expect so much

His insistence on being Number One, no matter what the subject (or the fact that he's often dead last) is beyond childish. It's a certifiable mental condition. He's #1, even if he has to lie, cheat, steal, bully, lie upon the lie, break the law, or disregard facts such as math.

Rights you have from birth are slowly stripped away by conservative politicians.

Constructs are created to control. Medical debt? Student debt? Remove these constructs and you have instant freedom.

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Jinpachi the hermit cat.

According to this logic, if there are water suppliers in a region, then they’re entitled to money when people get water. Collecting rainwater for yourself gets around that, so, in this concept of property, it’s a form of theft.

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.