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“[Abdul El-Sayed] is a paper doctor. He never took his board exams, never had a practice, didn't have a residency. He's an egghead doctor.” Reporter Charlie LeDuff breaks down how El-Sayed built his political career on a medical degree he never actually used: “He figured it was better for... show more

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Abdul El-Sayed Is a Paper Doctor With an Empty Résumé The people's champ has never treated a patient, and the little work he has done hasn't improved health in Detroit By Charlie LeDuff Charlie LeDuff A cop told me recently that he got a call from a rich white man complaining about a suspicious black man roaming his neighborhood. Cops hate those kinds of calls. It puts them in a bad spot. But cops have to respond to calls. So he did. Turned out, the black man was an Amazon driver. And naturally, the white man had a sign in his yard that read “Black Lives Matter.” Now, there’s a new sign on the white man’s lawn: “Abdul for U.S. Senate.” Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is running on a platform of good union jobs, money out of politics, and Medicare for All. I don’t understand the attraction. It’s doubtful the rich white man ever worked in a factory or has to worry about medical bills. Let’s call it virtue signaling for virtue’s sake. It takes the sting out of white privilege. For you workday humps who’d like to know something about the candidate beyond slick 30-second commercials, it’s worth noting that El-Sayed never worked in a factory, and aside from some part-time gigs at various colleges, his resume is thin. Very thin. The first thing you need to know is that El-Sayed is a paper doctor. He’s never treated a patient, is not licensed in Michigan, and never passed the board examinations. He can’t so much as dispense aspirin from an ambulance. The second thing you need to know is that El-Sayed, 41, has worked just two real jobs in his adult life, totaling less than four years, according to his resume. This from a guy who wants to be senator for life. What’s troubling is where he worked and what he actually accomplished: He was appointed as the top public health official in Detroit and then Wayne County. Both departments are an historical quagmire of corruption and incompetence. Believe me, I know, I helped put one director behind bars for, among other things, embezzling public health dollars to pay for hair plugs. For his part, El-Sayed was appointed as Detroit’s health director in 2015 by then-Mayor Mike Duggan. At that time, as the city was emerging from its historic bankruptcy, El-Sayed’s health department was funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars into a pet program run by Duggan’s mistress. The program was supposed to lower infant mortality rates in the city. After just 17 months on the job, El-Sayed resigned to run for governor. Then Mistress-gate scandal exploded and infant mortality skyrocketed. Nothing changed. To El-Sayed’s credit, before resigning as health director, he commissioned a report that showed Duggan’s demolition blitz was poisoning the city’s children. That program is now the subject of a sprawling FBI investigation. However, El-Sayed the candidate has said little about it. A couple years and cups of coffee later, El-Sayed was appointed in 2023 as the medical chief of Wayne County. According to his own campaign commercial, El-Sayed’s biggest accomplishment was a partnership with a nonprofit that supplied 16,000 eye glasses to needy children. What the commercial does not tell you is that the nonprofit existed for a decade beforehand and the county’s portion was funded primarily by Biden’s Covid bucks. One-time inflationary federal dollars is no solution to a health crisis. All the while, life expectancy in Detroit continues to crater from pre-pandemic levels, hovering around 70 years old. That’s hardly an effective record. There are also serious questions about El-Sayed’s campaigns finance problems, including indications of straw donors, actual contributors blowing past legal limits, and a Super PAC committed to spending millions of dollars on his behalf. Then there are the disturbing questions regarding the mental fitness of those he surrounds himself with, including a former staffer charged with terrorism, a current staffer who says all white women are racist (ironically, that staffer herself is a white woman), and a prominent podcaster who once said America deserved 9/11. And can we get a timeline of when he actually lived in Michigan? But those are stories for another day. Go ahead and plant your yard signs rich white guy. That's your right. Just remember, you reap what you sow.

