I know that I keep on posting articles about this topic, but I think people need to understand what is going on with ICE in this country.
And, because of what’s going on with ICE, I don’t want to hear anything positive, or how we should feel for Kelly – because he is the one who was in charge of Homeland Security, and these wretched, evil folks.
For Oakland family split by deportation, an emotional last day in U.S.
By Hamed Aleaziz
August 16, 2017
Updated: August 17, 2017 7:42am
Maria Mendoza-Sanchez spent her last day in the United States before deportation tending to matters both routine and strange.
She drove her 16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, to the first day of her sophomore year in high school. She packed. She ate meals with loved ones. And she signed paperwork granting power of attorney over her family’s affairs to the other two daughters she planned to leave behind, 23-year-old Vianney and 21-year-old Melin.
At 8 p.m. Wednesday, the family — the mom, husband and son who were leaving, and the daughters who were staying — gathered for a last photo together in their Oakland home. Then they formed a circle in the living room, along with three of Mendoza-Sanchez’s nursing colleagues at Highland Hospital, to hold hands and pray.
“Lord God right now I lift this family up to you!” proclaimed one of the nurses. “Lord God put your hand of protection on these girls!”
When the circle broke, Maria gathered her daughters into her arms, and said, firmly, “You promise you be strong. You behave yourselves. You do the right thing. We will be together again! I promise you.”
Her husband stood a few feet away, wiping tears from his eyes, shaking his head at the scene as Vianney repeated, over and over, “It’ll be OK, it’ll be OK.”
Hours later, Mendoza-Sanchez and her husband, Eusebio Sanchez, caught a red-eye flight from San Francisco International Airport to their native Mexico, after federal immigration officials denied efforts by them and Sen. Dianne Feinstein to delay their deportation.
They brought along their 12-year-old son, Jesus, while leaving behind their three older daughters, who will take care of one another.
The circumstances of the case, which offer a window into the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, fueled outrage from Feinstein, other local politicians and leaders at Highland Hospital. The couple lived in the U.S. for more than two decades, raised children who each have legal status, own their home in Oakland, do not have criminal records, and were granted earlier delays of deportation.
The family had pushed back the flight one day in hopes of winning a late reprieve from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. But the agency on Tuesday turned down their request for a stay of deportation.
An agency spokeswoman defended the deportation action last week, saying the family’s case had gone through a lengthy review in immigration courts and “neither of these individuals has a legal basis to remain in the U.S.”
When they came up with their immigration push…it was sold under the bullshyt banner of..
WE’RE GOING TO GET THE CRIMINALS..
AS IF..
The United States was being overrun by illegal immigrant criminals.
I knew that was bullshyt. And, I have been proven right.
ICE is nothing more than a RACIST domestic terror organization.
I see these stories coming across the feeds of blogs that I follow. Almost every day now.
And, the story is the same….
People who have been in this country for decades. Who work. Who have families. Who have been productive members of this society.
And, they have something else in common-they are NON-WHITE.
I’ve said it before: I live in a city with a LARGE illegal Irish, and a LARGE illegal Eastern European population.
But, somehow, I never seem to be reading these kinds of stories with illegal IRISH /EASTERN EUROPEANS.
You have ICE staking out houses of worship, and other places where they know people congregate..
Yet, they don’t seem to know where ILLEGAL IRISH /EASTERN EUROPEANS worship, live and congregate?
PHUCK.OUTTA.HERE.
You and I read stories like this and see barbarism.
Dolt45’s voters read this and cheer.
I have nothing in common with those people and stop telling me that I have to ‘understand’ them.
An Open Letter to #Trumpgretters: Go Bannon Yourselves
Spandan Chakrabarti August 18, 2017
Dear Trumpgretters:
We appear to be entering a new fad in media attention in the wake of Donald Trump’s racist response to the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville: prominent Trump voters who are now publicly expressing their regret in voting for Donald Trump. That is, you. You are our media’s new shiny object. Congratulations.
However, “I take it back” simply doesn’t cut it when your offense is not merely an error but a sin. Allow me to remind you what you have put our country through for the pleasure of your vicious, bloody experiment.
You decided that for the position of President of the United States, you would pick a man who bombed his way into the political scene by challenging the legitimacy – indeed the very citizenship – of this country’s first black president. The fact that he aided and abetted the racist conspiracy theory of birtherism did not phase you. The very reason Donald Trump could become a political figure was his – and your party’s – willingness to support and feed the overt racists in America, and that did not give you a pause.
