Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Gandalf ordered the entire Fellowship to turn their phones to silent.

He was bored of the rings.

Bill Phillis: Ohio Republicans Transfer Powers of State Board of Education to Governor - This power grab does bit past the constitutional small test. https://dianeravitch.net/2023/07/15/bill-phillis-ohio-republicans-transfer-powers-of-state-board-of-education-to-governor/ via @dianeravitch #authoritarianism

Consumer confidence in the #economy is soaring. That's very good news for #JoeBiden https://finance.yahoo.com/news/americans-havent-felt-this-good-about-the-economy-in-almost-two-years-151453360.html?.tsrc=372

When my very existence becomes illegal, what does law mean to me anymore?

This week graduate students and a postdoc at UC San Diego got arrested and charged with 'vandalism' and 'conspiracy' for a labor protest. They wrote with chalk and washable paint about the fact that the University has not paid them enough as dictated by the union contract and table talk. The University, specifically the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, changed their appointment percentage from 50% to 43% in order to avoid giving them a raise.

Here is a local news article about it: https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/06/30/uc-san-diego-student-workers-arrested-after-allegations-of-conspiracy-and-vandalism

They are gathering signatures on this petition:
https://www.change.org/p/tell-uc-to-drop-their-charges-against-protesting-workers

Please share it widely!

A couple weeks ago, the university leveled student conduct violations against grad students who staged a protest at an alumni event about the same labor violations from the university, and other similar issues. They accused the students of assaulting the chancellor and threatening health and safety, when the action was completely nonviolent. The student conduct process is still ongoing...

In summary, the university's retaliation is very overpowered compared to the modest demands and peaceful demonstrations from the grad student and postdoc workers.

Moreover, this is another reminder that the cops are not your friends, no matter how nicely you behave.

#AcademicLabor #HotLaborSummer #AllCopsAreBad

From 1940s-1980, the wealthiest paid 70-94% marginal tax rates. Zero of them went broke from taxation. Zero of them left the USA. All remained exceedingly wealthy, manufacturing boomed, AND we had the strongest middle class growth in US History.

Let's do that again. #TaxTheRich

No matter how many USB ports one has, it is always one fewer than needed.

Turns out there was a lot more than farting going on at that RFK Jr. event. COVID-19 was engineered specifically not to target Jews and Chinese people? I didn't think it was possible, but this guy is far, far worse than I even thought he was. https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

When they talk about the “gay agenda” or “trans ideology”, what they’re actually referring to are people.

And when they talk about “eradicating” said agenda or ideology, they’re still talking about people.

#lgbtq #gay #trans

Ever wonder what a jumping spider looks like when it's molting?

#Spiderday #NormalizeSpiders