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I used to make music. Now retired. Rural country squire. I work my land. It kicks my ass. Rolling that rock at 72 y/o. #LongCovid #MichaelJackson

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This picture of Tito just hits hard. All of the love, man.
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Tito Jackson has sadly passed away at the age of 70.
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@MericaCulture @stats_feed Absolutely wrong. He wrote all his greatest hits with a couple exceptions, had to fight his famous producers to keep his more progressive songs, which became hits. He sang every note to musicians as he did not care to learn an instrument, and that's for a good reason in his
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People are asking if I have any unreleased video from my time with @michaeljackson I have none. Not even a photograph. To keep the respect and trust of the artist a craftsman like me needs to avoid the perception of gaining status for himself through the association with the
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@adedolapo_mary @michaeljackson 7 years I worked along side Michael. One of the most open, clear and rewarding relationships of all my years in music. B or W was my first release as full producer and half the creative responsibility on an M.J. song. I loved every minute of the process. I miss you Michael.
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@Smitherhands You know what's "weird"? Singing like Michael Jackson Being a best-in-world musician while integrating music, culture, and geography with no apparent specialty, like Michael Jackson Being kind, generous, wise, and shy while being a global business player while not being
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@2Swerdy Doctors are naturally selected to be complacent and obedient because they gave their life up to please father or mother.
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@realnikohouse He quit after 1 meeting with Obama in late 2016. It is unclear what went on in that meeting. Ever since then he's been a good soldier for centrist Dems. Very disappointing to say the least. But "stole money"??? Where do you get that? Campaign contributions? Not his money.
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@peterjhasson Where ya been Chuck? He was a weak candidate, anointed by DNC in 2020 -there were way better candidates. He was a horrible, ailing "leader" in 2024 when primaries were "cancelled". When Hur said he's elderly with poor memory what did you say, Chuck? How about some criticism
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@KeithOlbermann Shrapnel or bullet, why is this important?
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#CelebrateMichaelJackson Wow, trending for, how many days? I'm celebrating endlessly with such beautiful people from all over the world! There's been a hole in my life missing Michael, but this is so healing. Love to all.
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@LibertyLockPod Tall Dark & Brandon
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@JohnFugelsang You'll make just as much progress telling people to use the word "literally" correctly.
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Very sad to hear of the passing of the great Bruce Swedien. A master.
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@I_Am_JohnCullen HOW each casualty, each wound, each hospital visit is not documented and reported as fact? And it's up to Cullen and X to investigate all this?? Clown world. Or just the way it is now.
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@DVATW @joerogan @jimmycarr He's funny but the vaccines didn't work. Still don't. So the joke kinda flops.
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@VigilantFox @RenzTom Compelling evidence (I'll cite if you insist) that DARPA and DOD developed the virus and continued with the "measures". Under a legal "defense emergency". Vaxx was fully DOD who contracted Pfizer /Moderna who had no liability under contract. "Defense Emergency" explains a lot
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@SIEDAHGARRETT @gkfilms Siedah, they're saying MITM is all over the movie. Your character should be in there with it! Cut some of the boring lawyer scenes.
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@michaeljackson However, M. took some great footage with hired crews during sessions with Andre Crouch choir and strings on Earth Song, and sometimes HE had a camera and took some pics of me looking like the HVAC repairman.
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@NateSilver538 It seems the "poll" question was provocative. Somehow equated criticism of the IDF with "Holocaust denial" ? I'm not going to believe this. The poll was worded as a trap.
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@Asimhaneef @michaeljackson It seems like the world loves Michael. I don't think they got anything wrong. Some people with business agendas got a bigger megaphone tho. And a bigger yacht.
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@tajjackson3 Billboard has had honesty problems since the 90's. There's a culture there of serving favored corporate entities instead of the readers.
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@latoyaswig Ha ha. It's a demo. You get what you pay for. Sometimes M. would run a song through many times while he formed the words, the sound of 'em, the vowels, the rhymes, the rhythm of the phrases. There's a longer version of this. Like 15 minutes. It's got epic vocal moments -
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@ggreenwald I can't remember a time where this behavior, sending 100's of billions across the sea, willy-nilly, no oversight, was the accepted and only response to a perceived "National Interest" threat. Former proxy wars did not unfold this way. Hell, Reagan resorted to drug dealing...1/
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@offthemfwall I just read @LiberianGirl779 's great thread on that subject. Though Michael never clarified to me exactly who the song was about, I always thought of Diana.
