If you watch closely, you'll see they're doing this opposite an actual funeral procession.

1859 Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis 1869 US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens 1898 Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill during US's successful assault on the city of Santiago 1899 San Francisco City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of construction 1908 "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal becomes the worldwide standard for help 1916 Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market 1931 Ice vending machines introduced in Los Angeles 25 lbs, 15 cents 1933 German nazi regime declares that married women shouldn't work 1956 Elvis Presley, wearing a tuxedo, sings to a basset hound on The Steve Allen Show 1967 The Beatles' album "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" goes #1 in the United States, stays there for 15 weeks 1972 Feminist magazine "Ms" founded by Gloria Steinem publishes its first regular issue with Wonder Woman on the cover 1982 Cal Ripken Jr. makes the first of his record 2,216 consecutive MLB starts at shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles. 1997 United Kingdom returns Hong Kong and the New Territories to the People's Republic of China 2017 Canada celebrates 150 years since its formation 2020 America confirms more than 50,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day for the 1st time 2021 State of New York charges The Trump Organization and its chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg with tax fraud and grand larceny 2021 Britain's Princes William and Harry unveil statue to their mother Diana, Princess of Wales, on what would have been her 60th birthday, at Kensington Palace

☀️ Happy 🌮 Tuesday

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I have met some amazing people here, gathered by a common goal
To preserve and protect our Democracy

Treasure your freedom always

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

~Walter Winchell

We will be okay

Love
Foxy 🦊

Good morning Vince. Thank you.
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1806 Orkney woman Isobel Gunn sets sail for Prince Rupert's Land disguised as a man to work for the Hudson Bay Company - her true identity only revealed when she gives birth December 1807 1891 US National Forest Service organized 1906 US Congress pass the Hepburn Act, permitting the regulation of rates charged by railroads, pipelines, and terminals engaged in interstate commerce 1927 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii 1936 George M. Cohan is the first artist to be presented with a US Congressional Gold Medal, by Franklin D. Roosevelt (for raising war morale 1940 Batman Comics, mobsters rub out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes the US Senate after a 60-working-day filibuster by Southern senators 1969 1st Jewish worship service at the White House 1977 Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults 1986 Richard Branson aboard Virgin Atlantic Challenger II reaches Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly, fastest crossing of Atlantic 1992 2 earthquakes including 7.4 hits southern California 1994 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees 2002 US Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure. 2009 Financier Bernie Madoff sentenced to 150 years in US maximum prison, for conducting a massive Ponzi scheme 2020 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 that abortion restrictions in Louisiana unconstitutional, striking down a 2014 state law 2023 US Supreme court rules 6-3 that college race-based admission programs used to increase diversity are illegal under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment

☀️Happy Sunday ☀️

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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Good morning everyone.
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Good morning everyone.
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1865 Union General Gordon Grangerdeclares slaves are free in Texas, now the date the end of slavery is celebrated across the US as Juneteenth 1903 New York Central Railroad begins building Grand Central Terminal, designed by the architectural firms of Reed & Stem (overall) and Warren & Wetmore (exterior 1914 Hillcrest Mine Disaster: explosion at Hillcrest mine, Alberta, kills 189 men in Canada's worst mining disaster 1932 Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China 1938 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47 1940 Hermann Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses and ships 1941 US President Franklin Rooseveltsigns the Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act - increases the size of US Navy by 70% 1944 Day one of the two-day Battle of the Philippine Sea, US naval forces defeat the Japanese fleet in World War II 1944 Five of the "The Magnificent Eleven" photos taken by Robert Capa during the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach, Normandy first published in "Life Magazine" 1954 "Taz" Tasmanian Devil, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Robert McKimson and Warren Foster, (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Devil May Hare" 1961 US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God 1978 Garfield, created by Jim Davis, first appears as a comic strip 1987 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation 2019 US Senators receive a classified briefing on possible UFO sightings by the US Navy 2024 A law requiring classrooms display the Ten Commandments signed into law by Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry - first state to do so

Happy Juneteenth

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The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
~Elizabeth Edwards

