A thread 🧵:

On November 20th, I was selected for jury duty. The trial in which I was a juror for, was a man charged with 8 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree.

I had never been on a jury before and had no idea what to expect. He was an older man. Caught because he sent himself CP from his email to the same email. Duplicating it across multiple devices. When he sent it, the AOL server scanned and identified CP and then alerted the authorities.

In 1979, the percentage of people ages 14 and older who were illiterate, was less than one percent. Today, it’s upwards of 16%. And 19% of high school graduates in the US can't read. 

This is what 45 years of government education has given us. Stratified by race, only 1.6 percent of POC were illiterate. Now, 38.5% of Black or African American students are below or well below the early literacy benchmark.

This is a billboard in Portland, Oregon. It’s an advertisement for a group that wants to promote “child free living.”

Come with me on this short journey: 🧵 They appear to be under the misconception that society sees women as baby-making machines.

The curious case of the media and ‘unbearable whiteness.’

The unbearable whiteness of simply existing Advertising

Things that are a racist: 🧵

Picnics Peanut butter and jelly.

Mother nature is amazing.

You seem overly gleeful at the idea of a teenager being raped, @taradublinrocks. Have you always been this sadistic? Excuse me, @HillReporter. Why is one of your contributors cheering on the idea of raping a teenager?

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