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La’Tonya Rease Miles

@smartgirl07.bsky.social

Author of SMART GIRL, first-gen guru. San Francisco Bay Area 🌁 founder | co-founder #ballislife πŸ€

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"You Can Do This Hard Thing" by Empowering First Gen Students Facebook group

Here's a link to the playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/1Xt...

03.03.2026 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You Can Do This Hard Thing: A First-Gen Soundtrack Can’t leave rap alone, the game needs me Haters want me clapped in chrome, it ain’t easy Cops want to knock me, D.A. wants to box me in But somehow I beat them charges like Rocky &#8211…

Back in 2020 members of the Empowering First Gen Students Facebook group created a playlist of songs that represent the first-gen college experience. I wrote about it here:
firstgenandjuice.wordpress.com/2020/07/19/y...

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My colleagues and I will be talking about AI and mental health/illness at the upcoming Northern CA Psychiatric Society Annual Meeting this weekend.

03.03.2026 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This made me laugh out loud. But but but GIANNIS is back. 😱

03.03.2026 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please ban the announcers from mentioning that the Celtics are playing without Tatum.

03.03.2026 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is it a map? A waffle? I’m confused.

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The announcers talkin bout just HOW important it is for the Bucks to win this game when the Cs don’t have Tatum or Brown

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Here's the roundup of all the 2025 Catalyst Awards winners. What an honor to be included among them.

02.03.2026 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When he joins the team to play alongside Hugo years from now, we won't be surprised.

02.03.2026 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Queta fouled 77x in that last sequence.

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β€˜What Black hair product is safe?’ | CNN Many people suffer from rashes or other negative reactions to hair used for braiding. Turns out that many hair extensions are full of known hazardous chemicals, which could be harmful to Black hair st...

Almost every Black woman or girl has purchased hair extensions for box braids, boho braids, twists, faux locs and other styles. The latest research shows that many of those extensions are full of known hazardous chemicals, which could be harmful to Black hair stylists and their clients.

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Look at my Portuguese son!

02.03.2026 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yooo what did Neemias Queta just do?

02.03.2026 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ordering my Queta jersey rn

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A team of midlife cheerleaders in Ukraine refuses to let war defeat them Ukrainian women in their 50s and 60s say they've embraced cheerleading as a way to cope with the extreme stress and anxiety of four years of Russia's full-scale invasion.

Ukrainian women in their 50s and 60s say they've embraced cheerleading as a way to cope with the extreme stress and anxiety of four years of Russia's full-scale invasion.

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Lakers not about that player development life.

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Okaaaay Breeze!

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"They were girls who went to school to learn, with hopes and dreams for their future," Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said. "Today, their lives were brutally cut short.”

Read more: https://wapo.st/4r7izC7

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If it weren't for TRIO, I highly doubt this little working-class girl would've graduated from college. Thank you for changing my life. #nationalTRIOday #TRIOworks

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Sick stats for the Celtics tonight..Two SUBS Pritchard and Vucevic, hit 75% from the field, 7-of-8 from 3, and shot 100% from the line, 50 pts combined in 53 minutes OFF THE BENCH.

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I actually think they got the call right. Can’t blame Jokic for reacting.

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A switch was flipped.

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I can’t think of any other nba team that is associated with smarts and intelligence as the Celticsβ€”the crowd, the coach, the players. In the present and historically.

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In fact I’m thinking about writing a short piece about it.

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Snoopy just entered the game. He better not mess up the fg percentage.

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That β€œlast game in street clothes” feeling

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Looking real comfortable tonight.

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