Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 3, Week 49 (187 total reports)
29.11.2023-05.12c.2023
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Advocating for young people despite the historic and epigenetic trauma of environmental, political, and religious colonialism.
Best Links of The Week
05.12.2023
What Trump’s Second Term Could Look Like
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/12/trump-reelection-2024-second-term/676237/
The Atlantic is one of my favorite magazines, it also abides by a rule of fair reporting believing that a healthy democracy needs at least two healthy political parties. The warning that it is issuing is that one party is not running to support a democracy, but instead to destroy it. This is a very strong stance for a very reputable, seasoned, award-winning, magazine historically committed to journalistic integrity (founded in 1857).
04.12.2023
A Warning
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/warning-second-trump-term/676117/
This week, The Atlantic is dedicating its entire issue to warning about a Trump Presidency. This is a drastic change in The Atlantic’s editorial policy and it comes only because (as indicated above) the current GOP fixation on Donald Trump is not about party politics but about ending democracy. If you’ve ever considered subscribing to the Atlantic (and I am a subscriber), now is the time, and this is the issue.
03.12.2023
Parents and Teachers Agree: Kids Need Strong Public Schools — Not Culture Wars
The vast majority of Americans want their children to have an authentic education unmarred by political or religious bias and have turned out in droves at local elections to nominate School Boards that represent them. However, a small minority of Americans want their personal, evangelical, beliefs to dominate curriculum. This minority is using the courts to force their viewpoint. One article below indicates that the Florida AG submitted an amicus brief this week arguing that the role of education is to teach the beliefs of the government.
02.12.2023
The Hidden Systems All Around Us
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/hidden-systems-around-us-bookbite/46670/
This book review really captivated me, my mind is still turning over the implications of its basic premise that “Energy = Agency.” If you follow that thought process through to its natural conclusion, you will come to the same result as this author. The best measurement of a society’s health is its infrastructure, not its GDP.
01.12.2023
The Bogus Historians Who Teach Evangelicals They Live in a Theocracy
Leaders of the Christian Nationalist movement crave to promote their opinions rather than examine factual history. Leaders of this movement have been unabashedly creating their own revisionist saga to justify their racist viewpoints in their attempts to block everything from immigration to school curricula. But, how sound are their historic foundations? Evidence points out that fundamental leaders of this extremist movement—and, in particular, David Barton—had historic views so flawed that even his publisher, Thomas Nelson, recalled his books.
30.11.2023
Top 10 Diogenes Quotes to Challenge Your Perspective on Life
https://www.blinkist.com/magazine/posts/diogenes-quotes-challenge-perspective-life
Diogenes has long been one of my favorite philosophers. His thoughts founded the Cynic School of Philosophy in what is modern-day Turkey and his thought-provoking, challenging, and at times humorous ideas are just as applicable today as they were during his life in 300 BCE.
29.11.2023
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is building a theory of justice for a warming world
If you read through the featured article from December 3rd, this week, this commentary by Professor Táíwò will make more sense to you. It digs into how our infrastructure has created the climate crisis we are currently experiencing and offers possible strategies for preventing the colonialist policies of the past from dictating racially biased choices in the future.
This Week’s Links
05.12.2023
What Trump’s Second Term Could Look Like
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/12/trump-reelection-2024-second-term/676237/
What’s Really Going On With the GOP’s Current School Obsession
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/12/desantis-florida-schools-gop-obsession.html
Legalizing gay marriage has caused a dramatic drop in LGBT suicide rates
FL AG’s Legal Brief Claims Libraries Should Only Convey “Government’s Message”
‘Plain historical falsehoods’: How amicus briefs bolstered Supreme Court conservatives
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/03/supreme-court-amicus-briefs-leonard-leo-00127497
In Uvalde, Students Followed Active Shooter Protocol. The Cops Did Not.
https://www.propublica.org/article/uvalde-officer-student-trainings-mass-shootings
Does the body really “keep the score” of trauma?
