We know you're talking down to us and it depresses us

Women know we're being talked down to. We know we're being denied opportunities. We know we're being terrorized for the reason that someone else is sexist.

That’s what I told a podcaster last summer in an interview about misogyny and sexism. I believe misogyny leads to a low grade depression that all women experience.

Men need to engage and participate in the stamping out of misogyny. However, far too many are studiously avoidant. They’re not on the hashtags, they’re not in the conversations, they’re not sharing the revelations with their fellow men. This is not a topic they find interesting.

Newsflash: Women don’t find it ‘interesting’ either. It’s simply our reality.

Your performativity robs us all

Paying lip service is easy, that’s why people do it — to check a box that other people think is important, in the most efficient and expeditious way possible.

But lip service is also a waste of your resources, literally. You’ve wasted the opportunity to do something worthwhile for other people. Especially if you have a platform you can lend.

Washington Post has my opinion 8 months later

Washington Post says America needs civics and history to save democracy.

This is how the Post’s Editorial Board puts it today. “While the country spends about $50 federal dollars per student per year on science and math education, only five cents per year per student is allocated for civic education,” notes Lawrence Tribe whose tweet I first saw. “Democracy demands a population better educated in history and civics,” says the professor emeritus at Harvard Law School.

I said as much 8 months ago when announcing my pro-democracy knowledge project: America needs a re-education.

Helping people requires what one of my readers called “a new civil service journalism to inform citizens at a time when the Fourth Estate is dying and under attack, and news media has devolved into propaganda machines.”

My mission is to help with what comes next: when we dig out from the damage, there will be a massive need to educate people about what just happened.

Last June I wrote about my work on a curated knowledge & awareness project for concerned citizens.

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A year into the pandemic, what was #TheMoment when you knew?

NPR and NPR Weekend asked us on Twitter what was the moment we knew things were going to be ‘different’ due to the pandemic.

They ask us now, “one year into the pandemic”, expecting the answer to be “a year ago today, end of February I knew things were going to be different.”

But a year ago today I already knew. I was early to recognize the pandemic.

"I wish no one was allergic to dogs" and other 2021 best wishes

✨Happy New Year, everyone! May your wishes for 2021 come true.✨

I told you education of the citizenry is our next chapter

It could be this kind.

Or this kind.

If I were writing the book on 2020, this would be the BLUF

“We are at war but most Americans don’t realize it and even fewer know the American president was installed to destroy us.” #fridaymorning #quoteoftheday #TrumpFailedAmerica #TRUMPDestroyedAMERICA #BookBoost #amwriting #Election2020 #VoteForOurLives pic.twitter.com/STOHuisOnF

— Trust is a license. Renew it. (@actuallyreal33) July 17, 2020

This is how a book written by the ‘generative journalism” account/“knowledge service in an infodemic” I contribute to would start. I believe that’s called BLUF: bottom line, up front.

What would the first sentence of YOUR book on 2020 be?