JOHN VALENTINE IS AN AUTHOR AND CULTURAL HISTORIAN. HE POSTS ABOUT POLITICS, SOCIAL ISSUES, HISTORY, SCIENCE, MUSIC, AND OTHER TOPICS WITH WIT AND INSIGHT.
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The most powerful weapon we possess is our mind. It's the only thing we own that no one can control unless we allow it. It has no master or mistress. It can't be caged or imprisoned. Learn to control it and you control your destiny.
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The FBI should use this new technology to forensically bring back the Epstein Files that disappeared off Pam Bondi's desk.
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Maga women are a disgrace. Is this the kind of men they like? Or is it that only men like this are interested in them?
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German Chancellor (thinking to himself): God! He's even dumber than they told me.
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And so were many slave owners. Many hateful people hide their evil agenda under a religious banner.
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If a Democratic administration had looked this chaotic and disorganized it would be the top story of every newspaper and media outlet in the country. Yet, both right-wing and mainstream media act like this dysfunction is normal. Normalization of ineptitude only encourages more.
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Charlamagne's row with Anderson demonstrates the cultural phenomenon I call White Shock. It's when a White man who considers himself open-minded, maybe even progressive, is suddenly reminded that he's still a White man, and maybe he doesn't really have the race thing figured out.
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They can store them next to the toilet paper they still have in their closets from COVID.
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Nice to see you finally see the light, Nick, but what part of 34 felony convictions, a convicted sexual abuser, numerous bankruptcies, tax frauds, two impeachments, thousands of lies, and January 6th you didn't understand?
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Says the psychopath firing thousands of people without notice and who wants to cut the checks of seniors on Social Security, and runs around with a chainsaw bragging about it.
I mean, who derives joy from that?
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He's one of the few Democrats who is taking on Trump so directly. I think that's what Democrats want to see. And let's be honest here. He has all the attributes to win. He's White, he's a man, he's good looking, and he's intelligent. The White Obama.
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Didn't the U.S. also deport Plato and Socrates to Greece and stopped Jesus' SNAP benefits?
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I wonder if Trump and Vance will invite her to attend a sporting event with them. What do you think?
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Noted biologist Helen Fisher, who've written many books on human and animal biology, believe the human female's bipedal, upright walking posture is responsible for many of her child birthing issues, including painful delivery. Animals have fewer problems giving birth.
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I can hear Magas all over the country clutching their pearls and pretending to be shocked.
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Yes, let this entitled White girl remain incarcerated for as long as the law allows. This is 2025 folks. It's time to get past using threats and racial slurs to try and dehumanize racial minorities. We're all human beings. This Karen-in-training is exactly where she belongs.
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It's always these mediocre White boys who are the first to tell a Black person to go back to Africa. But if he traced his genealogy he'll learn his ancestors came from the caves of Europe. When is he and his fellow racists planning on going back to Europe?
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Even a dumb Maga should know that Jeffrey Epstein would never be caught eating in a modest diner like the one Obama and Bourdain are eating at.
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Any aimed at Trump and his fascist policies.
Source: Chapter 1, Verse 2 of the Trump Bible.
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Meanwhile, the economy is tanking, grocery prices are rising, people's 401(k)s are being depleted, economists are warning of a recession, the dollar is weakening, planes are crashing, gun violence is rising, and we get this. This is the art of distraction.
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Racists can't stand an independent and outspoken Black person, male or female. This has always been the case in America. They only like Black people who bow and scrape and grovel at the feet of white supremacy.
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We need a Maga deprogramming project. Like Alcoholic Anonymous or something. There will be thousands of them who will need therapy over the next four years.
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Big Mama Thornton was only one of many Black artists who were cheated out of their rightful earnings for the music they made. Relegated to the so-called chitlin circuit, many suffered the cruel indignities of segregation, as well as having their earnings limited to chicken feed.
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If it had been a Black man and he was still at large, no Black man would be safe until the killer was caught. This is the America we live in and the one Kirk wanted to preserve.
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I guess it's understandable that someone who've never worked a day in his life wouldn't know that you have to work many years to qualify for social security. Social Security isn't a welfare program. You have to earn it. Many seniors depend on it for most of their living expenses.
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If Steven Miller is attractive to her, then she's more mentally disturbed than she seems.
