When you see it like this, it's hard not to conclude the direction is 'children should not be allowed access to original thought'.
At this point, I genuinely believe the entire public is being actively gaslit by both the media, and Esther Ghey herself, into forgetting that Brianna Ghey was murdered, by people she knew from school, in real life, who were partly influenced by transphobia, fuelled by the media and politicians.
A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance
OK, you *know* your neighbor is having a bad day when they're blasting Coldplay in the back yard.
Is this a cry for help? Should I be concerned?
I wrote a poem, "A Pepper Spray Republic" back in 2012.
If the government is empowered to do illegal things to people protesting the illegal things gov't is doing to violate people's rights... and the people aren't allowed basic defensive measures... there's no reasonable claim it's a democracy.
I wanna make it clear that Minnesotans won’t stand for ICE at polls. I will take the day off and stand at a polling place escorting people in, and there are thousands others like me