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Dolly Parton - 9 To 5 (Official Video)

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Rest in Dollywood

"The Kansas City Missouri-based Multicultural Business Coalition is suing NYC to prevent them from selling low-cost groceries and fresh produce to poor and hungry New Yorkers. NYC's municipal food stores won't be selling items that are revenue drivers for small businesses and bodegas such as cigarettes, prepared foods, or lottery tickets."

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) helping small business
Whenever there is a demonstration in the US against police brutality or some social injustice, Republicans bellow "outside agitators!" or "Antifa!"

~snip~

As Clownshack wrote: "Americans hate helping the poor. Even poor Americans hate helping the poor Americans. Too worried the wrong poor Americans will receive help. It's a mental illness."

This program would clearly help People of Color in NYC and my parents could have benefited from this last century.

Sidenote:

Until 1981, the US operated 28 free hospitals at harbor or port cities. Republican POTUS Ronald Reagan closed down the last one:

"After World War II, however, efforts began in Washington to disband the system because merchant seamen were being highly paid and some officials felt it inequitable to provide free medical care not available to others."

Source: Free US hospitals

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RFK Jr. may upend how vaccine recommendations are categorized
arstechnica.com

... Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the US health department is considering changing how vaccine recommendations are categorized and described.

The move creates the possibility that vaccinations currently considered "routine" or "universal" could be given new designations that sound less definitive or more conditional, such as "recommended with qualification" or recommended based on "shared clinical decision-making."

Kennedy has made no new rules or recommendations for the categories yet. ...


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Trump threatens to change Lake Ontario's name to "Lake America" amid trade fight with Canada
www.cbsnews.com

Soooo..., instead of using HOMES to designate the Great Lakes, if Pres Trump gets his way, we will be using SHAME to designate the Great Lakes?


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