Abdul El-Sayed Is a Paper Doctor With an Empty Résumé The people's champ has never treated a patient, and the little work he has done hasn't improved health in Detroit By Charlie LeDuff Charlie LeDuff A cop told me recently that he got a call from a rich white man complaining about a suspicious black man roaming his neighborhood. Cops hate those kinds of calls. It puts them in a bad spot. But cops have to respond to calls. So he did. Turned out, the black man was an Amazon driver. And naturally, the white man had a sign in his yard that read “Black Lives Matter.” Now, there’s a new sign on the white man’s lawn: “Abdul for U.S. Senate.” Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is running on a platform of good union jobs, money out of politics, and Medicare for All. I don’t understand the attraction. It’s doubtful the rich white man ever worked in a factory or has to worry about medical bills. Let’s call it virtue signaling for virtue’s sake. It takes the sting out of white privilege. For you workday humps who’d like to know something about the candidate beyond slick 30-second commercials, it’s worth noting that El-Sayed never worked in a factory, and aside from some part-time gigs at various colleges, his resume is thin. Very thin. The first thing you need to know is that El-Sayed is a paper doctor. He’s never treated a patient, is not licensed in Michigan, and never passed the board examinations. He can’t so much as dispense aspirin from an ambulance. The second thing you need to know is that El-Sayed, 41, has worked just two real jobs in his adult life, totaling less than four years, according to his resume. This from a guy who wants to be senator for life. What’s troubling is where he worked and what he actually accomplished: He was appointed as the top public health official in Detroit and then Wayne County. Both departments are an historical quagmire of corruption and incompetence. Believe me, I know, I helped put one director behind bars for, among other things, embezzling public health dollars to pay for hair plugs. For his part, El-Sayed was appointed as Detroit’s health director in 2015 by then-Mayor Mike Duggan. At that time, as the city was emerging from its historic bankruptcy, El-Sayed’s health department was funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars into a pet program run by Duggan’s mistress. The program was supposed to lower infant mortality rates in the city. After just 17 months on the job, El-Sayed resigned to run for governor. Then Mistress-gate scandal exploded and infant mortality skyrocketed. Nothing changed. To El-Sayed’s credit, before resigning as health director, he commissioned a report that showed Duggan’s demolition blitz was poisoning the city’s children. That program is now the subject of a sprawling FBI investigation. However, El-Sayed the candidate has said little about it. A couple years and cups of coffee later, El-Sayed was appointed in 2023 as the medical chief of Wayne County. According to his own campaign commercial, El-Sayed’s biggest accomplishment was a partnership with a nonprofit that supplied 16,000 eye glasses to needy children. What the commercial does not tell you is that the nonprofit existed for a decade beforehand and the county’s portion was funded primarily by Biden’s Covid bucks. One-time inflationary federal dollars is no solution to a health crisis. All the while, life expectancy in Detroit continues to crater from pre-pandemic levels, hovering around 70 years old. That’s hardly an effective record. There are also serious questions about El-Sayed’s campaigns finance problems, including indications of straw donors, actual contributors blowing past legal limits, and a Super PAC committed to spending millions of dollars on his behalf. Then there are the disturbing questions regarding the mental fitness of those he surrounds himself with, including a former staffer charged with terrorism, a current staffer who says all white women are racist (ironically, that staffer herself is a white woman), and a prominent podcaster who once said America deserved 9/11. And can we get a timeline of when he actually lived in Michigan? But those are stories for another day. Go ahead and plant your yard signs rich white guy. That's your right. Just remember, you reap what you sow.

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Abdul El-Sayed's House of Horrors After he "fixed" a juvie jail, kids suffered rape, beatings, and were given expired meds By Charlie LeDuff Charlie LeDuff Abdul El-Sayed, the unlicensed doctor, says he’s got the chops and experience to govern from D.C. But does he? On the campaign trail, on television, and online, he talks about his tenure as the Wayne County Health Director and his miraculous turn around of the fetid and violent juvenile detention facility. “We had to rebuild it from the ground up,” he told a crowd of black pastors. “We rebuilt it from the studs up,” he told a group of black Democrats. “When the juvenile detention facility was in shambles, I declared a public health state of emergency to rebuild it,” he told CBS. But those claims don’t hold up when you examine the officials records, court filings, or talk to people who actually worked at the juvenile jail. Those employees paint a picture of horror, abuse, and incompetence. “Nothing was fixed,” said Jalal Malik-Ikram, a retired Detroit cop and former security officer at the juvenile jailhouse. “It was like prison. The kids called the shots, and their care and safety were beyond terrible.” Malik-Ikram was fired for taking secret photographs to document the abuse. El-Sayed may have built the studs, but he forgot to lay a foundation. “They were giving the kids expired medications,” Malik-Ikram said. “Or we couldn’t give the meds at all because it wasn’t safe. School? Education? There wasn’t none to speak of.” El-Sayed came to work for Wayne County in 2023. His resume listed few professional jobs beyond his 16 months as the Detroit Health Director. He quit that job in 2017, ran for governor, and lost. From there he became a paid talking head for CNN during the Covid pandemic. Citing standard talking points, El-Sayed got most things wrong, including the benefits of school lockouts, masking outdoors, and the efficacy of the vaccine. But El-Sayed was a “get” for the scandal-plagued county, whose Covid nursing home response was under intense scrutiny as was the plummeting life expectancy of Detroiters. In El-Sayed, they had themselves a real life TV doctor. Wayne County paid him big—about $280,000 a year. That was $100,000 more than his predecessor, a black female, and $100,000 more than his successor, also a black female. This disparity came despite El-Sayed’s social justice position decrying the pay gap between white men and black women. The month El-Sayed came aboard full-time with the county—March 2023—a 12-year-old boy was gang raped in the juvenile jail. Squalid and overcrowded, the deteriorating facility with overflowing sewage was a dumping ground not just for Detroit and Wayne County delinquents, but also for juveniles from across the state. It was the embarrassed County Executive Warren Evans—not El-Sayed—who declared a three-month state of emergency. It was Evans who appointed El-Sayed his juvenile jail czar and handed him $10 million. El-Sayed spent the money. The kids got fresh underpants, the guards got a pay raise, but little else changed. “[We] reorganized healthcare at the facility, raised salaries and wages by 35% to retain staff, and provided daily access to to hygiene products and clean underwear,” he told the Detroit News. And it was Evans, the county executive, who lifted the emergency declaration in June 2023, calling El-Sayed’s 10-week tenure a great success. But it wasn’t a great success. A week later, another kid was raped. Another week, and another beating. A few months later, the facility’s license was downgraded to a “provisional” status—requiring state supervision. The findings by a state investigator were appalling—violence, irregular meals, 22-hour lockdowns. In December 2023, two nurses filed a whistleblower lawsuit, alleging that they were fired after complaining to superiors that the children were being given expired medications. In February 2024, the juvenile jail was given a second “provisional” license after a boy was savaged by other inmates. Weeks later, a detention worker was charged and later convicted of the sexual assault of two boys. She is currently serving a 6-to-15-year prison sentence. One of the victims is now suing the county in federal court. That’s when Malik-Ikram began snapping his photographs. He tells the story of a gay teenager so distraught about being left in the general population that he pulled the florescent light bulbs out of the ceiling to harm himself. “The kid ate the glass so they’d take him to the hospital,” Malik-Ikram recalled. “That way, he figured, when he come back to lock-up, he’d get placed on the safe floor. But they wouldn’t put him on the safe floor, so the kid would eat glass again. When that didn’t work, he got violent, and that’s when security officers slammed the kid’s head into the wall. I saw that, and I took pictures.” Malik-Ikram was fired. He, too, has an active whistleblower lawsuit. Last year, the children were moved into the new Wayne County Criminal Justice Complex, a project engulfed in corruption and cost-overruns. Violence and staffing levels remain serious issues there. El-Sayed is now asking voters to consider his record at the juvenile jail as he pushes for Medicare for All when the truth is that he couldn’t manage medical care in a juvenile jailhouse. But on the upside, he got kids toothbrushes and underpants.

