Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Well done! A thoughtful invocation bereft of superstition. https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2024/01/16/satanic-prayer-opens-washoe-county-commission-meeting/72247424007/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eagle-pass-shelby-park-biden-cease-and-desist-texas/

Well, I asked my mom if she and my dad went to the caucuses:

"Nope. We didn't want to get COVID."

Excellent point. If you're a Republican who knows COVID is no joke, the last thing you want to do is hang out with other Republicans. 🤣🤣🤣

@taylorlorenz It can be all of the above. We know Putin and other state actors are doing their best to sow chaos and confusion whatever way they can. The Israeli-Palestine conflict is just one thing they can use no matter what the truth is.

We need to make it a top priority that Trump and the Republicans are removed from power. They are posed to make the Israeli-Palestine conflict seem like nothing and like the rise in Hitler lead to WWII, the rise of Trump will lead to WWIII

@tultican #TheHeadLiar told the truth when he said the Republican Party is dead, replaced by (anti-Democratic, anti-constitution, pro- fascist) MAGA (Shitballs)- ready to fuck up our lives if we let them. 😬

By this point
in the pandemic
you should understand
that contracting the virus
is not a moral failing
but is instead evidence
of our society’s failings
though this does not free you
from the obligation
to protect yourself and others.

My aunt, the doctor,
told me a new joke,
she asked:

How bad
is the pandemic
right now?

I said I did not know.
So she answered:

It’s so bad, that today,
the head of the CDC
said “We’re seeing
a lot of virus
circulating right now.”

And neither of us laughed.

space catdet

#Caturday

The U.S. plans to put the #Houthis back on its list of foreign terrorist organizations, after months of attacks by the rebel group in the Red Sea -WSJ

A Tesla is more of an indoor car. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chicago-area-tesla-charging-stations-024817227.html

"#Twitter, when the Musk bought it"

#StarTrekMeme

Red🩸states reject immigration reform that'd allow more immigrants willing to do the work with dignity. Instead, elected leaders insist on employing children💔, which is illegal in many cases. Will the DOL enforce the regulations?

The right-wing think tank set 30 policy priorities, including removing barriers to have 14- and 15-year-olds join the labor force.

#ChildLabor #ImmigrationReform

https://www.alreporter.com/2024/01/16/alabama-policy-institute-releases-2024-blueprint/

A reminder that the Martinsville school district paid Paul Clement $100,000 — not big for him, but no small sum for a school district — to convince the justices to take the bathroom ban case and uphold their ban. With today’s SCOTUS orders, he failed. https://www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-court-indiana-trans-restroom-case

Via Mehdi Hasan:

What about that time you said you got excluded from a kids’ beauty contest for being brown?

Or that time you said your dad was profiled at a market because of his turban?

#NikkiHaley: "We've never been a racist country"

@mekkaokereke

To be fair, it is the GOP and "mainstream" media that are aiming to ban TikTok. I think it is a diversion so we won't talk about Facebook, Xhitter and YouTube where the real issues are.