Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Simple point. Kansas City shooting.

The shooting lasted less than two minutes. There were HUNDREDS of armed and trained police officers ONSITE at this shooting.

And STILL 22 people were shot and 7 have life threatening injuries, with at least one person killed.

Clearly a “good guy with a gun” is NOT a solution to these mass shootings.

House Republicans flee DC for early vacation amid national security 'crisis' https://www.alternet.org/house-republicans-flee-dc-vacation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

22 people shot at #SuperBowl Parade in #KansasCity:

2 have died.

20 people were injured, including 3 critical condition and 5 serious
12 children being treated at Children's Mercy Hospital

3 people were taken into custody.

Family members of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza file complaints of war crimes against the group's leaders at the ICC in The Hague. https://www.timesofisrael.com/hostages-families-file-hamas-war-crimes-claim-at-icc-crimes-cant-go-unpunished/

"“U.S. President Joe Biden issued a memorandum on Thursday requiring allies who receive military aid from the U.S. to provide ‘credible and reliable written assurances’ of their adherence to international law including international human rights law,” the Times of Israel reported. Israel will need to supply written assurances within 45 days or risk loss of aid."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/13/biden-israel-aid/

#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #War #HumanRights #Biden #USA #News #WorldNews

If they ask you
why you are masked today
tell them that it’s because
you forgot
to buy them flowers
or order them chocolates
so you’re wearing it
because you still wanted
to do something to show
that you care about them.

@GottaLaff

I assumed Jack Smith knew this would come about and had his response ready before Trump'a application was even filed.

Chess vs tiddlywinks.

President Biden, strolling out with the first lady to the White House North Lawn, was just asked by a reporter what he's giving up for Lent. He replied: "You guys."

have we tried calling guns "woke" yet? maybe that's how we get them banned

@GottaLaff
I wouldn't expect it from that Trumper Mark Green, but I keep hoping that one of these Republicans deciding to retire because they've helped make Congress into a hostile work environment will go ahead and leave the GOP and make Hakeem Jeffries Speaker of the House so that we can have adults in charge again.

When will we ever grow tired of this and the NRA-owned GOP?

It's not my country and maybe our neighbours to the south will tell me to shut up and mind my own business. But I have to say this:

* Praying is meaningless. Voting for candidates who will act to implement gun control might be a thought, though.

* Citizens of many countries watch the same shows, play the same games, listen to the same music. And yet, we're not blowing one another away on the daily.

* It's the guns. It's not the "troubling times." It's the guns.

#kansascity

#Wyden Reveals Phone #Data Used to Target #Abortion Misinformation at Visitors to Hundreds of Reproductive Health Clinics - https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-reveals-phone-data-used-to-target-abortion-misinformation-at-visitors-to-hundreds-of-reproductive-health-clinics "Congress Must Act to Ensure Private Location Data Is Not Used By Extremist Prosecutors To Prosecute Women" #privacy