A4: Work for later, healthier, sleep-friendly school start times. We need to make structural changes that ALLOW FOR healthy sleep or no individual actions will make much difference | #startschoollater#AHIchats
A3: Teen biology battles societal expectations - and the casualty of that battle is sleep. If teens need 9 hours of sleep, but can't fall asleep until 11pm due to biochemistry and homework, and have to wake at 6am for school, the math doesn't add up. #StartSchoolLater#AHIChats
In the space of a week, two young Parkland survivors have taken their own lives.
Nothing is worth the tremendous costs our young people bear because of our inaction on guns.
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Lost in the news this week: A 40-year-old man died in CBP custody on Monday.
He is the fourth person to die in detention in recent months. The other fatalities include a 7-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy.
Congress must investigate conditions. https://t.co/Fe8p2Is6CO
The House just passed a bill to require background checks on all gun sales in the country. It's the first gun control legislation to pass since 1994. Thank @gabbygiffords, @lucymcbath, @speakerpelosi and so many others for their work on this issue by calling your senators!
A few months ago we lost my oldest living relative. Harry was a holocaust survivor, 99 years old, & gone too soon. My children never knew him so it’s up to the rest of us to remember & share his incredible story ❤️ #holocaustremembranceday#weremember#neverforget#neveragain
I used my own *personal Quran* that my best friend of 25 years gifted me to use for the ceremonial swear in (basically a photo with Speaker Pelosi).
*Note: I did not use Jefferson's Quran as reported. I wanted it to be more personal (and my own).
Devastated by reports that a 7-year-old girl who was taken into @CBP custody died of dehydration and exhaustion. I’ll be asking for a full investigation by the Inspector General and Congress into the conditions and circumstances that led to her death.
Of the 32 new Rhodes Scholars chosen today, a record 21 are women and almost half are immigrants or first generation Americans. One is undocumented and under DACA. They constitute another reminder that immigration can enrich America.