JH191
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JH191
@JamieHo191
Grandma, Wife, Mom, Warrior for Justice, Blue All The Way. Daughter of True Patriot/Civics Teacher.
Katılım Eylül 2016
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At the Broadway opening of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone… the carpet was wrapped when we heard: “One more person” 👀
Security froze the entrance. SUVs rolled up. Secret Service everywhere. The rumours started flying… was it him? 🇺🇸
Then the door opened… and in walked Michelle Obama 👑 And Just Like That, the night got even more legendary ✨
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@PaulHoglund @travisakers You mean like decency ? Clearly, you are a low class ignorant parent who models this exact type of behavior!
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@travisakers If my child was in your class and you announced that to me, I would pull them out.
Not that my children use those words, they don’t, but because of what your actions say about you.
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Parents, let me be extremely clear…
If your child uses “retarded” or “faggot” in my classroom, they are out. And it’s a reflection on you as well. I didn’t mince my words. And if they learned it from you… shame.
To the majority of parents who are raising your children to respect others, you’re doing it right, we see that, and appreciate you.
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@JustBlogBaby I will gladly enjoy both families. Wonderful people all of them!!!!
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Can the Mendoza family replace the Kelce family please
The Players’ Tribune@PlayersTribune
Hey @Raiders, need an on-air host? We know a guy.... We gave @fernandomendoza’s little brother, Max, our camcorder for the @NFL Draft, and the footage does not disappoint. 📹 (s/o The Max Mendoza Show) @bigten | @IndianaFootball
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@CrazyVibes_1 And this left wing c*ck sucker called Glenn Beck “Satan” when he saw him at a Knicks game. Total douche.
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By Season 4 of The Sopranos, Gandolfini was earning $400,000 per episode. HBO wanted Season 5 on the fast track, and the offer was staggering: roughly $1 million per episode across 13 episodes. Agents celebrated. Lawyers drafted. But something stopped him cold.
His co-stars were earning a fraction of what he made. Edie Falco, the woman who carried every scene as Carmela Soprano, wasn't close. The supporting cast earned even less. Gandolfini looked at his contract and saw something executives didn't want him to see — a gap that felt deeply unfair.
So he did something that shocked Hollywood. He walked away.
Production stalled in early 2003. HBO filed a lawsuit seeking around $100 million in damages. Headlines called him difficult. Columnists called him unstable. "They think I'm a wild animal," he reportedly told a friend that spring. The easy move would have been to sign, cash the check, and disappear into Tony Soprano's shadow — the character who made him a household name and quietly trapped him inside it.
Instead, Gandolfini made a different choice.
He eventually returned to the negotiating table and signed the deal. But what he did next became legend. Gandolfini reached into his own pocket and personally gave approximately $33,000 to each of 16 supporting cast members — roughly $500,000 of his own money — as a thank-you for standing by him during the shutdown.
No press release. No cameras. No announcement. Just quiet envelopes handed out privately.
Crew members remembered other moments too. Gandolfini would show up early at Silvercup Studios in Queens, sit in a folding chair, chain-smoke, and ask grips and lighting technicians about their kids by name. He remembered birthdays. He remembered losses. When a crew member's family member fell ill, he quietly helped with expenses. When writers pulled all-nighters rewriting scenes, he fought to protect their words on screen.
The turning point wasn't the signing. It was the pause — the refusal that cost him his reputation, invited a massive lawsuit, and risked killing the biggest show on television. He bet everything on a principle most people would have quietly swallowed.
Season 5 aired in 2004. Ratings climbed. Awards followed. Critics called it one of the greatest seasons of television ever made. But behind the numbers was a quieter truth: James Gandolfini used his leverage not just to lift himself — but to lift everyone standing beside him.
He played a man who ruled through fear on screen. Off screen, he led through loyalty.
When he died suddenly in 2013 at age 51, cast and crew members told the same stories over and over — not about his Emmy wins or his iconic performance, but about the envelopes, the folding chair, the questions about their kids. A legacy built not on what he earned, but on what he shared.
Power doesn't always roar. Sometimes it whispers through a quiet envelope, handed over with no cameras watching.

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@MacFarlaneNews Hell NO! Thom should insist that they can't restart the investigation or Trump will just pull another fast one!!!!
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The Night the Voice Silenced the Walls 🎶✊
In the early '60s, Frank Sinatra was the biggest star on the planet. But while he was living in luxury on the Miami Beach Strip, his friend Sammy Davis Jr. and a young Muhammad Ali weren't even allowed to grab a room in the same hotels where they performed.
Segregation didn’t care about talent, but Sinatra didn't care about "the rules."
The Showdown at the Sands & Beyond
History often forgets that the "Chairman of the Board" was also a pioneer for civil rights. The story goes that when Sinatra found out his Black colleagues were being sent to the Hampton House on the mainland because the Beach was "Whites Only," he gave the hotel owners an ultimatum:
"If they don’t stay, I don’t play." 🎤
He didn't just talk; he acted. He forced the integration of the Sands Hotel in Vegas and the major hubs in Miami Beach by leveraging the one thing the owners loved more than their rules: Money. Sinatra was the biggest draw in the world, and he knew it.
Why This Matters Today
This isn't just a story about a celebrity—it’s a masterclass in Allyship.
Use your Clout: Sinatra didn't wait for the laws to change; he used his power to force the change.
Unity over Comfort: He was willing to walk away from a paycheck to stand next to his brothers.
The Hampton House Legacy: While Ali celebrated his 1964 victory against Liston at the Hampton House, it was the pressure from stars like Sinatra that eventually broke the locks on the Beach’s front doors.
The Lesson: Real power isn't just about reaching the top; it’s about refusing to stay there if you can’t bring your friends through the front door with you.
What’s your favorite "Old Hollywood" story that hits different?
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@vdmempire Shame on Chris Rock for engaging a loyal daughter who is just protecting her Dad by using her Mother's dalliances to shame her. WOW!
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@bigfattysmooth @amyklobuchar You are full of it! Ignorance is bliss lady!!!
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@amyklobuchar Should have never taken the COVID shot! The turbo cancers are insane, but you demonic politicians pushed it like it was no big deal. You even concocted bribery schemes to make people take it. Now many are suffering its side effects. And you? You get to roll in your death dollars!
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@OCAmericans @JDunlap1974 Nor do we care what you think! Save your words and sarcasm for an audience that cares!
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@JDunlap1974 I really don’t care what either of them do
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🚨🚨 NEW: Barack & Michelle Obama address divorce rumors
Michelle: "It's my husband, y'all."
Barack: "She took me back! ... It was touch and go for a while."
Craig Robinson: "It's so nice to have you both in the same room together."
Michelle: "I know, because when we aren't, folks think we're divorced."
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But I thought Mamdani ruined NY
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨 HUGE: NYC revenue has surged 8.3% to a record breaking $80 billion. This comes without a single tax increase.
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Michael Jordan and Tyler Reddick are DOMINATING this NASCAR season.
Reddick just became the first driver since Dale Earnhardt in 1987 to win five of the first nine NASCAR Cup Series races in a season. @TylerReddick
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