Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

👏🏻Via Taniel:

Candidates who championed public education got big wins on Tuesday in the school board elections in Fairbanks, #Alaska, defeating conservatives who predictably were also stoking fears around #LGBTQ rights. https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2023/10/3/fairbanks-voters-opt-for-change-on-assembly-school-board-rejecting-right-wing-candidates

White House Drags House Republican Opposed to Student Debt Relief After He Had $1 Million in PPP Loans Forgiven https://www.mediaite.com/politics/white-house-drags-house-republican-opposed-to-student-debt-relief-after-he-had-1-million-in-ppp-loans-forgiven/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

So Twitter is a black hole and haven for bigotry and yet @comcast and @nbc @msnbc Reporters and staff are all on board to save Elon by staying there. Ask Andrea Mitchell who gives Twitter a shoutout every fucking day,

After COVID killed off a flu strain, annual flu shots are in for a redesign

It's TBD how and when a reformulation will happen, but it's now in the works.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/10/after-covid-killed-off-a-flu-strain-annual-flu-shots-are-in-for-a-redesign/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Dick Butkus, Hall of Famer and legendary Bears linebacker, dies at 80 https://wapo.st/3Q4gQOx
Unlike my #SistersInLaw @BarbMcQuade, I never comment on sports, but Dick was a classmate at @UofIllinois so I want to send condolences to his family.

‘NJ train Karen’ who was caught on video telling German tourists to ‘get the f*** out of our country’ is fired from her job https://deadstate.org/nj-train-karen-who-was-caught-on-video-telling-german-tourists-to-get-the-f-out-of-our-country-is-fired-from-her-job/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@neilhimself asked people, nicely, to #mask at his events. It didn't have to go down this way.

#CovidIsNotOver #maskup

No, there is no "presidential immunity" for a criminal conspiracy.

See, e.g., United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974).

RIP The Trump Organization, 1981-2023

BREAKING -- Trump's business empire in NY.

Judge issues BOMBSHELL ruling, restricting the Trumps from moving any money into or out of their NY companies -- or starting any new business entities in any jurisdiction. And the companies are being STRIPPED from their control.

In the last 2 weeks:

One party won more affordable medications -- and more student loan relief.

The other party
- tried to impeach the president, had no case, and withdrew it
- tried to shut down the government, didn't have the votes, and failed
- voted out their own leader

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BIG NEWS: In August, the Biden administration announced 10 drugs for price negotiation. The companies have now agreed to come to the table to lower prescription prices for the American people.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/10-drugs-targeted-medicare-price-negotiations-participate-white-103682259

For the folks in the back row: It’s not the Democrats job to save the job of a House Speaker in a GOP majority…(especially one who launched bullshit Impeachment Hearings against a Democratic President to placate right wing lunatics and doesn’t keep his promises.) The GOP has a vocal wing that wants to dismantle federal power and leave nothing in its place. They must deal with these petulant children in their own party and learn to govern in a divided nation. 😏