Seeing these ridiculously early timelines more and more with public interest too. I’m imploring legal employers to collectively take a breath and reset
16.10.2025 22:05 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Somewhere, we went extremely wrong. We do need school mental health support. But we also need an end to the war on youth.
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The use of forced mental health treatment, often including transport in police vehicles, is only expanding--despite risks of *increased* youth suicidality. Meanwhile students struggle to get access to a therapist if they want one.
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Congress is acting to return us to "superpredators" era legislation (first DC, where next?), following a long wave of "school to prison pipeline" youth criminalization in schools for any and everything. Etc etc etc.
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Our youth live with the fear of unchecked gun violence. They live with astounding underinvestments in their education. The administration RFK Jr. is part of is tearing their families apart and sending the military to their cities.
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Our policy landscape is hostile to youth in a way that has nothing to do with cell phones, nutrition or exercise. Not to say those don't matter, but we have to see the whole picture.
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What both RFK Jr. and the responses miss is that we cannot treat mental health as solely an individual concern--with an individual who has a problem that has to be treated. We have to look at the collective context.
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I now support youth organizing across the country to get school mental health support in a way that is truly supportive, not based in surveillance, punishment, or forced care.
17.09.2025 13:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I've focused on school mental health for the past few years, having co-authored a participatory action research report with Latina high schoolers in Philadelphia, where 1 in 7 Latina high schoolers had attempted suicide (now more like 1 in 6).
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RFK Jr. is wrong about school mental health. But there's an important point that pieces like this miss. (thread)
17.09.2025 13:27 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
For folks not in DC:
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
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DC, here's what we're gonna do — in the wake of Trump’s announcement that he is taking control of MPD and deploying the National Guard.
Earlier today Donald Trump announced that he is requesting MPD to redirect resources, and plans to deploy the National Guard to DC.
This is a dangerous escalation for our communities. Here's what how everyone in DC can help our communities weather what's ahead. 🧵
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Complaint Filed on Michigan Teacher Who Told Student to “Go Back” to Her Country for Sitting During Pledge
The student said she “didn’t feel comfortable standing, because of what’s happening in Palestine.”…
A complaint has been filed against a Michigan teacher who scolded a student for sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance. The student stated that she "didn't feel comfortable standing, because of what’s happening in Palestine."
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📣 Thursday Feb 27!
Join Juntos at the upcoming Philadelphia school board hearing to show the District that our community is committed to true welcoming sanctuary schools. Wear green to show our solidarity and bring art that holds SDP ACCOUNTABLE! 💚✊🏽
More info: www.instagram.com/p/DGWbl38p3B...
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