I just remembered this time in college where a parkland HS grad introduced herself the first day of class “I’m from Allentown- reppin the hood”😑 and when it was my turn and I said I’d graduated from Allen the SAME female asked if I was ever scared/heard gunshots and I just😤
Sec Yellen is right. The US can afford two wars. We can afford 4 wars. The US could also afford universal healthcare, a job guarantee, end to poverty. The question of what we can afford is not a real one. The only question, and the only thing that matters, is what we prioritize.
This takes a metric fuck ton of courage to say on MSNBC knowing your career is on the line. Respect to the few journalists in mainstream media willing to speak truth in such a tense moment.
We might be witnessing the greatest war crime of our lifetimes and the American government has given it its full support, despite pleas from the UN. This is unconscionable and unforgivable. Holding the children of Gaza in my broken heart.
Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture.
The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no.
Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die.
You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery.
Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."
We are at our best when we serve others.
Be civilized.
Credit: Ira Byock.
Gays don’t fight dirty enough. If I was the CEO of Grindr, you’d all be waking up to a link with a list of each and every one of those politicians’ accounts with screenshots to go with them.
Like they are acting funny. So we need to get hilarious.
When she said Grief is energy and she has enough energy to change the world, I started crying. This is a beautiful story. I’ve lived here my whole life & never heard of this. She is amazingly beautiful.
She’s 18. She got accepted to several universities. She picked Morgan State to study mechanical engineering. She vanished last Monday, June 5th. She’s now missed her prom. She missed her Motivation High School graduation Friday. Her name is Shalayla Porter. 1/2
“You can use the N95 mask you bought for the pandemic to filter out the wildfire smoke engulfing the entire Northeast” is a neat little sentence that lets you know we’re in the fun part of the century that future historians are going to talk about a lot.