You used your vote to elevate to power a man who blatantly stated that an American judge could not be objective because of his Mexican heritage. You did not recoil in horror when your candidate called immigrants rapists, thugs and drug dealers. You either thought it was a dandy idea, or you believed his hateful agenda could be tolerated in exchange for whatever “constructive” policy agenda you were hoping he’d deliver on.
You accepted as your preferred choice for President a man who pretended not to know who David Duke even was in order to pander to his racist, Nazi base, before meekly rebuking Duke’s support. By then, you know as well as anyone, Trump’s dog whistle to white supremacists had become a siren.
You offered your vote – your most sacred bond of support – to a man who invoked the imagery rape to describe trade deficits with Asian and Latin American countries. Let’s not pretend you couldn’t read the clear subtext: the white cultural fear non-white men as violent rapists who rape white women.
You made certain that your vote was counted for a man who repeatedly delegitimized your fellow Americans in highly diverse states and cities with accusations of illegal voting. Once again, the subtext was not lost on anyone but the most intellectually corrupt: if people of color vote, that’s illegal.
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2017/8/18/an-open-letter-to-trumpgretters-go-bannon-yourself
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No lie told
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Check email ladies
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This was painful to read. I can’t even imagine going through it.
How Trump Ruined My Relationship With My White Mother
Panama Jackson
Today 9:30am
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On the Monday before Charlottesville erupted into chaos, my mother and aunt came to visit. As usual, my mom and I had small disagreements about her support for Trump, but I noticed something different about our discussions this time: She was advocating for him. It wasn’t about hating Clinton; she actually liked Trump and what he had to say.
“He tells it like it is,” she said, echoing a common refrain from Trump supporters. On that day, I explained to my mother, in very plain language, why I felt he was dangerous, why Black Lives Matter existed (after she asked my opinion on BLM) and why I viewed the police, as an institution, as problematic. This happened while we were on the way to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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At home, we watched the news, and there was a news story about an inflatable chicken that had flown near the White House. My mother felt that was supremely disrespectful to Trump and voiced her opinion to me. I let her know, in no uncertain terms, that I didn’t care about him being disrespected because he’d disrespected me, my community, and any other possible community he could think of in both word, deed and attempted policy. My mother became upset with me and loudly expressed that he was worthy of my respect as a human being and that he was the most disrespected president ever.
I shot back with facts about the times he’d disrespected various communities, with quotes, and pointed out just how badly President Barack Obama was treated by publications and regular Joes while he was in office.
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But this is when our relationship hit the point from which I realized we’d never fully recover. When we were getting in the car to head to Rockville, Md., she asked why I found the T-shirt offensive. I told her that by her wearing that shirt, it showed that she didn’t care about my life or those of her grandchildren or daughter; after we argued, she refused to speak to me for hours, again.
She wanted me to take her home. I offered to take her to the airport.
She was leaving the next day, Saturday, which, as we all know now, is the day white supremacists staged their rally in Charlottesville. Amid discussion—she agreed that the white supremacists were appalling and that the police had done a horrible job—she still managed to find a way to support Trump by complaining that people were waiting for him to say something and then complained that he didn’t say enough; her point was that, basically, he couldn’t catch a break.
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I can’t sit and actively engage with a person—even if it is my mother, whose blood is running through my body—if she doesn’t care about me, my story or what I live through. If she can’t see past her own appreciation for a bigoted, dangerous man, who, because of the position people like her have placed him in, has the ability to do significant damage to my civil liberties, then I don’t know what place she can have, reasonably, in my life. It’s sad. It’s disappointing. It’s my mother.
Blood is not thicker than freedom and it’s not thicker than safety. Sometimes blood is just that, blood. I know my mother loves me; I’m her son. But, honestly, I don’t think my mother cares about what that really means.
Privilege is real. White privilege is real. It turns out, it can even trump blood. That reality is harsh. But it’s real.
Welcome to my reality.
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How ’Bout This, Tina Fey: Give Us (Black People) the Sheet Cake, and You Go Confront the White Women Who Voted for Trump
Damon Young
Today 5:42pm
I’m going to keep this short, because it’s Friday evening and I have shit to do.*
I generally like Tina Fey. She is one of my favorite people in comedy. And I did laugh at her sheet-cake bit. Even if the premise was all fucked up—more on that in a minute—the actual jokes (aside for the terrible, awful Thomas Jefferson joke) worked. And watching people eat cake like a hangry grizzly bear is always funny.
Much has been written already about how Fey’s bit was ensconced in white privilege, including this deconstruction from Splinter’s Isha Aran:
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LMAO!
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I’ve never commented on his terrible complexion but I’ve come close. What do you suppose his skin care regimen is like? Good grief would it kill him to see a dermatologist?
