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Donald Trump is the most unpopular 100-day-mark president in modern American history.
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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I cannot express how much I admire and respect this man. I supported him for president back in 2019 and will support him for ANY elected office in the future. He’s the real deal 💙💙
NEVER AGAIN!!!
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For my writing today, I did no editing, no new scenes. All I did was change one conversation. One exchange between two characters in the sequel to my debut novel (coming soon) and this change has redirected the course of this sequel from the plan that I thought was set in stone to something entirely refreshing and exciting.
Sometimes progress doesn’t look like writing 1000 words a day. Sometimes it is just a simple revision that brings you back to the drawing board for an even greater adventure for you to tell.
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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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On today’s Coming to Streaming this Week, we look at all of the new content coming to streaming in the U.S. over the next week. This week we have Disney+ debuting a variety of Disneyland-POV experiences for May 4th, a NASCAR documentary on Netflix and more!
I think about this question a lot:
If I were the only picture my kids had of what it was like to follow Jesus, what would they learn?
Could I say to them, follow me as I follow Christ? (see 1 Cor. 11:1)
It’s a sobering yet simplified guide for living.
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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
Bravo New Mexico!!!
Bravo!!
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People.
They’ll lose their minds over a delayed train, snap over a slow barista. Let a spilled coffee ruin their day.
But when it comes to the big stuff, staying in the wrong job, letting their dreams die quietly. Wasting years on auto pilot.
Nothing. No urgency. No reaction.
We treat small problems like emergencies and the real emergencies as background noise.
Why do we do that?
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i’m in my 20s and i’m allowed to start over
i’m in my 30s and i’m allowed to start over
i’m in my 40s and i’m allowed to start over
i’m in my 50s and i’m allowed to start over
as long as i’m breathing, it’s not too late to begin again
Accountability is now taxable in my world. Who needs to send an invoice to someone who has wasted your time???
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Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.
Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.
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Meanwhile over here in Australia, you know, that big ole country down under…hello anyone? Can you hear us?
We, the Australian people, elected a Labor government for the second term yesterday.
This is BIG news!
It was a landslide vote against an increasingly scary, far-right Liberal party. A party that was set to act from Trumps playbook.
We said NO! We voted for us. And we voted for you too America. You’re welcome.
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Correction: A previous version of this article mistakenly referred to K.C. Saunders as the County Administrator. He is, in fact, the Budget Director for Lorain County. The correction applies to Part 3, paragraph 3; Part 4, paragraph 1 & 4; and Part 5, paragraph 4 of the published story.
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You danced with Michelle and I made out with Mackenzie.
I was in the parling lot at Monterey Pop and ran into two old friends from the drama department at the University of Houston, I asked them what they were up to and they said managing a rock group, wanna come back stage and meet them. In their dressing room I met the band and their lead singer, she offered a few hits from her whiskey bottle as they went on stage and I out into the crowd to witness Janis and Big Brother. Magic was in the air!
Speaking of back stage whiskey. Somehow I ended up backstage at a Doors concert in San Jose in 1968. Jim Morrison was slinking around in his leather pants and no shirt and offered me his whiskey bottle. He called me “little girl”. It was a memorable experience for sure.
by all accounts (and I'm talking people like Bruce Botnick), he was quite an asshole. the late Eve Babitz wrote in a few places that she'd been his girlfriend before The Doors happened and that his whole deal was that he'd grown up as a fat kid, lost a lot of weight one summer by the usual means and was thereafter inclined to believe his own press.
I was a Doors fan for the first six months after the album came out, was very excited by their Fillmore East debut but for me, they lost their bloom …
He was widely known in LA as a supreme asshole. I do, however, have one good memory: in early October 1967, Sigma Chi Fraternity at Fullerton State College down in deepest Orangutang County, put on a concert with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and the Doors. It was held in the school gym, with a "stage about 7' x 5', a whole 3' high, and the audience sat in folding metal chairs. The Brothers - all wearing crew cuts, blue blazers with white shirts and regimental ties, tan slacks and Oxfords - glared…
now THAT is truly a fabulous story. and jeez...it never made it into the wretched Oliver Stone movie. I wonder why.
that was an Oliver Stone joke.
I knew Oliver at the time (Platoon and In The Year of the Monkey were at one time for about six weeks in competition to see which one would go to the Philippines first), and told him the story. He even laughed when I got to the punch line. It might have saved the movie, and certainly was an "Oliver Stone joke."
NOTHING could have saved that movie (the Doors one). "Platoon" was a very well-made movie, even if I have some problems with it. I'm willing to bet I would have liked yours more. speaking of which, how can I read it?
that was obviously some kind of a hint.
still looking for the box that has it. Interestingly, the real guy who was the Charlie Sheen character in Platoon was friend of mine. He was wounded like that, spent a year in hospital, then one day in September 1968, he walked into the Oleo Strut and became one of the "animating presences" among the GIs we were working with. He was later the National President of Veterans for Peace for many years, active everywhere. Fought drug addiction stemming from all the morphine they gave him from the wo…
Sometimes I don’t like the way the replies get jumbled up. May cats were laughing at Jim Morrison flipping off the stage and everyone falling out of their chairs. Your post about your friend, the Charlie Sheen character was based on is moving and tragic. An incredible person.
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It’s about damn time. AOC is a hero. She’s one of the best out there, fighting daily against Trump’s fascist bullshit.
