Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Constitutional scholar Lawrence Tribe now believes Biden should invoke the 14th Amendment and pay the nation's debts.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/05/lawrence-tribe-changes-his-mind-14th?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=74316

“They’re lying to you,” he said. “This isn’t about mental health, which every other country has problems with. It isn’t drugs, which every other country struggles with. It isn’t computer games, which every other country has. It’s the guns. It’s obviously the guns.”

. “Let’s stop treating the GOP as the party of law and order and treat them, more accurately, as the party of gun violence, of school shootings, of mall massacres.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mehdi-hasan-republican-guns_n_64587226e4b00eb7e63c9e35

stephen king on allen tx & a first responder

Allen, Texas: First responder took a little girl’s pulse before realizing she had no face.
Time for responsible gun laws.

@tristansnell
How's this idea.
Replace the SC with a Supreme Panel, composed of random picks from the numerous federal judges. Pick 3 every 2 years. Thus each serves 6 years on the Panel.

So Federal Judges still get lifetime appointments, but not lifetime on the Panel.

Such an arrangement would be very hard to stack or corrupt.

How did American classrooms and malls become #NRA-sponsored slaughterhouses? Historian Heather Cox Richardson on the twisted history of an utterly imagined "Constitutional right." #guns #crime https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-6-2023?r=nb32g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Greg Abbott Can 'Go to Hell,' Texas Senator Angrily Reacts After Shooting

https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-can-go-hell-texas-senator-angrily-reacts-after-shooting-1798879

#Newsweek #TexasSenator #GregAbbott #GunViolence #TexasShooting #PoliticalOutrage #Politics #News

@statmonkey if God’s control is absolute pack your desk because we clearly have no need for congressmen

#Allusions are one of the trickiest #LiteraryDevices to teach young people, largely because allusions by their very nature expect the reader to already understand people and events generally considered to be “common knowledge.”

You see the problem.

https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/recognizing-allusions

#ELA #teachers #education #edutooter

Okay, look, America.

It's *Canada* Geese, not Canadian Geese.

It's just a name, they don't belong to us, they're not our fault.

Sorry, though. 😉

Vietnam has reported a record-high temperature of 44.1C (111.38F), as weather experts and authorities told the population to remain indoors during the hottest parts of the day.

Scientists have said global warming is aggravating adverse weather. Neighbouring countries registered record temperatures during a heatwave in Asia in April.
#News #climate #climatechange #weather #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/07/vietnam-records-highest-ever-temperature-of-441c