Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

The DEI rubber really hits the road when scientific professional societies like #ACNP complain it's "too expensive" to move their annual meeting out of Florida. What they mean is, excluding LGBTQ+ people from their conference is an acceptable price to then.

https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/local-regional/2023-05-17/state-superintendent-ryan-walters-possibly-ripe-for-lawsuit-after-promoting-biblical-instruction

I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”.

Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.

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“One of #Trump’s longtime lieutenants, Allen #Weisselberg, was recently released from Rikers Island jail complex after pleading guilty to a tax fraud scheme. Yet Weisselberg’s legal troubles are far from over.

Manhattan DA office now considering new round of criminal charges against Weisselberg, 75, & this time he could be charged w perjury” #Bragg #legal
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/nyregion/weisselberg-trump-bragg-perjury.html

It has to be galling for putin 🇷🇺to see President Zelenskyy 🇺🇦traveling where he can not. It’s delicious imo 😎🇺🇸

Bigoted anti-Semitic #Missouri mayor causes uproar after saying local trash collectors are ‘not trying to Jew anybody’ - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism

https://www.rawstory.com/missouri-anti-semitism/

Don’t get an epidural in Mexico, CDC warns—40 dead, including 1 Texan

The current outbreak echoes one reported last year from a different Mexican state.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/dont-get-an-epidural-in-mexico-cdc-warns-40-dead-including-1-texan/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Fulton County DA Fani Willis letter hints at time frame for Trump indictment - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism https://www.rawstory.com/trump-georgia-indictment-2660298946/

@AlliFlowers
It does not sound as if DeSantis is good for business or education or much else really.

#Job #histodons
Assistant Professor in Twentieth-Century #GermanHistory (linked appointment with King's College, Cambridge) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
@histodons @historikerinnen
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/40318/

Ron DeSantis' is:
- Killing Florida's hospitality industry
- Killing Florida's tourism industry
- Killing Florida's Education system
- Killing Florida's construction industry
- Killing Florida's real estate market
- Killing free speech
- Waging war on Florida's largest employer and tax payer
- Waging war on gays
- Waging war on teachers
- Waging war on immigrants
- Starting his own private army

What a piece of 💩

#Florida #RonDesantis #DeSantis