Sue T☮️

Proud Mom. Proud Greek. Retired (yes, proud) RN. Compassionate Seeker of Truth, Beauty and Wisdom. Gun Sense Activist. Child Advocate.

[Sue T☮️ @STapases]

@LordXsg 16

[Sue T☮️ @STapases]

Yes. This. This Year. In Many Ways. USA For Africa - We Are The World [30th Anniversary] [HD with Names] https://t.co/UQgKBgGuBG via @YouTube

[Angela Ferrell-Zabala (she/her) @FerrellZabala]

Access to assault weapons and high-capacity magazines make our gun violence crisis all the more deadly. TY to @SenatorHeinrich, @SenAngusKing, @SenMarkKelly, and @SenatorBennet for championing an innovative, lifesaving bill that will get weapons of war out of our neighborhoods. It’s beyond time for Congress to make this happen!

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The House GOP just voted to prevent the CDC from studying gun deaths and injuries. Hmm...I wonder why?

[Sue T☮️ @STapases]

Let’s get ready for the Thanksgiving table, Friends!
https://t.co/WcQCXqowGh

[bobs @1983resist]

Vote Blue

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

IT IS HARDER TO BUY SUDAFED THAN AN AR-15 IN MAINE

IT IS HARDER TO BUY SUDAFED THAN AN AR-15 IN MAINE

IT IS HARDER TO BUY SUDAFED THAN AN AR-15 IN MAINE

IT IS HARDER TO BUY SUDAFED THAN AN AR-15 IN MAINE

IT IS HARDER TO BUY SUDAFED THAN AN AR-15 IN MAINE

[Angela Ferrell-Zabala (she/her) @FerrellZabala]

Once again, @POTUS @VP are doubling down on being the strongest gun safety administration in our history and today’s announcement is only further proof that they’re using every tool at their disposal to save lives. I’m proud to not only call Rob and Greg friends, but colleagues in the gun safety movement, and there are no better champions for this work than these two esteemed leaders. As we head into 2024, our grassroots volunteers are ready to put it all on the line to reelect the Biden-Harris Administration so they can continue their life-saving work.

https://t.co/o3UDjD6qFV

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

United Healthcare For All

[Sue T☮️ @STapases]

@nathaliejacoby1 Thick.

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

I want to talk about trust and attachment in young children. And there’s no video here for good reason.

Several of you have recently tagged me to ask my thoughts on trending videos depicting parents engaging in one appalling behavior or another - in pursuit, apparently, of social media likes.

In one trend, parents pretend to be FaceTiming with their child’s new kindergarten teacher and call their child over to meet her. When they get to the phone, the child comes face to face with a photo of a scary looking adult (which in some cases appear to be mugshots of women deep in the throes of drug addiction, if, in fact, they are real at all). The children are almost always alarmed. Often they cry.

During one of the biggest transitions in their young child’s life (the start of school), these parents have chosen to stoke anxiety rather than provide comfort.

Other recent trends have involved parents in throwing slices of American cheese at their toddlers - or, more recently, unexpectedly cracking a raw egg on their child’s forehead during a joint cooking activity.

Obviously I’m not going to uplift any examples here. But I do want to address the harm these kinds of behaviors create from a developmental perspective.

The years of early childhood are a time during which trust and attachment are (ideally) formed. With love, attention, and responsive caregiving, young children learn that their world is safe. They develop self worth and self esteem. These are prerequisites to both learning and healthy development.

But the key to developing trust is consistency.

And the behaviors in these videos - even if rare and anomalous - serve only to undermine healthy attachment between parent and child. They provide children with data points that suggest their parents can be unexpectedly and arbitrary cruel. They are a violation of hard earned trust.

Some will argue that these are just jokes in good fun. They aren’t. They are the deliberate infliction of trauma, however brief, for the amusement of strangers. It should go without saying that this isn’t good for children.

Please. Don’t. Just don’t.

[Sue T☮️ @STapases]

@panagis21 That photo on right is incredible! Absolutely beautiful!

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

It is despicable that the Covid vaccine manufacturers are going to charge more than $110/dose for the new XBB.1.5 boosters when available in mid-September.
The US government previously paid ~$25/dose, supplied free of charge, and subsidized these companies with untold $ billions.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

This is one of the most profound videos I’ve filmed since the rise of Trump. I asked him why he was there. Tears rolled down his cheeks. His father who was a WWII veteran (like my dad) told him “We gotta stop this guy”. He was a squadron commander and he lost 110 men and he never got a scratch. And he lived his whole life trying to be worthy of their sacrifice. And he asked me to do the same. So this is a very small thing to do. But why everyone in the country isn’t doing this and trying to understand what this man is doing to our country. I don’t get it. But everybody needs to do something to stop this guy” Please listen to every single word and share. #TrumpArraignment #Truth

[Sue T☮️ @STapases]

@paulapoundstone Put your country before your personal agendas, Sir.

[Sue T☮️ @STapases]

Join me in supporting North Carolina State Democratic Committee - State Account via @actblue https://t.co/UZbtOJyWv5

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

If you only retweet ONE thing today, let it be this list of 156 House Republicans who voted to raise the retirement age for Social Security to age 70.

Don't let them get away with it.
Make sure EVERYONE knows.

[Wendy Hasson MD @WendyHassonMD]

1/Please share this thread on behalf of my physician colleague, Eunice Stallman, who is facing the nightmare of her 9mo daughter, Zoey, being diagnosed with brain cancer several weeks ago. @BlueCrossIdaho has added to their anguish by obstructing access to vital treatment.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Want to know the difference between the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Romans? Just look at their statues.

Art always tells you what a society wants to believe about itself.

So, from the Soviet Union to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, here's what art says about who we are...

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

.@laurenboebert just threw away a pamphlet of a mother fighting to honor her child who was gunned down and murdered in her classroom. This is how congress treats survivors.

https://t.co/o1WKcYMqU7