Cindy Marie Jenkins (she/her)

There’s also often a devil’s bargain buried in all this, that you flatter and, yeah, respect these white people who think this country is theirs by throwing other people under the bus—by disrespecting immigrants and queer people and feminists and their rights and views. And you reinforce that constituency’s sense that they matter more than other people when you pander like this, and pretty much all the problems we’ve faced over the past four years, to say nothing of the last five hundred, come from this sense of white people being more important than nonwhites, Christians than non-Christians, native-born than immigrant, male than female, straight than queer, cis-gender than trans. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito just complained that “you can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman. Now it’s considered bigotry.” This is a standard complaint of the right: the real victim is the racist who has been called a racist, not the victim of his racism, the real oppression is to be impeded in your freedom to oppress. And of course Alito is disingenuous; you can say that stuff against marriage equality (and he did). Then other people can call you a bigot, because they get to have opinions too, but in his scheme such dissent is intolerable, which is fun coming from a member of the party whose devotees wore “fuck your feelings” shirts at its rallies and popularized the term “snowflake.”

When you call misogyny misogyny, you're allying with the victims of it and maybe rendering the misogynists uncomfortable, and you're also telling the truth. Whose comfort matters? Matters more than truth? The Times and a lot of the mainstream has been telling us conservative white men come first.

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

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CR 085: Ani DiFranco on Collaboration, Connection, and New Beginnings The iconic singer-songwriter discusses spirituality, her latest creative projects, and her new book, “The Spirit of Ani.”

This is a cool interview. Good for transitioning out of work mode.
Ani DiFranco on Collaboration, Connection, and New Beginnings by Sandra Ebejer open.substack.com/pub/creative...

People With Mental Illness Are Too Easily 'Othered' We do not have to fear the mind and how diverse it can be.

People With Mental Illness Are Too Easily 'Othered' | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

Voyage of Odysseus YouTube video by Enrichment Works

Written and performed by Josh Feinman
Directed by Abraham Tetenbaum for Enrichment Works.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptz2... (I don't know which school this was in, but it's a great teaser!)

You honestly haven't experienced anything until you've witnessed The Voyage of Odysseus (the King of Ithaca who was trying to get him to to his family after the war) in front of kids surrounded by very few others their age who understand. /2

I don't know if anyone else sees a lot of people asking "Who's dumb enough to put a SCHOOL on a MILITARY BASE," but the only two times I was ever on a military base was when I produced traveling shows for the kids who live there, like this one:

With stillness I remembered important personal things to take care of.
I hope we are protecting the stillness we can still get.
It's hard to remember to pause.

With stillness I could call my mother.
I felt positive for the day.

I love my kids. I don't still love wfh all the time but I do love that when my child is sick, a great doctor is close and my work time just has to stretch to accommodate the cuddles and care.
But the minute the door closed today, I. WAS. ALONE. I adore their rabble but the stillness is necessary.

There are too many states in America! We need to get rid of ten!! #hottakes #america #states #funny YouTube video by SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma

This is my favorite Subway Take for so many reasons. I'd totally be that third guy: youtube.com/shorts/RpAg7...

The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm

Aw, my son would love to play it. But you bricked our PS5 account after I questioned a wrongful charge and now we lost 1000s of $ and time investment in games.

Oof. I felt that essay in my Doc Martens.

They know some references to classics or of their existence but it's from a meme/example in a film commentary, for instance. A subculture of references like that Darmok story in ST:TNH

They truly make a pittance of that now for arguably more outside of teaching responsibilities.

The De-evolution of man

The Next Disinformation Battlefield Is Private AI companions, synthetic friends and the rise of the epistemic cocoon

Last week I presented the latest developments of my research on AI companions and disinformation.

Synthetic friends raise uncomfortable questions about how influence works when it moves from public feeds into private conversations.

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Is it weird that the most surprising thing about this is it was only 5k?

When the President takes a shot at the Women’s Olympic Hockey Team--And your daughter is watching. (This Moment in Media History) | Out Think Media Get more from Out Think Media on Patreon

I asked my friend for a few comments on how to talk to kids -- especially athletes -- when they're present for locker room talk. She basically sent a motivational poem. I posted her entire piece for my Patrons if you want to help kids understand what they can do.

a man in a suit and tie is looking down ALT: a man in a suit and tie is looking down

Child: Why are those 2 boys holding hands?
Parent: Because they're in love.
Child: Oh. Okay!
Wow, what a challenging conversation.

Can't wait to see how much they lean on Jonathan Haidt for their screentime Toy Story 5.

Ellison and Weiss say they want to return CBS News to the center, arguing that it had moved too far away ideologically from the majority of the US. Asked about how he would run CNN, Ellison said he would stay out of day-to-day operations, but thai the network would follow CBS' recent model.

Calling bullsh*t on this ‘we are just moving cbs back to the center’ excuse for actually taking a very middle of the road news org and making it more right wing. I mean come on. CBS left wing? That’s code sometimes the WH reporter asked hard questions & 60 Minutes does stories Trump doesn’t like…

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE ANNOUNCES MRS. FRAZZLED, INFLUENCER AND PUBLIC EDUCATION ADVOCATE AS A SPEAKER AT THE VIRTUAL NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION RALLY (tr.ee/virtual-rally) MARCH 7TH, 2026 NATIONWIDE *Stand Up for Science* logo Join the fight at standupforscience.net

Stand Up For Science announces Mrs. Frazzled (@mrs-frazzled.bsky.social) as a speaker at the Virtual National Day of Action rally on Saturday, March 7th!

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NATIONAL DAY of ACTION VIRTUAL ONLINE SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH, 12:00PM - 3:00PM

We're hosting a virtual rally for those who are not able to attend a March 7th National Day of Action event in person. We don't think structural barriers should prevent anyone from being able to participate in a movement that directly impacts their lives.
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Sharing this because too many people still believe a clinic will always have the best intentions.