Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Dianne Feinstein was born in 1933

She is older than
• Hawaiian Punch
• The first can of beer
• Donald Duck
• The first blood bank
• The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile
• Famous Amos cookies and the 5th Ave candy bar
• Commercial hydroponics
•The Internet

Her known net worth is over $95 million

Take a guess how she made it

And now she won’t give a timeline on when she’ll come back to do her job and appoint judges – after 3 months of absence

Whatever legacy she had? Is gone.

Resign.

#Arizona official targeted by #election deniers now struggles with PTSD

“Because of their actions and inactions, Gates said, his integrity had been questioned. He was labeled a traitor who should be shot or hung. One person wrote on social media that his daughters should be raped. He worried his own parents, avid #Fox viewers, might believe the lies about him.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/06/bill-gates-maricopa-county-arizona-ptsd/

I say going forward every mother father sister brother son daughter show have open casket funerals and EVERY POLITICIAN-EVERY ONE OF THEM. Should be made to attend the funeral in their district or lose their salaries. Because after all that’s what the NRA pays them salary.

Well, at least somebody won who wasn’t from NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Atlantic. Pulitzer board really needs to expand the scope of these awards . It’s like an old boys club.

“Kyle Whitmire of AL.com, Birmingham
For measured and persuasive columns that document how Alabama's Confederate heritage still colors the present with racism and exclusion, told through tours of its first capital, its mansions and monuments–and through the history that has been omitted.“

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/kyle-whitmire-alcom-birmingham

#News #Pulitzer

@QasimRashid he Hispanic says the right he can’t be a Nazi. Yeah well can you say Clarence three times in the mirror.

The E. Jean Carrol case as gone to the the jury, Cross your fingers that another domino falls against that insufferable asshole.

US senators call Tesla’s safety review a “sham,” demand answers from Musk

Senators accuse Tesla of hiding “untold number” of complaints.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/us-senators-call-teslas-safety-review-a-sham-demand-answers-from-musk/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Introduction
Professionally, I'm a senior scholar at Georgetown University, where I teach some classes on learning, design, and technology.

I write books about higher ed's future, like _Universities on Fire_ and _Academia Next_.

I also run the Future Trends Forum, a weekly video conversation about higher ed's future. #FTTE

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The founder of the Oath Keepers militia is arguing for a lenient sentence of “time served” out of respect for his history of “good works,” by which he means — and we swear we’re not making this up — creating the Oath Keepers in the first place. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/stewart-rhodes-leniency-creating-oath-keepers-1234731524/

@EugeneMcParland It is amazing work. Evgeniy Maloletka also won World Press Photo of the Year for one of those same images. He says he only realized later that he was documenting war crimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUPaIVikuUQ

@dethtron5000

Guns dont kill people.
Elected Republicans kill people.