Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-johnson-son-monitor-porn-intake-covenant-eyes-1234870634/

let’s be clear this is his “son” who he never legally adopted and who has asked to be left out of his “fathers” public life …this has a very weird Matt Gaetz vibe that reads like some kind of sexual abuse cult is operating here in plain sight but no one has caught on yet.

I still think they’re missing the news. The news is not that House Republicans are trying to aid Israel. The news is that House Republicans have declared their first and most important priority: starving the IRS of the funds needed to collect money owed by billionaire tax cheats.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/11/02/house-israel-aid-mcconnell-schumer-biden/71393928007/

Almost uniquely among American journalists working at major outlets, @willbunch is calling his peers on their rank cowardice in the face of the emergency our nation faces.

We may well be one election away from a dictatorship, and Big Journalism's business-as-usual approach amounts to collaboration with enemies of democracy.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/journalism-free-press-gaza-extremism-20231105.html

@LianaBrooks @AlliFlowers @bmacDonald94 The way to be listened to is not to demand that others shut up but to say something worth listening to that they have not already heard.

@AlliFlowers @LianaBrooks @bmacDonald94 My late mother in law (a fine poet) wore a button on her coat, for at least the last 40 years of her long life that said:

STILL AGAINST WAR

(and me too)

Here's a question for chemists (esp food chemists): I was wondering why ground cinnamon in hot beverages forms a sludge/gel at the bottom of the cup. The best result Duck Duck Go had for me came from Stack Exchange - saying it was water-soluble cinnamon fiber. But that's Stack Exchange.

I tried two different searches to find papers on Google Scholar and didn't get close. What keywords should I have used to get good sources for an authoritative answer? #Food #Chemistry #Botany

@AlliFlowers @bmacDonald94 And thank you for that. I know there are good Boomers (and older!) out there.

@AlliFlowers @LianaBrooks ~ As a boomer; I approve of this message

"It's hard to overstate the threat that anti-democracy, anti-freedom Christian nationalism poses to both democracy and the church today, especially now that Rep. Mike Johnson has become the most Christian-nationalist speaker in U.S. history,"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/online-christian-group-petitions-to-condemn-mike-johnson-as-a-false-prophet/ar-AA1jqrjk?ocid=socialshare&pc=W018&cvid=bf98bcb46a724382b6663b132c673b1b&ei=45

Trump is scheduled to testify at the NY fraud trial tomorrow. Assuming he doesn't simply take the 5th as he has in the past, I anticipate his answers will oscillate between Sgt. Shultz saying, "I know NOTHING!" and Freddie Prinze saying, "It's not my job!".