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Reading Time: < 1 minute This 3rd grade teacher is proving that it’s never too early to teach kids about consent (via NowThis)

Reading Time: 2 minutes The student leader sued Evan James McCarty of Eugene, Ore., and two other defendants, including the publisher of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, after she was pummeled with racist pictures and derogatory messages online. As part of the settlement, filed this past week, McCarty said he will apologize, repudiate white supremacy, go to counseling and join forces with civil rights organizations to help them fight hatred and racism, according to The New York Times.

Dumpson, 22, told the newspaper that this should serve as a warning to racists who hide behind the cover of the Internet or the shield of night to do their cowardly deeds, “that they’re going to be held accountable.”

Reading Time: 5 minutes The “grown-ups” never accomplished much.
As of this week, the wheels seem to be coming off the Trump bus. But that’s only a reminder of the many times before when the wheels seemed to be coming off the bus.

Reading Time: < 1 minute “The Trump campaign released a Uncle Sam-style 2020 campaign advertisement on Monday that urged the President’s supporters to call a 1-800 number and leave a ‘thank you’ message for President Trump. ‘I need you to call the number on your screen and deliver a ‘thank you’ to President Trump,’ Campaign manager Brad Parscale said, pointing his finger at viewers, while touting a ‘booming economy,’ ‘historic low unemployment’ and Trump’s foreign policy efforts, overlaid with video of factory workers, the American flag, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Trump’s campaign rallies.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Children are the most marginalized population on the planet. That may sound like a shocking statement, but we fail them, over and over again. And they depend on us adults. They come in the world defenseless and completely dependent on us and we abandon them. We control them and tell them what to do. We indoctrinate them and if they do not follow our wishes, we punish them. They cannot vote. We do not allow them to have a say so. We spend all our energy indoctrinating them into how we want them to be. As much as we revere youth in this country, we do not revere childishness or children.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Something is brewing underneath Yellowstone National Park, and it has the ability to destoy all life on Earth. Or does it?