america: kids can work in factories now
america: if an active shooter comes into their class, kids should just hide in a big metal box
america: lmao why would preschool be free
america: why aren’t people having KIDS ANYMORE
We are a country that holds the right to own weapons of death sacrosanct while stomping on First Amendment rights by banning books and the teaching of disfavored ideas. Wow.
New Pew/CDC data: Gun deaths among U.S. children and teens rose 50% in two years—up 100% in 10 years
This is the highest level of gun violence against children recorded this century, and more than 2X higher than the 2012 low.
Feel like mental health has pretty safely hit the “breast cancer zone,” where literally everyone is now aware of it but awareness campaigns are all we are ever gonna get when what we really need is free universal healthcare
New York’s first female Governor just nominated an anti-abortion conservative judge to our Supreme Court, while NYC’s Black mayor is trying to defund libraries and education, but keeps the NYPD’s billions. And they’re both Democrats. Vote blue no matter who has to go, yesterday.
This whole railroad workers episode further clarifies that the "essential worker" discourse we've been bombarded with for almost 3 yrs is about disciplining workers to labor in perilous conditions, and not about respecting and protecting the people who do vital work.
i do not want to be merely tolerated or accepted. what miserably low standards. i want to be celebrated. i wanted to be asked serious questions. i want to be asked about my dreams and desires, my sorrows and my favorite trees. i want to be wanted. actively. abundantly. today.
The problem is not simply that capitalism produces too much, but that it produces the wrong stuff: SUVs, fast fashion and planned obsolescence instead of public transit, affordable housing and universal healthcare. It overuses resources and still fails to meet even basic needs.
incredible indictment that everyone is desperately looking for somewhere to meet and talk to people, and no one has even mentioned Zuckerberg's $70bn metaverse