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plezWorld @plezWorld

over 7 years ago · Georgia

Hands down... BEST TWEET EVER for capturing pure, raw emotion over a breakfast sandwich! @Csjoy2J

Ben Feuerherd @benfeuerherd

over 7 years ago

This guy got more mad about bacon, egg and cheese than maybe anything I’ve been mad about in my life

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Dr. Jackson-Edwards @Harvarddoc32

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Artimis 3 will send another Sigma to Outer Space. Dr. Andre Douglas B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering Ph.D. in Systems Engineering

Harvarddoc32's tweet photo. Artimis 3 will send another Sigma to Outer Space. Dr. Andre Douglas
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D. in Systems Engineering https://t.co/CwOaVWpva6

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Anthony G. Baxter @antgilbax

5 days ago

@DemocraticWins In my opinion, @KamalaHarris is best qualified to serve as either U.S. Attorney General or Chief Justice of the @USSupremeCourt or both. Her legal acumen and integrity are wasted in elected office. @AOC @DNC @SenBooker @GavinNewsom @BarackObama

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

3 days ago

WOW -- Trump crashes out and cuts his interview with Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. Let's call it quits. Because I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her." "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads.

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plezWorld @plezWorld

2 days ago

I read Eugene Bullard’s biography, he had a remarkable life’s journey from Jim Crow Columbus, GA to the battlefields of WWI as an aviator for France 🇫🇷

Crazy Vibes

@CrazyVibes_1

3 days ago

When the President of France visited the United States in April 1960, he asked the FBI to help him find a man. The man he was looking for was an American citizen. He was sixty-four years old. He had been awarded fifteen French military decorations and — six months earlier, in a ceremony in Paris — had been made a Knight of the Légion d'honneur, the highest civilian honor France can give. The medal had been pinned to his chest by the President himself, who had publicly called him un véritable héros français. A true French hero. The FBI located the man within a few days. He was operating an elevator at Rockefeller Center in New York City. The elevator operator's name was Eugene Bullard. He had been born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895, the son of a man whose own father had been a slave. He had run away from Columbus at the age of eleven, after watching a white mob nearly lynch his father. He spent the next several years drifting through the American South. At sixteen, he stowed away on a German freighter at Norfolk, Virginia. He landed in Aberdeen, Scotland. From there he made his way to London, where he learned to box. By 1913, at eighteen, he was prizefighting in Paris. When Germany invaded France in August 1914, Bullard was nineteen years old. He had no legal obligation to fight. He had no French citizenship. He went to the recruiting office on October 19, 1914, and signed up for the French Foreign Legion. He spent the next eighteen months as an infantryman in some of the worst fighting of the war — at the Somme, at Champagne, at Verdun. He was wounded three times. The third wound, on March 5, 1916, tore open his thigh and left him with permanent damage to his leg. He was twenty years old. The doctors told him he would not return to the infantry. He decided he wanted to fly. In a Paris café in the spring of 1916, while he was recovering, Bullard mentioned to three white American friends that he was thinking of joining the French air service. A Mississippian named Jeff Dickson laughed. Gene, Dickson said, you know damn well there aren't any Negroes in aviation. Bullard answered: Sure do. That's why I want to get into it. There has to be a first to everything, and I'm going to be the first. Dickson bet him two thousand dollars he would not make it. Bullard took the bet. He earned his pilot's license on May 5, 1917. He won the bet. He reported to the front in August 1917 and flew approximately twenty combat missions over the next three months in a SPAD VII. The fuselage was painted with a bleeding heart pierced by a knife and the French phrase Tout le Sang qui Coule est Rouge — All Blood that Flows is Red. He carried, on every combat flight, a small capuchin monkey named Jimmy in the front of his flight jacket. The French press began calling him L'Hirondelle Noire — the Black Swallow. When the United States entered the war in 1917, Bullard immediately applied to transfer to the U.S. Army Air Service. His application was rejected. The U.S. Army Air Service had a policy, in 1917, of not accepting Black pilots. The other American pilots flying for France in his unit, all of them white, were transferred to the U.S. Air Service. He was the only one who was not. For the next twenty years, he was one of the most familiar faces in the Montmartre nightlife of Paris between the wars. He owned a nightclub called L'Escadrille. He spoke fluent French, English, and German. Hemingway drank there. Fitzgerald drank there. Langston Hughes drank there. Josephine Baker performed there. Louis Armstrong was a personal friend. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Bullard was forty-four. His fluent German and his ownership of a nightclub frequented by German officers made him useful to the French Resistance. He became an intelligence agent — eavesdropping in his own bar on conversations between German officers who did not know he understood every word. When France fell in June 1940, friends in the Resistance smuggled him across the Spanish border before the Gestapo could arrest him. He came back to the United States for the first time in twenty-eight years. He arrived in New York with thirty dollars in his pocket and a permanent limp. He did not return to a hero's welcome. He returned to a country that had no idea who he was. He worked at a perfume counter. He worked as a security guard. He worked at the Staten Island shipyards. By the late 1940s, he had taken the job that he would hold for most of the rest of his life. He operated the elevator at Rockefeller Center. He was wearing the elevator uniform on the day a producer from NBC came down from the studios upstairs to ask if he was the man Charles de Gaulle had been looking for. A few weeks later, NBC sent a film crew to interview him in the lobby. The studios where NBC produced The Today Show were on the floors above. He had operated the elevator that took the network executives up to those studios every morning for nearly ten years. He had not been recognized as he did it. He went back to operating the elevator the following Monday. He died of stomach cancer on October 12, 1961, three days after his sixty-sixth birthday. He was buried in the French War Veterans' section of Flushing Cemetery, in Queens, in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion. The casket was draped with the French flag. In 1994 — thirty-three years after his death — the United States Air Force formally commissioned Eugene Jacques Bullard as a Second Lieutenant, posthumously. It was the first commission the U.S. military had ever offered him. He had been the first Black combat pilot in American history. The French had been calling him a hero since 1917. The Americans got around to it in 1994.

