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[Lanai @WaterNai]

@rking78708 @RadioFreeTom This is why I think we should have ranked choice voting.

[Lanai @WaterNai]

@AscotsAreGay @richmondie @michelleeb But she’s talking about evening wear, and gowns and dresses designed for nighttime events.

[Lanai @WaterNai]

@dashi_lotte @michelleeb Different lighting for the ball gown than the walking dress would be the thing, I think.

[Lanai @WaterNai]

So pleased! Great news about @mychal3ts

[Jay McGill Says Punch Left and Hold The Center 🫏 @Jay_McGill94]

Some good news:

Mychal Threets has been hired by PBS and will become the network's librarian.

The network took note of his content on social media and the public support for him.

We will always outnumber the haters and the naysayers.

I'm happy for Mychal.

[Lanai @WaterNai]

@Lookingtooclose @thejackhopkins You survived. So many don’t. So many don’t have the supportive parents you did. Supportive parents aren’t always enough. Just because YOU were able to live through the trauma and make something of your life doesn’t mean that bullying is okay or that anyone who is bullied can.

[Lanai @WaterNai]

@mvandemar @BidenHQ @MuellerSheWrote @TTuberville She should have pressed him on it. They both should have.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

NEW: Jen Psaki just SLAMMED the media for refusing to cover Trumps commitment to betray our allies.

Make sure everyone sees this.

[Lanai @WaterNai]

@adamsmadams @OleRed Oh, wow! That’s awful! I’m glad you’re taking legal action.

[Lanai @WaterNai]

@SanchezMamacita These stories should be sent to the policymakers. Those in the @HouseGOP @HouseDemocrats @SenateGOP @SenateDems need to know.

[Lanai @WaterNai]

@cmerry @FilmOracle_ Too sexual for broadcast TV, I guess

[Lanai @WaterNai]

@cmerry @FilmOracle_ There’s a version where they’re deleted? Wow

[Lanai @WaterNai]

@NewFifeRight14 @NephiteHorse But he and his wife did intervene and speak up for the kids on multiple occasions when things were happening. This porch conversation was after repeated incidents.

[Lanai @WaterNai]

@NephiteHorse What an awful situation! Does your sister know your side of the story or just the twisted version he gave her? I don’t know that it would necessarily change things now, but it might be food for thought to help her perhaps get some strength to leave him in the future.

[Lanai @WaterNai]

@Truth_Finder_1 @fopminui @fasc1nate A woke person would see that there are problems in society contributing to a child being without. Perhaps their own experience being marginalized makes them more aware of those in need of compassion & assistance. Being woke just means having your eyes open. It’s not a bad thing.

[Lanai @WaterNai]

@shesbonky @NelC I was taking a lifeguarding class. We had to do a stride-jump into the pool, keeping our head above water to maintain eyes on the victim. One fella jokingly complained, “It’s not fair! The girls have floatation devices!”

[Lanai @WaterNai]

@RadioRodak @alyssavisscher @WillBridges15 This kind of thing is so prevalent!

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Nashville was given the Nickname ‘Music City’ by England's Queen Victoria after receiving the Fisk
University Jubilee Singers in her court in 1873.

The group, made of mostly those formely enslaved, put Nashville on the musical map.

—Fisk University opened in Nashville in 1866 as the first American university to offer a liberal arts education to “young men and women irrespective of color.” Five years later the school was in dire financial straits.

George L. White, Fisk treasurer and music professor then, created a nine-member choral ensemble of students and took it on tour to earn money for the University. Every one of these students had been enslaved. The group left campus on October 6, 1871. Jubilee Day is celebrated annually on October 6 to commemorate this historic day.

The first concerts were in small towns. Surprise, curiosity, and some hostility were the early audience response to these young black singers who did not perform in the traditional “minstrel fashion.”

One early concert in Cincinnati brought in $50, which was promptly donated to victims of the notorious 1871 fire in Chicago. When they reached Columbus, the next city on tour, the students were physically and emotionally drained. Mr. White, in a gesture of hope and encouragement, named them “The Jubilee Singers,” a Biblical reference to the year of Jubilee in the Book of Leviticus, Chapter 25.

Continued perseverance and beautiful voices began to change attitudes among the predominantly white audiences. Eventually skepticism was replaced by standing ovations and critical praise in reviews. Gradually they earned enough money to cover expenses and send back to Fisk.

In 1872 they sang at the World Peace Festival in Boston and at the end of the year President Ulysses S. Grant invited them to perform at the White House.

In 1873 the group grew to eleven members and toured Europe for the first time. Funds raised that year were used to construct the school’s first permanent building, Jubilee Hall. Today Jubilee Hall, designated a National Historic Landmark by the US Department of Interior in 1975, is one of the oldest structures on campus. The beautiful Victorian Gothic building houses a floor-to-ceiling portrait of the original Jubilee Singers, commissioned by Queen Victoria during the 1873 tour as a gift from England to Fisk.

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[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

Mundane Halloween is back!

Today is the "Mundane Halloween" contest in Japan, sponsored by website @dailyportalz

The idea is to dress up as something incredibly ordinary.

Here is a thread of some of my favorites from this year!

[Lanai @WaterNai]

@BaileyStewart @LeaundraRoss And yet, there he is—because they were to afraid to stand up to some loudmouth extremists. What else will they stoop to to appease them?
@HouseGOP @GOP

[Lanai @WaterNai]

Don’t pander to a few loudmouth extremists. Do the right thing. @GOP @HouseGOP @SenateGOP