Abdul El-Sayed's House of Horrors After he "fixed" a juvie jail, kids suffered rape, beatings, and were given expired meds By Charlie LeDuff Charlie LeDuff Abdul El-Sayed, the unlicensed doctor, says he’s got the chops and experience to govern from D.C. But does he? On the campaign trail, on television, and online, he talks about his tenure as the Wayne County Health Director and his miraculous turn around of the fetid and violent juvenile detention facility. “We had to rebuild it from the ground up,” he told a crowd of black pastors. “We rebuilt it from the studs up,” he told a group of black Democrats. “When the juvenile detention facility was in shambles, I declared a public health state of emergency to rebuild it,” he told CBS. But those claims don’t hold up when you examine the officials records, court filings, or talk to people who actually worked at the juvenile jail. Those employees paint a picture of horror, abuse, and incompetence. “Nothing was fixed,” said Jalal Malik-Ikram, a retired Detroit cop and former security officer at the juvenile jailhouse. “It was like prison. The kids called the shots, and their care and safety were beyond terrible.” Malik-Ikram was fired for taking secret photographs to document the abuse. El-Sayed may have built the studs, but he forgot to lay a foundation. “They were giving the kids expired medications,” Malik-Ikram said. “Or we couldn’t give the meds at all because it wasn’t safe. School? Education? There wasn’t none to speak of.” El-Sayed came to work for Wayne County in 2023. His resume listed few professional jobs beyond his 16 months as the Detroit Health Director. He quit that job in 2017, ran for governor, and lost. From there he became a paid talking head for CNN during the Covid pandemic. Citing standard talking points, El-Sayed got most things wrong, including the benefits of school lockouts, masking outdoors, and the efficacy of the vaccine. But El-Sayed was a “get” for the scandal-plagued county, whose Covid nursing home response was under intense scrutiny as was the plummeting life expectancy of Detroiters. In El-Sayed, they had themselves a real life TV doctor. Wayne County paid him big—about $280,000 a year. That was $100,000 more than his predecessor, a black female, and $100,000 more than his successor, also a black female. This disparity came despite El-Sayed’s social justice position decrying the pay gap between white men and black women. The month El-Sayed came aboard full-time with the county—March 2023—a 12-year-old boy was gang raped in the juvenile jail. Squalid and overcrowded, the deteriorating facility with overflowing sewage was a dumping ground not just for Detroit and Wayne County delinquents, but also for juveniles from across the state. It was the embarrassed County Executive Warren Evans—not El-Sayed—who declared a three-month state of emergency. It was Evans who appointed El-Sayed his juvenile jail czar and handed him $10 million. El-Sayed spent the money. The kids got fresh underpants, the guards got a pay raise, but little else changed. “[We] reorganized healthcare at the facility, raised salaries and wages by 35% to retain staff, and provided daily access to to hygiene products and clean underwear,” he told the Detroit News. And it was Evans, the county executive, who lifted the emergency declaration in June 2023, calling El-Sayed’s 10-week tenure a great success. But it wasn’t a great success. A week later, another kid was raped. Another week, and another beating. A few months later, the facility’s license was downgraded to a “provisional” status—requiring state supervision. The findings by a state investigator were appalling—violence, irregular meals, 22-hour lockdowns. In December 2023, two nurses filed a whistleblower lawsuit, alleging that they were fired after complaining to superiors that the children were being given expired medications. In February 2024, the juvenile jail was given a second “provisional” license after a boy was savaged by other inmates. Weeks later, a detention worker was charged and later convicted of the sexual assault of two boys. She is currently serving a 6-to-15-year prison sentence. One of the victims is now suing the county in federal court. That’s when Malik-Ikram began snapping his photographs. He tells the story of a gay teenager so distraught about being left in the general population that he pulled the florescent light bulbs out of the ceiling to harm himself. “The kid ate the glass so they’d take him to the hospital,” Malik-Ikram recalled. “That way, he figured, when he come back to lock-up, he’d get placed on the safe floor. But they wouldn’t put him on the safe floor, so the kid would eat glass again. When that didn’t work, he got violent, and that’s when security officers slammed the kid’s head into the wall. I saw that, and I took pictures.” Malik-Ikram was fired. He, too, has an active whistleblower lawsuit. Last year, the children were moved into the new Wayne County Criminal Justice Complex, a project engulfed in corruption and cost-overruns. Violence and staffing levels remain serious issues there. El-Sayed is now asking voters to consider his record at the juvenile jail as he pushes for Medicare for All when the truth is that he couldn’t manage medical care in a juvenile jailhouse. But on the upside, he got kids toothbrushes and underpants.

