What separation from parents does to children
“The effect [of forcibly separating children from their families] is catastrophic,” said Charles Nelson, a pediatrics professor at Harvard Medical School. “There’s so much research on this that if people paid attention at all to the science, they would never do this.”

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Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction - The Verge
ContraPoints, whose real name is Natalie Wynn, is known for slick, moodily lit YouTube videos that draw hundreds of thousands of views, where she brings a leftist perspective to a variety of hot-button issues - things like structural racism, Marxism, transgender ( Read more... )

Wisdom is better than Wit, & in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

-- Jane Austen

This quote, from one of Austen's letters, was introduced in Tony Tanner's 1966 introduction to the Penguin Books edition of Mansfield Park, as part of an explanation of the book's themes and symbolism and why it is so different from her ( Read more... )

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The third post in my social media platform review series is about my experience of Dreamwidth(DW), the platform I am writing this post on. Again, since this post is mainly about my experiences with the platform and evaluation of that experience, I suggest readers turn to other resources if they want fuller background about DW including history, ( Read more... )