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Good afternoon. Why does some parts of the past live on while others disappear. How do cities decide which buildings to preserve and which to tear down or which people to include in a history textbook and which to omit.These are not random events. Even a house accidentally destroyed in a fire can be rebuilt exactly as it was or in a totally new fashion. Similarly, someone, some volunteer or curator decides which objects will be put on display in a museum and what the labels about them will say.These decisio ...

Thank you. So, I'll be honest to you guys, and you promise to be honest to me, right? Who has ever tried cocaine? Well, well, statistically, some of you are not telling the truth. Let me ask you another question. How many of you have ever been to a party where someone was taking cocaine? All right, that's most of you. Because the fact is we're living in the golden age of cocaine. Never before had there been more consumption of cocaine, more production of cocaine than right now. It's in the streets out here. ...

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-I was tired of living in a country where not my capabilities or my competence but the connection that people have takes them forward. -We planned to have a very small peaceful protest. [shouting] -Did you stay off of social media or did you go back to posting.-No, I went back to posting. I will never stop posting. It's fine even if I die.But I will be dying speaking up for my country. -There is a huge class difference. And all these people, they get these opportunities not because they are capable of it, j ...

At least 11 people, including three children, were killed in a mass shooting at a bar in a township near the South African administrative capital of Pretoria, police said on Saturday, via @AP https://t.co/UFjenNYfhv ...

The repression has intensified. The fact is the executions reflect the degree of violence and cruelty the Islamic Republic has unleashed against the Iranian people. Arrests have become far more widespread and have now reached layers of society that although always under threat hadn't been directly targeted like this before.I see the repression now as extremely serious. The establishment's violence against its own people is a naked one, and I know people are deeply angry. ...

like we are seeing lawmakers face threats for doing the right thing in their state. That should be front page news everywhere. Like this is a moment in time where we're seeing constant threats to lawmakers that are trying to do the right thing in Indiana. And I just want to note we've not heard anything from Donald Trump on this. Not we haven't heard a word on Truth Social about, you know, his perspective on why these threats should stop. That's concerning. You know, it's, you know, we haven't seen the Cash ...

Tonight, the urgent manhuntut coursing through central California aimed at a suspected shooter authorities say brought violence and death to a day of joy for children. >> I have one down the CPR has already been started on. >> More than 100 people were gathered inside this banquet hall for a child's birthday party according to authorities when shots rang out.>> I have one vict. >> Four people were killed with at least 11 others wounded. Among the lives lost, three children eight, nine, and 14 years old alon ...