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Bethann Culkin Murphy
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Philadelphia area. Southern NJ.
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August 30, 1950: "Summer Stock" was still a hit.

Check out The Judy Room's Filmography Pages on "Summer Stock" at www.thejudyroom.com/summerstock....

#judygarland #genekelly #summerstock #thejudyroom @mgmmusicals.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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"It's coming back to life. We're going to make it." George Foote, lawyer for the U.S. Institute of Peace sounds a hopeful note as he describes how the group is putting the pieces back together after DOGE illegally took over and decimated their organization.
June 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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“.. reminiscent of portraits of leaders hanging from public buildings, often seen in dictatorships, monarchies, and in descriptions in George Orwell’s 1984 of ‘Big Brother.’”

@the-independent.com
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
May 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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For American readers, this is from one of the UK's leading right-wing newspapers today. The game is up.

www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2...
It’s over. America has ceased to be leader of the free world
Accidentally copying in a journalist to senior officials’ private thoughts about Europe was a gift of Providence
www.telegraph.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡
Mike Johnson: "We're transitioning from Bidenomics and the terrible economy that was delivered by the last administration. It takes a while to turn that ship around."
March 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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March 4, 1938: Judy Garland's "Everybody Sing" tour took her to Columbus, OH. Life Magazine covered her appearance, being named "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" and her engagement at Loew's Ohio Theater.

#judygarland #columbusohio #ohiostate #sigmachifraternity #lifemagaine #thejudyroom
March 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…
February 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Are you a journalist, genealogist or historian who has ever used records from the National Archives? It's time to step up and take some simple steps to preserve federal records. And save our nation's history. Please visit this website. And share widely.
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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provides core government functions necessary to preserve, protect, and make accessible records from all three branches of the federal government...
fundnara.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: "Inspectors general are a headache for everyone. You know why? Because they're investigating every agency and they find stuff! Including waste and fraud and abuse! They wouldn't be firing them if they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse."
February 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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February 15, 1950:  Judy and Gene Kelly filmed "You Wonderful You" (reprise version) for "Summer Stock."

The Judy Room's Filmography Pages on "Summer Stock” www.thejudyroom.com/filmography/...

#judygarland #genekelly #summerstock #thejudyroom @mgmmusicals.bsky.social @genekellylegacy.bsky.social
February 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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February 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Sen. Durbin began his questioning of Kash Patel by extensively citing this NPR report:

www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence
Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.
www.npr.org
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I missed this entirely:

The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines.

Musk demanded he resign.

He did.

On January 20th.

www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...
FAA Chief Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign
Michael Whitaker had only been in the role for a year but the SpaceX chief accused him of “harassment.”
www.thedailybeast.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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[January 15th, 1945] Judy Garland celebrates 10-year film career anniversary with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract renewal.

#history #OTD #WWII #1940s

@thejudyroom.bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Former President Jimmy Carter’s casket is carried out of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, ahead of his funeral service at the National Cathedral.
nbcnews.to/409GXr5
January 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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WATCH LIVE: State funeral services for former President Jimmy Carter

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGdD...
January 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Most succinct fact-check I've read of how LA Fire Dept's budget wasn't recently cut -- in fact, the opposite -- from @politico.com. But that misinformation spread anyway. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
January 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Pregame warmup/ chill down over. Stress watching about to commence. #GoIrish
January 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge,
Believe that a further shore

Is reachable from here,
Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.

— Seamus Heaney
December 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM