Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Thank goodness!

Sen. Feinstein makes it official: She will retire at the end of her current term

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-02-14/dianne-feinstein-retire-term-ends-california-senator

#LATimes #California #Feinstein #Dem #Democrat #Politics #News #Primary

GOP is bragging they hit a new record for Black GOP members of the House. Out of 223 GOP members of the House how many are Black? Four. Yep, just four. Zero are Black woman. The GOP Black outreach program will now shut down because that is enough for them.

Satanic Temple opens online abortion clinic named after Samuel Alito’s mother

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/satanic-temple-online-abortion-clinic-b2282058.html

Mike Pence claimed executive privilege to avoid testifying to the January 6 committee.

Mike Pence is now claiming legislative privilege to avoid testifying to a DOJ-empaneled federal grand jury.

Neither privilege applies to testimony about criminal conspiracies.

The Atlanta Cheating Scandal Is Not Over - This unjust saga is a significant blemish on Fani Willis. She railroaded teachers which obscured finding the truth. https://dianeravitch.net/2023/02/14/the-atlanta-cheating-scandal-is-not-over/ via @dianeravitch #Education

"The #Wyoming #Republican #Party is seeking to kill a bill working its way through the state Legislature proposing to raise the state's legal marriage age to 16, arguing that putting 'arbitrary' limits on child marriage interferes with parental rights and religious liberty."

I guess it's not being a #pedo or a #groomer if you call it "religious liberty."

https://www.newsweek.com/wyoming-ending-child-marriage-sparks-republican-outrage-1780501

#Texas Monthly has an excellent new deep dive into the #GOP plan to dismantle public #education in our state: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/campaign-to-sabotage-texas-public-schools/

Previously from us, Christopher Collins looked at the #Republicans' anti-school agenda: https://www.texasobserver.org/disrupt-deplete-destroy/

and @josephinelee investigated how well-funded right-wingers used #vouchers to bankrupt education in #Arizona: https://www.texasobserver.org/voucher-program-arizona-privitization-public-schools-disabilities/

#TXlege #News #USPol #politics #Newstodon #schools

It would be "extraordinary" — and unprecedented — for a federal judge to ban a drug that was approved by regulators more than 20 years ago, the FDA says.

But anti-choice activists, now turning their attention to the abortion pill mifepristone, are hoping a right-wing ideologue in Texas will do just that. https://www.businessinsider.com/abortion-pill-women-die-mifepristone-banned-democratic-ags-argue-2023-2 #news #politics #abortion

TED LASSO Returns March 15th, and Here’s The Teaser: https://www.blast-o-rama.com/2023/02/14/ted-lasso-returns-march-15th-and-heres-the-teaser/

Michigan State Rep. Says ‘F*ck Your Thoughts and Prayers’ After Mass Shooting

https://www.thedailybeast.com/michigan-state-shooting-state-rep-ranjeev-puri-says-fck-your-thoughts-and-prayers?ref=home

"It goes without saying that these two are great athletes, but in this age of angry, rootless young singles and bizarre incels joining online cults, they are also role models, at ages 24 and 27, of what grounded, mature men should be." https://www.thebulwark.com/what-the-super-bowl-taught-us-about-families/

Multiple casualties from a shooting on the campus of Michigan State University. https://www.wlns.com/news/local-news/shots-fired-at-msu-students-instructed-to-hide-run-hide-fight/

“The guy in 3C has drugs in his butt.”
“Hush now, Tim, we’re on vacation.”

MSU police: a second shooting has occurred at the IM East gym. Multiple injuries.

There were more toxic chemicals on train that derailed in Ohio than originally reported, data shows - ABC News

https://abcnews.go.com/US/toxic-chemicals-train-derailed-ohio-originally-reported-data/story?id=97080179

"Trove of spices from around the world found on sunken fifteenth-century Norse ship"

"A pair of archaeologists with Lund University in Sweden has found "a treasure trove" of plants aboard a sunken 15th-century #Norse ship. Mikael Larsson and Brendan Foley describe their findings in PLOS ONE.

The researchers found spices such as nutmeg, cloves, mustard and dill. They also found samples of other plant material, such as saffron and ginger, peppercorns and almonds. Some of the spices would have come from as far away as Indonesia, suggesting that King Hans had developed an advanced trade network. The researchers also found snack items, such as dried blackberries, raspberries, grapes and flax, each find showing just how rich and powerful Hans had become. The researchers also found one non-edible plant, henbane, which, in the past, was used for medicinal purposes."

@histodons #RespectfortheAncestors #Norway #archeology

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-trove-spices-world-sunken-fifteenth-century.html

I would be more concerned if Rowling were a saint of a person, but she wrote books where the main character embraced fascism and misoginy. That would be a problem. I don't care about the personal life of Gene Roddenberry, as long as Star Trek promotes universal values of humanism, diversity and inclusion. In those cases, the work speaks a lot more than the life of the person.