Be kind to yourself

We will be okay

1885 Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship `Isere' 1894 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out in Rutland, Vermont 1932 Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the US Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits 1947 Pan Am Airways' 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC 1953 US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary 1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools 1971 Carole King's album "Tapestry" goes to #1 on US album charts and stays there for 15 weeks 1987 With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct 1991 The body of the 12th US President, Zachary Taylor, is exhumed to test how he died; rumors had persisted since his death in 1850 of arsenic poisoning - no evidence of this was found 1994 O.J. Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA police chase his Ford Bronco for 1½ hours before he eventually gives up (seen live on national TV) 2008 First day of legal same-sex marriage in California 2021 US President Joe Biden signs into law the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act making June 19th a federal holiday commemorating emancipation

Happy 🌮 Tuesday

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

~Thomas A. Edison

America showed up this past weekend and said
We Are NOT Giving Up

We will be okay
Love
Foxy 🦊

Happy TACO Tuesday everyone.
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Good morning everyone.
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🚫 NO KINGS DAY🚫
💙 Meet and Greet 💙

Today millions of Americans across the country will peacefully protest

They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services
WE WILL NO LONGER TOLERATE IT

PLEASE BE SAFE OUT THERE

1866 US House of representatives passes the 14th Amendment (Civil rights) 1917 World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children with 432 injuries 1920 US Post Office says children cannot be sent by parcel post (after various instances 1925 Charles Jenkins demonstrates the transmission of synchronized pictures and sound (early television) 1948 Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th 1970 The Beatles' "Let It Be" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks 1977 Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured 2000 South Korean President Kim Dae-jung meets North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang 2005 A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch 2017 US Attorney General Jeff Sessionstestifies before Senate Intelligence Committee, denies secretly meeting Russians 2021 US President Joe Biden has tea with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle 2022 A Google engineer claims one of its AI systems, Lamda, might have a sentient mind, causing the company to place him on leave 2024 G7 leaders agree to loan Ukraine $50 billion from frozen Russian assets to buy weapons and rebuild, at their meeting in Borgo Egnazia, Italy

😳 Friday the 13th 😳

🐈‍⬛ Meet and Greet 🐈‍⬛

The association of Friday the 13th with bad luck has deep roots in both religious and cultural beliefs, with the Last Supper and the Knights Templar often cited as contributing factors

So that said enjoy your day and let’s do this!

We will be ok
Love
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Good morning everyone.
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Federal Judge Charles Breyer has ordered tRump to return control of the National Guard back to California Governor Gavin Newsom.

REPOST to thank Judge Breyer for standing up for the Constitution!

Good morning everyone.
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How it's going so far.

1908 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC) 1917 US Secret Service extends protection of the President to include his family 1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC 1935 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana speaks continually for 15½ hours in then Senate's longest speech (150,000 words) 1954 Bill Haley & His Comets release the hit single "Rock Around the Clock" 1965 Sonny & Cher make their 1st TV appearance on "American Bandstand" 1970 Rocker and blues singer Janis Joplindebuts in Kentucky 1980 Ronald Reagan says he will submit to periodic medical tests 1987 US President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall 2009 US television broadcasts switch from analog NTSC to digital ATSC transmission 2013 Russia passes a law banning gay propaganda 2019 Earliest evidence of humans smoking cannabis discovered in 2,500-year-old grave in Pamir Mountains, China, published in "Science Advances" 2019 Violent protests in Hong Kong as tens of thousands of protesters block and try to storm government buildings to stop extradition law

☀️ Happy Thursday ☀️

🦋 Meet and Greet 🦋

Another beautiful weather day on tap!

