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Historian. Cinephile. Culture Curator. Defender of all mankind.

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Denzel Washington like other great actors before him Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Portier has decided that whatever accent he has is what accent the character has.
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This is what I meant when I said men will attack Black women's hair as an insult even when it looks fine.
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Lela Rochon had two very complicated pregnancies that led to lifelong health problems.
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Gena Rowland’s passing is really making me think about how John Cassavetes knew she was a generational talent that was being underused so he went out and wrote movies for her.
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@awwhalenawl Getting boo’d by an HBCU crowd used to be artist development
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If you’ve seen Paris is Burning and want more of the masc ballroom scene definitely check out the cut footage and the documentary The Aggressives (YouTube)
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ever since i learned there was a Best Butch category in '80s ballroom, i was somewhat bemused the documentary Paris is Burning had no (masc) lesbians in it. watching outtakes i saw the director did take footage from the category, in what must have been around 1987 -- here it is
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The Ballerina Farm article reveals why the trad wife phenomenon is so dangerous. It encourages young women to become wives and mothers before they get a chance to learn and explore their own ambitions and desires.
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Miss USA is a darkskin, HBCU graduate, and a military woman. Toady is a beautiful day. 👑😍🙌🏾
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@KarlNova @deray There’s another early movie where he does a terrible Jamaican accent. So I can see why he gave it up.
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A trans woman tried to talk about the transphobia black women experience and ppl didn't wanna hear it but here we are...
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Ppl are going to dunk on this but this is actually interesting. Lily was one of the founders of Tinder until the male cofounders and executives pushed her out and covered up the sexual harassment she faced. She left and then founded Bumble.
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Lily James is set to star in & produce a film inspired by Whitney Wolfe, the founder of Bumble. (Source: Deadline)
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This is very similar to Breonna Taylor's family alleging that the unit that executed the warrant on her home colluded with city government to evict tenants in areas they want to "revitalize"
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@LexxMoves Imagine if they had been in Mr and Mrs. Smith.
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@tinnkky I knew things were bad but when I saw this mother write in to slate about her teen daughter wanting to drop out of HS bc she doesn’t need an education to be a trad wife I realized it was worse than I imagined.
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@overdramatique Also how it's informed by misogyny because she's considered less politically savvy even in comparison to her male rap counterparts.
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I have never openly wept in a movie theatre like I did when seeing this movie. I was embarrassed until I looked around and saw multiple ppl wiping their eyes. They can never make me hate you EEAO.
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this scene broke me to pieces
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4 years
Ok but this is why a bunch of ppl think Harriet Tubman didn't do anything.
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@LipGlossFolarin The least he could do is not embarrass her.
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@selfiegoddesss This is so evil
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@sicksadke Emily was right (as she often was)!
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In this case the policy that’s being challenged considers the student’s socioeconomic factors, and whether they come from an underrepresented middle school. It’s a race neutral policy and yet this coalition of parents are upset.
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Asian Americans lost a Supreme Court case in Fairfax county today. You don’t even have to Google to know what the case is about.
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Men now would never. Ben Affleck has two Oscars (for Best Picture and Screenwriting) yet he didn’t even try to write something good for either wife!
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Mel Brooks bought the rights to 84 CCR for Anne Bancroft because he knew she’d be great in it and Judd Apat*w hasn’t written a movie for Leslie in years
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@shOoObz Some of this reminds me of how some ppl treated Anne Hathaway 10 years ago and said she tried too hard/wasn't genuine
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🗣 IT'S ONLY DEFEMATION IF IT IS UNTRUE! That is all. #WeKnowWhatYouDid
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@awwhalenawl Exactly! It builds character and you learn what does and doesn’t work on stage.
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Maybe your husband was speechless and mouth agape bc he hasn't seen ass bounce like that in yrs.
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Did I make a list already? Yes.
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Beyoncé reveals each song on ‘COWBOY CARTER’ is its own version of a reimagined Western film. She took inspiration from ‘KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON,’ ‘THE HARDER THEY FALL,’ ‘FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES,’ ‘URBAN COWBOY,’ ‘THE HATEFUL EIGHT,’ ‘SPACE COWBOYS’ and more.
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@WrittenByHanna I thought the number reflected what the highest bid was so far
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Oh they were besties last week
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The girls (conservative-appeasing reactionaries) are fightinggg
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I’m just saying if John Cassavetes had made The Town there would have been a good part for Gena in it.
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Stevie can't even do a Verzuz because who could compete. The songwriting plus his own songs.
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I won’t rest until I know if he did this in real or if they invented this for the script
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I am a 70 year old black woman in my heart.