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CNN's Scott Jennings on if el-Sayed wins the Michigan Democrat primary... "Well, look, [Republicans can] never take anything for granted, but obviously he's much further to the left, much farther outside of the political mainstream. I mean, you talk about the world being in chaos -- during the campaign, a leaked audio from his campaign came out -- Abdul el-Sayed -- in which he was worried about commenting on the death of the Ayatollah because he didn't want to offend his supporters. Yeah, the world is in chaos, and this guy can't figure out what side of the ball he's on. And so, I think Republicans look forward to running against this, because there won't be a brighter line than between Abdul el-Sayed and Mike Rogers."

CNN's Scott Jennings on if el-Sayed wins the Michigan Democrat primary... "Well, look, [Republicans can] never take anything for granted, but obviously he's much further to the left, much farther outside of the political mainstream. I mean, you talk about the world being in chaos -- during the campaign, a leaked audio from his campaign came out -- Abdul el-Sayed -- in which he was worried about commenting on the death of the Ayatollah because he didn't want to offend his supporters. Yeah, the world is in chaos, and this guy can't figure out what side of the ball he's on. And so, I think Republicans look forward to running against this, because there won't be a brighter line than between Abdul el-Sayed and Mike Rogers."

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A billionaire named Rockefeller went on camera and told the UN the planet had too many people on it. Not a leak, not a rumor, a filmed speech from 1994. He opened soft. Infant mortality down 60% in 40 years, life expectancy up from 46 to 63. Then he turned it. All that progress was pushing the world toward 8 billion, and to him that was the threat. Water strained, energy strained, air poisoned. So his fix wasn’t “help people live better” It was “stabilize the population” He wanted the UN to run it across borders. Cairo in 1994, Rio in 1992, same message in both rooms. Growth works best, he said, when the private sector drives it and governments keep it in line. A banker worth billions, on a microphone, calling for global control over how many humans get to exist. He didn’t hide it, he said it out loud.

A billionaire named Rockefeller went on camera and told the UN the planet had too many people on it. Not a leak, not a rumor, a filmed speech from 1994. He opened soft. Infant mortality down 60% in 40 years, life expectancy up from 46 to 63. Then he turned it. All that progress was pushing the world toward 8 billion, and to him that was the threat. Water strained, energy strained, air poisoned. So his fix wasn’t “help people live better” It was “stabilize the population” He wanted the UN to run it across borders. Cairo in 1994, Rio in 1992, same message in both rooms. Growth works best, he said, when the private sector drives it and governments keep it in line. A banker worth billions, on a microphone, calling for global control over how many humans get to exist. He didn’t hide it, he said it out loud.

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MSNOW: I spoke to Abdul El-Sayed and his argument is if you want to change the system you've got to take a chance on the candidate who's running against the system. He's ahead of the others versus a candidate who was recruited by Schumer. Abdul El-Sayed is charming. He gets it.