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Candace, you weren't born a Maga but decided to become one when you discovered you couldn't attain success on your own merits. You knew Maga-world would welcome a Black woman into the fold to pretend they're not racist. You weren't born a fraud, but you'll die one.
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The Trump playbook continues. Get out in front of a story, lie, and deflect the blame, and make sure you tell your Maga followers what to think before they can think for themselves. Rinse and repeat.
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I'm going to keep saying this on every platform I have. We are past the point of stopping Trump by legal or ordinary means. It will take an extraordinary move by our military if they still believe in the Constitution. A coup that removes Trump and ensures free and fair elections.
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If the perpetrator was Black, Latino, or Muslim, their face would be plastered on every conservative news outlet in the country. They'd be labeled a thug and be portrayed as the face of criminality and a representative of their entire group. No such treatment for White perps.
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You have to wonder how many of these "agents" are trained law enforcement officials or some guys the DHS picked up at a Klan rally.
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A U.S. District Judge just blocked the vengeful one from terminating the status of all international students at Harvard and nationwide. Their stay here is now protected and they can't be arrested. Once again a judge is standing in the way of Trump's illegal agenda.
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It's not America that people don't love, Stephen. It's skin head racists like you they despise.
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She lost me at "I believed the President." What part of over 30,000 verified lies she didn't believe?
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Because America is an outlaw nation. Despite the propaganda about freedom, justice, and equality, lawlessness has always been the order of the day. Native genocide, slavery, the wild wild West, segregation, lynchings, organized crime, political corruption, that's America.
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But not as agonizing as the hundreds of thousands of people who'll lose their Medicaid and food stamps.
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Let's start the countdown to when Trump will try and spin it to make it look like it was he who decided not to invite the Eagles. The man can't take rejection.
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Many people don't realize the U.S. was one of the last industrialized nations to abolish slavery. Emancipation only came after a long Abolition Movement and a Civil War that killed between 620,000 and 750,00 soldiers and untold civilians. Slavery in America didn't die easily.
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They believed, like many Americans, that only black and brown people receive government aid. This despite the fact that most of the people on government welfare are White, and rich White men have been robbing the Treasury since the beginning.
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Yet he squandered it all by living a life of illegal drug use, sexual abuse, and medical quackery. I can never understand how some of the most flawed or immoral human beings still feel they have the right to look down on Black people. Racism is a disease of ignorance.
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It sems like being a pedophile is a requirement for being a Republican these days. It must be something in the Trump Kool-Aid they're drinking.
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I'm starting to lose respect for some posters who are always on this site lamenting the hate and division spread by right-wing bigots who are now afraid to call out Kirk for what he was, a right-wing bigot who encouraged hate and intolerance. Never be afraid to speak the truth.
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Republican women are some of the hardest, cruelest people on earth. I often wonder what happened in their childhoods to make them so mean. I often hear of Mommy problems with insecure men. Is there a Daddy problem with these types of women?
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Way to stand up to a bully and a virulent racist. More African countries need to take this tack and reduce their dependency, not only on Western nations, but all who don't consider Africa an equal partner. But be warned, Trump is ruthless and immoral. He hates being stood up to.
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Never come for a Black woman unless she sends for you. Especially if you're a coddled, White Princess who never had to work a day in your life.
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Just imagine if Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, or Hillary Clinton had a career as a nude model becoming First Ladies? Their pictures would be splashed all over every right-wing newspaper, magazine, news show, and probably even shown on the floor of the House of Representatives.
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He should have been convicted of first degree murder because he threatened to shoot her in the face and then shot her in the face.
If he really feared for his life, he had the option of using his taser or even backing away from the situation. He deliberately chose to murder her.
Grayson had numerous claims against him for using excessive force but was still able to get hired at other departments. This is often the case for rogue cops.
Still, a murder conviction against a cop is rare. My condolences to Sonya Massey's family.
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This sounds like something from ancient times when only sons were considered worthy of life and women were discouraged from having girls. These indoctrinated Maga women are the reason Trump is back in the White House and the reason Hillary and Kamala were never elected President.
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If my prayers worked, Mike, Trump wouldn't be President and you wouldn't be House leader.
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Anyone who thinks this is legal needs to read the Constitution. Veteran care is based on military service, not political affiliation, or marital status. This won't fly. It's just a matter of how soon it takes a court to throw this out.
