Trixie 🌸🇨🇦

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Genealogist, History Buff & Writer🤓 Liberal/Democrat💙 Equality🏳️‍🌈 Anti-Racism🌸 Pro-Choice🩵Anti-Fascism💚 Animal Lover🐾 Music Lover🎸 Peace, Love & Kindness☮️

Today is National PTSD Awareness Day Today shines a light on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a complex condition resulting from experiencing or witnessing trauma, and raises public understanding of both PTSD & CPTSD, promoting effective treatments and reducing mental health stigma.

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Today is Helen Keller Day Today honors the world-renowned American author, political activist and lecturer, who famously overcame the dual challenges of blindness and deafness. Born June 27th, 1880, she lost both her sight and hearing at just 19 months old due to a severe illness.

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Today, in 1778, the Liberty Bell was Returned to Philadelphia The Liberty Bell made its triumphant return to Philadelphia after spending nine months hidden away in Allentown, PA, during the British occupation of the city. The bell cracked during its very first test ring in Philadelphia in 1752.

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Today is National Onion Day Today celebrates the pungent, flavorful & incredibly versatile bulb. Onions, one of the world's oldest cultivated vegetables, were once believed to be a symbol of eternity & buried alongside pharaohs. At one time, onions were rubbed to tone, firm & strengthen muscles.

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Today is National Ice Cream Cake Day Today honors the frozen treat with a history dating back to Renaissance-era European trifles and 19th-century Victorian "bombes glacées". The modern, spongy-cake-and-frosting version we know today was popularized in America during the 1920s and 1930s.

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WHOA: Obama rarely acknowledges Trump's weird fixation on him and his family, but he did today. "Look, constantly worrying about [me] is a strange thing to me. It shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do," he said of Trump.

Today, billionaire investor & Epstein close friend, Leon Black, appears before House Oversight for his transcribed interview. Black paid Epstein $170+ million for what Black claims were "tax, estate planning, and other related services." Black's name appears more than 8000 times in the Files.

Today, in 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court Declared Same Sex Marriage Protected In the landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges, this ruling mandated that all 50 states and U.S. territories must both license and legally recognize same-sex marriages on the exact same terms as opposite-sex marriages.

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Today, in 1870, the Atlantic City Boardwalk Opened to the Public The boardwalk was originally proposed as a practical solution to keep sand out of ritzy beachfront hotels and rail cars. Costing just $5,000, the original structure was 8 feet wide, 1 mile long and dismantled every winter.

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Today is National Canoe Day Today celebrates the canoe being voted one of the Seven Wonders of Canada during a nationwide campaign. The oldest canoe in existence dates back to 8000 B.C. It was carved out by hand with basic flintstone tools from the hollowed-out trunk of a pine tree.

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Today is Tropical Cocktails Day Today honors the sweet, rum-heavy, and fruit-garnished drinks popularized by the 1930s Tiki culture, celebrating the ultimate island vacation-in-a-glass. Kick back and enjoy one or two (three?) of your favorite island concoctions today.

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Today is National Food Truck Day Today celebrates mobile culinary innovation & encourages communities to support hardworking small business entrepreneurs. Food trucks offer an incredibly diverse range of cuisines, spanning from classic American comfort foods to specialties & to global street eats.

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Today is National Chocolate Pudding Day Today honors the rich, creamy, spoonable dessert that evolved from savory European meat-and-grain puddings to a sweet American staple popularized by mid-20th-century instant mixes. Chocolate is the most popular flavor of pudding, followed closely by vanilla.

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CRINGE Trump couldn’t get anyone to perform at his Maga rally last night, because he turned America’s 250th anniversary into a political stunt, so he forced the US Marine Band to be there and made them play YMCA while he performed his signature moves of simulating jerking someone off.

NBC: “This new U.N.-commissioned report carried out by a committee of independent experts says Israeli troops deliberately shot at Palestinian children and carried out genocide and war crimes… over 21,000 children died.”