Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

WARSAW, Poland: The head of the NATO military alliance warned Sunday that Donald Trump was putting the safety of US troops and their allies at risk after the Republican presidential front-runner said Russia should be able to do "whatever the hell they want" to NATO members who don't meet their defense spending targets.

READ: https://tmt.news/1932186

Raw Story:
Biden slams Trump's 'appalling and dangerous' NATO comments

President Joe Biden slammed as "appalling and dangerous" comments by Donald Trump downplaying his commitment to NATO, warning Sunday that the former president intends to give Russian leader Vladimir Putin "a greenlight for more war and violence."
https://www.rawstory.com/biden-slams-trump-s-appalling-and-dangerous-nato-comments/

#News #WorldNews #Ukraine #Russia #War #RussiaUkraineWar #NATO #EU

@GottaLaff NFL. Biden did not think "for a split sec that Egypt was Mexico". He misnamed a country with a border issue - pulling the wrong name out of a choice of two. People do this all the time. I do it quite often. Word memory is associative. Especially noticeable when there is an extra person in your life - the closest matching person gets mis-named a lot.

Independent of revealing what a craven despicable human being he is, Trump's encouragement for Russia to attack NATO allies who don't "pay up", demonstrates his fundamental ignorance of how treaties and international alliances work. Collective security is not a protection racket, and treaty partners are not extortion targets.

#NATO #trump

From the Internet:

Science fact: Blue Whale calves are born weighing 8,000 pounds and measure up to 26 feet long.

They are the biggest babies on the planet except for people mad at Taylor Swift for attending a football game.

#Republican #snowflakes

Will there be "thoughts and prayers" from the MAGA,Trump,evangelicals and Fox News?

At Joel Osteen's church https://abc13.com/lakewood-church-shooting-shots-fired-at-megachurch-in-houston-texas-joel-osteen/14412053/

Oh, I'd be REALLY interested to see what label they put on the Bible. After all, in the first chapter, two women get their elderly father drunk, rape him and have children by him. Think THAT ought to warrant a warning label?

This is so silly.

#SouthCarolina #SCpol #BookBanning
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Legislation targets books in public school libraries with ratings system
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/legislation-targets-books-public-school-103000608.html

Breaking: NFL announces that Sunday’s Super Bowl Pregame Show will culminate in Taylor Swift skydiving from her arriving Japan flight to land on the field and oversee the coin toss.

On the complicated logistics of ejecting a passenger midflight, Boeing says: “We got this.”

I can’t convey how chilling and frankly terrifying this clip from Chinese influencer Zhou Zheng is. When I grew up in #China, no one even knew what a Jew was. Now, #antisemitism on Chinese social media has exploded. Not only does Zhou Zheng say that the Jews deserved the Holocaust, he blames Jews for all of the violence and indignities that China suffered from the British and even the Japanese in the 19th and 20th centuries. Antisemitism wasn’t useful to the Chinese nationalist narrative before but things have changed. #Jewish #Mazeldon #Politics

https://www.memri.org/tv/chinese-influencer-zheng-antisemitic-video-never-believe-what-the-jews-say-conspiracies

"Houthis in Yemen will publicly stone & crucify 9 gay men in “gruesome public spectacles”

https://lstarmensch.ink/wo58d

To those who celebrated the Houthis for "Sticking it to Israel and the USA"....kindly go fuck yourself sincerely.

How many artists did #KanyeWest steal from in order to make his latest album? First, he stole a sample from #OzzyOsbourne despite being explicitly denied permission to use the piece, and now it appears he has stolen a sample from #DonnaSummer. While it's normal for hip-hop artists to sample other artists' work when creating their music, it's not normal to just take the IP when you're denied permission. This is straight up theft.

#KanyeIsAThief #KanyeIsAnAntisemite

https://www.complex.com/music/a/jaelaniturnerwilliams/donna-summers-estate-claims-kanye-used-edited-sample

Romney aide: Biden has been one of our greatest presidents

https://newrepublic.com/article/178435/biden-great-president-say-it-democrats

https://www.erlywrm.com

Idaho doctor says she now discusses “life flight insurance” with pregnant patients in their first prenatal visits, in case they have a pregnancy complication that doctors can’t treat in state.

“It’s a little bit terrifying to know that we can’t practice our full scope ...."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/10/health/idaho-abortion-laws/index.html

"The curriculum is questionable: in one instance, a school used instructional materials from the conservative non-profit PragerU that cast doubt on the human-made origins of climate change. In another, 7th graders were asked to imagine themselves as statehood convention delegates and asked whether slavery in #Texas should be legal.
Parents have protested new rules that abandon state requirements for certified teachers in classrooms..." #houston #schools #abbott
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/feb/10/houston-texas-schools-state-takeover

I posted this on some other platforms I'm on because people are still looking for a decent weather place...

If you are into #weather and want realtime information at your fingertips; check out m.ai6yr.org at Mastodon. Ben has really put a lot of work into that instance to have it very informative. He set it up with NWS bots, fire weather news, emergency weather and rescue news, etc, etc, and etc.

I've been there for a little over 2 years now.
I'm not trying to get people to replace this, not at all. But if you want to get your geek on...that's a great supplement!