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Cowboys Rookie Called ‘Generational Leader’ Before NFL Debut https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/rookie-cornerback-caleb-downs-generational-leader/

#hegseth #execution
"The generational harm caused by allowing troops in uniform to stand in front of a man in a wheelchair and watch him get shot to death is irreparable.”

Army caught off guard by Hegseth’s order to make firing squad execution public
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s announcement that the execution of the convicted Fort Hood mass shooter would be shown in public caught people across the Pentagon and the Army off guard, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Founded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1982,
the DSA was born from a merger of two leftist groups,
the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and the New American Movement.
The organization functions as a member-driven network with national leadership and local chapters in every state.
Unlike the Democratic party, which operates within established political institutions,
the DSA proposes abolishing the Senate and the electoral college. Ending economic and military …

The DSA has a believability problem with older Black voters. But young people want to take more risks
Black voters reveal a generational divide, with younger voters drawn to the Democratic Socialists of America, and older voters focused on what can realistically be achieved

Ocasio-Cortez says a 'generational tidal wave' of millennial voters is reshaping the electorate (Juhi Doshi/ABC News)
https://abcnews.com/Politics/ocasio-cortez-generational-tidal-wave-millennial-voters-reshaping/story?id=135496651
http://www.memeorandum.com/260809/p21#a260809p21

The fediverse needs it's infamous generational bad take. Where is the fediverse's "Fastest Mario" post? #shitpost #mastodon #fediverse

classy lady ...

“There’s this movement that’s been brewing on the right,
and they have crept into a variety of mainstream conservative institutions and taken over,”
one former senior Heritage analyst, who insisted on anonymity for fear of professional reprisal, told me.
That’s what had happened at Heritage. “It was planned,” the analyst said. “And it was a coup.”
The troubles at Heritage could be said to have started with Project 2025.
Since 1980, Heritage has put out a polic…

What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right
The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.

I'm watching Signs Of A Psychopath 11x02 "I Don't Belong Out Here" #SignsOfAPsychopath

I Don't Belong Out Here
Follows a disturbed brother confessing to a multi-generational family slaughter and an older cold case, revealing a narcissistic psychopath seeking to…

The Heritage Foundation currently finds itself engulfed in an internal struggle that mirrors the one roiling the Republican Party:
how to harness the energy unleashed by Trumpism without being completely overrun by its conspiracy- and nativist-minded elements,
particularly among the rising generation that has known little else.
Long accustomed to placing its experts in key positions in Republican administrations, as it did in Trump’s first term,
Heritage presented i…

What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right
The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.

Did not have Bella Swan and Cedric Diggory on my bingo card for actors and creators with true and varying voices (pun intended) who make incredible art while Handling generational runs as artists.

Massachusetts Democrats renominate Senator Ed Markey in race seen as test on generational change (Nolan D. McCaskill/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/massachusetts-primaries-test-democratic-appetite-generational-change-2026-09-01/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260901/p163#a260901p163

Started reading "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers" by Jesse Q. Sutanto, and I'm having repetitive generational shocks.
The main character is being described as an old woman with wrinkles and her shop like it's from the 1950s, but this takes place now, and she has a Gen Z son, so she's probably no older than 60. She probably wasn't even born yet in the 1950s.
I just keep getting yanked out of the story thinking, "She's not old. She can't be much older than me and I'm young and hip and of the current generation. Everyone younger than me is but a child.
I mean, yes, when I was young, 60 was ancient, but not anymore. Heck, Marissa Tomei's 62 this year, and she's young Aunt May. Not old at all!
#Bookstodon #JesseQSutanto

The Quaker Reparations That Helped This Black Philly Family Build Generational Wealth – The Root
https://www.theroot.com/the-quaker-reparations-that-helped-this-black-philly-fa-2000126454

Just finished "Rialto" by Kate Milford. A wonderful book with a *lot* of things to like but also a few I wish had been done differently.
Starting with the good stuff, an #OwnVoices portrayal of anxiety depression is always welcome, *especially* one that portrays positive coping strategies, including active therapy, and complex but ultimately supportive family dynamics. Dad & daughter each reminding each other to use calming strategies at different points in the book was lovely, and getting to see the complexities of the trying to be a supportive sibling was great! Larger than that aspect, portraying a YA adventure in which the parents are actively involved but don't spoil things is so great and must have been difficult to pull off. Most YA stuff quickly ushers the parents out of the picture, and this fails to provide any kind of positive or negative role model for parent/child interaction. This book had ample examples of the former, *and* let the kids have plenty of agency too. Excellent stuff that I absolutely want to see more of.
So what didn't I like?
First, as an anarchist, I always hate to see unapologetically positive (and thus drastically unrealistic) portrayals of the police. Without getting into spoilers, even the stuff about the Piepowder court bothered me. It's presented here as a cutesy alternate court tradition, but I can't help but speculate that these courts were likely not always fair in practice, and the whole "single person makes immediate judgments model" from this book is terrible in general. I just don't like positive portrayals of terrible systems that happen to be good because the people involved are good people, since they reinforce harmful positive mental models of "justice" that don't apply to the real world. This element wasn't enough to totally spoil the book for me (the plot could have mostly functioned without it) but it's a downside to me.
Second, the book is set in rural Missouri, and has plenty of Black characters. Yay for representation? Certainly better than the cast being all-white given the setting. But the book doesn't have any Black *culture* that I picked up on, and it chooses to try to completely sidestep the relevant history. Maybe I'm just not attuned to elements that were there; if anyone who read this did see them feel free to point them out. The history definitely isn't there though... for example, was the park segregated, or not? During the time it was active one imagines most parks would have been, and that if it hadn't been that would have been a very important difference, which would even have been relevant to the plot and themes of the book as written.
Now perhaps this critique is unfair because Black children and young adults *should* get to see themselves portrayed in cozy fantasies without things always having to be about racism... In a choice between erasing Black characters and erasing racism (and especially racist histories) maybe there's no right answer here and this is fine, actually. My instinct tells me that there are ways to do better, though, and that presenting a history with all the racism carefully elided isn't the greatest compromise to make here.
A while ago I read "Under the Heron's Light" by Randi Pink. It also has mythical animal guides, a Southern setting, helpful family members, a multi-generational mystery to solve, and a (slightly older) teen protagonist who is up to the task. In contrast, it is all about racist history, and takes us through multiple extremely harrowing scenes from the past.
In any case, this discomfort also wasn't a deal-breaker for me, in part because, as I said, I think it's probably good for Black children to see uncomplicatedly positive representations of people like them alongside the plenty of stuff out there that does get deep into the racism and history. I also don't have the best perspective to judge this stuff, although that doesn't mean I should default to "it's probably fine" (I'd be happy to hear from anyone who feels they have a better perspective on this, about this book or the trend in general...).
Overall, I enjoyed Rialto quite a lot. I don't think it quite makes it into my top tier of recommendations for my kids, but I think it does make the list somewhere.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon