When they said “talent show,” they really meant ✨gay takeover✨. Senate Dems turned the Kennedy Center into the most fabulous protest of the year — and it was everything. 🏳️‍🌈🎤 #LoveIsLove #PridePolitics #KennedyCenterReclaimed #YouCantCancelQueer #lgbt #lgbtq #thewokeginger #progressive #liberal

"The lamp light shopped in the yellow strands of her hair. "
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Short Trip Home

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Yes, it's true: 9 of George Washington's teeth were purchased from enslaved people. Google it if you don't believe me.

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The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories by Andre M. Carrington. 10 stars. Masterfully written. Original story structures. Creative plots. So much more than elves and spacemen.

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Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow:Historical fiction on the highest level. Real people from history-J.P. Morgan, Harry Houdini-bump into and separate from fictional characters like bumper cars careening through the earliest years of the 20th Century.

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PARTS OF New Jersey, as you know, are under water, and other parts are under continual surveillance by the authorities.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar.

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ca·lum·ni·ate
verb formal
make false and defamatory statements about."foes were calumniating him in the press."
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testamentary
adjective
relating to or bequeathed or appointed through a will."a testamentary bequest"
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Mr. Pecksniff told him, and added, rather hastily; his calumniators would have said, with a view to any testamentary thoughts that might be flitting through old Martin's mind; 'Perhaps, my dears, you had better write them down.
- Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
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invidious
adjective
(of an action or situation) likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger.
"Despite his aged stoop, Benjamin Button ‐-for it was by this name they called him instead of by the appropriate but invidious Methuselah--was five feet eight inches tall."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The one thing I've learned from all of this is how eager Americans are to shoot themselves in the foot over an idea that does not serve them.

😋🌱❤️ guilt free brownies 🍫😊
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I think I’m just going to watch Ted Lasso on repeat to get me through the next four years.