MSNOW: I spoke to Abdul El-Sayed and his argument is if you want to change the system you've got to take a chance on the candidate who's running against the system. He's ahead of the others versus a candidate who was recruited by Schumer. Abdul El-Sayed is charming. He gets it.

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Jonni Skinner is a heroic young man Jonni S🦎. If you are willing to understand what Gender Affirming "Care" actually entails from what it looks like in a gender clinic here in Michigan, please listen to his experience. He was naturally effeminate and gay as a boy where he was therefore not accepted by many around him. He sought answers for the traumas he was living through. At 13 years old, he was placed on a medicalized path at the University of Michigan to attempt to change him into a girl. The doctor contended that he was not gay, he was just a girl. He was diagnosed with "tall stature" because the doctor told him if he was too tall as a girl, he would not be able to find a mate. They therefore deliberately stunted his growth as if being tall was a disease. He was 5'7 at the time. Nine years later, he is 5'8. He was diagnosed with an endocrine disorder related puberty that he did not have to be placed on puberty blockers and cross sex hormones. The doctor used fraudulent coding more than 100 times in his medical records. He was prescribed "affirming gear" where they sent him to a sex shop across the state in Wyandotte. His doctors fearmongered him and his mother saying the phrase "would you like to have a dead son, or a living daughter". They threatened to take him from his mother if she refused their malicious pharmaceutical path. His doctor ignored the ailments related to the powerful drugs he was placed on and dismissed the sexual disfunction they were causing him by saying he could seek other means of "pleasure". The doctors ultimately ghosted him in 2021 by legitimately hanging up on him and never speaking with him again. His unique ailments related to this "care" have him being turned away from doctors today. He deserves justice and actual care. We hope to aid him in that endeavor.

Jonni Skinner is a heroic young man Jonni S🦎. If you are willing to understand what Gender Affirming "Care" actually entails from what it looks like in a gender clinic here in Michigan, please listen to his experience. He was naturally effeminate and gay as a boy where he was therefore not accepted by many around him. He sought answers for the traumas he was living through. At 13 years old, he was placed on a medicalized path at the University of Michigan to attempt to change him into a girl. The doctor contended that he was not gay, he was just a girl. He was diagnosed with "tall stature" because the doctor told him if he was too tall as a girl, he would not be able to find a mate. They therefore deliberately stunted his growth as if being tall was a disease. He was 5'7 at the time. Nine years later, he is 5'8. He was diagnosed with an endocrine disorder related puberty that he did not have to be placed on puberty blockers and cross sex hormones. The doctor used fraudulent coding more than 100 times in his medical records. He was prescribed "affirming gear" where they sent him to a sex shop across the state in Wyandotte. His doctors fearmongered him and his mother saying the phrase "would you like to have a dead son, or a living daughter". They threatened to take him from his mother if she refused their malicious pharmaceutical path. His doctor ignored the ailments related to the powerful drugs he was placed on and dismissed the sexual disfunction they were causing him by saying he could seek other means of "pleasure". The doctors ultimately ghosted him in 2021 by legitimately hanging up on him and never speaking with him again. His unique ailments related to this "care" have him being turned away from doctors today. He deserves justice and actual care. We hope to aid him in that endeavor.

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For anyone saying Khamzat's style is boring... Have you watched his fights? When was the last time he was in a 'boring' fight? He went in there and had the most dominant performance, ever, from a challenger. Dricus gave him no reason to change the game plan. And props to DDP. He never quit. He was just outmatched on the night. I believe Dricus when he says he's gonna come back better.

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Peter Munya: There was a time when he was the DP (Gachagua), I have never had any issues with him; I have never quarreled with him. I was one of the best friends of his late brother, I went to visit his brother in hospital in the UK. Immediately he was elected, he went to Meru, he publicly said Munya is a msaliti, he needs to walk slowly #JKLive

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watching the trailer again it seems to me like chan is being given 2 options 🤔 this (the regular life where he had a normal job) or that (the life where he's rich and famous). even though he tries to choose 'this', his voice comes out all distorted and the barista insists on giving him 'that'. and even the cup that he presented as 'this' was turned so it actually read 'that'. as if he never had a choice at all and his fate was already decided for him

watching the trailer again it seems to me like chan is being given 2 options 🤔 this (the regular life where he had a normal job) or that (the life where he's rich and famous). even though he tries to choose 'this', his voice comes out all distorted and the barista insists on giving him 'that'. and even the cup that he presented as 'this' was turned so it actually read 'that'. as if he never had a choice at all and his fate was already decided for him

