Notices by Cindy Weinstein (cindyweinstein@mastodon.world)

The relevance of Dali, The Persistence of Memory (1931).

Many of us are trying to figure out how to persist and not let time and history melt.

#Surrealism

https://www.salon.com/2024/11/07/black-americans-are-receiving-a-mass-text-telling-them-to-pick-cotton-following-victory/

"America was never America to me." Langston Hughes, "America"

#LangstonHughes
#Poetry

A grotesque development in Utah: book banning comes to little free libraries.

https://www.themarysue.com/utah-book-banners-now-want-to-make-little-free-libraries-susceptible-to-criminal-charges/

#BanTheBan
#Books

@elfin. I know. It's like outlawing ice cream or dogs or any good thing (or being).

"the far-right is advocating for the only freedom that seems to matter to them. The right to lie." -- Will Bunch

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/gop-disinformation-trump-vance-20241006.html?id=hBcK3SutmP4df&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral

#HarrisWalz2024

Powerful and brave essay by Caroline Rose Giuliani: "Take it from me, Trump destroys everything he touches. I saw it happen to my family. Don’t let it happen to yours, or to our country. Kamala Harris will guide us into a brighter future, but only if we unite behind her."

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/caroline-giuliani-trump-kamala-harris

#Giuliani
#HarrisWalz2024

@ArenaCops. Could be fear (and yes, CBS should have reported anything to DOJ et al) but as Timothy Snyder says, "Don't obey in advance."

Walter Cronkite is turning over in his grave.

CBS's lily-livered (and dangerous) decision not to fact-check exemplifies what Timothy Snyder says NOT to do: "Do not obey in advance."

https://apnews.com/article/cbs-debate-vice-president-fact-check-7a3b31c98ab092dd44915df57a359d10

#OnTyranny
#TimothySnyder
#Fascism
#Media

@gleick @dangillmor. I would love to read that explanation! I'm already composing the Onion version of it!

@pjandy @Ralph058. I had the very same thought!!

Great article by the great Dahlia Lithwick.

"Harris’ face roamed free and far on Tuesday, and it was thoroughly warranted and frequently enjoyable. I think of her mobile, legible face as a satisfying call-and-response to Trump’s lifelong preference for female adulation and Botox. Women have faces."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/09/harris-trump-debate-kamala-face-memes-legend.html

#Harris2024

Excellent and scary article with a terrific and true opening line.

"Unless you work on the politics desk of the New York Times or Washington Post, it’s getting harder and harder not to notice the increasingly incoherent yet also dangerously unhinged nature of Donald Trump’s campaign appearances." -- Will Bunch

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/gop-trump-campaign-russia-propaganda-20240908.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=will_bunch_alerts_09_08_2024&int_promo=newsletter&utm_term=Will%20Bunch

"He has the whole press corps acting as his ghostwriter, sanitizing his babble for the public." -- Heather Digby Parton

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/06/donald-incoherence-makes-the-medias-double-standard-hard-to-hide/

#Harris2024

Trump: “You know, I do the weave. You know what the weave is? I'll talk about like, nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together,” he said. “And it's like, friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say, ‘It's the most brilliant thing I've ever seen.’”

What a putz (speaking as an English professor).

#Harris2024

@Simmer. I think an MRI might actually show that.

On the profound failure of the #media: "It’s time to publicly humiliate those who are abusing their privilege, and tarnishing their legacy, with their utter failure to do their jobs at a time when the world is holding its breath to see if America chooses democracy or a Trump dictatorship." -- Wajahat Ali

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-us-press-is-broken

#Harris2024
#NYT
#WaPo

Wow, is he good!

"#Trump's Republican Party has walked away from freedom. . . If you are into banning books, you have no business letting a word like liberty escape your lips." -- Pete Buttigieg

https://www.msnbc.com/inside-with-jen-psaki/watch/pete-buttigieg-blasts-jd-vance-s-strange-worldview-and-bizarre-gop-agenda-215853125905

#Harris2024

Harris for President statement on Trump's fascistic promise to end Democracy.

#Harris2024

Excellent essay by Nina Burleigh: "Remember that Sean Hannity’s idea of a “serious” candidate is a buffoon who rambles about sinking boats and electrocuted sharks while arguing against subsidies for electric vehicles."

https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/our-laughing-hero

#Harris2024

Everyone's Project 2024 is to make sure Project 2025 never happens. Thank you for this post @RushGirl.
#Kamala2024
#Project2025