Nine years old. This is what my life looked like. Nothing fancy, just a shy, gangly kid whose fears might have included disappointing my dad, skinning my knee, or getting poison ivy in the woods behind my house. Watching our “leaders” mumble and shrug as nine-year-old kids are shredded by assault weapons is incomprehensible to me. They’re allowing a generation of American children to be traumatized for life. I am thankful every day to be old, born into a time when childhood was safe.

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries has asked FBI Director Chris Wray to open a Criminal Investigation into the Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the USPS Board of Governors. BOOST IF YOU WOULD SUPPORT AN INVESTIGATION

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In this moment of relative calm (as far as I can tell)

I just want to give thanks to @th3j35t3r

While we enjoy a peaceful, constructive, and caring oasis here in CoSo, he's the target of attacks on this platform, his integrity, his past, his character...all of it.

Thank you for putting up with SO much and defending against unceasing detractors so that we can enjoy ourselves here.

#gratitude given, daily.

#ThankYouJester #CoSoLove

And by this time, it's okay to throw hatred at the other people.

Because the other people are doing horrible wretched things that everything around you, from every source, tells you is true.

It will split you from friends, from family, from everybody who doesn't think like you do.

And the scariest part of all this, it isn't even human controlled or directed. It's an algorithm doing what it does, given one task, to get more clicks and engage people. It doesn't care. It doesn't know.

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