Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

"If you have not heard of the independent state legislature theory, congratulations. You lead a happier life than I do. Not just because it represents a terrifying power grab by federal judicial supremacists, but also because it has a day-ruining bad name."https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/an-elite-power-grab-dressed-in-academic-robes/

Central bucks school district (Pennsylvania) votes to censor teachers: https://whyy.org/articles/central-bucks-school-district-pride-flag-ban-lgbtq-advocacy-policy-321/

#lgbtq #censorship #school

@AlliFlowers

The only place he should be sitting is in a Brazilian jail cell.

Without wading into the "AI tools in education" debate there is a tool out to detect whether a passage was generated by #chatgpt

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/09/1147549845/gptzero-ai-chatgpt-edward-tian-plagiarism

#education #technology #edtech #carlhooker #schools #k12 #edutooter @edutooter #edutooters@a.gup.pe

The media does this, too.

#cartoon by Mike Luckovich #Politics

This is absolutely disgusting and infuriating. (Content warning: SA).

Vice News has obtained WhatsApp messages and voice notes sent from Andrew Tate to a woman who accused him of rape, including a message in which Tate said “I love raping you.”

**Police failed to prosecute**

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxn3dm/andrew-tate-whatsapps-arrest

Josh Hawley went to Yale Law School (alma mater of the Clintons). He knows that there is no comparison in the conduct of Biden and Trump re classified docs. When he says that "the double standard here is astounding," it is in fact his intellectual dishonesty that is astounding.

Hillsdale College is waging an all-out war on public education. They advocate for taxpayer funding through "choice" to finance religious schools and end the evil progressive ideology represented by public schools. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/184718 #Politics #Education

"I think people are saying this will be mild. It’s not mild. Do the math: With 400 or 500 deaths a day, that’s getting up to 150,000 to 200,000 a year, which is four- or five-times higher than the worst flu season. That’s not good. Even without 2,000 to 3,000 deaths a day, we’re still seeing a lot of hospitalizations, a lot of long COVID... There will be generations dealing with long COVID. The impact on young adults and young people will be profound." https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/renew-houston/health/article/Peter-Hotez-COVID-XBB15-variant-vaccine-booster-17707273.php #COVID19

Ohio passed the nation's first major voter suppression law of 2023, #HB458.

Get everything you need to know about the law, including how it harms voters in the latest episode of Defending Democracy.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ohios-new-voter-suppression-law/id1660317917?i=1000593602620

VIDEO Ugandan health officials and the country's WHO representative have announced the end of a deadly Ebola outbreak that started in September

House R's now ready to take up 2 abortion measures. One condemns attacks on pro-life facilities and churches (what attacks you might say?); the other forces MDs to care for infants who survive an abortion. Both obscure, won't pass Senate, & just a way of flying the pro-life flag.

Benjamin Netanyahu is clearly demonstrating why the deep mixing of religion (regardless of which religion) and politics is lethal to democracies and minority rights, and in fact the destruction of democracy is often the very reason that such a course is pushed by fascist politicians. This doesn't apply only to Israel, but to the entire planet, including notably here in the U.S. as well.