"Mother of Exiles" is the famous nickname given to the Statue of Liberty. It originates from Emma Lazarus's 1883 sonnet, "The New Colossus", which is inscribed on a plaque at the base of the monument. The poem contrasts Lady Liberty with the ancient Colossus of Rhodes, declaring her a welcoming beacon that offers refuge to the world’s downtrodden. Lazarus writes, "Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand / A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame / Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name / Mother of Exiles." While the statue’s original designers and Americans at the 1886 dedication ceremony viewed her more as an emblem of republican liberty and Franco-American friendship, Lazarus's poem redefined Lady Liberty as a maternal figure of worldwide welcome for immigrants.
Immigrants, not invaders.
The famous lines from The New Colossus establish the statue's identity as a shelter for the world's displaced:
"Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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Sittin' at the bar at Bella Vita last night, me and the Babs havin' a grand ole' time, and I'm trying to explain what CHAT GPT is to her and how it can be used (and abused), and she's still kinda not getting it, so I whips my phone out (I have the app on my phone, ya see) and I says to it I says for it to draw me an eagle drinking a beer smoking a cigar with a girl under his other wing. It gave me this. I think I like this new technology... ...
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There really is such a things a over-reach by legislators. Case in point? The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, right outside Boston and home to Harvard University is possibly facing new alcohol laws that business owners are calling the “most restrictive in the country.” The Board of License Commissioners recently published a preliminary working draft of the city’s first proposed change to its liquor laws in ten years. After seeing the draft, business owners are worried for their businesses. One of the major points in the proposal is that no shots of liquor or bottles of wine may be served within 60 minutes of an establishment’s closing time. Another point in the draft would require a 30- minute cooling period between each alcoholic beverage served to a patron, regardless of their level of intoxication.
As business owners began reacting, the city license commission released a statement confirming that list of changes was indeed a preliminary working draft and was shared as a means to receive feedback. “Within the working draft, we have incorporated a summary of the feedback, suggestions or questions received to date, as well as indications of where changes are based on modifications to state laws or regulations,” the statement reads.
The statement notes that the feedback on the proposed changes shows a “general consensus that they are too restrictive on the industry and the patrons.” The commission added that they are in no rush to finalize the new liquor rules and understand that the process will take time.
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Bruce Springsteen and Britain's U2 led the parade of musicians, celebrities and politicians attending the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago last week.
The hulking structure drew horrible reviews from onlookers and architects alike. It's so ugly Kenya now claims Obama was born in the United States.
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California has achieved something almost impossible in the annals of bureaucratic absurdity: It has made citizenship easier to assert for voting than sexual orientation is to document for favored utility contracting.
To register to vote, a person fills out a form, signs an affidavit, and attests under penalty of perjury that he is a U.S. citizen and California resident. The state may check identifying information against databases, but it does not generally require a passport, birth certificate, or naturalization certificate before letting him enter the electorate.
But if a small business wants to qualify as LGBTQ+ owned under California’s utility supplier-diversity system, Sacramento suddenly discovers verification. The applicant must prove the company is majority-owned and controlled by an LGBTQ+ person. How? Marriage or domestic-partnership records. Health insurance paperwork. Joint living arrangements. A letter from an LGBTQ+ chamber leader. Media coverage identifying the owner as LGBTQ+. A physician or attorney letter. Or, most absurdly, three personal-reference letters from people who have known the owner for more than a year and can attest to the owner’s LGBTQ+ status.
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The way WNBA players are treating Caitlin Clark is exactly the way
New Yorkers are treating capitalism.
They're killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
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Like I said - perspective's a bitch. That was a forever ago. ...
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Southside Chicago had 40 people shot and 6 killed over the Juneteenth weekend. To hcelebrate the end of Pride Month, the Chicago White Sox are wearing rainbow Kevlar.
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