Admiral Rachel L. Levine, the United States assistant secretary of health, made history when she became a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps on October 19, 2021. She is the first openly transgender four-star officer in the United States.
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Season 24: The Butcher and 3 Greater Rifts
In this video, I attempted to find the Diablo 2: Resurrected Barbarian transmog (but couldn’t find it in Diablo III). After that, I worked on the Chapter IV objectives, killed The Butcher, and ran a Nephalem Rift and three Greater Rifts.
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“No man is an island” is an idiom that was taken from a 1642 sermon by John Donne, who was the Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral. The full quote is as follows:
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Governor Gavin Newsom won the California Recall election. No one should be surprised by this outcome in a state where the vast majority of registered voters are Democrats.
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The U.S. Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court of the United States for an emergency halt to the Texas SB 8 law. The law prevents people who are pregnant from obtaining an abortion after six weeks of gestation. Pregnancy is measured from the first day of a person’s last menstrual cycle and before many people realize that they are pregnant.
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Every Committee requires members who will work on whatever focus the Committee has chosen. One of the first things the January 6th Committee did was select who would be part of it.
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is tasked with many things regarding housing, rental assistance, and fairness. The Department makes an effort to prevent housing discrimination. They fight for the rights of people who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, and/or parents to not be discriminated against when searching for housing.
This blog post picks up where the previous one left off.
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This is a Porg. These little goofy birds are my absolute favorite of all the creatures in Star Wars. When my husband and I visited Disneyland, we found Porg stuffed animals in the Batuu section.
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The Haunted Scavenger Hunt followed the Fishing Tourney (Goldfish), which came after Isabelle’s Creek Cooldown. Both of those events fit together well, because they both had something to do with water. The Haunted Scavenger Hunt, however, didn’t match. To me, it felt like maybe it was originally intended to be a Halloween event.
Continue Reading “Animal Crossing Pocket Camp: Haunted Scavenger Hunt”The January 6th Committee
The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol is a Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. As you may have guessed, the Committee’s main purpose is to investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol. This committee is also referred to as the “Select Committee”.
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