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Only a living demon could see land soiled with the blood of women and children as ocean front property. Trump is despicable.
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The Biden administration didn't kill off all the chickens Habba. There are still plenty of them alive in the Republican House and Senate.
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Yet Republicans keep electing people like this. Giving people your vote who consistently act against your interests is the very definition of insanity. As long as 'owning the Libs' is more important than feeding hungry children, people like Abbott will continue to get elected.
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You must be new to American politics. Donald Trump has been lying to the American people ever since he entered politics.
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You'd be angry too if you had the head of a donkey and the body of a weight lifter.
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The Pope doesn't have a feud with Trump. Trump has a feud with him. The Pope is only doing his job and carrying out the dictates of his conscience. He isn't a politician but a religious leader. Reducing his speaking the truth to a feud belittles the Pope. Do better Daily Beast.
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Trump is always ready to import more white racists to the U.S. More votes for Republicans.
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I hope this so-called Christian remembers what the Bible says about a rich man's chances of entering Heaven? Or has he read that verse?
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What she did was record herself looking like an imbecile and totally unprofessional. Politicians are elected to serve all the people of their districts and not just those who voted for them. A certain amount of decorum is expected of those holding high positions in government.
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JD's one job was to provoke Zelensky. While Trump wanted the mineral rights deal, which he would no doubt find a way to profit from, his main goal was to humble Zelensky. Any one who thinks he's forgotten how Zelensky refused to supply dirt on Biden, don't know Trump.
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It's obvious Trump doesn't plan to have fair elections, if at all. He's determined to stay in power one way or another. This is why Democrats need to stop playing around talking about what they might do. They need to do it now or the Republicans will continue to run over them.
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Dear Sir:
And to show our appreciation for all President Biden did for us America decided to replace him with a former President that was impeached twice during his term, mismanaged a pandemic that took thousands of unnecessary lives, incited an insurrection to undo an election he clearly lost, was subsequently charged with numerous crimes, including sexual assault and stealing government secrets, and convicted of thirty four felonies.
We choosed this convicted felon to lead our country over one of the most qualified people to ever run for the office whose only drawbacks were she was a woman and Black.
As our nation's first black President, this had to be particularly distressing to you, though you bucked up, put on a smile and sat next to the felon at Jimmy Carter's funeral.
Though I'm sure you are as disappointed as I am with our current state of affairs, I hope you and Michelle will continue to stay engaged and help us continue to build on both yours and Biden's legacies, and return us to a path of Democracy and a government dedicated to the welfare of all.
Respectfully,
An admirer and
supporter
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Because the money coming in from tariffs is to finance Trump's and the Republican party's grift and corruption instead of helping American businesses. How many businesses could Trump have helped instead of building a $200 million ballroom of refurbishing his new jet?
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This reminds me of when Ronald Reagan put thousands of mental ill people onto the streets. The mental health industry is yet to recover. The same thing will happen in the nursing home industry, which is already plagued by poor care and low wages. Republicans are just hardhearted.
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This went about the way I expected. Trump was hoping to steal some of Kamala Harris' thunder by holding a press conference at his favorite Republican propaganda station, but only is managing to reveal how ignorant and hateful he is.
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It never seems to enter into these soulless Republicans' heads that when you deport people you separate people from their families. Fathers from their families, mothers from their children. This shows the utter hypocrisy of a party that pretends to espouse "family values".
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That's one of the favorite tricks of racists. Take something positive concerning Black people and turn it into a negative. But we shouldn't abandon our goals because that's what they want us to do. Keep explaining the real meaning of "woke" and working to achieve its goals.
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It's fascinating that Trump can lie about every aspect of his bill, knowing full well that half of the country will believe him. Are we at a point where the truth absolutely doesn't matter? How can we find our way out of our morass if we can't even agree on the road to take?
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Has there ever been a more corrupt administration than this present one? From top to bottom, it's filled with grifters, liars, cheats, and incompetents, who are only there to do Trump's bidding. Not even the Nixon administration was this crooked.
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It would mean that Trump stole another election. People should stop trying to figure out how a corrupt businessman, tax cheat, adulterer, and sexual predator could be elected to the highest office in the land. Even appealing to people's worst nature, he'd still have to cheat.
