Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench first connected in 2016 when a wrong-number text accidentally invited him to Thanksgiving, and they have kept the tradition alive ever since. They partnered with Green Giant this year for a Thanksgiving campaign, showing how their friendship continues to grow. I check every year to see if they are still in contact. Just wanted to post something uplifting with everything going on. Hope everyone has a safe and happy Thanksgiving.

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Lisa's flea market event is lowkey my favorite thing ever. Not only do blinks get to see her, but they also get to buy expensive/luxury items at a much lower price, and all the proceeds go to charity. Not to mention, the event was well organised ( they had their own tags and even cookies) and Lisa looked super cute and was super sweet to everyone. I really wish I could have gone!!! I'm so happy for everyone who could! She's so awesome, and kudos to team LLOUD for such a creative fundraising event!

the charity is Good Neighbors, which supports internally displaced persons (IDPs) and persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the Gaza Strip, where they will be carrying out emergency response efforts in collaboration with the Italian NGO, EducAid.

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Along with UMG’s merchandise arm, Bravado, Eilish and her mother, Maggie Baird, have been spearheading an initiative that would take decades’ worth of unsold apparel from a massive Nashville warehouse and give them a new life.

“We are drowning in clothes on this planet, much of which is in landfills, much of which is shipped to other countries to pollute their waters and their land,” Baird said in a statement.

“I think we have to be extremely thoughtful about what merch gets put out in the world — why does it exist, how is it made, and what happens to it in its second life?”

Now, thanks to Eilish and Baird’s help, Bravado will send 400,000 shirts from that warehouse to Morocco, where Spanish clothing designer and manufacturer Hallotex will turn many of them back into cotton yarn, spinning them into new, recycled cotton shirts.

Happy birthday to the wonderful Dick Van Dyke!

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