Notices by Cindy Weinstein (cindyweinstein@mastodon.world)

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

Don't buy Lesser Evil Popcorn. It's the company owned by Edward Coristine's father. The 19-year old Coristine, you'll recall, goes by "Big Balls" and is helping #Musk destroy our country.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-doge-employees-trump-b2692016.html

#USPol
#Fascism

@GottaLaff

Snyder in his essential blog on the logic of destruction discusses "the economic collapse" that this coup is designed to bring about. This is inextricable from the idea of a physical collapse, which will be hastened by RFK's cruel and moronic approach to "health." Individual bodies and the social body will (they already are but it will be faster and more widespread) collapse.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-of-destruction

@sergiodomeyko

yes. Check out the thread by @_L1vY_. the 19 year old apparently calls himself "Big Balls."

"The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies."

These are the fascistic twerps working for president Musk, for whom no one voted.

The pinnacle/nadir of Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. I know distraction is the pt. but this distracted me. MSM, interview these kids!

"Wired reported this week that leadership @ #Trump's Office of Personnel Management, which controls employment for the whole federal bureaucracy, now includes a 21-year-old intern of tech billionaire Peter Thiel & a #Musk intern who graduated high school in May. Yes, that would mean he's still a literal teenager."

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/31/magas-revenge-of-the-mediocre-on-workers-targets-the-meritorious/

@GottaLaff

How about California withholds federal taxes? I'm thinking about Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience."

Thank you @nat for boosting this. I just spent the day happily teaching Poe! "The Man of the Crowd" and "Berenice." On a less humorous note, 2025 sure is making me feel like Fortunato. "Nevermore" seems like an appropriate battle cry and we're only 1 day into this real-life horror.

#GeorgeOrwell died today in 1950. His words & admonitions live on. Let us read, remember, & act upon them.

#litstudies
#Bookstodon
#AntiFascism

@GottaLaff

I hope Newsom is having some discussion about withholding California's federal tax dollars.

Excellent point from KTLA weather woman reminding us all to pay attention to what we do: "If there isn't an ignition point, there isn't a fire."

Ignition points include downed power lines and human error (criminal activity is another matter).

#CaliforniaWildFires
#ClimateChange

Reading the truth of the #MAGA disinformation campaign, borne of #misogyny & #transphobia is like breathing clean air: "Even w/in the context of this false info. about the gender makeup of the LAFD, there's no attempt to explain why having women in leadership would harm the ability of the firefighters . . . to do their jobs. It's just a vague gesture — "ew, women" — & a total unwillingness to explain why women are unfit to serve." #AmandaMarcotte

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/10/dei-is-deadly-fox-news-spin-on-california-wildfires-exposes-magas-total-incoherence/

#CaliforniaWildFires

This person, who is blaming #DEI for the #fire fighting in #LA, is the latest addition to the #LATimes editorial board. Nauseating.

If you haven't canceled your subscription to #PatrickSoonShiong's campaign to undermine #democracy through #media #disinformation, now might be the right time.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/scott-jennings-says-la-firefighters-too-busy-promoting-diversity/

#PatrickSoonShiong
#LosAngelesTimes
#ScottJennings
#MAGA
#ClimateChange