you have no healthcare, can't buy a house, rent is almost unaffordable, food is skyrocketing, no paid leave, no childcare. but your tax dollars will fund a foreign country with healthcare, paid leave, childcare + funding the entire lives unemployed settlers & the orthodox.
In the early 1960s, the Nashua River in central Massachusetts was so polluted you could smell it from a mile away.
Marion Stoddart was a stay-at-home mother in Groton, Massachusetts, three-quarters of a mile from the river, with a background in anthropology and education and no particular expertise in environmental science or policy. She moved there in 1962, smelled the river, and decided she was going to fix it.
She gathered signatures, 6,287 of them, from residents in communities along the river. She showed up at the Massachusetts State House with bottles of the river water and made legislators look at what they were allowing.
She organized mayors, selectmen, and paper mill executives into a coalition. She lobbied for legislation. In 1965, Massachusetts passed the first state clean water act in the nation. Federal funding followed. Treatment plants were built. The discharges stopped.
The Nashua River is now swimmable. Salmon and other fish have returned. In 2019, sections of it were designated as Wild and Scenic under federal law, the same designation given to places the country considers worth protecting as national treasures.
Marion Stoddart is 98 years old. She still lives near the river. She's a reminder that the person who fixes a broken thing is usually someone who decided it was their problem too.
11 stars for the Confederate states instead of 13 stars for the original colonies is a detail most Americans won’t notice because of our public school system.
Notice when you want an abortion the fetus is a person but when we talk about immigration, actual children are called offspring.
Words matter. They are saying the Nazi shit out loud. Listen to them.
No cure for endometriosis. Barely any help for menopause or period pain. But sure, let's engineer ways for damaged sperm to conceive, risking kids' health, all to protect male egos.
U are a bitch if u ever put your faith in Donald Trump. Idc if it was 2016 or whenever. Dude been evil from day one and yall dick ride because you got no fucking heart