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I used to teach and was also a city principal. Big fan of good people with big hearts.

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@DavidEmmerson_D @emc_mcdonald Is the NYT hoping for complete access to
the dictator?

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@JoyceWhiteVance Is she really as vapid as she seems?

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@ddanpereira @Lawrence The Supreme Court majority will infuriate us with their legal maneuvering. They won’t keep the former President off the ballot. Period.

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@RpsAgainstTrump It’s only appropriate if it’s completely accurate.

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@tooronlists @Arriadna The existential threat to America is MAGA.

[Leslie Jones 🦋 @Lesdoggg]

I don’t know who this man is but protect him at all costs!! He finally broke it down. So much she had no come back! See the God yall worshipping is yourself and your opinions!! I love how he use the word, the one she claims to know in his argument! Sadly they still won’t get it. Y’all think we judging you but it’s by the measure you are judging is what’s happening! And she claim to want to help the students but didn’t want to ask the parents for permission to do it. Where do these women get the audacity? You can’t control our kids!! Please everyone repost this!!

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@ChambersL614 @FordJohnathan5 No apology needed. Grammar and spelling mistakes are running ramparts.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Regarded as "the most accomplished Flamenco dancer of all time," Carmen Amaya was the first female to master the complex footwork typically reserved for top male dancers.

This footage shows her dancing in 1944 when she was around 30 years old. Amaya was born into a poverty-stricken family in Barcelona in 1913.

From the tender age of 4, she began to accompany her guitarist father at night, performing in pubs where they danced and sang to earn a living by gathering the coins that patrons would toss onto the floor.

Progressively, she moved from pubs to performing in minor theaters.

In 1929, her name was etched in print for the first time in a local newspaper when art critic Sebastià Gasch gave the following review:

"Suddenly a jump! And the gypsy girl danced. Indescribable. Soul. Pure Soul. Feeling made flesh. The floorboards vibrated with unprecedented brutality and incredible precision. La Capitana was a gross product of Nature. Like all gypsies, She must have been born dancing. It was before school, before the academy.

All that she knows, She must have known from birth. Promptly, the viewer feels subjugated, upset, dominated by the face of La Capitana, by her fierce hip movements, by the bravery of her pirouettes and the force of her broken turns, whose animal ardor ran parallel with the astonishing accuracy with which she executed them.

The raging battery of her heels and the unsteady play of her arms now aroused, excited, then collapsing, surrendered, abandoned, dead, gently moved by the shoulders, are still recorded in our memories like indelible plaques. what caused us to look at her dance was her nerve, which twisted her in dramatic contortions, her blood, her violence, her wild impetuosity as a caste dancer."⁣

Her fame grew, and she soon found herself in the company of Hollywood celebrities. In 1941, she graced the stage at Carnegie Hall in New York and was invited to perform at the White House by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Amaya's life was tragically cut short due to kidney failure in 1963 at the age of 50.

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@AdamParkhomenko @FreakFlamingo If he was where he belongs, his volatile incitement to violence would not be happening.

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@atrupar @emc_mcdonald The fourth quarter will always have Christmas-
So let’s never count it if it’s favorable to a Democratic president.

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@theGrio Alabama likes being the first in anything.

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@RpsAgainstTrump History will constantly misspell his name as Rama-smarmy.

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We have nothing to fear except ignorance, hatred, death, and destruction.

[Rana Sweis @ranasweis]

"Our century, the 20th, is the century of #fear. If we were to attempt to update that statement, we might still call ours, the 21st, the century of fear, but also of #fragmentation.”
By @hishamjmatar in @guardian

https://t.co/N30uo2PWFO

#Books #Gaza #MENA

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@AmyMcGrathKY The greatest.

[MS NOW @MSNOWNews]

Biden: "After all we've been through in our history, from independence to Civil War to two world wars to a pandemic to an insurrection, I refuse to believe that in 2024 we Americans will choose to walk away from what's made us the greatest nation in the history of the world."

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@Reuters I wouldn’t bet on his getting out anytime soon.

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This is a world where we must expect the unexpected. The Clark County judge became a victim for making the correct call.

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@alexaronson @mehdirhasan In crazy Republican billionaire world, nothing matters but their self interests.

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Don’t know why Trump spends money on lawyers when he’s got the Supreme Court on his side.

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@RWPUSA It’s almost laughable to think that Clarence Thomas would do the right thing and recuse himself.