FocusedOnTheGoal

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

A 1-year-old child is dead after police officers in Mississippi opened fire on a vehicle in a crowded Walmart parking lot in Senatobia. His mother, who has not been charged with any crime, says she was trying to communicate to officers that there was a baby in the car. They fired anyway, leading to the death of an innocent 1-year-old. We intend to seek justice for baby Kohen and the life that was stolen from him.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Workdays SHOULD be 10am-3pm or 9am-2pm. There's no reason for people to spend most of their lives at work.
Let people go home and have time for their families, partners, friends, and rest. That's why everyone is so miserable today.

[Everything Georgia @GAFollowers]

Atlanta HAS to be the best World Cup city.

[FocusedOnTheGoal @anlane]

Athens 1st Black Mayor! Ok Athens. Cant wait to see what my UGA parent group says...lol!

[FocusedOnTheGoal @anlane]

Athens Ga made history last night! Proud of yall!

[FocusedOnTheGoal @anlane]

Wait yall didnt tell me this Pologomy show was based in another country.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[Downtown Athens, GA @DowntownAthens]

not downtown.
don't care.

[The Telegraph @telegraphga]

Here’s how much GA residents spend on fast food compared to other states, new study says https://t.co/MhXvA5tYe6

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

Remember that time they tried to hype up Hantavirus and make it the next big pandemic?

Then we caught them faking it…

Then it randomly just disappeared the next day like nothing happened!

[Yeezyrih #BULLYSZN @Yeeezyrih]

Ye’s concert in Tbilisi, Georgia 3 days ago. Yall want a Super Bowl meanwhile he’s doing Super Bowl across the world 😭

[FocusedOnTheGoal @anlane]

No pain.....no gain.....

[Soulja Boy @souljaboy]

Stop trying to impress strangers and start building assets.

[Tori_ @Toribabieegirl]

STOP TRYING TO BE CONTENT CREATORS !!!

WE NEED WELDERS, PlUMBERS AND ELECTRICIANS !!!!!

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Activist Dion Diamond sitting on a counter stool during a civil rights sit-in, Arlington, 1960. He sat there being insulted, harassed, hit and was arrested multiple times for doing it and he’s still alive today.

—It was in the year 1960, at the height of racial segregation in the United States, Dion Diamond, a black man, had grown tired of having his rights constantly trampled on.

"Crazy Diamond" they called him at that time, this man entered the premises and went directly to the white area, sat down and stayed there without flinching. Sometimes groups of people gathered around him, threatening and insulting him and "Crazy Diamond" kept sitting without moving an inch.

Dion said "I would sit down, and they would tell me that they couldn't attend to me and I didn't move, groups of up to 15 or 20 people would come to tell me to get out and I didn't flinch, I would only leave if they threatened to call the police"

Just by sitting down, this activist made many people stand up and fight for change, with an act as simple as sitting down.

[FocusedOnTheGoal @anlane]

Who up with me???

[Germano @germano_ka]

não posso mais facilitar a vida dos outros e dificultar a minha, eu também tenho mil problemas e ninguém vem me salvar.

[𝕊ડs𝕥ꪗꪶꪖr ✰ @wtfisSss]

STAY CLEAR of the people who don’t value the small sacrifices you make… like spending money you barely have, showing up when you’re tired, giving advice, being a listening ear, carrying their problems, or being the one who checks in first.

[Libriscent @libriscent]

People try to bully you through EXCLUSION when they're jealous of you.. at this age it’s very evident

[⚡SL Reign👽 @SL_Reign]

@wass3stablish @butterflylocs Racist find these kind of post like roaches and Gnats...Twitter recommends and shows things based on the types of post you repeatedly interact with which leaves me to believe racist people got black people on their minds ALOT. The obsession is getting harder to ignore.