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The man who invented modern fantasy didn't publish his first novel until he was forty-five. By that age, J.R.R. Tolkien had already built a respectable life. He was an Oxford professor, an expert in ancient languages, with a wife and four children and a settled academic career. He was exactly the kind of man who might reasonably have decided that the shape of his life was already fixed. The work he would be remembered for, he had not yet even begun... The story, which Tolkien told himself, is that one summer he was grading examination papers, when he turned a page and found that a student had left it blank. Without quite knowing why, he wrote a single sentence on it: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." He did not know what a hobbit was. He had spent years inventing languages and mythologies as a private passion, and telling stories to his own children, never imagining any of it would reach the world. But that one line began to grow. It became a story, and then a book, and in 1937, at the age of forty-five, Tolkien published The Hobbit. It was a success, and his publisher asked for a sequel. Tolkien warned them it might take some time. It took 17 years... He wrote it in the margins of a demanding full-time job, revising endlessly, doubting it often. When The Lord of the Rings was finally published, in 1954 and 1955, he was in his early sixties. That book, begun as a middle-aged professor's private side project, went on to sell well over a hundred million copies, to invent modern fantasy as we know it, and to reshape the imagination of the entire world. Tolkien already had a full and respectable life behind him. And still, the thing he is remembered for, the thing that outlived him and reached hundreds of millions of people, was something he began at forty-five, at an age when it would have been the easiest thing in the world to tell himself he had already missed his chance. He didn't. It's never as late as it feels.

The man who invented modern fantasy didn't publish his first novel until he was forty-five. By that age, J.R.R. Tolkien had already built a respectable life. He was an Oxford professor, an expert in ancient languages, with a wife and four children and a settled academic career. He was exactly the kind of man who might reasonably have decided that the shape of his life was already fixed. The work he would be remembered for, he had not yet even begun... The story, which Tolkien told himself, is that one summer he was grading examination papers, when he turned a page and found that a student had left it blank. Without quite knowing why, he wrote a single sentence on it: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." He did not know what a hobbit was. He had spent years inventing languages and mythologies as a private passion, and telling stories to his own children, never imagining any of it would reach the world. But that one line began to grow. It became a story, and then a book, and in 1937, at the age of forty-five, Tolkien published The Hobbit. It was a success, and his publisher asked for a sequel. Tolkien warned them it might take some time. It took 17 years... He wrote it in the margins of a demanding full-time job, revising endlessly, doubting it often. When The Lord of the Rings was finally published, in 1954 and 1955, he was in his early sixties. That book, begun as a middle-aged professor's private side project, went on to sell well over a hundred million copies, to invent modern fantasy as we know it, and to reshape the imagination of the entire world. Tolkien already had a full and respectable life behind him. And still, the thing he is remembered for, the thing that outlived him and reached hundreds of millions of people, was something he began at forty-five, at an age when it would have been the easiest thing in the world to tell himself he had already missed his chance. He didn't. It's never as late as it feels.

James Lucas

93,539 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

Buster Gets His Happy Ending 🥹🐶🥰🙏 Buster was on a chain for years on cold concrete. We were told it was because he was vicious and dangerous. It turns out he was the complete opposite. He only knew love and his fav thing to do was sniff the flowers. The first part of his long recovery was his health… 👂 He had to have an ear removed as it had been left for so long 🫁 He could hardly walk 10 yards as he was so unfit. We were able to build his stamina up 🧫 He had a bad fungal infection all over. It took lots of care and bathing to fix 🥴 Buster started having epileptic fits. It was vital he had an owner who could help him with his medicine and care. He found that owner in Kitty who came all the way to visit him. To say they fell in love would be an understatement. She takes him on hikes, he goes to work with her as a tennis coach and every video I see he is sleeping in her bed with a big stuffed toy. Although his medical history is complicated he is well looked after now and proves that you should never give up in life. There is always hope. I’ve never met a friendlier or more gentle dog in my whole life than Buster. He deserves this. Well done to Buster and Kitty 🥰🙏

Buster Gets His Happy Ending 🥹🐶🥰🙏 Buster was on a chain for years on cold concrete. We were told it was because he was vicious and dangerous. It turns out he was the complete opposite. He only knew love and his fav thing to do was sniff the flowers. The first part of his long recovery was his health… 👂 He had to have an ear removed as it had been left for so long 🫁 He could hardly walk 10 yards as he was so unfit. We were able to build his stamina up 🧫 He had a bad fungal infection all over. It took lots of care and bathing to fix 🥴 Buster started having epileptic fits. It was vital he had an owner who could help him with his medicine and care. He found that owner in Kitty who came all the way to visit him. To say they fell in love would be an understatement. She takes him on hikes, he goes to work with her as a tennis coach and every video I see he is sleeping in her bed with a big stuffed toy. Although his medical history is complicated he is well looked after now and proves that you should never give up in life. There is always hope. I’ve never met a friendlier or more gentle dog in my whole life than Buster. He deserves this. Well done to Buster and Kitty 🥰🙏

Niall Harbison

488,119 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Wayne Gretzky would be the NHL's all-time points leader if he had never scored a goal. He has more assists than the next best has assists+goals player. This, to me, is the most insane stat in all of sports. He was so much greater than the next-best player that he’s actually in a league of his own—he has no peer group in the sport. Whoever is #2 is actually the “greatest hockey player ever.”

