Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 3, Week 18 (208 total reports)
24.04.2023-30.04.2024
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Advocating for young people in a time of damaging myths of masculinity and a desperate need for new definitions of what it means to be male in our world today.
Special Adolescent Care Link of the Week
A Neuroscience Toolkit for Parents Determined to Raise Amazing Humans
Study this article if you interact with young people and want to see them become amazing humans. Among many gems of wisdom, I’m walking away with this statement, “Relationships require 1) the ability to listen and 2) the desire to understand.”
Best Links of The Week
30.04.2024
How do you counter misinformation? Critical thinking is step one
This article cites important research into the danger of misinformation, its current widespread use, the proliferation of its use we can expect to experience in the future, and the tools needed to counter it. It points out that telling someone they are narrow-minded, does not make them more open-minded (much like how telling someone to calm down has never calmed anyone down). Rather, it reveals a rather interesting experiment that did work well in combatting the widespread use of misinformation as it replaces the truth in many worldwide elections. This research is critical and must be applied to our schools and all places where we interact with young people. We constantly must ask ourselves how we can raise critically thinking young people as opposed to young people who simply accept what we say because we are the authoritarian figure in their lives?
29.04.2024
The Trumpification of the Supreme Court
While Trump remains the huckster front man selling his poison to the US, we can’t forget those that empower him behind the scenes. Not just the Putin’s, Bill Barr’s and Mike Johnson’s, but the Mitch McConnell’s as well. Without McConnell, the Supreme Court would look vastly different. We need to remember that it was McConnell who delayed replacing Ruth Bader-Ginsberg’s until Obama was out of office thereby giving that appointment to Donald Trump. Evidence shows that McConnell may may now be regretting his decision to give so much power to Trump, but he will go down in history as a traitor and enabler of the undeniably worst president this country has ever known. Project 25 states clearly what Trump will do with his unlimited power if he is granted a second term. This November will quite literally be a vote between democracy and authoritarianism in the United States.
28.04.2024
The Choice Republicans Face
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/04/the-choice-republicans-face/678221/
This link made me want to watch the musical Hamilton all over again. I did not realize what a pivotal historic player he was in saving our democracy from an autocrat named Arron Burr who could have literally been a stand-in for Donald Trump. Eventually, Hamilton paid the ultimate price for his beliefs when Burr challenged him to a duel and shot him. Trump’s political team and SCOTUS (Supreme Court of Trump, US) is already examining how they could make similar actions legal today; e.g. assassinations and imprisonments without recrimination or accountability.
27.04.2024
The mythical masculinity of Donald Trump
https://unherd.com/2024/04/the-mythical-masculinity-of-donald-trump/
Donald Trump likes to display himself through photoshopped images of Superman and Rambo, he covers his face with tanning lotion and sports a coif that seems to have a daily life of its own. The real Donald Trump is being revealed in a dingy courtroom in New York this week where Trump is forced to sit for a voter fraud crime that involves payments to prostitutes, “catch and kill” fake news tactics, and continuous whining about the predicament in which he has no one to blame but himself. We must ask ourselves what it is about this glorified con man that appeals to so many. Unless we confront that in ourselves, we will not be able to protect our democracy from such outlandish myths in the future.
26.04.2024
Men Need a New Narrative. The Future of U.S. Democracy Depends on It
https://msmagazine.com/2024/04/25/men-feminists-masculinity-trump/
This article takes a deep dive into the mental and social ills created by our current narratives of men. It examines everything from “Deaths of Despair” to political violence and offers healthier alternatives to the current myths and narratives by which men are viewed in our culture. Please take time to review it and discuss applications in your own work or relationships with young people.
25.04.2024
The Republicans Who Want American Carnage
https://apple.news/AdMjspKSuQ_KQUYkI1QlCtQ
The movie, “Civil War,” seems like fiction, until you read the words of the Far Right Republicans who are willing to violently encourage attacking the United States from within. Please learn the names of these people and make sure they are not re-elected.
24.04.2024
The Particular Brutality of Colonial Wars
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/04/david-van-reybrouck-revolusi-indonesia/678155/
This is a history lesson that most colonial powers would rather hide, that’s why it is so important to recount it. In this brief review, we are reminded of the cruelty created by policies of colonialism. One can also see the patterns of that cruelty, especially when perpetrators of the cruelty attempt to hide it from the public. There are important lessons to recount here, important lessons to remind ourselves to not repeat.
This Week’s Links
30.04.2024
How do you counter misinformation? Critical thinking is step one
This is who lit the match in the Middle East — and who poured the fuel
Did Kristi Noem Just Doom Her Career?
