I don’t see how you can read the @nhannahjones article and not be moved to tears/action at the reminder of the fact the majority of our children are in public schools that don’t allow their potential to flourish and instead seem to do the opposite.
The Nikole Hannah-Jones article should be read as an indictment on the US education first and foremost. Parents just shouldn't have to make these kinds of decisions. Access to quality education should be a universal public good, not a luxury.
beautiful question, happy to answer. im an american citizen. i love this country in spite of its dark chapters because i beleive in its promise, and its people. it’s up to us, people of good conscience, to continue the struggle to unlock its true potential.
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou#LaborDay.
Thank you @ignaciogomezart for letting us use this art
There is something incredible about spending the 25th anniversary of 9/11 digging through the old tweets of Abdul El-Sayed, who was 16 years old when the attacks happened, because he later criticized the wars that followed.
Mike Rogers wasn’t 16. He was in Congress.
And he actually voted to authorize the Iraq War.
So somehow the Muslim candidate has a 9/11 problem because he mourned the people killed on 9/11 and later criticized what America did in response, while the guy who actually helped authorize one of the greatest foreign-policy disasters produced by that response gets to lecture him about terrorism.
That seems like the fucking story.
Thanks, Bari, for your continued journalistic excellence!
Measles update for those who are interested or confused:
1/ A newborn in Lancaster County died shortly after birth from a lacerated spleen. Testing showed measles infection acquired before birth from the mother. Those facts are not really in dispute.