Mindy McAdams

If you have relatives, friends, acquaintances who might not be very internet savvy, please, please talk to them about confirmation messages.

Tell them that if they don’t receive an email back within a few hours, it’s possible they gave a wrong email address.

Florida Introduces “Sanitized” Sociology Textbook The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education courses from teaching about systemic inequality. So far, at least two univ...

College sociology textbook specially written to placate Florida censors, omits any mention of systemic inequality. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

so funny to see republicans complaining about this as if they have not been pulling this shit for 15 years.

DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

U.S. government has expedited proceedings to deport 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family.

This is outrageous.

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If there were a secret microphone, what would he say about the Obamas in private? We know.

Tell them to open their “sent mail” and check. Maybe ask them to send YOU email and then reply and then check whether they got it.

I have gotten dozens of emails for this person who keeps inputting an incorrect email address.

If you have relatives, friends, acquaintances who might not be very internet savvy, please, please talk to them about confirmation messages.

Tell them that if they don’t receive an email back within a few hours, it’s possible they gave a wrong email address.

A person who apparently thinks my email address is her email address has been applying for government benefits and loans. I have no way to find out who the person is. This has been ongoing for almost 2 weeks. I keep getting the “confirm your email” emails.

UPDATE: lol the Times has rewritten the whole story

Human Rights Groups Issue Florida Travel Warning for FIFA World Cup The warning comes as millions of foreign travelers are expected while ICE rounds up immigrants.

A warning has been issued to international travelers: If you come to Florida to see a World Cup match, you could end up in a concentration camp as a prisoner of ICE. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/human-r...

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

NPR put a video clip from this interview on their Instagram account, Tuesday evening. Worth taking a look. Melinda French Gates—strong, brave.

Epstein’s friends—malignant scum with shriveled rotten souls.

exactly. this is not difficult.

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One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.

Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Image shows a snippet for the nonfiction book Stealing with the Eyes, by Buckingham.

Here’s a good nf book you might have missed. It’s about adat. The author trained as an anthropologist but later went into philosophy instead.

It might be easier than most other Asian languages but I didn’t find it “remarkably easy.” (I studied Japanese for 2 years.) You can definitely learn the basic polite phrases and pronounce them well.

Image shows snippets for two nonfiction books. One is In the Time of Madness by Parry. The other is A History of Modern Indonesia by Vickers.

I really liked these two

The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014)

John Roberts Does Not Want You Finding Out How the Supreme Court Actually Works The six-justice conservative supermajority is taking aggressive steps to ensure that the public remains in the dark about how the Supreme Court functions.

John Roberts is out here making Supreme Court clerks and employees sign nondisclosure agreements

Roberts surely knows this raises the question 'WTF is behind the NDA?'

To do so anyway suggests he decided even public speculation is preferable to public knowledge

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Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers The Immigrant Defense Network works with more than 100 organizations to help train constitutional observers. At the end of November, there were 2,500 trained observers. That number has soared as more ...

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

Pay attention to who is paying attention to children. Some men will be targeting boy children, but many, many more will target girl children. The danger is mostly from heterosexual men. Men who act manly. Men who joke around with little girls.

It’s not okay for a girl’s uncle to hug her close, or too long. It’s a danger sign. It’s not okay for a male family friend to pat your daughter on her backside. How old is too old to be sitting on a man’s lap? The women have to be vigilant, because the other men will let it slide.

Melinda French Gates was not only disgusted - she was embarrassed and ashamed (though she herself had done nothing wrong). She was brave to speak up. It wouldn’t be easy or comfortable to confront your husband, father, brother, son. But it needs to happen.

When a man comments on a little girl’s attractiveness, just stop and think about what’s happening in his head - and his body. Why does he feel moved to say how pretty she is? It is not innocent. Think about it. It’s not okay.

Stop normalizing men expressing sexual ideas about little girls! When they say something, we should tell them they are speaking like a pedophile. Tell them out loud. Stand up to them. Change the culture.

People might think it would traumatize the child, to hear the woman criticize the man. I disagree. The girl should learn as early as possible that it’s not okay for old men to leer at her, to tell her she’s pretty, to talk about her future with boys. It’s harmful and it should stop.

Women shouldn’t smile indulgently when a man tells a girl-child she will “break hearts one day.” Instead women should speak up, tell the men to stop sexualizing children. Know that it is disgusting, that he is looking at a child and thinking about sex.

Melinda French Gates, heard on NPR today, spoke about how disgusting it was to learn about Bill Gates’s sexual encounters with girls/children. It struck me that society needs more of that, the scorn and revulsion, publicly stated, from women who were close to the men who abused the girls.

“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”