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/04/did-kristi-noem-just-doom-her-career/678237/
The Pelican State joins Texas and Florida in a race-to-the-bottom to see who can stick it to workers the worst.
https://newrepublic.com/maz/article/181052/louisiana-gop-child-labor-lunch-breaks
29.04.2024
The Trumpification of the Supreme Court
The Choice Republicans Face
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/04/the-choice-republicans-face/678221/
17 Kind Texts To Send To Someone Who Is Depressed
https://www.yourtango.com/self/kind-texts-send-someone-depressed
28.04.2024
The Choice Republicans Face
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/04/the-choice-republicans-face/678221/
Liz Cheney's Message to Supreme Court After Donald Trump Hearing
https://www.newsweek.com/liz-cheneys-message-supreme-court-after-donald-trump-hearing-1894883
Robert Reich’s The Supreme Court’s Farce And Ruse – OpEd
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28042024-robert-reichs-the-supreme-courts-farce-and-ruse-oped/
The history that explains how a tabloid publisher became a Trump trial witness
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-trial-witness-enquirer-david-pecker-rcna149624
Russia to Introduce Drone Operation into School Curriculum for Occupied Territories
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/31794
Bernie Sanders says Netanyahu is attacking campus protests to deflect war criticism
A Neuroscience Toolkit for Parents Determined to Raise Amazing Humans
How one evangelical leader uses the Bible to expose the ‘False White Gospel’
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/28/us/evangelical-christianity-false-white-gospel-wallis-cec/
The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution
27.04.2024
The mythical masculinity of Donald Trump
https://unherd.com/2024/04/the-mythical-masculinity-of-donald-trump/
Brooks and Capehart on Supreme Court arguments over immunity for Trump
Florida man asks schools to ban Bible following the state's efforts to remove books
https://text.npr.org/1094740651
Columbia University’s Impossible Position
Can Empathy Heal Democracy?
Historical Roots and Psychology of Liberals, Conservatives
Arizona Women Gear Up to Challenge Near-Total Abortion Ban in Upcoming Election
https://msmagazine.com/2024/04/26/abortion-arizona-elections-gallego/
'Bad Faith' documentary shows us the evil of Christian nationalism. So did a bomb threat at my library.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders just got dragged into Trump’s hush-money trial
26.04.2024
Men Need a New Narrative. The Future of U.S. Democracy Depends on It
https://msmagazine.com/2024/04/25/men-feminists-masculinity-trump/
A Nobel Prize Winner Dissects American Economics and Politics
The Supreme Court Goes Through the Looking Glass on Presidential Immunity
How DeSantis' immigration laws may be backfiring : Consider This from NPR
The National Enquirer was the go-to American tabloid for many years. Donald Trump helped change that
https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-enquirer-catch-kill-57f0c462af437fb07967a041b6f66022
More than 500 people have been arrested at pro-Palestinian protests at colleges
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1247408281/student-protests-colleges-universities-israel-palestine
Uvalde Parent Obliterates Police Response to Texas University Protest
https://newrepublic.com/post/181014/uvalde-parent-police-response-texas-university-protest
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee plans to sign bill that would let teachers carry guns in schools
Are 75% of guns used to carry out school shootings found unsecured in family homes?
The US just came up with a plan to upgrade 100k miles of transmission lines in 5 years
https://electrek.co/2024/04/25/us-plan-upgrade-100k-miles-of-transmission-lines-5-years/
25.04.2024
The Republicans Who Want American Carnage
https://apple.news/AdMjspKSuQ_KQUYkI1QlCtQ
The GOP’s Grand Plan: Minority Rule
Trump is arguing for immunity in his criminal case. Will the Supreme Court agree? : Consider This from NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/24/1198911321/trump-immunity-supreme-court-case-trial
Nonprofit exposes 'housing cartel' behind sharp rent increases across the country
https://www.upworthy.com/reason-behind-high-rent-exposed
Strict school zones are reinforcing inequality, new study finds
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/24/school-zones-inequality-brown-v-board-report
Despite Outcry Over Seclusion at Juvenile Detention Centers, Tennessee Lawmakers Fail to Pass Oversight Bill
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-juvenile-detention-oversight-bill-fails
24.04.2024
The Particular Brutality of Colonial Wars
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/04/david-van-reybrouck-revolusi-indonesia/678155/
Supreme Court will consider when doctors can provide emergency abortions in states with bans
Another one of Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis’ cruel political stunts just blew up in his face