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Poperagoestheweasel
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Classical singer and music educator. Chronic illness haver. Bird mom. Lover of learning, history, and the arts. Check out my YT channel here: https://youtube.com/@poperagoestheweasel?si=qn2wwWHxls57Wl9R Also open to work.
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I'm a professional musician: singer, director, educator. 2 years ago, I made a song parody and posted it online. I thought my friends would like it. This year I got diagnosed with a chronic auto-immune disease that severely limits my ability to do the things I used to do like teach or sing.
I hope she wins. What the fuck, Oxford? I thought you were the genteel, thinking-man's South?
As news that the University of Mississippi had fired Lauren Stokes for sharing a post criticizing Charlie Kirk spread, she and her husband had to close their restaurant and flee Oxford for two weeks amid a wave of threats, the lawsuit says.
UM Employee Sues After Losing Her Job for Criticizing Kirk
Former University of Mississippi employee Lauren Stokes is suing Chancellor Glenn Boyce for firing her after she criticized Charlie Kirk.
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My PNW husband made me jambalaya, collard greens, cornbread and tea for dinner because I am missing my culture as a Southern ex-pat in New England. I love him very much.
I love magpies. What a cutie. You should give him a gift so he can steal things for you.
“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
I taught my parrot to ring a bell when he needs something. Turns out he really needs his little canary brother to: stop singing, stop sitting on his cage; stop being in his field of vision; stop getting attention.
It's very Splash-coded. I like it!
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"We had lived in New Orleans more than 30 years, but as a photojournalist I had never evacuated for a storm. I had always stayed to cover it for a variety of news organizations. Until Katrina," David Rae Morris writes.
Photojournalist Recalls Post-Katrina Gulf Coast, New Orleans
Photojournalist David Rae Morris writes that what he saw on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina haunts him to this day.
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Another article about my family's homeland.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Aug 29
While much of the focus marking 20 years since Hurricane Katrina is on New Orleans, where federal levees failed and flooded the city, the historic storm also decimated the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The long recovery on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, 'ground zero' for Hurricane Katrina
While much of the focus marking 20 years since Hurricane Katrina is on New Orleans, where federal levees failed and flooded the city, the historic storm also decimated the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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My people.
Two decades after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Mississippi, Waveland has regained much of its quiet coastal splendor.

But signs of the storm are still visible throughout the city and the rest of the Gulf Coast, where residents continue to grapple with its aftereffects and trauma.
In Waveland, Katrina’s Legacy Looms Large 20 Years Later
Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, residents in Waveland, Mississippi, still grapple with its aftereffects and the trauma they endured.
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He was great. His kid was in the hs band so he knew how important it was for the kids to practice before the "big" concert.
Custodial staff are the heart of any school. They literally keep things functioning and know everything going on. Some of my biggest supporters of my music programs were custodians. One even printed tickets and organized staff so my kids could perform a mini- concert!
My family comes from the MS coast. In Katrina, my grandma's house, 1/4 mile from the Gulf, was miraculously not pulled into the water.

I was in school in Jackson & had to evacuate. Later did volunteer work in Waveland, MS, very hard hit by the storm.

Coastal MS still bears the scars of Katrina.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Aug 25
Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans, which has had an uneven recovery in the past 20 years.
It was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history: Have we forgotten Katrina's lessons?
Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans, which has had an uneven recovery in the past 20 years.
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That's still an accomplishment!
Musicians: what are your top practice strategies? Besides fear of failure , one of mine is that I take a stretch break every half hour and I get to eat a piece of chocolate afterwards.
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OPINION: "This new rail connection will not only facilitate easier commutes for workers but also attract tourists and stimulate business growth along the Gulf Coast," Dr. Selika Sweet writes.
Opinion | Amtrak’s Return to the Gulf Coast Is a Game-Changer
Dr. Selika Sweet writes about the economic growth that may come to Mississippi from the return of the Amtrak Mardi Gras Service.
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Virtuoso pianist Jascha Spivakovsky was warned to flee growing Nazi attacks by Richard Strauss in a musically coded message and arranged an Australasian tour for his Trio. They boarded a ship in 1933 just a few days before the Nazi seizure of power.
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But maybe, since it was the 70s, that was because of cocaine?
Popera GoestheWeasel: Named Most Talented Best In Class by J.D. Power and Associates.
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Anna Netrebko is the big bad from an opera zombie movie who will not fucking die. And also a racist Putin apologist who insists on performing Aida in blackface.

I suppose she will be the new anti-woke star of the Melania Opera House and Blind Eye [turn, turn, turn] Pavilion 🙄
Anna Netrebko's Lawyers File Supplemental Complaint Against Peter Gelb & the Met Opera for Defamatory Statements - OperaWire
Anna Netrebko’s team has filed a supplemental complaint against the Metropolitan Opera and Peter Gelb, addressing defamatory statements made by the Met’s General Manager. In the letter to the court ac...
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As a former music teacher, this is so infuriating.

My work was important. I helped kids experience their own/different musical cultures, work as a team/express themselves.

W/ a master's and 15 yrs. experience, I got paid peanuts compared to some dick who makes the rich richer.
Today, 4 hedge fund managers on Wall St. earn more in a year than every kindergarten teacher in America combined.

Teachers: join us for a town hall tomorrow w/ leaders from the AFT & NEA to discuss the enormously important issue of raising teacher pay & saving public education.
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