CrazyVibes_1's tweet photo. When the President of France visited the United States in April 1960, he asked the FBI to help him find a man.
The man he was looking for was an American citizen. He was sixty-four years old. He had been awarded fifteen French military decorations and — six months earlier, in a ceremony in Paris — had been made a Knight of the Légion d'honneur, the highest civilian honor France can give. The medal had been pinned to his chest by the President himself, who had publicly called him un véritable héros français. A true French hero.
The FBI located the man within a few days.
He was operating an elevator at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
The elevator operator's name was Eugene Bullard. He had been born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895, the son of a man whose own father had been a slave.

He had run away from Columbus at the age of eleven, after watching a white mob nearly lynch his father.
He spent the next several years drifting through the American South. At sixteen, he stowed away on a German freighter at Norfolk, Virginia. He landed in Aberdeen, Scotland. From there he made his way to London, where he learned to box. By 1913, at eighteen, he was prizefighting in Paris.
When Germany invaded France in August 1914, Bullard was nineteen years old. He had no legal obligation to fight. He had no French citizenship.
He went to the recruiting office on October 19, 1914, and signed up for the French Foreign Legion.
He spent the next eighteen months as an infantryman in some of the worst fighting of the war — at the Somme, at Champagne, at Verdun. He was wounded three times. The third wound, on March 5, 1916, tore open his thigh and left him with permanent damage to his leg.
He was twenty years old. The doctors told him he would not return to the infantry.
He decided he wanted to fly.

In a Paris café in the spring of 1916, while he was recovering, Bullard mentioned to three white American friends that he was thinking of joining the French air service. A Mississippian named Jeff Dickson laughed.
Gene, Dickson said, you know damn well there aren't any Negroes in aviation.
Bullard answered: Sure do. That's why I want to get into it. There has to be a first to everything, and I'm going to be the first.
Dickson bet him two thousand dollars he would not make it.
Bullard took the bet. He earned his pilot's license on May 5, 1917. He won the bet.
He reported to the front in August 1917 and flew approximately twenty combat missions over the next three months in a SPAD VII. The fuselage was painted with a bleeding heart pierced by a knife and the French phrase Tout le Sang qui Coule est Rouge — All Blood that Flows is Red.
He carried, on every combat flight, a small capuchin monkey named Jimmy in the front of his flight jacket.
The French press began calling him L'Hirondelle Noire — the Black Swallow.

When the United States entered the war in 1917, Bullard immediately applied to transfer to the U.S. Army Air Service.
His application was rejected.
The U.S. Army Air Service had a policy, in 1917, of not accepting Black pilots. The other American pilots flying for France in his unit, all of them white, were transferred to the U.S. Air Service.
He was the only one who was not.

For the next twenty years, he was one of the most familiar faces in the Montmartre nightlife of Paris between the wars. He owned a nightclub called L'Escadrille. He spoke fluent French, English, and German. Hemingway drank there. Fitzgerald drank there. Langston Hughes drank there. Josephine Baker performed there. Louis Armstrong was a personal friend.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Bullard was forty-four. His fluent German and his ownership of a nightclub frequented by German officers made him useful to the French Resistance. He became an intelligence agent — eavesdropping in his own bar on conversations between German officers who did not know he understood every word.
When France fell in June 1940, friends in the Resistance smuggled him across the Spanish border before the Gestapo could arrest him.
He came back to the United States for the first time in twenty-eight years.
He arrived in New York with thirty dollars in his pocket and a permanent limp.

