Notices by Hey Death (hey_beth@sfba.social), page 5

Yesterday, I was told by my son's teacher that he got upset when another child answered the classroom door as he was the door monitor. My son said that he hated the fucking school and disrupted the class.

He not only got in trouble for this at home, but he had to sit in the office and miss two recesses today.

The story didn't end here, however. I went to school to pick him up today, and I saw several kids walking around with tiny pots with marigolds. I immediately realized these were Mother's Day gifts. We don't celebrate Mother's Day. Too hard on my son. He was adopted from foster care, and he is working through a lot with his biological mother.

The teacher handed me the citation from the day before. No big deal.

Then I saw one of my son's classmates with a potted marigold. And I realized what happened. I asked the classmate when they made the gift, and he said yesterday.

So, I went to talk to his teacher and aide. Yep, the outburst happened after they made Mother's Day gifts, and...

In other news, my husband is announcing tonight that he is not seeking re-election.

That means in just six months, I get to go public with my concerns at school board meetings.

Did I mention that they already contracted with a specialist who deals with trauma and is currently on site several hours a week?

The district's failure to provide trauma-informed training has been one of the issues derailing our IEP meetings.

And here we are again. With another IEP meeting set for May 21, and another incident in which the staff has not been adequately trained.

And the most frustrating part? The school has a consultant coming to the site to provide behavioral support. The district hired a consultant to give a two-hour training on trauma, but no one will approve of her coming into my son's classroom and working with his teachers directly.

She is at the site several hours a week working with teachers on school-wide issues concerning behavior, but no one will contract with her to work with our son's individual teachers.

Kristi Noem's photo on her publisher's website.

All of the other right-winged authors, including the women, look serious. And then we Governor Mountain Girl Barbie-Wanna-Be.

Twitter does not seem to have any resemblance to reality anymore.

And it is clearly dying.

@oliphant

I think there are a lot of journalists who wish Threads was a better alternative, but there is also a lot of anger about Threads' decision to limit how news is prioritized and amplified.

I see a somewhat common thread in their threads about Threads: journalists want to use other platforms in the same way they used Twitter.

And the fediverse continues to be overlooked by the vast majority.

@oliphant

Mastodon and the fediverse are developing a reputation for being good news sources, and I think this is because so many of the big news organizations are not here. As users, we've learned to fill the gap by posting stories from news sites, and our posts include links to those sites.

We aren't boosting Resister Influencer No. 239 who is paraphrasing what Resister Influencer No. 72 posted, which was a QT of Resister Influencer No. 654 who doesn't attribute a source.

@themostroom

Allred is a good candidate. If the stars align - and I'm referring to a successful GOTV/voter registration push - I think he could do it.

I'm watching polling numbers, and very interested to see an organization like this PAC start working in swing states.

Best money I spent in 2022 was donating directly to four congressional candidates in PA to support their GOTV efforts. Turning out congressional districts helps in state-wide elections.

And I see you, Texas. I don't think Biden can pull it off, but I'm watching Allred.

"Of the $57 million, $33 million will go to mobilizing Latino voters in support of Biden, as well as Democratic House and Senate candidates in eight states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin — primarily through door-knocking campaigns, bilingual paid communication and "robust" community organizing, according to the campaign plan. Its nonprofit will spend another $24 million to expand nonpartisan voter education programs, which include help in registration, information about voting and the election."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/somos-57-million-investment-latino-vote-for-biden-democrats-rcna145869

Money has got to be a factor in these races. And with the RNC in turmoil, I think Democrats will continue to outraise their opponents.

" In at least six of the most competitive Senate races, Democrats out-raised their GOP opponents.

Five Democratic incumbents raised more money than their GOP opponents. Four of those incumbents more than doubled their challenger's fundraising haul.

One of the most vulnerable Republican incumbents, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), was out-raised by his Democratic challenger Colin Allred."

