Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Andrew Weissman is reporting on MSNBC that Trump 2016 campaign manager and convicted felon Paul Manafort made a deal with Putin to help Trump get elected. In return Trump would not oppose his invasion of Ukraine, nor would Trump allow weapons to be sent to Ukraine. Sounds right?

Wall Street has consolidated into 5 giant banks.

Airlines have merged from 12 carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

A handful of drug companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

Four giants control over 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

A coalition of voting rights organizations filed a lawsuit on Dec. 20, 2022, alleging that Mississippi’s state legislative district maps “illegally dilute the voting strength of Black Mississippians.”

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/29900/state-district-maps-dilute-the-voting-strength-of-black-mississippians-lawsuit-alleges

For 3 big Alabama newspapers, the presses are grinding to a halt - The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and Mobile's Press-Register will soon go all-digital. In Birmingham, where people have been reading the paper since the late 1800s, the news hasn't been easy. #Alabama #npr

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/1143410955/newspaper-alabama-digital-journalism-birmingham-huntsville-mobile

If your #god is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving, then why would you need to #pray?

George Santos uses the death of six million Jews in the Holocaust as part of his fraudulent campaign yet No GOP leaders denounce him. Perfectly sums up how vile the GOP is.

Kabul professor tears up diplomas on live TV to protest Taliban ban on women's education - A Kabul professor tore up his diplomas live on television in Afghanistan in protest over the Taliban's barring of women from higher education. #cnn

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/29/asia/kabul-professor-taliban-ban-intl/index.html

Soccer legend Pele has died at the age of 82.

I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.

When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.

I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps.

EDIT: Replies tell me that this doesn't function in the UK without a VPN.

What did Superman say to his dog Kal-po (also a canine wordplay champion) before grabbing him and taking off?

"Up Pup, Pun Away!"

BREAKING NEWS: #GeorgeSantos is under federal investigation from the US Attorney for the Eastern District.

Follow the money.

I don’t know if you have any Peruvian food where you live but if you do, go check it out.

@AlliFlowers @brndnpink @edutooter In my look into “servant leadership” I saw Buddhism at its roots an inward/outward awareness of power. Power is what we are talking about. The discounting of teachers, those bottom feeders, is intended to control them, an intent in public education from the beginning. After Dewey, we had for a time a discussion and aspiration for ethical action to benefit the general welfare. The #democracy evil to be stopped.

This is in Michigan; I don't know who took the photos, but here is the drone footage from Storyful News. This happened on Christmas day 2022 according to photographer Nate Voytovick and CBS News. I am also posting the photos taken with a drone by Nathan on Christmas day 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmR3wMbdwho

Co-founder of “Food Not Bombs” Global, Arrested today

"Keith McHenry, the co-founder of the global movement “Food Not Bombs” was arrested and jailed by the Santa Cruz Police Department today for the crime of serving food to the unhoused community members. Approximately 10 officers of the Santa Cruz Police Department arrested Keith at approximately 10:00 am today, December 27, 2022, in River Street Parking Garage #10, 24 River Street, as he was setting up tables to serve a meal out of the intense rain.

This egregious treatment of this community hero comes just two days after Food Not Bombs served a free Christmas feast to over 500 unhoused persons in downtown Santa Cruz. Keith is being held at Santa Cruz County Jail facing two misdemeanor charges of blocking a parking space and loitering in a parking garage. The police also confiscated some equipment belonging to Food Not Bombs including tables, cups for coffee and sugar."

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/12/27/18853618.php

#FoodNotBombs #Repression #antireport #mutualaid #FreeThemAll