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I believe that Bannon is rotting from the inside out.
I would hate to see what his liver looks like.
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Da Phuq?
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Baby is here! ❤️❤️❤️
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CONGRATULATIONS.
Sending prayers for the baby. May the baby grow stronger everyday.
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So the little guy has arrived? Congratulations, SG2, to the whole family. I have all of you in my thoughts and prayers tonight.
I have a friend here in Tucson who was a preemie nurse for over 30 years. I think that people who do that work are special people, my friend is so kind and compassionate (and highly skilled). I’m sure that your grand baby is in good hands.
Rest tonight.
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Thank you so much, Liza. Just getting back home and am I tired. My feet hurt. We got a chance to go see the baby in NICU. He’s so little and such a darling.
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SG2, I know that your grandson is safely in good hands in NICU and will get stronger and stronger by the day.
He, your daughter and you are in my prayers. May the Lord of Love, Healing, and Strength watch over you and your grandson.
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This thread:
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uh huh
uh huh
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well……well…
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truth
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nope
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UH HUH
UH HUH
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Bravo
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I just can’t.
Black children are executed for playing with toy guns..
But, your grown azz decides to march with Nazis, and you wanna cry ‘poor me’?
PHUCK OUTTA HERE.
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“This Ostrich Snuggles Orphaned Elephants To Make Them Feel Better After Losing Their Moms”

http://themindcircle.com/ostrich-snuggles-orphaned-elephants/
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So adorable
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l love this back-to-school video:
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Adorable!!
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“In 1965, the city of Charlottesville demolished a thriving black neighborhood
The razing of Vinegar Hill displaced families and dissolved the community”
https://timeline.com/charlottesville-vinegar-hill-demolished-ba27b6ea69e1
Excerpt (but who article is worth reading) :
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I imagine Steve Bannon will change back into his comfy clothes.
From Newsweek:
“STEVE BANNON’S EXIT WON’T MAKE TRUMP’S WHITE HOUSE ANY LESS RACIST”
http://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-trump-racist-miller-652225
Excerpt:
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Don’t got there with that free speech bullshit.
CAUSE = EFFECT. Say (CAUSE) whatever the fuck you want to say, and be ready to deal with the EFFECTS. You are 100% RESPONSIBLE for what you say.
See how this works, MOFOs?
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I think we need legislators to distinguish between free speech and hate speech once and for all. Write it into the hate crime legislation.
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“Counter protesters rally against potential KKK march in Durham, North Carolina”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/18/counter-protesters-rally-against-kkk-durham-north-carolina/580380001/
Excerpt:
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We can be the change by speaking out against hate and violence. We have the power of love on our side. Now is the time for action…not just words.
We need to draw on our inner strength.
We must not let the Neo-Nazis, White Supremacist and their sympathizers shut down our democracy, diversity, civil rights, and freedoms.
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Stop this #45 BASE BULLSHIT. It’s the GOP, the ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY, any & all who voted for this POS & continue to remain silent who are culpable.
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Their silence translates into permission.
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.”
~Elie Wiesel
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THIS RIGHT HERE
DON’T FRET, KEITH, Bannon will go after #45. It ain’t over.
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If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it IS a duck:
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Don’t be fooled by Bannon’s exit, #45 is a RACIT POS, up in our WH, posing as leader of the free world. WTF
RUSSIA
Bannon to #45: IT’S NOT UR-iNE
#45 to Bannon: IT’S MINE
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“Arts and humanities committee leaves hidden message for Trump in resignation letter”

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/arts-and-humanities-committee-leaves-hidden-message-for-trump-in-resignation-letter/article/2631960
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Maybe this is larger:

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Thanks for posting this, Ametia.
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#45 needs to GO too. Like now. He’s a rotten, racists POS, who allowed all these MOFOs up in that WH.
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Breaking News: Steve Bannon is OUT of the White House
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NOW TAKE OUT THAT POS #45!
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TRUMP HAS GOTS TA GO
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Trump apparently has the same beliefs as Bannon and Steve Miller. What does that say about loyalty and allegiance to the flag and “to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL” ????
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This TURD right here. This is who the racists put on FAUX NOISE to feign outrage over RACISTS?
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Wish that would pass unanimously. But, more needs to be done beyond just “scolding.”
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YOU ~~~~~~ ME EYE TO EYE
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Censure? WTF? Get that POS out of the White House
FULL STOP
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Seriously??? A stern talking to? A time out? A go stand in the corner? Fuck outta here with this minimalist crap! Do something of value damnit! Get rid of him!
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“OUR COUNTRY STANDS FOR THE VLUE OF ONE HUMAN LIFE.”
