PUERTO RICANS R BEING DENIED BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS (WATER) BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT FUCKING SUCKS. I HAVENT HAD WATER RUNNING FOR DAYS BUT I CANNOT COMPLAIN BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE HERE WHO HAVENT HAD WATER FOR OVER A MONTH. WATER! SOMETHING WE NEED TO SURVIVE IS NOT A PRIORITY.
"Lock up your daughters" this is how rape culture is perpetuated. From the very beginning they present raping girl children and women as something to be proud of to boys and then we see the age of male rapists dropping to 12-13 years old
I love that students are still making statements, still walking out, still talking about this - when it feels everyone, everything has “moved on” I’m glad to see this. Not because it materially changes any realities for Palestinians (and Lebanese, Iranians, etc) but because it forces everyone who witnesses it to remember the on-going, unending crimes of our country against entire peoples.
Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.
The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.
What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.
Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.
In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.
The difference between her ex Liam and her current fiancé is insane. Liam wanted her to tone herself down, so she kicked him, while Max loves her for who she is and lets her shine and have her moment. Ladies, never settle for less.
Our president r#pes children, one ghoul has hoarded enough wealth to feed the entire planet hundreds of times over and pays less taxes than you reading this, people are financing groceries, on and on. If something doesn't change it won't be aliens blowing up the Whitehouse.
This is gender apartheid, blatant women’s right’s violations , full blown manifestation of Islamic misogyny and systemic erosion of Afghan women.
Where is the outrage?!