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@MarkRuffalo Agree. It got hold of us with Reagan, and Clinton made it 100%. Ever since, we had a duopoly of oligarchs. Being a leftist before all that happened, I now know not to use the terms Rep. Dem. Left. Right. They are meaningless in this century.
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@Fighting_LC Wow, this is so O. Henry. Do Brits know this writer?
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@Smitherhands This is a brilliant tribute. Both the depiction of the crown and your words. You describe how M. lived and died. Don't worry about some magazine article, it'll be gone tomorrow. (the article)
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@dreederMJ @DamienShields @DrStepfanHolley I'm shocked to learn of Teddy's betrayal and his need for $50,000/song. (though I'm well aware of his habit of demanding publishing for arranging/producing) I'm sorry for Teddy but you don't betray the innocent hand that fed you. I had no idea what a shit-show of desperate
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@RobAustinH @MarioNawfal Not false. But let's not forget Harris was the loneliest VP in a lifetime. Nothing to do or say. (Yeah they gave her "the border" but she didn't take to that job either) How she's suddenly a player makes no sense.
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@Thewokelilstar should be a MJ song. Not MITM. I say Will You Be There
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@Lady_FanAccount Thanks for posting! Slight correction: Guitars on Black or White were played by myself (main guitar and Rap section funk guitar) and Tim Pierce (heavy metal guitar) Many get confused because the "Skit" intro on the album was played by Slash.
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@RuckCohlchez I blame the advent of "superheroes". 2 generations have had no exposure to the common struggles of humans.
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@naomirwolf So you're suggesting one cabal including Pelosi - them running Biden - got out-flanked by another cabal running Harris - when they released that letter and flashed thru a Harris-booster blitz before the other cabal could even think past their dementia. And it seems the Harrisites
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@adedolapo_mary @michaeljackson ..and it spent 16 weeks at #1 . Tied with "Beat It" for MJ's longest #1 . Pretty cool!
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@LauraPowellEsq How I grew up and never changed at age 70: You don't trust the US government The CIA/FBI are corrupt and evil All wars since Viet Nam are corporate/MIC Non-conformity is a good thing You don't work for a company larger than 10 people You don't buy their crap or take their loans
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@aaronjmate This is what is so sad about this moment. It's a new clear view into the minds of those who installed him in 2020 over more qualified (and more effective) candidates. This would indicate they chose Biden as the weakest, most obedient, of the pack. Their statements now,
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@Smitherhands @iamveronica777 As far as my experience, in my original Earth Song M. sang the whole outro in a head voice, kinda like Marvin Gaye. It's the only thing that got changed during the David Foster sessions on HIStory. (some lyrics were unfinished in the original) Other times he would do a soprano
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@themjjarchives I do not support this leak, and I don't support its release in this form, which is unfinished in very important ways including vocals. This was a very early work in progress in 1989, investigated again in 2010 but not advanced at that point.
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@MadonnaUltimate @Madonna and @michaeljackson together in spirit. Thank you both. Always rising above.
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@VivekGRamaswamy It's plain as day. They're installing Haley. This could change, but as of now, the entire machine is working on this at 110% capacity.
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@isjusticedenied Q and Bruce played their part brilliantly. MJ always fully the artist, but different after Billie Jean, which Q didn't want on the album. Q and Bruce worked a "father figure" psychology on MJ. Didn't know it wasn't truly taking hold. MJ let 'em. Until he didn't.
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@WarClandestine Also this old-school tactic of war before an unpopular incumbent's election struggle.
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@CamillaMR2 I am an MJ defender. I meant questionable accusations. I used MJ example because of the nature of the organized attackers, what my post was about.
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@NFL_Memes Pulitzer level: Photog: Identify yourself. Nobody else is gonna do it.
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@Iskra2036 @jacksonhinklle Could be Nuland/CIA because of Africa's rebellions. Nuland was just in South Africa. (also Niger?)
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@goddeketal I would add one thing: "exercise" was not a thing. Instead, there were tasks to be done semi-daily which required some exertion. Of course more jobs involved some exertion - but also away from work, people had occasion to *work*. The "gym" culture has been normalized. Now,
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@DrStepfanHolley I've never heard the that album. I've heard plenty of talk about the Cascio debacle. I've seen the criticism of the estate but never heard their answers to that criticism. Was this after Xscape? Because that was the last I met with the record co. (no estate) who were
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@miko96603332 With Michael, everything had a place. Each song, each performance of it, each video. All were meant to be - with intention, ambition, and hope to move his audience as far as possible toward awe, in a hundred different ways.
