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If you have kids, like I have a 14yr old, how do you talk about the global situation with them?
My kid is not watching news at all and is oblivious to the situation. They don't live with me, so we have little time to talk. They face more than one oppressive component in their life and I struggle to determine what I can do or educate them on to make them better prepared, resilient and radicalised without traumatising or harming them.
I would appreciate your advice, from whoever parent reads this.
"If you’re part of an organization that builds trust across class, you’re fighting #Trumpism. If you’re a #Democrat jettisoning insular faculty-lounge #progressivism in favor of a Whig-like working-class abundance agenda, you’re fighting Trumpism. If you are standing up for a moral code of tolerance and pluralism that can hold #America together, you’re fighting Trumpism."
What if 2025 echoes 1937 more than we’d like to admit? Economic disparity. Rising authoritarianism. A world on edge. I’ve drawn some hard parallels—uncomfortable, but necessary to confront. History doesn’t repeat exactly… but it often rhymes.
The full DC Circuit in a 7-4 decision set aside a 3-judge panel's March ruling that paused lower court decisions blocking Trump from removing Gwynne Wilcox from the National #Labor Relations Board #NLRB & Cathy Harris from the #Merit Systems Protection Board #MSPB.
Monday's decision puts back in place 2 judges' decisions that upheld federal laws barring #Trump from removing members of the labor boards at will.
A federal appeals court blocked #Trump from removing #Democratic members from 2 federal #labor boards on Monday, setting aside its earlier ruling.
The decision by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit further complicates a pair of cases that are emerging as key tests of Trump's efforts to bring under his control #FederalAgencies meant to be #independent from the White House.
@ruthbenghiat Ben-Ghiat: "The speed and scale of what's happening in this country doesn't have a parallel even in the early months of the autocrats we know and do not love today ... this is somebody in partnership with Putin."
- Loss of individual liberty - Widespread government #corruption - Dumb and negligent #corporations - Obsession with private school - Prudish religious culture - Public feel helpless to change - #Authoritarianism by default - #Wealth determines your #worth as a person - Massive and growing wealth inequality
What happened here in #Oz? We used to be the lucky country.
I missed this coming out a week ago, but the words of historian Timothy Snyder, who is fleeing Yale for the University of Toronto, spoken by John Lithgow, is a treasure and a must watch for everyone.
"A massive decentralized movement like this -- everywhere all at once, with everybody pitching in -- is extremely difficult for any regime, even the most autocratic, to derail. There are too many leaders, coordinating in too many different ways, for a movement like this to be easily neutralized."
"I scanned dozens of newspapers from around the U.S. & world. On average, international newspapers cover the widespread protests against Trump/Musk and for democracy much more prominently on their covers than those in the U.S.
This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S."
"If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all. And today we are millions."
"People appeared in all 50 states by their tens of thousands. This was no ordinary series of rallies. This was people expressing raw anger and a fury with a situation that is spiraling out of control."
"Think about what this means. If you’re Donald Trump (along with Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller), and you’re considering defying the courts, 'disappearing' political opponents, or even invoking the Insurrection Act and declaring martial law, you now know that there is an active, fired-up, massive resistance ready to meet your actions."
"No mention of the protests on the cover of the NY Times (NO MENTION!), below the fold on WaPo, nothing on MSNBC.com. CNN shows protesting Houthis but not protesting Americans. So, those of us with platforms and those of us with friends or family need to be spreading the word."
~ Stephanie G. Wilson
To say I expected corporate media to behave this way would be an understatement.
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