Sandy Hook happened 10 years ago today. At the time, people said "how many more children have to die before we do something to stop the killing?"
The answer: 25,000
25,000 children killed by guns in America in the last decade.
And still virtually nothing has been done.
BREAKING: Justice Sonia Sotomayor sounds the alarm, warns that the Supreme Court is on a "perilous path" to destroying the "separation between church and state" after they rule in favor of a state school football coach praying on the field. RT TO DEMAND THAT WE EXPAND THE COURT!
Did you know? When SCOTUS said in 1937 that the Social Security Act was “unconstitutional”, President Roosevelt didn’t ask people to vote harder in the next election, he told the Supreme Court he’d add more justices until they backed off, which they did. — We can still do that.
So you’re telling me that a 12 year old is too young to buy a PG-13 movie ticket, a lottery ticket or cold medicine, too young to drive a car or to vote, but not too young to be forced to carry a baby to term or to marry?
How fucked up is that?
In Iran if a 12-year-old girl is raped and impregnated by her father, she must carry the baby to term, or be thrown in prison for life. Wait, sorry, no. That's Alabama.
Elon Musk: I need $1.5 billion or SpaceX will go broke
Feds: Approved
Lloyd Blankfein: I need $824 billion for Goldman Sachs
Feds: Approved
Charles Koch: I need a $1.4 billion tax break
Feds: Approved
Average Joe: My wife got cancer. Can we get Medicare?
Feds: We're bankrupt
We’re back to mandatory N95s in the hospital and y’all out here literally singing about being able to cough on each other on planes. I’m so goddamn tired.
I got laid off yesterday from a job I really liked, for people I really liked. Just a reminder that you’re disposable as soon as they decide you are. Stop working late. Stop reading emails after hours. Stop working on weekends. A job is income to live your life, not your life.
When Russia sanctioned Canada, it barred leaders from all major federal parties, including conservative leaders.
But when Russia sanctioned the U.S., it barred Democratic leaders only. It didn’t name a single GOP leader.
The signal couldn’t be clearer.