Yesterday morning, I dropped my kids at school for their first day of the year. And just hours later, parents in Minneapolis dropped their children for the last time. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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so sad my heart aches ever time I hear of this happening and seeing little to nothing being done by the government to make sure this doesn't happen again.
aug 28, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
This is a must read, by EVERYONE!!!!!
aug 28, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
It's the fuxking guns. It's always been the fuxking guns.
aug 28, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
AmeriiKKKA, One real SHITHOLE Country‼️...IT didn't have to be‼️
aug 28, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
No parent who has lost a child wants other parents to experience what it's like.
aug 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
This picture speaks volumes! Such a senseless tragedy!
aug 28, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
It's the sickening price we pay in this country in order to continue our worship of guns.
aug 28, 2025, 2:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Republicans keep moving the line. And this is just another example of that. The 'party of family values', values guns over children. Period.
aug 29, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
American acceptionalism at its worse.
aug 28, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 5:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Damn. These ugly motherfuckers should have masked up
aug 28, 2025, 6:03 pm • 2 0 • view
He needs a bra.
aug 28, 2025, 6:42 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm all but certain FOTUS will use this as an excuse to send the National Guard to MN in response. #IHateHimSoMuch
aug 28, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I am speechless. But until the NRA isn't shut up there will be dead kids. It's such a shame.
aug 28, 2025, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I do not know how parents can function in this environment.💔
aug 28, 2025, 8:35 pm • 0 0 • view
And the teachers…
aug 28, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
And our leaders act like there is nothing they can do
aug 28, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Another excellent article, when will we have to stop worrying about our children? It’s disgusting.
aug 28, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view
If Trump wants a Nobel Peace prize so bad, he should stop taking credit for stopping imaginary wars and try stopping the war on children!
aug 28, 2025, 2:30 pm • 7 0 • view
Nowhere else in the world do children have active shooter drills as part of their school curriculum!!!
aug 29, 2025, 6:41 am • 0 0 • view
Again.
aug 28, 2025, 2:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Republican break things, never fix them, no solutions. Ever notice how all their great ideas that are "going to happen"...are in the future...just trust us..."those people" hate you...just wait...we are making America Great, for YOU...
aug 28, 2025, 3:05 pm • 2 0 • view
We don't need sensible gun laws. We need strict ones that make it very hard to own a gun and that ban automatic weapons entirely.
aug 28, 2025, 2:29 pm • 6 1 • view
Yep. And affordable, accessible mental health services.
aug 28, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
How there is any opposition to what you're saying here is beyond me. FFS.
aug 28, 2025, 2:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Like most civilized countries.
aug 31, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
If you continue to let the killing of children happen, when you could stop it, then you are killing children. It's that simple. And we all know it.
aug 28, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
💔😢 So very tragic. Sympathies and thoughts to the families and friends.
aug 28, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
When dead children become an acceptable price to pay to preserve Second Amendment rights for rednecks, the NRA became a DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. Trump and the GOP are in bed with the NRA. They are NOT PRO-LIFE. THEY ARE PRO-GUNS. We need comprehensive gun legislation NOW.
aug 28, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
When dead children become an acceptable price to pay to preserve Second Amendment rights for rednecks, the NRA became a DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. Trump and the GOP are in bed with the NRA. They are NOT PRO-LIFE. THEY ARE PRO-GUNS. We need comprehensive gun legislation NOW.
aug 28, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone who supports the second amendment should have to drop their children off at school in these times
aug 28, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
I can't imagine the fear that American parents and schoolchildren must face every day. This bullshit about blaming mental illness but never the guns is a cop out. There is mental illness in every country in the world, but no country sees the gun violence that is so pervasive in yours. IT'S THE GUNS!
aug 28, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Trauma is real among teachers and students
aug 28, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
I cant imagine what those parents are feeling , this is horrific....
aug 28, 2025, 11:30 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s truly heartbreaking.
aug 28, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
horrible. a country without a leader at a time it neefs one. rip poor kids
aug 28, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Very powerful. Thank you.
aug 28, 2025, 11:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Beautifully written piece. I weep for what our country has become. On so many levels. 💔 💔 💔
aug 28, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Sadly this will continue to happen. Why wud anyone think the Republicans in Congress wud do anything. It doesn’t affect them. They love the NRA money
aug 28, 2025, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Dark times. Dark ass times.
aug 28, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I am a teacher. For three years i have been telling my superintendent if we put metal detectors on the entrances we will never have a problem. The response: they are ugly and will scare the kids….
aug 28, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
😥
aug 29, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 1 • view
And still Republicans will block any attemp to alter gun laws. Utter scumbags, the lot of them.
aug 28, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Just finished watching your SIREN w/Jess Piper about an hour ago....it was GREAT!!! Keep up your output of great work JoJo...love you and all you are doing for US...
aug 28, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
That's awful. I'm sorry you, and so many other parents, have to face this.
aug 31, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Pisses me off.
aug 28, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Even Jesus is saying, “FU and your thoughts and prayers!”
aug 28, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
We are creating a whole generation of children that are suffering combat PTSD.
aug 28, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
. Y wife is French. We are trying to get French residency or citizenship so our 2 adult children can move to France with their young children. I see no future for us in the USA anymore.
aug 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
“It is the person doing the killing, not the gun” How long is this BS going to last?
aug 28, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
your country is very sick! please see this! heads must be removed from the sand! fascism, hate, violence, sickness, poverty, low education, etc
aug 28, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view
These legislators equate firearms with a paycheck, not freedom. The NRA keeps lining pockets and causing emergencies to keep people buying guns. They have to stay in business. Damn anybody who gets in the way…
aug 28, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
😢
aug 28, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
School shootings area symptom of a culture of violence. For the most part USians enjoy fantasies of violence. Fantasies of revenge. Fantasies of ethnic cleansing. Nothing will change until we purge our national soul of our cultural adherence to racism and exceptionalism.
aug 28, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 29, 2025, 10:27 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
The time for discourse is over. Everyone with the ability to do so should be buying up guns and ammunition for the coming civil war.
aug 28, 2025, 2:27 pm • 4 0 • view
Mayor Frye is very performative....he knew that picture was going be taken and wanted to appear pensive...it's performance and lacks authenticity
aug 28, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
The 2nd Amendment is ONLY about the new country having its own well regulated military. A military that is not beholden to the King Of England.
aug 28, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view