Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@AlliFlowers Well said! You got Mastodon Award of the Day! 🏆

My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches because they didn't look well. But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life. People talked too much. And they had time to think. So they ran off with the porches. And the gardens, too. - Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451”
#IReadBannedBooks

NEW: Jill Biden has paid tribute to Rosalynn Carter, remembering the former first lady who died today at age 96 "for her efforts on mental health and caregiving and women's rights" https://t.co/2NS9CbKpC0

"The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday released surveillance camera footage from Shifa Hospital showing Hamas terrorists bringing a Nepali and Thai citizen who were abducted from Israel on October 7 to the medical center in Gaza City, and accused the Palestinian terror organization of killing a kidnapped Israeli soldier there."
@palestine
@israel
#hamas
#hostage
#freepalestine
#gaza
#war
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-hostage-was-killed-in-shifa-clip-shows-hamas-take-2-more-hostages-there-on-oct-7/

@AlliFlowers @MisuseCase well, it definitely makes me answering surveys always put other or prefer not to answer. lol

The #cowards are taking more #hostages and using them as #humanShields again

#Iran-backed #Houthi rebels #hijacked an #Israeli-linked ship and took 25 crew members as hostages.

They warned that they would continue to do so until the end of #Israel's campaign against "#Hamas rulers"

Not #Palestinians, mind you, but "Hamas rulers," who Palestinians continue to let fight #inTheirName only for a #permanentStateOfWar.

How is talk of a full #ceaseFire even tenable?

https://apnews.com/article/israel-houthi-rebels-hijacked-ship-red-sea-dc9b6448690bcf5c70a0baf7c7c34b09

To no one's surprise, it turns out that #Hamas genuinely uses #Gaza hospitals as #HumanShields.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-intelligence-hamas-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-hold/story?id=104887035

@AlliFlowers In Kenya there are a few different native ethnic groups but Kenyans all lump Europeans and Americans into the same ethnic group *regardless of whether they are white or Black* and some Americans get very upset when I mention this, like it’s against the rules for Kenyans or anyone to do this.

At some point, do the ultra-wealthy ever stop and think, “OK, I have enough money. I’m going to stop trying to fuck up the world for everyone else.”

“We hope that day will come soon,” said one Syrian refugee. “We hate Putin more than Bashar al-Assad. Why did [Putin] come to our country?"

Last year, the UN agency for human rights estimated that over 300,0000 civilians have been killed since the Syrian Civil War began in 2011.

If Ukraine risks being forgotten by the media, the Syrian Civil War receives even less coverage.

Over the last decade an average of 84 civilians have died every day, many of them as a result of Russian airstrikes.

I'll have to remember this one.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

The nation is in trouble, in short, because too many of us are willing to bend the rules of our democratic system to enshrine white Christian nationalism — and themselves as white Christians — as the law of the land. As PRRI subtitles its survey:

“State of the country: Pessimism, political violence, paranoia.”

#PRRI #democracy #WhiteChristianNationalism #authoritarianism #strongmen
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