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That girl was 21 when a billionaire’s son swept her off her feet in a “whirlwind romance” and married her after 3 months. On the surface it sounds like a dream out of a romance novel but looks like a nightmare.
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@WrittenByHanna I think comedic actors tend to be some of the best because they understand the underlying emotions of a scene better.
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The thought of someone calling Quentin Tarintino and giving him notes on his script has me weak af
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Wtf is going on at Warner Brothers?! Mattel had to pay for Barbie ads, the dancers from Mean Girls weren’t invited to the premiere, plus everything that happened on TCP set
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Ok I liked this part too it’s just that it’s not developed enough imo. The other girl is rich so her getting a 1560 and going to Yale isn’t the same as Molly who in the beginning we see lives in a kinda shabby apartment complex.
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bobbi loves vampires ❤️
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Rewatching Booksmart and I was GAGGED when Molly delivered the cliche “nerd stands up to the bullies” speech about going to Yale…just for that girl to say she’s also going to Yale followed by the line, “I’m ridiculously good at handjobs but I also got a 1560 on the SATs” 😭
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@LipGlossFolarin I feel so bad for the kids. They're teenagers so this has gotta be hard. Hopefully she can get her settlement and move on. She doesn't have to deal with this shit.
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@hiimbobbi I think the taglines on the posters support this theory. “He’s just Ken” is so passive aggressive lol
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@asj519 I've pitched this to two of my friends. They think I'm playing but we could really be happy like that 😭
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@hiimbobbi Same! I’ve enjoyed the movies for what they are but they don’t depict a “universal girlhood” it’s very much a white middle class experience and that’s fine!
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@hiimbobbi I did a deep dive on her movies in March and I liked some of them but they definitely have a specific perspective.
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I’d put my money on Mulan but don’t count out Tiana she’s from New Orleans and survived Jim Crow
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ok but who would win in a mortal kombat tournament
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The admission rate of white, Black, and Latino students increased under this policy but because the percentage of Asian American students dropped lawsuits are being filed.
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@SweetTayPie0104 To them, this is a job.
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He really got this dia de los muertos face paint on
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The curve in law school forces ppl who've always succeeded on merit to compete for grades creates an environment that is bad for mental health and overall kinda unethical.
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But he wasn't just cheating he was accused of sexual harrasment because he was trying to initiate sexual relationship with interns and PA's.
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Having a makeup artist for a wife oh he def got good skin. Also, lmfaoo at him getting *allgedly* fired off grey’s for cheating and almost leaving her (cus Shonda is friends with her) and the two of them STILL being together dhshdhdhdhdhdhdh
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Definitely both my cousins singing spirituals badly at their daddy’s funeral only for my grandma to say he wasn’t they real daddy anyway to everyone who would listen afterwards.
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What’s your funniest funeral memory? 😭😂 One thing we gon do is find the humor in any situation! 😭💕 @JokesOnYouPod
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The internet has made ppl get too comfortable with celebrities. They are not our little friends.
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@TheeBigBodyBenz I felt his frustration 😭
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Giving us poses and looks.
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HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty
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She is STUNNINGG
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@paulswhtn The fact that this was filmed in real time and not edited together is amazing
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I liked 3 of your pics and left it up to God
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Usually when men come out and say that a hit piece was written about them they’re just covering but the receipts here are damning. It definitely looks like the New Yorker committed journalistic malpractice.
@Variety
Variety
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Hasan Minhaj Says Exposé on His Embellished Stand-Up Act Was 'Misleading' and 'Made Me Look Like' a 'Psycho'; New Yorker 'Stands By Our Story'
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While y’all were reading Timmy and Kylie’s lips I was looking at Meryl Streep giggling all in Martin Short’s face!
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It says a lot about football that men who’ve been accused of multiple sex crimes are welcomed with open arms but men whose biggest crime is being corny and professional are ostracized.
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Jameis is genuinely what RUSS Wilson has spent years and millions of dollars trying to artificially create as his persona
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I deserve an Academy Award bc I kept a straight face yesterday when my coworker told me her and her fiancé have been together 4 yrs but they’ve never celebrated together bc he’s always on a work trip.
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Someone said they wish they could just drop their hands off and pick them up when they're done and I never related more
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My nail appointment took 2 hours just yesterday. Like pls 😭
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@WrittenByHanna That entire After Laughter album is like that 😭
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The Boondocks are returning for a 4th season! 😫🙏 http://t.co/UgZEevZPPK
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Adam Silver stricter than Khloe.
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@RaveenTheDream It illegal to fire them if they’ve been absent due to jury duty but they only make $20 a day so many ppl couldn’t afford to be on the jury.
