Autistic, 🏳️🌈, they/she) Award-winning tea educator🏅 Offering trauma-informed tea classes + meditation. I also mentor tea educators! (Teacher Training)
Chicago, IL
Joined February 2015
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looks like someone is going to be too occupied to enforce a mask ban
ALT Eric Adams Is Indicted After Federal Inquiry
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Please stop saying we should wear masks "when appropriate."
COVID surges throughout the year, and other viruses, pollution, wildfire smoke etc. are also significant health issues.
It is ALWAYS appropriate to wear a mask.
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“I don’t do politics”
Baby, politics is gonna do you regardless.
Politics is doing us right now!
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Supreme Court Overturns 'Right v. Wrong' theonion.com/supreme-court-o…
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Banning masks has nothing to do with preventing crime. Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the world, and everyone there wears a mask regularly.
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Please stop believing we don’t owe each other anything. We owe each other so much! We owe each other love, equity, understanding, community, compassion, and much more. Don’t let this toxic hyper individualism cut you off from humanity. We’re all connected. We all need each other.
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one of the greatest lessons i’ve learned in organizing is to not blame people for being surprised when they find out how bad the world is, even when it hits them late in life. not people who feign ignorance, but people who are truly surprised
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When I was in college, we protested investment in South African apartheid. It seemed unrealistic, but eventually it worked and now Mandela is on stamps. Solidarity with students and faculty and anyone speaking up against investing in apartheid and genocide!
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This year I taught an entirely virtual open-access graduate course. Materials were free, speakers were compensated, and students were in attendance from all over the WORLD. On-line learning and community is not only possible but often PREFERABLE. No need to "return to normal."
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The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states trib.al/bDjjbYH
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Fresh results from another guaranteed basic income pilot. This time from Seattle's King County where 102 people got $500/mo for 10 months.
Employment nearly doubled from 37% to 66%
Average income from jobs went up by $410/mo
Retirement plans nearly tripled
Percent with any savings of those with kids went from 0% to 42%
Percent with any savings of those without kids went from 24% to 35%
Participants also reported gains in health and well-being
To see the results of more pilots, please see my pinned thread where I collect them.
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Today was a beautiful reminder of how humans can come together for science. Imagine if we did the same to fight viruses and climate change.
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Today @WCKitchen lost several of our sisters and brothers in an IDF air strike in Gaza. I am heartbroken and grieving for their families and friends and our whole WCK family. These are people…angels…I served alongside in Ukraine, Gaza, Turkey, Morocco, Bahamas, Indonesia. They are not faceless…they are not nameless. The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing. It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians and aid workers, and stop using food as a weapon. No more innocent lives lost. Peace starts with our shared humanity. It needs to start now.
This breaks my heart. 💔 World Central Kitchen have been absolute heroes. If you're looking for an organization to support that is directly, personally, saving 🍉 lives in Gaza, @WCKitchen is it. 🙏
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Picking tea is hard work but like…a few hours like this and I think my soul would be healed.
I've been with my partner, who is disabled, for over 22 years. And I, too, really don't know what to say to folks who value indoor dining more than their immunocompromised partner's life. 😞
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Four years ago, when @DrTedros declared COVID-19 a public health emergency, he said:
"We cannot say this loudly enough, or clearly enough, or often enough: all countries can still change the course of this pandemic."
These words still apply today.
who.int/director-general/spe…
For anyone who read that horrible NPR article (😑) today, and themselves hold some of the same views about the "inconvenience" of 😷 and such... this 🧵is a most gracious unpacking of it all. Far more gracious than I have words for tonight...
1/🧵As a psychotherapist on the 🦠 conscious register, I’m grateful to the author of this piece.🙏🏾 SO MANY struggling privately w/these issues. I’d like to unpack a few areas that jumped out at me. ‘Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again’ npr.org/2024/03/11/123697547…