65 years ago yesterday my dad was part of a group of heroes arrested in Jackson, MS while participating in the Freedom Rides. This is what it takes. This is what it’s always taken.
He was 20 years old.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell, 1984
My kid's school asked me to donate supplies.
Paper. Pencils. Hand sanitizer. Tissues.
I pay property taxes.
My state has a $4 billion surplus.
The federal education budget is $238 billion.
And the teacher is buying pencils out of her own paycheck.
And I'm sending in Ziploc bags.
We fund stadiums for billionaires with public money.
We fund schools with bake sales.
And then blame teachers when test scores drop.
The government is shutting down the nation’s primary bee research lab, right in the middle of the worst honeybee die off in history.
1.6 MILLION colonies lost in under a year.
Commercial beekeepers hit with 62% losses.
Meanwhile, researchers are discovering that bee venom (melittin) can kill cancer cells (including aggressive breast cancer) often within 60 minutes in lab tests.
Bees pollinate $18 BILLION in U.S. crops. And we’re closing the lab? This is insane.🐝
This is vile. Carves up Memphis’s Black population and draws 2 different districts in 2 different 200+ mile routes with a shared terminus in Williamson County.
Give me a break. It’s the most blatant dilution of Black voting power since height of Jim Crow.
Surprise! Chrome silently installs a 4GB AI model you didn’t ask for.
No install prompt. No consent.
If you delete it, Chrome downloads it again.
https://t.co/LmAa3ndL7L
People making jokes about Spirit airlines and saying Frontier should be next are ignorant. When there is no longer affordable options to fly then what? Not to mention the thousands of people losing their jobs in a terrible economy! This is not funny.
This is Fitz and June. Fitz just got here and thinks this place is pretty great. June was here first and thinks it's time to return Fitz. 13/10 for both