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Facts were spoken🗣️😈

Credit to trillkvng_ on instagram

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Its hard out here for a girl who loves Dom but can't stand Liv.

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I’m not insulting you, I’m describing you

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RHEA RIPLEY & DOMINIK MYSTERIO — WWE Raw 22/07/2024

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Dom was so cute when he was with Rhea. like finally we get a submissive guy with pretty hair who proudly dissents to a woman that he recognizes as being superior in strength and influence while also being a little bit of a brat on top - just for some extra tang.

now he’s just like every other miserable, cheating twenty-something man who has a cutesy girlfriend that wears a collar for him.

“Mami/Mommy” will always pack a bigger punch and be more original than some dude being called “Daddy” smh.

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okey, this is the final QL lineup from the CHANGE2561 CHANGING PROJECTS LINEUP:

This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans ( BL )

Affair ( GL )

I'm the Most Beautiful Count ( BL )

Goddess Bless You From Death ( BL )

Pit Babes 2 ( BL )

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Chris Chiu and Kurt Huang talking about their intimate scene in UNKNOWN

Source:YouTube

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POV: your friend is an ecology major and has beef with random animals

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And I’m obsessed with merlin being in the trunk

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The Roses of Heliogabalus, 1888 - oil on canvas. — Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch, 1836-1912)

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‘The Quiet Pet’ (detail) by John William Godward, c. 1906.

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and this is where I keep my cages full of starving twinks watch this they hate it when I do this *starts smacking the cage with a bat loudly*

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TVXQ! : THE 9TH ALBUM : 20&2

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Before camera cranes were invented, William A. Wellman pulled off this tracking shot in WINGS (1927). It was the first Best Picture Oscar winner.

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The official poster for The Last Case

The Last Case is coming!!!! Our first mystery/detective/thriller GL is finally here after all this time. To say I’m excited would be an understatement. 🤩

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Patrick Braxton became the first Black mayor of Newbern, Alabama, when he was elected in 2020, but since then he has fought with the previous administration to actually serve in office. (Aallyah Wright/Capital B)

NEWBERN, Ala. — There’s a power struggle in Newbern, Alabama, and the rural town’s first Black mayor is at war with the previous administration who he says locked him out of Town Hall.

After years of racist harassment and intimidation, Patrick Braxton is fed up, and in a federal civil rights lawsuit he is accusing town officials of conspiring to deny his civil rights and his position because of his race.

“When I first became mayor, [a white woman told me] the town was not ready for a Black mayor,” Braxton recalls.

The town is 85% Black, and 29% of Black people here live below the poverty line.

“What did she mean by the town wasn’t ready for a Black mayor? They, meaning white people?” Capital B asked.

“Yes. No change,” Braxton says.

Decades removed from a seemingly Jim Crow South, white people continue to thwart Black political progress by refusing to allow them to govern themselves or participate in the country’s democracy, several residents told Capital B. While litigation may take months or years to resolve, Braxton and community members are working to organize voter education, registration, and transportation ahead of the 2024 general election.

But the tension has been brewing for years.

Two years ago, Braxton says he was the only volunteer firefighter in his department to respond to a tree fire near a Black person’s home in the town of 275 people. As Braxton, 57, actively worked to put out the fire, he says, one of his white colleagues tried to take the keys to his fire truck to keep him from using it.

In another incident, Braxton, who was off duty at the time, overheard an emergency dispatch call for a Black woman experiencing a heart attack. He drove to the fire station to retrieve the automated external defibrillator, or AED machine, but the locks were changed, so he couldn’t get into the facility. He raced back to his house, grabbed his personal machine, and drove over to the house, but he didn’t make it in time to save her. Braxton wasn’t able to gain access to the building or equipment until the Hale County Emergency Management Agency director intervened, the lawsuit said.

“I have been on several house fires by myself,” Braxton says. “They hear the radio and wouldn’t come. I know they hear it because I called dispatch, and dispatch set the tone call three or four times for Newbern because we got a certain tone.”

This has become the new norm for Braxton ever since he became the first Black mayor of his hometown in 2020. For the past three years, he’s been fighting to serve and hold on to the title of mayor, first reported by Lee Hedgepeth, a freelance journalist based in Alabama.

Incorporated in 1854, Newbern, Alabama, today has a population of 275 people — 85% of whom are Black. (Aallyah Wright/Capital B)

Not only has he been locked out of the town hall and fought fires alone, but he’s been followed by a drone and unable to retrieve the town’s mail and financial accounts, he says. Rather than concede, Haywood “Woody” Stokes III, the former white mayor, along with his council members, reappointed themselves to their positions after ordering a special election that no one knew about.

Braxton is suing them, the People’s Bank of Greensboro, and the postmaster at the U.S. Post Office.

For at least 60 years, there’s never been an election in the town. Instead, the mantle has been treated as a “hand me down” by the small percentage of white residents, according to several residents Capital B interviewed. After being the only one to submit qualifying paperwork and statement of economic interests, Braxton became the mayor.

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