Today, we remember Uvalde.
We remember the 19 children and 2 teachers who were mercilessly gunned down.
The kids who hid underneath their dead classmates to survive.
The parents who had to submit DNA to identify their own babies.
We need an assault weapons ban. Now.
A Black senator breaking the record for the longest Senate speech, previously held by a white man trying to block the passage of the Civil Rights Act is pretty goated tbh
Why is Trump the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl?
Because all the presidents before him realized it would be extraordinarily wasteful to spend 15-20 MILLION of our taxpayer dollars to go in person.
I wrote Glory Days about a time when things felt simpler, the early days of touring and experiencing the explosion of 5SOS front on with my best friends, those times are in the past, and although those times blessed me with everything I get to experience now in the present, I can comfortably say they were truly the glory days that ill cherish for the rest of my life
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Every kid in the US learns of the Great Chicago Fire (2,112 acres) in school and how modern building codes & fire depts have made this impossible, yet both the 2023 Lahaina & the current Palisades Fire crossed 17,000 acres - 8x the size!
I marked up a map of Chicago to compare.
If you think water is the problem, here's an extended scene in our film that illustrates how ineffective water becomes when a wildfire really gets going, and just how gnarly things get when the winds bite it. It gets so hot, the water vaporizes before it hits the flames.