@MichaelaOkla I turned off my privacy setting so I can tell you to read Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet by Joan Halifax
If Juneteenth was really about emancipation, why not...
September 22, 1862 when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
Or January 1, 1863 when the Proclamation took effect?
Or December 18th, 1865 with the ratification of the 13th Amendment?
Because it's not about emancipation, which was one of America's great moral achievements. It's about creating a summertime, race-based competitor two weeks before July 4th, which should be the most unifying civic holiday on the calendar.
🍼 With global birth rates in free fall, Silicon Valley’s ‘pronatalists’ are aiming to halt the decline – by having as many babies as possible.
Read more here ⬇️
https://t.co/8rJQgYqpiT
Does anyone want to hear a positive Ozempic story? Because I have one. And can speak to it as someone whose body image was destroyed from literal birth.
More than half of mass shootings are domestic violence incidents.
More than 2/3 of mass shootings are either domestic violence related or are perpetrated by someone with a history of domestic violence.
Take misogyny seriously.
https://t.co/0iXMBDm7GB
Lincoln’s 2nd Inauguration: 3/4/1865
Joe Biden’s Birth: 11/20/1942
Days Difference: 28,384
Joe Biden’s Birth: 11/20/1942
Joe Biden’s Inauguration: 1/20/2021
Days Difference: 28,551