandonGill Sorry, that looks awful!! Awful!!

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🤔 They are all the same.

[Chicago History ™️ @Chicago_History]

“You wake up in Chicago, pull back the curtain, and you KNOW where you are. You could be nowhere else. You are in a big, brash, muscular, broad shouldered motherfuckin’ city. A metropolis, completely non-neurotic, ever-moving, big hearted but cold blooded machine with millions of moving parts — a beast that will, if disrespected or not taken seriously, roll over you without remorse. It is, also, as I like to point out frequently, one of America’s last great NO BULLSHIT zones. Pomposity, pretentiousness, putting on airs of any kind, douchery and lack of a sense of humor will not get you far in Chicago. It is a trait shared with Glasgow — another city I love with a similar working class ethos and history.Chicago is a town, a city that doesn’t ever have to measure itself against any other city. Other places have to measure themselves against it. It’s big, it’s outgoing, it’s tough, it’s opinionated, and everybody’s got a story."

- Anthony Bourdain.

#ChicagoHistory ☑️

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Bill Clinton: “I killed myself trying to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza and 97% of the West Bank. You name it. They turned it down.”

The Palestinians never wanted peace.

This must be shared every single day.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff dismantled the Palestinian narrative with cold historical facts.

There was never a sovereign Arab state called “Palestine.” The British Mandate of Palestine was simply British administration over the historic Land of Israel after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Jews lived continuously in the land for centuries — including under Ottoman rule, when they formed the majority in Jerusalem. Before 1909, Tel Aviv was empty desert legally purchased by Jews, who built it from nothing. No Arabs were displaced.

After the British handed the mandate to the UN, the Arab world rejected the partition plan and launched a war to destroy the Jewish state. Arab armies and local militias tried to “push the Jews into the sea.” At the same time, Arab countries ethnically cleansed their ancient Jewish communities, forcing nearly a million Jews to flee to Israel.

During the war, Arab leaders ordered local Arabs to evacuate combat zones so their armies could annihilate the Jews. Many of those who left later became permanent “refugees” under Egyptian and Jordanian control.

Israel has never committed genocide — and never will. By defending itself, it prevents another holocaust.

Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic regime of Iran are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.

Retweet if you support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

They found a way to make their neighbors' party more fun.

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@UIC_Baseball @UICFlames Go Flames!!!

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@Chicago_History Johnnie’s!! Al’s is by far, the most overrated beef in Chicago. By far!

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@InnaVernikov @NYCMayor Disturbing behavior.

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@Chicago_History This is where I saw Star Wars!! Love it!!

[Lior 🪬 @ChaiLife613]

In 1893, a five-year-old Jewish boy named Israel Beilin stood with his mother and father on the deck of an immigrant steamship pulling into New York Harbor. They had fled the violent anti-Jewish pogroms of Imperial Russia. They had crossed Europe by train and Atlantic by steerage. They arrived at Ellis Island with no money, no English, and no plan.
The boy looked up at the Statue of Liberty.
Forty-five years later, he would write the song that became America's unofficial second national anthem: "God Bless America."
His name became Irving Berlin. He composed roughly 1,500 songs over his career — including "White Christmas," "Easter Parade," "Cheek to Cheek," "Puttin' on the Ritz," "There's No Business Like Show Business," and many others. He could not read music. He played piano in only one key. He shaped the soundtrack of 20th century America without ever learning the technical skills most professional composers spend years acquiring.
His family settled in a tenement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His father, a former cantor in a Russian synagogue, could not find work as a religious singer in America and took a job in a kosher poultry factory. He died when Israel was 13.
Israel left school the same year. He worked as a singing waiter in a saloon in Chinatown. He sold newspapers in the streets. He composed his first song — "Marie from Sunny Italy" — at 19 and sold it for 33 cents. The publisher misspelled his name on the printed sheet music as "I. Berlin." The misspelling stuck. Israel Beilin became Irving Berlin, and Irving Berlin became, within ten years, the most successful songwriter in America.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War I. He served again during World War II — donating all royalties from his songs about the war effort, including "God Bless America" and "This Is the Army," to the Army Emergency Relief Fund. The donations totaled in the millions of dollars. He never took a penny.
"God Bless America" was actually written by Berlin in 1918, during World War I, but he had set it aside as too solemn. In 1938, with Nazi Germany rising in Europe, the singer Kate Smith asked him for a patriotic song for her radio show. Berlin pulled the old song out of a drawer, revised the lyrics, and gave it to her.
She performed it on Armistice Day — November 11, 1938.
Within weeks, it was being played on radio stations across the country. Within a year, it was being sung at the Democratic and Republican national conventions. Within a decade, it had become so embedded in American patriotic culture that millions of Americans believed it must be a 19th century folk song — written, perhaps, by Stephen Foster or some other founding-era composer.
It had been written by a Russian-Jewish immigrant who had learned English on the streets of Chinatown.
Irving Berlin lived to age 101. He died in 1989. He had outlived almost everyone he had ever worked with — outlived George Gershwin by 52 years, Cole Porter by 25 years, Frank Sinatra he knew well into Sinatra's old age.
In his apartment on Beekman Place in Manhattan — the same apartment he had lived in for decades — there was a small piano in one corner. The piano had been modified with a special lever that allowed Berlin to play in any key while only knowing how to play in F-sharp. He used that piano to compose "White Christmas" in 1942.
"White Christmas" remains the best-selling single in recorded music history. Over 50 million copies sold globally. Bing Crosby's recording of it has been played on American radio every December for 80 years.
It was written by a Jewish immigrant from a Russian shtetl who had never celebrated Christmas in his life.
Irving Berlin was once asked, late in his life, what he had thought when he saw the Statue of Liberty for the first time at age five.
He paused. Then he said: "I thought she was waving at me."

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@EndWokeness Charge the judge and lock him up!!!