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@Cancelcloco @ninaturner Ian, think of it as a large class-action lawsuit. A well-defined aggrieved class of people are holding the US Federal Gov. liable for damages accrued over time due to well-defined actions. Statute of limitations don't apply when the damage caused has contemporary outcomes.
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@aaronjmate I guess now he discovered rather quickly where the boundaries are. He thought he could come back and be John Stewart 2010? Not in 2024. No way.
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@TaraBull808 I'm not noticing anything. Other than a multi-year opinion, as a mature male human, that Ms. Swift has no "heat", is not sexy, and puts on a brilliant show for her (mostly young female) audience. There's no danger. Compare to my girl Madonna.
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@guustweet For me it's physical books. I like good fiction. Easier on the eyes than screens and better to sink into than audio books. You gotta love the book tho. Without that I will research LC/ME all day, and that's not healthy.
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@Inversionism How often have we said, "When is somebody gonna stand up to the blackmail?"
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@BGatesIsaPyscho You should maybe tell us stuff instead of asking us stuff.
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@goddeketal "The entire narrative reeks of manipulation and deceit." Yes, all was lies. The testing was false, so the numbers were false, the aging sick were dying FROM the hospital not IN the hospital. So the death numbers were false, the shots were thrown together in desperation and
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@blackintheempir Here's hoping the multi-polar world kicks into high gear before the Empire blows us all up.
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@msp1678 @Fighting_LC Yes! That and the one about the last leaf on the wall outside the window.
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@marwilliamson Regardless of cats or geese being eaten, there is little wisdom in flying desperate Haitians into small-town Ohio. Not long ago there were justifications, explanations made for these mass importations, usually a humanitarian/empathy discussion. Now it's all stamped with
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@SalvMattera Brilliant research. Yes, 100's of thousands of anecdotes written by people who clearly have no reason to lie. I'v tried, but I can't think of who would produce bots for LC? No, these millennials are pooling their experiences and I'm terribly sad for them. And us all.
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@Thekeksociety From the British conquering China with Opium, to the CIA destroying black american culture with crack, to oxycontin, then fentanyl, then fentanyl in meth, it's always been intelligence communities waging drug warfare.
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@DamienShields @DrStepfanHolley Wow Damien. I'm on episode 8. Well done! For me, it brings up a world that I was fortunate to bypass. And then it brings up "or DID I?". Will write you much more later. DM me with your email.
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@latoyaswig I love MJ Fam bringing back what it was like. Thank you!
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@mehdirhasan Sir, maybe we can't.
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@CollinRugg Diddy compelled decadent behavior and filmed it. It's important to emphasize the organized-crime aspect. To go up the chain to his superiors and the criminal victimization in service to pure business - the bottom victims here were either procured as possible artists, or other
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@stkirsch I'm unvaxxed, and chronically sick after Covid case. Lots of time for research. I agree with your idea. Covid is a bio-weapon and very dangerous life-changing for 18%. The vaxx puts spike protein in you, the essential toxic element of covid. They're both horrible inventions.
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@newstart_2024 "What in god's holy name are you blathering about?"
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@Inversionism Can confirm. I waged war from a position of strength in 80's and 90's. War against the insidious promotion of low think. I protected artists rights of creative control, one album at a a time, watched all the coercion increase, watched the new system from the fully
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@naomirwolf Decoding all the signals at this point is both fascinating and frightening. This is like 1968 again. Yes, as we've watched, very strange bedfellows emerge. Here's hoping they don't co-opt Trump, who has proven to be very co-opt-able.
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@latoyaswig Just checked the long version. It's 1:55.00. Totally a writing session, starts with another funky thing I was showing M. Damn I forgot that. Slides into GITM and M. starts scatting the lyric tones.
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@NCrowlz The outflow of the river. Is it raining? The dry river has all kinds of dirt and debris so it shows up as it hits the ocean.
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@I_Am_JohnCullen Do I have this right? You discovered the existence of silenced shots, low-velocity fat bullets, and carried on perusing videos because they can capture these bullets passing. ? Just keeping up here.
