Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

"Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't. In a democracy, elected representatives listen to constituents. We take this for granted, and imagine that a dictator would owe us something. But the vote you cast for him affirms your irrelevance. The whole point is that the strongman owes us nothing. We get abused and we get used to it."

#trump #tfg #dictatorship #VoteBlue
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-strongman-fantasy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=310897&post_id=142669610&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=33r2h&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. - Judy Blume

#Climate

Another stat that just boggles the mind.

The US has ~94 GigaWatts of nuclear power installed.

China, last year alone, installed 216 GW of solar.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/china-added-more-solar-panels-in-2023-than-us-did-in-its-entire-history

Oh and the US has 175 GW of solar installed in total. So once again China has installed more solar in one year than the US has already installed in total.

⚡️Ukraine is not involved in the attack on Transnistria, - Moldavian authorities

"We inform you that the incident in question is an attempt to cause fear and panic in the region. The military equipment in the photo has not been working for several years."

🇨🇿 #Czechia is expected to propose a European-wide ban on #Russian and Belarusian grain crop imports during a European Council meeting next week.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/03/17/7446893/

#russia #belarus

Breaking: Kate Middleton expected to rise from the dead on Easter Sunday.

Hello, from my village, Siahar, in Punjab. I have arrived here to reconnect with my roots. This journey from the wilderness of the Yukon to my ancestral village in Punjab is more than just physical travel; it's an opportunity to reconnect with the land that fostered my growth.
As a child, I spent my formative years playing amidst these farms. These verdant lands are not just fields of crops; they are landscapes of my childhood. Hugging these crops felt like I was embracing my old friends.

3 myths about women's health
- Women are tiny men.
- Women have estrogen and progesterone; men have testosterone. (We all have all 3 hormones.)
- Women's health is just reproductive health.
https://www.today.com/health/womens-health/myths-womens-health-rcna142442

Tennessee is the home where the Klan was born This bill is wrapped up in pretty words like Christian Heritage Month as a disguise when it actually the Christian Nationalist version of fascism .

#FuckSCOTUS #SupremeCorruption

SCOTUS releases one-sentence decision banning drag shows at Texas college campus https://www.alternet.org/scotus-drag-show/

3/ Via Hallerman:

DA Fani Willis has accepted the resignation of special prosecutor Nathan Wade.

"I compliment you for the professionalism and dignity you have shown over the last 865 days, as you have endured threats... (and) unjustified attacks in the media and in court"

@Likewise@beige.party @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

I think the best policy would be to abolish student loans and make them illegal. The prices of tuition would plummet. The Harvard endownments and foundations alone have enough money to pay for all future tuition for years and years. Multiply that by thousands of schools and you'll see most of the tuition is being funneled into foundations that enrich the rich at the expense of the borrowers.

Experts Warn Leprosy Isn't Ancient History as Cases Surge in The US
https://www.sciencealert.com/experts-warn-leprosy-isnt-ancient-history-as-cases-surge-in-the-us #health #medicine #disease #leprosy #HansensDisease #Florida #armadillos #treatable

Although it's certain that incumbent Vlad Putin will win his fifth term as president, the voting across Russia isn't going smoothly with reports of explosions and fires at some polling stations, Russians dumping green dye into ballot boxes and a crash of the voting system on the first day of the election. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/all-about/russians-vote-in-presidential-election