He did not return to a hero's welcome. He returned to a country that had no idea who he was.
He worked at a perfume counter. He worked as a security guard. He worked at the Staten Island shipyards. By the late 1940s, he had taken the job that he would hold for most of the rest of his life.
He operated the elevator at Rockefeller Center.
He was wearing the elevator uniform on the day a producer from NBC came down from the studios upstairs to ask if he was the man Charles de Gaulle had been looking for.
A few weeks later, NBC sent a film crew to interview him in the lobby. The studios where NBC produced The Today Show were on the floors above. He had operated the elevator that took the network executives up to those studios every morning for nearly ten years. He had not been recognized as he did it.
He went back to operating the elevator the following Monday.

He died of stomach cancer on October 12, 1961, three days after his sixty-sixth birthday.
He was buried in the French War Veterans' section of Flushing Cemetery, in Queens, in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion. The casket was draped with the French flag.
In 1994 — thirty-three years after his death — the United States Air Force formally commissioned Eugene Jacques Bullard as a Second Lieutenant, posthumously.
It was the first commission the U.S. military had ever offered him.
He had been the first Black combat pilot in American history.
The French had been calling him a hero since 1917.
The Americans got around to it in 1994.

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plezWorld @plezWorld

2 days ago

@CrazyVibes_1 @jesuiscinque I read his biography, Eugene Bullard had a remarkable life’s journey from Columbus, GA to the battlefields of WWI as an aviator for France 🇫🇷

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plezWorld @plezWorld

6 days ago

@atrupar Who is “THEY”?!?

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plezWorld @plezWorld

6 days ago

Long before DEI, BLM, George Floyd, the foolishness of Trump, or any other fake outrage your low I.Q. pea brain is able to conjure, I do the following: I stand. I remove my hat. I NEVER place my hand on my heart (except when reciting the pledge of Allegiance). 🇺🇸

AmericanPapaBear™

@AmericaPapaBear

6 days ago

Notice who puts their hands on their hearts during the playing of the National Anthem. The only 2 white players did. All of the black players did NOT. At least they were standing, but cmon man! Show some respect for this country. What do you guys think?

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plezWorld @plezWorld

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@AmericaPapaBear I don’t give a d*mn what you think! Long before DEI, BLM, George Floyd, the foolishness of Trump, or any other fake outrage your low I.Q. pea brain is able to conjure: I stand. I remove my hat. I NEVER place my hand on my heart (except when reciting the pledge of Allegiance).

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plezWorld @plezWorld

6 days ago

One question: why is he “dressed” to play football but gripping a basketball? 🏈 or 🏀

Gandalv

@Microinteracti1

7 days ago

He wanted to look tough. He posted a painting of himself surrounded by oiled-up shirtless men in tiny shorts waving pompoms. Safe to say this did not land quite the way he intended.

Microinteracti1's tweet photo. He wanted to look tough. He posted a painting of himself surrounded by oiled-up shirtless men in tiny shorts waving pompoms. Safe to say this did not land quite the way he intended. https://t.co/bRHf9xfJaW

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plezWorld @plezWorld

6 days ago

@Microinteracti1 One question: why is he “dressed” to play football but gripping a basketball? 🏈 or 🏀

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plezWorld @plezWorld

6 days ago

@Acyn Is anyone gonna tell him that he just had it painted? The reflecting pool was there more than 100 years before he became president.

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plezWorld @plezWorld

6 days ago

Is anyone gonna tell him that he just had it painted? The reflecting pool was there more than 100 years before he became president.

Acyn

@Acyn

7 days ago

Trump: I just had this done. *holds up chart comparing reflecting pool to buildings*

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plezWorld @plezWorld

6 days ago

@ChrisCuomo GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸 The US elected the worst person for president to settle his grievances against his enemies… not once, but twice! It’s been about him since 2016. 🤡

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plezWorld @plezWorld

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GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸 The US elected the worst person for president to settle his grievances against his enemies… not once, but twice! It’s been about him since 2016. 🤡

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plezWorld @plezWorld

6 days ago

GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸 To elect someone who is against what America stands for… not once, but twice.

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plezWorld @plezWorld

8 days ago

@Oldtimers365 Until I had my own car in high school, my FEET 👣 took me to school everyday. Through rain, sleet, and snow - I grew up in Westchester County, NY on the banks of the Hudson River- so there was plenty of each!

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plezWorld @plezWorld

8 days ago

@CourtsideFilms He’s more defensive lineman than basketball player… it appears he’s already peaked mentally and physically, so thankfully, we won’t see or hear much from him when he flames out after his freshman year at FSU.

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plezWorld @plezWorld

8 days ago

If you didn’t catch it the first time, Donald Trump’s grandfather was an illegal immigrant from Germany… and as a bonus, 2 of his 3 wives were immigrants of dubious status! 😳