Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Teacher: William Shakespeare is credited with the invention of over 1,700 words. He was a linguistic genius.

Student: Can I make up words and use them in my papers?

Teacher: Absolutely fucking not.

Fun fact: the first episode of The Twilight Zone delayed by the #SAG-AFTRA and #WGA #strikes in 1960 was “The Mighty Casey,” a cautionary fable about replacing baseball players with #robots.

#SAG #strike #writer #labor #unions #uspol #AI

We're all friends here, so let's fight book banning.
Please Repost to get this to those who can use it.... Teens and young adults ages 13 to 26 living in the U.S. can access the entire collection of e-books and audiobooks from the Seattle Public Library. "We believe in your right to read what you want, discover yourself and form your own opinions." Fill out the form to get a Books Unbanned card.

https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/teens/books-unbanned#GetaBooksUnbannedCard

Ohio taxpayers to subsidize private school tuitions at greater rate than urban public school children @StephenODyer https://open.substack.com/pub/10thperiod/p/taxpayers-to-subsidize-private-school?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #privatization

David Tennant, of Dr Who fame, apparently said some pro trans things and now the TERFs are going after him on Twitter. His response is that he isn't worried because, and I quote, "I'll be fine, Terfs can't climb stairs"

I want that on a T-shirt. No, I NEED that on a T-shirt!

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RFK Jr. says COVID was ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Jews

https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews/

#RFKJr #COVIDTargeting #EthnicBias #Jews #ConspiracyTheory #PublicHealth #Politics #News

Biden Raised $72 Million in Second-Quarter to Open Campaign

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-14/biden-raised-72-million-in-second-quarter-to-open-campaign

#Bloomberg #BidenCampaign #Fundraising #SecondQuarter #Election2024 #PoliticalFunding #Politics #News

#IndictJaredKushner
In 2016 Kushner & Kislyak wanted to set up a secret communications channel between Trump’s transition team & the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities?
He should have been arrested
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https://washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-ambassador-told-moscow-that-kushner-wanted-secret-communications-channel-with-kremlin/2017/05/26/520a14b4-422d-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html…
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https://vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/jared-kushner-campaign-shell-company…

Dem shouts at Gaetz for defunding DOD diversity: 'What are you so afraid of?'
Watch now on #CLTV

https://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2023/07/dem-shouts-gaetz-defunding-dod?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=76964

https://www.rawstory.com/classroom-teachers/ “The legislation would also completely eliminate funding for a number of Education Department programs, including Federal Work-Study, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, Promise Neighborhoods, and Child Care Access Means Parents in School.” People wise up. These folks don’t care about teachers, the middle class, working poor or anyone. You give folks great tax breaks. Then cut education funding.