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Love it.

When I first saw Floyd's picture - I instantly thought he looked liked Stephen Jackson

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I see this as pandering for the black vote.

[link:https://www.facebook.com/NowThisNews/videos/1965564520200329/|

[link:https://www.instagram.com/p/CAtjNiQHgTE/?igshid=sz8bs729nex|

This recent grad is upcycling thousands of graduation gowns to help hospitals in need of PPE


)Nathaniel Moore, a recent graduate of an MBA at the University of Vermont, is among thousands who participated in a virtual ceremony this year due to Covid-19.

Rather than letting his graduation gown go to waste, Moore, who is a physician assistant, decided to repurpose it as personal protective equipment for frontline health care workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
That decision inspired the 30-year-old to launch Gowns 4 Good, an initiative that gathers and repurposes graduation gowns as PPE.
"The gowns definitely signify a monumental time in their (graduates) lives," Moore told CNN, "but what good is your gown doing hanging in your in the closet for years collecting dust when it could be having an immediate impact in someone else's life?"
][link:https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/25/us/iyw-student-collects-graduation-gowns-for-ppe-trnd/index.html|

Sorry I don't know how to post these. For those not familiar, the my plans vs 2020 meme trend makes fun of how bad 2020 has been. Had plans for one thing and then 2020 gave us something else.


[link:https://newsone.com/playlist/my-plans-vs-2020-blackest-memes/item/19|

This story just gets more horrific. This poor boy must have been so terrified and he could not speak about what his mother tried to do.


[link:https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/woman-tried-to-drown-son-before-succeeding-in-killing-him-police/2237878/|

[link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/relapse-addiction-covid-19-pandemic_n_5ec2df95c5b684c3d6072376|

I just read an article about relapsing during the shutdown. It made me lose the anger I felt about a loved one recently relapsing. I thought back to that day my loved one voiced concern about whether they would ever get their life back on track due to the shutdown and economy collapsing. The plan before the pandemic was to stabilize on meds and start looking for a job.

It did not occur to me that my loved one could be feeling the things the writer posed for her relapse. After all, loved one recently started new meds for bipolar d/o that seemed to work better than any other med in the past. I was ecstatic, I had not seen this side of my loved one in many years. This was the person I knew before bipolar d/o and later substance abuse took over.

Then it was like in an instant everything turned to shit. The all too familiar behaviors of addiction were present. The family member I loved was gone again. Replaced by the person, that is almost unrecognizable that I have seen for the last 5 years.

The only thing I felt was anger. You were doing so well, why did you fuck this up? I go through stages of grief concerning their mental health and substance abuse. I've gone through the denial, bargaining, anger, depression, and acceptance multiple times over.
I also understand that addiction is a brain disease. Not a moral failing. My anger is dissipating and I'm now starting to feel some acceptance of this relapse.

I'm smelling a Susan Smith here. Like Susan Smith, she said the scary black men did it. It does not say it in the article, but I was up late a few nights ago when the Amber Alert for this poor boy flashed across the screen. The description given in the Amber Alert of the " abductors" - 2 black men.

I was on the phone at the time, and said to my friend sometimes these Amber Alerts turn out to be custody cases gone wrong. But it is strange that 2 men would kidnap a child. Who gets their buddy to help them kidnap a kid? Now I see this mother's very odd story of how it happened. I don't think mom is telling the truth.


[link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/non-verbal-autistic-9-year-old-alejandro-ripley-found-dead-in-miami-canal-after-reported-abduction?ref=home|