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When Tracy Chapman got her first big paycheck, she didn’t buy a car.
Or jewelry.
Or a vacation.
She bought her mom a house.
Paid off her student loans.
Helped her sister Aneta go to school.
That’s what success looks like when your roots run deep.
Fast car. My girlfriend and I had been scraping together enough to get out of bad places, trying to finish high school, get to somewhere safer…. We did, too….busking on the streets sometimes, hungry, but we Totally made it….all the way, businesses, degrees, the works Thank you, you really helped us
You can fool some people sometimes
But you can't fool all the people all the time
So now we see the light (what you gonna do?)
We going to stand up for our right (yeah, yeah, yeah)
#getupstandup #bobmarley #tracychapman #humanrightsnow
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Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.
America’s intervention in Iran, Feb-April 2026
My wife said I spoil our dog. Fuck knows how she thinks he's going to shuck his own oysters.
Terminator 2 scene: John Connor says, "We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean." The Terminator replies, "It's in your nature to destroy yourselves." John says, "Major drag, huh?"
Hand holding a small watercolour painting of autumnal woodland.
Good morning.
'Ladbroke Grove, Winter Morning Light 2' by Peter Brown
peterbrownneac.com
Spoiler alert: we’ve always been the bad guys
The painting is titled "Forever Young" (also known as "Turn of the Century") by the renowned Polish-American surrealist artist Rafał Olbiński.
Just closed on this 12” x 12” oil portrait of Woody Guthrie by the very talented Iowa artist, musician, songwriter and Renaissance man, Chad Elliott. 😎🎨
This is one of the studies (1885) John Singer Sargent made for 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose.' The lanterns which we can see here were painted with very thin layers of paint; this allowed the light to seem like it was emanating from within rather than just sitting on the surface.
This painting is titled "Dora at Oriel, Spring" (2009) by the renowned British artist Ken Howard (1932–2022).
Savannah Bananas baseball team performing a choreographed dance routine inspired by the movie "Dirty Dancing" during a game. #TuesdayFun
WHO suspends Gaza medical evacuations after contractor killed by Israeli troops.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
HOW?