Notices by Cindy Weinstein (cindyweinstein@mastodon.world), page 3

NFL. But not just for #Trump. For all the others who are, god help us, star-struck, power-hungry, completely lacking a moral compass. This is how, one of the ways at least, #fascism metastasizes.

Sleeping American Beauty

#FairyTaleASongOrMovie
#HashTagGames

#Biden's proclamation on #Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31, 2024.

"Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans: You are loved. You are heard. You are understood. You belong. You are America, and my entire Administration and I have your back."
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/03/29/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility-2024/#:~:text=On%20Transgender%20Day%20of%20Visibility%2C%20we%20honor%20the%20extraordinary%20courage,treated%20equally%20throughout%20their%20lives.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

An important article about parental surveillance in the classroom.

"Many parents are so tightly tethered to their kids it’s as though they’re sitting in our classrooms with us. And it’s not only through screens. Some of them contact us about schoolwork so their kid doesn’t have to. A student told me he saw no reason to talk to me about an assignment he was struggling with “because I know my mom is going to email you about it for me.”
https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/03/phone-free-schools-movement-parents-teenagers.html

#Education
#TeachersAreHeroes

Chilling piece on that voice: "I pay attention to the voice when I hear it from folks in power. I am jolted awake when I hear the voice dripping sugar from a mouth that claims to love all while stripping rights from many."

https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-fundie-baby-voice

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nikki-haley-civil-war-slavery_n_658d398fe4b0cd3cf0e497b1
The campaign of Ron DeSantis recirculated video of the exchange on social media, adding the comment, “Yikes.”

That #Haley would say this (or not say this) is deplorable, contemptible, absurd. #DeSantis's response is almost laughable until the second we remember his position re: enslaved people benefiting from #slavery, his #racist approach to teaching #Black history (eviscerating AP AfAm studies ), & the #BookBans (so many written by Black authors).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/end-breast-cancer-california-company-080615725.html

Essential reading re: #Trump, his evisceration of #language, why we see the same #media people who are perpetually shocked (but shouldn't be) by #fascism, which then gets normalized. It's difficult to choose an excerpt to introduce the piece b/c it's all so important and chilling but the piece ends with this: "If you have transgender kids, or you're transgender yourself, you've got to try to leave the country if Trump and the fascists win."
https://www.salon.com/2023/12/11/jason-stanley-on-undermining-propaganda-with-fascism-trump-is-robbing-democracy-of-any-meaning/

#JasonStanley
@GottaLaff

Thank you @stevesilberman for sharing this.

@Deglassco. #DerrickSpires has this beautiful essay on #Harper et al: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/question-of-time/i-read-my-mission-as-twere-a-book-temporality-and-form-in-the-early-african-american-serial-sketch-tradition/AD7D38CE057DFEFBD1AB941FBB45D6E8