197. Adnan Syed and the Murder of Hae Min Lee Part 1 of 14 -- Bad Dream
It’s perhaps the most famous case in all of true crime. On January 13, 1999, in Baltimore, Maryland, a high school senior named Hae Min Lee vanished. When her body was found, buried in a shallow grave, suspicion fell on her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed. But even now, people wonder whether he murdered her—or was framed. #truecrime #serial
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No one ever talks about the breadth of trauma and how it just freaking obliterates you. We pretend the pandemic--a collective trauma-- never happened when 1.3M people just died and disappeared and we never got to say goodbye or mourn properly. We need to address the suffering.
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1/ Indulge this insomniac for an early in the morning personal thread. If there is one phrase - one mindlessly parroted phrase - that has jarred with me since the beginning of the ongoing pandemic, it is this:
'We have to get on with our lives'.
I’ve been thinking a lot about changing attitudes about smoking in our society and parallels to COVID and surprisingly, I feel somewhat optimistic. Given the timeline from: 1/5
THREAD: CROWD SIZE: Okay look. For years now, Donald and the GOP have been lying about crowd size. They’ve been lying about how many people call them and tell them they love them. They’ve been lying about the size of their fan base. There’s a reason for this. 1/
Ok folks. It’s time we talked about eels.
I’m a geologist but I recently learnt about eels and… wow.
Since then, I’ve been greeting strangers with ‘DO YOU KNOW ABOUT EELS?!’
Well, consider yourself a stranger in my path.
Strap in. It’s a 🧵
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As always: While it’s the obvious surface-level hypocrisy that is so stark and annoying, it’s the ruthlessly consistent commitment to the underlying project of maintaining traditional hierarchies, of upholding white Christian patriarchal order, that is so dangerous for democracy.
One of the most profound things I read in my original journey to ADHD diagnosis was what Dr. Ned Hallowell calls “the cough drop sign” in the book, Driven To Distraction.
I’d never felt more seen before reading this quote.
It comes from one of Hallowell’s ADHD patients:
Women’s Health Center of West Virginia staff are now referring patients to https://t.co/m44lzvhV2y. People enter their zip code, the first day of their last menstrual period & their age and the site populates a list of the closest clinics where they can access abortion services.