60% is not the bottom. It’s the majority. A majority of people in the US cannot afford life here. Say it with your chest since we have to endure it with ours.
If you think Black people having the right to self defense is dangerous, you’re acknowledging we live in a society where Black people are expected to endure violence without responding. No other group is expected to do that
Some of you reading this will receive a cancer diagnosis in the next decade or so. Depending on the type of cancer you have, the research being done *right now* will determine your odds of surviving 5 years past your diagnosis. That’s what’s being put on hold right now.
Most people don’t understand how *new* most cancer treatments are. The treatment that cured my lymphoma was developed when I was a teenager. The treatments that will cure our children’s cancers are being put on hold right now.
Books preserve knowledge that authoritarian regimes find inconvenient. Art, real art, enables us to see beyond this moment and imagine alternatives to our current reality. In the words of Katherine Rundell, “The imagination is the primary and first site of resistance.”
Chatbots are stealing our ability to think and communicate, and image generators are stealing our imaginations, all things that are necessary for any successful resistance movement. A passive, unthinking population, unable to envision better outcomes, will not resist tyranny.
There is no war on drugs, there’s a war on poor people. Congress is loaded with drugs. Hollywood is loaded with drugs. Wall Street is loaded with drugs. The military is loaded with drugs. The police are loaded with drugs.
grabbed off the street by plain clothes agents thrown into an unmarked car and disappeared with no charges simply for criticizing a foreign government. Textbook fascism.
I love the post office. I love the library. I love our parks. I love our recreation facilities. I love our federal workers. I love our teachers!!!!!!!!!
But in all seriousness it has become so clear to me that children’s media took children more seriously and respected their intelligence so much more pre 2010.
They keep trying to say Mahmoud Khalil is just some kid in the U.S. who’s residency is dependent on a student visa.
No. Mahmoud is a permanent resident married to a U.S. citizen who’s visa has nothing to do w/ the college he’s attending. They’re purposely leaving that part out.
do americans know that the global response to this level of wealth disparity and inflation has historically been swift popular revolt? like are they not teaching that in schools there on purpose???