The mass shooting this afternoon at #RobbElementarySchool in #Uvalde, Texas, marked at least the 212th in 2022, less than 5 months into the year, according to @gundeaths data.
More data on the reality of gun violence in America: https://t.co/qGGjIdHlyv
Astronaut Mark Kelly once smuggled a full gorilla suit on board the International Space Station. He didn't tell anyone about it. One day, without anyone knowing, he put it on. (source: Reddit)
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1/THREAD: Our latest in a series on womanhood amid Venezuela’s crisis examines how an absence of birth control has radically changed women's lives. https://t.co/ZvzXao72hH
On a day for the history books, @TheAmandaGorman delivered a poem that more than met the moment. Young people like her are proof that "there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it; if only we're brave enough to be it."
BREAKING: Army leaders are firing or suspending 14 officers and enlisted soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, and ordering policy changes to address chronic leadership failures that fostered a pattern of violence including murder, sexual assaults and harassment. https://t.co/ywdgEpITgC
“When I leave, you’ll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary."
—Fred Hampton, assassinated by the US government 51 years ago today.
Post #September11, people mistook Sikhs for Muslims & attacked them in hate.
But the Sikh people didn’t tell people, “We’re not Muslims”. Sikhs refused to save their own skin by deflecting the hate to their Muslim sisters and brothers.
Solidarity 🌸❤️
Remember the people who didn't want her to go to school are still alive today.
Her classmates are in their 60s. Those parents are in their 80s. Their older siblings are in their 70s. Then they probably went home and spewed their hate to their younger siblings who are 50.
March On Washington: 1963 to Today (THREAD)
In 1963, civil rights organizations, labor unions, and religious groups marched to protest segregation, inequality, and economic injustice. Many of the issues that motivated the marchers still resonate today https://t.co/SlSFelXbAR
Baffling that this story about eight soldiers who have died in mysterious circumstances at Ft. Hood this year doesn't mention its commander, LTG Pat White @iiicorps_cg
https://t.co/0vLQUuOb6Q