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Michelle J

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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · Dec 5

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 10/20

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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 5h

I am shook. We’re the same age. Dammit!!!! I just put on his music. What a shame. Truly.

Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 7h

D’Angelo died?!? Smdh.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 1d

Well, the Jays are getting it handed to them by Seattle. And that is not good. I’m sad for them. The mechanics are all off. We’ve been out hit, out played, outdone. The next game could spell the end of our run. Smdh.

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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 1d

Send him there first!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "If we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put up fission power. We think we can have longterm stays on the south pole of the moon."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 3d

Just heard about Diane Keaton. Damn. Going to miss seeing her on-screen. Rest well, Ms. Keaton 🙏

Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 3d

Well, the whole world is burning and all I want is the perfect poached egg. What a morning 😳

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 3d

The MMWR?!? Yikes!

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

“The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 4d

Is he dead? I mean… 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 5d

JFC.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

CNN: We have just learned that Letitia James has just been indicted by the DOJ

Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 5d

Ha!!! 😜

Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you Baseball Gods!!! Thank you!!! #BlueJays

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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 6d

ONE MORE OUT!!!!! #BlueJays

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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 6d

And THAT is why we hate that damn Yankees team. Smdh. #GoJaysGo

Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight!!! 😉

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Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, I might have sent a hex or two his way… 🤷🏽‍♀️