Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Positive development:

"Hamas delivers response on hostage deal proposal. An Israeli official said Hamas' response was relatively positive & included for the 1st time the number of prisoners that Hamas demands to be released in the first phase of the deal."
-B Ravid

Israeli officials say Hamas' response to the US, QA & EG proposal, which they've for weeks been waiting for, is a sign of progress-.

#IsraelHamasWar https://www.axios.com/2024/03/14/hamas-hostage-ceasefire-deal-proposal-israel

@Npars01 @AlliFlowers

Oh and government supported "Christian" education which means pseudo biology, watered down history, and forced praying

@timo21 Yes — and this is in many ways a strategic alliance, with the US Catholic bishops and Opus Dei doing a lot of the behind-the-scenes work and putting their white evangelical allies out on Front Street as foot warriors in the culture-war battles. As that goes on and evangelicals take the heat, the bishops and Opus Dei and Federalist Society quietly pack the courts — and the media give those folks a complete pass.

Because the GOP is. A. Death. Cult. https://toad.social/@KimPerales/112088927878739885

@AlliFlowers

Vouchers for public education are all about re-segregation.

Rich people don't want their kids associating with anyone who might instill empathy, critical thinking, and curiosity in their progeny.

To manufacture cognitive prisons and recreate Jim Crow, you need social isolation, restricted access to information, and bigotry for the next generation.

Someone on another instance said they don't understand the argument against allowing trans teens to have puberty blockers and/or hrt, as appropriate.

The argument is simple:

Trans children don't conform to a simple, rigid worldview, and they are few in number - that makes them easy targets. With the right grooming, conservative voters eat stuff like that up. Stuff like, "hey, you too can have power over others".

If you think all this feels kinda predatory, you are not wrong.

@dukepaaron also, let’s not discount how disappointing the secular world is when you still want to be a good person without religious affiliation. Anything promising gets taken over by grifters like Sam Bankman-Fried (effective altruism) or Elon Musk (transhumanism)

Ban TikTok, but not assault weapons?

Once again, the Fifth Circuit upholds a Matthew Kacsmaryk decision that has the wide-reaching effect of taking away rights of ordinary Texans. In this case, it prevents Texas teens from accessing birth control if their parents say they can't have it. The decision says that the father/plaintiff has a "state-created right" to prevent his daughters from getting birth control.

Texas wants to force as many women as possible, and in this case underage girls, to have babies.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/birth-control-fifth-circuit-18931647.php