ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

now available: video of recent conversation between @hypervisible and @ruha9 about technology, racial justice, surveillance, privacy, education, and much more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wb7gS5jgzM

The Confederacy lost the Civil War; Hitler lost World War II; Trump lost Election 2020. Racism and bigotry continue to be proven losers.

“MAGA” types, the ugliest Americans, can’t stand history, because it echoes truths that they don’t like to hear, and refuse to accept. My message to them:

You don’t own everything.
You don’t get to control everything, or anyone — with, perhaps, the exception of any minor children you may parent;
And
YOU ARE NOT SUPERIOR TO ANYONE.
#MAGA #GOP #racism #bigotry

A special thank you to all major social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.)

Great job letting Trump back on so he can incite more riots before his impending arrest

And a big thank you to anyone still on those platforms—literally enabling them to do so

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As they dye the Šikaakwa Siipiiwi (Myaamia: Chicago River) green, we're remembering it's significance, as a major traditional portage route between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, as a place once abundant with šikaakwa (ramps).

People who try to find exceptions to everything annoy the fuck out of me.

You aren't being clever. You're just being trivial.

MUST WATCH: In this video, from April 5, 2018, Trump categorically denies knowing anything about the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels

Trump claimed he doesn't know why Cohen made the payment or where he got the money

Everything he says here is a lie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1gbbxXoqNk

White Texans dissolving local government to assert control over black Texans:

"the Texas Education Agency will replace Superintendent Millard House II and the district’s elected board of trustees with a new superintendent and an appointed board of managers"
https://apnews.com/article/houston-schools-texas-takeover-eae680bec5fbd3b419c2583fb850d42e
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#racism #Houston #Texas #BLM #education #uspolitics

135,000 Canadians have already signed this petition to grant asylum to trans people facing horrific laws in their own countries. Canadians, your signature is needed. https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4268 #canada #canadian #transrights #trans #transgender

@ZingerLearns @edutooters totally agree…love the poster!

Whenever someone points out racism on mastodon.

If you’re going to have a list of dead people in your awards ceremony, it should probably include someone who died in 2022 who is the lead actress in a film nominated for Best Picture this year. https://uproxx.com/movies/charlbi-dean-oscars-in-memoriam-segment-triangle-of-sadness/ #oscars

Journalists must leave Twitter now!

That's the opinion of Celeste Headless of Current. Since Elon Musk has bought Twitter, he has been attacking the platform's most active content creators: journalists.

Which is why journalists need to find an alternative and migrate elsewhere.

She notes that Mastodon is one alternative, although it requires some knowledge and comfort with the technology.

https://current.org/2023/03/why-journalists-should-act-now-to-create-an-alternative-to-twitter/

I love how Silicon Valley Bank is being portrayed as a "woke" bank, and their failure is blamed on being too woke.🤡

There is absolutely nothing that the US won't try to blame on Black folk.

Less than 2% of VC money even goes to Black folk. By assets, it was an anti-woke bank.

Black. Woke means Black.

Be the person that both Mr. Rogers and George Carlin would be proud of.

Empathy is good

One of the cleverest ways the capitalists who destroy the environment distract us is by promoting a narrative of individuals "doing their part" and "pitching in," which predictably leads to us yelling at each other over things that amount to less than a drop in the ocean while corporations continue on pouring more carbon into the atmosphere than millions of individuals ever could.
They brilliantly coopted Earth Day in this manner, brainwashing children into fretting about how much time they spend in the shower rather than taking direct action against corporations.

Study of top 100 highest-grossing US films of 2022 finds male-speaking characters outnumbered female 63% to 37%. Women were the protagonist in just 1/3 of movies.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hollywood-gender-study-women-1235342517/