America, Really?
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Thank you, Ametia, for posting all of these videos as a warning to us of the dangerous times we live in. We must not see a repeat of history. We must NOT ALLOW it to ever recur.
NEVER AGAIN! NEVER AGAIN! NEVER AGAIN!
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Good! Everyone needs to speak out through their words and actions like this!
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We are living in scary and dangerous times. We all need to stand against and say no to the White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis who want to ruin our country, and we need to continue to insist that Trump condemns them in specific, plain language.
Many God protect us and our country from these racist haters and “their program.”
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HOW PRESCIENT
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Chilling, and yes, as you say: “prescient.”
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HISTORY repeating itself. America is Not learning lessons from the PAST.
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Strength for this day:
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Daughter had a reaction to one of the medications. It made her so sick, baby stopped moving for awhile so they took her off that medication and now he’s back moving again. She’s tired, didn’t sleep well but feeling better than she was last night.
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Oh, I am so sorry to hear that, SG2. She must have been so worried for her baby. I glad that they took her off that medication and that she is feeling better. I hope she is able to get caught up on her rest today. Please give her a hug for me.
Please know that both of you will continue to be in my thoughts and prayers.
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Thank you, Yahtc and everyone for your prayers. Just as I start to feel a little relieved then something else happens.
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Your daughter is in the right place, where she can get the right medications, rest, and care to ensure she and the baby will come through this. Rest assure that they have the protection and love of the ALMIGHTY.
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Thank you all for your love and concern for my daughter and baby.
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SG2, I am so sorry that happened to your daughter and her baby after going through all of that trauma yesterday. I’ll be praying for them. Sounds like the baby is a fighter, like his grandma. He’s going to be fine.
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SG2,
They are going to get it right and take care of both of them. They are both in my prayers, and she’s going to hold onto that little one for as long as she can. Take it day by day.
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Enough already, about #45’s base.
Fuck that nonsense. It’s up to these Pols in Repub & Dem parties to condemn this ugliness and remove this slime from our WHITE HOUSE
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Good for Heather’s mom telling it like it is!
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Selma voting rights leading activist, Amelia Boynton Robinson, was born on this day, August 18, in 1911 in Savannah, Georgia.
Video on Amelia Boynton Robinson:
“Amelia Boynton Robinson: Marching in Selma”
The Matriarch of the Voting Rights Movement: Amelia Boynton Robinson”
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Artist Simmie Lee Knox was born on this day, August 18, in 1935 in Aliceville, Alabama.
From Wikipedia:
“W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Faces Tell The Story…A Conversation With Renown Portrait Painter Simmie Knox”
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I’m just gonna say it
#Trumploveshate
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Hi sunshine, good to see your fonts, lady.
You have to wonder why the folks in DC and the media are gaining from reporting these incidents of hate and racism, but won’t take steps to get t6hat fucker out of the WH.
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More of the same. Words of outrage, actionless actions.
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This made my cry. Racist bs policies intended to appease white fears of revealed inadequacy. This family is suffering now for what exactly? Who has been saved, improved or helped by this action?
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This is DOMESTIC TERRORISM
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“Joint Chiefs Denounce Racism After Trump’s Comments”
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/544093951/joint-chiefs-denounce-racism-after-trumps-comments
Excerpts:
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Prayers for SG2’s daughter and grandbaby. Keep her daughter calm and off her feet, so that the little one can grow and develop.🙏🙏🙏
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Amen.
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Thank you, Rikyrah. Dr said she was working too hard and doing too much. He’s taking her off the job to get complete bed rest.
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Is your daughter experiencing pre-eclampsia?
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Yes, Ametia! Pre-eclampsia
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God bless your sis with his everlasting tender mercies.
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SG2, I’m sending up prayers for your daughter and her precious baby.
May God have Mercy. This Soul is readying itself to enter this plane.
God knows we need the little ones coming in now to bring the goodness and spiritual intelligence we need, if we’re going to survive.
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Good Morning,Everyone 😐😐😐
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Good morning to everyone. Thoughts out to all of you fine people and your families. Lots of love to u all!
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Good Morning, Everyone.
Rikyrah, what a blessing that your sister’s health is improving enough for her to be out of ICU. I’m continuing to Send up prayers.
How is Peanut?
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Peanut got to see her Grandmother yesterday. My sister said that she was full of questions. Then, she came by my house and started asking me questions. I think she was trying to figure out if her grandmother was hiding something from her. My sister is the most strict of all her grandparents, but Peanut adores her. I told her that she might be called in to help her Grandma when she left the hospital,but she was fine with that.
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