Given the weight of today's news cycle, I thought I'd share a few of the MANY resources out there:
• National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: (988)
• @TransKentucky: (859) 448-5428
• @TrevorProject Lifeline: (866) 488-7386
• LGBT Youth Talkline: (800) 246-7743
• @LouPrideKY: (502) 528-4157
For those struggling, it's important to know, there's always hope and there's always help.
"Don't make yourself small for anyone. Be the awkward, funny, intelligent, beautiful little weirdo that you are. Don't hold back. Weird it out.” ~Unknown
If you live in a state where books are being banned, the Brooklyn Public Library offers a free eCard nationwide to those aged 13 to 21 to access their entire digital catalog for one year in an effort to combat this terrible act. Link here:
https://t.co/KQkeQXbA4d
Libraries are more than just buildings filled with books. They’re magical places that can take us anywhere.
We could all use a break, so here's a look at the world's most incredible libraries.
Let’s take a journey together 🧵
In just a month, House Republicans have proposed not 1, not 2, but 3 national abortion bans.
Over 100 bills restricting women’s access to reproductive care have been filed by Republican officials across the U.S.
This isn’t about “freedom."It’s about taking away women’s rights.
Mass shootings in the US:
2014: 273
2015: 336
2016: 383
2017: 348
2018: 336
2019: 417
2020: 610
2021: 690
2022: 647
In the first three weeks of 2023: 39
We do not have to live like this. No other country on the planet does.
In no other nation do men with grievances and paranoias regularly process their pain by going on mass shooting sprees.
No other nation fetishizes violence and guns like we do. No other nation cares so little about who owns the machinery of mass slaughter.
It's a choice.
Combining artificial intelligence and art, Fabio Comparelli prepared an amazing video describing the adventure of art from the early ages to the present day⭐️
Here is the chart the @GOP and @NRA are hoping you will not see.
Guns are now the NUMBER ONE killer of kids in America.
Not car crashes.
Not cancer.
Guns.