Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@AlliFlowers @MisuseCase well, it definitely makes me answering surveys always put other or prefer not to answer. lol

The #cowards are taking more #hostages and using them as #humanShields again

#Iran-backed #Houthi rebels #hijacked an #Israeli-linked ship and took 25 crew members as hostages.

They warned that they would continue to do so until the end of #Israel's campaign against "#Hamas rulers"

Not #Palestinians, mind you, but "Hamas rulers," who Palestinians continue to let fight #inTheirName only for a #permanentStateOfWar.

How is talk of a full #ceaseFire even tenable?

https://apnews.com/article/israel-houthi-rebels-hijacked-ship-red-sea-dc9b6448690bcf5c70a0baf7c7c34b09

To no one's surprise, it turns out that #Hamas genuinely uses #Gaza hospitals as #HumanShields.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-intelligence-hamas-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-hold/story?id=104887035

@AlliFlowers In Kenya there are a few different native ethnic groups but Kenyans all lump Europeans and Americans into the same ethnic group *regardless of whether they are white or Black* and some Americans get very upset when I mention this, like it’s against the rules for Kenyans or anyone to do this.

At some point, do the ultra-wealthy ever stop and think, “OK, I have enough money. I’m going to stop trying to fuck up the world for everyone else.”

“We hope that day will come soon,” said one Syrian refugee. “We hate Putin more than Bashar al-Assad. Why did [Putin] come to our country?"

Last year, the UN agency for human rights estimated that over 300,0000 civilians have been killed since the Syrian Civil War began in 2011.

If Ukraine risks being forgotten by the media, the Syrian Civil War receives even less coverage.

Over the last decade an average of 84 civilians have died every day, many of them as a result of Russian airstrikes.

I'll have to remember this one.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

The nation is in trouble, in short, because too many of us are willing to bend the rules of our democratic system to enshrine white Christian nationalism — and themselves as white Christians — as the law of the land. As PRRI subtitles its survey:

“State of the country: Pessimism, political violence, paranoia.”

#PRRI #democracy #WhiteChristianNationalism #authoritarianism #strongmen
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#MikeJohnson, new #evangelical Speaker of the House, said about #LGBTQ+ issues in October that the country is in peril.
“The only question is: Is God going to allow our nation to enter a time of judgment for our collective sins? Or is he going to give us one more chance to restore the foundations & return to him?” 🤮

"Foundations?" Like when our country was built on enslaving others & engaging in wholesale genocide against #indigenous peoples?

But your god is upset about trans kids?! 🤦🏼😵‍💫

A #Ukrainian military spokeswoman has said troops have pushed back occupying #Russian forces some 3-8 km from the left -- or eastern -- bank of the River #Dnipro. #Ukraine's army has said in recent days that it's taken several positions on the Russian- controlled side of the river near Kherson. Fighting has been reported -- incl by Russian military bloggers -- near #Krynky and Poima. Establishing a bridgehead on the Russian- controlled side has been a long- held Ukrainian objective.

Hey GOP ...

@AlliFlowers @GottaLaff Absolutely... Hamas is authoritarian and, therefore, anti-human rights. Authoritarianism is evil.