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It’s disturbing and wild how many actors under 30 openly admit that they don’t watch movies or read scripts (you can definitely tell in their work but still wild)
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Millie Bobby Brown reveals that she doesn’t watch many movies: “I don’t watch movies. People come up to me and say, ‘You should definitely watch this movie, it would change your life,’ and I’m like, ‘How long do I have to sit there for?’ Because my brain and I don’t even like
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Her uncle doesn't want R. Kelly to earn his royalties.
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“Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people. But they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.”- Frankie Boyle
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We don't have time!! Efficiency!!
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THEY TELLING HIM FIRST EPISODE?!
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@cinemadarlings I was truly different after I left the theatre
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I’ve been thinking about how it was totally legal to deny a woman a bank account without a husband, father, lawyer, or banker to co-sign until 1974.
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When I was in college I told a professor about this and he didn't believe me, I brought in the report from the UN about it the next time we met bc he just couldn't believe it.
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Israel is so against the existence of black Jewish people they forcibly and secretly sterilised their Ethiopian immigrant / refugee population btw
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@tinnkky Same with the young women in my life. We’re going to lose a generation if we’re not careful.
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In Dave Chapelle’s Block Party there’s this moment when Erykah is performing and someone asks Jill if she’s nervous to follow her. Jill laughed and said, “Have you ever heard me perform?”
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@kingbealestreet Tracey Gold from Growing Pains said jokes about her body made her develop an ED.
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@LexxMoves Black people would’ve ate off that movie for years
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Don't major in an art because you want to be famous and don't major in business/STEM if you wanna be rich. Do it because you love it.
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TP is no different than a lot of other artists, it’s not enough to have a profitable product he also wants the respect of his peers/critics and he’s resentful that he doesn’t.
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I'm glad I took pics before 😂
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In law school it's not about doing YOUR best it's really about being better than everyone else.
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TALIB WAS FUCKING SARAH JAY!!!
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The Lindsey Graham is gay rumor has been floating around the internet for a while now. An interesting turn here during pride month.
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@tinnkky I can’t help but feel as if his participation in the documentary was motivated by a desire to rehabilitate his image. I also don’t think they pushed him enough on his own misconduct towards young women.
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I need 2 things from this season of Big Little Lies. 1) I need Bonnie's race to be addressed. She's the only blk wmn in this mess and it's not realistic for it not to come up.
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@coleman__3 I used to sit right by the TV so I could play it on 1 😭
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Serena Williams has her baby vacuuming on IG. Black mothers with never let you rest 😂
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It’s only matched by the love in her eyes when he asks her to hide his gun.
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And fans will attack journalists who ask questions. Ppl were up in arms when Saweetie was asked about her work with Dr. Luke
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chicken salad deficit
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I look down on the idea of celebrities interviewing other celebrities (or in the case of 🐝, interviewing herself 🙄) but I guess there's not much difference between that and what these pubs pass off as a "profile"
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I heard an interview he did earlier this year where he said he got so frustrated that nobody would hire him or buy one of the shows he developed he just decided to make a movie (American Fiction) and now all those ppl are calling him
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Cord Jefferson to co-write and executive produce adaptation of John Katzenbach’s novel ‘JUST CAUSE’ starring Scarlett Johansson. The upcoming limited series will serve as her first major television role. ()
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Pretty Girls Like Trap Music had one of the best album rollouts in history. The pink trap house alone became an institution
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Their faces are so funny because they both know they’re losing to Liza.
@MJFINESSELOVER
𝙱𝚎𝚌𝚌𝚊 ⚡️
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Diana Ross & Cicely Tyson at the 1973 #Oscars . Both queens were up for Best Actress. This was the first time two Black women had been nominated in the same category in the same year.
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Jason Whitlock is gonna talk about Lavar Ball being a misogynist when he's likened Serena Williams to a horse. 🤔
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Ben Stiller in Dodgeball is the best Ben Stiller.
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@camerouninema The scene where they go shopping for prom dresses and are doing handstands on the escalators>>>>
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I love this hair. I will be uncontrollable for at least 2 weeks before I calm down.
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@dancingofpens Miss Juneteenth and Crooklyn,
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We’re really about to have a global bedbug infestation because they absolutely are about to be flying across the pond
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Atlanta a city that now gets more rain than Seattle has been experiencing some insane flooding this year and the city is trying to destroy a forest, something scientists say will only increase flooding.
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Max cancelled Julia, Winning Time, Rap Shit, and Minx shows that were all popular, had found their audience and, showed so much potential yet none of them made it to a season 3. DZ is not running a media empire he is preparing a company for sale.
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