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@Inversionism @RollingStone I don't know about Matthew Perry, but I do know that Rolling Stone is one of those obvious captured, bribed, or blackmailed apologists who don't even try hard to make a case for their master's agenda. They've been that way since the rise of NeoLib NeoCon empire, late 90's
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@MarkRuffalo IDK, man. I've felt for years that our regulatory agencies are completely captured and have no compulsion to act for the citizens. They act for the businesses they regulate. Recently, the dangers of this system have risen to a state of imminent danger to the public. I would
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@dm9093 @kausmickey Damn. "there are still people alive today who..." I graduated high school in 1970. I didn't think I had reached the stage of "still people alive today" But my education was great. CA 1957-1970. Music, theater, shop, art, literature, civics, we all had to take them.
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@therosegawden @ChrisLacy0215 Fam has their ideas of what Monkey Business was about. (Something about his brothers) Given what we talked about during the vocals, I think it was about people shaking him down for money. (the names escape me right now, early lawsuits, whole families, dentist?) Michael
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@davidicke @davidicke millions have read your books and followed your narratives since what? the early 90's? Pre social media. Now I wish for you to gracefully occupy your legend status and meld with a new generation no matter how tardy they seem.
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@carolmswain Yandex is Russian. If you stay conscious of their agenda, you will find articles and reporting from well-known western sources that will be purged by western search engines.
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@JhDesignbyJill But this is fortunate. To understand what's happening EARLY. Rest. Longer than you think, longer than he's gonna want to. Rest, with no clocks, no influence, no guilt, no mental exertion, nobody shaming him. Rest until, without external motivation, he one day just gets up.
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@SalvMattera Your collection of millennials wondering why the feel brain fog and fatigue was frightening.
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@BobFlossyFlossy @michaeljackson RIP John Barnes. I've truly missed you all these years. I learned a lot from your words here.
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@JimBethell You post this graph and don't say "Long Covid"?? What is wrong with you?
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@simonateba I want to know how much of Ukraine recent history - from the coup of 2014 to the "war" today, is cover up for the abusive private invasion of that region with lawless US gangsterism. "What happens in Ukraine stays in Ukraine"
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@travis_demaria @themjjarchives I understand that. And If I were you, I would feel the same. But if you were me, you would understand my POV.
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@MarkRuffalo *Farmers protest against a world-government-techno-state claiming they can't exist, that a centralized, private-sector factory food system will save the earth* "Far Right Farmers"
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@SocialistMMA It was merely an experiment to see if USA could bleed Russia of assets. It worked in Afghanistan, but those who thought it would work now were mistaken. Also another shiny object appeared.
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@DamienShields @DrStepfanHolley I'll get on this. It looks great.
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@SalvMattera Yes. it's any alcohol. You can try to choose very low-histamine stuff like vodka but I find if you're in MCAS mode, forget about it. I have ups and downs in histamine intolerance that seems to run on its own sched. independent from other symptoms.
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@Inversionism I was medicare trafficked. A fake operation on my eye. I swear it was a network with advance doctors to scan and mark people, and certain nursing staff all playing the grift. And I believe there were insiders at Medicare.
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@ggreenwald Glenn, aside from all style and context, I thought the speech was pure Obama-era (or literally Obama) Insofar as boilerplate old-school liberal economics: "gov will protect YOU" Obama always SAID all that, and it was in those years we learned they had no intention.
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@BrightenedGloom @adedolapo_mary @michaeljackson Oh yes. Brian and I have talked about it. Last time was prob 8 years ago. We don't disagree on the change he made: I asked him to rap the lines I wrote. Just to play for M. He very much didn't want to do it but he tried 2nd to the last line he couldn't phrase well. He shortened
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@SalvMattera "World Leaders" are few. Maybe none. I won't say where I would look, but here in the west, the house is on fire, the kids are asleep, and the adults are down at the bar.
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@sunsopeningband Whoa. I just realized why government has zero motivation to create markers for ME/LC. If gov has any idea of how many LC sufferers are coming on line in the next 5 years... They won't do ambitious research on it. They will minimize and ignore it aggressively .
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@AdameMedia Hillary's bathroom
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@AnilvanderZee @VirusesImmunity Well, she's not much of an orator. I think she's trying to say "Long Covid is an immune system disease, not a functional disease" I've read some of her papers. Very good ally.
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@MJsTruth I'll be looking in my journals from 1990. I'd like to get the time window for when MJ wrote the lyrics and compare to other known events re: recent accusations.
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