Wayne Gretzky would be the NHL's all-time points leader if he had never scored a goal. He has more assists than the next best has assists+goals player. This, to me, is the most insane stat in all of sports. He was so much greater than the next-best player that he’s actually in a league of his own—he has no peer group in the sport. Whoever is #2 is actually the “greatest hockey player ever.”

BaseballHistoryNut

44,838 просмотров • 15 дней назад

250727 warning in taipei #우지 white puppy trainee woozi <3 👤 i never scolded them, there were times when everyone was scolded and howoo were present, i have no memory of scolding howoo individually. they were the standard for trainees. woozi was able to learn choreography within an hour but he didn’t go home and waited for the others. so he was someone who never really expressed [when he had hardships]. if i were to give an extreme example, when he was a trainee he had to remove his wisdom teeth but he went to the practice room and sat there alone. so i asked him what was wrong and it was to the level where he said it was so painful that he wanted to go home. he was someone who even when he was in pain he didn’t express it, if he was struggling he didn’t say so, a white puppy who listened to instructions well

250727 warning in taipei #우지 white puppy trainee woozi <3 👤 i never scolded them, there were times when everyone was scolded and howoo were present, i have no memory of scolding howoo individually. they were the standard for trainees. woozi was able to learn choreography within an hour but he didn’t go home and waited for the others. so he was someone who never really expressed [when he had hardships]. if i were to give an extreme example, when he was a trainee he had to remove his wisdom teeth but he went to the practice room and sat there alone. so i asked him what was wrong and it was to the level where he said it was so painful that he wanted to go home. he was someone who even when he was in pain he didn’t express it, if he was struggling he didn’t say so, a white puppy who listened to instructions well

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27,216 просмотров • 1 год назад

Will Arnett says a guy didn’t want to pay the cover charge, so he put his name on a list to get in free. It changed his whole life “He was going through a divorce and he didn’t want to pay a cover charge at a bar where they were doing an open-mic night so he put his name on the list” “And he ended up going up [doing stand up]. For the first time, he spoke his truth about what he was going through” “What really got me was that he went back the next week. And did it again”

Will Arnett says a guy didn’t want to pay the cover charge, so he put his name on a list to get in free. It changed his whole life “He was going through a divorce and he didn’t want to pay a cover charge at a bar where they were doing an open-mic night so he put his name on the list” “And he ended up going up [doing stand up]. For the first time, he spoke his truth about what he was going through” “What really got me was that he went back the next week. And did it again”

katsu

1,036,680 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

"Credit to Ilia for walking back out there. He had an easy out... It wouldn't have made it look like he quit. It would be easy to blame it on the doctor. He didn't take it. You got to give him that. And I got to give him credit for how he fought. He took some big shots... he was in deep water that he's never seen before." Anthony Smith reacts to Ilia Topuria urging the doctor and ref to allow him to keep fighting after Round 3.

"Credit to Ilia for walking back out there. He had an easy out... It wouldn't have made it look like he quit. It would be easy to blame it on the doctor. He didn't take it. You got to give him that. And I got to give him credit for how he fought. He took some big shots... he was in deep water that he's never seen before." Anthony Smith reacts to Ilia Topuria urging the doctor and ref to allow him to keep fighting after Round 3.

Ariel Helwani

104,762 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

"[Lewis Hamilton] was really down on himself. And no one likes to see that because at the end of the day, whether you're a fan or not, Lewis Hamilton is the greatest racing driver we've ever seen." "Statistically, he is the greatest. I think he's the greatest even without the stats." "He wears his heart on his sleeve and should be applauded for that because it does a lot of good when he wears his heart on his sleeve. He did apologise to Rachel Brookes for being so down in the dumps off camera. He said, 'I'm really sorry about that. I'm just so down.' And that just shows the extent that he really was down. He's not putting this on for the cameras, trust me." "And once again, it's right after the race. He's not had time for a debrief. He's not had time to have a chat with his race engineer. So he probably didn't know the extent of whatever damage the car had at the time he spoke to Rachel. And he probably didn't realise that it was the car that was hindering him more so than his driving in that one. And look, when you're in a Ferrari and you're overtaken by Nico Hülkenberg, albeit in a Ferrari powered Sauber, you're going to question, 'is it me really? Am I doing something wrong here?' Because it just didn't go for him really from the outset." [📹 The Fast And The Curious]

