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Bee Balm
#photography

@Kinnison #politics #Civics

When and Why Did America Stop Teaching Civics?

KEY FINDINGS

The time devoted to civic education in American public schools began to significantly decline in the 1960s.

Civic education has not for many decades been prioritized by federal or state government]

The time spent in schools on civics declines when civic education itself is seen as controversial.

PLEASE check out the Policy Brief on Civics- just put out and solid actions to take.

https://oconnorinstitute.org/research/research2024/

The USA has been bought lock stock and barrel by our billionaires and corporations too large to fail.

It is high time we recognize it for what it is.

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not politics

An old teacher of mine from high school just shared this. Resonated with me.

One acre of hemp produces 25 % more oxygen than one acre of forest and guarantees a cellulose supply that is approximately twice as high.
One acre of hemp grows within 6 months, while a forest grows for decades before it is harvested.
By making hemp paper, we could save millions of hectares of forest every year.
Hemp can be used in textile production, construction and even as biofuel.

@gemswinc Here are a few more. There are three floors devoted to his early, middle and late period.
#art

Another source that might be helpful to some of you - especially those who have close friends/family members who are Maga. I just learned about this newsletter called Tangle. It presents a topic, the journalist researches all of the media sources, and then writes a summary about how it's reported on the left and on the right. And then his summary. This might be a useful media ecosystem bridging tool.

https://www.readtangle.com

#newssources
#newsbias
#news
#information

Even though I am vacillating between 😱 and 🧘🏻‍♀️, I refuse to live in it ongoing. Yes. We are gonna live in trumerica for the future, but I have a beautiful inner mind set, and people I love, who love me. I pull inwards where I need to and reach out where I can.
This is the way...

#OffTopic

Women if you haven't take self defense of some sort asap and start teaching your young girls it as well. They are never to young. This also goes for POC or other minorities.

@gemswinc One of the hundreds of Sol LeWitt wall murals at the Mass. Museum of Contemporary Art.