7 New York City has ocean beaches and wildlife areas, including the salt marsh pictured below at the Gerritsen Inlet.
40º36’01N, 73º55’27W
Panoramic view from the south portico of the Marine Park Nature Center, overlooking Gerritsen Inlet and the surrounding salt marsh.
Location of Marine Park Nature Center
Detail of a photograph taken from Space Shuttle Endeavor (STS100), April 2001.
Important piece by @PhilKlay https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/us-military-targeted-killings.html?smid=url-share
“Don’t Talk to Me About ‘Civility.’ On Tuesday Morning Those Children Were Alive.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/opinion/roxane-gay-uvalde-school-shooting.html?referringSource=articleShare
Multitudes of children went to school today feeling lucky that the end of the school year is in sight & they will only have to worry for a few days/weeks more about being butchered in their classrooms, martyrs to the misconstrued 2nd amendment.
“If you address the madness of gun violence in America, then you have to acknowledge the intellectual and moral shallowness of the gun rights position adopted by Williamson and others of his ilk.” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/kevin-williamson-uvalde-school-shooting-guns-used.html
11y saw me crying and asked if it was about Uvalde.
“Yeah,” I said. “It’s really sad and I worry about y’all.”
“It’s okay, Dad,” he said to me, “we train for this.”
Fuck. I’m broken. He’s in sixth grade. A math nerd. A gamer. He’s not a goddamn Marine. He “trains” for *this?*
