Today October 10th is World Mental Health day.
(yep it's still broken)
Here is my reminder to you that it's ok to talk about your mental health issues, anyone who would judge you for being open about struggles doesn't deserve a spot in your life. #WorldMentalHealthDay#depression
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Parris Moore was just a few weeks into his freshman year in high school, when he had to be taken to the hospital after school one day. The school claimed he had tripped and hit his head.
The school and the police tried to cover up what really happened to the teen.
2 Weeks into high school and Parris Moore suffered a fractured skull and permanent brain damage.
2 months after the incident when the family hired a lawyer, the police retaliated by filing charges against the teen.
🧵Here is an update on a terrible story I first posted about in May last year. Michael Valva's murder trial started today. Valva is on trial for murdering his 8yo autistic son. Valva had "punished" his two children by making them sleep in the unheated garage overnight...
Valva's son froze to death in his garage.
Every adult around these children failed them, they were sent to school starving, sometimes they were sent to school in soiled clothing. “They were observed at school literally eating crumbs off the floor,” newsday.com/long-island/cr…
One of the recovered text messages from Valva to his gf said “I will beat them until they bleed,” Newcombe said Valva wrote to his then-fiancee in a text-message exchange. "It is the only thing that works.” fox5ny.com/news/thomas-va…
Here is a clip of Lizzo playing a 200-year-old flute in the library of congress. A beautiful performance from a well-trained musician. The outrage from certain people is just a symptom of their ideology.
(Every time you share this it makes a right-wing talking head cry.)
🧵An amber alert in California this morning ended in a violent shootout with police. The Father and his abducted daughter were both shot and killed by police.
You can hear the massive amount of gunfire in the videos below
Here is a recording from a restaurant beside the shootout.
Kidnapping suspect, daughter killed in a shootout with law enforcement in San Bernardino County
Wow, this teacher just told this student to "go back to where you are from" he's upset because the student didn't stand up to salute the flag.
"if you want to get up and do something" WTF!