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I've noticed the partisan shift there. We should all be looking to substantiate our news from multiple reputable sources!

a woman wearing sunglasses is sitting in a car with her mouth open . ALT: a woman wearing sunglasses is sitting in a car with her mouth open .

I have no interest in finding common ground with people who would hang me from a tree given the chance…

Get This Money by Jamie Foxx on Apple Music Song · 2005 · Duration 4:31

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I.O.U. by Luke James on Apple Music Song · 2013 · Duration 3:59

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I need new Luke James music. What is he doing? Let me go look.

What would the child you once were, think of the adult you have become?

I need a good Marshall’s/ Home Goods run

Apropos… There are now four (4) vaccines for which research notes an association with lower rates of dementia: influenza, shingles, RSV, and TDAP (tetanus, diphtheria & pertussis)

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You know what gags me a little? Mama didn't even look back. She didn't even look at this man touching her 😂😂

It’s been said before, but it bears repeating.

White female nurses and social workers are to Black and Brown people what police offers are. The brutality is VERY MUCH the point.

B.Slade - Could It Be You (J'Fuzion's WestCoast Myx) Written and performed by B.Slade™ ©2012 Suxxess Records all instruments, programming and remyx production by J'Fuzion™ original version appears on the album,

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Um. I was not expecting so many of you to have so many favorite jazz songs. BUT since so many did, I decided to make a playlist of them.

Here you go! "Bluesky Loves Jazz" open.spotify.com/playlist/3gw...

Don’t Go To Strangers

It’s such an energy saver, too. I’m out the mf way, okay?!

200 Bands (feat. Plies & T-Pain) by Bryson Tiller on Apple Music Song · 2025 · Duration 2:38

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Feta with Italian herbs

Baby brought me a Popeyes sandwhich, some crushed ice, and a chik fil a dragonfruit lemonade 😭😭😭 it’s the little things fr

Everybody mad at Crissle when she's been acting like that on the podcast for over a decade. It's why I stopped listening to them a long time ago, they're hateful. But it's funny watching people get mad at them going after someone they like

Vegas baby

So it acts like a white man.

Are we really shocked? That’s who trained it…

They just be wanting a live sex doll

Ok the last hear was cute but um time to get back to being a bad bitch.

I haven’t heard of one single positive HOA story

Watching a video about food shortages this winter:

Bananas
Berries
Apples
Sugar/sweets
Seed & vegetable oils
Fresh seafood, specifically shellfish, salmon, and crab
Grains

Do with that what you will.

YouTube video by Sy Smith I love this visual concept for my tune “Summer of ‘93” by artist Kimberly Offord! What do you think?

I've got @sysmith.bsky.social's "Summer of '93" stuck in my head. It's a prefect end-of-summer bop.

l honestly feel like BW have spent years screaming into the void.

Long before we got to today & the DOJ, cooperations, & MSM are trying to re-write history, BW were begging y’all to pay attention to Charlie Kirk & his organization.

This is me…over 5 years ago begging folks to pay attention.

Going to watch this classic over the weekend and mourn both Robert Redford and The Washington Post. Democracy dies in darkness indeed.