Lack of #ThirdSpaces? #Smartphones taking away #HumanConnection? Seeing through the bullshit and believing they have no future? There's a lot of factors that could be at play here.

#TeenTakeovers push cities to take action as experts see echoes of the Covid pandemic

Teens who have been clashing with cops went into lockdown during their middle school years, when they were learning how to interact with the world around them.

May 28, 2026, 6:01 PM EDT
By Doha Madani and Corky Siemaszko

Excerpt: " 'More often than not, it is a desperate need for connection,' he said.

"In addition, Abrams said, teen takeovers swell up fast because many teenagers just have no place else to go. There used to be more of what experts call '#ThirdSpaces' — not home or school — where kids could socialize freely. But spaces that are affordable and welcoming to teenagers are increasingly harder to find, Abrams said.

"Take the library, he said.

" 'We always see plenty of room for senior citizens, plenty of room for adults and programming for adults,' Abrams said. 'We see lots of space for little kids. ... We don’t see as much room for 11-, 12-, 13-year-olds or 16-year-olds.'

"Jasmin Ford, a psychiatric nurse practitioner and clinical instructor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said teenagers today face a mental health crisis that accelerated during the pandemic and has not returned to pre-Covid levels."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/covid-pandemic-blame-teen-takeover-experts-say-rcna347075

#ACAB #CounselorsNotCops #TeenMentalHealth #LeftBehind #GenZ #CovidLockdown

Sicily, six years ago. Covid lockdown in effect. Our friend got trapped ashore, living on his boat atop a ladder, work unfinished and unable to launch, even if there had been a crane operator.

The boatyard workers gave him the key to the gate and told him they were shutting down until further notice, good luck and by the way there's no running water.

They left him "Merkel" the boatyard dog, too.

#Sicily #TheBoatyard #CruisingLife #Memories #CovidLockdown

PM MODI Address To Nation : पीएम नरेंद्र मोदी आज शाम 5 बजे राष्ट्र को संबोधित करेंगे #PMModi #PMModiLive #ModiAddressToNation #PMModiSpeech #RashtriyaSambodhan #Modi2025 #PMModiAt5PM #PMModiAddress #GSTReform #NextGenGST #AtmanirbharBharat #EaseOfDoingBusiness #EconomicReforms #IndiaGrowthStory #Notebandi #MissionShakti #CovidLockdown #AtmanirbharBharat #DigitalIndia #NewIndia #ModiWithNation #IndiaSpeaks #NationWithPMModi #SabkaSathSabkaVikas #NewIndiaRising…

https://www.vrnewslive.com/pm-modi-address-to-nation-today-5-pm/

Heute vor 5 Jahren begann in Deutschland der 1. #Corona-#Lockdown. Wie #Museen damit umgegangen sind, welche Sammlungs- und digitalen Aktivitäten sie z.B. entfaltet haben, hat seinerzeit unsere #Expokritik-Redaktion beobachtet:

▶ Sebastian Kühn, Andreas Ludwig, Pavla Šimková & Lotte Thaa, Corona im #Museum, #WerkstattGeschichte 84/2021, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/monogamie/

@museum @histodons @historikerinnen @archivistodon @histstm

#histodons #Sammlung #collections #CovidLockdown #Pandemie #histstm

Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban explains:

Send this video to your friends who think Biden created the #inflation.
(Another reason: in 2020 during the COVID lockdown the U.S. monetary supply greatly expanded.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co6euE63ogs

#trumponomics #covidlockdown #kamalaharris #joebiden #harriswalz #biden #Bidenomics #petroleum #putin #mbs

Eher so semigut gealterte Social-Media-Postings.

#COVID19 #COVID #Corona #Lockdown #CovidLockdown #WienerFlut #Hochwasser #Wien #Graz #Hanamicon #Kitsuvention

How COVID-19 Enabled New Forms of Economic Abuse of Women in India

The lockdown gave some men a chance to increase their control and coercion of women.

#covid19 #CovidLockdown #WomensRights #DomesticViolence #EconomicViolence #india

https://thewire.in/women/how-covid-19-enabled-new-forms-of-economic-abuse-of-women-in-india