Notices by (((Cindy Weinstein))) (cindyweinstein@mastodon.world)

#ICE is the #Gestapo: "On Friday, (3.7), while on a Zoom call w/an ISSO advisor who continues to reassure me that I was in legal status, ICE came knocking @ my door w/o a warrant. If I had been alone I would have opened the door. My roommate, an American citizen, recognized the knock as that of law enforcement. Given the lack of warrant she refused to let them in & repeatedly asked them to identify themselves; something they refused to do."

https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-columbia-student-ranjani-srinivasan-after-fleeing-the-united-states-to-canada/

#USPol
#Ranjani Srinivasan

@GottaLaff

And here is the brief with the law firms that signed on. Righteous.

https://www.mto.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/63-1-Exhibit-1-Amicus-Brief.pdf

Rumeysa Ozturk, hero, exercised her right to free speech and was kidnapped by ICE, a.k.a. the Gestapo, for it. The administration is still keeping her locked up in Louisiana. #HandsOff Rumeysa!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-ice-court-hearing-b2727114.html

#USPol

Harris had a plan for #caregivers: "The intensity of caregiving would require her to stop work as a teacher, but if she stopped that paid work, she’d be unable to buy food & pay for housing. W/o a job, she could receive Medicaid, but @ 48 & willing & able to work, she’d be among those called out as not fit for Medicaid. Currently, she receives health insurance through the expansion of #Medicaid via the #ACA — which some propose cutting."

https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/25/alzheimers-demetia-medicaid-services-support-pace-budget-cuts-caregivers/

@TonyStark

#Dementia
#USPol

#3GoodThings

1. My husband went w/ me to his first #TeslaTakedown protest we met someone who was also there for the first time.

2. One of the organizers at the #TeslaTakedown protest noticed my #Moe's bookbag, told me he went to Berkeley, majored in philosophy, and #Spinoza was his favorite, and he talked about the relevance of Spinoza to today's crumbling world.

3. 3 people said they liked my T-shirt, including a woman at H Mart.

#Resistance
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#Berkeley

Vivian Jenna Wilson, Goddess: "He's a pathetic man-child. Why would I feel scared of him? Ohhh, he has so much power. Nah, nah, nah. I don't give a f**k. Why should I be scared of this man? Because he's rich? Oh, no, I'm trembling. Ooh, shivering in my boots here. I don't give a f**k how much money anyone has. I don't. I really don't. He owns Twitter. Okay. Congratulations."

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian-jenna-wilson-elon-musk-trans-youth

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

The Streisand effect in action!

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/17/vagina-museum-smashes-crowdfunding-target-following-jk-rowling-tweet/

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

@GottaLaff

Get thee to a Tesla dealership this weekend and hit this fascist where it hurts.

Of course, Trump's head of the newly-invented, Orwellian "Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism" is antisemitic. His name is Leo Terrell and his qualification is having worked at Fox.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-anti-semitism-task-force-chief-shares-white-nationalist-saying-trump-can-revoke-jew-cards/

#USPol
#Antisemitism
#Fascism

Amanda Marcotte on #guns, violence against women, & #MelGibson: "Recently, Vice President JD Vance complained, "our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge." He pretended that it's about telling men they can't "tell a joke," when the real problem is men punching women in the face and sexually assaulting them in department store dressing rooms."

https://www.salon.com/2025/03/13/the-dangerous-reason-why-wants-mel-gibson-to-get-his-rights-back/

If you are in the Palm Desert area on March 28, please consider coming to the Joslyn Center where I'll be talking about #Alzheimer's: #Grief, #Guilt, #Memory, and #love. I will discuss the many years it took to get the diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's, his suffering, our pain, what I wish I knew when he was sick, & the importance of sharing our experiences.

#EndAlz
#PalmDesert
#Caregiving

Fascinating how people (#Vance, #Musk, #Trump et al) with no empathy (in fact, who celebrate its absence) nevertheless want it, expect it from others.

#Ukraine
#Empathy
#USPol
#Karma

What a mensch! https://www.yahoo.com/news/steve-carell-tells-students-affected-212750136.html

#SteveCarell
#Alice'sKids
#Altadena

@GottaLaff

me (and 40 others) @ the# Tesla dealership, I mean the #Swastikar showroom, in #Alhambra!

I guess freckles are now on the #Diversity, #Equity, and #Inclusion hit list.

What a bunch of fascist clowns.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/julianne-moore-donald-trump-bans-book-freckleface-strawberry-1236310153/

#Fascism
#BanTheBan

#Musk would be very unhappy to see this ad, which was accepted and then rejected by the #fascist cowards at #WaPo. Would be a shame if it got a head of steam on social media.

#Bezos

Thank you @estherschindler for calling attention to this erasure.

Go to this link about Stonewall NY monument, which has just deleted transgender from its site. What is an LGB flag?

Then go to "was this page helpful"? Say no and write what you want. I wrote this: The erasure of trans people was one of Hitler's first orders of business. If you thinking you're not supporting fascism, think again.

https://www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm

#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#Stonewall

CareCon2025 is today @ noon PT (3 pm ET). The free event will feature panels & workshops on the costs of #caregiving -- financial & emotional, the love (& sometimes reluctance) that comes w/caregiving, the guilt, the grief, the joy. I will be on a panel, "The End of Life but not the End of Love." This special happening is made possible by the generosity of #SethRogen & #LaurenMillerRogen, whose mother Adele died of early-onset #Alzheimer's & was the inspiration for HFC.

https://www.donatehfc.com/event/hfc-carecon-2025/e634286?utm_source=social%20media&utm_medium=social%20media&utm_term=carecon

If you are able and in need of a service/product offered by one of these companies, consider choosing one of the names on this list, which I know isn't perfect but they have honored their commitment not to support candidates who denied the results of the election.

Farmers Insurance
Airbnb
Nike
Expedia
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart LLP
Qurate Retail
Whirlpool
Lyft

https://popular.info/p/10-corporations-that-kept-their-promises

#USPol

"If we don’t resign, remote workers have been told they need to move to work in one of 9 cities by March 3, & we haven’t been told if we get to pick from among the (or if we will randomly be assigned to a city in which we don’t live or have any connections. My bosses, & my bosses’ bosses, don’t have answers to any of our questions. Nobody knows who is in charge, though the leadership level of our parking garage is suddenly filled w/Teslas."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/opm-fork-musk-trump-federal-personnel-management-employee.html

#Fascism
#Musk
#OPM