We have flags for Ukraine, and Blue Lives Matter, and A Hero lives Here.

Little kids still get killed at school.

We put out signs signs that say Hate has No Home Here and Let’s go Brandon.

Little kids still get killed at school.

We have gun-lovers who put stickers on their trucks to tell us how their right to bear arms is inalienable.

Little kids still get killed at school.

We have lonely men and boys with SDE who are so convinced they are being replaced, they will drive up to Buffalo to shoot black people buying their groceries.

Little kids still get killed at school.

We have conservative politicians allow themselves to told what gun laws should be by a guy who quite literally couldn’t hit an elephant from point blank range.

Little kids still get killed at school.

We have liberal politicians who, since Sandy Hook, have held all three seats of government multiple times and yet did nothing of substance.

Little kids still get killed at school.

We have progressives who don’t realize that outrage has diminishing returns, and focusing it on all the things, means none of the things.

Little kids still get killed at school.

We have talking heads and those who follow them spend their energy worried about Kaepernick kneeling before a game.

Little kids still get killed at school.

We spent the last decade not on reform, but rather teaching kids how to hide from an active shooter.

Little kids still get killed at school.

We still have the gaul to believe in our own American exceptionalism.

Little kids still get killed at school.

This is America.

Little kids still get killed at school.

Little kids at school.

Little kids.

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