"[Lewis Hamilton] was really down on himself. And no one likes to see that because at the end of the day, whether you're a fan or not, Lewis Hamilton is the greatest racing driver we've ever seen." "Statistically, he is the greatest. I think he's the greatest even without the stats." "He wears his heart on his sleeve and should be applauded for that because it does a lot of good when he wears his heart on his sleeve. He did apologise to Rachel Brookes for being so down in the dumps off camera. He said, 'I'm really sorry about that. I'm just so down.' And that just shows the extent that he really was down. He's not putting this on for the cameras, trust me." "And once again, it's right after the race. He's not had time for a debrief. He's not had time to have a chat with his race engineer. So he probably didn't know the extent of whatever damage the car had at the time he spoke to Rachel. And he probably didn't realise that it was the car that was hindering him more so than his driving in that one. And look, when you're in a Ferrari and you're overtaken by Nico Hülkenberg, albeit in a Ferrari powered Sauber, you're going to question, 'is it me really? Am I doing something wrong here?' Because it just didn't go for him really from the outset." [📹 The Fast And The Curious]

sim 🇧🇷🇲🇽🇸🇳🇫🇷🇭🇹

97,656 просмотров • 1 год назад

You tell me, does this guy sound like a legitimate doctor, or a lying fraud? First, he confidently tries to lie to me, saying he’s “NEVER” been suspended in South Africa and that he has his “FULL LICENSE” there. But little does he know, I’ve actually been to South Africa and spoken to the medical board, which confirmed he is, in fact, SUSPENDED. So he changes his story: “I suspended myself because I don’t work there anymore.” Fun fact: You can’t suspend yourself. It’s an adverse regulatory action, and no legitimate doctor would ever want that on their record...

You tell me, does this guy sound like a legitimate doctor, or a lying fraud? First, he confidently tries to lie to me, saying he’s “NEVER” been suspended in South Africa and that he has his “FULL LICENSE” there. But little does he know, I’ve actually been to South Africa and spoken to the medical board, which confirmed he is, in fact, SUSPENDED. So he changes his story: “I suspended myself because I don’t work there anymore.” Fun fact: You can’t suspend yourself. It’s an adverse regulatory action, and no legitimate doctor would ever want that on their record...

Mocha Bezirgan 🇨🇦

42,335 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

The GOP has one line on candidates like Abdul El-Sayed Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, and you heard it from President Trump Donald J. Trump this week when he was asked about the Michigan US Senate primary. He called it a communist versus a socialist, and said the communist was leading. He is right about El-Sayed being a communist, but this simplistic framing is exactly where Republicans stop every single time, and it’s why they keep losing these races. They talk about the red and never touch the green. They will not touch the Islamic half of this dangerous coalition. The GOP has spent the last 10 years warning people about socialism, and yet these candidates keep winning. Maybe it was never really about socialism, because it’s always been about ISLAM!

The GOP has one line on candidates like Abdul El-Sayed Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, and you heard it from President Trump Donald J. Trump this week when he was asked about the Michigan US Senate primary. He called it a communist versus a socialist, and said the communist was leading. He is right about El-Sayed being a communist, but this simplistic framing is exactly where Republicans stop every single time, and it’s why they keep losing these races. They talk about the red and never touch the green. They will not touch the Islamic half of this dangerous coalition. The GOP has spent the last 10 years warning people about socialism, and yet these candidates keep winning. Maybe it was never really about socialism, because it’s always been about ISLAM!

Laura Loomer

54,045 просмотров • 17 дней назад

Never, in 35 years has a tiny ever successfully escaped me. When I shrunk Steve he was sitting in his car which shrunk down with him, I picked up the whole car and brought it inside. Set it down, and kicked off my sandals, he immediately tried to drive away.. my foot is 4x bigger than his car. I don’t know how far he thought he was going to get. #giantess #giantessfeet #macrophilia

Never, in 35 years has a tiny ever successfully escaped me. When I shrunk Steve he was sitting in his car which shrunk down with him, I picked up the whole car and brought it inside. Set it down, and kicked off my sandals, he immediately tried to drive away.. my foot is 4x bigger than his car. I don’t know how far he thought he was going to get. #giantess #giantessfeet #macrophilia

✨Giantess Goddess Peach✨

18,037 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

😢💔 Advaith a 33-year-old IT professional went on a solo trek to Shivagange Hill but he never came back. 😶 He sent a picture to his fiancée in the morning saying he was starting a trek. When she called him in the evening and he didn’t answer, she got worried and filed a police complaint. His bike was found at the foothills but there was no sign of him anywhere. What makes it even more strange is that his phone’s last signal came from a place far away from the usual trekking trail. After that, a massive search operation was launched with the police, drones and special forces. But even after searching the area, there was still no proper clue about where he went. So what actually happened to him? Where is he now? 🤔

😢💔 Advaith a 33-year-old IT professional went on a solo trek to Shivagange Hill but he never came back. 😶 He sent a picture to his fiancée in the morning saying he was starting a trek. When she called him in the evening and he didn’t answer, she got worried and filed a police complaint. His bike was found at the foothills but there was no sign of him anywhere. What makes it even more strange is that his phone’s last signal came from a place far away from the usual trekking trail. After that, a massive search operation was launched with the police, drones and special forces. But even after searching the area, there was still no proper clue about where he went. So what actually happened to him? Where is he now? 🤔

Sai • சாய்

63,735 просмотров • 11 дней назад