Anne Lutz Fernandez

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Absolutely. They should be taken with caution like all prescription drugs.

The US People Don't Want a War on Venezuela ​Roughly two-thirds of American adults said they oppose an invasion of Venezuela and only 15% support one. But will this be enough to stop Trump?

In the end, Trump may not attack Venezuela, but it likely won't be because the people are against it.

Absolutely. And so much of it in service of sanewashing pro-natalism.

The youth mental health crisis: analysis and solutions Since the mid-20th century, mental illness has become a leading cause of health burden, particularly among adolescents and emerging adults, with most disorders emerging before the age of 25. Over the past two decades, mental ill health has surged to ...

On point 4:

On point 3, the choice of the opening paragraphs of the Times piece in light of all the Epstein revelations.

Legacy Media Has Baby Fever And is echoing far-right talking points

On point 2, the NYTimes and other legacy media have been hard at work the last few years sanewashing extremist RW pro-natalism:

RFK Jr. Misleads About Antidepressants and School Shootings - FactCheck.org A day after a shooting at a school in Minnesota, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed, as he has before, that certain antidepressant drugs, known as SSRIs, “might be contr...

On point one, just one of the dangerous things RFK Jr. keeps saying about life-saving drugs:

More Teens Are Taking Antidepressants. It Could Disrupt Their Sex Lives for Years.

Setting aside any merits, boy oh boy, the timing on this NYTImesMag cover piece in the midst of:

-RFK Jr.'s wildly conspiracist campaign against SSRIs
-the RW pro-natalist push
-the escalating hideousness of the Epstein story
-an unabated youth mental health crisis

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The US People Don't Want a War on Venezuela | Common Dreams ​Roughly two-thirds of American adults said they oppose an invasion of Venezuela and only 15% support one. But will this be enough to stop Trump?

TY @commondreams.org for picking up our piece for Responsible Statecraft.

The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.

Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.

I like how he calls out the work of people like Audrey Watters and Corey Doctorow here. And reminds us that enshittification is a thing these companies do. Buyer beware, indeed.

In a meeting with staffers Tuesday afternoon, Education Secretary Linda McMahon described the changes as a piecemeal way to move toward the Trump administration's ultimate goal of urging Congress to eliminate her department wholesale. There isn't enough support at this time on Capitol Hill to do that, but McMahon said she was committed to assessing how the reorganization works. "I'm all about outcomes," the former wrestling industry executive told employees, according to a summary of her remarks. "It will take a lot of work."

The Trump Admin showing the logical "outcome" of decades of applying the business logic of "outcomes" to education: the DoEd head being willing to break norms, violate laws, ignore public opinion.

Generation Vex Intergenerational sniping is dividing us

I'm seeing a resurgence of clickbait pitting the generations against each other, so reposting this:

"These concerns are happily picked up by right-wing media and tossed into the culture war hopper in ways that benefit corporations and their political champions."

Ask Americans — they don't want a war on Venezuela Reports say the president is preparing to attack, as lawmakers ignore their constituents and refuse to stand in the way

In a recent YouGov poll, only 15% of Americans supported an invasion of Venezuela.

Congress needs to hear from us: Do your job.

If you're an educator and feel anything from disgust to discomfort with AI please consider joining.

Ask Americans — they don't want a war on Venezuela Our piece in Responsible Statecraft

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I'm extremely concerned about our children and education in general. There is so much we need to do to improve our schools but I don't think AI is the way to do it. This is dangerous tbh. Scary even.

This is immoral.

Even worse -- it's a pyramid scheme. Once you get these certifications, you can aspire to "Join a community of Education Champions." Seems like in-house promotion is an essential part of AI EdTech paradigm. Also seems like a cult.

it was on brand for the Greatest Generation and Silent Generation too; let’s hope for cycle-breakers

But amen to decluttering and reducing. I don’t have children so I think about what feels like an extra imposition on somebody to have to get rid of my shit.

So it’s not a beef with boomers so much as it is a beef with parents

That doesn’t mean specific generations haven’t made specific mistakes, but often what we blame on prior generations are the result of powerful pols’ and profit-makers’ actions and it benefits them to pit us against each other.

Lots of issues framed as boomer versus millennial are just older versus younger people being at different stages of their lives. Often it reinforces ageism.

Anyone using chatbots for education needs to stop now.

They spew Jim Crow levels of racism and hate that get even worse with scaling not better.

Reminder: "AI" has never been about education or intelligence..it is about power, surveillance and control.

How millennials can delicately tell their baby boomer parents they want to get rid of their stuff Millennials are having difficult conversations with their baby boomer parents about the avalanche of stuff they don't really want.

Boomers have dealt with this and many are still dealing with this with their own parents.

But presenting intergenerational conflict as new is great click bait. Unfortunately, it can heighten intergenerational conflict.

Please tell me we have reached peak contrarianism.

Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say

“A dozen AI raters…after becoming aware of the way chatbots and image generators function and just how wrong their output can be, they have begun urging their friends and family not to use generative AI at all – or at least trying to educate their loved ones on using it cautiously.”

Graphics showing tax generation geographically in cities, showing the urban places significantly outperform.

Graphics showing tax generation geographically in cities, showing the urban places significantly outperform. Low density suburban places are a new drag, costing more than they generate, and are thus subsidized by the urban places.

Graphics showing tax generation geographically in cities, showing the urban places significantly outperform. Low density suburban places are a new drag, costing more than they generate, and are thus subsidized by the urban places.

Graphics showing tax generation geographically in cities, showing the urban places significantly outperform.

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