Leezaah

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Just a curious fish.. 😂

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Will Stenberg

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

This is amazing.. 👌

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[Greg Grunberg @greggrunberg]

LOVE THIS!

[Chris Tackett (aka See It Name It Fight It) @cjtackett]

They tell us “we don’t want these books in school libraries” and “people can get them at public libraries”

Then it’s “we don’t want them in public libraries” and “people can get them at book stores”

Now they are going after the book stores

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I will always love President Barack Obama for uncorking this classic clapback on Republicans.💀
https://t.co/1WGwBn27NS

[Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli & Brix @bunsenbernerbmd]

You made it through the week.
Here is some happy nonsense https://t.co/vZKoCuQYZw

[Brad Pfaff @BradPfaffWI]

🚨BREAKING: Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional district just became one of the most competitive races in the entire nation, and I am running against a man who was on the Capitol grounds on January 6th. Please retweet this and give me a follow to defeat Derrick Van Orden!

[Marcus Flowers @Marcus4Georgia]

👋🏾 I’m Marcus Flowers, the Army Vet & Democratic Nominee running to unseat Marjorie Taylor Greene.

MTG has 1M followers.

Can you help us get to 450k with a RT and FOLLOW?

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Jon Stewart shreds Trumper Senator Ted Cruz, calling him a “motherf*cker” and declaring that his lame excuses for voting against the bill to help military veterans who got cancer after their service are “shameless bullsh*t.” RT TO THANK JON STEWART FOR CALLING CRUZ OUT!

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

"I know that hate will only win if people like me stand by and let it happen."

Please watch this incredible speech from Michigan State Senator @MalloryMcMorrow, who is not standing by.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

“If you’re not gonna do anything, then get out of the way, so some of us at the very least, can try.”

[Leezaah @leezaah22]

@LastWeekTonight what!!! Last show for the year??? I need your gig where I work for a month and then get 6 weeks off. Our country is going to shite—we need your insight and humor. Take t-day week and 2 weeks for Xmas/New Years. Better than most of us get….

[Leezaah @leezaah22]

@greggrunberg 26

[Leezaah @leezaah22]

@TheKalenAllen amen--I'm from Chicago and have NEVER ever seen or heard of popcorn salad. Gross

[sarah o'grady 🧡 @ladyogrady]

Absolute mic drop. I’d love to hear someone answer this question.

[Leezaah @leezaah22]

winner!!

[KD Webster @KDWebster4]

@JaneMayerNYer @maddow @jddyche As a black man, I had to hear it for myself.
Millions heard it not knowing what it meant.
Or knew what it meant & didn't care.
As a black man in America, I care.
Every person of color should care.
Care & read & retweet.
https://t.co/NILvekLqgQ