And there you are again, Texas.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/16/2024-democrat-campaign-funding-spending-republicans

CBS story:

The U.S. is on standby for further action by Iran, and from within the region via its proxies, a U.S. official told CBS News.

The U.S. is positioned to be able to shoot down incoming drones from Iran via assets in Iraq and Syria, three U.S. officials told CBS News. The U.S. also has fighter jets that are now on standby.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-launches-drone-attack-toward-israel-idf-says/

"One imagines that Nikki Haley and Liz Cheney, both shrewd realists who genuinely recognize the Trump threat, are unlikely to delude themselves into believing they’d function as anything other than spoilers."

Nikki Haley does not recognize Donald Trump as being a bigger threat than Joe Biden.

That is the problem.

Haley needs to go down. And not in a Lauren Boebart way.

https://newrepublic.com/article/179244/no-labels-spoiler-bid-manchin-meltdown-mode

"In short, Gephardt pointed out, a third-party bid could never succeed on its own; it would mostly take votes away from Biden. Manchin absorbed the argument, the person says, and then expressed an acute worry: Above all, Manchin said emphatically, he did not want to become the person who handed the presidency to Trump.

That argument finally seemed to prevail with Manchin last week, when he announced that he will not be part of any third-party ticket after all."

Well, thank you, Richard Gephardt. Both for talking sense to Manchin and being a person Manchin trusted.

https://newrepublic.com/article/179244/no-labels-spoiler-bid-manchin-meltdown-mode

Talking with my mother yesterday about how no-fault divorce is going to be targeted. She starting asking questions about how one would get divorced, and then asked what this group intended to do about domestic violence as that surely would be grounds for divorce.

My answer was simple: domestic violence would be eliminated. That, too, goes back to the Good Ol' Days.

Spotted at CPAC - an organization claiming DV laws are nuking the nuclear family.

Going full-on Cassandra: If Trump wins in 2024, the 19th Amendment is openly and broadly added to the list.

"Eric Johnston, a lawyer who helped draft Alabama's constitutional language on abortion in 2018, told the BBC: "By and large the pro-life community would say that fertilised eggs are in need of protection."
But he acknowledged there were couples with anti-abortion views who had used IVF to have children, and said he would never condemn them.
"It's a dilemma, and a dilemma is something where you don't have a satisfactory answer," he added."

That's going to be my answer for all things now. It's a dilemma, and a dilemma where we don't have a satisfactory answer.

Except voting them out.

Vote them out. Vote them out. Vote them out.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68366337

@PamelaBarroway

I think there are couples in Alabama who voted for Trump who are very aware that they are going to have to figure out how to travel outside of the state and how they are going to pay for additional rounds if necessary.

Thinking about the Alabama Supreme Court decision.

There has to be a group of people who are in shock that their votes for pro-life policies mean that they might not become parents or grandparents.

One of the implications of the decision is that doctors can only make one embryo at a time, and that embryo must be transferred no matter the quality. If the cycle fails, the process must start again.

"Each transfer requires months’ worth of expensive medication, including injectable, both before and after the procedure. And each failed cycle requires the patient to start all over again. Most states (including Alabama) do not require insurance to cover IVF, and each cycle can cost up to $30,000."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/abortion-bans-alabama-ivf-explained.html

Even if someone in Alabama had insurance that covered IVF, I highly doubt that insurance would cover the procedure if done out of state.

New book out today. Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul.

I'm posting a link for the book from Bookshop.org, which supports local, independent bookstores.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/untitled-kw-to-be-confirmed-atria/20165289?ean=9781668017357

@noondlyt

Florida? How did that happen in Florida? Oh, yeah...

This story.

Whoa.

"If therapy fails, judges can order families to send their children to a reunification camp — a more intensive, often multi-day treatment that can cost anywhere between $15,000 and $40,000...

Most camps utilize private transport services to forcibly take kids from their home if the parent with custody does not comply with the court order."

I was not expecting that.

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/022024_custody_reunification/az-lawmakers-move-ban-reunification-treatment-child-custody-cases/