The Invisible Problem (in Front of our Eyes)🧵

Imagine every school, college and childcare setting in the country had a serious asbestos problem.

The asbestos problem wasn't exclusive to educational settings but it was particularly prevalent there.

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Four years ago, it was said that children were more likely to be hit by a bus than to catch Covid.

This week, it emerged that cases of Long Covid amongst children have almost doubled in the last year.

There are snipers on the roof of the school where I got my MA.

There are police beating students at the school where I got my PhD.

At each school, I studied authoritarian regimes and how they brainwash people into believing that state brutality is not only normal, but deserved.

*taps sign*

On this day in AD 121, the Philosopher Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, was born.

His diary (never meant for publication) is a reservoir of quotable sayings, preaching resilience and self-control. It's worth reading.

Here's a thread of my favorite lines from his Meditations: 🧵👇

10. Happiness is always at hand for the person who knows how to be content.

PETA has weighed in on Kristi Noem killing her dog, calling the governor 'a psychotic loony for letting this rambunctious puppy loose on chickens and then punishing her by deciding to personally blow her brains out.”

More: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Police shove a bike against 73-year-old Presidential Candidate Jill Stein before dragging her out of the Washington State University student encampment and arresting her

Really milking the last month of being the baby of the family. Worrying about how the whippet will react to the real baby is one of my biggest worries of parenthood! She already thinks the new furniture and toys are for her. #whippets

The CDC has released the most recent report on the US birthrate and it has dropped to 1.62. Why would women want to have children in the US right now?

- gop states are stripping women of the right of bodily autonomy

- women in Idaho have to be airlifted to other states to be…

Conservatives said 'judges should not make policy' and 'should issue decisions as narrowly as possible.'

'Instead, the Court granted cert on the widest grounds' and said, “We’re writing a rule for the ages.”

@jvlast on the fraud of judicial conservatism. lnk.thebulwark.com/3QiBvy0