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Good morning #BreakfastCrew Resisters! It’s Friday! 🙌🙌 A gorgeous cabin with relaxing pool or waterslide for the more adventurous for today’s Virtual Meet & Greet! 🏡 🛝💦 Cocktails, Mocktails, Coffee & Tea available!🍹☕️🥂 Meet some new friends.👫👬 Everyone welcomed! Comment ✍️ & say Hi! 👋 #BlueCrew🦋

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It’s National Social Media Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 With the launch of Friendster in 2002 and MySpace in 2003, social media became mainstream. The year 2004 brought the founding of the king of social media, Facebook. Twitter (now X) Bluesky launched in 2023 We Will be Okay Love Foxy

1864 Yosemite Grant Act signed by President Abraham Lincoln bestowing 200,000 acres to the state of California, establishes America's first state-controlled park
1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st American female law college graduate (Old University of Chicago, later Northwestern)
1905 27 year-old clerk Albert Einstein publishes his theory of special relativity, the relationship between space and time in equation E=mc2
1906 US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' in particular)
1925 Charles Jenkins is granted the U.S. patent for Transmitting Pictures over Wireless (early television)
1936 40 hour work week law approved for US federal employees
1938 Superman first appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
1953 1st Chevrolet Corvette manufactured
1967 Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut
1974 Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to the West
1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
1985 39 remaining hostages from hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
1989 US Congressman Donald Lukens found guilty of having sex with a 16-year-old girl
1994 US Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life
2019 President Donald Trump becomes first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea in the Korean Demilitarized Zone meeting Kim Jong-un

In addition to being an amazing human being, former President Jimmy Carter was able in 1976 to see & speak to the future. Read this & know he’s talking about us right now. And we don’t have to be this way. This fake tough garbage. It’s weakness bragging how strong it is.

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DJT shelved the ROAD Act out of spite His bruised ego too wounded to sign it outright A Bipartisan win? 🙌🏻 Not w/his thin skin 🚫 SAVE AMERICA ACT must come first he said "Its a National Emergency"🙄 (actually just ensures USA remains GOP lead) Do we shrug & say, “Yeah, that tracks, right" NO we 💪🏻‼️

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It’s National Smile Power Day 😊 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 When you smile at someone, you are telling them that they are valued and worth the smile that you just gave them. Smiles are morale boosters and confidence builders. Spread some happiness today and SMILE 😊 We will be okay Love Foxy

1864 US Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers
1878 World's first moving pictures captured on camera using 12 cameras, each taking one picture, to determine if all four of a horse's hooves leave the ground
1898 US House of Representatives passes resolution to annex Hawaii
1911 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), later known as IBM is incorporated, in Endicott, New York
1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile
1928 Philadelphia Athletics baseball star Ty Cobb, steals home for a record 54th time
1943 Race riot in Beaumont, Texas erupts killing 2
1955 The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack
1973 "Let's Get It On" single released by Marvin Gaye (Billboard R&B Song of the Year, 1973; No. 4 overall)
1974 "All the President's Men" by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward detailing their Watergate investigation is published by Simon and Schuster in the US
1974 Novelty song "The Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1 on UK pop chart
1982 Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education
1983 Supreme Court strikes down state and local restrictions on abortion
2012 Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500
2020 In landmark decision US Supreme Court rules 6-3 that gay and transgender workers cannot be discriminated against in the workplace
2023 Water pumped from underground reservoirs has shifted Earth's axis at the North Pole by 4.36 cm a year, with over 2 trillion tons of water extracted from 1993 to 2010