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

~Charles Spurgeon

Make sure you take time for yourself 🥰

Remember
We will be okay

Love
Foxy

1905 Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs) 1921 Brazil adopts women's suffrage 1927 Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross 1939 British ruler King George VI and Queen Elizabeth taste their first "hot dogs" at a party at FDR's Hyde Park residence during their US visit 1944 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas 1959 Postmaster General bans D. H. Lawrence's book 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' as obscene; overruled by US Court of Appeals in March of 1960 1963 Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức immolates himself at a Saigon intersection, creating one of the Vietnam War's most iconic images 1963 US President JFK says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act" 1972 31°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio in June 1979 Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months 1984 US Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally 2019 Comedian Jon Stewart delivers angry rebuke to Congress for the lack of funds for 9/11 victims 2021 US lobsterman survives being swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts

Happy 🐫 Wednesday

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On June 11, 1963, the University of Alabama was desegregated as Vivian Malone and James Hood became the first two African American students to enroll The National Guard, acting on instructions from President JFK ensured the students were able to register
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Good morning everyone.
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Good morning everyone.
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1692 First victim of the Salem witch trials, Bridget Bishop, is hanged after being found guilty of witchcraft in the Colony of Massachusetts 1768 Riot breaks out in Boston after customs officials seize sloop owned by John Hancock for alleged customs violation 1845 Andrew Jackson's African Grey parrot "Poll" is removed from his funeral for swearing 1933 US President Franklin D. Rooseveltissues executive order making Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, part of the National Park Service 1944 Nazi forces carry out a massacre of 642 civilians in the French village Oradour-sur-Glane 1963 US Equal Pay Act signed into law by President John F. Kennedy 1968 AL games at Baltimore & Chicago postponed honoring Robert F. Kennedy 1975 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans 1975 Yankees sponsor Army Day at their temporary home, Shea Stadium; during a 21-gun salute, part of the fence is blown away, and another part is set on fire 1985 Coca-Cola announces they're bringing back their 99-year-old formula 2003 Michael Leshner and Michael Stark become the first same-sex couple to legally marry in Canada 2021 UN says famine is affecting 350,000 people in Tigray, Ethiopia, the worst starvation calamity in the world right now

🌧️Happy Tuesday ☔️

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When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.
~LL Cool J

We are always stronger together 👊

Remember
We WILL be okay

Love
Foxy 🦊

Good morning everyone.
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Good morning everyone.
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1882 Electric iron patented by New York inventor Henry W. Seely. It weighed almost 15 pounds and was very slow to heat up. 1900 US Congress pass an act authorizing a civil code and government for the territory of Alaska after gold discoveries bring lawlessness and disorder to the area 1912 The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins, the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century 1925 Walter Chrysler reorganizes the failing Maxwell Motor Company and founds automobile manufacturer ChryslerCorporation in Detroit, Michigan 1938 Sigmund Freud arrives in London, fleeing the Nazi annexation of Austria 1942 1st nylon parachute jump is made by Ameican parachute tester Adeline Gray (27-ish), at Brainard Field, an airport near Hartford, Connecticut; Dupont teamed with the Pioneer Parachute Company to develop use of an alternative to silk 1944 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 156,000-strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II 1966 Civil rights activist James Meredithwounded by white sniper in Mississippi 1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night 1988 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant 1988 George H. W. Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II to Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989) 2023 UK's Prince Harry is the first senior royal to testify in court in 130 years, accusing Mirror Group Newspapers of hacking his emails

🎆 Happy FriYAY 🎆

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Well yesterday’s social media spat between Elon and Trump was SO predictable

That said …it was better than I could have ever imagined

We ALL knew that this was going to happen
Trump is incapable of any lasting relationships

This is just the beginning 😆

1876 Bananas become popular in US, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia 1917 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I 1937 Henry Ford initiates a 32 hour work week 1944 After receiving favorable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6 1956 US Federal court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Constitutional 1968 Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan assassinates Robert F. Kennedy, shooting him 3 times and wounding 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Kennedy dies the next day 1976 Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die) 1987 "Nightline" presents its 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS and the show runs until 3:47 AM 2001 Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history. 2018 US President Donald Trumpadministration's policy of separating immigrant children from their families violates international law according to the UN

☀️Happy Thursday ☀️

🦋 Meet and Greet 🦋

"Family isn't always blood.
It's the people in your life who want you in theirs
The ones who accept you for who you are.
The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what"

We are FAMILY
We WILL be okay
Love
Foxy 🦊

Good question.
Good morning everyone.
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Good morning everyone.
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What’s up Wednesday

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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

~Mahatma Gandhi

You are stronger than you know!

Do something that brings you joy today ❤️

Remember
We WILL be okay

Love
Foxy