Remember when teachers used to take us to the library and librarians taught us how to conduct proper research? We’d then be assigned a topic and expected to consult at least three books before writing a report. We need to bring that back and keep tablets out of classrooms.
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’
It’s our duty to know.
Matthew McConaughey dropped the perfect family story on Theo Von: he calls his mom to say Camilla’s pregnant… before they’re married.
Mom’s first reaction? A five-minute “No, no, no, Matthew, this is out of order!” monologue, then she hangs up.
Ten minutes later she calls back: “I’d like to put some white out over that last monologue. If you two are happy, I should be happy for you.”
They had two kids before tying the knot.
Family love is messy, honest, and beautifully imperfect.
why does no one care about the fact that we're projected to run out of clean drinking water by 2039 because of how much water ai data centers use please stop using chatgpt y'all, i beg. you do not need a shitty looking cartoon of yourself, i promise. the planet is dying.
It’s not child marriages but girl child marriages. Women aren’t marrying little boys. It’s men all over the world chasing or marrying literal girl children https://t.co/z6kdbX6BUk
After seeing Top Gun (1986), everyone I knew wanted to be Maverick. I always wanted to be Goose (minus the whole head-smash-and-die part). Edwards doesn’t get nearly enough credit for being the heart of this movie.
Happy Birthday, Anthony Edwards.
After being sworn in as President in 1881, James Garfield kissed his elderly mother.
She had raised him alone in a log cabin after his father died when he was just 18 months old. They were so poor he didn’t own shoes until he was four.
As a teenager, Garfield worked as a canal boy driving mules along the Ohio and Erie Canal.
Through relentless self-education, he put himself through college, became a Civil War general, and was elected the 20th President of the United States.
From barefoot boy to the White House.
the air quality sucks, the food gives you explosive diarrhea, we have no public transport, medical care is unaffordable, they’re tearing down forests to build AI data centers and I still have to clock in for work
The woman in the photo grew up literally down the road, won 4 Utah state championships (1 in this exact stadium), Gatorade Player of the Year twice, National Player of the Year, scored the fastest first goal in USWNT history…
Could probably be worth a mention, but idk.
The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read.