Eddie Smith

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If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.~ African Proverb Creator of ⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ discussion threads. Keep it woke!👁 NO DMs unless I know you.

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Mary Engle Pennington was born on this day in 1872 in Nashville, Tenn. She was a pioneering bacteriological chemist, food scientist and refrigeration engineer who developed the “cold chain” of food safety. Every time you buy fresh food or open your fridge, thank Dr. Pennington. /1

Mary Engle Pennington in 1940. Dr. Pennington’s legacy is woven into the fabric of modern food systems and public health. As a chemist and engineer, she took a chaotic, unregulated and often lethal food supply network and engineered it into a secure, predictable system. Every time we open a modern home refrigerator, buy a fresh carton of milk or eat frozen foods shipped across continents, we are benefiting from her research and development. Before her work, bacterial contaminants in unrefrigerated food were a death sentence for American children. With the distribution of 1.5 million free domestic safety bulletins, she taught an entire nation how to properly cool and zone food. Pennington also battled systemic gender discrimination, not with loud protests, but with bulletproof, undeniably superior empirical data. We owe a debt of gratitude to this brilliant, soft-spoken Quaker who quietly saved millions of lives by keeping food cool. Photo credit: Smithsonian Institution.
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Today in history, 1977: A millionaire Harvard lawyer spends eight hours shoveling horse manure in Ocala, Fla. He called it a campaign strategy. Floridians called him their next Governor. His name was Bob Graham, and he soon became one of the nation’s most respected politicians. /1

Florida State Senator Bob Graham works as a “pooper scooper” at Ocala Breeders’ Sales, Oct. 9, 1977. Graham worked for 100 days at different jobs around the state during his first campaign for Governor. The Workdays concept began by chance in 1974 while Graham was serving in the Florida State Senate. As Chairman of the Education Committee, he openly criticized the quality of civic education in Florida schools. A frustrated high school teacher, Sue Reilly, dared him to try teaching a class himself. Graham accepted the challenge and spent a semester teaching civics at Carol City High School. He later designated this experience as his official “Workday #1,” and used it to make funding for school construction a top legislative priority. He realized that immersion was the most effective way to understand the reality of his constituents’ lives and translate that into political action. The Workdays program became a signature strategy throughout Graham’s political career.
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#AZ
I’m pretty disgusted by Warren Petersen running attack ads against AG Mayes using CHILDREN to get his ridiculous transphobic, culture war message out to voters.
The GOP has NOTHING to offer, so they default to bigotry in hopes voters will fall prey to this stupidity.
Vote 4 Kris Mayes. #Pinks

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We owe future generations more than stories about how women once won their rights. We owe them rights so secure that girls inherit freedom as an expectation—not another battle they must begin again. #Pinks 📨✨

— Pinks Global

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I find the attack ads against Dr. Amish Shah quite hypocritical.
Are the Republicans kidding me? They support Trump-a adjudicated rapist that is in the Epstein files with credible testimony stating he raped a 13 yo.
Trump refuses to release the Epstein files. Why would that be?
#AZ01 vote 4 Shah.

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Politico: Sen. Rafael Warnock: “No amount of spin can erase the pain of being unable to afford health care. And I think people are going to hold those who are responsible for this accountable, they're going to hold Republicans accountable."
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

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💜 Good Morning & Happy Sunday! 💜🌞

Life doesn’t always go as planned, but every challenge reminds us how strong we are.

Don’t rush, don’t overthink. Trust the journey, embrace the little moments, and remember how far you’ve come.

🎶 Nothing Can Break Me Anymore💪💜

#SheShed
#NothingCanBreakMeAnymore

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I always like to tell the stupid fucks who think "Democrats were the KKK" is a big gotcha that junior high history class teaches about the Southern Strategy where the two parties switched ideologies, but do go on about how the party that gave two terms to America's first black president are racists.

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