Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@peribotsarah @AlliFlowers it definitely doesn’t help that about ½ of my ancestry is unambiguously white (50% Ashkenazi, 50% Scottish, Welsh, Irish, and English, according to ancestry.com). Makes it difficult to feel like it’s a subject I get to have an opinion on.

Really sort of drives home that the whole dynamic of race is to separate people from each other.

2/ 🤦🏻‍♀️ “The remaining lawmakers in the House approved a motion that will allow civil warrants to be issued for the lawmakers who fled the state. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott previously threatened to remove lawmakers who didn’t show up today.”

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/texas-democrats-redistricting-quorum-08-04-25?cid=ios_app

https://forward.com/news/759874/return-to-the-land-peter-csere-tim-griffin-eric-orwoll/?utm_source=IPutThisOnMastodon.

Just for the record: we're - once again - not white.

Texas Democrats With The Win On Monday!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews

https://apnews.com/article/us-election-2026-texas-redistricting-136cfeddc717f9fc69337bd3d39b1819?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-04-Breaking+News

It seems the city that protects its neighbors from ICE is similarly protective of its protesters—especially when they’re being tried on trumped-up charges.

U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli continues to suffer failure after failure in his efforts to prosecute anti-ICE protesters in LA.
https://trib.al/GmQNvkv

Vatican to become the world's first carbon-neutral state.

Vatican strikes solar farm dea...

thank you, #CharlamagneThaGod

for getting under orange god emperor's skin

you attack #MAGA

constantly, viciously, incessantly

some of you fools out there think "we can't sink to their level"

you're fucking clueless

this is a knife fight, there is no high road anymore, it's dead

and if these fragile narcissistic bigots are easily rattled

then rattle the fuck out of them, as a simple tactic

it isn't all you do, but it's easy, and it works

so do it

https://deadline.com/2025/08/trump-attacks-charlamagne-tha-god-epstein-gop-coup-1236477358/

#Trump

"#Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With #Trump."
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/8/3/garber-500-million-trump/

"The University is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts rather than a negotiated settlement…[Garber] said that the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is “false” and claimed that the figure was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials."

#Academia #DefendResearch #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Tariffs without Congressional approval are taxation without representation. Time to throw tea into the harbor.

Baker has him "never especially wedded to facts." No, he lies. His lies "increasingly remind scholars" authoritarian leaders seeking "to control information." No, he censors and propagandizes. This newspeak underscores the #BrokenTimes own fear of truth and direct language.

“World-renowned Israeli writer David Grossman said coming to the realization that Israel is committing genocide was extremely painful, but he now has a moral obligation to speak up.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Opinion | How AI is impacting 700 professions — and might impact yours
https://wapo.st/47bZIiI