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The former first lady took to Twitter Saturday to honor a step-dancing team from
Baltimore, just hours after President Donald Trump attacked a prominent African-
American congressman and referred to his Baltimore district as a "disgusting, rat
and rodent infested mess."
"On #NationalDanceDay, I'm shouting out the Lethal Ladies, a Baltimore STEP team
who I saw perform back in 2017. I'm so proud of you all�and everyone who's dancing
today!" Obama wrote.
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On #NationalDanceDay, I'm shouting out the Lethal Ladies, a Baltimore STEP team
who I saw perform back in 2017. I�m so proud of you all�and everyone who�s dancing
today!
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Her tweet came as Baltimore leaders and residents are defending their city against
the President's tirade, which targeted Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings. The
lawmaker represents Maryland's 7th Congressional District and recently lambasted
conditions at the US-Mexico border.
Obama's tweet makes no mention of Trump. But if you watch the video clip, the
message is clear.
"When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don't stoop to their level," one
of the women can be heard saying in the video. "Our motto is ..."
Then the rest of the women on the team chant back a version of the phrase that the
former first lady made famous: "When they go low, we go high. Raise our standards
to the sky."
Michelle Obama made a similar veiled reference to the President last week after his
racist attack on four progressive Democratic congresswoman of color.
Trump had implied in a series of tweets that the congresswomen weren't born in
America and suggested "they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime
infested places from which they came."
"What truly makes our country great is its diversity," Michelle Obama wrote. "I've
seen that beauty in so many ways over the years. Whether we are born here or seek
refuge here, there's a place for us all. We must remember it's not my America or
your America. It's our America."
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At 22, Jeff Broin was just six months out of college and getting started in the
banking industry when his family turned to him for help.
His father was scrambling to figure out a way to save the 130-year-old Minnesota
corn farm that Broin and his siblings grew up on.
"As a teen, growing up in the 1980s, there was an agricultural crisis in the United
States, which pushed down corn prices to very low levels," recalled Broin. "The
government was paying farmers to keep 20% of their land idle."
POET, a family-owned business, is the largest producer of ethanol in the world.
POET, a family-owned business, is the largest producer of ethanol in the world.
Broin's father knew of a few farms that were making biofuel from their excess corn
crop. "So he built a small-scale ethanol plant on our farm," Broin said.
Eager to make the plant more productive, Broin and his father hunted for better
equipment. "There were quite a few ethanol plants at the time that had gone out of
business because of poor technology in the early years of the industry," he said.
"We would go to auctions at these plants and score deals on parts."
"I had a lot of motivation to succeed with that first plant. If I had failed, we
would have lost our farm."