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When does a President get to decide what's appropriate for NFL players? I thought that was the job of the League. Many White men who had pretended to be non-racist during Joe Biden's term are showing their true colors under Trump.
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Republicans are showing their racism, not only to their own citizens, but to the world. We are being exposed for exactly what we are, a nation where only the contributions of White men are valued.
No need to sugarcoat it. As the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass said, the problem of America is race. A hundred and fifty years later it remains the same.
When the American Constitution was crafted, there were no rights guaranteed to Blacks or women. The framers saw America as a White's man country.
And despite the enormous contributions of women and Blacks over centuries, White men still can't let go of their racism or sexism. It's who they are.
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This guy is so mean-spirited, shallow, and petty, I'm not sure Satan would take him in hell. There has to be a special place somewhere for someone this evil. What happened to him? Was he dropped on his head at birth?
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We're living in an age where good is punished and evil is rewarded. Societies where evil was allowed to flourish often found themselves disintegrating from within, then crumbling. Many ancient societies were assigned to the dust bin of history because they failed to deter evil.
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Maybe they're less happy because they worry about things like war, poverty, childhood hunger, reproductive rights, sexism, and racism, all things conservative women couldn't care less about. There's a burden that comes with caring in a cold and cruel world.
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Hundreds of thousands of poor and middle-income people could lose their access to health care, Medicaid, and food assistance under this bill and Fetterman's worried about missing his beach time? Vote this guy out of office next election.
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Obama did divide America... into racists and non-racists. The racists are those that just can't accept the fact Americans would choose a Black man to hold the highest office in the land. Something they though was reserved only for White men.
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The African slaves who were castrated were called eunuchs and it was done mostly to those who slaved in the palaces or lavish homes of the Arab sheiks, sultans, emirs, or princes. The castration of male slaves was to ensure there would be no hanky panky with the slavers' harems.
The brutish operations were done without anesthesia and the castrated slaves endured excruciating pain and many died. This was fine with the slavers because it supposedly determined the hardiest slaves and there was an almost unlimited supply of slaves to replace them.
Arab slavery was among the most brutal of all. Besides being worked to death or used as cannon fodder in Arab wars, they were made to perform the most humiliating tasks just for the pleasure of the enslaver.
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I understand why Trump hates Obama so much. Obama's much better looking, much smarter, more respected, and more popular. But why does he hate Biden so much? Could it be because Biden hung a L on him in the 2020 election? Could one man's ego be that big?
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Character, class, honesty, loyalty, fidelity, kindness, no felony convictions, never been impeached, never incited an insurrection, doesn't cheat, doesn't lie, loves their country, philanthropy, real friends, cares about others, never spent a day with Epstein. Oops, out of charac
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Republicans can always find room for white racists. It only increases their voters.
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My question is why aren't Black men standing up for these women? I guess I'm from a different generation because no way the Black men I grew up with would allow these ignorant racists to constantly defame these educated Black women. We need to stand up for our women.
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Because X is owned by Elon Musk. No one did more to put the most divisive President in the history of the U.S. into office than Musk.
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Or why they target other Whites. I've been asking this question for years and have never gotten a single answer. Whites don't want to acknowledge their propensity for violence but are eager to label Blacks, and others, as violent. White violence is the root of American violence.
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This kind of ignorance should disqualify anyone from being your local dog catcher much less President of the U.S. It boggles the imagination that any country would elect a man like this to lead them, much less a country that claims to be exceptional and the world's leader.
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This man is truly sick. This is what having unlimited power does to someone who is already corrupt. He knows he can do practically anything and there won't be a peep out of his supporters. Republicans created this Frankenstein monster and only they can stop him.
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And yet this man is a hero for many White Americans, men in particular. Even some Democrats sing his praises. This shows what happens even one group controls the narrative and writes the history of a nation. Certain people are praised and immortalized despite their true history.
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When I come to your site I come to get information about Africa and some of the good things going on there. Instead I get this constant slander about a Black president revered by many around the world, yet you uplift a Muslim dictator responsible for the deaths of many Africans.
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Dolly's the best. Her charitable contributions and her genuine concern for her fellow man sets her apart from many celebrities who are only concerned with their own selfish needs. Her work getting books for young readers is near and dear to my own heart.
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