Mariano: Do you have a significant other?
Isabela: I'm significant by myself.
Moon over the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.
Putting this here because apparently Tesla wants it taken down and the og post was already deleted.
“Anyone who has ever, ever had a dream and thought your dream…couldn’t come true. I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like. This is what striving looks like. And don’t you ever, ever give up on you.”
— Sheryl Lee Ralph’s Emmy acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (ABBOTT ELEMENTARY)
Had to post this ‘coz I really teared up watching it. What a powerful, moving moment. 🥺
I cannot overstate the importance of local school board elections.
We finally have a progressive supermajority in our district. Here are some things that are going on.
- Lunch and breakfast are free for all students, regardless of income. They ask students at wealthier schools that don't federally qualify as an entire school for free lunch to apply for free lunch because it increases federal reimbursement, but they are simply not charging students for lunch or breakfast.
- They fired the big corp that was handling lunches (sodexa?) and brought it in house and the selections include vegetarian, kosher/halal, and often local and organic foods. The quality is good. They pay attention to nutrition. My picky kid can usually find something to eat.
- The schools are nut free. As the parent of a peanut-allergic kid, I'm grateful.
- We're not banning books.
- There's no shopping list for back to school because, get this, the district is providing supplies! They ask that kids bring a backpack. My kid's cheeseburger backpack has held up mightily and is still in great shape, so we're good.
- Trans kids are protected at the state level, but also at the local level.
- They're doing an overhaul of special education with an eye to eliminating ABA. This is a sea change.
- Kids get a city bus pass, free.
I have so many feelings. One of my friends is on the school board, and she's been part of this huge shift in priorities. I feel like good things are possible again. This is what free public education should mean.
All they were–all they had ever been–was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the others was the sun .
Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights
in a train right now, i can see the city lights and i feel so so overwhelmed
Grant O’Brien of College Humor/Dropout, known for the series Total Forgiveness (in which he and Ally Beardsley did challenges to earn money to pay their student loans), on student loan forgiveness