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/body-keeps-score-trauma/
Handcuffed and sent to the ER – for misbehavior: Schools are sending more kids to the hospital
04.12.2023
A Warning
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/warning-second-trump-term/676117/
“This Is the Final Compromise”: Donald Trump and the Implosion of the American Evangelical Movement
Narratives and Resilience
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-words/202312/narratives-and-resilience
Defense Secretary Says Israel Risks ‘Strategic Defeat’ If Civilian Lives Not Protected
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lloyd-austin-gaza-civilian-lives-israel_n_656d3576e4b028b0f3d07cd7
Study Reveals Professions Most Likely to Be Replaced by AI
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/study-jobs-most-likely-replaced-ai-chatbots-uk-dept-for-education
Brazil proposes $250 billion “Tropical Forests Forever” fund for rainforests
What Are the Pillars of AI Ethics?
https://ambcrypto.com/blog/what-are-the-pillars-of-ai-ethics/
03.12.2023
Parents and Teachers Agree: Kids Need Strong Public Schools — Not Culture Wars
How a Recent Voting Rights Act Ruling Is a ‘Devastating Blow’ to Black Voters In Several States Ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election
'Moms for Liberty' launch their conservative crusade against American schools
Florida's Republican chair has denied a woman's rape allegation in a case roiling state politics
Trans-led counselling fights to save lives and provide ‘chosen family’ amid anti-LGBTQ+ hate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/12/03/trans-counselling-mental-health-lgbtq-non-binary-tact/
Police raid gay clubs across Moscow after anti-LGBTQ Supreme Court ruling
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/moscow-gay-bars-raid-lgbtq-supreme-court-ruling-1.7047488
Conservatives use anti-trans hearing to promote conversion therapy over gender-affirming care
25 Things That AI Will Never Be Able To Do
https://wealthofgeeks.com/25-things-that-ai-will-never-be-able-to-do/
The Mandela Effect: How Do Collective False Memories Work?
11 Phrases To Use Instead of Automatically Giving Advice, According to Psychologists
https://parade.com/living/phrases-to-use-instead-of-giving-advice-according-to-psychologists
02.12.2023
The Hidden Systems All Around Us
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/hidden-systems-around-us-bookbite/46670/
James Carville: This is a bigger threat to the US than Al Qaeda
Warren Throckmorton takes on David Barton and 'Christian nationalists' revisionist history'
The lesser-known history of the Monroe doctrine
https://www.salon.com/2023/12/02/the-lesser-known-history-of-the-monroe-doctrine/
The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment
Liz Cheney is back and unloading on the current leaders of her ancestral GOP
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/02/1216333620/liz-cheney-book-republicans
Nobel Prize-winning economist who said ChatGPT would result in a four-day workweek says the past 12 months have only further convinced him he’s right
01.12.2023
The Bogus Historians Who Teach Evangelicals They Live in a Theocracy
Merriam-Webster's 2023 Word of the Year Is 'Authentic'
https://apple.news/A03uzfiURQn-8nYNqI3Cxug
The violence is Trump's goal
https://www.salon.com/2023/12/01/the-violence-is-goal/
Watch the DeSantis vs. Newsom debate in 3 minutes
https://flipboard.com/video/politico/074cb3cf0a
How Gun Violence Archive Became Best Source for US Shooting Stats
3 companies you didn’t know were Christian-based, and one you probably did
30.11.2023
Top 10 Diogenes Quotes to Challenge Your Perspective on Life
https://www.blinkist.com/magazine/posts/diogenes-quotes-challenge-perspective-life
Embrace Authenticity and Live Your True Self
The Supreme Court Has Figured Out How to Gut a Bunch of Crucial Federal Laws at Once
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/11/supreme-court-gut-federal-laws-sec.html
Hundreds of Florida Students Staged a Walkout to Support the Rights of Trans Athletes
https://www.them.us/story/florida-students-staged-huge-walkout-support-the-rights-of-trans-athletes
5 Psychologist-Backed Phrases That Make Things Better When Life Feels Hard
https://www.yourtango.com/self/phrases-that-make-things-better-when-life-feels-hard
Top 10 Kurt Vonnegut Quotes That Will Make You Question Everything
https://www.blinkist.com/magazine/posts/kurt-vonnegut-quotes-question-everything
29.11.2023
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is building a theory of justice for a warming world
Democracy Is in Peril, Just Not the Way We Thought
https://newrepublic.com/article/176821/democracy-peril-just-not-way-thought
Opinion | The 3 Fantasies That Keep Congress Dysfunctional
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/29/pearlstein-congress-fantasy-00128949
Top 10 Aristotle Quotes to Inspire and Enlighten Your Mind
https://www.blinkist.com/magazine/posts/aristotle-quotes-inspire-enlighten-mind